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Likewise. One of the few films that still creeps me out a little when I watch it!
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Likewise. One of the few films that still creeps me out a little when I watch it!
Same as
Don
That was my take on it as well.
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Mine too.
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Yeah. I completely disagree with most posters here (the few above excepted). My interpretation was that they absolutely were not safe. The door closing omminously by itself while he was saying it made it pretty hard to conclude otherwise.
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The sequel is Warhammer 40k.
Warhammer 40K is about a cold, harsh universe in which a completely alien, completely strange, completely hostile eldritch force is violently intruding. This otherworldly force causes, among other things, extreme acts of violence, hedonistic behavior with no regard to the consequences, horrific diseases and so on. People go mad, eyes boil in sockets, people slaughter their neighbors and wear their heads for hats... you know, the usual reactions to possession and conversion to dark entities that proclaim themselves Gods.
The otherworldly dimension (The Warp) from which they come also happens to be how humans get from Point A to Point B in reasonable time. But even if it weren't for the hostile inhabitants (which love nothing more than finding and possessing the people on the ships and the ships themselves), the Warp has a nasty habit of occasionally displacing people in time - you can arrive where you wanted to be a couple of weeks before you departed, or twelve centuries later.
Event Horizon involves a ship going faster than light and returning. Turns out it punctured it's way into another reality of sorts that's apparently populated by horrible entities that caused the ship's crew to engage in horrible blood orgies and extreme acts of violence, and seems to have permeated the ship itself.
Event Horizon is about humans entering the Warp for the first time. From a certain point of view.
Heh, if somoene asks me what the Warp is like my answer is "Well it looks like hyperspace from Babylon 5, and if your Gellar field ever goes down it will BE like Event Horizon"
.Ditto. Also has a really good soundtrack imo.
Funnily enough I watched Event Horizon today for the very first time, I've been meaning to watch it for ages. I really enjoyed it and can't agree with the above, didn't think it was out of place at all. I did start to think "Damn they've ended it too nicely", then you see the door close which hints that it's not all smelling of roses after all.
I thought the same thing myself actually, the 'warp' in Event Horizon uses exactly the same concept of that in 40k!
I watched this last night spurred on by this thread, first time seeing it in years.
The most notable thing about this film from the off is that is looks and sounds FANTASTIC. Right from the off on the Louis and Clarke, it feels like they are indeed in space. The premise is brilliant and as a piece of sci-fi and horror I can't fault it on those grounds, although backstory with Weir's wife is done pretty lazily (got to love Weir's scared scream when waking up from stasis though, that is hilarious).
All of the supporting cast were fantastic and seemed aptly gritty (with some enjoyable comic relief too), but what did let it down for me a little bit was picking up how poor the dialogue of the 2 leads was, particularly between then which was often:
Miller: There was a noise. Explain the noise.
Dr. Weir: I don't know, I need time.
Miller: WE DON'T HAVE TIME.
or
Miller: Explain what happened.
Dr. Weir: Don't worry it's safe.
Miller: THEY CREW DIED IT'S NOT SAFE
etc
All in all, a very watchable and enjoyable film that looks brilliant and has a great plot. Very creepy in places too, but sadly tainted by some fairly unfined character relations.
7/10
The most notable thing about this film from the off is that is looks and sounds FANTASTIC. Right from the off on the Louis and Clarke, it feels like they are indeed in space. The premise is brilliant and as a piece of sci-fi and horror I can't fault it on those grounds, although backstory with Weir's wife is done pretty lazily (got to love Weir's scared scream when waking up from stasis though, that is hilarious
).All of the supporting cast were fantastic and seemed aptly gritty (with some enjoyable comic relief too), but what did let it down for me a little bit was picking up how poor the dialogue of the 2 leads was, particularly between then which was often:
Miller: There was a noise. Explain the noise.
Dr. Weir: I don't know, I need time.
Miller: WE DON'T HAVE TIME.
or
Miller: Explain what happened.
Dr. Weir: Don't worry it's safe.
Miller: THEY CREW DIED IT'S NOT SAFE
etc
All in all, a very watchable and enjoyable film that looks brilliant and has a great plot. Very creepy in places too, but sadly tainted by some fairly unfined character relations.
7/10
Caporegime
Just seen that IMDB rates this at 6.6. That really is a criminally low score. Look at some of the films that achieve 7. This was a really good sci-fi horror, amongst the best in fact excluding Alien films. 6.6 is unbelievable!
Glad I got that off my chest.
Glad I got that off my chest.
Scores you have to take with a pinch of salt, especially niche genre that get everyone seeing it. Like event horizon was a pretty popular film, and Worley watching it who don't generally like the genre. I pretty much ignore ratings.
I wish imdb or someone would do an alohorithim, which compared people's scores who have rated films similar to you.
So rather than seeing everyone's average rating. It found the several hundred people with scores that closely match you across your film ratings and averaged those out.
I wish imdb or someone would do an alohorithim, which compared people's scores who have rated films similar to you.
So rather than seeing everyone's average rating. It found the several hundred people with scores that closely match you across your film ratings and averaged those out.
Caporegime
Like a "You liked film X, why not try film Y" thing? That's what Netflix' algorithm is all about.
Exactly.
Although not sure how Netflix one works, but it doesn't seem to be very good. But rather than going you may like this, just show the average rating from similar users.
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if anyone asks me what is the best horror i have seen, i always say event horizon, i has never left my mind that fil, so disturbing, but great film
Caporegime
The Netflix algorithm isn't concerned with genre, which I think throws some people off. It's only concerned with which films people liked. So it looks for any patterns in what people like. The example that I read or is that people who like Silence of the Lambs more often that not also like The Wizard of Oz. So if you rate one it wil likely recommend the other. Wildly different films, but the algorithm doesn't care.
Caporegime
I know this reply is old now, but apparently it's not that hard to conclude otherwise
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