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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 338755" data-attributes="member: 8">[ATTACH=full]40619[/ATTACH]Another 1990s space classic revisited. but unfortunately not as successful as Galaxy Quest.The first half is interesting, that monstrous spaceship with its ridiculous gothic set design, like a Haunted Mansion In Space, and they could have done SO much more with it.While the idea is that the spaceship comes alive it really never does. Characters start to hallucinate and chase ghosts - did they really have to travel into deep space for that?There&#039;s a lot of spectacle and explosions but that never means anything and they only die in the most stupid ways. Well, it complements the horrible, wooden acting.All the characters are &quot;kick-ass with an attitude&quot; and the black guy gets the obligatory clowny part.It&#039;s an awful movie and I constantly had the feeling there was something funny going with the aspect ratio. Which could have been utilized as an element of disorientating horror, but no, it just looked bad.Perhaps my memory had remixed it with that other Sam Neill movie, DEAD CALM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 338755, member: 8"] [ATTACH type="full"]40619[/ATTACH] Another 1990s space classic revisited. but unfortunately not as successful as Galaxy Quest. The first half is interesting, that monstrous spaceship with its ridiculous gothic set design, like a Haunted Mansion In Space, and they could have done SO much more with it. While the idea is that the spaceship comes alive it really never does. Characters start to hallucinate and chase ghosts - did they really have to travel into deep space for that? There's a lot of spectacle and explosions but that never means anything and they only die in the most stupid ways. Well, it complements the horrible, wooden acting. All the characters are "kick-ass with an attitude" and the black guy gets the obligatory clowny part. It's an awful movie and I constantly had the feeling there was something funny going with the aspect ratio. Which could have been utilized as an element of disorientating horror, but no, it just looked bad. Perhaps my memory had remixed it with that other Sam Neill movie, DEAD CALM. [/QUOTE]

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