Oblivion

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Saw it at IMAX this evening. Went in with no expectation and barely any knowledge of what the movie was about. Really enjoyed it. The production values are amazing.
 
Fubsy said:
Same problem with my local cinema. Stoker, Cloud Atlas and now Pines are films I would have gladly shed out for me and my girlfriend to go and watch and they failed to have them on, instead showing the likes of a generic rom com for 4 weeks and now Scary Movie 5 instead of Pines. Grrrr.
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Queuing to see Oblivion tonight and the people behind me became all excited to discover that Scary Movie 5 was showing. They then decided it would be much better to go to that instead of anything else currently showing, I felt like turning around and slapping.

Anyways, Oblivion was decent, some nice visuals but a very ropey plot about which it's best not to think too much. It's nice to see more science fiction on the silver screen but it'd be nicer if they actually thought about what they were doing
why did Hal9000 even want all that water?
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
why did Hal9000 even want all that water?
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answer to your question

in the film they are told that the resource to give to titan, as titan has no water, for tet i guessing the water would be broken down for it components hydrogen, oxgen or for the water (h20) to be convert into heavy water (d20) now considering what heavy water (d20) is, i'm guessing that would be what large portion of the water be used for to power the tet or for the tet propulsion systems.
 
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pecnarf said:
answer to your question

in the film they are told that the resource to give to titan, as titan has no water, for tet i guessing the water would be broken down for it components hydrogen, oxgen or for the water (h20) to be convert into heavy water (d20) now considering what heavy water (d20) is, i'm guessing that would be what large portion of the water be used for to power the tet or for the tet propulsion systems.
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Yes, but my point was that it seemed to be to support a system of which the sole purpose was the gather water, that is, it was gathering water to be able to gather more water. Also, there has to be easier ways of getting water for something so advanced. I suppose that there could be millions of tets throughout the Universe gathering water to bring back to their homeplanet, that at least might make a bit of sense despite the timeframe involved.
 
Far better than what the critics said. The Dailymail reviewer didn't even know what fusion is and called it hydroelectric :o.

How is NASA in space in 2017 when it has no space vehicles as of 2013 and the Orion craft is still being designed?
Where did the TET come from?
How did the TET build the hydrogen fusion stations?
Why aren't drones replaced instead of repaired?
How was the moon destroyed?
 
PanMaster said:
Far better than what the critics said. The Dailymail reviewer didn't even know what fusion is and called it hydroelectric :o.

How is NASA in space in 2017 when it has no space vehicles as of 2013 and the Orion craft is still being designed?
Where did the TET come from?
How did the TET build the hydrogen fusion stations?
Why aren't drones replaced instead of repaired?
How was the moon destroyed?
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Although its called NASA, its probably an international mission as they have a British co-pilot

TET came from somewhere outside the solar system, no other info is given

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Because that would make the plot redundant :p

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The Tet was of alien origin. Think of it like one of the alien motherships from Independence Day.

They built fusion stations because they were a supreme alien race with superior knowledge to us.

I'm sure drones were replaced rather than repaired but that was superfluous to the story. End of the day, not all drones would need replacing so there has been a technician to repair them. The alien race seemed to have nothing more than some form of AI therefore it was dependant on a human doing its repair work.

Moon was destroyed by mining of resources. Just like they were mining the earth's oceans for its water.
 
I'm really surprised at a lot of the reviews. I'd have to agree with RT and against the grain here. I thought it was extremely predictable, very slow with a huge lack of pace development. I worked out the story in as much as a 3rd of the film and had to endure it being spoon fed to me painfully.
Not enough Freeman for me either. :-) 4/10
 
NathanE said:
The Tet was of alien origin. Think of it like one of the alien motherships from Independence Day.

They built fusion stations because they were a supreme alien race with superior knowledge to us.

I'm sure drones were replaced rather than repaired but that was superfluous to the story. End of the day, not all drones would need replacing so there has been a technician to repair them. The alien race seemed to have nothing more than some form of AI therefore it was dependant on a human doing its repair work.

Moon was destroyed by mining of resources. Just like they were mining the earth's oceans for its water.
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The moon wasn't destroyed because of mining, it was destroyed during part of the attack on Earth. It disrupted the the entire environment (flooding, earthquakes) of the planet.
 
I saw this tonight. Quite cheesy dialogue and acting in parts and the story twists were very predictable. It also borrows quite a bit from other sci fi stories. However the cinematography was very good and overall I really enjoyed the story and the film. 7/10 from me and I'm glad I went to see it.
 
I enjoyed the movie, hated the ending massively, way too Hollywood like especially considering how 'special' tech-49 was meant to be.
Hated the whole romantic thing with tech-52, who hadnt AFAIK shown any distinct humanity and how easily they got into the Tet, independence Day style
There was enough substance there to keep the movie entertaining but agree there was no real depth which is what I guess the critics were after. I doubt those blanks were left to allow the audience the ponder...

I applaud the director and d.p., loved the cinematography, best bit about this film, though the sound effects for the machinery and guns was also very, very good. More I think about it the more this felt like a good game than a movie. You can tell its based on a graphic novel as the drones, helicopter and their living quarters were so well thought out...

How young are you guys when you see glaDOS before you see HAL9000 :p

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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I enjoyed it's simplicity.. Too many CGI action films without any real content around now days. My only gripe is that it Starred Tom Cruise. A nobody would have been better.

I have one question?

The reactors in the sea.. What were they suppose to be doing?

If these weren't human, then these must have been alien. So what's their point?

and the ending with tech 52 was a bit too far.. I think they tried to create a last ditch twist - fail!
 
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There was a second sleep pod? I thought they just re-used the one they found the wife in
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No there were two at the end, one for Beech when he went to the Tet with Jack and the one Julia woke up in at the hut/lake location
ps3ud0 :cool:
 
I expected more and was disappointed, I felt that although the production values were excellent and there were some interesting ideas there were too many plot holes/pacing issues to give it a good score. I'd put it firmly as a 5, possibly 6 out of 10.
 
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