littlebearyeah
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It would appear that the 21st century's stay at home, microwave popcorn munching, what's on Netflix couch potatoe is bewildered and confused by a modern day stab at the cerebral sci-fi movie. These folk are no doubt expecting the usual crash, bang wallop of destroyed major cities, lazer beams, scientists acting like high school kids and the usual array of dumb politicians. It's about time that real hard core science fiction made a silver screen comeback. The latest Dune incarnation was a pretty good try. Villeneuve is also Making Arthur C. Clarke's 'Rendezvous with Rama'. Hopefully it will be as cerebral and as level headed as Kubrick's 1968 adaptation of the Clarke masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. One can only hope. 'The Midnight Sky' has a fair go at the cerebral sci-fi movie. Similarly, Clooney's other sci-fi flicks 'Solaris' and the excellent 'Gravity' certainly see him preferring the thinking man's science fiction. George, how about a shot at the Clifford D. Simak 1964 novel 'Way Station'? Apart from a couple of lets say unnecessary scenes, overall I enjoyed The Midnight Sky.
It would appear that the 21st century's stay at home, microwave popcorn munching, what's on Netflix couch potatoe is bewildered and confused by a modern day stab at the cerebral sci-fi movie. These folk are no doubt expecting the usual crash, bang wallop of destroyed major cities, lazer beams, scientists acting like high school kids and the usual array of dumb politicians. It's about time that real hard core science fiction made a silver screen comeback. The latest Dune incarnation was a pretty good try. Villeneuve is also Making Arthur C. Clarke's 'Rendezvous with Rama'. Hopefully it will be as cerebral and as level headed as Kubrick's 1968 adaptation of the Clarke masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. One can only hope. 'The Midnight Sky' has a fair go at the cerebral sci-fi movie. Similarly, Clooney's other sci-fi flicks 'Solaris' and the excellent 'Gravity' certainly see him preferring the thinking man's science fiction. George, how about a shot at the Clifford D. Simak 1964 novel 'Way Station'? Apart from a couple of lets say unnecessary scenes, overall I enjoyed The Midnight Sky.
Hollywood has an annoying habit of turning Philip K. Dick stories into half baked cinematic drivel. Sadly 'Next' which is currently on Netflix is no exception. I found myself in that typical "are there any movies worth watching on Netflix" frame of mind. Waiting for it to load, I really wanted to like this movie. It kinda started off okay but swiftly turned into the typical crash bang wollop routine that we've seen a thousand times before and since. Cage makes one good movie in 10. I think he's a good actor with the right script and good direction. Unfortunately both aspects are severely lacking in this movie. Co-star Juliana Moore fares no better and is flimsy and lacklustre in her role as the goodie/baddie FBI agent tasked with bringing Cage's character in to avert a national disaster. As usual, Jessica Biel is lovely although batting well below her weight in this role as Cage's love interest and what also appears to be his only reason to live. And what the hell were those French guys all about?! I concur with many reviewing this movie here that the ending was complete and utter hogwash. If you're a Philip K. Dick fan or a die hard fan of Cage, then I'd definitely give this film a very wide berth. That, or at the very least give Netflix another 2 minutes of scanning time to find something else (pun intended).
Well, i tried really hard to watch this but after 50 minutes it's just another dull cops v vagabonds in space yarn. The most annoying thing though is the sound mix. The vocal dialogue is dreadful. Just a lot of mumbled voices struggling to be heard over the synthesizer music score...awful! Who ever edited the sound track should be shot! I really don't understand why music is more important than the dialogue in many of today's productions. Actors are forsaking their skill for some noisy and generally over dramatic and overbearing score. Not that the acting in this particular movie is anything to rant on about. To say it's average would be being nice. All in all then a rubbish attempt at sci-fi. Next....