Or would your interview with Neil Jordan before The Crying Game opened have been titled "Transvestite and ex-IRA Man on the run?"

I couldn't agree more. Space movies can be about something more than explosions.

I recently made a short 'space' film with neither explosions or aliens...or even a destination... just two guys trapped in a spaceship that was actually designed for monkeys.

Search youtube for "The Tiny Spaceship"

...or click on my name to go to the link (if it works)

The movie hasn't even been released throughout the country yet (Yet to arrive here in DC) and you're posting a spoiler laden interview... with no warning... and injected it into the title?

I hate to sound selfish but this is the one good SciFi movie that comes around every two years (Sunshine in 07, Serenity 05) and now the thrust of the entire movie is compromised.

Please have some compassion for us and change the title and add a spoiler warning.

Spoilers ahoy!

Fortunately I stopped reading at the first sign of a spoiler, but I saw enough. Please be more circumspect next time, Ms. Shamberg.

However, nothing was worse than Bernard Drew's review of "Alien," which I read as a naive 16 year-old. (If you've never seen "Alien," stop reading now). Would you believe that Drew actually revealed that the baby alien burst out of John Hurt's chest? Not even the rest of the cast knew that when they filmed it. Way to go, Drew, you A-hole. (He's dead, BTW, so his days of ruining movies for others are over).

If you're looking for a smart SF movie, check out Danny Boyle's 2007 film, "Sunshine." It didn't do too well, but it ranks up there with the more thoughtful SF movies, and was not too reliant upon special effects (though the effects were impressive).

I stopped reading after this clumsy spoiler: "At first I thought they were going to try to kill each other, but that seemed too easy. They almost become brothers up there."

You've ruined this movie for enough of us, so PLEASE change the title. And next time, try omitting the spoilers all together. This was unbelievably inconsiderate.

It's funny, David Bowie is mentioned for obvious reasons, but it seems like pop music has a song that addresses the themes of this movie much more closely, and that's Rocket Man. I believe Elton and Bernie in turn based their song on a Ray Bradbury story. Let's look at some lyrics:

"I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife/it's lonely out in space/on such a timeless flight"..."And all the science I don't understand/it's just my job five days a week"

It made me want to see the movie - unlike an O'Hehir's review that tells nothing more than his reaction to the "atmosphere" - and with far too many words at that. Spoilers? you mean some little points of plot? Hey you others! Movies aren't one liners! Just continue what you've been doing Ms Shamberg, in this age of media overproduction, enough will appreciate it to provide a career.

"Despite the obvious HAL comparisons, we learn very early on that Gerty is devoid of human emotion..."

HAL's problem was not that he had developed emotional attachments to people or events that clouded his judgement. His problem was that he had two conflicting sets of orders at the highest level - one set to preserve and protect humans at all cost, and another (secret) set to preserve the mission at all costs. When the two orders came into direct conflict, HAL's apparent behavior seemed erratic and illogical to the crew, who were not aware of the second set of orders. HAL was simply trying to do the best he could given a paradoxical situation.

Kubrick was a TRUE genius. What other sci fi, or ANY film, can you think of that is so well thought out in its speculation?

Instead we get the same warmed over space opera gruel over and over and over. Term 3, Star Speck 17, Star Crap 6.

Intellectual rigor, and honest scripts are really one in a million. I guess cause most people watching movies are considered stupid or something.

but you pretty much spoiled the whole plot without advance warning. i was really looking forward to the mystery of this flick.