Atmosphere on the moon.

Advantages: Intelligent science fiction.
Disadvantages: Slow moving.

...In the cold vacuum of space Moon is a breath of fresh air! At last, what fans of intelligent science fiction have been waiting for. A film with a proper plot. Ideas. Atmosphere. Duncan Jones, known to some as Zowie Bowie, to others as David Bowie's son, directs his first major motion picture. A modest budget of 5 million dollars enables him to bring us a tale with believable subjects and brooding menace. Sam Bell is a miner working on the moon in the near future for the resource Helium-3 which now powers Earth. Quarries on the lunar surface provide the cargo which is periodically shuttled back to Sam's home planet during his contract. This is 3 years. The film joins Sam as he is nearing the termination of this period. He is feeling lonely - unsurprising as his only companion is GERTY, Lunar Industry's maintenance computer. As...

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"Fly Me to the Moon"

Advantages: Old fashioned 'B' movie
Disadvantages: Very Dated

...Destination Moon. At the time of its pending release this film was massively promoted claiming to portray accurately but with the twist of adventure how man will get to the Moon and stay there. Unfortunately the public didn?t want the science all they wanted was the adventure and on that point the film falls into the dreaded ?B? movie genre. The film follows Charles Cargraves, a kind of Howard Hughes of his day, as he struggles to get his spaceship off of the launch pad and to the Moon. However for Charles the space races really is on and the Russians are prepared to play dirty. After several successful sabotage attempts on his rockets Charles goes for the ?sneaky hide the spaceship until it?s ready to launch? ploy! It is of course very easy to hide something that big, not. Charles gets lots of big firms...

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Moon - a thoughtful sci-fi

Advantages: Visually stunning, superb central performance, clever plot
Disadvantages: Weak ending, confusing in parts

...WARNING: I am going to try my best not to give too many plot points away as there is a twist in this film which I don't want to spoil for viewers. I apologise if I inadvertently give something away - please leave a comment if I do so and I will remove the information immediately! WHAT IS IT: Moon is the directorial debut from Duncan Jones (David Bowie's son!) and stars Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell. Sam is the sole human inhabitant of a lunar base and he is charged with overseeing the machines which harvest Helium3 to send back to Earth. His only company is a robot named GERTY - voiced by Kevin Spacey - whose purpose is to help Sam in any way it can. As Sam is nearing the end of his 3 year contract on the moon base, he begins to see unsettling visions and one of these visions leads him to crash a lunar buggy into one of the harvesters...

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MOON WARRIORS 1992

Advantages: Classic Wuxia film with beautiful fight choreography.
Disadvantages: Some questions about characterisation and storyline.

...~~~~~~~~~ SYNOPSIS ~~~~~~~~~ The film, 'Moon Warriors', centred on a pleasant young fisherman called 'Fei' (Andy Lau). He is a kind-hearted and optimistic young man, who was brought up by the sea, in a harbour called 'Shrimp Village'. Fei enjoys his modest life in his hometown, where they would often fish for food, have a community meal and to play with his pet Killer Whale, 'Ha Wei'. The story begins when Fei was working in the Bamboo Forest one fine day, where he started to notice some of the Bamboo Trees were moving from their grounded positions (Macbeth comes to mind). When he realised that there was people underneath the earth and was using the bamboo as a breathing tube, his awareness came too late. The army below the ground was a trap to invade and kill 'Emperor Yen the Thirteen' (Kenny Bee), order by his evil brother...

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Comanche Moon no need for a Blue Moon

Advantages: Gripping storyline, Val Kilmer
Disadvantages: 284 min may be too long for some

...Comanche Moon is based on a book and ties in with the series of books and films in the Lonesome Dove saga. The books are written by Larry McMurtry, with Lonesome Dove being a Texas town follows the adventures of two main characters, Captains Augustus McRae and Woodrow F. Call. Sadly the films were not released in the correct chronological order to the books so Comanche Moon is set in the earlier years of these two loveable rogues whilst working as Texas Rangers. For me this film is long overdue since having watched all the Lonesome Dove films as well as The Streets of Laredo I often craved a film en-capturing the period of their lives when their legends are created. Comanche Moon is a relatively lengthy story and as a result comes on two discs for a total running time of 284 minutes. In this respect it is good because you can sit...

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Destination Moon.

Advantages: A quite good old movie
Disadvantages: not dated well

...Destination Moon. Getting to the moon before the Russians and building a base is the general plot line but the film delivers so much more. Charles Cargraves is a rocket engineer who believes his last rocket was sabotaged so he goes private and soon he has built his second rocket which he gets to the moon. Along the way the saboteurs will try again, he will fight the red tape but will win through. The movie won an Oscar in 1951 for its special effects but somehow that seems to have been forgotten. The science in the movie is actually very accurate apart from the nuclear propulsion, but otherwise it is quite a factual film. We are facts such as the problems of G force, Airlocks, weightlessness nd the Moons gravity being 1/6th that of Earth. The acting is good and it is shot in glorious Technicolor. Classed as...

MaldivesHoliday 11.01.2009 · Read review
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DESTINATION MOON - A GREAT FILM

Advantages: Great cinematography and effects
Disadvantages: A little dated

...-fi era, starting off the film genre in a dramatic way. War Of The Worlds and When Worlds Collide were all done after this film, and followed the same principles in cinematography, which I believe led to there success. This film has everything a good film buff should need, great effects (of the era), plot, acting etc. The film took two years to produce and was quoted on a tag line "TWO YEARS IN THE MAKING". The Story..... = An industrialist John Archer and a former Army General and a scientist get together in creating a rocket ship to go to the Moon financed by the private sector. Archer convinced that the nation that conquers the Moon shall control the Earth, brings the top industrialists together and shows them the plans of the ship and a short film explaining the principles of Atomic propulsion using the well known cartoon...

pc2308 03.10.2007 · Read review
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New Moon - Go and see it, right now!

Advantages: Suitable for everyone, good story and excellent acting
Disadvantages: Cinema performance may result in screaming girls

...As you may or may not (depending on the reading of my previous reviews) know that I have a slight infactuation with the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Mayer. Last friday I went to see the second installment movie adaptation by Chris Weitz and I was incredibly impressed. New Moon isn't my favourite book because of the lack of the Cullens - it doesn't quite satisfy my thirst for knowledge on the mythical history and influence of vampires but the film was enough to almost transfer me to Team Jacob. As I saw this in the cinema, I want to set the scene for you before I begin my review. Let me tell you about my experience when I watched the new movie for the first time in Empire Cinema's, Rubery, Bromsgrove. Firstly I was fully aware that we needed to book tickets in advance and as soon as they became available for booking I was...

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H.G.Wells - First men in the Moon.

Advantages: Great movie
Disadvantages: none

...First men in the moon. Author - H G Wells. A classic 60s film in DVD quality. Information; ~~~~~~~ I had actually heard this movie on an audio tape several years ago, the audio had the voices of Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and John De Lancie (Q) The film is a cracker! The eccentric and easily distractible professor Cavor is played by the wonderful Lionel Jeffries. Edward Judd and Martha Hyer play his fellow travellers. (on the audio, no woman accompanied them). Ray Harryhausen's provides the special effects, 60s style. Synopsis; ~~~~~~ Professor Cavor invents 'Cavorite' which has the properties of 'Anti-Gravity' He, along with his two companions, travel to the moon but find that under the surface live the Selenites. The Selenites are Bug like, child sized and sentient creatures. Cavor wishes to communicate with them...

Maximus-Qualitus 17.07.2008 · Read review
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Bitter Moon's Plot - A Bitter Pill To Swallow

Advantages: Not quite sure
Disadvantages: Silly plot that will leave you NOT wanting more

...CREDITS ~~~~~~~~ Bitter Moon was released in the UK in July 1992 (and in the USA nearly 2 years later) and is a Roman Polanski production. It stars Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Victor Bannerjee and a cameo appearance by Stockard Channing. The film is adapted from the novel Lunes de Fiel by Pascal Bruckner. It runs for 133 minutes and is rated certificate 18 due to several scenes of nudity and use of profanities. Bitter Moon was filmed on location in Paris and at the Paris Studios Billancourt with cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli. PLOT SUMMARY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nigel (Grant) and Fiona (Scott-Thomas) Dobson are on board a cruise ship to celebrate 7 years of marriage heading towards Istanbul intending to then fly on to Bombay. Their relationship seems to have become rather stale...

anonymili 23.05.2006 · Read review
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