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Event Horizon - Special Edition DVD - Oct. 11th, 2004

post #1 of 46
11/13/03 at 1:25pm
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So far it has only been announced for the UK but I bet that it will be released in the US as well. The word comes from Paramount itself so there is little doubt about the validity of the news:

http://www.dvddebate.com/article.php...&mode=&order=0

In another thread I enquired about a summary of the cuts made to the film that appeared in Fangoria #170. I got this reply:

"While the story revolves around a space rescue team having their worst terrors turned against them...Anderson wanted to avoid having the film become "pedantic" by skirting over this issue in some of the characters...Cooper,for instance, was losing someone close to him, which is represented in the movie by the unfortunate accident that claims Justin...Justin also lost some backstory that provided a stronger explanation for why he enters the ship's strange vortrex...The feelings that Stark has for Capt. Miller are also glossed over in the final cut...Other trims included a detailed explanation for the gateway & the black hole, which Anderson thought confused the test audiences. another lost moment was written by Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker and involved a subtle homage tp 2001:A Space Odyssey...cutting down the gore was not a major issue..."My feeling about gore is that if you hold on to it for too long, for the first second it looks great,the second its not scary,the third you start noticing that someones intestines look a bit like rubber and by the fourthit's by God,they ARE rubber."...don't expect the missing 1/2 hour to appear anytime soon on DVD..."

Interesting to say the least. I had thought there would be tons of gory stuff left out but it doesn't look like that was the case at all. Still, I'd like to see the missing 30 minutes either edited back in or, which is more likely, in a deleted scenes section.

There's no news about what special features will be on the disc but an audio commentary with everyone's favourite whipping boy (oh, wait, he just got bested by Uwe Boll) should be a given.

I really liked the film in the theater and now I'm happy that I held back from buying the bare bones DVD!
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post #2 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:18pm
I absolutly loved this movie. I can't wait for this
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post #3 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:30pm
This gets a special edition while there are hundreds of great films waiting to let alone be released on DVD. Damn.
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post #4 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:33pm
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Originally posted by Sean Bateman
This gets a special edition while there are hundreds of great films waiting to let alone be released on DVD. Damn.
Where are you, CARPOOL SE?
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post #5 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:40pm
Finally, geeks will stop talking about how the film got raped in the editing room, and this shitty horror knock off of Solaris will finally be revealed to lame at any length.
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post #6 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:45pm
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SOLARIS knock-off??? Not really. More like a GALAXY OF TERROR meets HELLRAISER knock-off. Still, it's a cool genre film. Too bad the ending was ultra-lame ...
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post #7 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:46pm
Amen 'Dre, amen.
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post #8 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:46pm
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Originally posted by Gruber
Where are you, CARPOOL SE?
Carpool was an ambitious failure. If you look past the fact that it isn't funny you can see some important philosophical issues that Arthur Hiller and co. tried to tackle. Some of them come across, but the whole film falls apart in the third act when it becomes an afternoon school special and the melodrama undercuts any narrative success they had achieved prior to that point. It's worth checking out if you are a Rod Steiger completist, but other than that I recomend you check out the John Landis' masterpiece The Stupids instead. It's everything you could ever ask for in a movie, plus some other stuff you probably never would have asked for--but in hindsight you realized you should have asked for it because it kicked so much ass.

You can pre-order it at Amazon here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...124532-3322440
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post #9 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:47pm
I mean I'm not a WS basher, I like Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat for what they are... But this...
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post #10 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:48pm
Instead, where are you 4-disc extended edition FIRST KID?
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post #11 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:51pm
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Originally posted by Gruber
Instead, where are you 4-disc extended edition FIRST KID?
First Kid was basically Diet Houseguest, but I was surprised how well done the shootout at the mall was handled. It was better than anything John Singleton ever attempted, and the slowmo exploding gumball machine was obviously a nod to the pro-debris John Woo era.
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post #12 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:52pm
Wetbones - it's a Solaris knockoff. Mysterious encounter with a troubled ship leads to inexplicable visions within the crew's number stemming from one man's loss of a wife and its metaphysical repercussions...
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post #13 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:53pm
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Quote:
Originally posted by Sean Bateman
Carpool was an ambitious failure. If you look past the fact that it isn't funny you can see some important philosophical issues that Arthur Hiller and co. tried to tackle. Some of them come across, but the whole film falls apart in the third act when it becomes an afternoon school special and the melodrama undercuts any narrative success they had achieved prior to that point. It's worth checking out if you are a Rod Steiger completist, but other than that I recomend you check out the John Landis' masterpiece The Stupids instead. It's everything you could ever ask for in a movie, plus some other stuff you probably never would have asked for--but in hindsight you realized you should have asked for it because it kicked so much ass.
Yikes! I'd rather watch SOLDIER (which sucked the liquid shits out of hemmorhaging poodle's ass) 10 times in a row than bother with any of those! Which of course explains your opinion of EVENT HORIZON. To each his own ...
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post #14 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:55pm
At least Soldier had Gary Busey and Michael Chiklis.
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post #15 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:57pm
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Originally posted by Straxboy - An Anthony Hickox Film
Wetbones - it's a Solaris knockoff. Mysterious encounter with a troubled ship leads to inexplicable visions within the crew's number stemming from one man's loss of a wife and its metaphysical repercussions...
Actually, it's a Sphere rip-off with Solaris overtones.

But I still love it. I don't know why.
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post #16 of 46
11/13/03 at 2:59pm
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Quote:
Originally posted by Straxboy - An Anthony Hickox Film
Wetbones - it's a Solaris knockoff. Mysterious encounter with a troubled ship leads to inexplicable visions within the crew's number stemming from one man's loss of a wife and its metaphysical repercussions...
So it's a knockoff of Soderbergh's version of SOLARIS that came out ... last year? Because in both the original novel by Lem and the Tarkovsky film there is no "troubled ship". They're set ON the planet.
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post #17 of 46
11/13/03 at 3:03pm
Wetbones, replace "Troubled ship" with "planet." Same dif.
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post #18 of 46
11/13/03 at 3:03pm
You replace the "ship" of EH with the run down base in
Solyaris.

Same with Sphere.

Woah, jinx. that's 2 beers.
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post #19 of 46
11/13/03 at 3:03pm
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Quote:
Originally posted by mastronikolas
Actually, it's a Sphere rip-off with Solaris overtones.

But I still love it. I don't know why.
Well actually it's a knock off of SPHERE which was a knock off of SOLARIS. It also knocked off GALAXY OF TERROR which knocked off ALIEN and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. And it's a knock off of HELLRAISER which knocked off my S&M fantasies.

And above all it's a knock off of a knock off because it quite obviously knocked the fucking knock OFF!!!

And with all that in mind I dare to say that it was still more original than 90% of the genre fare that came out theatrically in the US this year.
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post #20 of 46
11/13/03 at 3:05pm
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Quote:
Originally posted by Andre Dellamorte
Wetbones, replace "Troubled ship" with "planet." Same dif.
But one less thing it knocked off!
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post #21 of 46
11/13/03 at 3:06pm
And Sphere was novel from 1987.
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post #22 of 46
11/13/03 at 3:09pm
You have a Clintonian sense of definition Wetbones.

Strax, there's no way of getting around it, we're gonna get pissed if I make it to England. At this rate someone better offer me a floor to sleep on so I can come sooner than later, just so we don't get alcohol poisoning by the time I get there.
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post #23 of 46
11/13/03 at 3:13pm
Always floor space chez moi.

And my room mate is the spitting image of Katie Holmes (and what a fine looking fella he is: boom- boom!).

What more incentive do you need.
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post #24 of 46
11/13/03 at 3:13pm
Awww hell, I like the movie.

Where's my special editions of Howard the Duck and Star Kid?

But seriously, where the hell is Warning Sign on DVD?
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post #25 of 46
11/13/03 at 4:33pm
To Wetbones:

Masterminds is a rip off of Under Siege, not Die Hard.
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post #26 of 46
11/14/03 at 4:51pm
The characters of MASTERMINDS and HACKERS should band together to fight crime in a film directed by Tigermasterbater.
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post #27 of 46
11/14/03 at 5:25pm
This may be the only Paul Anderson film I really liked. Although it did seem to suffer from editing issues I still felt the atmosphere was great. Very creepy. Of course, I haven't seen (or read) Solaris or Sphere. Are either of the Solaris and/or Sphere film adaptions or books getting strong recommendations from The Event Horizon naysayers here?
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post #28 of 46
11/14/03 at 5:45pm
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Originally posted by Farmer Vincent's fritters
This may be the only Paul Anderson film I really liked. Although it did seem to suffer from editing issues I still felt the atmosphere was great. Very creepy. Of course, I haven't seen (or read) Solaris or Sphere. Are either of the Solaris and/or Sphere film adaptions or books getting strong recommendations from The Event Horizon naysayers here?
soderbergh's Solaris was great.. im still trying to get my hands on the original..

id take Event Horizon over Sphere any day.. despite the disaster ending. But then maybe thats cuz i read Chrichton's book before watching the movie.. cant say for sure. but sam jackson's post-pulp fiction work has just never sat right with me for some reason.
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post #29 of 46
11/14/03 at 6:31pm
I think it's interesting that with so many people bashing Event Horizon for being a knock-off of other films, which is always amusing in a genre as imbred as horror, no-one has mentioned Disney's The Black Hole yet.

I love Event Horizon, and would look forward to a nicer edition. I also appreciated the science involved, which the writer obviously put some thought into, and was disappointed to read here that they cut a lot of the technical aspects of the backstory out because not enough of the movie's target audience knew what a freakin' black hole was.

dmeister
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post #30 of 46
11/14/03 at 8:01pm
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Quote:
Originally posted by ferriferous foodi
soderbergh's Solaris was great.. im still trying to get my hands on the original..
Finally someone apart from me and Smiling Jack Ruby who liked that film! Thank God!

Have you listened to the audio commentary yet? I love the part where James Cameron talks about having sex with sub-atomic particles ...
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post #31 of 46
11/15/03 at 4:59am
I really have to agree with everyone else here - I liked Event Horizon. I remember seeing it in the theater and just getting something completely different than a run-of-the-mill "Aliens"-clone. Definitely something I liked, especially the scene where that guy decides to eject himself out into space w/out a suit on.

And ten times better than Sphere, IMO.

Anything is better than Sphere.

*shudder*

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This gets a special edition while there are hundreds of great films waiting to let alone be released on DVD. Damn.
...says the man waiting for The Stupids on DVD.
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post #32 of 46
11/15/03 at 6:13am
I was up late one night and found myself watching Dustin Hoffman and Sam Jackson, and missing the first 5 minutes or so, did not realize the movie was Sphere. I thought it wasnt too bad.

But it is nowhere NEAR as good as Event Horizons in my mind. I woudl LOVE to see this flick restored. Course, after Resident Evil, I am not so sure they didn't cut alot out because Anderson buggered the scenes up too much to make them worth watching.
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post #33 of 46
11/15/03 at 3:21pm
Event Horizon is anything but a well made, original movie. But, geez, that doesn't mean it's bad. It seriously freaked me the hell out when I saw it in theaters, and trust me, very few movies freak me out (I'm very jaded to horror-movies). That and I love space, so just about any movie set in space has some bias from me going for it. Honestly, I can't think of anything specific from this movie that really bothered me. Well, when the one guy floats off into space only to "jetpack" back was pretty silly and not too possible... but hey, if hell can burst through a blackhole then I'm willing to forgive that little diddy.
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post #34 of 46
11/16/03 at 3:22am
I have seen and liked Sphere, Event Horizon and the remake of Solaris and I can tell you: They are not that alike. It's like saying Harry Potter is a reramem of LOTR, or Black Hawk Down is a remake of Saving Private Ryan, or The Matrix is a remake of The Terminator. There is a finite amount of ideas and plots for movies out there, just becuase they have a similarity or two doesn't mean they are unorginial garbage.

BTW, I am looking forward to this new SE, I really hope they put it out in R1 and include the deleted footage as an extra feature seperate from the movie.
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post #35 of 46
11/16/03 at 3:58am
As much as I hate Paul W.C. Anderson, I have to admit that EH has some pretty cool shit in it.
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post #36 of 46
11/16/03 at 5:56pm
While there are a few things in this flick worth watching, mostly on a visual level, I hated this thing. Here are a few reasons:
[list=1]We are introduced to a big metal ball gizmo covered with spikes. Very cool. Expect impaling. Impaling never comes.

Stupid woman who knows her young boy is back on Earth, yet is somehow convinced that he is now running around the spaceship calling her name.

The space-walk sans spacesuit.

The generic mysterious guy who's not part of the crew turns out to become a generic evil-dude out to take the rest of the crew's souls.

Did I mention spiky ball w/o impalings?[/list=1]

Basically this flick is a very generic thriller that borrows bad cliches from any number of sources and jumbles them all together on a really nice set, while trying to be cerebral at the same time. It was aimless, ludicrous, and just downright stupid. Worst of all, it wasn't frightening at all, except for the couple of unearned shock scares (and I thought that stupid cat in Alien was annoying...) Sure was pretty, tho'...

Now, I'm not going to harangue anyone for liking this piece of shit, there are plenty of awful pieces of garbage that I love - just don't try to tell me that this is a good movie. It's not. A guilty pleasure at best. Also a great drinking game - down a shot every time you spot a cliche, or something directly ripped off from another flick. You'll be blotto forty minutes into the thing...
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post #37 of 46
12/6/03 at 10:21pm

Bumping Since It's On Sci-Fi

They're showing Event Horizon on the Sci-Fi channel right now and it reminded me that I had heard about a possible Special Edition of this flick coming out on DVD with about 30 mins of extra material. Checking this thread gave a possible UK release back in October. Did it actually come out?

Since this thread derailed after the first post, I'd like to see if we can get it back on track with some info from Chewers from across the pond. There are a couple listings for Event Horizon at Amazon UK, but no mention of a special edition. So does anyone know what's going on with this DVD?
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post #38 of 46
12/6/03 at 11:34pm
You know what we need. A Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain 2 Disc Special Edition. Complete with deleted scenes that make the lesbian subtext all the more clear, a music video from the lead singer of Men At Work, 2 commentary tracks, one from Ricci and Chlumsky (forced out of retirement), and one from the director, and a two-hour docuemntary retrospective called "Return To Bear Mountain" where current stars like Jewel Staite and David Keith reflect on how Gold Diggers changed their lives.
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post #39 of 46
12/6/03 at 11:38pm
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Originally posted by Rath/Brendan
You know what we need. A Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain 2 Disc Special Edition. Complete with deleted scenes that make the lesbian subtext all the more clear, a music video from the lead singer of Men At Work, 2 commentary tracks, one from Ricci and Chlumsky (forced out of retirement), and one from the director, and a two-hour docuemntary retrospective called "Return To Bear Mountain" where current stars like Jewel Staite and David Keith reflect on how Gold Diggers changed their lives.
I'd second that motion, if the prerequisite for this SE is a 7-disc extended ultimate edition of Charles Grodin's magnum opus, BEETHOVEN.
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post #40 of 46
12/6/03 at 11:57pm
Waitaminute -- John Landis directed The Stupids???
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post #41 of 46
12/7/03 at 1:28am
:Checking this thread gave a possible UK release back in October. Did it actually come out?

Check the thread title again -- the release date is in October....of 2004.
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post #42 of 46
12/7/03 at 4:41am
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Originally posted by biff
Waitaminute -- John Landis directed The Stupids???
Damn right. The man will be greeted with open arms in Valhalla for this very deed.
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post #43 of 46
12/7/03 at 9:14am
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Originally posted by Wetbones
So it's a knockoff of Soderbergh's version of SOLARIS that came out ... last year? Because in both the original novel by Lem and the Tarkovsky film there is no "troubled ship". They're set ON the planet.
Most of the events in Lem's book take place aboard a floating/flying/whatever craft (at low altitudes) and not on the surface of the planet as you suggest.

Kris Kelvin does however journey to the surface in the final chapter (The Old Mimoid) to ponder the loss of Rheya and the meaning of his experiences aboard the station.

As for Event Horizon, this particular movie appropriates from so many different sources – it is debatable whether there is a single piece of ‘original’ work to be found in it.

That said, I have no real dislike of the film; the highly disorientating opening shot of the space station rotating in orbit around the earth is of singular comedic value when shown to people who have had too much to drink.
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post #44 of 46
12/7/03 at 3:38pm
While doing my holiday shopping I noticed on the shelf the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" 2 disc special edition.

/blink

/blink

Sorry friends, all bets are off.
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post #45 of 46
12/7/03 at 8:44pm
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Originally posted by Sean Bateman
Damn right. The man will be greeted with open arms in Valhalla for this very deed.
Hehe, so I guess Vic Morrow's in there right now, knocking back several hornfuls of Löwenbräu in anticipation then...

Anyways, saw EH on SciFi today, and dammit -- I want that DVD!
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post #46 of 46
12/7/03 at 9:00pm
Explorers being on that list is more of a cause celebrate. However between that and Horizon...boy, am I glad to have a Region All player...
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