Pandorum

[FireCaptain4]

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Release Date: September 25th, 2009

Tagline: Don't fear the end of the world. Fear what happens next.

Plot/Synopsis: Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It’s pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can’t remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission?

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With Lt. Payton (Quaid) staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower (Foster) ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft’s shocking, deadly secrets are revealed…and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le, Eddie Rouse, Norman Reedus, Niels-Bruno Schmidt

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Official Website: http://www.pandorummovie.com/

Trailer(s): http://www.pandorummovie.com/

Rating: Rated R for strong horror violence and language.

Runtime: 106 min. (1 hr. 46 min.)

I know, I know. I'm one of the only Schmoes on the board even vaguely looking forward to this one, but I'll be seeing it. Sci-fi/horror is one of my favorite genres (John Carpenter's The Thing, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Event Horizon, etc.), so I'm delving into it regardless.

Schmoes/Schmoettes, what say you?!

[sbunn10]

Eh... could be awesome, but the majority of these flicks end up being bad. I probably won't go see it in the theaters unless it gets good reviews, or if my friends want to go...and they won't.

[Bourne101]

Loved the first teaser, but the more that has been revealed, the less interested I have become. I'll probably pass.

[CyclicNightmare]

Looks........... unoriginal.

[Smiert Spionam]

Loved the first teaser, but the more that has been revealed, the less interested I have become. I'll probably pass.

Same. However, I do think Ben Foster is the shit and a definite star in the making, but I'll probably just end up NetFlixing this one...

[ToddRH]

Sounds like a typical "Space" video game and actually the first time I saw the poster I thought it was a game cover. It should be Quaid venturing through the ship with Foster talking him through it. IMO (check the thread I started awhile ago re: Foster), the only good thing about Foster is his voice.

[echo_bravo]

I'll be seeing this cause I am a sucker for sci-fi/alien type films but can someone tell me what the hell is going on in the poster??? I have been staring at it for awhile and still dont know what the fuck I am looking at.:confused:
haha

[Cop No. 633]

Are you referring to the poster at the top? That poster is of the monsters on the ship that shed their skin.

I'm betting that those monsters are what the people in the ship are turning into.

[LordSimen]

I'm freakin' psyched for this! :D

[Tweek]

I'll be seeing this cause I am a sucker for sci-fi/alien type films but can someone tell me what the hell is going on in the poster??? I have been staring at it for awhile and still dont know what the fuck I am looking at.:confused:
haha

It does look a little abstract but it's probably what CosmicPuppet said.

[razgriz21]

The spiritual sequel to Event Horizon?

I'd catch a week day matinee.

[Preston_79]

I'm excited to see this Friday. I have faith in Ben Foster. I'd like to say the same for Dennis Quaid, but then I saw the trailer for Legion and my heart sank just a little.

This is my most anticipated movie of the month, no doubt.

[FireCaptain4]

Well, as far as the poster goes: I was reading the boards of imdb awhile back and many were claiming that this movie was about (***Potentially Big Spoilers***) vampires in space. If you've seen Guillermo del Torro's Cronos, then this may be a clue that Pandorum was attempting the same thing. In Cronos, when you become a vampire, you start shedding skin--your human skin--and turn into a more insectile-like creature(***End Potential Spoilers***). However, over the past couple weeks, it seems these creatures are something else, so I have no idea.

[Venus Venusia]

I have little faith in movies that star Dennis Quaid nowadays. I might catch this film one day on dvd, but I personally believe the trailers show WAY too much.

[optimusprime24]

I'm looking forward to it too.

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Release Date: September 25th, 2009

Tagline: Don't fear the end of the world. Fear what happens next.

Plot/Synopsis: Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It’s pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can’t remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qLLYFudPAIw/SmqoxfkDGPI/AAAAAAAAADQ/6CF19PBP8H0/s400/Pandorum-Dennis-Quaid.jpg

With Lt. Payton (Quaid) staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower (Foster) ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft’s shocking, deadly secrets are revealed…and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le, Eddie Rouse, Norman Reedus, Niels-Bruno Schmidt

http://twilightguide.com/tg/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/1130.jpg

Official Website: http://www.pandorummovie.com/

Trailer(s): http://www.pandorummovie.com/

Rating: Rated R for strong horror violence and language.

Runtime: 106 min. (1 hr. 46 min.)

I know, I know. I'm one of the only Schmoes on the board even vaguely looking forward to this one, but I'll be seeing it. Sci-fi/horror is one of my favorite genres (John Carpenter's The Thing, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Event Horizon, etc.), so I'm delving into it regardless.

Schmoes/Schmoettes, what say you?!

[FireCaptain4]

The review on the front page... yeah. "Unintentionally funny?" Whew. I'm still going to see it, but now I'm properly shook up.

[Bourne101]

optimusprime24, why did you quote the entire first post?

[Jig Saw 123]

Can't say I'm excited to see this in the slightest. It looked rather promising before the second trailer came out and introduced fighting monsters and more people aboard the ship.

[Smiert Spionam]

optimusprime24, why did you quote the entire first post?

'Cuz here's new here.

Can't say I'm excited to see this in the slightest. It looked rather promising before the second trailer came out and introduced fighting monsters and more people aboard the ship.

True shit. I was waaaay more intrigued when I thought it was just gonna be them. I was willing to sacrifice my hate for most things Quaid for my love of all things Foster, but alas...

[john_rambo]

Dennis Quaid is a god among men. I want to see this.

[BankaiZaraki]

Saw it tonight. Highly fucking enjoyed it. Seriously..best Sci-Fi film I've ever seen.

[jbar1026]

pandorum 8.5/10

i really liked this move. it starts off a bit slow but once it gets going it dosnt stop till the end. the monsters do kinda look like the things from the decent but it dosnt hurt the story or effect it in anyway. also who ever the writer was that thought up the crank up work station is a genius. ive never seen that before. i

thats 3 great sci fi movies this year with star trek 9/10, district 9 8/10 and now pandorum. if you like sci fi see this movie you wont be disapointed

[razgriz21]

Saw it tonight. Highly fucking enjoyed it. Seriously..best Sci-Fi film I've ever seen.

I may need to see it Monday.

[FireCaptain4]

I just skimmed over to imdb to see what was being said over there and, granted, that place is full of morons, but almost all are saying Pandorum is superior to Event Horizon and even Eden Log. The approval by two Schmoes above, BankaiZaraki and jbar1026, also raises my excitement level. Hopefully I'll see this tomorrow.

[LordSimen]

A bit disappointing, but overall still an enjoyable movie. I don't think the director nor the cinematographer had any clue on how to do action scenes as the combination of incredibly dark lighting, super fast editing and the arrangements of shots (1 second of wide, 1 second of close up, 1 second cut away), it made it incredibly difficult to follow what's happening and with who at times. The script could have used another pass as well, but it worked well as it was. I did enjoy Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid a lot. Production Design also kicked all sorts of ass. 7/10

[Brendan M.]

I didn't know what to expect so I was a bit skeptical at first but I walked out of it really liking it. The very end was a bit too cheesy, but I like a lot of the twist and turns that came before it. Nice sci-fi flick. It also at times felt like The Descent except on a space ship instead of a cave.

[BankaiZaraki]

I didn't know what to expect so I was a bit skeptical at first but I walked out of it really liking it. The very end was a bit too cheesy, but I like a lot of the twist and turns that came before it. Nice sci-fi flick. It also at times felt like The Descent except on a space ship instead of a cave.

Thats what my friend compared it to and I really digged The Descent.

[FireCaptain4]

I liked it quite a bit. My thoughts and experience are spelled out below; I also have the full review (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3119672#post3119672) up in Reviews section.

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This morning I woke up, freshened up, threw some clothes on, ventured down to my local theater, and bought a ticket to see the early showing of Pandorum. I dragged my feet into the theater and attended the screening on my own, taking caution not to drag any friends, family, acquaintances into the movie if it was truly as bad as I had read from multiple critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Prior to the past week, I had been looking forward to the film quite a bit. Obviously this wouldn’t be the kind of film that scratches new territory or wins any Oscars; it would, at best, be a straight up survival sci-fi/horror experience.

Anybody wanting an intelligent, insightful, or mesmerizing motion picture should readjust they’re expectations before walking into Pandorum. There are a few themes here that are interesting and the characters aren't dumb (some are engineers and scientists, after all), but chances are you’ve already seen these archetypes in countless movies already. As for whom to recommend this film to, if you enjoyed Event Horizon and/or Alien³, there’s no reason why you wouldn’t find anything to like in this film. However, contrary to what many people have said, Pandorum seems to resemble another film, Eden Log (a French sci-fi/horror picture), much more than either of the previously mentioned. As in Eden Log, our central characters wake up with no memory of how they came to be in their isolated environments. Likewise, they also have to explore an isolated world around them were horrible things have occurred and monsters seem to be looming. Even more interesting is that both films feature protagonists caught up in the mix of highly mysterious projects entitled “Eden.”

Our two main characters are Corporal Bower and Lt. Payton, played by Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid respectively. The two wake up disoriented and contained (i.e. trapped) in a small hypersleep chamber designated for the Elysium (the name of the large vessel of characters are aboard) crew of Flight Team 5. Unaware of what has happened to the other crew members the two begin to analyze their situation and Bower, being a technical/mechanical engineer, notices electrical surges throughout the ship signal that the nuclear reactor core in the Elysium is about to overload and shutdown. The two begin a makeshift mission to try to save the ship, with Bower climbing through ducts and exploring the wasteland left of the craft and Payton guiding him over a comlink and a crank-generator powered computer terminal. If you’ve seen any of the Alien films or played the videogames Doom or Dead Space, this should sound quite familiar.

Oh, yeah, and there’s monster aboard, though I won’t reveal what these “monsters” are for potential viewers that don’t know yet.

To Pandorum’s credit, however, there are a few unforeseen plot twists before the credits roll. Some audience members may roll they’re eyes at the ending, but I find it’s a rather nice addition to the experience. Instead of a big, epic final battle with an Alien Queen, you get a heavy plot-reveal in the finale that causes some reflection upon the film. While it may be no masterpiece, Pandorum is not a bad film. 2009 has been a surprisingly good year for sci-fi thus far (Star Trek, Moon, District 9) and this certainly doesn’t detract from that. In terms of horror, Pandorum should be a breath or fresh air for those who’ve endured films like Halloween II and The Final Destination for the past few weeks. In fact, I’d say Pandorum is the second best horror film of the year thus far, not quite matching the entertainment value or overall quality of Raimi’s epic return to the genre (Drag Me To Hell).

In terms of filmmaking, this is a rather well put together film. The cinematography looks great with the exception of a few action sequences that go overboard with the "quick-cutting," but over-all audiences won't have to worry aboard an abundance of shakey-cam or other cons. Also, everything here is properly lit. Those who had trouble with their eyes focusing on images during Eden Log won't have that issue here. This film also doesn't meander around in complete darkness for as long.

Director Christian Alvart obviously has a lot of talent and I'm glad he directed this film as opposed to someone like, say, producer Paul W.S. Anderson. He really knows how to handle suspense and build up intense scenes. Like Neil Marshall, he can place his actors in tight, unattractive situations with monsters crawling right beside them (or vice versa) and have the audience holding their breath. Hopefully he'll garner more work in the future.

As we now know, Pandorum has tanked at the Box Office. While on one hand that’s disappointing, it’s not all together terrible news as the film might garner some sort of cult status in the future. In interviews only a week ago, Quaid discussed the possibilities of not only a sequel, but a trilogy following Pandourm. Not only is that seemingly impossible now, given the films performance, it additionally doesn’t seem necessary. The film ends with a complete sense of closure. There’s no need to see what happens after we leave this world, and such a story wouldn’t resemble the experience in Pandorum in the slightest anyway.

All-in-all, the latest spacey sci-fi/horror epic has everything you could want in a “genre” picture. It’s not original (admittedly, this is simply a collage of other, better films), but so little is in the 21st century. The film does feature a solid cast that deliver solid performances, thick atmosphere, several scares, a few unexpected twists, astonishing special effects and set pieces, and quite a bit of gore. If you are a fan of the sub-genre and these type of movies, you’ll definitely want to check it out.

Related Recommendations: It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Eden Log, Ghosts of Mars, The Descent, Event Horizon, Alien, Dante 01, Solaris, Solyaris, Aliens, Alien³, 28 Days Later

[BankaiZaraki]

I liked it quite a bit. My thoughts and experience are spelled out below; I also have the full review (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3119672#post3119672) up in Reviews section.

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This morning I woke up, freshened up, threw some clothes on, ventured down to my local theater, and bought a ticket to see the early showing of Pandorum. I dragged my feet into the theater and attended the screening on my own, taking caution not to drag any friends, family, acquaintances into the movie if it was truly as bad as I had read from multiple critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Prior to the past week, I had been looking forward to the film quite a bit. Obviously this wouldn’t be the kind of film that scratches new territory or wins any Oscars; it would, at best, be a straight up survival sci-fi/horror experience.

Anybody wanting an intelligent, insightful, or mesmerizing motion picture should readjust they’re expectations before walking into Pandorum. There are a few themes here that are interesting and the characters aren't dumb (some are engineers and scientists, after all), but chances are you’ve already seen these archetypes in countless movies already. As for whom to recommend this film to, if you enjoyed Event Horizon and/or Alien³, there’s no reason why you wouldn’t find anything to like in this film. However, contrary to what many people have said, Pandorum seems to resemble another film, Eden Log (a French sci-fi/horror picture), much more than either of the previously mentioned. As in Eden Log, our central characters wake up with no memory of how they came to be in their isolated environments. Likewise, they also have to explore an isolated world around them were horrible things have occurred and monsters seem to be looming. Even more interesting is that both films feature protagonists caught up in the mix of highly mysterious projects entitled “Eden.”

Our two main characters are Corporal Bower and Lt. Payton, played by Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid respectively. The two wake up disoriented and contained (i.e. trapped) in a small hypersleep chamber designated for the Elysium (the name of the large vessel of characters are aboard) crew of Flight Team 5. Unaware of what has happened to the other crew members the two begin to analyze their situation and Bower, being a technical/mechanical engineer, notices electrical surges throughout the ship signal that the nuclear reactor core in the Elysium is about to overload and shutdown. The two begin a makeshift mission to try to save the ship, with Bower climbing through ducts and exploring the wasteland left of the craft and Payton guiding him over a comlink and a crank-generator powered computer terminal. If you’ve seen any of the Alien films or played the videogames Doom or Dead Space, this should sound quite familiar.

Oh, yeah, and there’s monster aboard, though I won’t reveal what these “monsters” are for potential viewers that don’t know yet.

To Pandorum’s credit, however, there are a few unforeseen plot twists before the credits roll. Some audience members may roll they’re eyes at the ending, but I find it’s a rather nice addition to the experience. Instead of a big, epic final battle with an Alien Queen, you get a heavy plot-reveal in the finale that causes some reflection upon the film. While it may be no masterpiece, Pandorum is not a bad film. 2009 has been a surprisingly good year for sci-fi thus far (Star Trek, Moon, District 9) and this certainly doesn’t detract from that. In terms of horror, Pandorum should be a breath or fresh air for those who’ve endured films like Halloween II and The Final Destination for the past few weeks. In fact, I’d say Pandorum is the second best horror film of the year thus far, not quite matching the entertainment value or overall quality of Raimi’s epic return to the genre (Drag Me To Hell).

In terms of filmmaking, this is a rather well put together film. The cinematography looks great with the exception of a few action sequences that go overboard with the "quick-cutting," but over-all audiences won't have to worry aboard an abundance of shakey-cam or other cons. Also, everything here is properly lit. Those who had trouble with their eyes focusing on images during Eden Log won't have that issue here. This film also doesn't meander around in complete darkness for as long.

Director Christian Alvart obviously has a lot of talent and I'm glad he directed this film as opposed to someone like, say, producer Paul W.S. Anderson. He really knows how to handle suspense and build up intense scenes. Like Neil Marshall, he can place his actors in tight, unattractive situations with monsters crawling right beside them (or vice versa) and have the audience holding their breath. Hopefully he'll garner more work in the future.

As we now know, Pandorum has tanked at the Box Office. While on one hand that’s disappointing, it’s not all together terrible news as the film might garner some sort of cult status in the future. In interviews only a week ago, Quaid discussed the possibilities of not only a sequel, but a trilogy following Pandourm. Not only is that seemingly impossible now, given the films performance, it additionally doesn’t seem necessary. The film ends with a complete sense of closure. There’s no need to see what happens after we leave this world, and such a story wouldn’t resemble the experience in Pandorum in the slightest anyway.

All-in-all, the latest spacey sci-fi/horror epic has everything you could want in a “genre” picture. It’s not original (admittedly, this is simply a collage of other, better films), but so little is in the 21st century. The film does feature a solid cast that deliver solid performances, thick atmosphere, several scares, a few unexpected twists, astonishing special effects and set pieces, and quite a bit of gore. If you are a fan of the sub-genre and these type of movies, you’ll definitely want to check it out.

Related Recommendations: It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Eden Log, Ghosts of Mars, The Descent, Event Horizon, Alien, Dante 01, Solaris, Solyaris, Aliens, Alien³, 28 Days Later


Nice review man.

[PreySlayDisplay]

Pandorum proves to be a fairly decent addition to the horror/sci-fi fare. There's not a lot that sets it apart from a lot of other similar films, but I still enjoyed as I tend to do with this genre. Most of the acting proved to be pretty solid, the production was great, the atmosphere was tense and claustrophobic, and I was glad not to see a lot of noticeable CGI. Most of the scenes with the creatures seemed pretty conventional for the most part. It's no Alien, Event Horizon or even Sunshine, but fans of the genre should have little to complain about when leaving the theater.
7/10

[jbar1026]

It's no Alien, Event Horizon or even Sunshine, 7/10 i actually put it right beside sunshine.

[anakinsrise]

I have always loved Sci-Fi films with the theme of an giant spaceship,floating through the coldness of space,containing a small crew,but with mystery and danger at every turn(Alien,Sunshine) Pandorum works on some levels because it plays up the aforementioned to a high level.
Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid (both great especially Foster)awaken from hyper-sleep confused about their destination,and their mission.Slowly they piece together the facts,and discover they are not alone on the ship.Thats all i can say really so i dont spoil the film.The action sequences are loud and intense (Loved that three against one sequence)There are light touches of humor,and the visuals in the film are quite stunning,but Pandorum wants to be so many things,a mystery,a horror film,and a sci fi film.Which makes the film seem a bit uneven.
So rent or watch Pandorum on DVD on some dark,cold and rainy night and you will likely get what you pay for.
Scale of 1-10 a 7 1/2

[optimusprime24]

I thought the movie was very entertaining and enjoyable. The creatures do look somewhat similar to the ones in The Descent, but they still fine. 8/10

[Brendan M.]

i actually put it right beside sunshine.

I thought this movie actually delivered a lot better than Sunshine at the third act.

[jbar1026]

I thought this movie actually delivered a lot better than Sunshine at the third act. agreed

[fabxxx]

agreed

me too. I think Sunshine was visually impressive and a great movie overall, not saying one is better than the other but Pandorum delivered a better 3rd act indeed. Loved the final twist :D

[jbar1026]

spoilers




so ive been thinking!
ok. quaid and foster characters were on the same crew rotation. if quaid killed the flight crew then sat around on being crazy until he turned old. how come he didint kill foster he should have been awake! maybe i missed something.

[fabxxx]

spoilers




so ive been thinking!
ok. quaid and foster characters were on the same crew rotation. if quaid killed the flight crew then sat around on being crazy until he turned old. how come he didint kill foster he should have been awake! maybe i missed something.


Good question...

Do we ever see Quaid character's number? I don't remember... Also, Quaid was not Peyton but instead Gallon.
Gallon was from flight crew and Foster was an engineer... Maybe the rotation of those different crews were different. Just a thought...

I want to watch it again on DVD with subtitles to see if some of those questions get answered

[jbar1026]

I want to watch it again on DVD with subtitles to see if some of those questions get answered

yeah i was gonna do that to.

[FireCaptain4]

spoilers







so ive been thinking!
ok. quaid and foster characters were on the same crew rotation. if quaid killed the flight crew then sat around on being crazy until he turned old. how come he didint kill foster he should have been awake! maybe i missed something.


Good question...

Do we ever see Quaid character's number? I don't remember... Also, Quaid was not Peyton but instead Gallon.
Gallon was from flight crew and Foster was an engineer... Maybe the rotation of those different crews were different. Just a thought...






I want to watch it again on DVD with subtitles to see if some of those questions get answered

SPOILERS!

My memory is already fogging up, but...


at the end of the film, right at the "big reveal" doesn't it say on a monitor it took hundreds of years to reach their destination? I think it did, but I'm a little fuzzy (the cinematography also did that "blurr" effect so I remember not being able to get an exact look). Maybe the monitor said just 90+ years and not 900+ like I seem to vaguely remember. Even with 90 years, Gallon could have been awake for a long time as the crews "king" (like that cannibal dude says) before deciding to re-enter hypersleep.

I really need to rewatch the last ten or so minutes of this film.

[jbar1026]

SPOILERS!

My memory is already fogging up, but...


at the end of the film, right at the "big reveal" doesn't it say on a monitor it took hundreds of years to reach their destination? I think it did, but I'm a little fuzzy (the cinematography also did that "blurr" effect so I remember not being able to get an exact look). Maybe the monitor said just 90+ years and not 900+ like I seem to vaguely remember. Even with 90 years, Gallon could have been awake for a long time as the crews "king" (like that cannibal dude says) before deciding to re-enter hypersleep.

I really need to rewatch the last ten or so minutes of this film.

spoilers

it said like 956 years or something. but the trip itself only took something like 136 years so they were there crashed on the planet for 800 years.

[fabxxx]

spoilers

it said like 956 years or something. but the trip itself only took something like 136 years so they were there crashed on the planet for 800 years.

That's correct.

My take on the movie, but I could be wrong and there are a lof of unanswered questions, is the following:

- There are basically 2 main plots going on, one is about the Pandorum "disease" and one is about the crew mutation.

- At some point in the journey Gallo (and maybe others) start experiencing Pandorum effects.

- Gallo hears about Earth destruction, goes nuts, kills the flight crew, decides to become a new "Messiah", etc...

- I didn't understand much of what the old guy explained, but from what I could understand, there was a whole period where Gallo controlled the ship. That period was probably a good 20-30 years, since "young Gallo" looks in mid 20s and "old Gallo" (Quaid) is in his mid 50s. (The actor is 55).

- At some point there was a revolution and Gallo was put in Hibernation in Peyton's pod.

- The ship crashes in the Planet after the normal trip of 100 plus years killing most of (if not all) the crew outside the hibernation pods

- Mutation starts caused by the chemicals from the hibernation pods

- The ship stays under water 800 years (Mutation and more mutation!)

- The ship reactor starts failing and opening random pods... Mutants rule the ship while humans that did not mutated try to survive.

(Maybe many years passed in this situation...)

- The movie as we see starts...

Like I said, this is my idea of the events and you're free to point our holes, like how the old man knew what he knew if by my events he was also in the pod for 800 years? My answer would be, he read the drawings on the walls... or someone's journal...
My point is, if the ship was under water for 800 years, all humans in the movie had to be in their pods hibernating for most part of it... if there were enough humans during those 800 years living in the ship and procreating I believe someone would have figured out how to evacuate the damn ship! :D

[ilovemovies]

I thought this movie blew. What a disappointment. A cool premise and a great setup is totally squandered IMO. It was shockingly pretty boring and I thought it just got really silly. There is one cool fight scenes but other fight scenes are heart by too hectic camera movement. Yep, yet another movie with shaky cam syndrome. The acting is adequate but little more than that. Needless to say, both Quaid and Foster have much better in other movies. I was really looking forward to this movie and for a while the movie looked like it could be something cool. The first half hour is great. But the movie gets increasingly less interesting and increasingly boring and silly as it comes along. I thought the last third was complete crap. I've read some people say here that they think this movie is better Sunshine. Sunshine was no masterpiece but it's a FAR better movie if you ask me.

4/10

[jbar1026]

I thought this movie blew. What a disappointment. A cool premise and a great setup is totally squandered IMO. It was shockingly pretty boring and I thought it just got really silly. There is one cool fight scenes but other fight scenes are heart by too hectic camera movement. Yep, yet another movie with shaky cam syndrome. The acting is adequate but little more than that. Needless to say, both Quaid and Foster have much better in other movies. I was really looking forward to this movie and for a while the movie looked like it could be something cool. The first half hour is great. But the movie gets increasingly less interesting and increasingly boring and silly as it comes along. I thought the last third was complete crap. I've read some people say here that they think this movie is better Sunshine. Sunshine was no masterpiece but it's a FAR better movie if you ask me.

4/10

i think sunshine is good but its third act hurts its overall score. but imo this movie is as good as sunshine with a third act that works fine with the other two

[ilovemovies]

I do agree with you on Sunshine having a weak 3rd act. But as weak as it was, it's still WAY better than Pandorum's ending IMO.

[jbar1026]

That's correct.


- The ship reactor starts failing and opening random pods...

spoilers

i dont think the pods were activating at randon i think the computer woke up people who could work on things that were starting to fail such as foster with the reactor and the chick with the DNA room. a kind of fail safe.

[jbar1026]

I do agree with you on Sunshine having a weak 3rd act. But as weak as it was, it's still WAY better than Pandorum's ending IMO. what was so bad about it?

[fabxxx]

spoilers

i dont think the pods were activating at randon i think the computer woke up people who could work on things that were starting to fail such as foster with the reactor and the chick with the DNA room. a kind of fail safe.

That makes sense :)

[FireCaptain4]

That's correct.

My take on the movie, but I could be wrong and there are a lof of unanswered questions, is the following:

- There are basically 2 main plots going on, one is about the Pandorum "disease" and one is about the crew mutation.

- At some point in the journey Gallo (and maybe others) start experiencing Pandorum effects.

- Gallo hears about Earth destruction, goes nuts, kills the flight crew, decides to become a new "Messiah", etc...

- I didn't understand much of what the old guy explained, but from what I could understand, there was a whole period where Gallo controlled the ship. That period was probably a good 20-30 years, since "young Gallo" looks in mid 20s and "old Gallo" (Quaid) is in his mid 50s. (The actor is 55).

- At some point there was a revolution and Gallo was put in Hibernation in Peyton's pod.

- The ship crashes in the Planet after the normal trip of 100 plus years killing most of (if not all) the crew outside the hibernation pods

- Mutation starts caused by the chemicals from the hibernation pods

- The ship stays under water 800 years (Mutation and more mutation!)

- The ship reactor starts failing and opening random pods... Mutants rule the ship while humans that did not mutated try to survive.

(Maybe many years passed in this situation...)

- The movie as we see starts...

Like I said, this is my idea of the events and you're free to point our holes, like how the old man knew what he knew if by my events he was also in the pod for 800 years? My answer would be, he read the drawings on the walls... or someone's journal...
My point is, if the ship was under water for 800 years, all humans in the movie had to be in their pods hibernating for most part of it... if there were enough humans during those 800 years living in the ship and procreating I believe someone would have figured out how to evacuate the damn ship! :D

Wow! Thanks for posting that. I think I'll be seeing the film again before it leaves theaters--this time knowing the big secrets--so that way I can actually analyse the film better.



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i dont think the pods were activating at randon i think the computer woke up people who could work on things that were starting to fail such as foster with the reactor and the chick with the DNA room. a kind of fail safe.

That's what I was assuming as well, otherwise Bower's awakening would have just really been one big stretch of luck.

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That's what I was assuming as well, otherwise Bower's awakening would have just really been one big stretch of luck.

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if that is what was happening then there is no telling how many people were awoke but got ate up before they could figure out what the hell was going on.


it also seems likely to me atleast that the mutants were awake for at least 800 years. seems likely quiads character cuased the mutataion. my reasoning is that in the end when the mutant fights the agriculture guy he gives him a spear so he has a fighting chance. that IMO shows some sort of culture. as for food i think the mutants were canabalistic and not just eating pod people. even though there were 60000+ people on board at the start of the jurney

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