Our Culture is Erasing Itself

Rating: 1/10 (25 April 2010)

When you want to make a science fiction film, and you are obviously aware from the moment you start that you have watched Solaris and 2001 fifty times, you would think one would contemplate that out of respect you should stop there.
I'm not a purist. I don't mind a revisit to a genre. However, those two films hit the things we needed, and it takes much more than the little ideas in moon to make for a movie even half-worth an homage.
Our current generation of 20 year olds did not grow up watching 2001 or Solaris, so there is no frame of reference to catch this film and throw it directly onto a late night broadcast on the sci-fi channel -which is where it belonged back in 1985 when we weren't watching MTV.
It's a damned shame film. Shame on these "filmmakers". Good grief. And, shame of some of the best reviewers, not excluding Roger Ebert himself, for not taking a blazing torch out and screaming for the negative of that film to be strung out for all to see.
Neither Kubrick nor Tarkovsky would be stirring in their graves. They would in fact rise from the dead, take the director out for a night of heavy drinking, and then swat his bottom before putting him to bed and handing him a mini dv camera, telling him to spend the rest of his life video taping traffic.
It's okay to make a movie that takes place in space. It really is. But, if you're going to do it, start from scratch, not from theft.