Movies Viewed This Week

"Moon"

"Moon" was directed by Duncan Jones and stars Sam Rockwell, another Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey as the lovable Hal-like robotic assistant named GERTY. Rockwell plays as Sam Bell; a contract employee of Lunar Industries who is the lone station manager on the far side of the moon. Bell maintains the machines that mine helium-3 from the surface of the moon and sends the extracted h3 down to the earth. Nearing the end of his 3 year contract, Bell starts hallucinating starts questioning if he should trust his robotic assistant. I won't give the rest away so I'll end by saying that this movie had me entertained the entire time and had me guessing the true intentions of Lunar Industries and the robotic assistant. Despite the lack of moon gravity inside the base, this movie could easily rank as number one in my 2009 movies top ten. The Blu-Ray extras were great, which include a science Q&A with the director and a short film by the same director called "Whistle". I also just learned that the director of this film is the son of David Bowie; no real significance in that information but interesting nonetheless.