PANDORUM

Guy’s love for Sci-fi...

Usually, at least nowadays, when sci-fi movies show up they seem to have a PG-13 rating. I like the sci-fi’s that have a little bit of blood and gore in them. Movies like “Alien” and “Event Horizon”, not that I didn’t enjoy Avatar, I loved it. I mean I want that old school feel. Now “Pandorum” might not be the greatest movie that has come out in this genre, but at least it tries.

So in the future when we have ruined everything on earth (as usual) we send out some humans in space to find us a new place to live. The fucked up thing is that there’s a mental disease that you can catch by being in space too long called “Pandorum”. This disease makes you super crazy and you’ll start wanting to kill your crew-mates. Well, Bower and Payton (Foster and Quaid) wake up on this ship to start their shifts only to find that the spaceship is full of crazy zombielike aliens.

Wait a minute. Here’s the twist and the spoiler. The ship had already reached its location, a planet that the remaining humans need to terraform, but is now stuck on the bottom of an ocean. We won’t find this out until the end of the movie, and it’s a pretty great twist.

The thing is that so much time has passed on the ship that humans have evolved into these crazy aliens. So we get to go on a alien killing spree with the remaining humans on this ship. So what about the space disease? Well, Payton (Quaid) catches it and tries to blow the ship to smithereens. This gives the movie even more adrenalin.

Guy’s Rating: A real dude/nerd flick that could turn into one of those guilty pleasure things.

Girl's rebuttal...

This movie is not a dude/nerd flick, as I am neither and I liked it. Although at times it was a bit confusing, and some of the story lines seemed redundant, it was still a good movie. I also enjoyed Event Horizon and the Alien series, as my love for Sci-Fi almost comes to par with Guy's, so movies like this one will always seem enjoyable.

There were two things I didn't enjoy. One was Dennis Quaid. I don't like him. His face always looks like he is eating something sour... The second thing is the poster. It makes no sense! What is that coming out of the person's mouth and eyes? Definitely nothing I saw in the movie.

Girl's Rating: I second what Guy said about the guilty pleasure thing.