Saw it a couple of days ago. Loved it.
The movie definitely got the better of me. I didn't buy into the clone thing for a long time. I thought that he was just going crazy and the clones were a hoax. I also kept waiting for the computer to turn against him but that never happened.
The trailer made it seem like the whole movie was going to be a big conflict between Sam going through crazy shit, or him hallucinating. I guess that was still the point, but I went in with certain expectations and I think those expectations made me look for all the hints they were dropping that it might all be fake. The ending was also a bit off too. I mean they obviously made it seem that he was hallucinating, then didnt even acknowledge it. It would be cool if there was maybe some discourse between the two about it. Maybe right before the older Sam gets put back in the crashed rover.
I loved the gerty character. Just enough personality.
Did they ever say what the older Sam was sick with? or was it just the after effects from the crash?
The cloning process didn't allow them to live for more than a few years.
I did not watch any trailers or read anything beyond a minimalist blurb about this movie, so I went in with no preconceptions. I caught on to the basic premise very quickly. The rules seem to originate from established sci-fi, which made it all the more enjoyable to me.
Gerty is a robot, so advanced it may be sentient, like Hal. But unlike Hal, it was created by smarter humans who probably read Isaac Asimov. The 3 laws of robotics emerged not from benevolence, but from a desire to prevent a future such as Cyberdyne (Terminator movies). These 3 laws are at the very core of a sentient-robot's thought processes, and can never be bypassed without destroying its intelligence. It cannot harm a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm (first law).
Gerty may have been instructed to protect the big, evil corporation's business, but the deeper directive to protect humans overrode it when there was a conflict (2nd law). Everything it did was consistent with this boilerplate.
The concepts of mining the moon, and cloning with possible inherent flaws in each copy take the setting the rest of the way.
Good story, without falling prey to some Hollywood money guy screwing it up with mindless action or horror elements to draw in the popcorn masses.
Just got through watching this on one of the Starz channels. Pretty good, I must say.
The part when one of the Sam clones made the call to Tess, found out Tess was dead from Eve (who answered the call) who now is 15 - and one of the Sam's was already there was something else...