Space Station 76 (2014)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Absolutely Brilliant!

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Regular readers of my Internet Movie Database user comments will know that recently I saw a couple of comedies that I thought tried way too hard to generate laughs, namely with "shock" humor. While "Space Station 76" thankfully does not really go for raunchy humor, it has the opposite problem - it doesn't try hard enough. I will say that the movie has a nice soundtrack of golden oldies, and the entire package looks pretty good for what had to be a really low budget. The 1970s production design does generate a few chuckles, and there are other giggles scattered here and there. But the movie for the most part is really devoid of enough energy to be regularly hilarious. In fact, it is so low key that for long periods it almost comes across as a completely straight drama! And most of the various plot threads in the narrative are, for some strange reason, left unfinished at the very end. Despite these problems, the movie isn't particularly painful to sit through, though at the end of the movie you'll probably be asking yourself, "What was the point of all that?"

It would have been more fun if everyone died! What a depressing mess. How does this kind of garbage get made? Ugh...children as a plot device is weak story telling. Gay captain and boring characters. All i can ask is why? Whay are they in space? Why do they want to live at all? I remember when science fiction films were fun... I remember 1976 and this has none of the fun of films from that generation. Why again does the captain have to be gay? Is it just the sane old hack about making the hero unmanly? What a huge waste! The ending could have been somewhat satisfying if the filmmakers wanted it to be. They had all the parts and it was setup, but the movie ended as hopelessly as it started. Normally I give Indie films a break, but this was a bunch of unhirable Hollywood types, proving why they are... Unhirable. Truly awful film and a huge waste of my time... Now if you're still dumb enough to buy it and watch it, well you might actually like it? Hope that helps.

So bad it's...still bad. Incredibly bad.Not sure if this movie was meant to be a comedy or a drama. As a comedy it wasn't funny, and as a drama it was incredibly amateurish. Loathsome characters - there's really nobody to like. Very silly sub-plots and dialogue, like a kid wrote the script.Surprisingly for a 2014 sci fi movie (or any 2014 movie, in fact), CGI is quite poor. Yeah, I know they were trying to recreate some sort of 1970s sci fi vibe with this movie, but did they have to go full Thunderbirds? Actually that's an insult to the original Thunderbirds - that had better special effects...There is almost nothing to like about this movie. The only interesting scenes are the ones involving the robots, as they turn out to be quite funny. Maybe not intentionally...The fact that the cast includes Jerry O'Connell tells you that this movie is going to be crap...he only acts in craptacular movies. However, don't know why Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson are there - they can certainly do better. (Unless their careers have subsided to this extent). Marisa Coughlan gives one of the most annoying performances in the history of cinema.This movie is so incredibly and deliberately bad I can only think that the producers made it as a tax write-off.

Nothing in the plot of this movie has anything to do with science fiction. Yes, it is set on a "space station" but it could as easily have been a 20th century cruise liner or a 19th century Orient Express Train. The plot is all about the interaction between the personalities of the people on-board. Why is it so clearly a stage play?--because it uses the old tried and true plot structure of "drama"--characters reveal themselves to each other and come to make self-discoveries as the play unwinds--that's what the film is all about--these 'revelations'. Why is this supposedly the 1970s?--Well the art-direction--the sets and costumes look something like Kubrick's film 2001--which came out in 1968--and also Star Trek--the iconic 1960's TV show. There are touches like black-and-white TV monitors etc., telephones with cords, and lots of cigarette smoking. Actors--insecure actors puzzling out how to project the script that they're given traditionally use cigarette-smoking as an action to substitute for emoting. Well--there's certainly a LOT of smoking in this FILM. Maybe they're saying that smoking is still OK in this 1970s--but it's probably just a lame ripoff of the tobacco and alcohol consumption in the MAD MEN TV show. There is some "symbolism" in the movie--the huge asteroid, which seems to menace and trivialize the mere dilemmas and conflicts of the human characters. The other symbolism is maybe the sort-of-1970s setting--a guy freaking out over his unaccepted Gay Identity--really? In 2014?--come on!--Will and Grace has been off the air for years. Also the couple who "stay together for the children"--another theme from a previous era. Today's society has moved beyond these dilemmas. Most of these plot concerns are really kind of generic and clichéd. Best part of the film is the ACTING--and this is definitely a film about ACTING--not science fiction or plot or story! Some of the acting is uneven--some characters are better at it than others. Liv Tyler is really good and not self-conscious and labored like some of the others in the cast. She does not chew up the scenery. And it's fun seeing her play a real role and not just a comic-book character as in Lord of the Rings, etc. SO--I was a little let-down by this film, but I'd give it a 7 for effort but only a 5 (at best) overall. Kind of a weird hybrid of a movie.