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How Splice Nearly Got Me Banned From My Local Theater


I don't want to ruin this movie for anyone, so if you haven't seen it, please don't read any further.

Alright, let's start with the previews. When previews for Splice hit the airwaves, it was promoted as a sci-fi/horror film about scientists who create a new life form, which the clever writers called "science's newest miracle (is) a mistake." After seeing a handful of trailers, I must admit I was intrigued. Maybe this was going to be like Species with more of a plot or character development to it. Unfortunately, I was wrong.
The actors aside (both of whom I adored in other films, Polley in the Dawn of the Dead remake and Brody as the mentally handicapped guy in The Village), I felt a bit awkward when Dren watched the two protagonists have sex on a filthy labratory couch. Then I had trouble getting past the weird feeling in my gut when Adrian Brodie taught Dren how to dance and she was OBVIOUSLY attracted to him. Also, when his dumb-ass decided it was alright to have sex with this creature (not a clone of his girlfriend, a mixture of animals and humans, so a THING), I had to fight the urge to get up and leave the theater. And finally, during the last twenty minutes of the film, when Dren becomes a male and visciously rapes Sarah Polley's character, I decided I wanted my money back.

As I said, I do not blame any of the actors for this movie's faults. I'd just like to know who the hell saw this schlock-fest and thought it was a decent film. I also read something about the DVD release should have alternate endings. Like what? Dren turns back into a female and rapes Andrien Brody? Come on, how on Earth could anyone want to see this disturbing film again?
After it was FINALLY over (and my girlfriend was nearly sick from the rape scene), we headed for the nearby exit. I couldn't stand the feeling I had in my stomach about what I'd just seen and felt I had to say something. I found one of the girls working the concession stand and politely asked her to locate the manager for me. After a minute, a large man in a nice suit walked up and shook my hand, introducing himself as the manager. I explained to him that I did not enjoy the film but I was not going to demand a refund. I simply wanted to know how the hell this movie got the semi-decent ratings it did and how he felt about it? Apparently I said something wrong because the big guy in the nice suit turned bright red and said, "If you'd rather not come back to this theater, you can continue talking about this movie. Otherwise, please refrain from libling a decent film."
By the way, lible is printed, slander is spoken. Dumb-ass.

Basically, I'd just like to know what happened to the science-fiction (or in this case, somewhat science-fact) movies that used to frightening yet not sickening. Something has gone seriously wrong with our mentality as a nation if we feel it's alright to make movies about creating life, then killing it, then getting raped by it, then killing it again. What does anyone learn from watching this kind of movie?
How NOT to make a movie.

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I agree that the movie was crap, but seriously WTF is your problem calling the manager to rant about how much you didn't like the film? That's what sites like IMDB are for - REVIEWS! You don't go complaining to a the manager that the movie sucked. If one person thinks a movie sucks and the rest think it's great, does that warrant complaining about it to the manager every time a movie is screened? Seriously?!

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Hilarious OP, I'm glad I bothered to look at this board after seeing the movie. I guess it was actually a better movie than I had thought if it provokes that kind of response. That's something special. Bravo, Splice! Being the manager of a first run theater must be a rather mundane job, but when one of those special uptight people like the OP come along with this, oh man, it's time to shine. If it were me, I'd try my best not to just bust out laughing in the guy's face. Probably impossible, but I'd go with it anyways. I'd excuse myself, go get the girl who makes the popcorn, the guy who tears the tickets in half and the guy who cleans the bathrooms, because this is something entertaining for all theater employees, plus one of them could film it on a cell phone camera to put on Youtube for so many more to laugh at.

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I know I'm bumping an old topic here, but firstly, the policy "The customer is always right" is actually specific to McDonald's- it is not a tenet of customer service at large, and it infuriates me when people cite it. The customer is not always right. Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining.

Secondly, film and music are works of art. You can't pay to see a film as it was meant to be presented, without technical errors or flaws, and then decide you should get your money back based on your personal taste. Art galleries aren't about to give you your money back because you didn't like what they had hanging on their walls, and no music store will allow you to return an opened CD because it wasn't what you expected. You got exactly what you paid for. Just because you can't see past the literal to get to the message, doesn't mean the film was bad- it means it had an undeserving, myopic audience. I side with management.

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Wow, aren't you the most sensitive and whiny person in the world. Yes, you oaf, it was MEANT to disturb you. It was meant to be creepy and it was meant to make you feel that there's something deeply wrong with the stuff going on in the film. If you don't like it, absolutely NO ONE cares! You have no right to think that you deserve your money back or complaining after watching something you don't like. It's like if I went to b*tch to the convenience store clerk after trying a new flavour of ice-cream that I didn't like.

So basically you think you know how "not to make a movie"? I guess you are the god of good cinema and anything that disturbs you shouldn't be made. It's people like you who ensure that most of the films made today are brainless Michael Bay crap because you get your little panties in a twist as soon as someone makes a film that goes outside your comfort zone. I'm not saying that Splice was some stroke of genius or "a thinking man's sci-fi movie". It was an entertaining and kind of creepy movie that was pretty decent and it conveyed the mood it intended pretty well. If you think it was pretentious, fine. If you think the sexual scenes were unnecessary, okay. Just don't be a whiny b*tch about it.

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I know that this is an old thread but I'm stunned that the OP went to a horror movie then had the gall to complain that it was disturbing. Would you go to a metal gig then complain that it was loud?
Take some responsibility for your own actions!

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The OP never came back, that is so annoying.



Cici: "Oh, I'm sorry my bad, I thought you were someone else".
Ghost Face: "That's OK, I am"

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Yeah, it's really annoying! Still funny, but not as funny as this one http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469263/board/flat/66309751.

I think this one is more funny because the guy does come back- and hes an idiot...

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If I were the manager I would have bitch slapped the OP in the face for being an overly sensitive, uptight pansy.

The manager still sounds like a j.o. though.

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Yep!

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Hm.

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