Pandorum

Pauly
Pauly Posts: 4,519
edited March 2010 in Music & Movies
Great flick. Kept me on my toes the whole time. Im still kinda confused about how "they" were created. But i still give it 2 thumbs up overall.


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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited November 2009
    I forgot this came out... i'll have to pick it up today. :) Thanks for the reminder!
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited January 2010
    Just watched it. Good rental, at best. No real suspense, some ok gore and horror, no info on the "enemies" (don't want to give anything away). It was mildly entertaining but not one I'd ever need to see a second time.

    I'd give it a C+
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  • wutadumsn23
    wutadumsn23 Posts: 3,702
    edited January 2010
    concealer404 wrote: »
    I forgot this came out... i'll have to pick it up today. :) Thanks for the reminder!


    It actually was pushed back a few weeks or so. I went to Movie Gallery to get it the day it was supposed to come out and it wasn't there, the guy told me they didn't get any copies and probably wouldn't. Went to MG tonight and saw it sitting on the shelf, picked it up and Whiteout as well. Will check em out, seems to be mixed reviews.

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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited January 2010
    Gonna watch it tonight...maybe a few brews will help the movie a bit. :)
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited January 2010
    Knucklehead wrote: »
    Gonna watch it tonight...maybe a few brews will help the movie a bit. :)

    6:22 AM and you're thinking about beer.

    ATTABOY!

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  • wutadumsn23
    wutadumsn23 Posts: 3,702
    edited January 2010
    LOL, I'm getting ready to go have a few in about 30 minutes.

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  • danz1906
    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited January 2010
    Looks like a good rental.
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  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited January 2010
    Why is anyone confused as to how the enemies in this came about? They were pretty clear about it. Maybe if I put it in gray text, it'll be too hard to read to really spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it and others can drag their mouse over it. Let's see...

    Spoiler:
    The settlers aboard the ship were given drugs to speed up their evolution so that they could rapidly adapt to the conditions on the new planet once they arrived. However, because people were released into the ship and stuck there for hundreds of years, they adapted to that environment instead, quickly evolving into hunters. That's why the only normal people were those who had only been out of stasis for a brief time.
    End of spoiler.

    I thought it was an outstanding bit of horror, and the audio alone makes me glad I bought it. Talk about a brutally loud and enveloping mix!
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited January 2010
    I did get that, but if I remember, it was only a theory by the lead female character. Just her opinion on what might have happened.
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited January 2010
    Women are always right Ron, you should know this by now at your age!
    MrNightly wrote: »
    "Dr Dunn admitted that his research could also be interpreted as evidence that women are shallower than men. He said: "Let's face it - there's evidence to support it."
    mystik610 wrote: »
    Best Buy is for people who don't know any better. Magnolia is for people who don't know any better and have more money to spend.
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  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited January 2010
    Well... she was a scientist for a genetics lab... so maybe she had a little insight. Just throwing it out there! :)
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  • danz1906
    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited January 2010
    Pretty good on Blu-Ray,,,,,,,,,,,,Great Sound:p
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  • rallyshark
    rallyshark Posts: 417
    edited January 2010
    I was pleasantly surprised by this movie! It was actually pretty good. Seems like most of the movies I've watched lately were kinda blah, so this one was refreshing. Like others have said, the sound is pretty kick ****! I would have liked to see more after they "surfaced", but we can't have it all. It has good sequel potential though:) I would give it 3.95 stars:D
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  • wutadumsn23
    wutadumsn23 Posts: 3,702
    edited January 2010
    Just watched this one over the weekend, had to watch it on Regular D, the Blu Ray was gone. Wasn't the best movie I have ever seen, but was worth the rental.

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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited January 2010
    I liked it, I guess the beers did help:). Seriously though, Im not a big fan of the dark scenes continuously in a movie, but I guess that was part of the "feel" of the movie, Ill watch it again.
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  • hockeyboy
    hockeyboy Posts: 1,428
    edited March 2010
    I just picked this up on blu and watched it last night. In all we really enjoyed this movie. Also, that chick was super hot.
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    I saw it a few weeks back. While the plot is plausible, it will not make my "buy" list when the local "mom and pop" video store starts surplusing the extra new rental copies it buys and then sells to make room for new arrivals.
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  • MrNightly
    MrNightly Posts: 3,370
    edited March 2010
    Just finished this... I really enjoyed it. The eye candy girl made it even better... :D

    I totally agree that with being there for almost 1000 years, it made perfect sense how the evolution happened with the "creatures."

    I would watch again, and possibly buy from Wallyworld in the $5 bin.

    7 outta 10 for me.
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    Yea, I'd buy it from Wallyworld's $5 bin. To me it was a typical horror scifi film of folks running from the monsters and then they eventually defeat them ... with a couple of interesting twists of good guys that turned out to be nuts. The ending was a pleasant surprise and created the movie's saving grace.

    It is not on my re-rent list again, much less "buy" (unless I found it in the Wallyworld bin :D ).
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  • Ron Temple
    Ron Temple Posts: 3,212
    edited March 2010
    I liked it...pretty decent SciFi...no real holes in the plot or internal logic...good acting sold the suspense and angst...great pq/aq...watched it twice, once alone and once with the wife.

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  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited March 2010
    I revisited this a week or so ago, and it still holds up. IMHO, one of the better sci-fi flicks I've seen in a while... and OH, the sound! The closest experience to this in recent memory was the game Dead Space (which you should totally play if you have surround sound).
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    For anyone that is interested, my local video store has just made surplus rental DVDs of it for $10. Cost is the DVD, plus shipping. PM me if interested.
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  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited March 2010
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Pandorum is okay, but I did not like the lack of a decent explanation for the mutants. They were to convenient, and it would not have been that hard to explain them in the movie.

    But... they DID explain them. See my previous post with the gray text.
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  • Ron Temple
    Ron Temple Posts: 3,212
    edited March 2010
    kuntasensei wrote: »
    But... they DID explain them. See my previous post with the gray text.
    Yep, no question.

    Are spoiler tags not working? I tried, but it just showed up in text between the brackets.

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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    Ron Temple wrote: »
    Yep, no question.

    Are spoiler tags not working? I tried, but it just showed up in text between the brackets.

    His spoiler text show shows up a a very light gray font that is readable if you look closely at it on my PC. That seems reasonable.

    How do you invoke spoiler tags? :confused:
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  • Ron Temple
    Ron Temple Posts: 3,212
    edited March 2010
    Hillbilly61 wrote: »
    His spoiler text show shows up a a very light gray font that is readable if you look closely at it on my PC. That seems reasonable.

    How do you invoke spoiler tags? :confused:
    In every forum I've ever been a part of it's
    ...
    and hides your text in a spoiler box. It used to work here. I saw the grey'd out text and wondered why it wasn't in a box. Then I tried to put my own in and it didn't work.

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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    deleted.

    I didn't do it right.
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    Let's see:
    the ship was actually a submarine and was laying underneath Lake Michigan all along

    This is an untrue revelation of the movie's plot, but merely a spoiler issue test being discussed within the last couple of posts.
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    I still cannot get this to work right here. :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
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  • Ron Temple
    Ron Temple Posts: 3,212
    edited March 2010
    test

    test

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