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Órbita 9 (2017)
Space travel experiment gone awry
The mere possibility of space travel and colonization of a distant world is simply a backdrop to this story of experimentation on human clones, really the only aspect of this story which can be accurately labeled as science fiction. Initially, it explores the effects of the isolation of simulated space travel on a human individual, albeit a human clone, revealed later. It's a bioethics thriller, similar, though on a smaller scale, to Ascension, a social experiment drama. At the climax, the question is how to deal with the rogue engineer who threatened to expose the project and the clone that he freed. I was expecting a less predictable ending than it has, so that cost it a couple of points. Otherwise, good acting, props and set design. Engaging plot.
Lost in Space (2018)
About as true to science as the 60's series, but with a 2010's flashbang
If you can accept thousands of gallons (liters or whatever) of water freezing in seconds while people above it are sitting with bare hands and heads, no frostbite, and (spoiler alert) converting a few hundred pounds (kilos or whatever) of bat dung into thousands of gallons/liters of methane hybrid rocket fuel (and that a liquid rocket fuel of the future is not explosively reactive in the open) in an hour or so, you should find this reboot of the original enjoyable. Plenty of creative, quirky differences to allow the "original" , as in "Netflix Original" to be true. Enjoy!
Passengers (2016)
Be a Passenger and Enjoy this Movie
Enjoying this movie requires that you 1) know how to suspend disbelief because if you fancy yourself with the knowledge of an astrophysics/aerospace tech PhD and are looking for flaws in its science to demonstrate your superior intellect, you will find them; 2) have the ability to put yourself in a character's shoes and admit that humanly speaking, you could see yourself behaving the same way; 3) forget, for an hour and 56 minutes, all of the other similarly plotted movies you have seen and fairy tales that you've heard and stories that you've read, with which you can catalog comparisons in your head while you're watching to later expose the writers of plagiarism; 4) resist the temptation to compare the characters to the characters played by the actors in other movies and, last but not least, 5) remove the chip on your shoulder, if you have one, regarding relationships the shouldn't happen a certain way. You have been warned. Life is too short to not allow yourself a little escape from knee-jerk analysis. This movie is a fun ride.