Splice

Science Is Bad

Yah yadi yadda yaddya.

Anyway, it is about a couple of scientists that probably used Hollywood Science genetics to create a partly human creature that somehow goes horribly wrong.

Probably due to one of the lead characters trying to drown it. Anyway I won't watch it because it will be Anvilicious (hey that anvil has been how many times now?) and not to mention the Nightmare Fuel.

Oh and it might have the Alien movie formula.

Sorry if I am complaining about movies I don't watch.

It's from the director of the first Cube. It will probably be quite scary. But it seems really, really awesome. I'm seeing it opening day.

edited 16th May '10 8:07:31 PM by troperwithoutaname

sounds like Species minus the sex.

Oh, don,t dismiss the sex yet. In the one of the first trailers, there is clearly shown that the little genespliced baby tries to maybe seduce someone (perhaps Brody's charcter, I don't remember).

Anyways, this movie may be not too good. I personally didn't like the moment in the new trailer, when the monster girl apparently grows some kind of bat wings.

edited 17th May '10 12:36:55 AM by M.Bizzare

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Huh, from the director of Cube, you say? Wow, I might just check it out. I won't lie, the concept doesn't quite tickle me, but hey, I've been surprised before.

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Princess Tutu taught me the woes of dismissing a show on the premise that it looks like a whole bunch of other things that really suck.

I want to see it for the effects. :3

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Something possibly noteworthy - Guillermo Del Toro is producing.

I'm not afraid of Splice because I'm not scared of little girls with cancer.

Has it been released? Some sites say yes some sites say know.

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I will probobly see it with meagan.

Unless she wusses out on me

All I can say is I look at the trailers and all I see it:

"ME AM PLAY GODS!!!!"

Seriously, would it be so hard for a scifi film to have one of these "artificial life-form" type creatures be a helpful protagonist instead of some Unholy Abomination Against Nature that must be destroyed Lest Humanity Perish?

edited 4th Jun '10 3:06:19 PM by Roland

^No. When new scientific methods, technologies, whathaveyou are explored by scientists, that pretty much opens up doorways for horror stories to exploit how it could all go horribly, horribly wrong. The playing god aspect is a classic route as it leads to people screwing around with creating things and not realizing how their methods are flawed compared to nature (or something).

On a different note, my mom saw a trailer for this on TV and said that artificial humanoid girl thing looked like a Na'vi from Avatar.

edited 4th Jun '10 3:15:04 PM by Jumpingzombie

Yeah, it's been released. I just saw it this afternoon, and was pleasantly surprised; it was not as scary as it could have been, namely due to the scientific contexts of it, but it did have several interesting moral quandaries. Unfortunately, in this movie, it seemed that All Genes Are Codominant...oh, and the actress playing Dren was French. This film had one of the most unconventional Inter Species Romance / Caught with Your Pants Down scenes put to film, and a few Gender Benders. If you're into intelligent sci-fi, go see it. If you want something scary, don't.

^I could see that resemblance...

edited 4th Jun '10 8:19:18 PM by troperwithoutaname

^^^ If you're looking for a sympathetic one you could always read (not watch) Frankenstein.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

^^So, the movie is suffering a bit from Trailers Always Lie?

^ Yeah. It's not a horror movie at all...it's about as much of a horror movie as The Island is. The movie is very well-written, intelligent sci-fi, but the end, without spoiling anything, is downright hilariously Narmtastic.  ^*

edited 4th Jun '10 11:02:22 PM by Pirka

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This movie has the only sex scene I ever RAN out of. Someone else followed.

edited 5th Jun '10 8:53:13 PM by chitoryu12

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@chitoryu: Which one?

I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.

^I'm guessing the one with Dren and Clive. I was freaked out by that scene, especially when Dren's wings popped out when she orgasmed, but I didn't walk out.

And yeah, there's a bit of Never Trust a Trailer and Trailers Always Lie in this film, but I wouldn't compare the new (non-Cannes) version to a Michael Bay movie.

edited 6th Jun '10 8:35:25 AM by troperwithoutaname

Just to clear things up, I wasn't comparing it to the Michael Bay-ness of The Island. I was comparing it to the parts before that. My stupid mind blocked out the part where the plot completely dissolved and it became random explosions... -eye twitch-

If IMDB is to be believed, a lot of people were allegedly majorly turned on by said scene. O_o

edited 6th Jun '10 10:08:53 AM by Pirka

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Seriously, would it be so hard for a scifi film to have one of these "artificial life-form" type creatures be a helpful protagonist instead of some Unholy Abomination Against Nature that must be destroyed Lest Humanity Perish?

Just watch anime, seriously, moe is the biggest genre now, and monster-girls are the biggest sub-genre of moe...

Splice is very well-written and interesting... up until the second sex scene, at which point it becomes Narm: The Movie. And that's not even the only thing wrong with the ending.

The movie tries. Dren is highly sympathetic for most of the film. A lot of her treatment is essentially child abuse, which would be a great set-up for a Tragic Monster, except that really doesn't come across properly when a Gender Bender turns her into a randomly insane vampire rapist.

And THEN there's the obnoxious Sequel Hook...

edited 6th Jun '10 10:27:00 PM by LeadPal

Actually I really liked how the ending was handled. They could have gone with the cop-out stereotypical ending, but they went with the exceedingly cynical ending, displaying just how flawed the surviving characters are.

"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." - E. Gary Gygax

It was pure garbage. Even the movie the lying trailers portrayed would have been better. The foreshadowing was particularly bad. In most cases, nonexistant, the rest of the time so blatant that I can't come up with a proper metaphor to describe it.

Oh, and BOLTS DO NOT JUST BREAK LIKE THAT!!!!

I walked out.