Moon

Recently I was talking about the return to the moon being cancelled. Staying loosely on the moon subject, I recently watched Moon, the film.

Wow! Seriously, wow! It is major awesometimes. I don’t want to go into too much detail, because quite honestly you should go an watch it, I’m don’t want to spoil any of the amazing experience of this film.

A few things I can say about it though.

Sam Rockwell. I’ve only seen him in too other films, Galaxy Quest and Hitchhikers Guide and in both those films he’s struck me as generally amusing. In this film, he’s fricking amazing. His character has to spend some years as the sole human manning an outpost on the moon and the difference in his portrayal from the freshly arrived on the moon point to the man his characters become after 3 years there is incredible.

Effects. In a world that’s increasingly CGI, it was nice to see some model effects for a change. And flip, they are awesome model effects. They looked absolutely awesome. There’s a lot been said about the 70’s sci fi look of the film, and it does have that sort of feel, but hey it looks awesome. It doesn’t feel like a film that’s been made to echo the 70’s look at all, it all looks brilliant and happens to evoke some of the design of films like 2001. For the record, I watched a DVD copy, I imagine the High Definition looks incredible.

The Robot. There’s a robot on the moon base. Instant 100 points! And it’s voiced by Kevin Spacey, which adds yet more points. It’s a brilliantly well done robot, it looks like a realistic possibility as they’re not trying to do a robot on legs or tracks that’s free roaming. It’s also got a brilliant ‘face’ with a little screen displaying ‘smiley’s’ depending on how the conversation is going which are brilliant. And it’s motivations are suitably ambiguous for much of the movie.

So hopefully I’ve not spoilt anything there, and if you get the opportunity you should totally watch this film. And do it soon, there’s follow up on the way!