I thought this was an interesting attempt to make an adult science fiction movie. Unfortunately, I wasn’t affected by the romantic elements as greatly as I should have been, and I suspect this is why the movie “fails” for many other people. Now I’m saying this without having checked Rotten Tomatoes, but I don’t recall the box-office for this film being high. Maybe it was too science fictiony for romantics, and too romantic for science fiction fans.

I wanted to mention that the DVD commentary by Soderbergh and Cameron was excellent. Cameron has a reputation for being an arrogant ass-hole, but to me, he comes off as being knowledgable, gracious, and likable. Maybe because I’m an arrogant ass-hole as well? As an example of something interesting that Soderbergh mentions, there’s a scene where there is a sliver of a space-ship window behind a character. Because it costs so much money to have a green screen shot, a filmmaker will normally only have a space window within the frame if there’s something interesting to see outside the window. But Soderbergh decided to frame the character as he would normally do and not draw attention to the window. So they spent the money to matte in a sliver of outer space that is hardly noticeable!

Since no-one commented at the time Sean wrote his review, maybe my comment here will spark some of you to write your thoughts about this movie.