BitVyper
06-08-2010, 03:21 AM
So, I think this movie would actually be really good if it weren't so terrible. But... wow.
The science is bad, which wouldn't be a problem so much if the movie were conducted like say, Jurassic Park, where all the bad science happens off screen and you can just sort of go "okay, I don't know the exact method, but I guess they somehow did it," but first two thirds of this movie take place in the lab, so it's kind of hard to ignore. Like, I wasn't expecting a movie that was about creating animal hybrids to be hard science fiction, but I was kind of expecting the "we're SCIENTISTS! We work in a LAB" portion of the movie to be like, half an hour tops.
The premise of the movie is more or less your basic science-gone-too-far plot, but it really seems to be trying to drive home that genetic science is evil, which again forces the bad science into the open. They spend so much time trying to forcibly create these moral issues that when they come about, they aren't very believable because they didn't come about due to people trying to grasp too much knowledge or anything, they came about because....
Everyone in this movie is stupid. Completely and utterly fucking pants-on-head retarded. The two main characters especially are just... pathologically incapable of making a good decision. Like if they are presented with any kind of choice, they will immediately find an outside-the-box option that is even more terrible than any of their original options. This becomes a bit more justifiable later on just because they've already gone so stupidly far that they might as well go for broke because there's no fixing this. One choice in particular (if you've seen it, you'll know the one) actually caused our theatre to erupt in laughter. The general intelligence level is around Friday the Thirteenth teenager.
Anyway, if you've seen the preview for this movie, you may be going in thinking it's a horror/thriller sort of deal. It's not, except for like the last twenty minutes. If a monster movie is what you want, you'll probably be bored out of your skull.
All of that said, there's actually a really good movie hidden in there. The latter portion is weird, and a bit challenging. The characters actually develop a bit, and the story in general gets a lot better. I think this is largely because the latter portion takes place far far away from the lab. I also think there was supposed to be a whole lot more of this part of the movie and less of the other stuff, 'cause it seems like a whole different story happening, and some points get touched on that were clearly meant to be followed further.
It's... probably worth a rent just to have seen it, but I wouldn't shell out at the theatre for it unless you've got some friends together who are good for seeing bad movies (like me). MSTing THAT scene alone almost makes the whole thing worthwhile.
The science is bad, which wouldn't be a problem so much if the movie were conducted like say, Jurassic Park, where all the bad science happens off screen and you can just sort of go "okay, I don't know the exact method, but I guess they somehow did it," but first two thirds of this movie take place in the lab, so it's kind of hard to ignore. Like, I wasn't expecting a movie that was about creating animal hybrids to be hard science fiction, but I was kind of expecting the "we're SCIENTISTS! We work in a LAB" portion of the movie to be like, half an hour tops.
The premise of the movie is more or less your basic science-gone-too-far plot, but it really seems to be trying to drive home that genetic science is evil, which again forces the bad science into the open. They spend so much time trying to forcibly create these moral issues that when they come about, they aren't very believable because they didn't come about due to people trying to grasp too much knowledge or anything, they came about because....
Everyone in this movie is stupid. Completely and utterly fucking pants-on-head retarded. The two main characters especially are just... pathologically incapable of making a good decision. Like if they are presented with any kind of choice, they will immediately find an outside-the-box option that is even more terrible than any of their original options. This becomes a bit more justifiable later on just because they've already gone so stupidly far that they might as well go for broke because there's no fixing this. One choice in particular (if you've seen it, you'll know the one) actually caused our theatre to erupt in laughter. The general intelligence level is around Friday the Thirteenth teenager.
Anyway, if you've seen the preview for this movie, you may be going in thinking it's a horror/thriller sort of deal. It's not, except for like the last twenty minutes. If a monster movie is what you want, you'll probably be bored out of your skull.
All of that said, there's actually a really good movie hidden in there. The latter portion is weird, and a bit challenging. The characters actually develop a bit, and the story in general gets a lot better. I think this is largely because the latter portion takes place far far away from the lab. I also think there was supposed to be a whole lot more of this part of the movie and less of the other stuff, 'cause it seems like a whole different story happening, and some points get touched on that were clearly meant to be followed further.
It's... probably worth a rent just to have seen it, but I wouldn't shell out at the theatre for it unless you've got some friends together who are good for seeing bad movies (like me). MSTing THAT scene alone almost makes the whole thing worthwhile.