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   From: j.clarke.873638@gmail.com   
      
   This doesn't seem to be getting any love from   
   anybody and it's a shame.  It's the third solid   
   SF movie to come along this year and movies that   
   are real SF and don't degenerate into horror are   
   rare.  The story would have fit into the pages   
   one of the major Prozines just fine.  It starts   
   with a (given that one has a working sleeper   
   starship) plausible premise and everything flows   
   from there.  It seems to get chalked for turning   
   into "romantic comedy" but there's nothing funny   
   about the way the romance goes--I'm guessing   
   that that criticism comes from people who have   
   never gone past the Golden Age of Science   
   Fiction (12).  Could it have been better?  Yes--   
   IMO it's main failing is that it didn't have   
   time to tell the story it was telling--there   
   were three major stories going at the same   
   time--the relationship between Jim and Aurora,   
   their coping with being alone for the rest of   
   their lives, and the failing of the ship's   
   systems.  Any of those could have made a movie   
   of this length in itself, but doing all three   
   short-changed all of them.  I don't know if   
   another hour would have helped (I'd love to see   
   a director's cut that fleshes out the stories   
   though) or if it really needed to be a mini-   
   series.   
      
   I'd really like this to make enough that more   
   movies of this general nature get made but sadly   
   it looks like it's going to end up losing money.   
      
   The original script is I understand somewhat   
   different and not (from a genre viewpoint) in a   
   good way.   
      
   I can't help thinking that it should never have   
   been put up against Rogue One, which IMO is the   
   best installment in the Star Wars franchise   
   since Empire Strikes Back.   
      
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