Oh, man, that sounds wonderful. Movies like that are rare.
I WISH I could see it, but I know it'd be a bad, bad idea. I don't cope with space peril very well. It's the unholy vampire-werewolf hybrid of agoraphobia and claustrophobia, more powerful than both. I can do Star Trek/Star Wars-type space action, but any sort of sense of being in the actual empty void of space is a big NOOOOPE. :( That brief ship/planet scene in the beginning of Avatar in IMAX 3-D was about as close as I can come without being too upset.
I REALLY liked Oblivion, which is saying something. Movies with a twist really tend to upset me, because they feel fundamentally dishonest and manipulative. Oblivion worked better for me, because it had the backdrop of the memory wipe that gave it this fundamentally unstable feeling, so that we KNEW there was all kinds of stuff we didn't know. I will have to see it again, maybe a couple of times, to really get a feel for the capital-T Theme, but it held together quite well emotionally. It pulled off several VERY difficult tricks, all of them pretty flawlessly. Can't describe more, spoilers.
Also, the Last Big Screw-You Joke was freakin' hilarious.
(I overuse "awesome" shamelessly. But I feel you on its abuse.)
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I WISH I could see it, but I know it'd be a bad, bad idea. I don't cope with space peril very well. It's the unholy vampire-werewolf hybrid of agoraphobia and claustrophobia, more powerful than both. I can do Star Trek/Star Wars-type space action, but any sort of sense of being in the actual empty void of space is a big NOOOOPE. :( That brief ship/planet scene in the beginning of Avatar in IMAX 3-D was about as close as I can come without being too upset.
I REALLY liked Oblivion, which is saying something. Movies with a twist really tend to upset me, because they feel fundamentally dishonest and manipulative. Oblivion worked better for me, because it had the backdrop of the memory wipe that gave it this fundamentally unstable feeling, so that we KNEW there was all kinds of stuff we didn't know. I will have to see it again, maybe a couple of times, to really get a feel for the capital-T Theme, but it held together quite well emotionally. It pulled off several VERY difficult tricks, all of them pretty flawlessly. Can't describe more, spoilers.
Also, the Last Big Screw-You Joke was freakin' hilarious.
(I overuse "awesome" shamelessly. But I feel you on its abuse.)