trailer break: ‘Pandorum’Take a break from work: watch a trailer... How do you think you would react if you knew the truth? Well, I’m guessing that the secret of this spaceship with the messed-up crew and the missing 60,000 passengers will turn out to be less thrilling and far more predictable than the filmmakers would like. Alien mutant zombie whatevers? *yawn* Whatever the reason for the existence of the alien mutant zombie whatevers, I bet this will feel like a 23-minute episode of The Twilight Zone stretched out to feature length by the addition of a whole bunch of long action set pieces that are meant to be exciting and will just feel like the umpeenth retread of Aliens. Big-budget “science fiction” movies these days make me think about Monty Python’s “cheese shop” sketch: it’s billed as a cheese shop, and the proprietor keeps insisting it is a cheese shop, but it’s entirely uncontaminated by cheese. Just as supposed SF movies these days are entirely uncontaminated by SF. Now, this may turn out not to be the case with this movie, but it’s being sold as if the movie doesn’t bother too much with SF, just with gore and things-that-go-bump scares and the whole and-then-there-were-none thing. Boring. Pandorum opens in the U.S. on September 25, and in the U.K. on October 2. support
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posted by JoshDM (Mon Sep 14 09, 4:36PM)
No. Alien mutant zombie S&M whatevers.
I blame the Resident Evil movie series (no the video game series) for this line of film drek.
posted by C. David Dent (Mon Sep 14 09, 4:56PM)
I think you have just hit on a core concept:
SyFy = no Sci Fi
This looks likes a Sunday Night SyFy Original.
posted by Bill (Mon Oct 05 09, 11:35PM)
"...I bet this will feel like a 23-minute episode of The Twilight Zone stretched out to feature length by the addition of a whole bunch of long action set pieces that are meant to be exciting and will just feel like the umpeenth retread of Aliens."-MAJ
You win. But this would have been a solid Twilight Zone episode. It was pretty muddled and when the answers to the questions finaly came, I was left scratching my head. Not "Babylon A.D." head scratching, but head scratching nonetheless. So I'm sitting here puzzling over wtf was actually going on and I'm not entirely bored or frustrated by the puzzle. In that respect it definitely exceeded my low expectations.
****SPOILERS****
Anyone have any thoughts on how to reconcile the big reveal with what came before it? If I saw what I think I saw, then the creatures only existed in the minds of the surviving crewmembers. Bower kills one as it tries to get at them on the bridge, but we see that he actually just smashes up some hoses and electronics, right? So, no creatures - just shared paranoia and delusions. Bower's two ninja-like companions (apparently named Nadia and Manh) were only ninja like in their minds? They were all suffering from this Pandorum dementia and their minds created both the creatures and the ninja skills to fight them off? I can dig that, but I could be way off.