Old news, maybe, but not having seen any trailers, not knowing anything about this movie, (except that it's sci-fi), I bought it a few weeks ago, and watched it this Sunday afternoon while my daughter was over at some friends watching Coyote Ugly. Actaully, I made it a little bit of an experience by dragging the NEC Xm29Plus out of the bedroom and hooking up the audio through my main system, just using stereo downmix from the SB-Live Platinum in the new HDTPC.
Movie:
Story: It's a simple premise, a "low rent" transport get's holed by meteor showers, crashlands on a planet with multiple suns, and some dangers lurking in the shadows- including an upcoming total eclipse. What saves it is a good script, strong character acting, very good but not overblown special effects, an interesting characters- don't look for simple heroes or villians here.
Picture: Uses interesting cinematography effects to portray the effect of multiple suns with a different color spectrum than ours- outlandish but plausible landscapes, great crashlanding sequence, much more plausible handling of aerodynamics issues, pilot issues, etc, than average; gernally clear, sharp transfer, with minimal pixelation or banding in background areas (where they usually try to save bits in the transfer). Good sound effects and score- sounded great through my main system, even though coming from a PC- yes, it's DD, but good speakers and seemingly limitless dynamic range help.
I'd rate this one of the best, perhaps the best Sci-Fi release of the last couple of years. No Jar Jar Binks, either!
-Jon
Earth First!
_______________________________
We'll screw up the other planets later....
Movie:
Story: It's a simple premise, a "low rent" transport get's holed by meteor showers, crashlands on a planet with multiple suns, and some dangers lurking in the shadows- including an upcoming total eclipse. What saves it is a good script, strong character acting, very good but not overblown special effects, an interesting characters- don't look for simple heroes or villians here.
Picture: Uses interesting cinematography effects to portray the effect of multiple suns with a different color spectrum than ours- outlandish but plausible landscapes, great crashlanding sequence, much more plausible handling of aerodynamics issues, pilot issues, etc, than average; gernally clear, sharp transfer, with minimal pixelation or banding in background areas (where they usually try to save bits in the transfer). Good sound effects and score- sounded great through my main system, even though coming from a PC- yes, it's DD, but good speakers and seemingly limitless dynamic range help.
I'd rate this one of the best, perhaps the best Sci-Fi release of the last couple of years. No Jar Jar Binks, either!
-Jon
Earth First!
_______________________________
We'll screw up the other planets later....
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