01-27-2021, 11:49 PM
Finished it.
I didn't watch it like most viewers, instead approaching it as a science documentary, an opportunity to expand my knowledge of cosmology.
What I learned: that a supernova is a big blurry ball of impending, just waiting to be triggered by a desperate enough director. Or by a crew with sufficient lack of chemistry. And that mysterious alien artifacts will distort your countenance if you stand too near. And you will stand too near, because the director tells you to. And you'll be inspired to bare your flesh for no discernable reason but without ever achieving nudity.
Anyway, it's one of those jigsaw movies where none of the pieces fit, but which remains vaguely watchable because it's a "spaceship in space" tale, and not many SF movies venture there.
I didn't watch it like most viewers, instead approaching it as a science documentary, an opportunity to expand my knowledge of cosmology.
What I learned: that a supernova is a big blurry ball of impending, just waiting to be triggered by a desperate enough director. Or by a crew with sufficient lack of chemistry. And that mysterious alien artifacts will distort your countenance if you stand too near. And you will stand too near, because the director tells you to. And you'll be inspired to bare your flesh for no discernable reason but without ever achieving nudity.
Anyway, it's one of those jigsaw movies where none of the pieces fit, but which remains vaguely watchable because it's a "spaceship in space" tale, and not many SF movies venture there.