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Mar. 17th, 2001 01:06 amI think I may die if this seven-day-at-work thing keeps up.
Exhaustion has come and gone, I'm sort of near-stupor, at the moment.
Please, someone TELL me you're willing to move to St. Louis to get a part-time job. Then I can sleep two nights a week.
Oh, god. I'm whinging now. fft. Fine. Deal with it.
On another note, I finally saw the end to Event Horizon... I have to ask: did the government people EVER run Weir through any Psych tests? Because, HELLO! the whole fucking ship is full of twisted designs.
I believe I once compared the engineering section to a high-tech abbatoir. Where else are you going to find spikes everywhere, and strange medallions, and funky metallic stuff? This place was obviously designed to FEEL menacing.
No room--not even the infirmay--was exempt from looking this way--or, rather, there's a sense that they wanted you to feel worried and nervous just from looking at the hallways, etc.
In reality, of course, they designed the sets that way. Because it makes it all 'atmospherey'. Unlike in Alien, which actually had some cause to feel 'derelict and dark' (the Nostromo's a fricking mining vessel. And not all of it was dark, either. Like the computer room--stark white, sterile...), Event Horizon ends up feeling mildly silly because of the dark sets.
Not that it could have worked if they'd all been pastels and stained glass...
As a side note: I LOVE the set design. I think it's simply smashing.
I just have a bone to pick with a governmental entity that allows someone deranged to design a ship.
Ah, well, it's a movie, right? Right.
*sigh* Too bad it couldn't have had a better last 15 minutes. I'm sorry, but after the rest, it wasn't as good. The ending, not to put too fine a point on it, sucked.
It's not that it was bad... It just... Lacked.
Maybe it was the fact that Peters' death was the most intriguing. Although DJ... *cough* ouch.
I dunno... Maybe I just was unimpressed that Starck disappears for about ten minutes, and just ends up with a knock on her head.
Pfeh. I guess I should have warned there were spoilers...
Oh! Something I noticed--the ship, the Event Horizon, apparently inspired other designers. Like the ones who did the horrid Lost in Space movie. (hey, it was a commercial break during something, I was flipping channels...). The ship they first encounter the bugs on is... QUITE similar...
And both owe their design to a small film done by a Mr. Kubrick several years ago... 2001.
Yes, the exceedingly long, and silent, ship from that movie inspired them both. Since they're also long... It could, of course, be a compensation problem.
On to other things.
If they'd done the movie right, they could have turned the 'entity' into something intriguing. Like, say, an entity that gets more corrupt and diseased the more it exists in our space. And it thinks killing us/defending itself is the way to cure... Hrm. I've recently reread Barbara Hambly's Silicone Mage. This could explain my thoughts...
Am I wierd for feeling that the entity was something I was sympathetic to? Before I'd seen the last 15 minutes, I could imagine it trying to compensate for things...
Uh.
Anyway.
I should go before I start getting stranger.
Exhaustion has come and gone, I'm sort of near-stupor, at the moment.
Please, someone TELL me you're willing to move to St. Louis to get a part-time job. Then I can sleep two nights a week.
Oh, god. I'm whinging now. fft. Fine. Deal with it.
On another note, I finally saw the end to Event Horizon... I have to ask: did the government people EVER run Weir through any Psych tests? Because, HELLO! the whole fucking ship is full of twisted designs.
I believe I once compared the engineering section to a high-tech abbatoir. Where else are you going to find spikes everywhere, and strange medallions, and funky metallic stuff? This place was obviously designed to FEEL menacing.
No room--not even the infirmay--was exempt from looking this way--or, rather, there's a sense that they wanted you to feel worried and nervous just from looking at the hallways, etc.
In reality, of course, they designed the sets that way. Because it makes it all 'atmospherey'. Unlike in Alien, which actually had some cause to feel 'derelict and dark' (the Nostromo's a fricking mining vessel. And not all of it was dark, either. Like the computer room--stark white, sterile...), Event Horizon ends up feeling mildly silly because of the dark sets.
Not that it could have worked if they'd all been pastels and stained glass...
As a side note: I LOVE the set design. I think it's simply smashing.
I just have a bone to pick with a governmental entity that allows someone deranged to design a ship.
Ah, well, it's a movie, right? Right.
*sigh* Too bad it couldn't have had a better last 15 minutes. I'm sorry, but after the rest, it wasn't as good. The ending, not to put too fine a point on it, sucked.
It's not that it was bad... It just... Lacked.
Maybe it was the fact that Peters' death was the most intriguing. Although DJ... *cough* ouch.
I dunno... Maybe I just was unimpressed that Starck disappears for about ten minutes, and just ends up with a knock on her head.
Pfeh. I guess I should have warned there were spoilers...
Oh! Something I noticed--the ship, the Event Horizon, apparently inspired other designers. Like the ones who did the horrid Lost in Space movie. (hey, it was a commercial break during something, I was flipping channels...). The ship they first encounter the bugs on is... QUITE similar...
And both owe their design to a small film done by a Mr. Kubrick several years ago... 2001.
Yes, the exceedingly long, and silent, ship from that movie inspired them both. Since they're also long... It could, of course, be a compensation problem.
On to other things.
If they'd done the movie right, they could have turned the 'entity' into something intriguing. Like, say, an entity that gets more corrupt and diseased the more it exists in our space. And it thinks killing us/defending itself is the way to cure... Hrm. I've recently reread Barbara Hambly's Silicone Mage. This could explain my thoughts...
Am I wierd for feeling that the entity was something I was sympathetic to? Before I'd seen the last 15 minutes, I could imagine it trying to compensate for things...
Uh.
Anyway.
I should go before I start getting stranger.
