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Old 05-16-2008, 12:56 AM   #24 (permalink)
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So I just saw this movie tonight and I...........


was pretty disappointed.


Adding to the list of science/logic mistakes: one person was in charge of all the course calculations and no one assisted or double checked his work? Seems like a pretty basic protocol to me. The payload is going to have such a high velocity on approaching the sun that space and time will bleed into each other (or whatever ridiculous explanation he gave in that one scene)? When they were building the ship, they didn't think that maybe they might run into a situation where they might have to fix the mainframe cooling and therefore perhaps it should be designed where it's possible to do so without freezing yourself to death? Mercury apparently has an hour long year instead of an 88 earth day long year? The cliched talking-computer-gets-slower-and-deeper-when-disconnected thing is pretty tired, not to mention generally inaccurate.

I know those last two are nit-picky, but they still stuck out. Particularly Mercury's orbit.

The ending is what really ruined it though. I'm OK with the monster dude when there's some sort of explanation. But what I came away with from this movie is: 1) darn, too bad they didn't just stay on course, everything would have gone swimmingly if they had! 2) there was no particularly good reason for them to change course, which makes it really hard to sympathize knowing that everything would have gone just fine had they stayed on course 3) the captain of the Icarus 1 went inexplicably crazy and somehow survived full close up exposure to solar radiation, and then continued to survive in space with little medical treatment for 7 years after the fact, and he keeps rambling on and on about god but we're never going to get any explanation for where this craziness comes from or why we should care about it 4) that's ok though, because the crazy Icarus 1 captain is barely paid any attention to except for a couple scenes and 5) that payload ship must have been made out of some seriously kickass material for them to survive going into the sun, not to mention the weirdness of the one character standing at the edge of the growing new star.

It just made absolutely no sense to me. The first 2/3 was exactly what I hoped the movie wouldn't be, which is a standard ridiculous sci-fi plot (the sun is dying and we have to reignite it), though I'll grant that it wasn't as ridiculous as The Core and it was visually attractive. The last 1/3 was like Event Horizon but with even less purpose and direction.
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