“It isn’t about me, it’s about future generations” – Walter Moffitt
Number of Times Seen – 1 (19 Nov 2014)
Brief Synopsis – After a mishap in space, an astronaut is left alone in his spacecraft and must decide whether to continue his mission or abort and return to Earth.
My Take on it – Modern moviegoers have been flooded with different attempts recently of people stranded alone in the middle of nowhere who need to use their wits to survive life threatening situations.
This movie is another prime example of that premise.
Not unlike Gravity (2013) from last year, this movie deals with an astronaut trying to figure out how to get back home after an accident in space.
The differences here are the fact that this time, he is very far from Earth and must use his own vast experience along with help from below to get back home.
This movie deals with the lonliness of space along with the knowledge that even when everything is fixed, it will still take him years to get back home.
The story moves along slowly on purpose to give us a realistic perspective of the dangers of space.
This movie uses an almost completely unknown cast to help emphasize a documentary feeling.
Bottom Line – Interesting premise about loneliness in space that is done slowly and deliberately and gives us a clear picture of how difficult and dangerous space exploration can be. Unknown actors helps make this feel like a documentary. Recommended!
Rating – Globe Worthy
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Sounds like a good film that makes the viewer think and feel what the characters are.
I’ll watch this, thanks Rob!
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At your own risk. Gravity is a better overall movie
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You sound quite serious today!
I can watch both? 🙂
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Serious? Me? Never. 🙂
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Only when it’s about Back to the Future 🙂
Hope you’re well!!
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Always great! And even better after seeing good movie!
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Good!!!!! 🙂 🙂
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And tiday was abetter overall moviewatching day than yesterday. 2 more reviews in the pipeline
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Excellent I’ll look forward to them.
So do you watch movies every day?
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Sun-thurs but it all depends on my schedule. My tv watching suffers because of this 🙂
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So what’s Friday and Saturday for? 🙂
I must say I’ve got quite into TV watching the last few years. I only ever really used to watch movies and now I watch sooooo much more telly. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not!
How do you decide what films to watch?
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Wife and kids of course. I went thru stages like that too, but now I enjoy more the diversity of movies. Generally depends on my mood or how much time my schedule allows. I have so many on my list that usualy I find a way to manage. 🙂
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Of course! Two whole days with the family 🙂 and then it’s like……get me back to my movies!!!! Only joking.
Yeah it’s definitely tough finding the time, I agree with that. Once I get back from work I usually have other stuff to do other than watch movies but I do enjoy it on the weekends 🙂 I used to watch a lot more movies than I do now though.
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Yeah, I sometimes feel thay way, but its nice to have a break every week. Gives me qyality time with them and also I try to read a bit since I dont work on either day.
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Sounds good to me, although I actually do recognize one of these names, Brian Baumgartner from The Office. That was Kevin, I do believe. I’m more curious about seeing what he offers here, however minuscule a role, than I am about the sci-fi elements, but given the fact that I’m still in a space-movie type of mood, this movie will be even better. Good job Rob
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