Lockout by AURaptor

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UPDATED: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 13:09
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Monday, April 16, 2012 11:22 AM

America loves a winner!

A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.

While fun and entertaining, for the most part, this movie must have been edited in like 15 minutes. Pity.

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Monday, April 16, 2012 12:19 PM

the movie is not the Series. Only the facts have been changed, to irritate the innocent; the names of the actors and characters remain the same

The movie is both good and science-fictionish, but the parts that are good are not science-fictionish, and the parts that are science-fictionish are not good

It might have been a great action movie, had they just eliminated every element that could be marketed as science-fiction (used some contemporary circumstance to provide a sense of urgency). As it is, it has the best one-liners I've heard in years

Keep the Shiny Side Up,

YT

YTonTw1tt3r

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Monday, April 16, 2012 4:06 PM

WISHIMAY

Which is what, 'Zactly??
The rest of us can't know without sitting through the whole thing? Summarize!

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Monday, April 16, 2012 5:37 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
Which is what, 'Zactly??
The rest of us can't know without sitting through the whole thing? Summarize!

Don't wanna be spoilery, of course.

Guy Pearce - who I swore was Donny ( or Mark ? ) Wahlberg - and Maggie Grace, star in a futuristic sci-fi action flick where the world's most lethal villains are shot up to space and put into stasis.

Not real sure why a super max prison really NEEDS to be put into space...but hey, apparently money is no object to doing things like that in the future.

Things go awry, sometimes in the most ridiculous manner, and only ONE man can save the day...

And no, this isn't a remake of Demolition Man. That would just be silly.

" We're all just folk. " - Mal

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

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Monday, April 16, 2012 6:01 PM

WISHIMAY

It would get spoiler-y to summerize what the one liner was?

But, I don't WANNA watch it...

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 9:24 AM

BYTEMITE

Quote:
Not real sure why a super max prison really NEEDS to be put into space...but hey, apparently money is no object to doing things like that in the future.

Harder to escape. Good chance of death if they do.

I'm doing a Firefly fanfic that uses the space prison and stasis thing myself. If you have the resources, and you have a government that somehow thinks it would be more humane to lock people away FOREVER instead of kill them, then hey, it actually would be the easiest way to get rid of problems or threats.

>_> I made myself a little sick on that last paragraph. XP

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 10:11 AM

STORYMARK

There was a Science site that ran an article the other day on 10 reasons a space prison is a stupid idea (or somesuch). Ill post see if I can find the link (they actually liked the movie, mind, they just found the "science" to be really silly).

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 3:06 PM

the movie is not the Series. Only the facts have been changed, to irritate the innocent; the names of the actors and characters remain the same

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
It would get spoiler-y to summerize what the one liner was?

Not "the" one-liner, "the best one-liners", a whole movie full of 'em. And they aren't the best 'cause of how they look typed. Scene context is important; so is how they were delivered by Guy Pearce

Hope these'll help:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592525/quotes
Technically I guess that's dialogue, but Langral is only there to provide straight lines, & I forgot those. Reckon I should have called 'em the best punch-lines I've heard in years. These are all from a scene @the beginning of the movie; there's more to come (in the movie, not from me)

Keep the Shiny Side Up,

YT

YTonTw1tt3r

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:47 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Quote:
Not real sure why a super max prison really NEEDS to be put into space...but hey, apparently money is no object to doing things like that in the future.

Harder to escape. Good chance of death if they do.

I'm doing a Firefly fanfic that uses the space prison and stasis thing myself. If you have the resources, and you have a government that somehow thinks it would be more humane to lock people away FOREVER instead of kill them, then hey, it actually would be the easiest way to get rid of problems or threats.

>_> I made myself a little sick on that last paragraph. XP

I guess, at some time in the very distant, technologically feasible future, or when the population is such that there's a NEED to house large prisons out in space, the cost issue could be explained away more. But for the life of me, I can't see how either cost or effectiveness is gained by both putting a prison in orbit , along w/ fully arming the joint w/ anti space-craft weapons, all for housing what are essentially ice cubes in metal and glass boxes. I mean, isn't stasis of prisoners in space a bit redundant ? Just stick 'em in the ground, under a mountain, or at the bottom of the ocean.

Maybe if they had some up w/ some legit sounding premise, like the prison had been converted from some well kept station, and wasn't completley constructed solely for the purpose of housing inmates ... but I digress.

" We're all just folk. " - Mal

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:09 PM

SHINYGOODGUY

The moment I saw the trailer for this movie I thought to myself - self, this is strictly video action. So I'm waiting for the DVD, then I might not see it.

Guy Pierce must have lost a bet.

SGG

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