Color Out of Space

Color Out of Space Feb 29, 2020 19:43:16 GMT

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Post by moviemouth on Feb 29, 2020 19:43:16 GMT

Feb 29, 2020 19:26:58 GMT @cat said:

Feb 29, 2020 19:15:14 GMT moviemouth said:

You are overthinking it imo.

I don't think it is anything but some kind of space organism or something like that. For me it isn't important what it is, but what it is capable of.

I didn't like the movie (in large part because I didn't care at all about the people it is happening to), but I like the idea. I'm planning to read the short story soon.

The coolest stories make me think about the world before and after, and tease me by only showing me a portion of the journey. I think the last thing I'd want to see is a sequel or a prequel. The cool thing in my opinion about a creature/bacteria/force like this is it beckons no logic or explanation, at least not one pinned down by science. I'd say this fits squarely into the horror genre.

Some of the best horror movies I know (this not being one of them, I dug it but you know, it's not like The Exorcist or anything) is whatever supernatural horror thing is happening is incidental. The real story's with the family. The space stuff is just a catalyst for their relationship.

Which is the exact reason the movie falls flat. The family situation doesn't work at all in the movie because it didn't well establish them beforehand and the performances aren't very convincing. I also felt they acted way too casual about what was happening and didn't seem to be anywhere near disturbed enough by what is happening to them, at least not in a way I think is convincing. It touches on it at some parts, but not nearly enough imo. Even when the wife cuts her fingers off, Nicolas Cage doesn't act like this is a big deal and even stops to talk to the kids before leaving. There is the stuff with the daughter being into witchcraft or something along those lines that is only mentioned a couple times early in the movie and then never mentioned again.

It is sci-fi horror imo. Equal parts.

For me the movie and movies like it are about the fragility of the human mind and the human body and how easily we could be wiped out of existence and how terrifying that thought is. How there are unknown things in the world that are beyond are comprehension that existed long before us and will exist long after us. This seems to be a common theme with H.P. Lovecraft.