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It's Sci-Fi, Not Porn, Maybe

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (25)

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So I hear there’s a fantastic new indie sci-fi film about to hit the indie circuit. It’s being touted as 2001 meets Moon meets Blow Your Fucking Mind 2: It’s Totally Deep Yo. It’s called Love. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find an appropriate header image with that as the title? Sure I could have swiped the header off of the news site I read it on, but that’s cheating. Stealing from one source is plagiarism, stealing from two is reporting. I could have looked on the official site of the movie, but then you always end up in some terrible Flash interface, and if there’s anything a computer nerd can’t stand, it’s doing things the easy way with a terrible interface.

In any case, “Love” on Google image search? Disaster. It took ten minutes to find an image that has anything to do with the movie. Normally it takes two. That’s eight minutes of novel reading that needs shuffled around in the schedule now. It was terrible. Not because it deteriorated into the typical Google image search disaster of unrelated porn (or even related porn, that’s incest and it’s illegal), but because of something much much worse.

“Love”, “Love movie,” “Love movie trailer.” It all leads back to pictures of Julia Roberts getting her entitled spiritual grazing on. Speaking of which, wouldn’t Eat, Prey, Love make a great title for a movie about the Reavers?

In any case, that’s a real header logo up above, though I have no idea what’s with the funny letters. I think the “O” might be trying to have relations with the “V.”

The first thing you will learn about Love from the trailer is that it is an “Official Selection of the Santa Barbara Film Festival,” which I know is the first thing I look for in entertainment. The second thing is that while the trailer shows absolutely not the slightest thing about what the movie is about, it looks fantastic.

Space station, Civil War battle field, nukes popping cities, ominous pronouncements. This is a case study in nonsensical awesome.

“Does it bother you that we aren’t real?” By the time it gets to that point, I’m ready to see this thing. Sort of like how early Matrix trailers really left you without the slightest clue what the movie was about, but convinced you that you really freaking wanted to find out.

Then I read this plot summary:

After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut LEE MILLER becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship. Driven by the powerful music of ANGELS and AIRWAVES, LOVE explores the fundamental human need for connection and the limitless power of hope… A high-impact visual adventure, that resonates a common truth, that everyone has a story to tell and something even greater to leave behind.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, cut, cut.

That makes it sound like nothing more than an extended music video that takes itself so seriously that its self importance has collapsed under its own weight, becoming a singularity of smugness so intense that not even irony can escape its gravitational field. Santa Barbara Film Festival, why have you forsaken me?

(source: SlashFilm)









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Comments

Yeah, maybe if you mixed that footage with The Beatles, cause I didn't really wanna watch their circus act.

Posted by: Jay at January 18, 2011 10:19 AM

If this was driven by the powerful music of Blink-182, I would be into this so hard.

Posted by: JP at January 18, 2011 10:19 AM

wouldn’t Eat, Prey, Love make a great title for a movie about the Reavers?


Whahaha, I scared my office by laughing loud and sadisticly.
Gooed one Steven.

Posted by: Magiel at January 18, 2011 10:20 AM

Even with the odd summary I'm somewhat intrigued by this.

Posted by: Paultera at January 18, 2011 10:24 AM

I was thinking about buying tickets for this, and "Two Tickets for Love" sounds like a really low-key jazz record.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at January 18, 2011 10:29 AM

So THIS is the Angels and Airwaves film project? I'm excited.

I remember listening to their debut album and thinking it told a really cool story. Rather, it had the potential to be crafted into a really cool story. I thought stage adaptation, myself (a nice sci-fi operetta), but then I read an interview with the band talking about adapting the music into a film.

Think of it this way: would it be too bad to have an emo/hardcore Idlewild in theaters for a few weeks? I think not.

Posted by: Robert at January 18, 2011 10:30 AM

On the one had, the fact that it's "brought to you by" a band is a bit iffy. On the other hand, it does look better than a lot of other sci-fi films out there. This is definitely on my "I want to know more" list.

Posted by: Markus at January 18, 2011 10:30 AM

It certainly looks pretty but, if your suspicion is correct and it's a musical vehicle, well the track record on those is a heady mix of successes and piles of hot, sick ass.

Posted by: admin at January 18, 2011 10:30 AM

"Two Tickets for Love" sounds like a really low-key jazz record.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at January 18, 2011 10:29 AM

Niiiiiiice!

Posted by: Simon at January 18, 2011 10:48 AM

The poster says "Spring 2010." Why are we just now getting around to it?

Posted by: , at January 18, 2011 10:50 AM

Haha, Angels and Airwaves are the most preposterously pretentious band in the world. It's insane how seriously that Blink 182 guy takes himself now.

Posted by: Steph at January 18, 2011 10:52 AM

Kids today are just pitiable.
Poor little things with their 3D tweets and twits and twats and befriendings. I'm gonna kick it old school tonight with "The Wall" DVD and some smokes and a homemade light show using flashlight effects and think back to when I was a young chillun who walked miles in the snow barefoot to catch Pink Floyd live...

Posted by: cinekat at January 18, 2011 11:15 AM

It wants to grow up to be a Terence Malick film.

Posted by: twig at January 18, 2011 11:39 AM

I hearrrrr you, Steph. Tom acts like he's music's salvation now or something, ugh. I was talking to a friend of mine about this film the other day (and I actually kinda love the trailer), but as I said to him - How can I take a guy seriously when he's written so many songs about his penis?

Posted by: b at January 18, 2011 11:49 AM

Seriously, b.

I'm kind of confused. I think that if it was never mentioned that Angels and Airwaves were involved in anyway, I'd want to see it more. The music isn't actually that bad, but I think the same thing. All I think about is, "..and I end up kissing my own brother."

Can we forget that they are involved and just watch the stupid movie?

Posted by: Candee at January 18, 2011 12:06 PM

I had the misfortune of seeing A&A a few years back and they were terrible live but dammit they had the coolest stage I have ever seen. My guess is this will be very similar, very stylish but in reality there isn't much to it.

Posted by: schrome at January 18, 2011 12:33 PM

Tom Delonge needs to go away. Forever. I (truly) can't believe someone as untalented as he is has had not one, but two successful careers. He can't play, he REALLY can't sing, now his crappy post-emo band is scoring/"inspiring" a sci-fi (syfy) film? Die in an industrial accident.

Posted by: Ian at January 18, 2011 12:44 PM

Yeah his voice is the worst.

Posted by: Steph at January 18, 2011 1:04 PM

I dunno if I'd want to see an entire movie based on their music, but I do love some Angels & Airwaves songs, like The Adventure. I do not wish them death in an industrial accident.

Posted by: Lindsay at January 18, 2011 1:07 PM

A) I had no idea who or what Angels and Airwaves was.

B) I've suddenly learned that it's a project by Tom DeLonge of Blink-182, whom I generally loathe.

C) Before any of that, I was watching the trailer and I thought to myself, "Wow, I really dig the music for this; it's like something out of an 80s sci-fi thriller."

D) Now that all of the above is aligned in my mind (including the official synopsis), I still really want to see this. Not that DeLonge is David Bowie, but before we all start to lampoon a musician for wanting to make a sci-fi film, remember The Man Who Fell to Earth.

Posted by: RobP at January 18, 2011 2:41 PM

Angels and Airwaves makes me think of the follwoing:

Hot Topic
Dumb Ass 13yo
Hair Dye
Ear Gauges
Shitty Staight Edge tattoos
Shitty Straight Edge People

Posted by: Sad ROckstar at January 18, 2011 2:49 PM

I like A&A and I've never purchased a single thing at Hot Topic, I am neither dumb nor 13 and although I have an ass it's not very impressive, my hair is 100% natural (no dye or highlights or emo sadness bangs), my ears are for all intents and purposes unpierced since I'm allergic to everything that I try to put in my pierced ears, I don't have a single tattoo and I don't consider myself a shitty person nor straight edge.

And I find those judgments ironic coming from someone who goes by the moniker "Sad Rockstar."

Posted by: Lindsay at January 18, 2011 3:04 PM

Here's the deal, kiddies. I'm an unapologetic fan of Angels & Airwaves and I can try to set your minds at ease about SOME of this.

Delonge started Angels & Airwaves after Blink-182 broke up a few years ago (though they've recently reunited). The record, and the band as a whole, is something of a musical love letter to 80s U2, The Cure, and a handful of other bands that inspired him early on.

During the run-up to the first record he did a lot of interviews while hopped up on pain killers (for back problems) and said a lot of lofty shit about how AVA (really, that's how they abbreviate themselves) was going to be bigger than Jesus. He thought it was funny and was too high to notice it just made him look like a HUUGE asshole.

ANYWAY, the music is really good stuff. Cut from a similar cloth as some of Blink's later work, but inspired by a sort of odd mash-up of sci-fi and old war aesthetics. It's MEANT to be emotional.

As for the film, I know he helped to produce and finance it, though I know nothing about how much of a hand he had in its execution.
I guaran-fucking-tee you, though, Angels & Airwaves can probably score the shit out of a movie, and I'd imagine they're a little more interested in doing a real film score with their aesthetics than just a feature-length video set to songs written beforehand.

Or I could be wrong, and it could suck, but I went from cautiously optimistic to just plain excited after seeing this trailer.

Posted by: Adam Heff at January 18, 2011 3:56 PM

Considering Tom is 35, I'm willing to guess he's willing to move past the dirty joke songs and put out more credible stuff. Even Blink's later records moved them into a better direction. Blink hasn't really done anything in 5 years, so it's likely given him more time to grow up and expand what he can so musically.

Posted by: Matt at January 18, 2011 5:35 PM

I don't care if Angels and Airwaves was Justin Bieber's band. If the music is well-made, I'll listen to it. I'm not a huge fan of Tom's voice. It's passable on a good day. The band's melodies and arrangements, however, are quite good and their lyrics have that kind of "I want to burst into song" feel of an old-timey musical. I can't hate on them for that. I also can't hate on people for dismissing them because of the genre they represent or where their music is sold.

Posted by: Robert at January 18, 2011 6:35 PM