Space Station 76

A movie made today about what people back then thought that today would look like which features a guy with a robot hand smoking weed with Liv Tyler in space which is funny since that is literally what I thought back in the day that my life today would look like.

Aesthetically, this movie is everything I don't remember about the 70s, as none of my memories were properly saved to disk until I got that floppy drive in 87. And while Liv Tyler's lips look like Steven Tyler's lips from the 70s, it still doesn't change the fact that people who were born after the 70s, who were too stoned in the 70s to actually remember what the 70s were about, or who simply have trouble counting to 70 without the fingers of 6 friends probably shouldn't be making 70s movies.

"The Ice Storm" meets "2001" as we imagine today that they'd imagine it in 1976, the past being less another country than a satellite drifting aimlessly in space. Part of me wishes they'd done even more to recapture the 70s feel not just in how people dress and act - the movie just looks too *good* to be pre-Star Wars - and the ending leaves something to be desired, but still. Groovy.

Space Station 76 is, if anything, a noble failure. It successfully pays homage to, rather than parodying, 60's/70's space sci-fi, especially in terms of design and sound. Unfortunately, the praise ends there as the film misses the mark on many levels. It's a slow film, that occasionally tries to be poignant, but that constantly falls short due to cast and script. It's not bad, it's just not all that it could have been; however the robot therapy was pretty funny.

Low-key retro-futuristic space melodrama peppered with gender, sexuality and identity issues. Apart from psychologist-bot who is always ready to provide nuggets of wisdom the humor is sparse. Overall, it feels more like a TV series pilot than a movie, and not the kind of series you would want to keep following either.

I expected a spoof of cheesy 70s sci-fi, but Plotnick uses that conceit as a loss leader to tell a serious story about the human tendency to crave companionship. I thought he did that well. His characters feel real and I found it all too easy to identify with the lonely child at the center of the human interactions. The film could have had more definite resolutions for its many plot threads, but I can see how Plotnick and the other writers could get lost in their affection for their characters.

Successfully captures the boringness of 70s movies, though it picks up a little around half way through- more scenes with more than two or three people interacting would have helped. Use of models rather than CG for the space station would have made this much more authentic. Or CG that looks like model plastic, but maybe that is very expensive to accomplish. Also there should be at least a few more zoom shots: start wide at a party then zoom in on the face of a character. (Or was there one?)

Somehow, they figured out how to peer into my mind and custom-create a movie just for me. It's just a shame that they didn't bother to write an ending to it.

Come for the spot-on parody of the people, fashion, sets, and problems of pre-STAR WARS 1970's sci-fi in the vein of "Space: 1999." Stay, because...well, because after a time, we actually start caring about the people, fashion, sets, and problems. Like, caring about them a lot. I thought this was slight when I first saw it, but now I can't stop thinking about the thing. I need to rewatch it as soon as possible...

Many people seem to have disliked this, disappointed that it isn't over-the-top hilarious 70s SF parody, but it very clearly wasn't intending to be a Zucker Bros comedy, but something more quietly downbeat with a very different style of humour. Doesn't always work but not without interest.

A scientist (Liv Tyler) comes to the titular space station, where the styles and attitudes of the 70s reign supreme. Storywise, it's a bit of a mess, with numerous threads, some developed well, some barely at, and an uncertain tone: is it ANCHORMAN in space, or is it something more? Often it succeeds at the latter, with some moments of real emotional complexity and an interesting look at gender politics. And it manages to be pretty funny too, with an enthusiastic cast and a delightful aesthetic.

I love the style of this movie. Returning to the best time period in Sci-Fi films seems so simple but it took a group of talented people to make the idea possible. I really think this movie was special. The casting was top notch. I love Liv Tyler in just about anything. I love seeing Jerry O'Connell get work too. The relationships between the characters on this small space station are really vibrant. Tyler's character especially has layers of backstory - both tragic and triumphant.

From the trailer I thought this was going to be an unfunny parody film. But that is defiantly not the case when you watch the film. Yes its influences are 2001: A Space Odyssey, but that works in its favor because the miniatures and the sets are great to look at. In the end, it has some great drama mixed in with some alright comedy set in a 1970s space station.

fun little sci-fi with a lovely retro style... has lots of issues in story telling but still it's heartwarming..

Interesting but a bit slow.

Very entertaining, and very 70s.

Not bad.

Space (soap) opera.

yes i went in expecting a comedy.when i realized that wasn't what i was getting(still annoyed at that trailer and myself) i adjusted & tried to get something out of it.cast really works, but by the last 20 minutes i was wondering if the movie was ever going to have a point.by the end i was wondering if Plotnick felt he was actually telling us something we didn't already know.if the purpose was to just show us what we already know about people, it could have at least been more entertaining.