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 Post subject: Oblivion
PostPosted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:52 am 
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Out now. Trailer here:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGpjlfCfe2Y

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 Post subject: Re: Oblivion
PostPosted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:52 am 
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Co-written by the chap doing the Star Wars script so I'm very interested to see this.

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 Post subject: Re: Oblivion
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On FB, Lucius Shepard made scathing and funny comments about this movie... so, he gets my Tom-Cruise-bashing award of the month.
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Saw Oblivion today. It's Tom Cruise playing Tom Cruise and is so chock full of standard Sci-fi tropes that every twist and turn of the plot was laughingly obvious, but I still enjoyed it. Morgan Freeman was a bit underused although he had the best lines in the movie.

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RossWarren wrote:
..so chock full of standard Sci-fi tropes that every twist and turn of the plot was laughingly obvious


Agreed. It breaks the rule of show don't tell - from overlong intro narration to final explanation, but that's not its worst crime.
In SF cinema, Tom Cruise is an industrial accident that keeps repeating itself.

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That was the clunkiest opening narration I've ever heard. There were some nice visuals and tech in the film but it felt like a script done by commitee.

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