Ugh, me and a co-worker plaid hooky from work and this is what we went to see. Blah.

totally naked to make it work? must be based on the same tech as the therm-optic camo from ghost in the shell...

Is there any way to open this stuff up in a new tab without both clips auto playing at once?
Speed Racer did the same thing and it's getting a tad annoying.

According to imdb.com, the sex scene between Spader and Bassett was created in editing. The original participants were Robin Tunney and Peter Facinelli (Tunney's skin was darkened digitally to stand in for Bassett).

Terrible, terrible movie.

@Dillenger69: I've heard that from a couple people... I'll bug our tech guys and see if there's something we can do.

All I can say about his movie is that it wasn't as bad as Event Horizon.

But few things are.

@Dillenger69: Talked to our techies... they're aware of the problem, and they're working on it. FWIW, it doesn't happen to me in Firefox. But I'm hoping it'll be fixed soon!

@Whitworthian: oh now THATS annoyingly stupid. I would actually pay to see Tunney naked, but Bassett... hell no, she looks like a man even when shes NOT playing the tough chick.

i like how they go thru multiple space gas-cloud vaginas

@Charlie Jane Anders: thanks fo looking into it.
If it helps, I'm using firefox and it only happens when I open in a new tab using ctrl+click. If I just do a standard click through on the more link they don't auto play.

@Plague Event Horizon was awesome! Sam Neill with no eyes and a bolt gun!

If you want Spader-porn, just rent Crash.

It's never happened with Opera, but then there's plenty of other random wierd crap that happens with Gawker+Opera.

I remember watching enough of Supernova to get really, really angry.

It's a so-so movie, with a few cool effects, but for me the main draw was Angela Bassett. Any sci-fi film with black people in it is cool (we exist in the future, yay!) and to have a black female protagonist is even cooler. I wish she would do more sci-fi. Anyone remember Strange Days? Awesome.

This must be a bad movie because I saw it and do not remember nudity. I always remember nudity.

@kityglitr: I think Strange Days was the only film she was good in.

I do find it funny that there are so few blacks and in particular black women in SciFi. Compare it to literature such as Ramma where one of the main characters in Rendezvous is SPECIFICALLY mentioned to be of mixed decent like "most of the population" and as such of a somewhat darker complexion that betrays the fact her ancestors where interracial and you really have to wonder about how racist Hollywood is where rarely you see anyone in scifi beyond a token whatever race is hip this week.

@ohyeth:
If thats all it takes to make a pile of disconnected nonsensical crap "awesome", Uwe Boll has a job opening for you.

@tetracycloide:
"Gentlemen, we have the technology. However, one must be fully naked for it to work."

"Why?"

"I point you to The Breast Equation."

"Which is?"

"Breasts equal success."

"Ah."

@Dillenger69: From the main io9 page, if you click the title of the article, the vids do not autoplay. If you click the thumbnail of the article, autoplay is set equal to true and all vids begin to play automatically. Therefore, there are two different links for every article with a vid.

So boys and girls, if you do not want vids to autoplay, click on the name of the article. If you want the vids to autoplay, click the thumbnail on the main page.

@TommySez: next in my netflix! :D i'm always on board for naked spader.. this headline made my day!

God, I remember the tv promos for this flick: Three Dog Night's "Mama Told Me Not To Come" playing in the background while Don LaFontaine intones, "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the universe."

Quality.

@Plague: I liked Event Horizon--much more than this movie. Aesthetically it was satisfying.
This film had the familar problematic of Angela Bassett uncomfortable in yet another interracial romance (see *Strange Days*).

@Falconfire: Tunney was pretty naked in the beginning of that film, so enjoy!

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@kityglitr: That makes me wonder- was the character of 355 in "Y! The Last Man" inspired by her character in Strange Days? Now that I think about it, there's some narrative similarities.

@Falconfire: tunney was pretty naked, so enjoy!

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(this may be a double post - if so, apologies - Im not seeing my post show up and its just too *important* to let get lost!)

crap - my first post didnt show up - even when I refreshed the browser - and of course now that Ive double posted... it shows up. Sorry. Feature request: allow us to delete/edit our posts please.

the beginning of Supernova is pretty damn good...they try to spend some time getting to know the characters etc...but as usual it goes down hill toward the end...another clear case of someone having a vision for a film, then someone else (or 10 someone else's) having a different (I'm a VP!) vision...
see also:
Red Planet
Mission To Mars

My favorite line from the film went something like this:
spader: "We'll get out of this. Ive gotten out of worse situations then this before"
someone else: "like what?"
spader: "20 minutes ago we were about to crash into that planet. I got us out of that"

supernova had some good moments. Its been years since Ive seen it.

who wouldn't want to share a bio-protection unit with ms. bassett?

Ah Supernova, I had such hope for you. I wonder what it would have been like if they'd stopped with the fifth or sixth director. Even naked James Spader couldn't save it for me. And naked James Spader can save nearly anything, especially as buff as he was in this film.

I liked Supernova. It wasn't a classic, or even an A grade film, but it was fun to watch.

SUPERNOVA! The title of the movie isn't shown until the giant star goes SUPERNOVA!

I saw this with a group of friends opening weekend and as a fan of unique opening titles; realized about 30 minutes in, that we never saw the title at the beginning of the movie. Not sure if maybe I just missed it, I leaned over to my friend David and asked "did they show the title of the movie;" he paused and said "I don't think so." We laughed and continued watching. Then the end comes and BOOOM - SUPERNOVA. We both "ahhhed" then giggled at how it made sense and was also so absurd.*

God! I actually love this movie and I am not ashamed to admit. I have a real weak spot for "bad" scifi (yes, you can blame me for helping in the ratings of the bad original SciFi tv movies). But this is like Grade-A bad scifi. It had a crazy production, a great cast (mmm James Spader … mmmm Angela Bassett), some quotable dialogue, pretty awesome special fx and cgi and was pretty out there (aside from the often mentioned Event Horizon) with an original idea and story. So glad I have this on DVD, just might need to break it out and watch it again this weekend!

*speaking of odd choices of when to show the movie title; does anyone know why The Mummy Returns title is shown at the end of the movie? Like Supernova kind of makes sense ... cause the last thing IS the Supernova, but I never understood why the choice of showing "The Mummy Returns" at the end was made. If we go with Supernova logic, then technically "The Mummy Returns" should have been right there at the beginning of the flick when ... the Mummy did indeed return. But at the end (spoiler?) the Mummy was defeated and was not going to be "returning" ... well not THAT mummy. Any thoughts? ^_^

IMDB reminds me that what I was quoting above was actually:
Dr. Kaela Evers: When you said you'de been in worse situations than this, were you lying?
Nick: No. When we were falling toward the planet and the engines cut out? That was worse.