Bricky! Man, this one is already bring the 40k fans out in force. Big thanks to you, Brother! I picked up 40k again in quarantine, and your Every 40k Faction video was my starting point. Great work. Great storytelling. You really helped me get caught up and back into the hobby.
This is the first time I've ever agreed with Jay and disagreed with Mike. I'm not even a horror movie fan - but I can recognize and appreciate an awesome Space Hell movie for what it is.
@@whatyoudo9773 I think lawrences fishburnes chair being wierd is probably the most baffling complaint about this movie or any movie, that ive ever heard
I think it was just an homage to Alien that wasn’t executed very well, i mean jesus those production designs are so unfitted for the whole gothic church/hellish torture chamber design of the rest of the space ship
@@AntLeonardi01 I thinks it's funny just because of how jarringly realistic it is. There's no "hey gang let's split up or investigate" it's just like "well what's say we skedaddle the fuck outta here and never look back"
11:57 - Weir wasn't on the maiden voyage of the Event Horizon. The reason he's crazy is because he's based his entire existence around this ship and got absolutely nothing in return for it. The world thinks it blew up on its maiden voyage, making it "one of the worst disasters in space history" which ruined his career. And his obsession over his work directly led to his wife's suicide, which he blames himself for. He has nothing left... until the ship returns and hints that he can be with Claire again "forever". That's why he's home!
I was scrolling down to see if anyone would argue against the absurd assumption that Weir was in the disastrous maiden voyage, and was like, "heyyy I recognize this name"! From Aesthetic Perfection. Nice. As for Weir, while I agree with you, I wonder if there was supposed to be some connection between the fact Claire committed suicide (considered an unforgivable sin) and Weir's possible hidden motives - maybe believing his wife was in Hell he designed the ship to try and reach her there? Maybe the maiden voyage was actually - unbeknownst to the crew - a test, and that's why he wasn't there? Perhaps also a reason for the ship design itself, as a place where a religious ritual should happen or something. I'm sorry if I'm saying something dumb -I watched the movie for the very first time just a few days ago and I'm still digesting it, so to speak!
@@Bloodyshinta1 well, that's disappointing. They did achieve an interesting aesthetic, however, it's a shame it doesn't have any deeper meaning. But thanks for the info anyway!
Anderson's illustrious career of terrible movies implies the directors cut would have been the same badly edited, scripted, paced, scored, lit, nonsensical garbage but with a longer running time. He's one of those incorrigible directors who somehow keeps getting work because some of his trash actually turned a profit.
@@mellowyello1478 I remember watching those movies as trash movies so I was actually hype for the last one I think. (The one where they are stuck on the roof of a prison or something?) But they somehow took it extremely seriously and that's where I lost my "cheesy boner" for the series
@@mellowyello1478 honestly, it's RE2 that I like as a "so bad it's actually good" movie. The first one was just kind of boring, but I definitely remember it well because it was my first "up past midnight watching an R rated movie without your parents knowing" movie.
Most of the deleted/lost footage is more back story to the characters which would have made the audience care a bit more when they get devoured by the ship.
Love how they see the video of the Event Horizon crew losing their minds and immediately Fishburne’s character goes “we’re leaving”. Refreshing to see a horror movie where they make a realistic decision, like, fuck that we’re not staying in this hellhole any longer than we have to
The fact that it succeeds as a comedic line means it unfortunately fails in this movie in the way the movie is constructed. As Mike and Jay point out every moment of comedy undercuts the premise.
Did we? Big Dead space fan but the team was inspired by Resident Evil 4, The Thing and a sequel to system shock which was initially the planned game I don't see the connection
Mike, actually lightning CAN occur in space. Nebula are large clouds of dust and other particulates. The particles can become charged and large electrical discharges can occur within huge nebulae out in the vastness of space. There is no requirement for an atmosphere in order for lightning to be formed.
Mike doesn't know anything about science, he repairs VCR's for a living and he can never seem to get them working so obviously space physics is beyond his comprehension, they should have asked Scientist Man for HIS opinion on that 🙄
@@DarkHelm78 It would preferably have to be CGI, or at least mostly. That or someone competent like Peter Jackson would have to fiddle around with forced perspective to do justice to space marines etc, and someone like Guillermo del Toro to design practical effects and monster stuff. It would also have to be R rated, so yeah, it most likely won't happen unless someone picks it up as a passion project. It would be really expensive to make, with a very limited target audience which is further limited by the R rating. Basically, it's almost guaranteed to lose money which means it won't happen. And that's the scenario where the movie turns out good. But who knows, maybe Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos likes WH40K...
WOAH WOAH WOAH!!! Let me get this perfectly straight: You comment something that is completely unrelated to the fact that I have two HAZARDOUSLY HOT girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest RU-vidr worldwide, it is really incredible. Yet you did not mention it at all. I am VERY disappointed, dear nate
As someone who loves sci-fi and cosmic horror, I think he's right. The concept is really cool but it's just executed terribly with regards to direction and story, it all just devolves into actors punching each other and other dumb action schlocky things like explosions instead of delving into the true horror of if a portal to a hell dimension was opened and what that would do to the mind.
The "I am home" comment doesn't imply Weir (Sam Neill) was on the maiden voyage. He was deeply involved in the ship's construction, which is why they brought him in the first place.
Yes, exactly. He was definitely corrupted by the ship when he got on it, because the entity or whatever you'd like to call it finds a weak point, a vulnerability in your psyche, and preys on it.
Always saw it as in he can be with his wife again, and there are other plausible explanations: never crossed my mind he already gone through the black hole. Too convoluted.
I mean, designs of some factories, spaceship, reactor, dams and the atmosphere they give off are simply creepy. Especially when turned off or when not in motion. I'm not trying to give a definite answer. But creepy spaceship, Sam Neil dialogs can be looked at as coincidental. Except for the latin inscriptions in the spaceship part though.
Right. This is one of those movies that more literal-minded people just don't get. I.e., "I don't understand. Why they did design the ship to look like a medieval torture device?"
I always interpreted Sam Neil's character as having put his whole life into the warp drive, to the point where is wife felt so alone she ended up killing herself. The emotional trauma of that makes him even more attached to his creation, and both these things make him more susceptible to Hellraiser Dimmension™ influence
'The crew gradually form a plan, and attempt to lure the alien into the going-out-in-space-room. But it is far too intelligent to be caught in such an obvious trap, and spends most of the afternoon lurking in the conservatory'
I need the longer uncut version. Lovecraftian material is hard to pull off but I still love it. Sam did this and In The Mouth of Madness close together and make for a great double feature.
You can see most of what was cut on RU-vid in low rez form. Very little of the blood orgy or visions from hell was actually cut. Most of what was cut were character related scenes and a few short moments early on. The gore being cut has been greatly overexagertated.
I love that Mike explains warp drive using Star Trek logic. I was waiting for someone to come in and say "Mike, let me tell you about Warhammer 40k warp travel..."
@@mabusestestament they rip a hole through hell and fly through it, using a tortured psychic to navigate and generate an energy shield that prevents demons from getting inside (most of the time) Even if you make it through, its entirely possible that you didn't quite end up 'where' or 'when' you intended
@@mabusestestament Doshka17 explained it pretty well. You travel through an immaterial hell protected by a "reality bubble" called a Gellar Field. If it fails, the ship and its crew get infested by the demons which live there.... Or just get torn to pieces.... Or sexed and tortured for eternity.... Depends on the type of demon that finds you first.
Have you rewatched it lately the shitty computer effects looks terrible, sound effects makes you laugh and Sam Neil's complete detachment from reality makes no sense
Yeah, I remember seeing an interview with producer Jeremy Bolt years ago where he said the studio was pretty much fighting with them the whole production. Making things really difficult for them to do their jobs the way they needed to.
@@aBoogivogi I bet when the estimated price was presented, everybody in the conference room looked at that bill like it was a piece of poop on the table.
@@aBoogivogi not really cause they would the original soundtrack, original foley voice screams from the actors, either liscence new sound effects or hire a foley guy to make new sound effects, then a new sound mixer
Sam made the ship. Sam neglected his wife while obsessing about the ship. She killed herself, the ship preys on his guilt and his need for the ship to have been 'worth it'.
It wasn't a Demon speaking Latin it was the ship's captain, even though he was posesed or whatever at the time. It was established, in the ship's log, that the captain could speak Latin as he gives an address in Latin prior to them activating the gravity drive.
Yeah, this exactly. He may have been on the ship, but only prior to its voyage. Although I don’t remember if they mention whether he intentionally designed it to “fail” or not.
@@billbadson7598 Weir absolutely did not design the drive to fail, he was a true believer. His wife's recent suicide was exploited by the corrupted ship to make him sabotage the Lewis And Clarke crew.
My read on Sam Neil's character is that he was never able to get past his wife's suicide, and, just like everyone else, the ship preyed on his trauma. The difference though is that he embraced it and let it twist him into a monster. I don't think the implication was that he was originally on the ship. "I am home" is not literal.
Yeah I figured the ship was already calling to him with space magic from the get go. He had those visions of his wife. It used him to lay a trap to everyone.
Not gonna lie, this was probably the first horror movie I watched that actually grabbed my attention and kept me interested. Oh, and as for Sam Neal’s character (Dr. Weir), he was never on the ship when it transited through the “hellverse”, but he was the chief designer and the black hole drive was essentially his brainchild.
yeah he was Heywood Floyd from 2010. He designed all the stuff in 2001 but didn't actually get onto that ship. Arthur C Clarke thought Floyd deserved better so made him the protagonist of the sequel (which was shit).
"Why is the demon speaking Latin?" It was the captain of the ship speaking Latin. They show another recording of him giving a Latin quote as they set off on the mission. Just was a language he knew.
He was speaking Latin because the dimension they reached was the Roman Catholic conceit of Hell. Watch the Critical Drinker's review. I usually like his takes, but the dude gets it completely wrong on this one.
I genuinely do love Mortal Kombat. To this day it still holds the high score on the video game adaptation film scoreboard(As low as that can be). It has fun action, an awesome soundtrack and several pitch perfect casting choices.
@@ZachFett RLM are so full of shit at times. MK is a bad movie, but it is relatively well done for a garbage movie. It's the same thing with the super mario movie, I was 30 when I first so it, zero nostalgia and I liked it for what it is. Very very creative...
I recently re-watched it and was surprised at how good the visuals are (well, sans the Reptile CGI). Every setting has a sort of creepy, decayed look to it that adds to the atmosphere. Also, the actors who played Kano and Johnny Cage were fantastic.
A spaceship orbiting a foggy planet. Crew in distress, personality changed. A rescue crew. Hallucinations. A supernatural being/world playing with people's fears, and an ending where we are not sure if anyone won. It's got so much similarities with *Solaris*.
Well... Solaris (the book, anyway - none of the films quite lived up to it) is a pretty deep reflection on the impossibility of communication and true understanding between vastly different forms of intelligence (there's no "playing with people's fears" - Solaris actually tries to satisfy people's _desires,_ it just doesn't understand humans, it's like zoologists playing animal noises back to them), while this is basically a flying medieval dungeon with buckets of blood and things that go boom. Edit: Also, while Lem did write a lot of (deliberately) very silly sci-fi, Solaris was one of his more "serious" books (he did know his physics and orbital mechanics), and nearly all the actual "space stuff" in Event Horizon is just nonsense.
@@RFC-3514 Not really. Most of what Event Horizon postulates about space travel is fairly accurate. Using gravity couches and stasis to overcome extreme g-forces, having limited oxygen, relying on CO2 scrubbers. Using Neptune's atmosphere as an analogue for a stormy night... Justin's over the top blood geyer when exposed to the vacuum isn't remotely accurate, but i'm not seeing "nonsense."
if you decouple a train, friction will slow down the engineless part and quickly separate the train cars. in space if you decouple the ship all the ship parts will just keep going. an explosion will push the different parts in different directions
I think Paul Thomas Anderson made Punch Drunk Love to show that he can make a better movie with Adam Sandler as the lead actor than any Paul WS Anderson film
Gotta note, the Earth scientists knew the recording was Latin. They thought it was "Liberate me" (save me). They got the actual recording from the ship itself. It was impossible to get the actual phrase (Liberate tute me ex infernis, save yourselves from Hell) until they got to the ship. Also, the captain, not the demon, was speaking Latin. Why? He was a Latin aficionado. They showed him toasting the crew in Latin before they warped.
@@anothercleverusername992 I doubt it's literally the Christian hell but just some fucked up alternate dimension that could be described as Hellish. Doubt the entities there would be speak an ancient European language.
I think there’s a GREAT movie buried deep inside the final product. A lot of the flaws Mike and Jay mentioned are legitimate, but my main problem was the pacing: it’s too quick. This should have been a much more quiet, suspenseful film and instead it feels sometimes like characters never stop talking. With a MUCH better director with the freedom to make it dark and slow, this could be a masterpiece.
Great comment. The comedic side characters are annoying, the plot holes are unavoidable but that's just surface level. This hands down goes to the core flaw of this movie. I still love this flick for what it is though
Possibly my favorite guilty pleasure, sometimes I even want to say its genuinely good. The fact that the movie is a total mess adds so much to the messines of the situation the characters are in. I enjoy it sometimes ironically, sometimes unironically.
@@Simon-yp7rv I wouldn’t say it’s a bad movie tho. It’s a messy movie with decent story idea. Like Jay said this is one of those movies that needs a remake with better writing.
The best part of this video is how all of Mike’s suggestions for improving this movie (“Put a kid in there!”) sound exactly like how Hollywood studio executives see a film they don’t understand and ruin it by incorporating plot points and characters from other movies you’ve seen.
Yeah, I feel like this is one of those movies that Mike made a conscious decision not to 'get' because he had a fundamental problem with the premise. After all, Mike's a pretty big Star Trek fan, he likes his science fiction. Blending horror and science fiction together is probably something that just doesn't sit right with him from the very start.
yeah but he's spit-balling, not orchestrating. He gives a simple suggestion on how to fix a gap in the text and expects the writer to come up with a way better way of fixing that gap, because that's what writers are good at. I'm not going to pretend everything Mike recommends would make the film better, but I also don't expect a critic to go out of his way to rewrite the entire script of a movie to implant the nuanced emotional core it needs.
@@tetryst I don't doubt that he didn't put a lot of thought into it. They're still bad ideas that would have made this movie immeasurably worse and less memorable had they been implemented. The issue is not that there is a legitimate gap in the text, it's that the movie is not for Mike. That doesn't mean his personal issues are objective, valid criticism.
I would like to remind everyone: John Carpenter's The Thing was both panned by critics and wasn't a box office hit when it originally came out, yet nowadays it is a Cult classic, and widely praised for its performances, oppressive paranoid atmosphere, minimalist music that fits the movie so well, and stunning special effects. Event Horizon is vindicated by history in the same manner.
@@steviegbcool nope... have you seen the horrible crap horror film made in the past decade?!? I ❤ The Thing with Kurt's sexy beard and bleak ending and Event Horizon was creepy enough to make me uncomfortable 😬 which is what good horror should do. Not be basic ass found footage films that are cheap and not scary!!!!
@@steviegbcool Idk man, I dont think its vindicated either, it has some serious issues with it, but at the same time, its a lot more interesting and enjoyable than a LOT of the horror genre, one of the least clever, most typecast, and boring genre's of film. There are SOOO many of them and most of them rely heavily on sound design, gore, revulsion and nonsense to be considered good. I can't say Event Horizon's attributes outweigh its flaws, but at least it isn't lame, its premise is interesting enough that I'm not just screaming at the screen the entire time for the characters to get the fuck outta there. It takes itself seriously, with a sort of military setting that also worked for Predator, even though it doesn't deliver on its characters and moments nearly as well. At least its not "The Purge" or some absolutely banal trash, people say Event Horizon doesn't make sense while the same critics and audiences are orgasming over that unrealistic stinker.
Correction: Mike hates every space-themed sci-fi that isn't Star Trek. He always talks about how he likes structure, the "we need to figure this out" scenarios of smart people applying their smarts and the "down-to-Earth" sci-fi. Yet he trashed absolutely every single movie with exact that premise they've ever reviewed or mentioned, sans for Annihilation (where he still complained about the very things he supposedly likes). Hacks and frauds, indeed.
My understanding is that the creators of Event Horizon were huge 40K fans; the script was intended as a part of the WH40K timeline but they failed to secure the rights from Games Workshop. The ship looks like a cathedral because that's how Imperial ships look, lots of religious imagery in 40k. Also in 40k FTL travel requires a ship passing through the "Warp" aka "realm of Chaos" which is basically Hell. If the shields fail, the ship could be attacked by demons, who live in the warp. The Latin, The roman numerals, the Gothic architecture, all of it because 40k.
Tarkovsky's Solaris (not Soderbergh's remake) is a much scarier film, as the contrast between the benign spaceship design filled with hallucinations works.
@@justwatching1980 you meant boredomer? want scary? watch tarkovsky outtakes where that idiot just tortures enemies between scenes of actually shooting his bullshit unmovies
solaris is a book also the author of that book hates that hack maybe not as much as the remake, he was quite vague in calling them apples and oranges of shit
I love at the end where Jay says that it's kind of fun sometimes to "go back and revisit something and see ..." Yeah. Almost like you're watching something again. Almost like you're re-viewing it. These boys are so special.
Mike: *explains the intricacies of FTL travel and how its represented in all these different Sci-Fi franchises* Also Mike: *calls an Airlock the “going out into space room”*
Well, he does compare it to Star Trek Enterprise from Star Wars. ...which is incorrect, because as sci-fi FTL travel goes, Startrek Enterprise from the Star Wars franchise is the polar opposite of the SS Event Horizon from the film Event Horizon
i found that kind of baffling too. maybe they filmed that part after having a few too many beers. or maybe his brain stopped caring since he didn't like this movie at all.
@@666FallenShadow Honestly just seemed like one of the things he says for Comedy because it's cringe and makes nerds upset on the internet. Pretty sure mixing and matching the two is one of his go to jokes.
Yeah. He literally says 'I built it' Then one of em says 'I can see why they sent YOU' He wanted the ship, his life's work, back. Especially given what it cost him. And the ship exploited the trauma of his wife's suicide (and that he pretty much caused it, indirectly) and used that to GET him. So by thr end, the ship has possessed him but it kinda backdoored in so he's more with it than Justin. All of this is pretty obvious if you just, y'know, WATCH THE MOVIE. They're funny as hell, but sometimes I wonder if these guys intentionally gloss over shit like this expressly for comedic purposes.
Uh.. What? Event Horizon was aiming to be a serious horror film. It was trying to be The Shining or The Haunting in space (From the director's own mouth.)
I mean i have to agree with the replies here, Event Horizon OBVIOUSLY took itself very seriously in its writing and shooting. Unfortunately it suffers pretty heavily from the "Big Production Studio" effect, where it looks like each scene was decided upon by commitee, so they often feel like totally different genres and have stark differences in quality and attention. Side cast was given too much time and were boring, main cast weren't developed enough to get invested in. Dr Weir was the closest to being a rounded character then gets suddenly and awkwardly shuffled out of the cast mid-movie. Shit like this which looks like it was some kind of fight between the director, actors, writers and cinamatographers all trying to compromise on what they thought would be good to include in their limited time. Which is why everyone pretty much universally agrees this woulda been a better TV show, because CLEARLY there were too many cooks in the kitchen for a 2 hour runtime, and it just ended with the audience getting 2 potato chips, one bite of pie, the bottom half of a cake, one leaf of lettuce and 5 peas, instead of a whole meal. It also explains why some people loved it and some people hated it with very little in between. If you're the kind of person who likes to fill in the blanks with your imagination in your media, this was probably a fun movie. If you're the kind of person who actually wants to get invested in your characters and plot, this movie was probably an awful shitshow. I think a TV show would have solved this, since all the characters would have got their time, the scenes would make more sense, and it would be much less rushed, plus you'd be more invested in the actual drama because you'd have more time to think about whats going on, instead of just having suspend your disbelief and going along with the nonsense rollercoaster. It wouldn't have been AMAZING, I think a lot of the characters needed a fundamental rework, and it needed a few more interesting elements, but I think as like, maybe a 10-episode Netflix style show, it would probably have been very very good.
The reason the Latin phrase is in there is because the captain of the event horizon speaks Latin in the pre-crazy log when they are setting off on the mission. Sets him up as the kind of grand-thinking guy who likes to drop Latin into everyday situations. That was a set up and pay off mike, pay attention!
It's one thing to not like a film or even hate it (that's everyone's prerogative) but for people so experienced in film criticism, there were a lot of things in this video that were just lazy by both of them given the film spells things out quite clearly. It's not trying to go out of its way to trick the viewer.
@@shan4680 yeah, I feel the word “perfunctory” tends to apply to some recent videos. Like something came across his desk and he was like “event horizon?! Fuck it!” Hack frauds etc ;) Even so, was a fun time.
@@shan4680 and I would say that's fine if they didn't present their subjective reaction to movies as objective truth. Like at the beginning, Jay goes on about how Mortal Kombat was terrible, how people only like it because of nostalgia, and that it's okay to not like something now that you liked as a kid. Yes, and it's also okay for other people to think a movie is good when you think it's bad. This is why Rich is my favorite. Zero pretention or film student energy.
@@janeeyre1990 also when they talk about the "dated techno music" when it's Prodigy. I know he wanted to make a parralel to the Mortal Kombat theme but it's like saying using Limp Bizkit at the end of your movie it's the same as using Deep Purple because both are rock/metal bands.
You guys were way off with Sam's character. He built the ship, it's his baby, which is why he calls it home. Wife killed herself because he spent to much time working on the ship, he never even hinted towards rezzing her. He just felt massive guilt. Ship plays on your worst fears, that's all.
This is basically the same thing I was going to say. The ship picked up some kind of malevolent force when it went to (for all intents and purposes) hell, and brought it back with it when it returned. That force seems to kind of lurch around the ship looking for a host, exposing people to their worst fears, and finding its designer to be the most suitable host.
That engine seems to be undoubtedly a reference to "Ezekiel's Wheel." Even including eye-like circles all over it. What's funny though is the actual biblical depiction is nothing like the artist renderings of it. He's basically describing a table with wheels -- a throne chariot. That throne chariot itself being a symbol of the skies; the stars being the "eyes" and the four animal faces corresponding to the ancient zodiac.
Sam Neill's character designed the Event Horizon. He was never onboard the ship when it went on it's maiden voyage. Sam Neill's character is very similar to Jack Torrance in The Shining, except that his wife committed suicide - so he felt guilty for her death. The captain of the Event Horizon knew Latin. He said "Ave, atque, vale" (Hail and farewell) before they engaged the warp engine - hence, why he said "Liberatis tutemet" (Save yourself) during the blood orgy scene in the final video log.
At the time Mortal Kombat was a groundbreaking film the way it relied so heavily on cg. That stuff was cool as hell and heralded a new era of filmmaking. Not that it was good lol
Man, when my dad took me and my 16-year-old friends to see this at an old theater in my hometown, we were all a little surprised at how much of a horror film it was. And all thought it was amazing. I still love it!
Jay said the same nonsense about Exorcist 2 and the demon "Pazuzu". It never occured to him on either occasion that the films were trying to convey that "hell" and "the devil" are actually just imperfect and cultural-specific interpretations of a greater evil that is far older than Christianity. Reducing the place that the Event Horizon visits to simply "hell" is a misunderstanding. "Hell" is just the imperfect concept that emerged when humans caught a glimpse of where the ship goes. Jay always gets this sort of thing the wrong way around, trying to force his own cultural perspective on to something broader.
Worth mentioning that the Captain of the Event Horizon speaks Latin when the ship is being launched, so they set up he spoke Latin. Unfortunately we can't fire anyone for that blunder.
@@whywhy8324 He is talking about the original Captain of the Event Horizon. He is shown in a video before the Event Horizon take off and he said something in latin (and I think the movie also implies he was a religious man), that's why he talks latin in the blood orgy video later on. This whole Re:View episode gave me WW1984 vibes. It seems they missed a few things.
@@alanpennie8013 Sure, they probably first thought about the spooky Latin phrase and then justified it. But is not a "demon from another dimension speaking Latin for no reason" like they tried to imply.
Man, I never interpreted Sam Neil's character as having been onboard the maiden voyage of the Event Horizon. The movie makes it clear it disappeared on the maiden voyage through the foldspace while the doctor was back on Earth. He's a touch mad at the start of the movie because of the suicide of his wife while he was a workaholic, amplified by the knowledge that all his hard work led to something strange happened to the ship and its crew. Doubly whammy of survivor's guilt... but I do have to say that it is an intriguing idea if he was secretly a survivor of the maiden voyage and was sent back unconsciously to lure more victims... but somehow I suspect that would be one ball of cheese too many.
We all know Mike would hate 40k or atleast suggest we go back to rogue trader days of everything being stupidly funny but not being condusive to books or narratives
It was great to hear your different takes on the movie. It's always been a favorite of mine, and I would be interested to see a reboot (done properly). The original atmosphere and design of the scenery and costumes really lend to the movie's flavor, along with the practical effects. I think it would be challenging for a reboot to tackle this aspect.
I'll defend the Latin thing. The implication is that these things from another dimension have been in contact with humans long enough that we share a language. That's the kind of cool Lovecraftian science-meets-mysticism that I absolutely love.
In the captain's log before the original crew make the jump he uses Latin, so it's not the demon or whatever using old language, it's that the captain who was possessed was into it.
@@BevandEdMusic it's ambiguous enough that your interpretation is just as valid. I always saw the first act and a half on cable, so I was really into that shit until I saw the lame way the movie ended
@@damiantirado9616 After a guy holding his eyeballs and a montage of intestine orgies, you expect the climax to build up to something even more shocking and visceral.
@@D0NTST4RT honestly I didn’t think any of that needed to happen. The reason they took their eyeballs was cause they went through hell. And some other crazy shit happened. Meanwhile the characters were following haven’t really gone through hell yet, but I can get why some people got disappointed.
He's not speaking Latin because he's possessed. They show the captain, before the event, speaking Latin to the camera made by the crew. The old captain knows Latin.
Jesus. Thank you. I'm listening to them like 'did you even watch the fucking movie'? Right before they jump, Captain is making the ship's log and says "Ave Atque Vale - Hail and farewell". Cause smart people like starship captains know latin. Whatever. The guy in the video is the mutilated captain. It's not brain rocketry.
@@stewmott3763 Maybe, but either way, the movie establishes the captain speaks Latin prior to the jump. Smart guys speaking Latin is just a general trope.
Every time i see the engine and the core, i can see how amazingly creative it is, how terrifying it is and yet i always have to ask “Why the hell did they build it like that?”
if you're just looking at the design in isolation, you can be like "Hey, Gothic madhouse aesthetic -nice!". but if you question for a second why the ship actually looks the way it does... it's not outrageous, it's just stupid. and not fun stupid.
True story: My dad used to work in a mental hospital for teens with various learning difficulties and behavioural problems. He and a few of the other staff organised a trip to take them to the cinema and picked Event Horizon, thinking for some reason that it would be a fun sci-fi film like Star Wars. My dad doesn't work at the mental hospital any more.
@@dallesamllhals9161 to be fair, it is a fairly misleading/misdirecting trailer. It does like a sci-fi action adventure with some Aliens elements, not just a straight up horror film
