I recall watching this when I was younger, chopped up in several parts, probably on a cable movie service, over a series of days. Channel flipping through at certain moments, seeing the middle three or four times, but never the first 10 minutes. There were terrifying moments, the gore, the spaceship story seemed quaint, but the images from it have lasted. The spinning orb that kills people. Who is the evil in this story?
I'm not quite sure.
I rewatched this with some friends. We laughed at a lot of parts together. We tried to guess who would die, tried to guess some of the lines from the story. It was a good time, but the movie really showed its age. The cgi was especially awful, although most of the other special effects were quite good, especially the cut up and bleeding skin.
The next day we met a guy who had also watched Event Horizon. He said he loved the director and loved the movie. I was surprised... it was mostly a trash film. Maybe people like popcorn flicks much more than I do. Mostly I watch movies by myself, often as I eat, the viewing spread out over several periods, sometimes as short as 10 minutes. People like different things, that's what I learned from this movie.
What Ebert said:
It's all style, climax and special effects. The rules change with every scene.
Deeply buried in "Event Horizon'' is a suspicion of knowledge. Maybe that's why its characters have so little of it.
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