I'm baffled...

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2011)

Of all the movie reviews I've had the pleasure of reading to-date, i must say that the reviews for this one leave me confused...
As for the movie, i loved it. I was blown away. Saw it right at release and wasn't expecting much so maybe thats why i was so taken aback with the quality (in a good way).
I am a huge sci-fi fan. I've literally seen it all whether its movies or TV, right from the first star trek ever made to all good and bad spin-offs. Stargate, same thing. Battlestar galactica etc... All the classic movies and all the new gems (and steamy piles of crap sometimes)in this genre have been viewed by me. I literally made a point of this 5 years ago. Now that you know I'm not a sci-fi noob i must say that it doesn't make any sense to me that so many reviewers have said that "those who like this aren't sci-fi fans" or, "those who like this haven't seen a single episode of trek/stargate". This is original (despite its references to so many movies and shows), moving, exciting, and most of all believable! Ya i said it... believable! EVERY SCI-FI MOVIE/SHOW EVER MADE OR DREAMPT UP HAS "HOLES" Such is the genre of science fiction...FICTION Things like "How can Gerty communicate with earth if its the tower thats blocking the signal", if they had taken the time to explain this it would have been some easily creatable sci-fi typical explanation "uhhh... the tower has a .... Gerty detecting algorithm", its complicated and poorly explained in sci fi, always is, thats why its almost better that they leave it open, some dumb sci fi explanation for these "holes" would have taken away from the writing and point of the movie. Sure, you'd need some sort of a centrifuge to create gravity where there should be none (the moon-base interior), and we've no mention of this... would that have helped the people who didn't like the "holes"? Maybe they live in a future where technology exists that allows gravity to happen in the moon-base.... point is WHO CARES? thats for the writer to decide because (drum roll....) ITS A WORK OF FICTION! Watch this movie for what it is, a good, original, and sly flick with great acting, great premise and good set/effects.
Think for two seconds how hard it would be to make a sci-fi movie without giving any referable aspects of other sci fi in it.
The movie isn't perfect, i agree that more probably could have been done with the plot/excitement after starting with such a great premise, but i don't feel it takes much away from it.
Most of all, to all of you who consider yourself sci-fi fans: don't be deterred by bad reviews. This is a perfect example of the genre and delivers everything a true fan of sci-fi loves.