# Event Horizon is on instant Netflix. Watch out for "crazy waves." (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/event-horizon-is-on-instant-netflix-watch-out-for-crazy-waves-open-spoilers/553260 "2010-09-10T02:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/event-horizon-is-on-instant-netflix-watch-out-for-crazy-waves-open-spoilers/553260/21 "2010-09-10T22:35:12Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > I think _Pandorum_ was an attempt to take the “crazy waves” theory at face value. And it sucked giant donkey balls. Just like Event Horizon. But I’m intrigued by this “crappy sequel to a better movie we never got to see” idea. If I think of a good thread title (as the idea doesn’t lend itself very well to a short, snappy title) I may make a new thread about it. ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@Short\_Guy\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy_1)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/event-horizon-is-on-instant-netflix-watch-out-for-crazy-waves-open-spoilers/553260/22 "2010-09-11T07:30:18Z")
[quote=“CalMeacham, post:3, topic:553260”] > [@](#): > > But it’s also because I really dislike the “it becomes/appears as that which you fear the most” concept, which has been done to death, and always badly. Maybe someday it will be done right, but I doubt it. _Forbidden Planet_ had a concept that was similar enough, and it was certainly done right. FTR, I have nothing against SciFi as a front for horror (that’s all Alien was, to begin with). In fact I would argue that, at least in mainstream entertainment, all SciFi is just a setting to tell a story in another genre, rather than being a genre in itself. The Fifth Element? Action film. District Nine? Drama. Star Wars? Fantasy/Adventure. And so on. Edit: was very much entertained (and frightened) by _Event Horizon_, when I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/event-horizon-is-on-instant-netflix-watch-out-for-crazy-waves-open-spoilers/553260/23 "2010-09-11T08:27:10Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, I wasn’t counting episodes where the insanity was coming from some quantifiable organic source or localized telepathy (i.e. “Day of the Dove”) but from “this region of space is, like, _weird_, man!” In STAR TREK and out of it, Mack Reynolds often built stories around Space Cafard, which stems not from a quantifiable organic source or localized telepathy but from just being in space _ **regardless** _ of the region – because, hey, _ **you** _ try spending a lot of time out there in deep space, cooped up with creeping boredom tempered only by _“the tides of primitive terror that swept you when the animal realization hit that you were away, away, away from the environment that gave you birth.”_ Sure, it’s bad enough when the walls start closing in from cabin fever. But really _ **knowing** _ there’s only depthless blackness outside the ennui-inducing conditions while you watch your symptoms progress? That’s a whole different kind of disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/event-horizon-is-on-instant-netflix-watch-out-for-crazy-waves-open-spoilers/553260/24 "2010-09-11T10:04:01Z")
[Supernova](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134983/) One spaceship, one murderous psycho, one mysterious object giving off crazy waves. And a crew of eccentric types, none of whom are operating with a full deck. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/event-horizon-is-on-instant-netflix-watch-out-for-crazy-waves-open-spoilers/553260/25 "2010-09-11T10:10:21Z")
“He may be suffering from Ocean Madness, but that’s no excuse for Ocean _Rudeness!_” ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/event-horizon-is-on-instant-netflix-watch-out-for-crazy-waves-open-spoilers/553260/26 "2010-09-11T13:00:03Z")
I would nominate the short-lived TV series, “Defying Gravity.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/event-horizon-is-on-instant-netflix-watch-out-for-crazy-waves-open-spoilers/553260/27 "2010-09-11T13:16:44Z")
There was a show on UK TV just a few weeks ago called [The Deep](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_%28TV_serial%29), which though it doesn’t go into fantasy deus ex machina, it does at least lose the thread of its multiple subplots while the entire crew behaves irrationally and sometimes impossibly. Doesn’t _2001: A Space Odyssey_ sort of go that way, too? And what about _Mission to Mars_ and _Red Planet_? I’d like to see a movie about a deep space journey where the crew behaves rationally and _don’t_ go mad, and yet still has a good adventure plot. It seems to me that ought to be possible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/event-horizon-is-on-instant-netflix-watch-out-for-crazy-waves-open-spoilers/553260.md?page=1)