Moon; The Hurt Locker; and Departures (Okuribito)

[sertrel]

Moon (official website): Moon is a rather hard SF movie, the feature-length writing and directing debut of Duncan Jones. In the future, Helium-3 mined from the moon is the source of abundant and cheap energy for the world. Sam Bell is the lone occupant of one such mining base, two weeks from the end of his three-year contract, with only the

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Moon

[smoovygee]

Actually, I pretty much figured out the movie after he woke up in the infirmary. The rest of the roughly 80 minutes was waiting for it to unfold. I thought it even progressed in a completely logical and predictable manner, which made it somewhat annoying to watch because if you thought something was going to happen, about two minutes later that exact thing happened. It would have worked better as a short story because making it any longer just made you wait until the inevitable conclusion.

Re: Moon

[sertrel]

I think I was led astray because of the spoiler-ish summary that I had told you, so I thought it was a time-travel story for a while. It wasn't until they said it in the story that I shifted expectations.

Re: Moon

[_way_]

Agreed.