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Recently, Moscow had ordered a change in the way things were done in space. Newly independent Ukraine was overcharging Russia for its automated-guidance equipment, so rather than let that system steer the robot spacecraft to the red zone--the point 100 yds. from the station where the commander takes over--ground control wanted the crew to maneuver the ship all the way in using only a video camera mounted on Progress and a black-and-white television screen in the station's core module to guide...
...millions who logged on to download Pathfinder pictures will testify, the mission was an unqualified success. So dry those tears. When we finally make it to the Red Planet in person, the robot's frozen corpse can become the main attraction at the first Martian theme park...
...Caleb Sampson's music, which gaily purloins motifs from Nino Rota and Philip Glass). The film blends interview and location footage with clips from old movies and Super 8, black and white and color. As the styles merge, so do the stories. The real lions, the leaf elephants, the robot insects and the insectoid rodents overlap, abut, merge in a gorgeous fugue of hard work and abiding love. This is a funny, thrilling tribute to people's urge to find play and profundity in the work they...
...film opens promisingly enough, as we are introduced to Robert (McGregor), a recently laid-off janitor with a really bad haircut. After having been replaced by a cheap robot and dumped by his gum-chewing girlfriend within the space of a few hours, our shaggy protagonist is at the end of his rope. During a trippy-freak-out-on-the-bed scene (which bears a strong resemblance to the trippy-freak-out-on-the-bed scene in Trainspotting), Robert comes up with a solution: kidnap his ex-boss' daughter Celine (a painfully typecast Diaz), drive away and improvise from there...
...night and the following day. Oddly, the crying felt good, like a catharsis, and I wondered if my reaction to the tragedy--far from being excessive or drug related--wasn't in fact the genuinely human one. But 12 hours later, still shedding burning tears, I concluded that robot Walter needed a tune...