Supernova 2012
Sept 26, 2019 11:37:18 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Sept 26, 2019 11:37:18 GMT -5
Supernova 2012
Supernova chronicles the search-and-rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd century and its six-member crew, which includes captain and pilot A.J. Marley (Robert Forster), co-pilot Nick Vanzant (James Spader), medical officer Kaela Evers (Angela Bassett), medical technician Yerzy Penalosa (Lou Diamond Phillips), search and rescue paramedic Danika Lund (Robin Tunney) and computer technician Benjamin Sotomejor (Wilson Cruz). Aboard their vessel, the Nightingale 229, they receive an emergency distress signal coming from an ice mining operation on the moon Titan 37, more than 3,000 light-years away.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_(2000_film)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_(2000_film)
Review
The film has some very nice special effects and the drama is intense. Worth watching repeatedly as all great films are. The actors are also very convincing. I especially enjoyed seeing Robin Tunny, who starred along with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film End of Days. However, there are, as usual, a few things that can be improved to make the film more believable. Here are those that I found too far-fetched.
Examples
1. The first one that struck me as extremely odd is that a ship captain, played by Kevin Sizemore, should be willing to risk death or severe physical deformation to rescue someone. He saw that his capsule was damaged and used it anyway? Why? No feasible explanation was offered for that suicidal behavior. So as a movie-watcher, how am I supposed to rationalize that stupidity from a supposedly educated well trained professional?
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2. Medical technician, Yerzy Penalosa, played by Lou Diamond Phillips, the lead star in the film La Bamba, sees his fiancee, who is rescue-paramedic Danika Lund, played by Robin Tunney, who starred in End of Days, flirting with the young healthy man they just rescued, Karl Larson played by Peter Facinelli, and leaves them alone to go and plunge his hands into an alien device he knows absolutely nothing about simply because it makes him feel good? Doesn't common sense tell you not to do that because it might obliterate your hands or that leaving his fiancee alone with a sex-starved young man might lead to sex?
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3. Wilson Cruz, as a computer- technician Benjamin Sotomayor, notices that his computer is waking him up in the middle of the night to make small talk and offering to play chess. Why doesn't he suspect malfunction? Why isn't he surprised the machine is showing signs of self-awareness? After all, he doesn't seem to accept the phenomenon as normal. Yet his reaction is that of a normal occurrence or a minor insignificant inconvenience.
Strangely, when he urgently needs the AI's help when under attack, he reveals to us that the AI's behavior was indeed unique because he has to struggle to remind it how to replicate its previous anomaly to set aside certain rules so it would be able to free itself from strict protocol and intervene on his behalf?
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4. Angela Bassett, as Dr. Kaela Evers, doesn't recognize a man she once knew intimately for years because he is now younger? How many persons that we are currently associating with closely would undergo such a change as to be unrecognizable simply because they became younger? Would we not recognize Donald Trump if he were younger? How about George Bush or Sammy Davis Junior? Jerry Lewis? John Wayne? Jennifer Lopez? They would be unrecognizable if younger?
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5. The ship's co-pilot Nick Vanzant (James Spader), who is fighting the intruder after the intruder attempted to leave him stranded on the planet he went to investigate, suddenly harpoons him up against the wall where he helplessly screams in agony.
Yet Spader' doesn't move in and finish him off as he was trying to do just moments before when he wasn't helplessly harpooned. Instead, he runs away with Kaella Evertts, the ship-physician to try to dispose of him in a more entertaining fashion which involves luring him into a cubicle, ejecting him into space and blowing him up?
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5. Finally, as the ship is about to be destroyed by the supernova, both he and Kaela have only one available cubicle to make the trip back to Earth's vicinity via the hyper-jump drive, which according to the film, might turn them both into one merged glob of meat.
Does he say that they won't know unless they risk it? Aren't those kinds of experiments done when such machines are developed to let the users know for certain what will happen if two people use it at once? Are expected to believe that users are left ignorant of the machine's dangers and limitations?
Examples
1. The first one that struck me as extremely odd is that a ship captain, played by Kevin Sizemore, should be willing to risk death or severe physical deformation to rescue someone. He saw that his capsule was damaged and used it anyway? Why? No feasible explanation was offered for that suicidal behavior. So as a movie-watcher, how am I supposed to rationalize that stupidity from a supposedly educated well trained professional?
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2. Medical technician, Yerzy Penalosa, played by Lou Diamond Phillips, the lead star in the film La Bamba, sees his fiancee, who is rescue-paramedic Danika Lund, played by Robin Tunney, who starred in End of Days, flirting with the young healthy man they just rescued, Karl Larson played by Peter Facinelli, and leaves them alone to go and plunge his hands into an alien device he knows absolutely nothing about simply because it makes him feel good? Doesn't common sense tell you not to do that because it might obliterate your hands or that leaving his fiancee alone with a sex-starved young man might lead to sex?
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3. Wilson Cruz, as a computer- technician Benjamin Sotomayor, notices that his computer is waking him up in the middle of the night to make small talk and offering to play chess. Why doesn't he suspect malfunction? Why isn't he surprised the machine is showing signs of self-awareness? After all, he doesn't seem to accept the phenomenon as normal. Yet his reaction is that of a normal occurrence or a minor insignificant inconvenience.
Strangely, when he urgently needs the AI's help when under attack, he reveals to us that the AI's behavior was indeed unique because he has to struggle to remind it how to replicate its previous anomaly to set aside certain rules so it would be able to free itself from strict protocol and intervene on his behalf?
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4. Angela Bassett, as Dr. Kaela Evers, doesn't recognize a man she once knew intimately for years because he is now younger? How many persons that we are currently associating with closely would undergo such a change as to be unrecognizable simply because they became younger? Would we not recognize Donald Trump if he were younger? How about George Bush or Sammy Davis Junior? Jerry Lewis? John Wayne? Jennifer Lopez? They would be unrecognizable if younger?
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5. The ship's co-pilot Nick Vanzant (James Spader), who is fighting the intruder after the intruder attempted to leave him stranded on the planet he went to investigate, suddenly harpoons him up against the wall where he helplessly screams in agony.
Yet Spader' doesn't move in and finish him off as he was trying to do just moments before when he wasn't helplessly harpooned. Instead, he runs away with Kaella Evertts, the ship-physician to try to dispose of him in a more entertaining fashion which involves luring him into a cubicle, ejecting him into space and blowing him up?
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5. Finally, as the ship is about to be destroyed by the supernova, both he and Kaela have only one available cubicle to make the trip back to Earth's vicinity via the hyper-jump drive, which according to the film, might turn them both into one merged glob of meat.
Does he say that they won't know unless they risk it? Aren't those kinds of experiments done when such machines are developed to let the users know for certain what will happen if two people use it at once? Are expected to believe that users are left ignorant of the machine's dangers and limitations?