Most snubbed movie of 2013: Cinematography, Score, and VFX.

Lots of similarities with Elysium:

Similar budgets: ($120M for Oblivion, $115M for Elysium).
Both made $286M at the international box office.
Both directors have only done one movie before.
Both have solid production design.
Both starred an A-lister that...

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So, get this: I'm listening to the commentary, having a grand old time (naturally) and right when Tom gets ambushed and knocked out, I made a mental note in my head to pop over to the forums later and complain that the panel was spending way too much time on the house on a stick. Then, like magic, Teague said my name and referenced that very thing.

I just gleefully love how well you guys know me by now.

Okay, so a couple of things about Oblivion and this commentary:

1. Ryan laments there is little to no levity, particularly in the beginning which would help to establish Jack and Victoria's relationship. There is a moment that is both funny and character-in-jokey. Jack is leaving base for the day, for his search for the two, missing drones and this exchange happens:
Victoria: Be careful.
Jack: Always am.
Victoria: No you're not.
Jack: Oh yeah. I gotta work on that.

I got the sense that this is a cute little thing they do with each other every morning and it tells us they know each other well enough to have this kind of back and forth. If Ryan is looking for other examples of comedy, there's the scene in the Library, with the rope that was already mentioned. There's also some

Come on, that's hilariously genius!

2. I understand the

and without even trying, I was ruined on but the fact that , I was pleasantly surprised by. So, yay me for being stupid and not getting it, I guess?

3. That shack-house and everything in it should have been way more damaged than it appeared.

4. How does shack-house have electricity to play records and produce light?

6. We see Jack's whirly-gig flying machine has gun turret capabilities, which includes the ability to shoot behind him and see what he's shooting at with video cameras. The drones seem to only have the turrets but not the eyes-in-the-back-of-the-head-cameras, allowing Jack to sneak attack them from behind. I'm sorry, what?

7. Was anyone else completely distracted by how the actress who played Victoria (who was great, by the way) had near-constantly dilated pupils like she was on drugs all the time? She looked like one of those little, Funko Pop Vinyl figures! Or my dog, when she approaches me with a tennis ball in her mouth!

There's more, but it's late and I need sleep. Just know that despite those "issues", I kind of loved this movie.

One doesn't tackle stairs until one has passed Operating Thetan Level #15. Every Clear knows that by their third audit.

Got me thinking that the expedition vessel's name Odyssey, was the same as Apollo 13's CSM because they were both failed missions that returned (most of) their crew.

I dont know if it was brought up afterwards, but Trey had said that this felt like a novel/book.
That because it was a book that the director had written into a graphic novel with someone else,
and the project had to be abandoned for some reason. So basically it came from and unpublished
novel, so that is probably where Trey was getting that vibe from, so he was right on the money!

Well, deuterium, as well as tritium, are also mined out of water for purposes of attempting nuclear fusion.  The reason for this is that these rare isotopes of hydrogen have extra neutrons that bounce each other around to create a self-sustaining sun-like reaction.  It's for this reason that I'm pretty sure those devices they have stuck in the water are nuclear fusion reactors.

I wonder if this would fair better as a foreign language version with rewritten subtitles? Could you improve the script but leave the action?