Europa Report (Post-release)

CessnaDriver

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Very few details. Hope it doesn't suck.


EUROPA REPORT - YouTube

The Europa Report (2013) - MovieWeb.com

Europa is a science fiction adventure that follows a contemporary manned mission to Europa – the fourth moon of Jupiter - the place thought by scientists to hold the greatest probability for alien life in our solar system. When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean exists underneath the icy surface of the moon and could contain single-celled life, an international crew of six embark on a privately funded mission to the edges of our solar system to confirm the data and explore the truly revolutionary scientific discoveries that lie in the Europan ocean.The long and ambitious journey tests the psychological and physical limits of the crew as they travel further into the depths of space.

By incorporating real world scientific research, ship design and mission planning, the film presents an authentic vision of what the next step in human exploration will look and feel like, putting the audience inside the ship with our international crew. Through the perspective of the astronauts, the audience will experience space as it truly is and marvel at the beauty, the vastness and the unknown
 
Europa is a very intriguing goal for exploration because of the possible potential for life present in our solar system, and cinematically barely touched on.
Very different from Mars which has gotten great attention from film makers over the years and gotten rather familiar, even similar to earth deserts in appearance . Europa would offer a stranger world I think for film.
I don't think that tales of Europa exploration is exclusive to one chapter from Clarke of course. It all hinges on what they find there and if it will bring something new to the Sci Fi plate or some tired out already done plot line with lethal alien monsters and crew freaking out on each other or other retread concept.
 
CessnaDriver said:
Europa is a very intriguing goal for exploration because of the possible potential for life present in our solar system, and cinematically barely touched on.
Very different from Mars which has gotten great attention from film makers over the years and gotten rather familiar, even similar to earth deserts in appearance . Europa would offer a stranger world I think for film.
I don't think that tales of Europa exploration is exclusive to one chapter from Clarke of course. It all hinges on what they find there and if it will bring something new to the Sci Fi plate or some tired out already done plot line with lethal alien monsters and crew freaking out on each other or other retread concept.
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Of course, that brings up the point that scientists are actually trying to get probes and drones out to Europa even as we speak. Convenient timing to make a movie about it.

And you're right, it's not exclusive to Clarke.. I think he drew his ideas on Europa from theories at the time that it may be conducive to life. He may have been the first one to put it into fiction, though.
 
From the trailer, that actually looks really good. I think I am in for that. (I don't think I've seen any sci-fi since "Moon", so this may be fun...)
 
Laspector said:
.......but the trailer for Apollo 18 looked good, too.
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Good point.

On the other hand, with the exception of the found footage genre, and the living stones, and the secret manned moon shot, and the Russian lander, Apollo 18 was... no, that's probably at least one too many fatal flaws... scratch that.

Let us hope the horror aspect holds together better than in Apollo 18!
 
I saw it two days ago. It's not Apollo 18 or Alien, I can tell you that. If you could call it a horror movie at all, it shows the horror of how space doesn't give a rat's backside about humans at all. It's a cold, unforgiving area of indifference. And humans plop down in the middle of it with not exactly happy results.
The film has a very good look to it, but I didn't find the characters very compelling at all. It's also very short, less than 90 minutes.
Wait until it comes out on video or on demand, there's really nothing about this film that merits a viewing on a big screen over a smaller one.
While it's not a bad movie, for all the work that went into it (and there is a LOT of NASA cooperation noted in the credits), I just expected more...
 
Saw and was happy with it. Not blown away but happy. This is very hard core near future Sci Fi and it would bore the hell out of the masses.
It stays grounded in scientific possibility.
Though it was a "found footage" story, thank god all the cameras were mostly hard mounted on the ship so
no shaky cam unless it was briefly handheld.
Astros behaved professionally for the most part, a few places I could gripe, but overall this was the opposite of the idiots of Prometheus and other fool crews in big budget Sci Fi and I am very very grateful for this portrayal of the kind of people that would be chosen for these kinds of missions. Worth it just for that.
The moral of this film is risk and reward and the high price that sometimes must be payed for every inch of knowledge.
 
Europa report was pretty good, especially compared to contemporary sci-fi with ten times the budget. Also the way it presented space travel was totally believable, much like 2001, but that was where the similarity ends. Like a lot of films aimed at a mass market the only real drawback was the editing.
 
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