The movie was kinda bad...real talk. Decent actors, bad premise...mediocre
execution.
Us sci fi nerds like to dissect all the cool stuff form our favorite genre
but its all about the total execution.
There was one surprise near the end that made it not a complete waste but
those native ship monsters were sad.
The synopsis above sounds like a good movie....when is it coming out..lol
c w m
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Keith Johnson
<keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote:
>
>
> I've heard mixed views, but never a good synopsis, thanks. What you
> presented made it sound like a great premise. I love the idea of hypersleep
> causing such problems. I may check it out. How does it compare to another
> scifi film I really love, "Event Horizon"? I know that latter is much more
> of a horror-focused scifi film.
>
> As for hypersleep, I remember reading a book by Orson Scott Card ("Ender's
> Game", among many others). It postulated a fascinating world in which people
> who were deemed absolutely critical to humanity (great politicians, wealthy
> financiers, brilliant scientists, etc.) would "skip" generations. A person
> of sufficient means would live among humanity for a few years, doing
> whatever he or she did for a living. Then, that person would go into
> suspended animation for a time. As an example, Steve Jobs might run Apple
> for three years, set its future course, then go into suspended animation for
> twenty or thirty years. He'd wake up, get the lay of the land, do some more
> work, then back into the routine. If you think about it, it's a cool way to
> be granted a sort of immortality, as you can skip across the centuries,
> experiencing and influencing human development.
> The only problem is that the sleeper's mind is "bubbled" into a storage
> device before the body is put under. If something happened to that device,
> the sleeper would be rendered little more than a body with no mind, akin to
> a newborn babe, albeit in an adult's body. In one story, that very thing
> happens with a colony ship to another planet. There's an accident, all the
> crew's bubbles are destroyed, and the one guy who was awake is left with
> trying to retrain and re-educate all the now completely blank people.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B Smith" <daikaij...@yahoo.com>
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:52:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [scifinoir2] Pandorum
>
>
>
> Has anyone seen this movie? I was pleasantly surprised. Don't get me wrong
> it's not great but it was interesting and pretty well executed.
>
> Long story short: An Earthlike exoplanet called Tanis is discovered in the
> early 21st century. A probe using an advanced drive is sent there, finds
> that it's very, very Earthlike and can support life.
>
> 22nd century Earth is massively overpopulated, resources are dwindling,
> etc. A generation ship called the Elysium is built by all nations and 60,000
> volunteers set off for Tanis. The journey will take 123 years so multiple
> crews rotate in two year shifts and go into hypersleep the rest of the time.
>
> Hypersleep is a tough process and people wake up with memory loss, mild
> sickness, etc. Some folks develop a severe type of sickness called pandorum.
> Another deep space Earth ship suffered a massive disaster when a pandorum
> affected crew member jettisoned all of the ship's hyperspace modules, killed
> the remaining crew and then himself.
>
> A crewman on the Elysium wakes up out of hypersleep for his 2 year shift.
> He's out of it, doesn't remember his name, etc. He reads his name off his
> sleep pod and begins to remember that he is ship's engineer Bower. A second
> crewman, Lt. Payton, awakens and they realize that they are the only people
> from their shift that are awake. The power is down and they are cutoff from
> the rest of ship. The reactor is out of synch and needs to be repaired
> before the ship's power can be restored. Bower grabs some tools and sets off
> to restore the power.
>
> Then the fun begins.
>
> I was surprised at how much I liked the movie. There were a few things that
> strained logic but it's a fun, scary movie with a healthy dose of semihard
> sci fi.
>
>
>
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