Moon 44 (1990)

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Roland Emmerich's lackluster Alien meets Blue Thunder project; an effort only worthy of eclipsing his previous "Ghost Chase".

 

1. Dean Devlin channels his best madcap Max Casella....innnn space.

 

2. The script is clunky in that fresh-from-Germany-director-thinks-the-dialogue-makes-sense way. Cut, great, next scene!

 

3. The navigators are wildly overrated - they give vague verbal instructions on how to fly in a trench with no visibility...with neither clarity nor timeliness.

 

4. Scooter shits-where-he-sleeps. Life lesson 1, never rape your navigator.

 

5. The arming system has no failsafes. A stray cat could turn a training mission into a disaster.

 

6. Malcolm McDowell really gives it a go.

 

7. Sergeant eats poison. No payoff. Sergeant drinks an egg. No payoff. Bullets in the back? Yeah that works.

 

8. Spaceship models care of Battlestar Galactica...1978.

 

9. Our hero, Stone, doesn't have enough screen time to be the strong silent type.

 

10. Stone is more of a default hero because everyone else: corporation, military, navigators, and robots are all assholes.

 

11. The robots fly like people...they flail and jerk. But why? They are computers in a computer controlled ship. It should be a USB cable.

 

12. They added Giger stuff to Glocks to make space-Glocks.

 

13. This whole adventure was considered finished with the killing of one of the three staff of the Moon base? And there was no questioning or casework or...anything? Why IA?

 

14. We go from "Blue Thunder", to "Outland" style mystery-tension, and end somewhere shy of "The Last Starfighter" and "Top Gun".

 

15. Lisa Eichorn's character has no purpose. She periodically repeats lines ala Galaxy Quest. No sexual intrigue, no brassiness. She is literally pushed over by Malcolm McDowell.

 

16. Going to battle stations / responding to a threat is the most haphazard and lengthy of processes. Everyone has to run back and forth in a tiny base and discuss what is happening.

 

17. The partial destruction of the base does not appear to effect breathing or life support on an otherwise desolate moon.

 

19. Dat final battle editing...had to make those fx shots last.

 

20. Their getaway barge was sort of dropped onto a departing shuttle...and that was not a rocket science/space travel problem.

 

21. The final boardroom scene...WHATTT????

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Full Movie Available

 

Multi-rez copy but windowed (in two parts) on Daily Motion - http://www.dailymoti...90-1_shortfilms

 

full copy on other sundry sites...

 

 

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I really encourage HDTGM not to bury this.

 

Roland Emmerich in Spaaaaaaace!