Color Out of Space

Color Out of Space Feb 29, 2020 19:03:42 GMT

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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 19:03:42 GMT

Feb 29, 2020 18:54:09 GMT moviemouth said:

Feb 29, 2020 18:40:06 GMT @cat said:

I dug it. Could have been better but I liked everything about it. I appreciate that Nicholas Cage gave the movie the time of day. His name on the ticket could make the difference between obscurity (or not getting made at all) and release.

It started out a touch slow. I'm glad the hydrologist survived. I like Cage, I liked the alien.

My interpretation is this organism survives and feeds off color. It fires up the imagination about what's out there.

I like that Nicholas Cage got so bonkers he would sacrifice his daughter to keep his wife alive just that little bit longer, and perhaps keep doing it with people who stop by.

I liked the ending too. It could have ended on the fade to white, which would imply the loss of all color on the planet (and perhaps Armageddon) but they chose to show only a portion of of the space has been completely robbed of its color, therefore implying it's only just begun?

Yep, I liked it. Could have been better, tighter, but I liked it anyways. Thumbs up.

Interesting. I didn't come to that conclusion at all and I still don't because the color is already a part of the meteor before it even comes in contact with the stuff around it. I saw it as just being about an entity that transforms and destroys and the color is the radiation that is causing the stuff that is happening. I agree that the point is to fire up the imagination about the unknown in the universe and the movie is effective in that regard.

It was my prevailing interpretation until I looked it up to be sure, but I never got around to looking it up. I thought it'd be more fun to just wallow in interpretation. I couldn't tell if it sought color or brought color with it. There's the one part where it seems like the shape of the daughters self-mutilation is channeling the force because it's the same shape as a citadel on the planet from which it came, but I don't know if that means the organism is parasitic, bacterial, viral...sentient.

I don't think it's sentient...yet. I mean it's horror right, not even science fiction. There's no moral spin on the organism's right to survive or escaping its home planet. It's not completely clear if it's a form of viral warfare, or the foot soldiers like the first several monsters in Pacific Rim; in theory it's just an organism that exists. It's not even clear to me if it survived; it might have gorged on the color in the are surrounding the farm and ate itself to death. Or it could still be working.

I never read the story, but that's my interpretation thus far.