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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Flower Man: [QB] Most of this crap is spoilers so....well it's primarily spoilers. Discontinue reading this post if you don't want to be spoiled! Well. This movie was interesting. Unfortunately, I've noticed that it suffered from a little Battlefield Earth Syndrome. (B.E.S. for short) Symptoms include mechanical hardware continuing to be functional even after going thousands of years without repair or maintenance. In this case, it was a highly advanced computer A.I./hologram system from the 2030s found to still be functioning some time in the 800,000s And English is apparently still a spoken language in the 800,000s, but just barely. The Powers That Be did throw in a few amusing bits here and there, like in one scene H.G. Wells' novel [i]The Time Machine[/i] was given a quick, but definitely noticeable mention. And I've also caught the fact that everyone in the distant future has the same or similar Hawaiian skin color. This is something I have heard will happen eventually as more and more interracial breeding takes place. Someone should tell the KKK that they are fighting a losing war. :D The special effects were cool, but they could have taken more time to explain more fully some aspects of the story. After watching it, I felt like the story was incomplete in all honesty. I probably should read the book. In all honesty the fact that I never read the book kept nagging me throughout the movie. If you are not planning on watching it and yet, you are curious about why the moon was breaking apart in the previews, I'll tell you. It really is quite a sad story. :) Apparently, when a construction company needed to excavate a foundation for a new lunar colony, the construction company, in all it's infinite idiocy, decided to detonate a bunch of nukes, each about 20 megatons if I remember correctly, to accomplish this. This knocked the moon off a stable orbit and sent it hurtling closer and closer to Earth until the moon splits in to two pieces. About 65% of the moon collided with Earth while the other 35% managed to get into another stable orbit along with billions of smaller moon fragments. By the 800,000s the Earth has a ring kind of like the Ba'ku planet only much less orderly. There's my $5.50 worth of spoilers. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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