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Prospect - The Best Low Budget SciFi Shortfilm I've Seen

A lot of gritty realism and attention to detail here. It looks like they're setting up for a series - I hope so.
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shveddysays...

I don't mean this sarcastically - I really want to know - do you have anything better in mind?

articiansaid:

I kind of hope not. There's also lots of terrible acting, illogic and bad science. Great environment though.

My_designsays...

I liked it, but I'm tired of depressing "torture luck" shows (Where no one gets a break and it keeps going from bad to worse, and even if it gets decent for a bit it is never as good as it once was) like TWD, or books like GoT, or games like Cthulu.
But I'm an optimist.

articiansaid:

I kind of hope not. There's also lots of terrible acting, illogic and bad science. Great environment though.

articiansays...

I have a lot of things I think would be better, but I don't know if you mean wholly different ideas with the same setting, or things I would do different with this, or what. My criticism was mainly that elements didn't line up with each other to support the universe they created, and most of all the acting was so stilted.
If you want me to be specific about this:
They lay on that danger is around every corner, but seem to separate from one another regularly despite literally stating not to at least once.
Their attitudes and the way they move and behave in the environment are more like a couple people on vacation, and show nothing to support that this environment could kill them at any second.
I couldn't tell if the daughter was estranged from her father, because there seem to be this "get to know you" scene in the tent, but it could have easily been terrible acting. If it weren't, a single line of clarification could have surpassed that.
This stuff their collecting is extremely precious, but at a point of leisure in their tent they still have to open up their container and look at it to know how much they've collected?
Also, said resource has a stupid name. Almost as bad as "unobtainium" (I don't care if it's a real mineral, it pulls you immediately out of the story).
The girls attitude toward pursuing and killing the other soldier was almost lackadaisical.
They have pretty heavy respiratory suits, but it's possible to survive a slog through the jungle with nothing more than your head wrapped in tape with an air-hose?

I don't like long posts on the sift because at a certain point you just don't want to read anymore, so I'll stop there.

shveddysaid:

I don't mean this sarcastically - I really want to know - do you have anything better in mind?

articiansays...

Not at all, I haven't seen Gravity yet and didn't know it was viewed one way or the other. That was my honest opinion and that's all it was. Just an opinion!

eric3579said:

Is this comment in some way a stab at some peoples views on the movie Gravity?

articiansays...

I agree completely.

My_designsaid:

I liked it, but I'm tired of depressing "torture luck" shows (Where no one gets a break and it keeps going from bad to worse, and even if it gets decent for a bit it is never as good as it once was) like TWD, or books like GoT, or games like Cthulu.
But I'm an optimist.

dooglejokingly says...

Good thing you've got more options ever since you found out you had more than one channel on your "torture luck & sports" TV package. Try'em out, I bet there's basic cable there too.

My_designsaid:

I liked it, but I'm tired of depressing "torture luck" shows (Where no one gets a break and it keeps going from bad to worse, and even if it gets decent for a bit it is never as good as it once was) like TWD, or books like GoT, or games like Cthulu.
But I'm an optimist.

dooglejokingly says...

Agreed - pretend people on a pretend planet collecting pretend stuff should be based on logic and non-fictional science. There ought to be a name for non "non-fiction" genre.

articiansaid:

I kind of hope not. There's also lots of terrible acting, illogic and bad science. Great environment though.

My_designjokingly says...

Nah, even the local stations are all torture all the time. The other day, just when I thought the evening news was going to cover fluffy bunnies, the news anchor threw them into a running lawnmower. Anything to satisfy a countries growing appetite for blood and depression.
Oh well.

dooglesaid:

Good thing you've got more options ever since you found out you had more than one channel on your "torture luck & sports" TV package. Try'em out, I bet there's basic cable there too.

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