Event Horizon
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
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- Cast:
- Laurence Fishburne , Sam Neill , Kathleen Quinlan , Joely Richardson , Richard T. Jones , Jack Noseworthy , Jason Isaacs
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Crappy film
Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Great movie and outstanding acting. There are areas that you will be immersed in and then left wondering what happened with a previous portion of the set that wasn't there before. But yeah, definitely worth the watch. This makes my 3rd time watching. Be safe Papa Bear.
I didn't get to see this on the big screen, it was either on video or on TV that I first saw it, either way it was a TV edit for old squarer TVs, but the film was made in panoramic, so you lost more than half the film with a TV edit having to pan around the original footage to try to pick out the action. TV edits like that have too much poetic licence and too much of the fuller scenes are lost. You have to watch it in full panoramic to enjoy films like this. Now, with the much bigger HD widescreen TVs that people have, I'd encourage the doubters to watch this film again as it should be watched, in all its glory. Some films don't transfer well to the old square TVs as edits, but the TVs we have now do them justice. A lot of older films are worth watching again in Blu-ray on these new TVs. 2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are some other good examples, but Event Horizon also fares well with modern tech. Watch it as it should be watched, all of it, with none of the wider footage edited out because of screen size. The cinematography is excellent and the film itself stands up well, even today, after 20 years. Not many films can do that without seeming dated. It is much better than a lot of films that are released today. It was ahead of its time when it was released, it still is, and for me, it is a classic sci-fi film.
I sat through an hour of it and got bored with same old same old. I don't know if it turned into some blood gore fest, I really don't care. The story-line is leaden, the characters are uninteresting, I really hope they all died and the alien was worth waiting for. CGI, lighting, cinematography, NO I want a story that either grips me or draws me in, first 2 Aliens did that.
When I first saw this as a kid it frightened the absolute living sh*t out of me, and re-watching it 20 years later, I can still see why. Perhaps it is the echo of that fear I developed in my youth, but there is something incredibly unsettling about Event Horizon. Yes, the sci-fi side of things doesn't really add up, causing enormous continuity errors and goofs, and resulting in this half lost in space adventure / half inter-dimensional psychological horror really hitting the mark - for about only half of the time. The fact that there was a lost 130 minute cut of this 90 minute movie tells me that there was a lot more going on that we weren't filled in on. A recent journey through the revived Twin Peaks taught me that a deeper sense of satisfaction can be achieved by embracing and perpetuating mystery; that great things can come of events that raise more questions than they set out to solve, but here it still kinda feels like we are being cheated out of finding what truly lies behind that portal into the "hell" dimension. The lost cut is just that; lost, forever, and that bizarre story just adds to the intrigue around this contrasting movie. Maybe we don't need to find out what "hell" looks like...perhaps we are already there. A highly recommended 90s sci fi horror, give or take some terrible effects and over-use of the word "motherf*cker".