Showing posts with label outer space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outer space. Show all posts

6 Feb 2018

HANDSOME EXAGGERATION


Cheap productions, bad acting and too artsy atmosphere were a thing of the past when it comes to contemporary Russian cinema. Movies coming from the largest country in this world are now fueled by a respectable amount of cash and also some really interesting stories, like the one about the first successful salvaging of the man made object in the outer space.

As for the CGI, tensity and cinematography, ’’Salyut-7’’ deserves all the praise, bringing it to the level of the much acclaimed ’’Gravity’’, while simultaneously creating the corrugated atmosphere of the USSR-made machines and heroes of the space race.

However, script tends to deviate significantly from the reality in the bottom half of the movie, managing to spoil the good impressions with the US-style pathetic at the very end.

’’Salyut-7’’ is a true blockbuster for the movies that succeed in its primary role to entertain the average viewer with a slightly different perspective to modern day SF.




FOTO: ctb.ru


22 Sept 2016

UNDERESTIMATED QUALITY SF



Some movies must be watched two times to get a clear image of their quality and some movies must be watched on a high quality print.

I underestimated Danny Boyle's „Sunshine” first time I saw it on a theatrical screener and I shouldn't have done that.

It has a decently convincing story about the spaceship en route to the dying Sun to reignite it with a nuclear bomb. Production is high end and the CGI is really, really great. International b-production cast is solid, lead by the young and aspiring Cillian Murphy. Subplots and the very ending are pretty much something we already saw and relies heavily on the Kubrick's „Odyssey”, but that fact doesn't represent a major issue due to trademark high quality work behind the camera by Danny Boyle.

„Sunshine” is pretty obscure and hugely underestimated piece of modern SF that can be compared to the genre's glorious predecessors.