Sorry, this movie sucks

Memorable, crazy movie

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Defying Gravity is nice. The problem is that today we have a lot of very good options... But not that much on science fiction, so if you are looking for the genre maybe you gonna be satisfied. The show have good ideas, is focused on character development and use time lines very well. The problem is the poor execution. Visual effects do not ruin the show, but are very simple. The lack of resources for better effects create some problems with physics and chemistry. But the biggest problem is the casting and the dialogues. The actors are good, but many of them are misplaced. Ron Livingston is an excellent actor, but his character is lame and just don't fit him. Laura Harris try hard, but her character is supposed to be a little insecure and she simply don't deliver it, working much better when she need to show confidence. Also, the idea behind the dialogues are always fine, but the dialogues never work. I don't know if the actors improvise too much or too little, but it end up sounded artificial. But even a modest Sci-Fi is rare to find, so if you like the genre you can bet on this one.

The theme is great, but to many secrets among the crew is too much of a coincidence. The techniques used are great, but the script could really have some improvement. After a few episodes I hoped to receive some extra info about the mysteries, but unfortunately this did not happen. I've seen a lot of sf-series. In fact almost all, but watching these episodes was once and a while even tough. I assume the script writers tried to give this season a lot of suspense and I have to admit that this really worked out. The actors performed great, so this makes it not completely bad. Please feel free to watch this one season series a I am really curious what you think of it. reg, Zpm ( Zero Point Module

A grand tour of the solar system over 6 years in the really cool Anatares spaceship? As a SF junkie I couldn't help but be hooked, especially as the attractive mixed crew revealed some of their very human side.But I think the series bogged down with too many flashbacks, and too great an emphasis on the personal, especially hung-up, side. This is supposed to be SCIENCE-Fiction, after all, but many have derided the series, with some justification, as Sci-SOAP.It probably should have been set in 2020 rather than 2052 as the garb and technology appeared little changed from early 21st century - with some notable exceptions, like the ability to regrow thumbs.There were a lot of science aspects in the show I thought were accurate and didn't insult the informed viewers intelligence - the "science" in SF movies is so often a travesty - but real-time communication over millions of kilometers was not one of them.Light travels at 300,000 km/sec and is an inexplicable constant and limit in the universe, so even 30 million km away a one-way trip from ship to Earth would take 100 seconds. Along with "nano-gravity", they could have mumbled something about faster-than-light "worm-hole communication", maybe feasible..At least the series didn't turn into a horror-fest, the fate of so many movies in this genre.By the end of the 1st season they had only visted one destination, Venus. Maybe if they had visited Mars as well (not just in flashback), it might have provided more focus on mission and a faster main plot pace.There were so many flashbacks during Zoe's Venus walk, it was annoying, I started clockwatching. I can't quite condemn ABC for pulling the series. Too bad, a missed opportunity for some really good sci-fi...

Well at first I enjoyed it, now I see all the comments praising it : people say : "we don't care about realism" because it is a SF show. Note that in literature, mimesis is fundamental for science-fiction: SF needs realism otherwise it's either horror or marvelous (Todorov). All in all, the actors are well-chosen but their acting is fine but the plot isn't moving. Even LOST did better with action in their first season. I enjoyed one commentary saying, (A) we don't care about realism and (B) the issue about the Hispanic: if you reject realism, how can you praise it to defend the Hispanic girl when it comes to explain her presence on board. This show is bad, anyone with experience in science-fiction realizes it ! Read BOOKS for God's sake, at least they're far more imaginative ! I'm reading Anderson's Planet of no Return, about astronauts on a similar mission and it's far more interesting : here there is ONE alien and in ONE episode the only thing you learn is : one of the women cannot see it ! WAOUH! First they rip the theme of the fractal from Threshold (2005), second they can't even cope with their red-line (the so-called mission). This series is good if you watch the pilot but then it becomes naive and cheesy with the scenes at the bar almost always used as comic relief but in fact you watch people at the minimum of their intellectual potential and recurrent slapstick... To put it otherwise, the more scenes in the bar there are the more boring it gets and the characters look stupid for astronauts who studied many years, as well as loathsome because the only thing they like to talk about is SEX: nothing EVER happens except in ONE episode called ''And Eve Ate'' but it took the idea from Threshold and modified it at the BSG 2003 sauce. And if someone does not agree with that, please go on forums and ask for better shows so you can take my words : this show is NOT worth a shot if you want SF... This is a soap pseudo- comedic drama where nothing EVER happens... Try Poul Anderson or Martin Caïdin for once, and come back talk to me before getting angry in front of your screen if you didn't like this review. Peace up.