Comments on: Moon http://filmfemme.com/2009/06/18/moon/ Movie Reviews, etc. Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:34:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RoboNixon http://filmfemme.com/2009/06/18/moon/comment-page-1/#comment-12831 RoboNixon Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:42:36 +0000 http://filmfemme.com/?p=312#comment-12831 I enjoyed Moon in the way that I enjoy reading short sci-fi collections: Interesting idea, interesting questions arise, and ultimately, at the end, you feel like someone presented something new to you that made you think about things in a different way, if only for an hour (or two). I enjoyed Moon in the way that I enjoy reading short sci-fi collections: Interesting idea, interesting questions arise, and ultimately, at the end, you feel like someone presented something new to you that made you think about things in a different way, if only for an hour (or two).

]]> By: spectacle_triage http://filmfemme.com/2009/06/18/moon/comment-page-1/#comment-12798 spectacle_triage Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:17:11 +0000 http://filmfemme.com/?p=312#comment-12798 I think it was less of a Vicodin dream, and more of a Vicodin watching of some MTV pseudo-reality show like The Hills. They totally grow those people in ovens and keep backup clones around for when they finally see themselves on television and commit suicide. That's how Spencer and Heidi have quit that one show so many times... they just keep quitting and being fed to baby jungles animals. Then their clones are "woken up again" and say "I'm a celebrity, get me outta here!"... wash, rinse, repeat. Seriously, his name is Pratt? Are those to completely fabricated people? Did MTV just figure out that everyone only knows that wrestling is fake because you can't hit someone with a chair... so they make millions by fabricating villainous shills to be the object of America's attention and spite? Well, that's certainly true, I suppose the question is if the shills are in on the joke or not... I think it was less of a Vicodin dream, and more of a Vicodin watching of some MTV pseudo-reality show like The Hills. They totally grow those people in ovens and keep backup clones around for when they finally see themselves on television and commit suicide. That’s how Spencer and Heidi have quit that one show so many times… they just keep quitting and being fed to baby jungles animals. Then their clones are “woken up again” and say “I’m a celebrity, get me outta here!”… wash, rinse, repeat.

Seriously, his name is Pratt? Are those to completely fabricated people? Did MTV just figure out that everyone only knows that wrestling is fake because you can’t hit someone with a chair… so they make millions by fabricating villainous shills to be the object of America’s attention and spite? Well, that’s certainly true, I suppose the question is if the shills are in on the joke or not…

]]> By: FilmFemme http://filmfemme.com/2009/06/18/moon/comment-page-1/#comment-12797 FilmFemme Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:53:16 +0000 http://filmfemme.com/?p=312#comment-12797 Patrick, you make me laugh. Also, "world weary" is exactly what I meant by saying he looks like he needs to sit down. A much more eloquent way of putting it. As for Kiln People, I swear I have seen a trailer for a movie about this same thing (practically) that is coming out soon. I can't figure out what it was though. I'm pretty sure it wasn't just from a Vicodin dream that I had... Patrick, you make me laugh. Also, “world weary” is exactly what I meant by saying he looks like he needs to sit down. A much more eloquent way of putting it.

As for Kiln People, I swear I have seen a trailer for a movie about this same thing (practically) that is coming out soon. I can’t figure out what it was though. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t just from a Vicodin dream that I had…

]]> By: spectacle_triage http://filmfemme.com/2009/06/18/moon/comment-page-1/#comment-12761 spectacle_triage Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:33:56 +0000 http://filmfemme.com/?p=312#comment-12761 [ SPOILER ALERT] For a much deeper look in the same realm as Moon's attempt at thought-provocation, I've been told to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln_People In it, you can cook up copies of yourself, that can then go off and do whatever. When they come back you can download what they've experienced back into you. They are fully sentient, but only survive for a few days. So, some people have them go do dangerous shit, others boring shit, but no matter what the copies die after some amount of time. (or so I'm told) Apparently there are ethical issues with this... that I don't seem to have, so it doesn't provoke all that much thought for me... aside from like "fuck yeah, if I were a kiln-me I would be psyched to go fight some other kiln-person to the death so that the real me could experience it vicariously ... what's the issue?" [ SPOILER ALERT]

For a much deeper look in the same realm as Moon’s attempt at thought-provocation, I’ve been told to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln_People

In it, you can cook up copies of yourself, that can then go off and do whatever. When they come back you can download what they’ve experienced back into you. They are fully sentient, but only survive for a few days. So, some people have them go do dangerous shit, others boring shit, but no matter what the copies die after some amount of time. (or so I’m told)

Apparently there are ethical issues with this… that I don’t seem to have, so it doesn’t provoke all that much thought for me… aside from like “fuck yeah, if I were a kiln-me I would be psyched to go fight some other kiln-person to the death so that the real me could experience it vicariously … what’s the issue?”

]]> By: Patrick http://filmfemme.com/2009/06/18/moon/comment-page-1/#comment-12633 Patrick Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:30:09 +0000 http://filmfemme.com/?p=312#comment-12633 On Christmas, I saw Sam Rockwell and Paul Schneider at the Arclight. They were seeing the same screening of that shiftfest Benjamin Button. They both had that world-weary, disheveled look about them, which I think might have had something to do with the actressy chicks they were with. I never found out what they thought of Benjamin Button. I prefer the sequel to "Moon," where he watches all the bad movies with those two robot guys. On Christmas, I saw Sam Rockwell and Paul Schneider at the Arclight. They were seeing the same screening of that shiftfest Benjamin Button. They both had that world-weary, disheveled look about them, which I think might have had something to do with the actressy chicks they were with. I never found out what they thought of Benjamin Button.

I prefer the sequel to “Moon,” where he watches all the bad movies with those two robot guys.

]]> By: shine http://filmfemme.com/2009/06/18/moon/comment-page-1/#comment-12628 shine Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:00:27 +0000 http://filmfemme.com/?p=312#comment-12628 Okay, I do. He's just so...quirky. He had me at the only reason I watched Charlie's Angels. Or something that makes sense. Okay, I do. He’s just so…quirky. He had me at the only reason I watched Charlie’s Angels. Or something that makes sense.

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