Greg MacGuffin

Saw this on Sunday and I can't stop thinking about it. Very powerful piece of film making that should hold up well on repeat viewings. On the surface, it is sort of minimalist and spare, but underneath there is a lot to absorb. I'm looking forward to seeing it again so I can catch all of the things that I missed.

redrum

how's Mansell's score?

Indy Jones Fan

Overall I really liked the movie however, (major spoiler alert. Click only if you've seen the movie.)

Just my opinion of course.

Greg MacGuffin

It's good. Probably not as memorable as Requiem for a Dream, but I imagine if you like his previous work, you'll like this. The sound in my theater was horrible, so I didn't really get a good sense of it. Too busy straining to hear the dialogue.

The Antipodean

If Sam Rockwell doesn't get an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for this, I will resign my membership in the Academy. Well, if I had one. Either way, he's freaking awesome, this is a great slow burn of a movie.

Tarantino

Saw this last night at a small Monterey indie theater on the coast. Kept our interest the whole time. It was a very good movie and Rockwell definitely needs an Oscar nom for his performance(s).

= J

NoirFan

So it wasn't booooooooring?

filmerp

DonnachaOne

Moon is great, a 2000 AD story come to life. Sam Rockwell is very, very good. I love how the film for the most part avoids cliches, setting it apart from typical sci-fi films. It honestly feels like a short that was adapted into a longer film, like a "Tales From The Crypt" episode that you really enjoyed and thought was interesting enough to be extended beyond the ending. The application of a literal "ticking clock" is a little disappointing, considering how entertaining the rest of the film is. The look of the film is beautiful and never seems cheap or fake - if there's any CG in this I didn't see it. I was also happy to see British actors Benedict Wong and Matt Berry crop up as corporate bastards (that's two very intelligent space films for Wong, along with Sunshine), and Kevin Spacey's voice as Sam's doting robot assistant was a pleasure to hear. Other reviews might talk of a "twist". It's not really so much of a twist as a complication that happens at the end of the first act, but which works better if the audience isn't already aware of it. It's fairly easy to guess anyway, and I'm happy that it wasn't used for the ending, but rather the beginning of Sam the astronaut's story. I'm really, really looking forward to seeing what Duncan Jones does next.

RD1973

I just saw it today and I have to agree, its very good. And Sam Rockwell is awesome. After all the shit we've had to endure this summer, things are picking up now.

I do have a few nitpicks, though. I thought the smiley faces on Gerty were a little too cute. Also, I wish the movie would have gone on a little longer (maybe 10 minutes). I would have liked to see a little more of each character's fate and the corporation's reaction to the tower going down.

Just one question: Why does Sam get sick? Exposure to solar radiation, being in space too long, limited life-span, or natural causes? I think I know, but I'm not quite sure.

Scotts35

You were probably in a DTS equipped theater for a movie that had no DTS discs shipped with the prints (at least mine didn't).

Phod

Awesome movie, my favorite of the year so far.

I enjoyed how there were a lot of unanswered questions that you could speculate on after the fact.

Indy Jones Fan

As I said though I really liked the movie and this was just a very small complaint.

DonnachaOne

I think they worked. I can easily see some corporate hardware using some insincere CG sprite to make the interface "friendlier", much like Microsoft Word's paper clip or Search Tool's puppy. And of course,


Well, everything we learn is through Sam's eyes, really. I like how the end could easily be interpreted to be Sam's expectation of his reception.

Well, Sam reviews the video messages, going back in three-year intervals;

SPiRAL

Been playing here for a long time. Finally going to see it tomorrow.

devilshalo

Really enjoyed it. Tho I would have liked a bit more prelude, to give a little more time towards Sam's desolation. And the ending was wonderful.. thinking how

RD1973

As for the smileys, they annoyed me because I naturally wanted to look at Gerty's "eye" when it spoke. So, the smileys were a little distracting.

devilshalo

I didn't find them distracting at all.. and thought it was a good representation of how we communicate thru the net now with the use of smilies. Gerty was like one big Instant Message up until

SuckaMC

This was fantastic. I was happy that Sam figured out what was up about when we did instead of dragging out some forced mystery.


Rockwell was great as well. It's definately a movie that sticks with you.

Trevor

Loved it.

Big shame on Jason Bailey and Brian Orndorf for a major spoiler reveal in their reviews, and props to Jamie Rich for showing how a situation like that should be handled.

SuckaMC

Wow, I just read those reviews. Glad I stayed away before seeing the movie. A clue would be that if the main character wakes up and ends up finding something shocking, then it probably be shocking for the audience too. Not given away in a review. Weird.

Giles

but even in Dolby Digital the soundmix was pretty restained.

The O

From the director of MOON, Duncan Jones, on spoilers:

I can see your point of distress, but I can also see the benefits of allowing that first-act revelation to be known, or at least hinted at, to create a sense of mystery in the review -- a perhaps misguided, but earnest shot at getting someone who's never heard of the film into a seat.

Supermallet

This, along with The Hurt Locker and Star Trek, is one of my favorite movies of the year to date. I want my own Gerty.

printerati

Your final unanswered question is my biggest nitpick with the film. It seemed like nothing more than a red herring, and really seemed out of place thematically as the film progressed. Overall, however, I enjoyed it quite a bit.