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Just watched this last night. I thought it was great. Anyone see it? Not sure what I can say that won't spoil it. Lets just say it's about a guy running a H3 mining installation on the far side of the moon nearing the end of his 3 year contract term.
I could only see half last night ;)
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Saw this recently, EyeKhan, and thought it was quite excellent. I would really like a lot more of this type of sci-fi movie, and there's plenty of material out there in novels and short stories. I don't need another screwed up I, Robot or The Day the Earth Stood Still :cry:
No kidding. Let's take sci-fi classics and destroy them. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by X900BTA
If you're brave enough watch the B version called The Day the Earth Stopped. The cover looks cool. All I remember is there's a naked chic, then retarded army guys, and the hint of robots. Then she's naked again. The end.
At least you rememberd the most important part, the naked chick.
Are you talking about the '50s version? There was another remake besides the latest?Quote:
Originally Posted by X900BTA
Moon was pretty good, very per-sychological.
Although I was a bit confused by the way Gerty served both Sam and the corporate suits equally without regard to the consequences... there wasn't any programming to prevent Sam from discovering the truth or to deal with him if he does so? Really? It just seemed very strange :|
It took me a while to see it, as it kept selling out. I rate it very highly, a classic piece of sci-fi.Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan
Really? I assumed that someone forgot to put 'gerty must consider consequences' into the spec. That sort of things happens all the time. ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tempus Vernum
Whoever designed Gerty then was clearly not genre savvy or they would've known that eventually something like this would happen and would need to be dealt with. Someone should point the suits towards tvtropes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Unheard Of
First, I like that the resident AI wasn't a heartless villain. That's a nice change. Second, Gerty was programmed to help Sam. That programmig came into conflict with his programming to serve the corporation. In the immediate circumstance, it helped Sam. Third, I like to think there's a chance that Gerty felt compassion. And I like that the film sort of left a bit of gray area open for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tempus Vernum
You don't need to make him a villain, just an obstacle who needs to be convinced to find the loopholes in his programming. We saw part of that with Sam creating an emergency to get outside and it would have been nice if the film has expanded on that a bit further.Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan
Except if you're pulling off a conspiracy like that then Gerty should've been programmed to fall on the corporations side regardless of his feelings for Sam, instead every time Sam came up against a problem Gerty caved in and helped him without putting up much resistance. The only explanation is that Gerty's designer was handling the Idiot Ball at the time, which is certainly possible but unsatifactory.Quote:
Second, Gerty was programmed to help Sam. That programmig came into conflict with his programming to serve the corporation. In the immediate circumstance, it helped Sam.
I like that too, but compassion alone won't help an AI overcome it's programmed limits, that those limits were apparently lacking is what I have a problem with.Quote:
Third, I like to think there's a chance that Gerty felt compassion. And I like that the film sort of left a bit of gray area open for that.
So here's something I've been wondering about regarding the film:
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Have you watched the anime "Planetes"?
It is quite realistic when flying missions.
It mentions Helium 3 mining on the moon...
Have you used Orbiter to go to the moon?
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html
No and No. I take it you haven't seen Moon?Quote:
Originally Posted by ar81