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Post by kaliszewski on Mar 17, 2007 22:24:22 GMT -5
Just watched "Event Horizon." Saw it in the theatre way back when and had completely forgotten about it. An utter blocker-- even the vertigo-inducing opening shot of the space station in orbit over Earth. No debate about God or our place in the universe. Neptune instead of the sun. But.... I just watched "Event Horizon," and I'm thinking one word: Parallels. It'll be most interesting to crack that "Sunshine" book when it arrives....
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Post by paradox9 on Mar 19, 2007 17:53:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm noticing that when I describe at best what "Sunshine" is about, folks tend to say "like Event Horizon, right?" At which point, I shake my head and say "no." But yes, I'm seeing parallels too. Doesn't matter. EH was super excellent, and I have complete faith in Sunshine.
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Post by filmbuff on Mar 19, 2007 20:40:03 GMT -5
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Post by kaliszewski on Mar 20, 2007 12:56:01 GMT -5
We are liking "Sphere" very much, too. Thing is, I don't have faith in anything until I see it with my own two to four peepers. So I'm getting a hell of a kick out of the "Ain't It Cool" review that's been saying of our new not-for-USA-consumption film: "Kinda like 'Event Horizon' without the 'Event.'"
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Post by morrigan on Apr 16, 2007 17:41:52 GMT -5
Everyone I know who wants to criticise Sunshine mentions it being a lot like Event Horizon, but you know what? I watched Event Horizon again the other night and in my humble opinion it's TERRIBLE. Cheap shlock, naff acting and dire, DIRE scripting. Especially after seeing Sunshine, which may have one or two tiny parallels but is so far past it in terms of quality that it made EH look even worse.
Just my thoughts.
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Post by drwilliamweir on Apr 27, 2007 1:36:13 GMT -5
Everyone I know who wants to criticise Sunshine mentions it being a lot like Event Horizon, but you know what? I watched Event Horizon again the other night and in my humble opinion it's TERRIBLE. Cheap shlock, naff acting and dire, DIRE scripting. Especially after seeing Sunshine, which may have one or two tiny parallels but is so far past it in terms of quality that it made EH look even worse. Just my thoughts. yes, simply because: Sunshine = Event Horizon = but Event Horizon is more terrific, more gore, more violent, and more sci-fi than Sunshine i think !! and for me the screenplay is more interesting and original than Sunshine... but of course the action sequences from Event are really pathetic !! ...this film have two problems: first his director, the abominable useless Paul Anderson !! the second is Laurence Fishburn who don't have any credible place in this film i think !! but maybe Sunshine have push the button too hard when he have talk about a first ship lost seven years before and without warnings exactly like Event Horizon's baseline !!
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Post by morrigan on Apr 30, 2007 6:30:48 GMT -5
Some fair points in the hidden bit, but it's not quite as straightforward as Sunshine being British and Event Horizon being American - I'm not that jingoistic!
Being more gory and more violent doesn't necessarily make EH better, and as far as it being more "sci-fi" - I don't think I'd really agree with you there since the "sci" bit of Sunshine is meticulously researched and the "sci" bit of EH is - well, b****cks. Sam Neill's referring to a "black hole" being used for inter-space travel when what I presume he means is a "wormhole" is a prime example.
Totally with you on the director thing though...
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Post by kaliszewski on May 29, 2007 0:12:29 GMT -5
Leaving aside the science-- on both of 'em-- I picked up the EH 2-disc special edition, and I'm really re-grooving on the cast, the characters, and the production design. Doesn't hurt at all that Jason Isaacs is the "go-to guy" for every one of the featurettes, either. That opening shot-- looking through the space station, where Sam Neill's eating his cereal, all the way to Earth: I LOVE that. (And it, umm, looks most groovalicious on a thirty-year-old twenty-seven-inch RCA TV, too.) And the explosive decompression scene: very well done. I think where EH loses people is, yeah, with the gore. Too bad they ended up with the guy who helped design the prosthetics for the "Hellraiser" movies: not to smack "Hellraiser" 1 and 2, at least, but it didn't help that EH then ended up looking like "Hellraiser-- IN SPACE" about five years before "Hellraiser" DID go into space. Anyway.... Sam Neill? Larry Fishburne? Mr. Isaacs? And a great character turn from one of our last great character actors, Sean Pertwee? Count me in! (And their Pinbacker comes pre-installed.... )
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Post by Starshine on Aug 15, 2007 12:14:33 GMT -5
I think Event Horizen isnt a bad movie its definetly a good horror movie. Ok maybe it isnt a great scfi movie, Sunshine is in this aspect a lot of times better.
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Post by aroreiel on Aug 18, 2007 5:07:25 GMT -5
A horror film disguised as Sci Fi. What gets me is that people complaining about Sunshine reckon it's copying Event Horizon. As if EH is actually this masterpiece. Sorry, I just wasn't keen on this film at all.
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Post by neiru2012 on Aug 18, 2007 13:12:13 GMT -5
I remember watching Event Horizon in the theaters and really liking it (but I like horror movies). So I recently rented it again, and didn't think it was as great as I remember it being. Then I thought about it some more after re-watching it, and now I think I like it again, lol. In fact, I bought it! See, black holes and wormholes are my favorite things in science, and I think this movie poses a very intriguing question about them.
In terms of faster space travel, I think science thinks of wormholes like the physicist from this movie does: as a straightforward physical property and mathematical equation that can be utilized for human purposes. But what are they really? Where do they lead? Black holes can be thought of as absolute rips in the spacetime continuum. They are outside the known universe... hell, they are outside THE universe. Do we have any idea what we pass through in order to get to the other side of a wormhole? What is outside of our universe?
Personally, I think black holes lead to a place very similar to what's hypothesized in Event Horizon. Except I think of it as a good thing, lol. In fact, I'd probably want to go there. I don't think it's evil in and of itself, it just has terrifying effects on beings who are designed to exist on an entirely different set of physical and psychical laws. It is pure chaos (read: pure potentiality). At this point I'd refer back to mythologies around the world, nearly all of which describe a sea of absolute chaos, a primal darkness that the gods built our universe of light, order, and form on top of. Is this what known spacetime drifts on? Is this where our deities and demons reside?
Just some thoughts, heh.
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Post by infectusguy on Dec 14, 2007 19:09:22 GMT -5
Event Horizon is kinda like my "standard" for sci-fi movies, if someone says a film is like EH i'll check it out and most likely love it. I'm not a massive horror fan as such, but being a death metaller its kind of ingrained, so add it with a little sci-fi and you've got my full attention. Speaking of death metal, if EH ever needed a heavy soundtrack, this was it- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informis_Infinitas_Inhumanitas
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