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Why is it rated R?
Will the little kiddies be afraid of a talking computer and space?
Will kids be horrified at the fact that the Moon is not made of cheese....
Does Sam Rockwell moon the earth in one scene?
EDIT:
Just saw the trailer!! HOLY F***
2001 + Sunshine...
The robot is obviously similar to Hall 9000
Will the little kiddies be afraid of a talking computer and space?
Will kids be horrified at the fact that the Moon is not made of cheese....
Does Sam Rockwell moon the earth in one scene?
EDIT:
Just saw the trailer!! HOLY F***
2001 + Sunshine...
The robot is obviously similar to Hall 9000
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'Moon' is just a simpler title, one word, simple, easy to market and so on. It's not about THE MOON, so having 'The' in the title doesn't work. It's called 'Moon' because of what happens with the man trapped on the moon. It could have be titled several different things, but MOON seems to work.
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I love Sam Rockwell and the trailer looks great, but if this has something to do with cloning....i might be ticked off a bit
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When exactly does this come out? I really want to see it.
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Ya good/great movies always have a limited release while crap like Transformers 2 gets...
OMG!!! SUPER DUPER SIMULTANEOUS WORLDWIDE PREMIERE!!!
OMG!!! SUPER DUPER SIMULTANEOUS WORLDWIDE PREMIERE!!!
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well its an investment...spend 200 plus mil on a movie you have to put it on as many screens as possible to make that back...the first one did make 725 Million dollars....Moon probably did not cost that much so it can make its money back much much easier
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IMDB also has it releasing this week
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Yes, comes out this weekend. Remember, it's Sony Classics (aka Sony Picture Classics) releasing it. They usually start out with the movies in very limited release and expand on them depending how well it does week to week.
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that's what you get for living in Jersey
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'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' says different
haha....got me there
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Article from Entertainment weekly
MOON
starring Sam Rockwell
Directed by Duncan Jones
R, 97 minutes
By Owen Gleiberman
In the brooding science-fiction trifle Moon, Sam Rockwell plays a solitary corporate astronaut who is finishing three lonely years on the dark side of the lunar surface. His name is Sam Bell and his job is to oversee the mining of helium-3, which has become Earths primary source of energy. In a dankly gritty geodesic space station, which might just as well be a prison, Sam has no one to talk to but a computer named Gerty an amusing satirical hamge to HAL in 2001, with a voice all playful self-pity, provided by Kevin Spacey. Sam also passes time making video calls to his wife and daughter. But then, on an expedition outside the station, Sam finds what looks like another , wounded astronaut. Actually, its a younger version of himself-a clone. Now there are two SAms. And whoa,do they have a lot to talk about. The double role suits Rockwell perfectly-in facet, its uits hima a little too well. AS an actor,he has always played flakes, screwups, and boyishly dazed myopic nutjobs. Some times he's been crazy-goofy (Choke, Box of Moonlight) sometimes crazy lethal (Snow angels, Confessions of a DAngerous Mind), but what defineds nearly every Rockwell Perfomance is it charming /annoying solipisit quality. Shaggy and horsey-handsome, hes like a man-child hypnotized byt his own brain-waves, and while this makse him a magnetic highflier it also means that he never entirely connects with anyone on screen. In Moon, Rockwell battles his double with a kind of fulminating acting-class intensity. Is the clone real? Is Sam going mad with isolation? Or is he the victim of a coasmic hallucinatory mind control scheme the parnoid pawin in a Pilip K. Dickian game of Don Astronauts Dream of Electric Clones? You can meditate away, but a bottom the movie is 97 minutes of Sam Rockwell jabbering to himself. Moon is the first feature to be directed by Duncan Jones, who is David Bowies son and he brings it a grimy industrial look-the furutre strip-minded ofall romance or idealism as well as witty touches like giving Gerty a smiley face screen that changes expression in tandem with Spacey's voice. Jones truly puts you on the moon; he does a technically imaginative job befitting the son of the man who fell to earth. Next time, though he'd do well to make a movie that breathes as much as it mind trips. B-
MOON
starring Sam Rockwell
Directed by Duncan Jones
R, 97 minutes
By Owen Gleiberman
In the brooding science-fiction trifle Moon, Sam Rockwell plays a solitary corporate astronaut who is finishing three lonely years on the dark side of the lunar surface. His name is Sam Bell and his job is to oversee the mining of helium-3, which has become Earths primary source of energy. In a dankly gritty geodesic space station, which might just as well be a prison, Sam has no one to talk to but a computer named Gerty an amusing satirical hamge to HAL in 2001, with a voice all playful self-pity, provided by Kevin Spacey. Sam also passes time making video calls to his wife and daughter. But then, on an expedition outside the station, Sam finds what looks like another , wounded astronaut. Actually, its a younger version of himself-a clone. Now there are two SAms. And whoa,do they have a lot to talk about. The double role suits Rockwell perfectly-in facet, its uits hima a little too well. AS an actor,he has always played flakes, screwups, and boyishly dazed myopic nutjobs. Some times he's been crazy-goofy (Choke, Box of Moonlight) sometimes crazy lethal (Snow angels, Confessions of a DAngerous Mind), but what defineds nearly every Rockwell Perfomance is it charming /annoying solipisit quality. Shaggy and horsey-handsome, hes like a man-child hypnotized byt his own brain-waves, and while this makse him a magnetic highflier it also means that he never entirely connects with anyone on screen. In Moon, Rockwell battles his double with a kind of fulminating acting-class intensity. Is the clone real? Is Sam going mad with isolation? Or is he the victim of a coasmic hallucinatory mind control scheme the parnoid pawin in a Pilip K. Dickian game of Don Astronauts Dream of Electric Clones? You can meditate away, but a bottom the movie is 97 minutes of Sam Rockwell jabbering to himself. Moon is the first feature to be directed by Duncan Jones, who is David Bowies son and he brings it a grimy industrial look-the furutre strip-minded ofall romance or idealism as well as witty touches like giving Gerty a smiley face screen that changes expression in tandem with Spacey's voice. Jones truly puts you on the moon; he does a technically imaginative job befitting the son of the man who fell to earth. Next time, though he'd do well to make a movie that breathes as much as it mind trips. B-
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heres the sidebar on the director
Duncan Jones
DOUBLE VISION: Jones, who's 38 and a first time filmmaker wrote Moon specifically for Sam Rockwell. The movie concerns an astronaut alone on the moon who encounters a clone of himself. To create a conversation between two version of the same actor, Jones relied on old-fashioned split screen shots and a talented star. "We've all started joking that this performance desrves and Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor", says Jones
STAR DUST MEMORIES: Jones, whose dad is David Bowie, say any similarities between Moon and his father's Ziggy Stardust period are unintenional, but adds:"Growing up, if he was listening to music, I would hear it. There are probably a lot of similar references there."
NAME DROPPING: "Bowie was never my name-it was just my dad's stage name. The tabloids called me Zowie, my middle name. Then I decided I wanted to be called my actual given name, Duncan, when I turned 14"
WHAT'S NEXT: One project he's developing is Escape from the Deep, "a true story about submariners who mangage to escape a sunken WWII sub."
-Christine Spines
Duncan Jones
DOUBLE VISION: Jones, who's 38 and a first time filmmaker wrote Moon specifically for Sam Rockwell. The movie concerns an astronaut alone on the moon who encounters a clone of himself. To create a conversation between two version of the same actor, Jones relied on old-fashioned split screen shots and a talented star. "We've all started joking that this performance desrves and Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor", says Jones
STAR DUST MEMORIES: Jones, whose dad is David Bowie, say any similarities between Moon and his father's Ziggy Stardust period are unintenional, but adds:"Growing up, if he was listening to music, I would hear it. There are probably a lot of similar references there."
NAME DROPPING: "Bowie was never my name-it was just my dad's stage name. The tabloids called me Zowie, my middle name. Then I decided I wanted to be called my actual given name, Duncan, when I turned 14"
WHAT'S NEXT: One project he's developing is Escape from the Deep, "a true story about submariners who mangage to escape a sunken WWII sub."
-Christine Spines
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B- still isn't all that bad.
I don't think that critic truly looked into the film for all the metaphors it could hold though, seemed mainly focused just on how Rockwell performs in it as well as his past films. I'll find out for myself when I'm able to catch it.
I don't think that critic truly looked into the film for all the metaphors it could hold though, seemed mainly focused just on how Rockwell performs in it as well as his past films. I'll find out for myself when I'm able to catch it.
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Moon opened this week in 8 theaters. $145,000 estimate for a $18,125 PTA. Debuted at #20 btw.
http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
A Good example to it's performace is another movie from SPC, Rachel Getting Married.
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rachelgettingmarried.htm
It opened in 9 theaters in it's opening week last October but did $293,000+.
http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
A Good example to it's performace is another movie from SPC, Rachel Getting Married.
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rachelgettingmarried.htm
It opened in 9 theaters in it's opening week last October but did $293,000+.
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