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I have a bit of a love-hate thing with
Event Horizon. Starts out really well, impressive tension build-up, but the third act just ruins everything. Suddenly the whole premise of a black hole/alternate dimensions gets watered down to Sam Neill being a psycho.
That said, everytime it comes on, I watch it again. And again it gets under my skin. The small videoclip they find is truly one of the most unsettling things I've seen in movies. It's mostly the director's fault. Paul W.S. Anderson has a good heart for pulpy entertainment, the guy simply can't direct sh*t (Oh Ms. Yovovich, what on earth DO you see in that guy?). Event Horizon, Soldier, Resident Evil, Alien Vs. Predator, all good premises but shoddy execution.
So yeah, kind of a cult classic and I should've named it in my guilty-pleasures conversation I had recently.
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Last movie I saw:
Ben X [B, 2007]
A cool little Belgian movie about an autistic/Asperger-Syndrome-having student (Ben) who gets bullied a lot in real life and escapes into his favorite MMORPG Archlord (as Ben X). When he gets pushed over the edge by his classmates he looses it and plots revenge.
Being an Aspie myself (for lack of a better word) this movie actually made me quite emotional, and any movie that manages that gets my thumbs up. But apart from the autism-angle (which, apart from the story/plot, is also manifested in the editing, characters and cinematography) it's simply a well made low budget film that makes the best of it's budget and actors. A good part of the movie takes place in the fantasy realm of the game which can easily fall flat, but Ben X makes it work. Movies like this always make me wonder why Belgians make such good movies while the dutch movies are usually uninspired sub-par affairs.
So, highly recommended, although for non-dutch speaking people it might not work. A lot of Ben X's dia-/monologues are based on wordplay which doesn't translate very well. The title itself is already a problem since it leans on the phonetical pronounciation of the name, meaning "Am Nothing" in dutch (Ben X => "ben niks").
So you might not like it the way I did, but still, give it a chance.