They were trying to get to the decks to get control of ship (they mention this in the film). I like your reviews but that "prediction" sounds like BS.
Small tight knit crew who rely on each other, acting as a unit, having long histories together. The mission is to investigate another ship. Eventually they're returning to Earth. No colonists on board. These facts apply to Alien & Event Horizon - the two films Pandorum is constantly compared to - but not Pandorum. Throw in a tribe of mutated cannibals, lo-tech starting mechanisms (cranks), an amnesiac crew, a trip over a century long, the spaceship under an alien sea... Generic?
@OneDeviousBastard He's baked on the Zombie BS - The cannibals crafted weapons, clothing and rudimentary armour. The leader salutes the trio (Bower, Manh and Nadia) after their battle - holding back the horde while he raps his spear on a rail. When he faces Manh at the end he tosses him a weapon. Why? Because of honor and the fact that the child is watching. He's apparently teaching the young one the warrior ethic. All these actions are tribal, not the behavior of zombies or animalistic aliens.
Predictable? HA! I've can't remember a film that so many people "didn't get" so many bits of major plot - that's including people who have the audacity to review the movie. I applaud Victor for apparently seeing and understanding Pandorum. But his smug assertion that this film was predictable doesn't hold up. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he's not lying. So I'll offer that HE GUESSED correctly. BTW - Cung Le is speaking Vietnamese and Traue was speaking English from the start.
@raygoshay1400 Also she didn't really explain that the monsters were in fact the passengers, she was just conveying her THEORY on what she THOUGHT they were which was proven false by the end of the film. If they were really the passegers then that would mean that they were 900+ years old which is impossible...SURPRISE!!!
@MysticKalEl It was 800+ years of evolution over generations. The original passengers released were the ancestors of the tribal mutants seen in the film. The ship's genetic stimulator, cannibalism and lack of sunlight, along with eight centuries of inbreeding brought about such monstrosities... SURPRISE!!!
@MysticKalEl There's no lack of sources for the effects of lack of sunlight. Seeing as there were ample nutrient supplies for dormant humans, the problem of diet would be the absence of subtantial foodstuffs, namely high protein meat. Here's where the cannabalism comes in, thinning the population, allowing the supplies to last through subsequent generations. It's easy to see the inherent mutation scale going off the board.
I watched this movie. Its atmosphere made me absolutely sick because of its uneasiness. I guess it was because I had the most unusual feeling of being somehow in suspense and bored at the same time, as odd as that sounds. I guess it was due to it being so much like the "scifi channel originals" that I predicted it was going to end poorly with none of the plot points tied up.
I have to say that this review is spot on. I didn't feel like it was terrible, just as you said, but it was mediocre at best and it was certainly generic in its execution
About the only thing more predictable then that movie is you, Victor! I predict that in a few weeks, you shall be groveling at my feet, begging for mercy as I rain down one of the worst films in exsistance! MWAAAHAAAHAAA!!!
They were trying to get to the decks to get control of ship (they mention this in the film). I like your reviews but that "prediction" sounds like BS.
DevilMayhem666 4 months ago
Small tight knit crew who rely on each other, acting as a unit, having long histories together. The mission is to investigate another ship. Eventually they're returning to Earth. No colonists on board. These facts apply to Alien & Event Horizon - the two films Pandorum is constantly compared to - but not Pandorum. Throw in a tribe of mutated cannibals, lo-tech starting mechanisms (cranks), an amnesiac crew, a trip over a century long, the spaceship under an alien sea... Generic?
raygoshay1400 11 months ago
@OneDeviousBastard He's baked on the Zombie BS - The cannibals crafted weapons, clothing and rudimentary armour. The leader salutes the trio (Bower, Manh and Nadia) after their battle - holding back the horde while he raps his spear on a rail. When he faces Manh at the end he tosses him a weapon. Why? Because of honor and the fact that the child is watching. He's apparently teaching the young one the warrior ethic. All these actions are tribal, not the behavior of zombies or animalistic aliens.
raygoshay1400 11 months ago
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raygoshay1400 11 months ago
Predictable? HA! I've can't remember a film that so many people "didn't get" so many bits of major plot - that's including people who have the audacity to review the movie. I applaud Victor for apparently seeing and understanding Pandorum. But his smug assertion that this film was predictable doesn't hold up. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he's not lying. So I'll offer that HE GUESSED correctly. BTW - Cung Le is speaking Vietnamese and Traue was speaking English from the start.
raygoshay1400 1 year ago
@raygoshay1400 Also she didn't really explain that the monsters were in fact the passengers, she was just conveying her THEORY on what she THOUGHT they were which was proven false by the end of the film. If they were really the passegers then that would mean that they were 900+ years old which is impossible...SURPRISE!!!
MysticKalEl 5 months ago
@MysticKalEl It was 800+ years of evolution over generations. The original passengers released were the ancestors of the tribal mutants seen in the film. The ship's genetic stimulator, cannibalism and lack of sunlight, along with eight centuries of inbreeding brought about such monstrosities... SURPRISE!!!
raygoshay1400 5 months ago
@raygoshay1400 I've heard lack of sunlight makes your skin pale. Do you have a source for that?
MysticKalEl 5 months ago
@MysticKalEl There's no lack of sources for the effects of lack of sunlight. Seeing as there were ample nutrient supplies for dormant humans, the problem of diet would be the absence of subtantial foodstuffs, namely high protein meat. Here's where the cannabalism comes in, thinning the population, allowing the supplies to last through subsequent generations. It's easy to see the inherent mutation scale going off the board.
raygoshay1400 5 months ago
I watched this movie. Its atmosphere made me absolutely sick because of its uneasiness. I guess it was because I had the most unusual feeling of being somehow in suspense and bored at the same time, as odd as that sounds. I guess it was due to it being so much like the "scifi channel originals" that I predicted it was going to end poorly with none of the plot points tied up.
NutcaseUnleaded 1 year ago
I have to say that this review is spot on. I didn't feel like it was terrible, just as you said, but it was mediocre at best and it was certainly generic in its execution
good review victor.
yarealpoof 1 year ago
SUPRISE!
shedininja001 2 years ago
About the only thing more predictable then that movie is you, Victor! I predict that in a few weeks, you shall be groveling at my feet, begging for mercy as I rain down one of the worst films in exsistance! MWAAAHAAAHAAA!!!
poparena 2 years ago