Post by jix on Oct 15, 2010 14:32:12 GMT
. . . Bowie's brood, age 39. Only one film out yet:
. . . Moon.
With a $5,000,000 budget he managed to create one of the very best science fiction flicks of the decade or beyond and breathe new life into the genre. The cast, if you wanna call it that, is excellent. Spacey as Gerty works well and Sam Rockwell delivers a performance that is pure brilliance - in my opinion worthy of an academy award nomination. Which, of course, he didn't get. The frame Jones sets for Rockwell's one-man-show suits the tense character-plot. In a time full of overblown, hyperbolic, officiously CGI-brimmed no-brainers it is refreshing to see a slow paced, thought-provoking science fiction film shot in beautiful old-school pictures. He used fucking models, and rightly so. A great score, another plus for this film. Clint Mansell did a great job on the music. "Welcome to Lunar Industries" > "Life on Mars?".
An impressive debut. Here's hope that in the future (hurhur) there's gonna be a bit more of this kind of character-driven science fiction out in theatres - just like this or Sunshine, which was quite strong aswell.
