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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Sci Fi Films I-2
scarletspeed7
12/07/18 12:04:51 PM
#351:


#5 - Moon (2009)
Scarlet - 1
Karo - 5
Stifled - 8
Johnbobb - 9
JONA - 9
Wickle - 12
KBM - 16
Inviso - 19
Charon - 20
Snake - 23
Genny - 27

Total: 148

"What It Is (To the Tune of Nine in the Afternoon):
While harvesting helium-3,
Sam Rockwell waits for his term to end and to go,
And hes feeling so bored.
Seeing some chick he shouldnt see,
Distracts him so that a harvester starts to blow,
And its the end of the world.
Back in the base where Sam began
GERTY reveals that theres not just one Sam.
Into a vault where Sams are groomed,
Under the base that sits atop the moon.
They both listen to GERTY,
And they know they were duped,
All the recordings just arent true
Cause theyre stuck in the plot of Moon,
Recycled by corporate goons,
Living amongst lunar dunes,
An escape they will try
As Sam 1 starts to die
Since theyre stuck in the plot of Moon,
A repair team will arrive soon,
If Sams caught it will spell certain doom,
And that isnt good.
Computer cries.
Sams realize
Theyve lost the feeling of feeling unique.
Do you know what I mean?
Fifteen years passed,
And so Sam asked,
If theyre all clones was there ever a girl?
And it causes a scene.
So the Sams think, a plans put in place,
Back to the wreck where it all began.
Back to the wreck where it all began....
Its time to escape from the moon.
Sam 1 faces death and its gloom,
Sam 2 stows away in some room,
Out of a fake womb,
Sam 3 starts bloom,
As Sam 2s blasting off from the moon.
The old Sam in his lunar tomb,
Young Sam off to Earth with a boom.
Hell find a courtroom,
And then we can presume,
That he shut down the work on the moon,
The rock where old Sam is marooned.
Eventually his corpse is exhumed,
And we can assume,
That the gas we consume,
No longer will come from the moon.

Why It Matters: A critical darling in its year of release, Moon helped to kickstart a renaissance in Sam Rockwell's career. But mostly it's just a beloved sci fi film.

What I Think: It's appropriate that such an intimate, psychologically astute space-based character study comes from the hands of Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie. It definitely takes inspiration from the same movies Bowie took inspiration from in songs like Space Oddity - there are traces of 2001 and Solaris here.
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