Journey to Planet X, 2012: Myles Kane, Josh Koury, Eric Swain, Troy Bernier

Journey to Planet X is an interesting documentary that follows the making of an amateur movie Planet X. The scientist duo create their own science fiction movies on the weekends.

The documentary follows Eric Swain and Troy Bernier in the creating of  Planet X  in
Florida sand dunes, using a green screen, and a supermarket freezer. The green screen which is a wall painted green has a better lighting effect than the blue one they had been using. The freezer helped simulate the cold of outer space.

They hired a storyboard artist and two animation artists to improve this film over what they had done before. At the end of the documentary, their movie has its first outing and they are invited to show it at a film festival. Excitement ensues.

Trisha Barkman produced Journey to Planet X. Josh Koury and Myles Kane were co-directors. The documentary screened at numerous film festivals like Calgary, Traverse City, and Strasborg.

Troy and Eric's movie Temple of Joy was funded at Kickstarter.

The thing about Planet X  is that its creators can inspire you to create something and be as determined as they are to keep going to greater heights.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (2008)

The 1950's produced a film load of science fiction movies. Many of them concerned aliens attacking the earth. Some say that this phase of the movies in the United States was an artistic method for dealing with the anxieties of the cold war between the U.S.A and Russia. Films about huge monsters was another part of this overall expression.

The Day the Earth Stood Still  posed a question about the way of life in the U. S. A. during the 1950's. This is in line with literature discussing and examining life, and the original film is an adaptation of the short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates. The 2008 version works from the first film and the short story.

It is for you to decide which film does the best job of adapting the short story to the movies.  At least, it is up to you to decide which film is the best.

The tomatometer gives the original film 94% and the audience says 85%.  The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) gets a tomatometer reading of  21% and audience 32%. What do you think? Which one brings the concept across better? You say...


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