in a pressurized enviroment, they can hear you scream (Europa Report trailer)

Tue, May 21, 2013

Yay! Sharlto Copley is back.

I have often lamented that lack of true science fiction in the visual media, so I love that this looks like it might be real SF. And it’s a shame that we so rarely see movies about near future space exploration. So yay for that, too.

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RogerBW

Tue, May 21, 2013 8:47am

Yes indeed!

I’m cautious because I’m always cautious, but this looks much more interesting than any other trailer I’ve seen this year.

Danielm80

Tue, May 21, 2013 12:19pm

I like the way “APPROPRIATE AUDIENCES” appears in five-foot-high letters at the beginning of the trailer. Kids! Cover your eyes!

Bluejay

Tue, May 21, 2013 2:06pm

What part of “Attempt No Landing There” didn’t they understand?

MaryAnn Johanson

reply to Bluejay

Tue, May 21, 2013 3:21pm

Oh god I *hope* some character in this flick references that. *fingers crossed*

PJK

Tue, May 21, 2013 2:54pm

Since he’s also in Elysium it seems that we get two SciFi movies with Sharlto this year!

MaryAnn Johanson

reply to PJK

Tue, May 21, 2013 3:20pm

I meant Copley before my *District 9* screening, before I knew how frakkin’ awesome he was gonna be in that movie, and we had the bestest geeky conversation about science fiction. I wish he was showing up in more movies in all genres, but I’m not surprised that he seems to be gravitating toward SF, because he takes this stuff seriously.

Isobel_A

Tue, May 21, 2013 6:53pm

Looks good. Puts me in mind of Sunshine, which I enjoyed.

Jonathan Roth

Wed, May 22, 2013 1:27pm

Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy got to see an advance preview on this, and thought it was great.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/21/_europa_report_trailer_scifi_movie_with_a_lot_of_sci.html

Despite bashing “speculative fiction” snobbery in an earlier comment, it’s nice to see a film that tries for a realistic take on the near future, if only for the novelty value. :)

MarkyD

Thu, May 23, 2013 3:11am

Looked fantastic until it became yet another monster movie. I hope we get more of the cool science fiction, and less monster stuff.

John Meacham

reply to MarkyD

Tue, Nov 19, 2013 5:34am

You need to see it, let’s say there is a bit of misdirection in the teaser about what it is actually about. In retrospect, the “moster movie” vibe of the trailer now feels more like a subtle “take that” to apollo 18 and its ilk and is evoked mildly ironically… sarcastically? is that a thing? hmm…