October 24th, 2009: Moon

I just watched the film 'Moon.' All I have to say is wow. It used so many aspects of other classic Sci-Fi movies, but came out as a very original film. It was very visually pleasing. I read somewhere online that the most recent writers strike occurred during the production, so that gave the Duncan Jones a lot of time to get gather aboard some of the top effects people. It paid off very well. The visual effects were great. Costumes, the set, the moon. I should have tried harder to see it in theaters. I think it would have had been a bigger mind destroyer.

I can't talk about the plot too much, becuase you need to see the movie. I do not want to ruin it for anyone. I will lay down some basics. The earth peoples are harvesting what I assumed was Hydrogen-3. They said H3, so it could be something different. We will never know. But to the point. They have bases on the Moon where they harvest it. They have a person(Sam) there for 3 year periods taking care of everything, with his only companion a computer(GERTY) that helps with what ever he wants. Sam has his routines of carving a village of wood, excirsing, eating. It comes to a point where Sam leaves the base to fix a problem on one of his harvesters. He leaves the base to head to the harvester then something happens, more other things happen, and then that is where my mind goes nuts. That is all I can say. Trust me, you don't want to hear more.

When I read about this movie, I was stoked. When I watched a trailer, I was stoked. The film completely satisfies and lives up to everything that I expected. Watcht this movie.

PS: Wait for the DVD, the computer screen did no justice.


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