[…] course. I like good movies. For example, I loved Moon, Memento, Donnie Darko and Primer. All excellent films that are well worth watching. Then again all […]

@ copperfish: Ditto.

I’ve just seen it, and I really liked it. Thank you very much for the suggestion, Luke.

And it’s refreshing watching a movie where the robot actually follows Asimov’s Laws :)

[…] I reviewed Moon, thesh17 recommended Pandorium unappreciated low key good Scifi flick that fell between the cracks. […]

Thanks for this. Would never have picked it up if you hadn’t mentioned it.

@ Craig A. Betts:

Yeah, I saw a trailer for it a while ago and wanted to watch it for a while. But it turned out to be completely different from what I expected. It turned out to be better!

@ Chris Wellons:

I put choke on my to watch and to read list. :) But you are right about the gravity. I didn’t think of that. And I’m usually pretty good about noticing issues like this.

Grant Robertson wrote:

I left the theater saying, “Now that was real science fiction!”

Word!

@ freelancer:

Yeah, there were several smaller twists there. Not as important as the big one though.

@ tash:

I put Pandorium on my “to watch” list. The trailer looks promising.

Yeah, thanks for this tip! Watched it yesterday and it was really good. In my opinion there were several smaller twists after the big one. Unfortunately I can’t say pretty much anything without spoiling too much :P

But yeah, if you watch sci-fi for more than just the special effects, definitely check out this movie.

@ Chris Wellons: I considered the working in parallel theory too =)

Excellent tip, Luke!

I have just finished watching it and couldn’t be more pleased. You get the twist fairly early in the movie but the way it unravels is very well done and catchy.

I really liked Moon too. At first, I thought it was just going to be a low-budget sci-fi film .. which it was actually if I remember right. It was good though, with a lot of good story that would be hard to describe without spoiling the whole thing.
Pandorum is another movie I watched recently that I was really impressed that you should check out if you haven’t already!

I agree as well. I left the theater saying, “Now that was real science fiction!”

I agree. It’s a great film!

It wasn’t playing in any theaters in my state when it was gradually being released, but I had really wanted to see it. In October I managed to torrent acquire a copy (searching around is annoying when there is “Moon 2009” and “New Moon 2009”). I was not disappointed! I had already guessed part of the twist from the trailer*, which unfortunately gives a lot of it away. It wasn’t enough to ruin the movie, though.

My only complaint would be the unexplained gravity situation in the station. He seemed to be under normal Earth gravity in there. Outside the station seemed to have Moon gravity, as indicated when he was carrying … ahem … someone.

Sam Rockwell does a lot of these low profile films. If you liked him in Moon, check out Choke sometime. I traveled an hour to catch that one in a theater. (And then if you like it, read the book, since it’s better of course. :-P)

*** PARTIAL SPOILER ALERT ***

* My guess before seeing it was that there were multiple clones working in parallel on the moon, but unaware of each other. The real situation is much better than this. :-)