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The human race began in Africa.
I'm glad they didn't pace it like Alien because that would have been too much similarity for me - I like newness and experimentation, even if it doesn't quite get there.
I find it interesting that a lot of people seemed to have trouble with the opening scene...it seems rather straightforward: the Engineer ingested a substance and seeded a world with the genetic material that eventually evolves in to humans.
God, Event Horizon was a real dog.
God, Event Horizon was a real dog.
I loved the first half as much as I hated the second half.
I loved the first half as much as I hated the second half.
(Example on par: An alien spacecraft collides with another spaceship in the atmosphere. One ship explodes, the other crashes and rolls. It's likely that the g-force and impacts alone would render any mortal being unconscious for at least a short period of time. It's also plausible that the infrastucture of the alien ship should be damaged and devastated from such a crash. Not only is the ship not apparently broken, but the alien commander somehow stays awake, immediately unbuckles himself, somehow quickly gets out of his ship, and then manages to know exactly what piece of flotsam to go to in order to track down the only human that happens to still be alive on the moon's surface, in record time!)
Well this sort of leap and [MENTION=7]Jennifer[/MENTION]'s autistic-level-nitpick-to-the-extreme complaint about g forces don't bother me too much. I'm imaginative enough to assume a creator-level intelligence can devise a suspended animation apparatus or successfully design something to mitigate acceleration changes in their spaceships. It's never a particular detail for me that drives me nuts so much as it's a break in common sense or nonsensical action/reaction situations.
You know what bothered me about this sequence? Absolutely none of that, it was David's warning. How does a detached head know what is going on to that degree?
That's amusing. I thought the questions it asked never moved out of adolescence, as the point for Ne is not just to ask questions but to explore them. You don't need to arrive at "The Answer" because often there is no "The Answer" and any answer reached will be partial if not contrived -- but it's the exploration that counts... and the film really did not explore questions, it just hinted at them and then dropped them.
It reminds me of Avatar. I told my daughter I LOVED it on the way out of the theatre. A few weeks later I was tepid on it. Now I would rather never see it again.
Also, the old man makeup was SO DISTRACTING. I was just waiting for him to become young because that's the only reason I could figure they would use a young actor for an old actor. Once he died I was just irritated that they made me watch that makeup that long.
It reminds me of Avatar. I told my daughter I LOVED it on the way out of the theatre. A few weeks later I was tepid on it. Now I would rather never see it again.
Also, the old man makeup was SO DISTRACTING. I was just waiting for him to become young because that's the only reason I could figure they would use a young actor for an old actor. Once he died I was just irritated that they made me watch that makeup that long.
I actually saw Avatar seven times in the theater.
Now that was just brilliant. You are getting what is actually the best part (only good part?) of Avatar that way.
James Cameron should stick to writing action scenes and science fiction dialogue, not love dialogue. As far as I'm concerned, that's all that was wrong with Titanic and Avatar.
The only two movies that were really, really worth the price of admission in 3D were Hugo and Final Destination 5.