Oblivion

Rico · February 28, 2013, 04:12:14 PM

New trailer. Looking really cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBVkUb_TWp8#ws

Bromptonboy · March 04, 2013, 03:45:05 PM

That is a great trailer. Glad to see Morgan freeman in the Morpheus-esque role.. ;)

Rico · April 04, 2013, 04:29:14 PM

This is a neat poster.

Jobydrone · April 04, 2013, 07:53:13 PM

I'm overdue for a night out at the movies, I think I'll treat myself to a late night showing of this one opening weekend

Praxis · April 07, 2013, 04:31:56 AM

Definitely going to see this.
That new poster is sweet.

WillEagle · April 09, 2013, 07:30:25 AM

This is probably going to be the movie the wife and I see during our 25th Anniversary/vacation week. I'm glad she likes Sci-fi movies and I won't have to sit through a chick flick. She likes those she just doesn't want to pay $8 for a movie that would be pretty much the same on your tv.
I think this is going to be pretty good. And it has Morgan Freeman in it. He's a great actor.

Bromptonboy · April 09, 2013, 11:28:15 AM

Quote from: WillEagle on April 09, 2013, 07:30:25 AM
This is probably going to be the movie the wife and I see during our 25th Anniversary/vacation week. I'm glad she likes Sci-fi movies and I won't have to sit through a chick flick. She likes those she just doesn't want to pay $8 for a movie that would be pretty much the same on your tv.
I think this is going to be pretty good. And it has Morgan Freeman in it. He's a great actor.

You are lucky... I have to pay it forward with a chick flick for each geek flick. :)

The nice thing is my son is getting old enough to enjoy the geek flicks with me now.

Rico · April 10, 2013, 08:45:16 AM

Some new images here:

http://www.comingsoon.net/imageGallery/Oblivion

WillEagle · April 11, 2013, 12:43:40 PM

Quote from: Bromptonboy on April 09, 2013, 11:28:15 AM
Quote from: WillEagle on April 09, 2013, 07:30:25 AM
This is probably going to be the movie the wife and I see during our 25th Anniversary/vacation week. I'm glad she likes Sci-fi movies and I won't have to sit through a chick flick. She likes those she just doesn't want to pay $8 for a movie that would be pretty much the same on your tv.
I think this is going to be pretty good. And it has Morgan Freeman in it. He's a great actor.
You are lucky... I have to pay it forward with a chick flick for each geek flick. :)

The nice thing is my son is getting old enough to enjoy the geek flicks with me now.

I have been pretty lucky with going to the movies. I won't say I have never been to some chick flicks with her but my "type" of movies far out weight the chick flicks. Plus she normally enjoys the movies almost as much as I do. I picked a good one! Or did she pick me?????

jedijeff · April 21, 2013, 05:37:32 PM

I went and saw this movie today and have to say I quite enjoyed it. I liked the premise of it, the Ship Tom Cruises character flew I thought was really cool as well. It was a real good looking movie and I thought the sound was really good as well, the plot was a bit weak in parts, but fi8nd we just don't get these types of movies all that often anymore. I know Tom Cruise can be a bit out there, but he appears in some good movies, and always seems solid.

Bryancd · April 22, 2013, 03:36:36 PM

Just got back from seeing this as well. Overall impression is a solid B-....

[spoiler]Visually it is stunning and that alone would have given it a C grade even if the whole movie was the FX shots and interiors and exteriors. They filmed in Iceland and it looks very much like Prometheus, even has what looks like the same waterfall! The first 45min. are very interesting, brooding. There's a lot of initial exposition and then as we are introduced to Jack and Victoria and there odd yet seemingly beautiful life in the clouds. The film at first seems to want to be a more introspective affair but half way through it seems it needs to be an action flick. And then it just sort of gives up. Jack is a clone, well that wasn't very interesting. The Road Warrior human survivors are generic and you don't really get behind them and Morgan Freeman is not well cast in the role he plays, he just doesn't sell it for me. It's a shame, it seemed like a really ambitious story that at the end, turned into a very blah one. But it really looks amazing and the acting in general is very good.[/spoiler]

WillEagle · April 22, 2013, 06:04:30 PM

The wife and I both enjoyed this movie today and I would give it an 8. The wife says 7. I liked the story of the movie and like Rico said its not what you expected. Looked awesome and I really liked their "apartment". Tuesday the 23rd is our 25th Anniversary and we wanted to recreate our first date. Our original date was at Rax and we saw King Kong Lives. Well Rax was changed into a Tim Horton's and the movie theater moved into the mall and of course King Kong Lives wasn't playing. So we just got a sandwich each, to keep it cheap like the first date was, and then we went to see Oblivion. I do have King Kong Lives on DVD so we will catch it sometime this week. It is after all a love story.

[spoiler]I also really liked the ships and the drones and the fighting scenes were really good. I didn't see the clone thing coming and when he saw the other ship I first though it might be an alien. I had a little thought that it might look like him when he started running towards him. Really liked the scenes in the "apartment" and I do think Morgan Freeman was way under used. I also liked the blown up moon, very cool graphic. I also expected more when they met up with "Sally". That was a little bit of a let down for me but the explosion was awesome.[/spoiler]

Bromptonboy · April 23, 2013, 10:35:48 AM

I just saw this - and I absolutely loved it. I don't usually care to much for Tom Cruise, so this was a surprise to me. :)

There are a few loose ends that I don't understand, but I thought it was a solid Sci-fi story - with stunning special effects.
[spoiler]They kept quoting one of my all time favorite poems ' Horatius At The Bridge' - so this really got me. I read that once a year to my kids (under laughing protest by them I might ad!). I loved seeing the 'King Slayer' (from Game of Thrones) in this movie. I agree with other assessments that the chase scenes were very silly - and not at all needed. [/spoiler]

Some ideas are derivative of a few Sci-Fi books I have read - and now I will have to read the graphic novel that inspired this movie..

I give this movie a 9 - or a solid A-

WillEagle · April 23, 2013, 06:53:31 PM

[spoiler]Thinking back on this movie wasn't there a mess up with him going up to the mother ship? Because he was in 52's ship and if I recall it was supposed to be 49 bringing the girl up. Wouldn't "Sally" know what ship was coming?[/spoiler]

Bromptonboy · April 24, 2013, 03:16:00 AM

Quote from: WillEagle on April 23, 2013, 06:53:31 PM
[spoiler]Thinking back on this movie wasn't there a mess up with him going up to the mother ship? Because he was in 52's ship and if I recall it was supposed to be 49 bringing the girl up. Wouldn't "Sally" know what ship was coming?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Yes, that was something a bit off in the story, I would assume Sally would see some key marker or be suspicious. I wonder how many other. I would have liked a bit more explained in the back story. What didn't make sense to me was the timing of the Odyssey re-entering the atmosphere. But I am willing to forgive the movie - and assume the novel had better explanations.[/spoiler]

I am a bit alarmed to read that the graphic novel is 'unpublished'. I was hoping to read it to fill in a few of the gaps.