Moon

When's the last time a decent sci-fi movie has been done about the moon, not like a little bit about the moon, not some stupid cartoon, but a whole 2 hour, serious, live-action movie devoted to it? 2001...not the year, but the movie? Even then it just had a short amount devoted to it. Okay, so anyway, there's now a movie coming out called "Moon" that actually looks a lot like "2001: A Space Odyssey", but not so realistically slow and dull (let's hope). It actually looked pretty decent. I haven't seen it yet, but I have to admit that the trailer peaked my interest.

"Moon" stars Sam Rockwell (Wild Bill from "Green Mile") and has Kevin Spacy doing the voice for Robot. So from the look of the trailer, Sam Rockwell's character is stuck by himself on the moon overseeing a mining mission that's gathering fuel for earth. His only companion is this computer/robot thing that reminds me a lot of Hal-9000 crossed with the personality of Wall-E. Then Sam Rockewell's character (Sam Bell) gets the SPACE MADNESS, or something, and starts hallucinating. Of course there will likely be some twist and he'll turn out to be sane and something really weird is happening, like aliens are doing something, at least that's usually how these things go. Anyway, here's the trailer and there will be a limited release for June 12, 2009 for the U.S. I hate limited releases for good movies!