Not two minutes after the very predictable beginning portion of the movie was over, I watched Alex put on his space suit and LEAVE. (If that was me, I don’t know that I’d have the guts to do it!)Ĭue skipping into the sunset… er, galaxy? No! It was fun to watch him struggle and I enjoyed seeing Helena be brave for that moment. My interest piqued as Helena climbed atop a sleeping Alex and gives him the ‘I’m alone forever’ speech. Basic inevitable hooking up.īut whoa! Not quite. I watched the first twenty or so minutes with moderate interest. Helena is alone and the hottest guy in the universe shows up on her ship, and we all know where this is going… ![]() He resists getting to know Helena-probably smart, he’s supposed to leave and never come back-but who can really resist her sweet shyness? PlotĪs previously mentioned, the movie has a Passengers feel. ![]() He also apparently played Riptide in X-Men: First Class, but if you’d said you’d pay me a million dollars to figure that out without Google, you’d still have a million dollars…Īlex starts off as the typical hot-and-silent type. He, too, is drop-dead gorgeous, as anticipated. Next up is the engineer Alex played by Alex Gonzalez. I couldn’t help but feel for her when she meets another person for the first time and tries not to freak out. She’s obviously strong enough to endure the mental rigor of a lifetime of loneliness, has the self-control to eat the predetermined amount of ‘food’, and pushes herself to maintain her physical strength through rigorous exercise. Rebecca tends to be bossy (Time to get up, Helena!) more than friendly, but still, beggars can’t be choosers, right? She’s alone on a ship with no one but her mechanical nav program Rebecca as her companion. She’s drop-dead gorgeous but has a really fresh look which I appreciated. Let’s mix it up!įirst up is Clara Lago as Helena. I actually really enjoyed having to put down my phone and pay attention! CharactersĬan I just say how refreshing it is to watch a movie with not a *single* actor I recognize? I get tired of seeing Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in every movie. But growing up in Austin and frequenting the Austin Film Festival, I’m no stranger to a subtitle. Lo and behold, Orbiter 9 is actually a Spanish film! Who knew? Not this lady! It was directed by Hatem Khraiche and released in Spain in 2017 as Orbita 9. ![]() I liked the moral issues presented, but on the whole, it was slow and pretty predictable.) Man and woman alone on a space ship who fall in love? I’ve seen this movie before… (And to be fair, I thought Passengers was okay. While I liked the general idea of the movie, I initially thought it really similar to Passengers. An engineer arrives to save the day, but he’s the first person she’s ever met (literally!). ![]() Orbiter 9 promised to follow Helena, the lone passenger of an interstellar colonization ship in need of repair. I didn’t recognize any of the main actors, but the premise sounded decent and I’m a sucker for a space romance. Last week, on a typically husband-less night, I went in search of something good-bonus points if he’d hate it!-and found Orbiter 9. (That’s not to say they don’t have issues, because they each do, but on the whole, I was glad to have watched them.) Movies like The Discovery, Spectral, ARQ, and What Happened to Monday? are all really enjoyable movies that I would never have watched without perusing the depths of Netflix’s sci-fi and fantasy flicks. In recent months, I’ve developed a fondness for movies with the Netflix logo on them. I typically browse Netflix and end up watching something random. Most nights I choose to read (duh!), but every now and then I get in a movie mood. That means I spend 3-5 nights a week sans husband. For those that don’t know, I’m a military wife.
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