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Two Sci Fi flicks coming soon

I was taking a look at the trailers on Apple's site and ran across two interesting movies coming out. Both of them sci fi which is automatically a plus.

Moon

This one looks awesome. Its about a man working alone on the moon to mine resources for Earth. He has no live communication and can only send and receive recorded messages. It looks like his only other companion is a computer with a Hal like voice. Scenarios like this are always great. The root of sci fi is always "what if" and taking a deep look at the what if of human nature in scenarios like this is great. I watched the trailer and couldn't stop thinking about the scenario itself. From the grander perspective of whether we would actually send one man into space or to the moon alone to how you would spend your time while there. Are video messages from your wife enough to keep you going? What kind of man does it take to do that? I also love character driven stories. I have a lot of hope for this and anticipation. Something I hate when seeing a movie because its common for hollywood to let us down.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/moon/

Surrogates

This one is a movie about robots you can control from home. They live your life for you providing you with complete safety. They're super strong, never die, and bring the world peace. Oh, and if you have robot sex with another robot you can feel it. Even though your robots are doing it, not you. If your robot dies you just buy a new one. But someone figures out how to kill real people by killing their robots and this causes Bruce Willis to get beat up a lot and ultimately save the day. (Or not which will make the movie awesome if he's the only real person left at the end.) There's probably some cult or religious wackos that decide this isn't the ultimate plan for humanity and shut off all the robots. I think the whole story is pretty clear from the trailer. Despite all this I'll go see it because I love motha f'n robots.

Meh, is all I can say for this one. Robot puppets. I don't think that's been done before ... But it does look action packed and if we're lucky could have a good story. Its probably worth it just to see Bruce Willis with that awesome 80's comb over. Funny he didn't build a robot for himself with a bald head? Isn't that his schtik?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/surrogates/