This is a cracking little film harking back to all the best tradition in sci-fi. Cheap effects and small budgets disguised by big ideas. Yet sci-fi remains a genre mocked and maligned by much of the populace. Why is it so unfasionable to enjoy something just because it's set on the moon?
Geeks of course are the problem. The champions of sci-fi are people nobody wants to listen to. Social outcasts. They each find a little corner of the sci-fi kingdom to call their own then preach the Gospel according to Whedon/Abrams/Whoever. Many preach as fundamentalists (how can you like Tenant after you've seen Baker?) and most take solace in the fact they know someone geekier. This is like a chimpanzee claiming to be human because a gorilla is more ape.
People are scared by fundamentalism. The geeks should not rave about this film, they should just say it is good.
It is good.
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