Thar she blows!
March 17, 2015 5:01 PM Subscribe
Technically impressive and a interesting idea, but it seems really silly and obvious.
Don't hunt large flying things with so much cloud cover.
If you insist on doing this, install radar on your flying hover craft. So you can track in the clouds, you know?
Also, wear a jetpack. In case you get knocked off the flying platform.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:16 PM on March 17, 2015 [8 favorites]
Don't hunt large flying things with so much cloud cover.
If you insist on doing this, install radar on your flying hover craft. So you can track in the clouds, you know?
Also, wear a jetpack. In case you get knocked off the flying platform.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:16 PM on March 17, 2015 [8 favorites]
So ... space whaling. Or perhaps Moby Dick on Jupiter.
posted by zinon at 5:22 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by zinon at 5:22 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Another future with a suspiciously underdeveloped drone program.
posted by BungaDunga at 5:24 PM on March 17, 2015 [12 favorites]
posted by BungaDunga at 5:24 PM on March 17, 2015 [12 favorites]
interesting idea, but it seems really silly and obvious.
what?
posted by basicchannel at 5:25 PM on March 17, 2015
what?
posted by basicchannel at 5:25 PM on March 17, 2015
Heavy Moby Dick influence - how could you not reference it? - but also reminds me a lot of Karma Pirates VFX work.
posted by The River Ivel at 5:27 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by The River Ivel at 5:27 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
sadly Last Days on Mars was a thin horror film in space, long on style, short on reasonable dialogue or interesting plot. it was streaming on Netflix recently.
posted by TMezz at 5:30 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by TMezz at 5:30 PM on March 17, 2015
Yup. Even really well realized and beautiful CGI space whale hunting is depressing.
posted by chainlinkspiral at 5:33 PM on March 17, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by chainlinkspiral at 5:33 PM on March 17, 2015 [4 favorites]
I thought it was obvious that they weren't hunting the whale, but feeding it humans. You just need to like, wiggle the food to get it to bite.
posted by happyroach at 5:42 PM on March 17, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by happyroach at 5:42 PM on March 17, 2015 [7 favorites]
Skywhales and the Terran Trade Authority called. They'd like their respective IPs back.
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:44 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:44 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
No radar? Really? This is the future and they rely on dudes peering over the side of their flying barges?
posted by dazed_one at 5:48 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by dazed_one at 5:48 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Wow, fantastic CGI! That's Avatar-level quality. Though when I'm in charge, I'll make every director write on the blackboard 100 times: "Shaky-cam is a tool; it is not the only tool."
And really, this level of technology and they haven't figured out how to kill those whales monsters any better than that? Seems really slapdash. But I guess that'd invalidate their "Moby Dick in Space" concept.
posted by zardoz at 6:11 PM on March 17, 2015
And really, this level of technology and they haven't figured out how to kill those
posted by zardoz at 6:11 PM on March 17, 2015
interesting idea, but it seems really silly and obvious.
what?
It was obvious that the whale was going to come up from the clouds and bite the ship. Why the people on the hover craft don't realize this or have radar is silly,
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:15 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
what?
It was obvious that the whale was going to come up from the clouds and bite the ship. Why the people on the hover craft don't realize this or have radar is silly,
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:15 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
The interesting part was the lack of humanity. All the people were faceless automatons, with distant voices void of emotion.
Maybe we're supposed to root for the whale?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:24 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Maybe we're supposed to root for the whale?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:24 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
>It was obvious that the whale was going to come up from the clouds and bite the ship.
"Do you have a visual?" "No I don't have a fucking visual, THERE'S CLOUDS." Silly and obvious is overly generous...
posted by Sing Or Swim at 6:42 PM on March 17, 2015
"Do you have a visual?" "No I don't have a fucking visual, THERE'S CLOUDS." Silly and obvious is overly generous...
posted by Sing Or Swim at 6:42 PM on March 17, 2015
Obviously the leviathans learned long ago that radar emissions mean that hunters are nearby. If you go to active ping, they just go hide in thunderstorms or dive below the crush-altitude of the space suits.
posted by rustcrumb at 6:59 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by rustcrumb at 6:59 PM on March 17, 2015
Personally, I was hoping this would end with a shot of Paul Atreides riding a flying Maker while battling the Harkonnen ornithopters. I can still dream, can't I?
posted by sloafmaster at 7:00 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by sloafmaster at 7:00 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
All the people were faceless automatons...
They probably have a script, and this sets the visual style, but I'm guessing they don't have major backing and casting yet.
posted by furtive at 8:05 PM on March 17, 2015
They probably have a script, and this sets the visual style, but I'm guessing they don't have major backing and casting yet.
posted by furtive at 8:05 PM on March 17, 2015
No radar, and no radio tracker fired into the beasty's hide.
All that expensive flying tech doing vital economic work for trans-solar society... and the Mk.1 eyeball is what they rely on.
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:16 PM on March 17, 2015
All that expensive flying tech doing vital economic work for trans-solar society... and the Mk.1 eyeball is what they rely on.
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:16 PM on March 17, 2015
Brandon Blatcher: "It was obvious that the whale was going to come up from the clouds and bite the ship. Why the people on the hover craft don't realize this or have radar is silly,"
Yeah, if it were me on that craft, I'd get the hell out of Dodge as soon as I saw the camera position itself straight above me like that for no particular reason.
Very nice CGI, though, and good creature design. I like the concept, but they need to work on making it less obviously flawed (or hang some lampshades on most basic complaints).
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 8:37 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Yeah, if it were me on that craft, I'd get the hell out of Dodge as soon as I saw the camera position itself straight above me like that for no particular reason.
Very nice CGI, though, and good creature design. I like the concept, but they need to work on making it less obviously flawed (or hang some lampshades on most basic complaints).
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 8:37 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
One of my favorite Seattle bars is The Whale Wins. F'in spoiler.
posted by Dreidl at 9:34 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by Dreidl at 9:34 PM on March 17, 2015
I'm sorry, this was just a horrid mish-mash of aesthetics from Dune (the wormy thing), Star Wars (Bespin/Cloud City) and Aliens (the grungy hanger).
posted by Joe in Australia at 10:15 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Joe in Australia at 10:15 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
One of my favorite Seattle bars is The Whale Wins. F'in spoiler.
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.
posted by dazed_one at 10:19 PM on March 17, 2015
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.
posted by dazed_one at 10:19 PM on March 17, 2015
Finally a working proof that lens flares can be created with CGI.
posted by wam at 10:20 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by wam at 10:20 PM on March 17, 2015
Why the F88k would you ride on the outside of the ship? How could you even function? From the speeds it looks like they were going it would be impossible to hold on much less do anything useful.
Well it least it had the obligatory BWAHHHHH..... BWAHHHHH music at the end.
posted by boilermonster at 11:14 PM on March 17, 2015
Well it least it had the obligatory BWAHHHHH..... BWAHHHHH music at the end.
posted by boilermonster at 11:14 PM on March 17, 2015
A dude with two lit batons is still the ground controller that far in the future?
posted by maxwelton at 12:07 AM on March 18, 2015
posted by maxwelton at 12:07 AM on March 18, 2015
A dude with two lit batons is still the ground controller that far in the future?
In the future, it's more cost-effective to have people do mundane tasks than it is to automate them.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:22 AM on March 18, 2015
In the future, it's more cost-effective to have people do mundane tasks than it is to automate them.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:22 AM on March 18, 2015
A dude with two lit batons is still the ground controller that far in the future?
Not so much the ground controller as the standing-in-the-doorway-open-to-space-that-ships-are-going-to-fly-through-so-you'd-better-duck guy.
posted by The Tensor at 1:44 PM on March 18, 2015
Not so much the ground controller as the standing-in-the-doorway-open-to-space-that-ships-are-going-to-fly-through-so-you'd-better-duck guy.
posted by The Tensor at 1:44 PM on March 18, 2015
Exotic matter resulting from biological chemistry? Sign me up!
posted by Zangal at 3:42 PM on March 18, 2015
posted by Zangal at 3:42 PM on March 18, 2015
Flying space whale not enough to clue people in to the fantastical nature of this, not particularly grounded in reality, idea?
posted by inpHilltr8r at 6:49 PM on March 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by inpHilltr8r at 6:49 PM on March 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
The crew ride on the outside because the filmmaker wanted to evoke a sea vessel. They don't use radar to track the leviathan because the filmmaker wanted to evoke a sea creature vanishing into the briny depths. The urge to apply hard SF logic to something that isn't aiming for that sort of logic is kind of strange to me. Especially given that it's a pitch with no dialogue and is clearly not intended to be a robust piece of world-building on its own.
How's about this? There's something about the clouds that plays havoc with the ships sensors, making them opaque. Who knows?
Anyway, I don't want to thread-sit so I'll stay out from here. Cheers, y'all.
posted by brundlefly at 7:10 PM on March 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
How's about this? There's something about the clouds that plays havoc with the ships sensors, making them opaque. Who knows?
Anyway, I don't want to thread-sit so I'll stay out from here. Cheers, y'all.
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