I actually enjoyed the film, especially the ending. Given that we must assume that Calvin escapes into the sea (unless it can fly?)- will there be a sequel?
If so, would Calvin attempt to attack urban human life (and become a boring 'bug-hunt' in high-rise buildings) or find safety somewhere isolated - like the polar caps, becoming a 'Thing' type film?
Everyone seems to assume that this organism does not reproduce.
Like in other threads, I'll point out that this organism can multiply from a single cell. If this creature deems it necessary, it can just leave a few of its cells behind and create an army. As things stand, this creature would end life on Earth as we know it.
Or catches the common cold/herps/clap and dies, gets salt water on it and melts.
I can't imagine that any government would go along with these experiments unless the space station could be vaporized with a Nuke... As soon a cell was formed it would be ordered frozen or destroyed
At the least the seconds the specimen 'escpaed' the station would have been nuked, but of course it couldn't due to usual BS communications breakdown at just the right time?
No wonder this was only 90 minutes
All hope would be lost but the girl hurtling in space will be rescued by an alien race who rolls their eyes and give her some space slug pellets to take back to save the day.
sharedoubt it will get a sequel. this movie hardly lit up the box office when it came out.
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Me neither but that was my tongue in cheek guess at what would be needed to rescue humanity given how that thing can reproduce (aside from the cooties angle).
It wasn't a great movie but when I saw the international cast cliche going on I feared it would be far worse as there's been quite a few of these diverse space crew movies which were rather bland. I was actually wondering where the chinese crew member was given they were one of the main funders of the space project.
I was actually wondering where the chinese crew member was given they were one of the main funders of the space project.
thanks for that.
shareUnless they try to plausibly try to act like the creature is some how contained early on(Not very plasible as the creature grew from a single independent cell. Try containing all those cells) only to escape in a lab later I'd say humanity is already done so no sequel is plasible. Im suprised the possibility that the crew is contaminated and shoulden't have attempted to escape back to earth wasn't discussed.
shareI don't know...it seemed like Calvin needed quite a bit of help in the early stages.
shareI was expecting the ending down shot of the fisherman and the landing pod to go all white in a blinding flash and then mushroom cloud as the nearest ICBM vaporized the landing zone.
A sequel could be fishermen pulling mutant proto-calvin fish out of the water 10 years later and the rush to contain the area.
a low rated movie probably wont get a sequel
Well, it would be interesting to see Calvin develop. He never looked the same in any scene, so I assume he's got some more development left. I'd like to see it.
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Nah Calvin needs more back story so we could just do a prequel instead. We could go back and describe calvins origin about how we ended up with him before a probe or what not found him as a microbe. And probably fluff up the story that calvin was engineered and that those engineers also made us but for some reason got upset and gave up on us. That sounds like a pretty good story.
I see what you did there, ace.
shareI wish we could stop with the sequels, and work on making movies BETTER the first time around.
shareI'd much rather have a sequel to original movies like this than to have sequels to comic books.
shareThat won't please enough of the money donating audience. Now, had they made THIS film be BETTER, first time out, it could have been more financially successful, thus, leading into a sequel. Comic book films (I'm not a fan) have PROVEN their worth. THIS film being not so good, just makes future original ideas, less producible.
I paid to see this at a theater so I could support more of these efforts. Although the movie's production quality was as expected, the story was kinda "meh...", and forgetable after I left the theater.
Maybe instead of a sequel to this, they could work harder to make something better?
Comic book films pander to a braindead audience. They've proven they make money, but they have no worth. You can't call a film like this "meh" and then say comic adaptations are in any way valuable. Every single Marvel film to come out since Iron Man back in 2008, has consistently been the exact same film. Same characters, same pulpy slapstick humor, same cringy one-liners, same formula, everything is the same. But they make a ton of money. That doesn't make them good, it makes them "safe".
This film, even though it didn't bring anything new to the table, was still better than anything Marvel has put out Except for maybe Guardians.
true, but you are looking at it from your personal opinion of what is good or bad to YOU. money for budgets make movies, not yours or my opinions. I wanted to like LIFE, but it was the same old thing. Had they spent more time (or budget?) on the story, maybe it would have been worth investing new money into more of it: sequel
Without that business side, films don't exist at all. Sadly, those stupor-hero movies bring bank.