Why does this get such low ratings? It's tense and cool and weird sci fi. What do you want?
Why does this get such low ratings? It's tense and cool and weird sci fi. What do you want?
I keep meaning to watch this.
and you will keep meaning to watch it
Where is it getting low ratings? You guys know you can start threads without bait, right?
Why does this get such low ratings?
Because critics have always hated Paul W.S. Anderson and his peculiar vision of filmmaking. He has a certain way of making films, even when he's producer instead of director, and critics have always found it disagreeable.
It got absolutely brutal critic reviews. That's just a fact. It was also a box office bomb.
Where is it getting low ratings?
Everywhere..? Review aggregation sites like Rottentomatoes and IMDB?
You guys know you can start threads without bait, right?
I've tried that. Nobody replies and it 404s in an hour.
nevermind it just 404s no matter what my bad
What do you want?
More Christian themes and The Holy Bible quotes.
It's overrated reddit slop just like its inspiration Event Horizon.
You have to understand, in the early 2000s you weren't allowed to make a movie that was fun or cool or good in its own way or you'd get universally panned by critics. The only critically acceptable movies were dramas with Meryl Streep or Hugh Grant or some shit and everything else was judged by the same metric.
It's really good you should watch it.
released in sep 2009
That was during peak woke. Any movie released during the Hussein presidency that didn't have some woke angle was shit on by a relatively new woke media apparatus that was only a few years old at that point.
Do it, faggot. It’s really good. Solid sci-fi horror
Oh fuck I like a Paul WS Anderson movie?
Well damn
I think it was like Sunshine and the last 10 or 20 minutes throws out all the cool buildup. All I remember is that I loved Pandorum but it's been over 10 years since I've seen it.
I remember liking it but I don't exactly remember the reveal. Were the troglodytes just devolved humans who had woken up from the pods long ago or were they native to the planet and got into the ship at some point in the he past?
that was kinda the obvious thing, the twist is that dennis quaid caused the entire situation and wakes up periodically to fucks things up then goes back into cryo sleep to repeat it later on
Oh, yeah I remember that but the other reveal in the end was that the ship is not actually in space, it has arrived long ago. I just don't remember if it had a clear mention of the cannibals’ origin. It could be just my head canon that they are actually not human at all and just snuck in into the ship treating it like a cave to live in and snack on pod people
pretty sure the dude doesn't realize the ship has landed, nobody does... he's just succumb to ocean madness
as predictable as a movie as it is with the "HUMANS ARE THE REAL MONSTERS" shit, it has cool setpieces and it's fun to watch.
in the early 2000s you weren't allowed to make a movie that was fun or cool or good in its own way
We haven't been allowed to make those in 20 years
It was the same in the 80's too. Remember how The Thing got called an "Alien ripoff"?
iirc they explain that the cannibals are the ship's crew that mutated due to this or that reason and they mutilate themselves due to the effects of pandorum, might also be proximity to the reactor or something I forget but it is explained
iirc they explain
They don't explain shit. There's half a dozen "reasons" given for everything in the form of various characters posturing, absolutely nothing is confirmed. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that you're mildly misinforming people if you say that anything was ever explained or confirmed.
Maybe seeing that it's never ever getting a sequel or remake of any kind we could pester the writer for an answer. Anyone want to boot up AOL and write an email?
is there ANY streaming service with this movie and/or Sunshine on it? Some kind of shudder-esque garbage for sci fi? I'd get a month or two of that and chew through the catalog
Just rewatch the movie. Everything is explained in it.
this was kino
Saw it recently. Liked it better than Event Horizon. Cool sci-fi concept. Great way to start waking up in suspended animation not knowing shit.
Best part was other dude getting the rude awakening. Imagine being in that position, not knowing shit. Holy fuck. Better horror than just 'muh gore' shit.
Underrated for sure.
Great movie.
Cannibals origin is put together over the course off the film starting with the warning not to drink the mutant juice water straight when you wake up. Obviously some of them did and along with time, fucked them up worse than others, like our boy who saw the warning and vomited it back up.
PROTIP: Cutscenes are worth watching, along with after credits scene that's kinda cool. You can imagine that a trilogy could play out pretty well.
Wow, I guess it was too subtle for some people, but he drinks the water when he wakes up, and presumably other people did and never saw/heeded the warning.
That shit is to drip fed or whatever to help you adapt to the new planet faster, but it's explicitly stated that the cannibals have 'adapted to the ship' instead.
Like evolution adapts you to the environment, which could mean getting smaller, like animals on isolated islands tend to be because less available food makes it harder to survive, (ie. In reality, something the size of King Kong or the Loch Ness Monster need a much larger environment with a massive food chain just to survive purely based on the amount of biomass they need to ingest).
Bad reviews existing doesn't make all reviews bad.
Also it't revisionism because the thing was always like by the public
that's why the matrix failed dumb fagot
It had nice beginning but then devolved into running and screaming. Boring. it's similar to that last alien movie, hurr sci-fu but actually we just run from monsters lol. How interesting.
I didn't mind since it has Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster and Antje Traue.
I just remember the ending with the pods made me happy but the majority of the film was kind of confusing