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How did I overlook this movie for 20 years?

posted 5 years ago by LTUM (975)
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Saw it last night for the first time. Never even HEARD of the title until a few days ago when Taylor Sheridan mentioned it in a youtube interview.

Loved it. Thought it was very well done. I was really impressed by the sets. Some of the CGI is a little rough in places, but for the time it was a very high production value film IMO. And I thought the story was also excellent. Well done screenplay that zips along with little downtime. Chugs rigth along until the explosive ending.

Yep I liked it. Still not sure how I missed this one for two whole decades. Makes me wonder which others I've missed. Hmmmm

[–] NorrinRad (5022) 5 years ago

Yep I liked it. Still not sure how I missed this one for two whole decades. Makes me wonder which others I've missed. Hmmmm

Sphere?

[–] LTUM (975) 5 years ago

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[–] NorrinRad (5022) 5 years ago

Preface: I read the book prior to the movie being released and thoroughly enjoyed the book. As most book to movies go; in this case the book was much better but I still enjoyed the film only because of reading the book.

Dustin Hoffman
Sharon Stone
Samuel L. Jackson
Live Shreiber
Peter Coyote

Pretty good cast also.

[–] LTUM (975) 5 years ago

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Sphere was disappointing, I heard. The book is good though.

[–] TandyMan (10364) 5 years ago

Sphere is a bit more rewarding after you watch it a few times. Just never quite lives up to how cool the ideas are.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 4 years ago

Sphere is terrible. Sour directing and disjointed script. 3/10

Event Horizon starts 9/10 but kills itself with tiresome horror tropes and ends up a 6/10 movie with its cool concept still intact.

[–] Threadkiller (2952) 5 years ago

No way! We have to talk about it! We have to talk about every scene man! Hey, remember when Jack Noseworthy's eyes explode, wasn't that awesome!? Please agree with me that that was awesome!

[–] LTUM (975) 5 years ago

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[–] Threadkiller (2952) 5 years ago

https://youtu.be/tomXYk64dCs

[–] LTUM (975) 5 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Glad you found it. I saw this at the cinema when it came out and it had the most BONE CRASHING sound system so I was very unnerved. It's a genre classic, I've seen it many, many times of the last 20 years, defo Paul WS Anderson's finest.

[–] LTUM (975) 5 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

In fact it was Anderson's first ever feature and you have to wonder how he managed it given the variable quality of every film he's directed since.

I think it was a box office failure but it's one of those that has attained almost legendary cult status over the years.

[–] Scape (504) 5 years ago

Only guess for how well this film turned out compared to everything Anderson made after would be that since it was his first studio film - the studio, producers, etc.. were more than likely heavily involved with every aspect of the film.

Studio interference usually makes a film worse, but when it came to Paul Anderson it definitely helped.

[–] LTUM (975) 5 years ago

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[–] TandyMan (10364) 5 years ago

Event Horizon got chucked right into the forgotten movie bin that somehow still alludes cult status. Not sure why. Bloody brilliant horror film. I think the scifi premise is just too unrelateable to casual horror fans. And the supernatural element is too weird for scifi fans who prefer aliens and monsters. It's super niche.

[–] LTUM (975) 5 years ago

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[–] TandyMan (10364) 5 years ago

It was a couple years before Matrix. Fishburne was certainly a big actor already, but he hadn't blown up super huge yet. Same as with that movie Equilibrium, cool scifi flick Christian Bale made just a few years before he was Batman. Lot of folks never heard of that either.

[–] LTUM (975) 5 years ago

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[–] BigWorm (683) 5 years ago

At the time it came out, it wasn’t that well received. The general feeling was that it set its mood well and had a good story but the execution was wanting, along with Sam Neil hamming it up.

A fun fact for you, that scene that ends with ‘we’re leaving.’, was originally much longer with more detail. They hired amputees and fixed body parts to them to tear off. It was never getting past the censor so it got cut to what we all saw and the footage was lost unfortunately.

As for other gems you may have missed(but probably didn’t) around the same time,

Cube.
In the mouth of madness.

[–] TandyMan (10364) 5 years ago

Yeah, the story about the lost cut of Event Horizon is very frustrating. Along with the old legend there's one lone producer around who still has a copy and screens it for his buddies at parties you'll never be invited too.

[–] LTUM (975) 5 years ago

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[–] tmoldovan (35) 4 years ago

Definitely the Cube. even the sequels are OK.

[–] redban (5202) 4 years ago

Agree. I stumbled on this film on Netflix. I figured it would be a dud, as there would be a reason I had never heard of it. But it turned out to be good.