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Moon interior scenes


While the Moon buggy scenes at least tried to convey the sense of a low-gravity environment, inside the Moon base people were tromping heavily as though they were on Earth. However, they were supposed to be bouncing ang hopping just like the actual astronauts were in the Apollo footage. I understand that this mid-budget movie was cutting corners, which explains the plain-looking interiors on both Moon and Mars. They were probably filming them in some abandoned factory halls and train stations. While cinematography was smart enough to make most of it by lightning and framing, these interiors appeared to have been too massive and highly unlikely for a movie that obviously wants to look more like "The Right Stuff" than a space adventure. If and when mankind starts building bases on the Moon and Mars, are they gonna be using concrete slabs? Would the train on the Moon look like a subway in some city on Earth, though I praise them for not using bogus CGI for the train scene. So, yeah, these minor issues briefly took me out of the movie, which I otherwise enjoyed.

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I agree they looked a too Earth like but perhaps after living on the moon for a little while and being able to wander around indoors people will adjust thier stride and appear normal? It would save them bouncing off the ceiling or bumping into the wall when turning corners.

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Good call on the budget locations. I recall Pitt walking though some clearly abandoned factory or train station while on ‘Mars’. Weird for a film competing with the likes of Interstellar, The Martian, First Man etc.

The critical acclaim for this poor man’s Interstellar with a nauseating Social Justice twist continues to baffle.

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>"a nauseating Social Justice twist"

But you just explained the reason for the critical acclaim...

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Touché.

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Every time I see a scene in a movie set in some odd location, like the moon, for example, with set pieces like those trains, or corridors made of concrete block with pipes and ladders and electrical fixtures...I try to imagine the builders at some point in the story's past constructing those facilities. I agree that the sets occasionally took me out of the movie.

Also, in dungeons with hundreds of candles, I think "who lights those candles every night?"

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I would be less distracting if the tunnels and corridors were all circular, as if they had been created with one of those subway boring machines that drills the tunnel and then forms and creates the concrete walls.

The rectangular walls suggest the subterranean passages were all excavated and then walls cast.

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They spent all their budget to make the pirate buggy chase scene. Which has nothing importance to the story whatsoever.

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Yeah movies never bother simulate the lower gravity indoors.

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That's because its difficult to do right, expensive, and still might not look good or convincing. And doesn't improve the story, either.

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