Oblivion (2013)
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- Hombre_Lobo0
I also read that the sky tower apartment back drops weren't green/blue screened in. Instead that's used 21 projectors to project an image onto a 500x42 foot sheet of muslin.
They said actors enjoyed being in the environment and the light from the projection contributed to 90% of the scene lighting.
Which I thought was pretty cool. Kinda charming when stuff isn't all done in post. Wise move considering all those reflections in the sky tower, imagine having to put most of those reflections in post.
- Hombre_Lobo0
Watch it last night and enjoyed it a lot. SPOILERS**
Had an atmosphere and similarities a lot like Moon (which is a fantastic movie, and better in my opinion).
The visuals and scenes were incredible, I think most qbners new it was Iceland from the start! :P
Morgan freeman looked like a bad ass.
I found there were some parts, like cheesy lines, sideways glances and certain bits of acting that seemed to just be there for the sake of it being a Hollywood blockbuster. Like it was ticking a checklist of sorts, which the film would have been better off without.
Saw the plot twist coming a mile off with the clones. Which I thought was kinda unnecessary. Would have been cool if they were just other humans tricked to do the same job.
All the water processing towers, the platform in the sky, the aTet, the typography seemed to be very anime inspired which was cool.
I thought the last line "fuck you Sally" was shockingly shit. they could have had something smarter, maybe referenced the effective team, or day in paradise repetition.
Overall very much enjoyed it.
- prophetone0
gorgeous flick, i liked it alot. moonish yes, but pretty. i liked the bird.
- which one? I did too!
MrT - redhead bird, well bothprophetone
- which one? I did too!
- inteliboy0
The music was over the top and very american. Hated the ending. But was a fun movie and visually amazing. A shit ton better than Elysium.
It should have ended (SPOILERS):
I liked the idea that humans did actually evacuate to Titan. So...
Cruise and his clone girl fly towards the mother ship.
They go in and meet the evil alien AI being.
Their nuke bomb plan doesn't work. Cruise and girl killed.
Alien mothership gets pissed off, flies down to earth and starts destroying EVERYTHING wrath of god style. Bring in the God and Religion themes more.
Here it's now revealed that the real Cruise we've been following through the movie is on earth with his actual love, earth burning around them.
Cruise and girl stock pile the bubble ship with energy cells and escape, leaving earths atmosphere.
It'd end on them flying out into space with a cheesy but epic line like, "Where are we going?" cruise: "Titan."
Cut to black. Sets up a sequel.
- sea_sea0
well i'm definitely a sci-fi geek, i loved it, just got the blue ray.
really enjoyed watching it again with the joseph kosinski and tom cruise commentary and man, those front projected sets for the sky towers, just gorgeous. those iceland landscapes, breathtaking.
so many little details. Gmunks work, bad ass, i'm a fan.
- BrokenHD0
the sound design of the drones tho.
- 74LEO0
Ruin it for who? Its been out for what feels like a year. Carry on!
- it could be a century, it doesn't matter. if someone hasn't seen it, you ruin it for themMiguex
- or if you recommend a really old movie to a friend that has not seen it, you tell him the entire movie just because its old?Miguex
- of course not! you are not on BATH SALTS, like this guy http://www.qbn.com/t…Miguex
- haah haah Mig I remember him saying that entire thing.teh
- sureshot0
saw it last night. I liked it.
- pig0
I know nothing about the film apart from this review:
"They could've called it, Matrix of the Apes, Independence Moon, or CRUISE-E'
- BrokenHD0
I think more than one movie every ten years should be allowed to explore a theme already covered by previous movie. People said Avatar was fern gully and dances with wolves. Or Oblivion was Wall-E and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Seems like it's always a movie that attempts to get the viewer to see a bigger picture, to convey a positive message or just get someone to think. I like it when Hollywood explores this type of subject matter (i.e. existentialism, effect on the world around us, humanity, nature, technology etc.). Negative Nancy critics in their comfort zones need to chill. I say moar and keep it coming.
- what is the point? as we move ahead so should sci fi.74LEO
- Beeswax0
This was more than I expected.
I liked the CG in vehicles and control devices.
The TET and and the main "alien" had a very graphic quality to it, very minimal.
The earth scenes and general atmosphere was really good. Liked the scenery.
The story line was quite good actually if you don't want to dig deeper into why and whats. After all it's a two hour movie rather than a book so things can not be detailed as much, otherwise you have to limit the story to a shorter life span as in Moon or 2001.
Cruise was a good choice, you don't want a really dramatic face but you need fighter/action character, he's better than an Ewan McGregor or Liam Neeson in that sense.
Also he's aging in reverse, must have something to do with Scientology. Maybe he's become an alien already.
Go watch it, you won't loose anything if you're a sci-fi fan or not.
- BuddhaHat0
The part where she just dragged the GPS co-ordinates for the destination across the screen and onto the ship, thereby loading the directions into the ship was badass.
- BuddhaHat0
The last 45 minutes of this re-make of the Tron Sountrack could have been 15 minutes long. My mates and I were just squirming to leave with half an hour to go. The long, romantic stares between Cruise and the Russian chick were so freaking dead and wooden.
The CGI for the computer tech was what had me the most excited about the whole film. Besides that, I spent most of the movie saying 'That part's from Armageddon, that part's from Deep Impact', etc etc. It was vomit-inducingly derivative.
- utopian0
I saw it this evening, I rather liked it.