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    5 Pandorum Clips Pit Ben Foster's Futuristic Arm Cannon Against The Monsters

    First Clips From Pandorum Give You A Face Full Of Space Monster

    Peel Back Ben Foster's Skin In Pandorum's Sick New Motion Poster

    Pandorum's New Space Madness Trailer Unleashes Orc-like Albino Army

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    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    09/15/09

    In reply to 5 Pandorum Clips Pit Ben Foster's Futuristic Arm Cannon Against The Monsters
    Here's my personal "would be kind of cool" theory: we can kind of tell from the trailers that a virus or...something, will gradually turn people into the Orc-guys, right?

    But how to make that interesting?

    Well, there's this new info that they're either a colonization ship or at least, an experiment in deep-space exploration; i.e. "we were sent with our wives, thousands of people...families"

    My theory is this: long term exposure to some kind of super-radiation...or mutated space-born virus thing, gradually turns crew-members into the Orc-guys. ****BUT they are of course, shielded from this while they're in cryo-stasis.

    ***the ship was actually mostly to test the effects of long-term deep space habitation/colonization, on a *generational scale*

    So the idea would be that the *command crew* were supposed to be frozen for DECADES, while everyone else just went on living, using hydroponics/etc.

    Unfortunately, whatever spaceborn virus/radiation/whatever then affected the ship; the entire population turned into the Orc guys and they've been that way for DECADES if not generations, like a warped version of the Cat-men from Red Dwarf, with Quaid and the others as Lister-types.

    The creepy part would be that all of the crewmen remember they had families AND children on board, and the Orc-guys are actually their own mutated descendants.
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    09/15/09

    @CodenameV: the idea would be that the command crew was only supposed to get unfrozen when they reach their destination (during the movie's events) generations after they left....and all the UV radiation made their children mutate, and the PSYCHOLOGICAL effects of long-term deep space living -- which they apparently term "Pandorum" -- would also have driven them insane.
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    Image of Hachiken Hachiken
    09/15/09

    In reply to 5 Pandorum Clips Pit Ben Foster's Futuristic Arm Cannon Against The Monsters
    In that first clip, as he starts to run, I expect him to sprout big white wings and take off.

    Sorry.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    09/15/09

    In reply to 5 Pandorum Clips Pit Ben Foster's Futuristic Arm Cannon Against The Monsters
    So Event Horizon? cough...ahem.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/15/09

    @Meredith Woerner: With Reavers onboard spaceship Axiom starring Ben Foster as Mega Man.
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    09/15/09

    @Pessimippopotamus Versione Classico: Good job they have a German version of Rhona Mitra on board, then.
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    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    09/10/09

    In reply to First Clips From Pandorum Give You A Face Full Of Space Monster
    I increasingly suspect that the plot is basically "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, on a ship"....but without the hegemonic lesbian matriarchy.
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    iCurmudgeon promoted this comment CodenameV was starred CodenameV was unstarred
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    09/10/09

    @CodenameV: Dunno about that. It looks more like the original Alien, where the crew wakes up into a haunted-house-with-no-exit scenario that includes a barely-seen and very hungry boojum.
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    09/10/09

    @iCurmudgeon: Nah, it's a slapdash remake of Kramer vs. Kramer.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    09/10/09

    @Grey_Area: Needs more Yakety Sax.
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    09/10/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: And a golden Retriever that plays volleyball.
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    Image of Jack of all Tirades R.O.A.C.H. Jack of all Tirades R.O.A.C.H.
    09/10/09

    @Grey_Area: What about the precocious boy? THERE HAS TO BE A PRECOCIOUS BOY!!!
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/10/09

    @CodenameV: The hegemonic lesbian matriarchy was the best thing about GHOST OF MARS.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    09/10/09

    In reply to First Clips From Pandorum Give You A Face Full Of Space Monster
    The trailer I saw when I went to watch Gamer (yes. I know. Shuddup) was kind of generic. The overused violin string buildup, the flashbang monster closet, etc. I wasn't very impressed. But then again, it could have been the trailer itself that was bleh.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    09/10/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Agreed. The trailers have been less impressive then the creepy posters.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    09/10/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Saw the same trailer. Looks like your generic monster movie in space - love the phrase "flashbang monster closet." I'm vaguely excited about it in an "I would watch this late at night on HBO if I were high and had a bag of cheetos" kind of way. Which isn't a criticism. I love that kind of movie. It's just not going to be brilliant is all.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    09/10/09

    @Annalee Newitz: That doesn't sound like a "I would pay to see it in the theaters" kind of endorsement to me...
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    09/10/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: the 4/4 string ostinato in D-minor? or is this that 'crawling' violin effect that's been prevelant since... at least halo when it was used for the flood but it's got to be older than that.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    09/10/09

    @tetracycloide: That damn crawling violin effect has been around forever, and it's gotten to the point where I pre-cringe just before the "VREEEEEEEET!!!!" part because I know it's just going to be a "BAM SCARY OOGAH BOOGAH" moment. Yes, I am a pansy.
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    Image of jmg134 jmg134
    09/10/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: See its funny when people say a movie's trailer is actually better than the actual movie! If the this trailer was bleh, that's good. Then you won't be disappointed and maybe blown away by the movie since the trailer didn't give too much away.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    09/10/09

    @jmg134: I wish I had your optimism.
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    Image of jmg134 jmg134
    09/10/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Well I've just stopped trying to be too excited by the trailer alone. Trailers are great as a sneak peak and all. But I would still see the movie regardless if the trailer was bad or good. That's just me. ROR!
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    09/10/09

    In reply to First Clips From Pandorum Give You A Face Full Of Space Monster
    Is it just me, or is September this year (which is usually a dumping ground on par with Jan/Feb) looking better than the last month and a half of the summer movie season? 9, Whiteout, Pandorum, Surrogates, and Jennifer's Body all look worth going to at this point.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    09/10/09

    @TemporalSword: Good for entertainment, bad for my bank account.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    09/10/09

    @TemporalSword: I am totally excited for this month in both movies and TV. Supernatural returns tonight! I will admit here among friends that I'm so excited about it that I actually had a dream last night that I was watching the Supernatural premiere.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    09/10/09

    @Annalee Newitz: Damn. Talk about effective advertising. It's gotten into yo' head!
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    09/10/09

    In reply to First Clips From Pandorum Give You A Face Full Of Space Monster
    I'm still prepared to be disappointed at the real reason for the skin-peeling stuff - if I'm right as to what it represents. I'm thinking suspended animation or hypersleep or some such macguffin.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    09/10/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: "The hypersleep containers reprogrammed you to be zombies!"
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    08/27/09

    In reply to Peel Back Ben Foster's Skin In Pandorum's Sick New Motion Poster
    hope it turns out good.
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    08/27/09

    In reply to Peel Back Ben Foster's Skin In Pandorum's Sick New Motion Poster
    I have the suspicious feeling that the reason for skin removal is going to be incredibly mundane and not at all creepy in this movie. Which makes it all the more galling that it's repetitively icky here.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    08/27/09

    In reply to Peel Back Ben Foster's Skin In Pandorum's Sick New Motion Poster
    In space no-one can hear you scream like a little girl when peeling your sunburn!!
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    08/27/09

    In reply to Peel Back Ben Foster's Skin In Pandorum's Sick New Motion Poster
    Tattoo removal
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    Image of Moonlighter Moonlighter
    08/27/09

    In reply to Peel Back Ben Foster's Skin In Pandorum's Sick New Motion Poster
    Hooray for cheesy latex body paint special effects?
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/27/09

    In reply to Peel Back Ben Foster's Skin In Pandorum's Sick New Motion Poster
    Boy are these things annoying.
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    08/27/09

    In reply to Peel Back Ben Foster's Skin In Pandorum's Sick New Motion Poster
    Good Lord.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/24/09

    In reply to Pandorum's New Space Madness Trailer Unleashes Orc-like Albino Army
    Unless this has a bizarre or startling spot twist, I don't see this as being anything to get excited about. Reminds me of a movie version of Dead Space.
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