Well, it all sounds good prior to the actual movie. That's because in our minds, it's the best it can be - according to us.
I noticed a big similarity to China Mieville's 'The Scar' in the concept of a traveling city hitched to a leviathan. That's pretty much where the comparison ends, but it resonated, for me.
@benizdead: He was in an Australian movie adaptation of 'Macbeth' but I have no idea how well he played the title role.
@YuriChrysaor: It's the Magic Faraway series by Enid Blyton.
There are plenty of things to pick on, in that first clip - but it's taken way out of context. Conceptually, it's kinda cool - use the astronaut's mass to deploy a busted panel, but yeah, he should have bounced... unless something on him was magnetic in some way. It seems to be super low-budget, but still cool in the execution.
@Aidan_Loves_Books: I think they're more looking for outsourced free ideas from Mars-obsessed layabouts with way too much time on their hands. The LROC camera crew also take suggestions on where to point their cameras. I guess they'll ignore people who are all 'THIS LOOKS LIKE AN ANCIENT FORTRESS' and pay more attention to amateur geologists.
@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: True, true - I recall reading that Tesla was all about wireless electricity but the power companies couldn't ever figure out billing, thus death to the concept.
Would this then mean that a communist wireless power company would have succeeded?
@Mary Ratliff: Yeah I would second that. Subtitled Swedish movie = under 5% of US moviegoers (at best), Re-made US version = HEYYYYYY Vampires! WIN! Monster box office with unknowing teens.
@The Curse of Millhaven: And probably a lot less high-fructose corn syrup.
@Bootknife-Jackson: I believe there are about 4 suits up there, and they can be adjusted for the particular wearer. These are the newer suits, unlike the Apollo suits that were custom-made for each astronaut.
That's a lot of dolls.
Fact is, we all knew how Titanic was going to play out, but the movie was insanely popular despite the 'spoilers'.
@Chuck: Chester's Mill got bobbled! #underthedome
@veeerules: Also, a badly-timed boxing career. 'During his boxing career, Rourke suffered a number of injuries, including a broken nose, toe, ribs, a split tongue, and a compressed cheekbone'.
I found the novel to be, in a way, thinly-veiled sci-fi - or the results of a few very high-tech civilizations on a planet that has regressed somewhat. What was magic to the citizens, is nanotech/quantum theory/advanced alloys and so on.
For me that was a nice twist, a fun way of looking at it - it's fantasy through a sci-fi lens.
Thought I might throw my favorite, Cleopatra 2525, into the pot.
@viloki9: Because no wall or window was an obstacle to them. They could just 'phase' into the room. If you see some clips they're outside a window, then suddenly inside. That is scary.
@Evil Tortie's Mom: There is a technique to move your weight forward then lock the back wheel up, but frankly it's more of an expert technique. In Australia, bikes are required by law to have a handbrake so a lot of the fixies here are actually illegal. Sometimes I feel like giving the riders a dollar because it looks like they can't afford gears.
@mekki: Twilight.
