• Codex@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Fun movie, interesting use of environmental themes for early scifi films. Trumbull, the director, was already a famous SFX person who’d done incredible work on 2001. Silent Running was his debut as director and made use of great FX that hadn’t made it into Kubrick’s film.

    The use of robot drones as characters reminded me oddly of Prey, the 2017 video game. Perhaps a sly inspiration? I wouldn’t be surprised if the geodomes on the ship were also an inspiration for the biolabs in System Shock.

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      8 months ago

      PREY! Now you mention it it’s a familiar setup. I loved that game, gameplay, story, mechanics. System Shock 2 also incredible for it’s time.