Dead Space Comments by Rob Fahey
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squarejawhero
08/02/08 @ 14:32
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HAHAAA! Love the subheading, Dr William Weir from Event Horizon... ;)
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squarejawhero
08/02/08 @ 14:33
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Oh and fuck yes I own the SE. Great Orbital/Kamen soundtrack too.
It's a flawed movie in many respects, but it's made here in Britain (with American money, granted) and the gothic grandeur of the production design is superb. |
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Eighthours
08/02/08 @ 14:35
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I used to really like Event Horizon too... There's blatantly some important stuff missing, though. Dr Weir goes from seeing and hearing things to being a no-eyed homicidal maniac in the space of a single scene!
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squarejawhero
08/02/08 @ 14:38
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Hey, doesn't Weir poke his own eyes out? I'm sure we see that. I'm gonna put it on again today, methinks.
I know some people who were truly shat up by it. Y'know, Hellraiser, Alien and The Shining are far, far stronger movies, but there's a nice sense of knawing evil about EH that gets under peoples skin. The whole video of the crew eating eachother and pulling out their guts is pretty sick... |
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"Dead Space actually treats sound in a vacuum perfectly - when the air is sucked out of a chamber, you can only hear noises from inside your suit, and sounds transmitted through the soles of your feet. Gunshots and enemy noises are totally inaudible"
If you were holding onto the weapons, you'd be able to hear them. Any enemies standing nearby would hear them too, as the noise would travel through the floor. |
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I loved Event Horizon as well. Not the scariest or goriest horror movie I've ever seen (though I've stayed away from the likes of Saw and Hostel, a bit too gruesome for my taste from what I've heard and briefly seen), but more... I think disturbing is the right word here, than any other (sci-fi) horror movie I've seen.
I'm not all that big on shooters though (though I did end up picking up The Club today :)), so it's probably too soon to say if I'll have any interest in this game. |
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Dante_Cubit
08/02/08 @ 15:11
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Everyone knows Event Horizon is shite and Shopping was Paul Anderson's only acceptable film. There should be special trials at the Hague for directors like him....
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squarejawhero
08/02/08 @ 15:13
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He's a competent and flashy director who shouldn't write scripts. Shame as if he dealt with other material he'd probably be quite good... he's nearing 40 now so hopefully he'll mature a bit.
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NthSimulachum
08/02/08 @ 15:13
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Not only did he kill jews, he did it whilst doing an appalling dance.
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Ignatius_Cheese
08/02/08 @ 15:24
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Rob, have I mentioned recently how much I love you...?
Event Horizon is one of my guilty pleasures!! In fact, anything with Sam Neil in. Love that guy! "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see..." :oD :oD :oD |
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Great film. It had holes, but was disturbing on a level rarely (if ever) seen in British sci-fi...
Sounds interesting. Like the idea of the on-suit HUD. I take it the neon strip down the spine of the character in the screenies indicates life/energy? Let's hope they don't cock it up before release... :) |
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Dante_Cubit
08/02/08 @ 15:35
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"Where we're going, we won't need eyes..."
In fact they are probably a liability if you are going to the cinema to see one of his films. I would advise taking a knitting needle, a bottle of vodka and some gauze pads... |
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barnard666
08/02/08 @ 15:46
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Isaac (Asimov - Arthur C.) Clarke
just that little nod to classic sci fi actually enough to turn my interest around. |
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Ignatius_Cheese
08/02/08 @ 16:07
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"You know nothing. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse...!"
Mwwwaahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! |
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asphaltcowboy
08/02/08 @ 16:19
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It wasn't really a "good" film... it started off ok, but just devolved into cheap scare after cheap scare, rather than building up tension and then deciding whether or not to act on it or not (see Jaws as an example of great tension build-up that sometimes has the scare and sometimes decides to wait!)
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cnlfailure
08/02/08 @ 16:34
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Anyone dissing Event Horizon is wrong. Easily up there with Carpenter's The Thing IMHO.
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asphaltcowboy
08/02/08 @ 16:36
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@cnlfailure
Whoa whoa WHOA! Hold on there cowboy! Event Horizon is alright, but please don't try to hold it up to the splendiferous piece of awesome that is The Thing! |
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Eighthours
08/02/08 @ 16:43
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Hey, doesn't Weir poke his own eyes out? I'm sure we see that.
Yes. But the very next time you see him, he's a scenery-hissing nutter. |
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bodypopper
08/02/08 @ 16:49
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Event Horizon was little more than Hellraiser lite in space yet Danny Boyle saw to fit toremake it last year as Sunshine. Neither flick was all that.
Dead Space could be good though. |
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TSYNDMonkfish
08/02/08 @ 16:58
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This game could be fun, doesnt sound very original though
Did you know Event Horizon is a remake of the Shining? |
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Triggerhappytel
08/02/08 @ 17:36
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(are we conspiracy theorists for noting the protagonist's surname, Clarke, matches up with Event Horizon's rescue ship, the Lewis and Clarke?).
I think I read somewhere it may be a nod to Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. |
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