Great list with some good tips for films I'd never heard of - but sweet Jebus, did a sub-editor even glance at this thing? What does "Inspired by Tarkovskij´s Stalker the film is shows how two survivors of a biological disaster are able to subsist when their bodies aren't able to come in contact with the world" mean?
This post has turned into a web meme on a quite incredible scale - and perhaps not in a good way. Some doofus over at BoingBoing opined in the comments there that he would not see Avatar because it is "rascist" and provided a link back to this post as evidence. Just goes to show that what you write can be interpreted in ways the author never intended.
Wow - no wonder they cut it - total cheese.
Charlie Jane Anders - you've done a man's work sir!
Oh jesus no!
@CodenameV: That's right, all the nukes were dismantled, put away or turned into plow shares... no, wait... #apocalypse
@Presidentpez: Good call!
This must be anticipation of 2012 yes? Every time I see that trailer I get way over excited!
I certainly hope the ISS astronauts don't attempt to put this thing together as a team. My wife and I nearly split over the construction of an IKEA coffee table - and all for the lack of an allen key or comprehensible instructions. I can just see it now - a tense silence on the ISS as one astronaut stares out the windown while the other realises he put sprocket A into fold B upside down.
Very entertaining, fun and thoughtful film - even with the violence. One thought tho' - any one old enough here to remember an super low budget cheapy from the 70s called "Laser Blast"? Add elements of "Enemy Mine" and "Id4" and you have D9.
I applaud any plan to fill the sky with airships. It so, what's the word... Futuristic!
It troubled me that throughout the series the "angels" could only be seen by individuals, only for that to broken at the very end.
But then again I spend most of my idle BSG speculation time pondering my own made up fanfic fantasy version of the ending where Galactica jumps to Earth but, so badly damaged, it immediately begins to break up in orbit forcing the crew to abandon ship with no ability to signal their location to the rest of the fleet. The survivors who make it alive to the ground then have no option but to "go native" and attempt to pass down what they know to subsequent generations, verbally, and perhaps in some as yet to be revealed technological manner [sequel option here]. Elsewhere Admiral Hoshi and the rest of the surviving colonial fleet make planetfall somewhere distant leaving open the option of modern day Earth being contacted by our long lost cousins [sequel option two]. Finally, the "good" sentient Cylons meet the surviving 2nd generation Cylons and make peace [sequel option 3].
Dunno. It could have worked. [Sigh].
The great thing about adapting Philip K Dick works is that by the time you get to the end of the material [and there were a hell of a lot of novels and short stories], well, you can start all over again because hardly any of them have been faithful to the text.
@BattleScarredShogun: You want mortal enemies? I give your our glorious taikonauts who will claim the moon for the PRC. Take that imperialist pig dogs!
Look, I try not to be cynical and not prejudge things before they even come out, but doesn't "A cat and mouse game begins in which nothing is what it seems" sound like total shit to anyone else?
"As a comic, then, it works - Surprisingly, and against expectations."
Eh?
Eh?
Nimrod? A guy called "Nimrod" is directing this? Case closed.
Wow - this show really sounds awful. Next.
@gorehound: Woss a yarm?
@dodongo_dislikes_smoke: Yep, it's the Chapman Brothers "Hell". I suspect this may be a photo of the remade version that was constructed after the original was destroyed [ironically enough] in a fire.
