Netflix: Nightflyers

Participant

Participant

Participant

Caporegime
Joined
13 May 2003
Posts
34,520
Location
Warwickshire
- Looks just like Event Horizon
- Gets very mixed reviews
- I've not watched any of it yet but am considering it - what do people reckon?
 
It's nowhere near as good as Origin. There's just something off about it. Like above though, best watching it yourself and making your own mind up.
 
I watched about 10 minutes - it went from bad to worse and I had no interest in getting deeper into it. Funnily enough and completely coincidentally I flicked over from watching it to rewatching the Battlestar Galactica miniseries - which kind of emphasised it wasn't very good as they really nailed how you setup a scifi setting (generally speaking) with the opening sequence on the Galactica.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-k9KfkEc40

EDIT: Actually got a bit of time to kill this morning so will try and persist with the first episode but really not feeling it.
 
Rroff said:
coincidentally I flicked over from watching it to rewatching the Battlestar Galactica miniseries - which kind of emphasised it wasn't very good as they really nailed how you setup a scifi setting (generally speaking) with the opening sequence on the Galactica.
Click to expand...

Talk about coincidences, only last night I got the BSG Blu-ray boxset out and started watching it again.
 
Watched episode 1 it felt all over the place, with a bunch of fairly unlikable characters. Wondering if I should keep going.

Had a Dune vibe with the Britishness of it, that was one thing I quite liked.

Anyone persisted, thoughts?
 
Still not made it to the end of episode 1 - way too all over the place as you said and none of the characters work for me. Also I find the way in the same scene you have some high end visual effects but other parts look like the work of an amateur drama group distracting.
 
I am on episode 8 and its a bit meh.. Some of the usual silly scifi tropes and a general smattering of interesting and annoying characters.
 
Why has the teke guy got such a strong "come at me bruv" london accent when he's been locked up in a mountain most of his life? Absolutely breaks the immersion.

Only on episode 2 and struggling to continue.
 
I personally thought it was disappointing. It was over elaborate and pretty flimsy, definitely not my cup of tea.
 
Debranin gets exponentially annoying as the show progresses, the zoologist's mug is ugly as sin, and the 8 month timeskip in the middle comes across super lazy.

A big fat MEH.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Why has the teke guy got such a strong "come at me bruv" london accent when he's been locked up in a mountain most of his life? Absolutely breaks the immersion.

Only on episode 2 and struggling to continue.
Click to expand...

where does it say he was in a mountain his whole life?

i'm finding the acting is really poor but i like the concept. it's as if they had a really small budget to spend on the actors compared to game of thrones, etc.
 
Well I finished it last night... What a load of convoluted claptrap! It was almost as if someone had read the source material, smoked a load of weed, had a binge on a load of scifi and horror movies and TV such as Star Trek TNG, 2001, Event Horizon, Blade Runner and The Shining, then decided to write the show incorporating the most unlikeable characters in an incomprehensible mess..
 
ZXSpectrum said:
Well I finished it last night... What a load of convoluted claptrap! It was almost as if someone had read the source material, smoked a load of weed, had a binge on a load of scifi and horror movies and TV such as Star Trek TNG, 2001, Event Horizon, Blade Runner and The Shining, then decided to write the show incorporating the most unlikeable characters in an incomprehensible mess..
Click to expand...

Rian Johnson isn't executive producer by any chance? :p
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom