The Titan

I’m sure if I was to read this as a novel or a comic book I would feel different about the mundane story unraveling here. I don’t know if it was a novel or a comic book first but I would not be surprised if it was and the filmmakers were thinking the same.

So The Titan is about an unusual set of ‘astronauts”willing to changed themselves genetically so that they can live on the moon of Saturn, but this is one of those “science is well meaning, but goes horribly wrong” stories.

I like the story a lot and the idea of the story a lot, but I can easily see why it falls short. Not much is going on here past explaining the premise of the movie. Once that’s over the parts were the “astronauts” train to become Titans is not compelling enough for me not to not let my mind wonder away from the movie. The only part that really kept me glued to the screen was Natalie Emmanuel whose in the Fast and the Furious movies.

Then you had the parts in which the Titan’s family was trying to deal with what’s going on. The woman who plays Piper on Orange is the New Black plays the Titan’s wife. I almost did not notice her without the blonde hair, but trying to figure out who she was is the only thing that kept me focus. They were trying to add in all the cliches of how a stressful job can effect family life without making it seem cliche and it did not work so well.

Great idea for a Science fiction story that tries to be more Science than fiction, but I think they got the Science to jumbled along with the story for anyone to care that much. Nice effort though!