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I know people tend to get in the mood at any time, but...SPOILERS!

posted 11 years ago by Gabe1972
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To get in the mood shortly after seeing your captain splayed out on the floor, ribbons of hideously altered genetic material jutting out of his head and body in a sort of macabre spider's web...that's just dandy.

It was the pear brandy. I know. It makes people tend to do things they wouldn't normally do...BUT COME ON! Are we really supposed to believe that they would get it on after experiencing that, along with knowing that in around seventeen hours they will have an eleven minute window in which everything will have to go perfectly in order for them to survive? Talk about pressure. Nick must have had nerves of steel, along with something else of steel. The rest of the male half of the human species probably wouldn't have been quite as excited, to say the least.

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[–] jayhawk-18 10 years ago

It was incredibly jarring and interrupts the flow of action. Your ship has nearly disintegrated, you have 17 hours to save the world (or whatever) and it's like everyone toddles off to take a nap and catch up on their emails. Several scenes of character development seem to have been cut short or edited out entirely, while some of the remaining scenes are clearly out of order.

There's a throwaway line spoken by the pilot when they're on the bridge along the lines of 'now that you've all had your break can I bring your attention to our impending doom...' which screams of a desperate attempt via a post-production dub to save this mess of a movie. On the point of post-production edits, the sex scene between the pilot and surgeon is in fact a snippet of footage from where Karl the psycho seduces wots-her-name.

[–] Gabe1972 10 years ago

Ah. Well, for sure this movie could probably be used in a class on how NOT to make a film. It is definitely a terrible film with a terribly constructed story.

Perhaps with a rewrite, or maybe sticking to the original script and not doing a rewrite, it would have worked much better. The ideas aren't bad, but the execution of them is.

Regarding the editing and such, I had read before that the film was a cluster eff from start to finish, with them constantly changing things and the film bearing little resemblance to what was intended. This happens all too often in films. It was just that out of all of the ridiculous things, this one stuck out the most.

I'll have to look at the footage again of the sex scene we are speaking of, as I thought it definitely looked like Angela Basset and James Spader, not of Karl and Danika.

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[–] Pineapples101 9 years ago

Regarding the sex scene - when Francis Ford Copella decided he could salvage the film by taking it to his American Zoetrope facilities, he took the Karl and Danika footage and digitally darkened Robin Tunny's skin to make her look like Angela Bassett.

Seriously...

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[–] Gabe1972 9 years ago

Thanks for the info. It doesn't really have anything to do with the issue I spoke of, but it certainly is interesting. The entire movie is a disaster and should be used for a seminar on how NOT to make a film.

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