Casting Problem and More


The film is really low budget but has some originality. Maybe I'm just overly sensitive but the actor that plays the male android is as camp as a row of pink tents. Which was both annoying and kind of funny. The sets are screwed together timber and why would there be a concrete floor in a spaceship? Cheap! A couple of sound effects are stolen from 1956's Forbidden Planet and there's even an Altair 4 reference from the same film. It's Groundhog Day in space which could have been handled better with tighter timing. A lot of the repeated stuff is too much for too long and gets quickly boring.

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Thanks for teh review. :) Just thought I'd say I appreciate it since people rarely do thanks anyone. You've saved me some time since I won't waste any on watching this after reading your words. I understand what you were saying about it and while I am a total sucker for SCI-FI and Zombie movies especially..... I'll skip this one. Thanks again !!
Devin
@bytewrite

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"why would there be a concrete floor in a spaceship?"

It's not totally absurd - it's a useful material and there's no[t much] gravity in space so weight isn't an issue.

Just saying :)

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More like they had a very small budget and couldn't afford to build decent sets or rent time in a good location, so a concrete floor had to do.

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At some stage it would have had to leave a planet. That much weight? It'd never be done that way. :)

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Unless.. You build it in space! Have you never watched star trek, event horizon et al?

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From a Materials stand point it would be a joke to any structural engineer. Concrete would not mold properly if done in zero gravity. Not to mention that concrete is useless when it comes to blocking solar radiation, it's one of the worst, which is pretty much the primary problem in any real analysis for space traveling beyond the magnetic protection of Earth. First time you spend time in space by the time you get half way to any primary planets in our solar system with present thrusting technology you'd be SOL.

Not only that but concrete would be an even bigger problem on re-entry for any planet if you were trying to land on a surface of any kind, the proportionate weight would be massive if you sent any kind of probe even to a planet like Jupiter or Saturn where the mass is significantly heavier.

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A joke? You wouldn't try to land the concrete, to be sure.

Obviously, you're not a golfer. Because if you want to get technical, there are aggregate additives that can imbue concrete with x-ray scattering properties, such as baryte (Barium sulphate) which is used today in concrete lining nuclear reactors. Mining water and regolith out of asteroids, though technically complicated and currently not economical, will inevitably become status quo when we exhaust Earth's rare earth minerals, specifically our supply of superconducting metals. As the cost goes up for materials here, and technology advances, the feasibility and economical viability of this strategy will mature to the point of pursuit.

I don't even understand why you would want to get technical with this film. Of all the components of this film available for you to criticize, I'm not sure the concrete is what's to focus on. The film is low budget and to make that work you need to compromise. Coming up with an exhaustive fiction for why it could be okay to have concrete in space is moot when it's obvious to the viewer that it was what the production team had to work with. What's a joke is that you are taking it as seriously as Neil deGrasse Tyson getting upset about the way Sandra's hair moved in zero-gravity.

If anything, I found the name of the film to be its weakest point. They say never judge a book by its cover, but this is just silly. I could see people with a cynical sense of humour getting a kick out of it, perhaps. I'm guessing most of these types of movies are picked up as DVD's by clueless parents thinking they've found that "Prometheu..whatever" movie their kid's been ranting about. It's a trap, but at least it doesn't hide that fact.

Anyway, I'm not trying to attack you personally, you seem like you've got your head on straight (from your reviews). I'm just jaw-dropped that this is even being discussed, as it's so pointless to either attack or defend this film on technical components, when there is so much else wrong already. You suckered me in just fine though, I guess, because I signed up just for you. Now, who's taking it too seriously?

I appreciate that every film, even small budget ones can be great, but I guess I just wanted to say that you can't expect too much from films like this, and perhaps you need to take it with a few more grains of salt. Whenever I think I'm being too critical, I remind myself that $500,000 is not a lot of money these days. Just think, it cost $650,000 (just think how much to do the same today) to shoot Mad Max in 1979 and they used sped up footage and a sheet of plywood painted to look like a truck on the front of a semi-truck rental they used so they wouldn't damage it. With $500,000, I'm very impressed with what the production team came up with, costumes, etc. You have to remember this is about business. With my expectations in check, I can honestly say I was nowhere near as upset as how I was with how Prometheus [actual] turned out in the end.

If you want to get any enjoyment out of it, you really do need to let go and just have fun with it.

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With antigrav thrusters it's fairly easy to get mortar and water up into space. And the weight is not an issue when traveling because mass isn't a factor when in hyperspace.
The reason that concrete is used is because the advantages of the shielding inside the ship. Your crew is in hypersleep and you only have one android holding things together. A single micrometeorite could tear up the ship even with antigrav and magnetic shielding on. Another complicating factor is the length of time the ships are out -- sometimes years at a time. You want those floors and walls to be made of concrete -- steel reinforced.
The lead android is camp? Wow, I would so not say that. I thought he played it super straight. Of course, I'm the director, so of course that's my opinion. ;-)

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Possibly every word of what you said is the greatest piece of ridiculous fantastical nonsense

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this movie beats event horizon on plot alone , at least it had a cositenet viable plot line all the way thru ...... android sex...

givemebackthelast1136.789wastedsecondsofmylife---- Better to be born DUMB Lucky than intelligent

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Mooncrete is a real idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunarcrete

So concrete made from asteroids could be a possibility.

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