Cliches aside, space is still the final frontier on at least one front: the fact that very few films about space are worth watching.
'Star Wars', '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'Star Trek IV: The Voyage home' all have firm followings which for the sake of debate makes them good pieces of cinema. On the flipside are films such as 'Event Horizon' and 'Red Planet', both of which resort to using shock tactics to overcompensate for the void where the plot should be. Curiously, both films star someone who was in 'The Matrix', Laurence Fishburn and Carrie-Ann Moss respectively.
Potentially there could be a lesson to be learnt from the fact that anyone who appears in the third Matrix film will do almost any films that crosses their path. Keanu appears to have resisted venturing into space to date, although as one half of Bill and Ted he was responsible for the implementation of a space-aged future where everyone got along thanks to 1980s-tinged glam metal.
In principle this should give the KISS empire an idea for another cash in - which would also link to the inevitable success of 'Revenge of the Sith': KISS could make a low budget film in which they save the world from destruction by a superior alien life-force, using Gene Simmon's most recent solo album (or William Shatener's for that matter) to make the aliens commit ritual suicide in embarrassment, before then following in Arnold Schwarzenegger's shoes and running for office.
...which is somehow a more impressive and haunting nightmare vision of the future than 'Event Horizon' ever supplied.
