It was ok. Wasn't great but wasn't totally bad. There seems to be a moral to this story lol [SPOILER - highlight to read]: don't try to be the hero! Everyone of them died trying to be a hero instead of using common sense
Cliched, predictable, and silly as all hell. If you like clever science/space films, this isn't that. It's a monster/horror movie---in spaaaaace! But it's not scary. Like Deep Impact, The Core, and Alien all mashed into one.
The ending though... the ending was a bit of an up-tick.
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Well I saw this tonight and I found the experience quite frustrating, infuriating actually, the more I think about it...
I really liked the way this film was done as far as pacing, suspense, character development (for some characters at least). It's very well done and suspenseful. The problem that really had me and my friends really pissed off is the fact that the film paints itself as a relatively grounded science sci-fi premise, (for example I liked that [SPOILER - highlight to read]: all of the creatures cells are simultaneously muscle, nerve, and photoreceptors) but then the damn creature is un-fuc#ing killable, not with fire, not in the vacuum of space, not even with depriving it of oxygen. In fact there is a contradiction because at the beginning of the film they had to deprive it of oxygen to make it come back to life, but later on it's a big plot point that it requires oxygen. It certainly didn't seem to have any problems whatsoever hanging out outside the ship for quite some time actually. Indestructible villains are not scary because the realism goes out the window. That is why Alien is still a much better film.
So this is an infuriating film because I really liked the premise, but they fu#ked it up royally in the writing stages. That and the ending [SPOILER - highlight to read]: was kind of predictable and needed a little more, I didn't like it ending in the middle of a scene. That was annoying. So on the one hand it is kind of a fun film in the theater, some very nice visuals and [SPOILER - highlight to read]: cool creature design and awesome visual effects with some effective music and suspense, but too many goddamned annoying contradictions in the premise. An 8-year-old could see through the goofy plot holes in this film. I don't understand why they went to all this trouble for such a great looking film and one that actually works very well except for these stupid contradictions.
I wanted to like it so much, but the film starts off by inviting you to use your brain to set up the premise with some semi grounded science and then it tells you to shut that off, forget what you've already seen and heard, and suspend disbelief to conveniently set up some suspense scenes. [SPOILER - highlight to read]: The creature surviving outside the space station and simultaneously needing oxygen was f#cking stupid and ridiculous. I swear a mentally handicapped 8 year old wrote this film.
That ruined it for me. It's a shame, because otherwise it's extremely well done.
That being said, I avoided watching trailers very closely, so seeing it unfold was very, very cool.
The more you think about this movie the worse it gets. Why did the crippled guy not tell everyone it was on his leg. He would've seen it going up his trousers even if he didn't feel it. And if they drained all the oxygen out the room with the dead crippled guy in it then how did the Japanese guy come out his pod and fly straight through it to the airlock like nothing was wrong?
Alarm bells started wringing when they made the decision to do a Deep Blue Sea and kill off the biggest name actor in it first.
You guys really didn't think it was stupid AF that the thing didn't need oxygen one second and 5 minutes later they are luring it around the space station with oxygen?
Why did the crew think they could disable the creature by depriving it of oxygen? It spent a goodly while in the vacuum of outer space trying to get back in with nary any negative effect.
And why did the lifeboats only become a factor that got remembered at the 11th hour because Jake Gyllenhal was reading Goodnight Moon? Why wasn't that like the first thing that got brought up?
And why was a Soyuz rocket that was sent expressly to push the ISS away come equipped with a hatch that could be opened by someone inside the ISS?
And why does the movie think that a human's shoulders and grip strength are capable of withstanding the pull of a violently depressurized chamber into the vacuum of all of space?
Why is this movie so blech?
__________________ Recently Produced and Distributed Young but High-Ranking Political Figure of Royal Ancestry within the Modern American Town Affectionately Referred To as Bel-Air.
I thought it meant it could survive without oxygen for a while but not indefinitely. They were talking about how they had the opportunity to just lock it out in space and wait it out.
Anyways, this movie was pretty good. I enjoyed it. Great creature design, and great ending
If this thing had adapted the ability to survive in the vacuum of space it would be the dominant species of the universe.
But it's not just that, because to revive the thing at the beginning they dialed down the oxygen, remember? The movie was making shit up as it went along. They clearly had not thought things out beyond the core concept, but still decided to make the movie.
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Any movie where scientists/soldiers ignore every protocol for species interaction & quarantine I'm pretty much done with from the start. That was one of the dumbest tropes in Prometheus.
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i'll tollerate a lot of things, shitty writing, poor/lack of character development, bad cgi, etc., but the one thing i hate above all else is when a movie has no satisfying resolution.
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