Event Horizon

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Summary: not the best, but open your minds!
Review: This isn't the best film ever made, of course, but many people seem to be missing the point. This is not supposed to be science fiction! It's fundamentally horror, and horror is a very different genre. People are comparing it with Alien. Well, that's not fair; Alien is a different kind of sci-fi/horror. For goodness' sake, it has a creature! Event Horizon doesn't have a creature, it has a place. It's a very psychological, thought-provoking sort of horror. I'd rank it in a similar vein with Lovecraft's stories of unfathomable realms beyond human comprehension.

I'm only giving it four stars because the screenplay could have had more to it; it seemed more like the writer had a good "concept" and then failed to flesh out the story more than was necessary to present his idea.

However, everybody else did exceptionally well with what they had.

The only thing I still don't understand is the choice of placing "Funky Sh*t" by Prodigy at the end credits. Why? It's a nice song, but seems to clash with the mood of the movie.

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Summary: worst movie i've ever seen, except for "the thin red line"
Review: It starts out promisingly but degenerates into little more than a blood bath soon. And I have a high tolerance for gore, and can watch dead alive with glee, but this kind of gruesomeness should at least be backed up with some story.

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Summary: The Shining Meets Alien.
Review: Well well well. One of the better science fiction/horror movies. I'm impressed -understatement-. Excellent cast; drop dead special effects, and, more importantly, a storyline which has the uncanny ability to suck the viewer into its intensely horrific world. Not a film for the faint hearted, Event Horizon crosses an advanced Alien look with Kubric's horror masterpiece The Shining to stupendous effect. This is a genuinly distrubing film which, though heavy on gory special effects will scare hell out of you when you watch it. One of the very few genuinly fightening films around.

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Summary: Interesting premise but bad film.
Review: Someone told me the premise of the film (without revealing too much - after watching the movie I discovered that the movie doesn't reveal much). I thought the premise was pretty original, but the screenplay was horrible. I don't know what the talented actors in this film were thinking. I mean the screenplay was down right hideous. And the special effects looked like they were computer generated. What bothered me the most was that there was to explanation at the end. I'm a big fan of ambiguity in films when it's appropriate (I hate films that tell you too much and end up insulting your intelligence), but trust me it doesn't work for this film. I don't recommend it.

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Summary: This movie surprised me...
Review: When I first rented Event Horizon I was convinced I probably would not enjoy it. But as I watched it was so drawn into the dark and mysterious plot that all my doubts were removed. The mastery of this movie is in its facinating theme. Mankind is always exploring new frontiers but there are some frontiers he was never ment to visit. The fast paced imagery was also very well done. Overall Event Horizon is a facinating, dark, sci-fi movie which every sci-fi fan should see, in my opinion. I don't want to give away the ending so I'll stop here.

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Summary: Confusing, Disturbing, and Blood-Filled. Don't Watch It.
Review: I really was hoping that I would like this movie, but I really didn't. When I rented Face/Off, which is a lot better, I got my hopes up when the preview came on. But the whole movie is a waste of time, and the stars' talent. And if you ask me, it really made Alien (a classic) look bad.

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Summary: MY STANDARD FOR BAD MOVIES
Review: My disappointment with this movie was increased by its waste of excellent production values and a talented cast. This movie has become the standard against which my friends and I measure bad movies. If we have just seen a stinker, the consensus is always, "Well, at least it wasn't as bad as Event Horizon."

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Summary: It's really, really bad.
Review: This film is one of the most idiotic attempts at sci-fi that I've ever endured. Frankly, if I wasn't basically a rather squeamish person, I'd have gnawed off my own leg, right there in the middle of the cinema. I now understand why the proprietors liberally scattered beartraps throughout the gallery.

Why don't I like it?

It's pretentious, factually incorrect (you don't orbit a world *inside* its atmosphere), and ultimately very predictable. It also dredges up one of the oldest saws in the bad sci-fi toolchest, to wit "Mess not with things ye do not understand, lest ye limbs turneth blue and falleth to the ground". If everyone thought like this, the world would contain nothing but superstitious troglodytes sacrificing sundry animals and other troglodytes in an ongoing attempt to appease various rocks.

This is a movie for lop-sided mouth-breathers.

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Summary: Good movie for those who aren't afraid to dream
Review: The first time I saw this movie, I walked out of the theater quite numb. The reality I was in had become very disturbed. It is very graphic and the dark overtones very convincing that you are also out on that ship deep in space many miles away from home. It really scared the Hell out of me. It took me two years before I could watch it again. This will become the next 'cult' classic. It will give you plenty to think about, especially if you have a background in Physics or Mathematics. Or just interested in science. This movie could be considered the "Hellraiser" for the sci-fi group. You dont watch a horror movie to be just entertained. You watch it to have the Sh_t scared out of you. And that's what this movie does. And does it well. For those of you who saw this movie and just didnt get it, stick with "Bambi" or "Titanic", Event Horizon will not only make your hairs stand on end, it will suck you in and spit you out so bad that you will always wonder about what might just be on the other side of your own reality, a true horror film that will be in every MIT dorm room DVD player for years to come.

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Summary: very real.thrilling and a little scary
Review: I think this is one of the best scientific movies,in the same category as pi and maybe alien sequel. maybe one of the best physics movie ever made.And of course also one of the best space time dimesional settings.TIME travel is real.movies like this brings up the subject of time travel.larry fishburne played a very good captain rolein this ship.EVENT HORIZON HAVING BEEN lost in time was to be search and rescued by the lewis and clark ship.No sooner have they docked in deep space than they started xperiencing space time activities.Instant vansihing,going thru space time dimensions,going thru a blk hole,the most massive and dense stuff in the universe .u name it, time travel all that stuff is here.The crew was kept in the dark by this physicist who know everything about the event horizon.They eventually conquered the evil aboared the event horizon and killed the physicist and made it safely home. very good movie.i suggest viewer discretion.just like pi.