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Ascension (2014)
Predictable .. yet entertaining
I have to say that within the first 30 minutes, I had already guessed that there was no intersteller ship and it was all based on the ground. If the ship was accelerating at 1 G constantly to simulate gravity as given by everyone walking about so casually, then after 1 year the ship would be at around 0.77c. After 10 years it would be 0.9999996c. And it goes up from there. The time dilation effect would have passed the 1 to 4000 range by year 10 or so. If the ship was really 51 years out from Earth, the total time that had gone by on the ship would be around 5-6 years time, tops, due to all the time dilation. NO time for children to be born and go through a "crisis". Original crew pretty much intact.
But, barring the total ignoring of science and how anyone with an IQ above 80 should notice this glaring problem .. well the show is still entertaining.
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)
Not worth watching
This is a film where the title sounds good, but the writing and execution suck. Supposedly something (humanity's destruction of the environment) is leading to rapid ozone depletion and it will disappear at 4:44. At this point the writer, having no idea what the ozone layer is and how it works, says the world will end (though how is never stated). Having totally misrepresented the science (since even with no Ozone layer, life would initially continue and man could adjust, though in 5-10 years the global effects would be bad), the rest of the script goes into a tailspin as well. For a planet where it's predicted everyone will die at some specific time within one-day ... life seems to be getting on pretty well (at least what we can see of it since the scenes all take place in the females apartment so, other than TV shots or the few rooftops shots near the end). I mean come on now, would someone be sitting on a TV show calmly discussing the end minutes before it comes? This movie seems to be more of something shoved together so the directors wife (the female star) could say she was in a movie. Not worth watching.
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
A truly badddd movie
If your idea of a movie is to watch head shot after head shot after head shot of actors, used in order to hide poor and questionable backgrounds, then this movie is for you. The scenes seem designed to fit people into as small of a space as possible, probably in order to minimize costs on the walls and backgrounds. What does it cost to build a room with table and chairs and such, versus a closet with a left over kitchen counter top as the apparent table, with chairs so tight around the actors can't move. The scene where the find a remote control attached to their submersible is priceless. There is a remote the size of a large snow globe under there control console, glowing bright blue (which no one notices in the dark cabin), at least until someone reaches under to grab it and yank it out. And then, this complex control mechanism and all the wires they broke is reattached in 5 seconds when ordered to by Nemo.
Please, please, please, save yourself and avoid this film.