It took nearly a decade to make, then it finally comes out, and all we can talk about are popcorn boxes and Obama sightings?

I know it's hard b/c so few have seen it, and most only once. But hey, given what you remember, what did you think of it? What parts stuck with you, hit a chord, freaked you out, made you think?

I'm sloooowwww... takes me a few viewings before I really start to understand an interprative movie like this one. Combine with the fact that my first and only time was much more of an experience than it was a chance for me to really analyze a movie.

some idle notes...
loved the alien eating his own space ship. I don't think I have seen that before-- and also liked how it is reminiscent of people eating popcorn at movies... lots of material to work with there. Good sci fi and good "insert your own meaning here" stuff (which is why I love good sci fi in the first place).

love the scene where Syrtis is explaining "I need that suit". Grusome... wretching... total despair, the last "glass is half full" guy has finally gone off the deep end.

Hollywood movies need better sound effects, not just more expensive effects.

Things I'll be looking to answer after a couple of more viewings, while being a bit more emotionally under control:
Where is the balance between reality vs. hope? I certainly don't like the idea of Syrtis still hard at work at his station as he passes out and dies of asphyxiation (no, I'm not spell checking that). But certainly the crew's "game over man" attitude wasn't helping either.

Is hope and love enough for us to survive? The mom certainly wasn't concerned with the worst case outcome and was apparently focused on the positive.

Really looking forward to owning my own copy!

spacemen with vagina faces
wayne taking a ball of light out of his mouth
spinny toy as a prop
waynes brother
phishman
blue's clues
michelle
bloody yolks
squirming fetus

steven walking into the room with wayne and kliphs shadow appears inbetween them steven does a double take to reveal it is gone (did this really happen or did i hallucinate this part?)

love love love FUCKING LOVED THIS movie
where can i buy it and how much can i offer for it?

I liked the "Sorry, I couldn't get this working" part.


Also, the "Our boys are doing the best they can" thing.

Two memorys I have from the actual movie.


The scene's w/michelle and blue colors and wonderful music.


Wayne taking the ball of whatever the fuck it was out of his mouth.

Everything else is a plesant blur!

Who hasn't had the experience of,...if that totally unlikely and unforeseen thing hadn't incredibly happened to save the day, the whole situation and everyone involved would have been totally fucked? That is one of the things this film is about to me, among others.

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Originally posted by Bridget:
It took nearly a decade to make, then it finally comes out, and all we can talk about are popcorn boxes and Obama sightings?

I know it's hard b/c so few have seen it, and most only once. But hey, given what you remember, what did you think of it? What parts stuck with you, hit a chord, freaked you out, made you think?

Hey,
Just thought I'd mention that after Sasquatch we started the SPOILERS thread which contains some discussion of the film and its themes.

Cheers.

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Originally posted by von Bobo:
love the scene where Syrtis is explaining "I need that suit". Grusome... wretching... total despair, the last "glass is half full" guy has finally gone off the deep end.

Hollywood movies need better sound effects, not just more expensive effects.

I love that scene as well. The tension is almost emblematic of the film in general... we are all gonna die, and some people have to deal with that more than others, and in fact our entire crew is doomed, but... I NEED that suit! I love the very slow, un-Hollywood, pacing... especially the long shots of Santa and the doctors/technicians. Steven at his most brilliant, I thought.

FILM SOUND: Yes! This is a film for future film students to take note of for sure. I can't wait to hear how it translates to DVD... so glad I heard/saw it in the tent.

That drone!

That part, during the drone I believe, where Michael puts his hand into that device to remove that chrome ball thing from the fleshy looking stuff...one of the most psychedelic things I think I've ever seen.

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Originally posted by Mr. Modular:
That drone!

That part, during the drone I believe, where Michael puts his hand into that device to remove that chrome ball thing from the fleshy looking stuff...one of the most psychedelic things I think I've ever seen.

Yes! Intense... there seems to be two technicians who trade off on that particular ship duty... Michael and the other guy who thinks that there is holes in the ships bulkhead. I thought it was interesting that something about the radiation exposure of that job warped the one gentleman's mind, while Michaels character seems to thrive on the "power" experienced in that chamber.... (Michael is... so cool)

What IS he doing anyways? Somehow generating or converting power? Reminded me on the "Wrath of Khan" when Spock saves the ship... anyways...

I would have to see the movie again to actually debate on what was my favorite part, ect.

I did however enjoy getting to see Michelle.
And also Wayne, in the Santa suite.
Steven, was wonderful as well.
And Michael, with all the "Oh, is he the bad guy music."

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Originally posted by Christ Child:

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Originally posted by Bridget:
It took nearly a decade to make, then it finally comes out, and all we can talk about are popcorn boxes and Obama sightings?

I know it's hard b/c so few have seen it, and most only once. But hey, given what you remember, what did you think of it? What parts stuck with you, hit a chord, freaked you out, made you think?

Hey,
Just thought I'd mention that after Sasquatch we started the SPOILERS thread which contains some discussion of the film and its themes.

Cheers.

But that thread kind of sputtered out. So... new life!

I was impressed that it really was funny at moments. The intro asked us to laugh and cry whenever we felt like it, but I didn't need any sort of prompt. Often rock stars can't tell a joke to save their lives, but the movie had definite giggle moments.

Also, the existential, laugh at yourself/the world moments were funny, too. When Steven has to ask for the suit off of a frozen corpse, it's so ridiculous it's funny.

Plus, the scenes with the boss guy were pretty funny.

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So... new life!

It lives! The return of the Son of the Spoilers thread!!!

Santa's dead mother fucker!


bwhahahahahha.....

"Are you gonna eat that?" to the guy in the port-a-john watching all the movies of teeth. Was he eating a turd or a sausage? or really a fetus.

clean toilet, healthy living (I think)

Oh, and Stephen telling Wayne to wait in the other room for 20 minutes...too funny.

AND, Stephen going to the boss to , uh, request, uh, from personel, a new Santa.

I remembered way more then I thought I would.

Also, did anyone else see a UFO (in the sky -- looked like a bright orange light moving slowly then disappeared as if it went up). My wife and I have never seen anything like it before. It was about 45 minutes after the last showing. Too wierd!

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Originally posted by a-head:
Also, did anyone else see a UFO (in the sky -- looked like a bright orange light moving slowly then disappeared as if it went up). My wife and I have never seen anything like it before. It was about 45 minutes after the last showing. Too wierd!

Yeah!

That's just Wayne.

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What IS he doing anyways? Somehow generating or converting power? Reminded me on the "Wrath of Khan" when Spock saves the ship... anyways...

Well apparently, at least according to the new trailer, he's adjusting the gravity generator, or something?

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Originally posted by a-head:
"Are you gonna eat that?" to the guy in the port-a-john watching all the movies of teeth. Was he eating a turd or a sausage? or really a fetus.

That guy grossed me out to no end. Who lets a guy like that run a space station? No wonder everybody was crazy as a bat, staring at lightbulbs and such.

Then again, if I were stuck in space place where all the spare parts and oxygen are running out, I'd be a little funny in the head, too.

Do you think this will ever happen? Meaning, that a space program jumps the gun on living on mars before they really should. Not even counting the matter of "can humans exist in the cold, lonely habitat of space." I just mean we get all excited to send some blokes off to space before we have much of an exit strategy per se? I'd hate to be Mjr. Syrtis's family back home.

*fidgets*

Any of the lollapalosers actually comment on the film yet?

*ahem*