Moon

(I saw this movie at Sundance film festival at a preview screening)  First of all, if you like good sci-fi movies, go see this movie.  Second, if you don't like good sci fi movies, what are you doing on the Internet? Turn off your electricity and stop polluting the future.  

This movie was really outstanding in its ability to convey a sense of environment.  The main character is a miner stuck on a 3 year term of service alone on the moon.  I really feel that the set, the story and the character are all very convincing.  I generally don't like when sci-fi movies imply that somehow the future is never dirty.  This movie, however, is aided by one of the set designers for the movie Alien and is inspired by a lot of other great sci-fi movies as well.  

Despite writing about the atmosphere of this movie, the plot is also outstanding.  I could also really imagine the exact scenario played out by the movie occurring in reality as soon as the technology became available.  For this reason I strongly recommend avoiding the previews for it. 

I know this movie isn't out yet, so there's no real way to know if it will be a neglected gem or not.  I mentioned it anyways because it is an incredible sci-fi movie made on a really tight budget an it has a lot of potential to be neglected because it is not accompanied by a giant marketing campaign.   Moon comes out June 12th, 2009