SciFi Movies of #SIFF2011

Womb

Genre: SciFi
Country: Germany
Tally: 32 out of 80

I know I’m strange, but I honestly really enjoyed this movie. It is a rather slow paced and quiet movie. In this dreary dark looking world, people can give birth to clones. The morality of who some people choose to give birth to is very much in question.

Movie definitely makes you feel uncomfortable… Very uncomfortable. And I appreciate that. How in the world can you NOT be uncomfortable!?! Woman loses her lover, then gets inseminated with his clone. She raises him up to adulthood, but a wonderfully creepy mother who unfortunately harbors impure thoughts to someone she shoved out of her vagina…

I give it a lot of credit for being different, creeping me out, and for Matt Smith not annoying me. Unfortunately I’m not his biggest fan for being the current Doctor Who. I don’t care if bow ties are cool or not.

I take away points for their trailer. How in the world can they show the car crash in the trailer!?!?!? That was stupid. You watch the movie and see it coming a mile away. Leave me something to be surprised over, please! I also take away points for the ending. They took the laziest way out possible, to end this movie.

Another Earth

Genre: SciFi
Country: USA
Tally: 33 out of 80

I loved this movie. I don’t know what everyone is griping about. Maybe people are disappointed that there were no aliens. I would consider this movie to be much more of a Drama, than SciFi though. Movie is definitely depressing. Sorrow, regrets, forgiveness is what this movie is built on. Slightly melodramatic, but it is just a dark and depressing subject matter. I would give this movie an extra 2 stars just for the clever ending. I walked away fully satisfied.

Love

Genre: SciFi
Country: USA
Tally: 34 out of 80

This movie annoys me greatly. I don’t mind ambiguity. But ambiguity with lack of story, means that my time spent watching the movie was just wasted.

Movie was made by a band Angels and Airwaves. Production value is excellent in quality. I read somewhere that the spaceship set was made in one of the guy’s backyard. Visually it is stunning, but as I watched I kept waiting for the purpose of the movie. There were a bunch of side stories, but they never ended up having nothing to do with anything… which really annoyed me.

There is so much potential, but it just never panned out for me. I walked away feeling very disappointed.

The Darkest Matter

Genre: SciFi
Country: USA
Tally: 35 out of 80

There is one thing to keep in mind if you watch this movie… Kids made it. 20 teens in grades 6 through 12 attended a film camp and made this movie. I think most of it is done in front of a green screen and *noticeably* so. Whoever wrote the script, must of recently read Lord of the Flies at school. It is extremely close to the book, except it is in space instead of an island. On a side note that is not relevant to the topic – Awesome book!

I didn’t find it terribly unwatchable, but the acting is fairly weak and their amateur methods with the green screen can take some getting used to. It is definitely an extremely and lofty effort coming from a group of teenage kids.

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same

Genre: SciFi/Comedy
Country: USA
Tally: 36 out of 80

I went in to this movie with low expectations, walked out loving it.

Done in B-movie SciFi style, this is a pretty campy movie. But I found the characters charming and quite humorous. Great story, but I did find the two men who were investigators to be tedious and boring at times.