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This movie really creeped me out (spoilers)

posted 5 years ago by tph890 (484)
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Not even kidding. It was just so dark, so ominous in tone, and that freaking alien was simply relentless. This is the kind of shit claustrophobic stress nightmares are made of. Glad I didn’t watch it at night. Still freaked out by that last image of poor jake gyllenhall covered in alien, still alive. I mean, either fate would have been horrible—landing on earth or drifting through space—and basically everybody got fucked up in this movie, but damn that final image made my skin crawl.

This is now one of my favorite space horror flicks.

[–] Ace_Spade (9367) 4 years ago

I thought it was basically just Alien, but not as good.

And the relentlessness of Calvin kinda bugged me. From the start I felt like the ISS team didn't stand a chance, so when they don't I basically go...yeah...I figured you'd all die. In Alien, I got the feeling that the crew of the Nostromo had a 1% chance of winning. That jacks up the tension because I don't feel like they're just doomed from the get-go.

Maybe that's not fair - Alien's one of the best films ever made - but that is how I feel about it. Life was good, but it was a bit predictable and went back over a lot of ground covered in Alien.

[–] tph890 (484) 4 years ago

This was definitely derivative of ‘Alien’, and I even got that feeling from the trailers, which is why I didn’t see it in the theaters. But I happened to catch it on TV one morning and was pleasantly surprised (and unpleasantly creeped out, haha). I feel that the plot also borrowed some elements from ‘The Thing’, because one of their goals was to not let the creature loose into the world—that sense of forced isolation and desperation was there.
So in a couple of ways, yes, a very derivative movie. But I seriously did not expect such a bleak ending. I think that’s one thing they definitely got right. No ambiguity—the Creature is let loose and the planet is doomed.
Also, I became really invested in the characters, and felt bad when they met their awful fates. I mean, one dude was slowly being eaten alive for a portion of the movie. Pretty dark stuff. I think all the actors gave really good performances.

[–] Ace_Spade (9367) 4 years ago

I'm a big sci-fi fan, love Alien, so I thought I'd give this one a whirl. Maybe (as I said) it's not fair to compare since Alien is such a high water mark. But if you were just flipping around, just gave it a shot...yeah, it's pretty good.

I don't want to come across too negatively; it is a really good movie.

For positives, I agree: the performances are great, the atmosphere is great, and there's a lot of tension and claustrophobia.

I didn't connect as much with the characters. I liked the Japanese guy (Sho?) mostly because of the new dad thing, but I didn't feel like I really "knew" any of them. Reynolds was playing his stock Reynolds character. Even the new dad I didn't think got mentioned enough.

I really liked the scene where Reynolds and the Russian chick chewed out the scientist guy for his lack of precaution. That scene felt fresh.

The bleak ending was good, but I really didn't like the "ol' switcheroo" they played with the pods, or tried to play. Never for a moment did I doubt which pod was going where, and I felt a little condescended to with the chosen angles. It felt really obvious to me, and that felt a bit cheap. If they had just allowed the inevitability of the situation to set in and claw all over the viewer, that would have embraced their chosen ending instead of doing some kind of attempt at a fake out.

But, yeah, overall, it was a solid flick.

[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

Alien is many times batter.

That's because they went into the alien's physiology and that's why were were dangerous to even try to kill. However, you could still kill it.

This film had what looked like a squid with soft flesh, but nothing hurt it. It's out in space when cosmic rays, super cold, no humidity so space would suck the water right out of you, and it ate people, so it was made out of the same chemicals as us. Meanwhile, when it starts getting cold in the spaceship, it wants to hug a heat source, but is okay running around in space?

It was a poorly thought out idea, but relatively fun.

[–] Ace_Spade (9367) 4 years ago

Going into the physiology is exactly it: we need to know the rules for the world to have real consequences.

[–] brux (14666) 4 years ago

It was so fake in how it relied on every one of the relentlessly trained astronauts and brilliantly educated scientists doing the most stupid thing possible again and again. It is insulting to my intelligence at least.