{"id":1388,"date":"2009-04-20T21:05:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T04:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/04\/20\/moon-a-science-fiction-film-trailer\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T12:01:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T19:01:52","slug":"moon-a-science-fiction-film-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/20\/moon-a-science-fiction-film-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon: A Science Fiction Film Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pIexG8179K8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pIexG8179K8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Moon is a new science fiction film directed by <i>Duncan Jones<\/i>.  It stars <i>Sam Rockwell<\/i> as a man administering a lonely moon base for a shift that lasts several years.  The trailer looks pretty good, but I&#8217;m not sold on it.  I do like to see a serious science fiction film getting projected in theaters after the horrific damage that&#8217;s been done to the genre by clever little men like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Lucas\"><i>George Lucas<\/i><\/a>.&nbsp; In fact, I blame Lucas more than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._R._R._Tolkien\"><i>Tolkien<\/i><\/a> for the fact that every bookstore loads its science fiction shelves with sword fantasy books.&nbsp; As soon as the idiotic Obi Wan Kenobi pulled out a lightsaber, the sci-fi film genre was doomed.  But this thing looks from its trailer to be a mashup of homages to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2001_%28film%29\"><i>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silent_Running\"><i>Silent Running<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solaris_%281972_film%29\"><i>Solaris<\/i><\/a>.  I just don&#8217;t get into &#8216;homage&#8217; movies.&nbsp; A little subtle homage is fine.&nbsp; But this trailer is just packed to the gills with barely altered rips right out of these classic films.  No serious science fiction director makes a movie that&#8217;s an homage to other movies. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Kubrick\"><i> Stanley Kubrick<\/i><\/a> would have choked on a chess piece if someone had suggested such a thing to him.&nbsp; So, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll give this movie a chance and go see it, but I fear that it will be exactly the movie it appears to be in its trailer.&nbsp; The effects do have that wonderful super-reality quality to them that <i>2001<\/i> and television show <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_1999\"><i>Space 1999<\/i><\/a> had.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=3697a661-b328-890f-a4db-8abec84f0e41\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon is a new science fiction film directed by Duncan Jones. It stars Sam Rockwell as a man administering a lonely moon base for a shift that lasts several years. The trailer looks pretty good, but I&#8217;m not sold on it. I do like to see a serious science fiction film getting projected in theaters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,81],"tags":[246,245,2474,144],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-comment","category-science-fiction","tag-kubrick","tag-moon","tag-movies","tag-sci-fi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}