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posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 19 2017, @03:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the brighter-future dept.

I think we can use some positive emotions in our lives and this 3:50-minute SF movie created by Erik Wernquist certainly delivers a positive view of our future in this solar system that seems to rather lack in stories coming out of Hollywood recently. Made my day again, same as movie shot by Juno probe at Jupiter. This really is a masterpiece and it must have taken tremendous amount of CGI work. Narration is by Carl Sagan reading the first chapter ("The Wanderers") from his 1994 book "The Pale Blue Dot." I wanted to describe the locations displayed in the movie, but it was too spoilery and you can easily guess most of them anyway.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/108650530

Erik has a website with more films at http://www.erikwernquist.com/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @07:46PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @07:46PM (#528106)

    To me Moon, Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow are sci-fi movies that ask "what if something was different". You might not count Moon as Hollywood but the other two are.

    The Planet of the Apes reboot also counts for "what if something was different". Same for District 9.

    As for Elysium, it might have been interesting if they'd made the "healing tech" cost a huge amount in energy and resources. Then as the poor overload those machines they find that the harsh reality is even if the social barriers are dropped, you still can't heal everyone or even feed everyone great food. Then many of the poor start behaving just like the "0.001%" elite and try to keep things for themselves. However it probably wouldn't have been as popular a movie that way ;).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @08:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @08:24PM (#528124)

    As for Elysium, it might have been interesting if they'd made the "healing tech" cost a huge amount in energy and resources. Then as the poor overload those machines they find that the harsh reality is even if the social barriers are dropped, you still can't heal everyone or even feed everyone great food. Then many of the poor start behaving just like the "0.001%" elite and try to keep things for themselves. However it probably wouldn't have been as popular a movie that way ;).

    Yep which is why the movie can basically be summed up as "Occupy Space Station".

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday June 20 2017, @11:04AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday June 20 2017, @11:04AM (#528417) Homepage
    I'd have enjoyed it more! Way too much in sci-fi relies on an unbelievable "good stuff is free" assumption, typically combined with the "one group is hoarding or otherwise restricting access to the good stuff" trope, with the obvious implication that the hoarding group is a group of nasty bad people - /et voila!/ a dozen Elysia are shat out, and at least a couple of them will be tentpoles that encourage the cycle to repeat.

    However, at least they're entertaining things to munch popcorn to. Cinemas need peanut galleries.
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