Silent Running, 1972. A mad ecologist tries to save Earth's last plant life... in space! Directed by Douglas Trumbull. Written by Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino & Steven Bochco. Starring Bruce Dern.
Concept: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Story: 0/4 (Terrible). With three writers - not including Trumbull - they still couldn't manage to come up with more than twenty minutes of material.
Characters: 1/4 (Bad)
Dialog: 1/4 (Bad)
Pacing: 0/4 (Terrible)
Cinematography: 1/4 (Bad). Mostly fine, but the (crucial) model photography is terrible.
Special effects/design: 1/4 (Bad). Ever notice how sometimes when an expert specialist is put in charge of a project, his/her area of specialization suffers? It's the "Don't worry, he's got this" effect. Or, in this case, it could be more specifically identified as the "Where's Douglas? Oh, playing with his robots again" effect.
Acting: 1/4 (Bad). It's not Dern's fault, though. There's no way to not be bad with this material.
Music: 0/4 (Terrible). What... I just... what the fuck?
Subjective Rating: 1/10 (Eew get it away, 0/4). It is shockingly awful. I was literally shocked by how awful it is. It made me angry.
Objective Rating (Average): 0.7/4 (Very bad)
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