Event Horizon

[Mog Elffoe]

Those two ideas ("High budget" and "B-movies") are mutually exclusive terms. B-movies, in general, have lousy budgets. Event Horizon had a $60 million budget. By way of comparison, Star Wars had a budget of approximately $33 million, adjusting for inflation.

Obviously I disagree with you, or I wouldn't have said it in the first place. Budget has nothing to do with whether a movie is *really* a 'B' film, or not and comparing the budget of a recent film to Star Wars is just silly. Stuff like the Mummy, Mummy Returns, the Indiana Jones flicks, and yes, even Star Wars are all really 'B' movies. Nowadays the idea of the 'B movie' is a film aesthetic. It's a 'feel' that the moviemakers are shooting for, and really doesn't have much to do with actual budget.

 

[jester47]

Sam Raimi is actually a good case study in this. He has the ability to make exactly the movie he wants, be it Evil Dead or Spider Man.

I like event horizon. Its just that I think the thing that throws me every time is that Weir shows up back in the ship. That seems to be a theme, that no matter how much the entity that is messing with everyone tries, physical law still applies. So where did the second Weir come from? I do not think that whoever it is is really Weir. I think it is carefully done so that there is one person overlooked. This is easy to do when you don't count the people at the beginning and don't keep track of who dies along the way.

see we have:

Weir (goes nust and gets sucked out into space)
Captain (gets self up)
2 girls (one jumps, other lives)
pilot (blown up)
medical dude (hung out to dry)
Repair dude (lives)
Dude in tank (lives)

And I think there is one more, in which case I think THAT is the person the captain confronts at the end. But then again I could be wrong...

Aaron.

 

[TiQuinn]

Pacing and just plain bad dialogue are what killed this movie. The best parts of the film are early on when the crew first boards the Event Horizon. At that point, the film doesn't go for quick jolts and cheap scares. It takes its time as the crew explores the ship and you just get this sense of foreboding. When you first see the spinning gravity drive...the scene just gives me chills. It's alien-looking, seemingly innocuous, but at the same time, demonic. And absolutely nothing has been thrown at the audience from the side of the screen to cause us to jump. If only they had kept it up, and let the suspense build.

But of course, it all goes to hell.

Nobody needs to be told that there is something seriously wrong with the ship, yet of course, the script has at least 3 or 4 different characters say it. When the crew starts to be bumped off, it happens quickly and predictably. Was their any doubt in anyone's mind that

Spoiler

as soon as Miller tells Weir that he plans on blowing up the Event Horizon, Weir is going to go insane, sabotage the ship, and start killing everyone

? I don't know...even the worst director in the world knows how to create a suspenseful build up. What they don't know is how to deliver effectively on that build up.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I always saw it as a Hellraiser type of movie.

 

[TracerBullet42]

Ugh, I hated this movie and found it to be incredibly boring. Can someone justify to me why he shoots the "non-threat" outside the window at the end? I just don't get it...it makes no sense to me whatever.

And then there was the line...(I'm paraphrasing)
"If you miss me, you'll kill us both."
"Who says I'll miss?"
"You've got no eyes, stupid!"

Ok, so it didn't go exactly like that...but I was saying "You've got no eyes, stupid!" when Dr. Weird was muttering his lines...

The movie was terribly disappointing. I'm a big sissy and easily scared by most movies. I had heard that this movie was terrifying, and I pschyed myself up to watch this and be creeped out...

Instead I was bored...so very, very bored. More bored than a 6 year old at a presidential debate...

Ok, I'm done now...but still disappointed in this flick.

 

[Tsyr]

Speaking up on the other side, I loved Event Horizon.

Am I the only one who thinks that there might have been more to Weir than was ever touched on? Someone else said that one you see the gravity drive, it seems alien and wrong somehow... And it really does. And Weir created it. Weir succumbs to the ship very quickly, and he never really seemed shocked by what he found onboard the ship at first.

 

[TracerBullet42]

Oh, and one more thing that bugged me in this movie...there was the room that had all the spikes, and no one got impaled on one...for shame.

 

[Aaron L]

Wouldn't that have been predictable and boring as well? I mean, everything ELSE supposedly was...

 

[TracerBullet42]

Wouldn't that have been predictable and boring as well? I mean, everything ELSE supposedly was...

Nope...it would have been something to look forward to...I thought, "Boy, this movie sure is boring, but at least someone will get impaled on one of those spikes..."

I'm sure that the movie isn't as bad as I think it is...I just had lofty expectations, and they came crashing down like a bowling ball on the top shelf of the closet...

 

[jester47]

Speaking up on the other side, I loved Event Horizon.

Am I the only one who thinks that there might have been more to Weir than was ever touched on? Someone else said that one you see the gravity drive, it seems alien and wrong somehow... And it really does. And Weir created it. Weir succumbs to the ship very quickly, and he never really seemed shocked by what he found onboard the ship at first.

Actually, I think you are right, because Weir's flashbacks are the most profound of anyone's. And we are not told when Weir's wife commits suicide. I would assume it was before he built the event horizon and so perhaps he was trying to access hell in order to be reunited with his wife. The only people with flashback problems seem to be those who have lost someone dear to them.

As for Weir not having eyes, he apparently does not need them, as he is blind when he rigs up the bomb on the Clark.

Aaron.