# Just another reminder why I rarely listen to movie critics - Event Horizon, an awesome movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-reminder-why-i-rarely-listen-to-movie-critics-event-horizon-an-awesome-movie/622618 "2012-05-21T16:50:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-reminder-why-i-rarely-listen-to-movie-critics-event-horizon-an-awesome-movie/622618/21 "2012-05-21T23:19:40Z")
I thought this movie was dissapointing mainly because it had so much potential. Great cast, great premise, a ship that dissapeared for years and nobody knew where? Sign me up! And there were some great visuals, and some really creepy scenes… But it turned into just a gory gross out fic. The ship slipped into “a dimension pure evil.” That’s all the explaination we get? Oookay… ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-reminder-why-i-rarely-listen-to-movie-critics-event-horizon-an-awesome-movie/622618/22 "2012-06-03T21:41:58Z")
> [@brewha](#): > > We’ll see how it stands up to a scifi guy once he sees it. Well, how did it stand up to scifi guy once he saw it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-reminder-why-i-rarely-listen-to-movie-critics-event-horizon-an-awesome-movie/622618/23 "2012-06-03T21:54:43Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > But it turned into just a gory gross out fic. The ship slipped into “a dimension pure evil.” That’s all the explaination we get? Oookay… See, I liked that idea, that it took a dimensional jaunt to hell and returned possessed by demons: there is so much you could do with that idea, a haunted house in space that gradually takes over a salvage crew. But yeah, half-naked Sam Neill doesn’t really cut it as hell made flesh. Now if they had filmed it as [_The Keep_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085780/) in space, that would have been something worth seeing. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-reminder-why-i-rarely-listen-to-movie-critics-event-horizon-an-awesome-movie/622618/24 "2012-06-04T14:13:45Z")
I really like _Event Horizon_ - I think it’s great. Part of me loves loves loves how they didn’t go with someone getting impaled, which you really expect from a ship that’s all poky things. Seriously - the ship looks like the most dangerous ship ever conceived with all the spikes, yet no one gets impaled. I kept waiting for it, but it didn’t happen. So while it might have copped out elsewhere, it didn’t there. ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-reminder-why-i-rarely-listen-to-movie-critics-event-horizon-an-awesome-movie/622618/25 "2012-06-04T15:02:20Z")
> [@magnusblitz](#): > > The first time I saw it, I thought it was “a horror movie that was actually scary.” > > The second time I saw it, it felt really cheesy and completely deserving of a 23% rating. > > Both viewings were long ago so I can’t say much more than how I remember feeling, unfortunately. Whoa. I don’t want to alarm you, but we might be the same person. This was exactly my experience. I saw it when it came out and was scared and shocked and blown away. Then I saw it years later with my wife (preparing her for an amazing experience) and realized it kind of sucked. To this day, every time I recommend a movie for us to watch together that I’ve already seen and enjoyed, she’ll ask if I’m sure or if this is Event Horizon again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-reminder-why-i-rarely-listen-to-movie-critics-event-horizon-an-awesome-movie/622618.md?page=1)