Pandorum

I simply loved the posters for PANDORUM, they were edgy and graphic enough to make me want to give this movie a shot even thou i'm not a Dennis Quaid fan at all. I gave it a shot earlier today and i have to say it was a pretty good movie.

PANDORUM is your classic outer space scifi movie which we really haven't had for sometime. I do have to say the aliens kind of reminded me of the creatures in the movie DESCENT just with armor. The movie itself had a feel of the original ALIEN movie. Now to what I enjoyed about this movie was the way the story evolved into a edge of your seat thriller with twist after twist. The story is what separates this from other spaceship, scifi movies. Even leaves the viewer thinking "what if" this happens. PANDORUM is a good way to enter this fall season. Great story, good effects, easy story to follow, just enough gore to satisfy everyone and not to much Dennis Quaid to make me happy!

why haven't i heard about this movie? someone should have made some noise for this! seeing a movie with no expectations makes it greater then it might deserve but i think i would rate it high even with high expectations.

the first half is extremely creepy and i would compare it to Alien. yea yea, fan boys will ofc hate me, but i have seen no other movie that i would compare to Alien except this one. i have never seen a movie that kept me so focused. i was trying to eat my dinner as i started this movie and i think it took me 1h+ to get the dinner down cause i didn't wanna look away. the story isn't even that original (are there original movies left to be made?) but the pieces picked from stories already told are put together in a really awesome way which makes it feel new and fresh. i think you could make 5-6 movies by picking out parts of Pandorum and developing them. I'm glad they kept it as one compact, awesome flick!

It's a shame critics trashed this one and made it flop. The director and writer behind this could have become some of Sci-Fi's greatest if they were given the room to make a few more films. You can see a lot of raw talent put into this, but not all of it so perfectly refined.

The people trashing it I think have pretty dumb reasons honestly. Seems primary gripe is you can draw similarities to Alien, but the art direction and style isn't exactly like Ridley Scott, so it's bad! Dumb.

The film also has a different aesthetic to filming and editing than your typical Spieldberg or Ridley Scott style. I suspect that too is some trashed it. It has a rougher quality to its visuals, but it works quite well with the movie.

I wouldn't say the film is as refined as Alien 1, 2, or 3, but it stands on it's own.

Honestly might recommend this over Alien 4 or Alien Covenant. Definitely over an AvP movie.

Despite some derivative elements, the story and plot-line was unique and the end surprising. There were a lot of unique and novel elements.

Honestly I think people and critics just weren't in the mood for this when it came out in 2009. Maybe it was over shadowed by some other film? Or they were exhausted from too many gory scifi films in the 00's? I don't know. But if this were released new on Netflix in past few years it'd probably be considered one of the best scifi horror they made.

I thought this movie did an excellent job of tapping into a number of deep-rooted fears that seem to be universal - claustrophobia, loneliness, loss of memory, large semi-dark areas with things that go bump, not to mention suddenly waking up and not knowing what the heck is going on all around you.

It had some nice "seat jump" scenes, and had moments where it was surprising funny.

And lots of nice twists too - don't see that enough in movies in general any more!

I can't comment too much on the "technical" aspects of the film, sorry, I'm just more of "was it a good, believable story" person. This was.

I have to say this movie was better than I expected. If you liked Aliens and Resident Evil...this is like both of those movies got together and had a sequel. Well not quite, but the story was good and had no gaping holes in it. The acting was good without going over the top.

I loved the way this movie started; guy wakes up from hyper-sleep…his memory is not fully functional, he knows things are not right and has to save the day.

I thought the story was great in that they did not over-explain everything like they have in so many sci-fi movies. The mid plot line was very good never found myself asking "what the hell are you doing", and the ending was very good without being so trivially expected.

Of course Dennis Quaid is a great actor but I really liked watching Ben Foster. He was one of the best actors in 3:10 to Yuma.

Special effects were good but did not need to be over the top because the story was solid. Worth the price of admission.