So Sup Forums I just finished watching Event Horizon. Overall I enjoyed the film, I think that it was strongest in the first half and established the story and the characters quite well while the second half was the weakest. One particular character that stood out was Cooper played by Richard T. Jones. He stood out because he was the comic relief and that at times seemed to push the film into parody. While his interactions were believable with the other crew members his character seemed out of place in a film. This could be in part because he A) Didnt spend much time on the ship and so had no hallucinations and B) He had no clear faults as a human, he was never serious and always cheery whereas all the other characters were and it was something that I think is expected from a psychological horror. The prime example is this: >Gets blown off the ship into space >Punctures his pack to get him back to Neptune when he is likely to be hundreds if not a thousand kilometers into space (You can see the planets curvature) and he is attached to a piece of fast spinning debris. >Miraculously arrives back right in front of the Event Horizon. >Gets blown back out into space by a harpoon that depressurizes the cabin. >Gets back onto the ship again.
Overall he was an offbeat character that cracked jokes and was never affected by the story in any way at all besides it making him repair the ship. I found it humorous at times but overall bizarre.
So Sup Forums what did you think of Event Horizon? and are there any other films like this with whacky characters like this?
Kayden Smith
can someone summarize on how the fuck they ended up in hell and brought hell to them ?
Ethan Hall
Yeah, I am not so sure about that myself. I suspect it is meant to be the actual monster of the film as opposed to Sam Neil. You don't actually see it so you use your imagination to create it. All you get is some sort of idea that is meant to be some sort of incomprehensible dimension where it somehow becomes possessed and there is this essence in the ship that is doing the work. Something like that. Basically: >They go to bad place. >Bad place is unexplained but we know it is bad and unexplainable as it is a purely chaotic realm (Which is said by Sam Neil). >Bad doesn't stay in bad realm and travels through worm hole back to our dimension and infects everything with bad.
Its like the fel in Warcraft if you have played the game and/or seen the film.
Cameron Martin
Shameful self bump.
Robert Carter
all those possesed crew so they were demon right?
Charles Jenkins
It wasn't hell! No where in the movie did they ever say it was hell. It was a dimension that was so horrible and inhuman that the only word in the English language you could describe it with was 'hell', that's what they said in the movie, but it wasn't hell.
Michael Lewis
>but it wasn't hell. so essentially hell so how does weir survive the space? does that mean the survivor is in hell ?
Xavier Young
He could see without eyes, space was the least of his problems.
Mason Wood
woah so who was the burning man? so unknown dimension=hellish dimension
Parker Jones
i love this movie so comfy it is
William Morgan
The burning man is a traumatic memory the black guy had from the war or something. They used his image to fuck with him.
John Richardson
To travel faster than light, a ship has to pass through hell. Of course, without the appropriate shielding, there is no keeping the crew safe from the demons within. It would take a few thousand years before that shielding could be found, but once it was, ships could pass through the madness unscathed...most of the time.
Jason Nguyen
so i heard there was orgy scene any link?
Ryder Sanders
Long lost. That footage has vanished into the warp.
Bentley Reyes
It is seen in the original cut briefly through the ships records. There is an extended version I think which I think may be available somewhere.
Aaron Bailey
Unpopular opinion, there was no "hell" or anything like that, they all had their own demons (the captain leaving the man behind to die, dr weir blaming himself for his wife/girlfriends suicide because of his work on the ship, the disabled son) which multiplied once the oxygen started to run low and CO2 caused them to hallucinate.
Luis White
I do not think the crew were demons but I do think they were possessed as they lapsed in and out of delusions that had taken control of them with the exception of Weir (Sam Neil) who was more embracing of them (Probably for the sake of the plot).
Nolan Jenkins
Because the film is so derivative the character is obviously based on Yaphet Kotto in Alien
Xavier Long
by ripping off Alien, The Shining, and Hellblazer
Jaxson Cruz
I can accept that but it doesn't fully explain the supernatural elements in it like the tanks filling with blood and exploding and Weir being able to see despite having his eyes removed (Either by himself or by the hallucination of his wife). I think if it is supernatural it is something which gets stronger and at some point moves from being a hallucination to being briefly materialized, which would explain how Weir could've been blinded by his wife.
Jason Cooper
hahaahaa no
Owen Price
Perhaps but all I can see is that they were both black.Yaphet wasn't a whacky comic relief he was a serious character that was affected by the stress of his situation, he argued with his crew members over the right course of action and so on. Cooper didn't. if anything Yaphet shares more similarity with Fishburnes Character.
Dominic Moore
wait, have I been on v this whole time?
Jaxson Adams
but this guy seemed pretty happy with his SPOILERS))))bonus situation(((((spoiling
Tyler Butler
I don't understand.
Brandon Sanders
fuck off reddit
Jonathan Rivera
You could argue that it was all in their minds : ^ )
Samuel King
Yeah sure, it is open ended enough but the film does seem to point to there being a distinction between sanity and insanity as the movie progresses.