I agree - Somoene has done something not to everyone's liking, therefore it is utter trash.... right?
Firstly, you don't know what was paid for out of that budget or how much it cost, especially given the current economic climate.
Secondly, you don't know what demands were made by the financers - Usually a film ends up being crap because those holding the purse-strings demand creative input... and such people are rarely moviemakers. The directors and producers are then forced to either do what they are told, or lose the project. Only the big-name directors like Ridley Scott can actually command control over a financer.
For what this film was, I thought it was excellent.
Professional scriptwriters can actually cost a bomb, as does permission to shoot on certain lands, equipment, editing, all that - Very expensive.
This relies on a simple plot, with a lot of subtlety in the acting. Too often people miss the little moments, perhaps just a glance, that make for far more realistic acting than the oversensationalised crap that Hollywood typically churns out.
This is not the sort of epic LotR saga that most Hollywood films try to emulate on whatever scale they can manage, but a properly presented glimpse of a single moment... it's enough to both tell a tale and to give us enough that we can imagine the whole background ourselves.
So few films today are anywhere near as good as this!
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eer85
12 years ago
I think the truth lies in the middle. The movie is competently crafted on the technical end, but story-wise it does have some issues, mainly because it really struggles to reach its proposed running time. Had they cut down 10 minutes, it would've flowed better - but I guess movie backers feel safer with movies running at least 90 minutes. The acting is ok: not stellar nor trashy. Some of the dialogue isn't great (the endless arguing between Centauri 7 and his superior officer being a good example) and a couple of ideas, like the nods to ENEMY MINE or BLADE RUNNER, are terribly naive. The ending is pretty weak too: it made the whole movie sound like an episode from a tv- series.
That said, the movie is clearly a step above your average low-budget sci-fi movie: it really looks like a live action comic book from the 70s - and at times it even manage to feel like it.
While it being a full-lenght debut isn't an excuse, I am looking forward to see more from Collora.
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JamieWJackson
9 years ago
This relies on a simple plot, with a lot of subtlety in the acting. Too often people miss the little moments, perhaps just a glance, that make for far more realistic acting than the oversensationalised crap that Hollywood typically churns out.
This is not the sort of epic LotR saga that most Hollywood films try to emulate on whatever scale they can manage, but a properly presented glimpse of a single moment... it's enough to both tell a tale and to give us enough that we can imagine the whole background ourselves.
Well said!
I'm surprised by the posters who bash the acting or the script here. Both seemed solid to me. Were certain elements contrived? Yes, but in what fictional movie is that not the case? These stories aren't meant to be ultra-realistic; they're meant to be entertaining and -- in their more poignant moments -- illuminate something about human nature by viewing it against an "alien" backdrop. Both of those happened here.
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