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Event Horizon (1997)
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I went to see Alien opening night not knowing anything about it. Not knowing what to expect adds to the experience.
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Even though Dusk Till Dawn was disjointed, it was a fantastic movie.
The vampire twist was kind of wild, but at least the action sequences during the last half of the movie were quality. The pacing, special effects and drama were all top notch. You felt for these characters. I remember feeling bad when Harvey Kietel died, and Clooney was awesome in this movie, having to show empathy for this family, yet also show loyalty to his brother. All the actors did a great job. (tarintino was a little creepy, but I guess that was the point)
As far as Event Horizon, I thought the actors did fine. How do you guys feel about Fishburne as an actor? He is very good IMO, but he just doesnt have much range. He does a fantastic job portraying suffering/sadness/pain (The matrix) , can also pull off the badass leader role. But he just seems like the same guy in every movie though.
The other black dudes comment after they wake up from cryo sleep was hilarious.
"Hey baby you want something hot and black in you?" "no? How about some coffee?"
The vampire twist was kind of wild, but at least the action sequences during the last half of the movie were quality. The pacing, special effects and drama were all top notch. You felt for these characters. I remember feeling bad when Harvey Kietel died, and Clooney was awesome in this movie, having to show empathy for this family, yet also show loyalty to his brother. All the actors did a great job. (tarintino was a little creepy, but I guess that was the point)
As far as Event Horizon, I thought the actors did fine. How do you guys feel about Fishburne as an actor? He is very good IMO, but he just doesnt have much range. He does a fantastic job portraying suffering/sadness/pain (The matrix) , can also pull off the badass leader role. But he just seems like the same guy in every movie though.
The other black dudes comment after they wake up from cryo sleep was hilarious.
"Hey baby you want something hot and black in you?" "no? How about some coffee?"
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Said earlier in this thread, but it's popular among warhammer 40k fan boys that most of this is fairly fitting for the lore to essentially be a 40k movie set before the imperium of man and essentially from the first attempts at travel thru the warp.
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Watched this movie for the first time out at a cabin we rented in the middle of nowhere for a family holiday probably 6 or 7 years ago.
This movie was fucked. Really regretted it. Honestly thought it still held up well. His wife essentially tormenting him, and the flash scenes scenes at random points. Just crazy.
Also love the whole Christian mythology shit. I think it's a big reason that the new Doom games draw me so much; What's the biggest baddest enemy of them all, well how about literal Hell? How dark & demented the psychology behind it can be is terrifying.
Frailty fucked me up as well when I was a teenager.
This movie was fucked. Really regretted it. Honestly thought it still held up well. His wife essentially tormenting him, and the flash scenes scenes at random points. Just crazy.
Also love the whole Christian mythology shit. I think it's a big reason that the new Doom games draw me so much; What's the biggest baddest enemy of them all, well how about literal Hell? How dark & demented the psychology behind it can be is terrifying.
Frailty fucked me up as well when I was a teenager.
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late reply. they take artistic freedom with most of their stuff, obviously but it pretty much all comes from established mythos. the "christian" stuff isn't actually christian, it's taken from a mish-mash of christian, jewish and catholic religious documents but it usually gets lumped into the same thing. for example, in the christian bible, the only named angels are michael, gabriel and lucifer. the book of Tobit (book in the catholic bible) mentions raphael. several jewish books mention Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael as being the 4 archangels.
in the early 1580's, a rennassaince man named john dee basically created the language of the angels, Enochian, which supernatural uses all the time. basically he says that he didn't create it, but that the angels communicated with that language, and even God created the world using enochian. He said that Adam and God spoke to each other in enochian and when Adam and Eve were banished from the garden, Adam forgot how to speak it. John Dee claimed to have "remembered" how to speak it due to a vision.
but like i said, they take artistic freedom with the lore. Castiel is a brand new angel, for example
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Sam Neil. Laurence Fishburne. Jason Isaacs.
Now go look at who is in all 13 of the Resident Evil movies.
Now go look at who is in all 13 of the Resident Evil movies.
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Any other recommended movies that are similar to this? I really like the "existential threat on the edge of space" vibe. Like the vaguely EH-esque Reavers in Firefly/Serenity which were by far the most interesting thing to me in that universe.
I've seen Event Horizon, Pandorum, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1977 version in particular), John Carpenter's The Thing, and Sunrise. I can go ahead and recommend Sunrise in particular as being an extremely good movie with some similarities to EH.
Any other suggestions? I think I heard Solaris (Clooney version) was a movie of this nature but I haven't checked it out because I've never seen Clooney in anything serious.
I've seen Event Horizon, Pandorum, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1977 version in particular), John Carpenter's The Thing, and Sunrise. I can go ahead and recommend Sunrise in particular as being an extremely good movie with some similarities to EH.
Any other suggestions? I think I heard Solaris (Clooney version) was a movie of this nature but I haven't checked it out because I've never seen Clooney in anything serious.
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You should try Alien (and alien 2). Pitch Black was pretty solid (although the Riddick sequels were not). Dark City is really good although a bit more matrix-y. Solaris was OK as far as I remember. Red Planet is also similar, but not as good. There's also Sphere, which is also kinda meh but similar. The Abyss.
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This movie does not get much hype but it is actually pretty descent. Have you seen "Prince of Darkness"? It has some of that weird "oh shit" vibe to it.
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All of these are decent, to really good. Recommend you check them out and watch the trailers and see if they peak your interest.
Annihilation- 2018 Natalie Portman
Life - 2017 Jake Gyllenhaal
Ex Machina- 2014 Oscar Isaac
Source Code- 2011 Jake Gyllenhaal
Moon- 2009 Sam Rockwell
Pitch Black- 2000 Vin Diesel
Annihilation- 2018 Natalie Portman
Life - 2017 Jake Gyllenhaal
Ex Machina- 2014 Oscar Isaac
Source Code- 2011 Jake Gyllenhaal
Moon- 2009 Sam Rockwell
Pitch Black- 2000 Vin Diesel
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