Originally Posted by Thunderbolt (Post 2348410)
Close the curtains, turn off the lights, crank up the sound. Event Horizon is more lightly to make you s”*# your pants. This gets my vote.
Saw it in a theater in '97 and must confess that it did give a scare. Whoever made a greater sacrifice than Captain S.J. Miller? |
Originally Posted by Wooley (Post 2348312)
Damn, now I wish I had actually finished Ghost Ship so I could comment on this.
No, no you don't. |
Ok, i'm having a panic attack.
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I suggest avoiding both and take in Deep Rising instead.
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Re: Ghost Ship (2002) vs. Event Horizon (1997)
I vote Event Horizon even though it could've been so much more.
Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 1434707)
Event Horizon...The concept of a long lost star ship reappearing after it had mysteriously disappeared into a black hole apparently having traveled to another dimension, which might be Hell...and then, bringing something back from that dark evil place, is a cool idea!
But I wish they would have explored the concept of what Hell was like and how it manifested itself on the ship in more detail. This could have had some deep existential ideas and explored some unique concepts. Instead we get a fun-horror-gore movie with people dying in gruesome ways. Event Horizon could have been so much more... |
Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 2348473)
But I wish they would have explored the concept of what Hell was like and how it manifested itself on the ship in more detail. This could have had some deep existential ideas and explored some unique concepts
Tonight on COSMOS. Hell. What would it really mean? What would it really be like? Join our round table discussion with Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Lawrence Kraus, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Or as a church bulletin once put it in the notices read just after services -- "Please join us next Sunday for Pastor Johnson's sermon, Do you know what hell is? Come and listen to the organist play after church." |
Originally Posted by Corax (Post 2348483)
Tonight on COSMOS. Hell. What would it really mean? What would it really be like? Join our round table discussion with Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Lawrence Kraus, and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Or as a church bulletin once put it in the notices read just after services -- "Please join us next Sunday for Pastor Johnson's sermon, Do you know what hell is? Come and listen to the organist play after church." I like this: the crew of the Event Horizon went bonkers because during their visit to Hell they seen a truth there that drove them to murderous rampage. |
The concept of Event Horizon is probably worthy of being revisited, but this time put in the hands of someone who isn't as ostentatiously awful as Anderson. Considering all of the reboots they do that are completely unnecessary since the originals are good enough to stand on their own, doing one for Event Horizon would actually make sense. Just make it less sucky and it should be raring to go.
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Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 2348484)
Easy, traditional and boring as film makers often go for low hanging fruit.
I like this: the crew of the Event Horizon went bonkers because during their visit to Hell they seen a truth there that drove them to murderous rampage. That sort of thing. is hard to write and even harder to capture as visceral horror. What truth could we learn which would provoke such a response in our crew? A vision of Season 8 of Game of Thrones? |
Originally Posted by Corax (Post 2348487)
That sort of thing. is hard to write and even harder to capture as visceral horror. What truth could we learn which would provoke such a response in our crew? A vision of Season 8 of Game of Thrones?
***Haven't seen Game of Thrones, so can't comment. |
Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 2348488)
***Haven't seen Game of Thrones, so can't comment.
It's tough. If you go too cerebral, you're making Solaris. Horror is not rational. Horror is an assault on rationality. It is the revenge of the R-complex, the idea that anything could be lurking just beyond the light of the campfire. The fire of our rationality now burns so brightly (in terms of our self-assurance at having explained, in principle, almost everything), that this film defeats us by having us imagine that something dark could be on the other side of the boundary of our epistemic reality (the outside of the Event Horizon) -- the illumination of our best explanations. That's what I liked about Event Horizon--it was a kind of Eldritch Horror thing in the sense that it suggested that there may be horrors in the cosmos older than time and vaster than space, that there may still be a deep unknown out there. |
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