Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies

I used the italics for a reason. by Mischief Maker 04/02/2008, 8:24pm PDT So I just finished watching it (the entire thing is on Youtube broken into 9-minute chunks) and I've got to say this is my favorite post-apocalyptic sci fi movie to date. There were no idiot plot moments. The creepy london brought to a screeching silent halt is made even creepier by the fact that the citizens AREN'T dead. It deals with the horrible moral decisions to be made without 2X4 to the face obviousness. No one is absolutely good and no one is absolutely evil, it's just falliable human beings trying to retain their humanity in a situation where their long term survival is an open question. And the titular triffids are wisely not used as the centerpiece of the film, but as a horror always lurking in the distance and closing in on the unwary. Hell, even the seeming Deus Ex Machina that sets the events in motion has a decent explanation that plays into the movie's theme of mankind brought down by its own hubris. It was creepy, interesting, and never made me feel insulted. Recommended.

So yeah, remember how "Sunshine" was a total rip-off of "Event Horizon?" by Mischief Maker 04/02/2008, 6:57am PDT     That's some brilliant detective work there by Sherlock Hemlock 04/02/2008, 7:34am PDT         I used the italics for a reason. by Mischief Maker 04/02/2008, 8:24pm PDT             1963 or (I'm assuming) 1981? NT by Lizard_King 04/02/2008, 8:39pm PDT                 1981. The link in the original post leads to the beginning on Youtube. NT by Mischief Maker 04/02/2008, 9:51pm PDT                     For a minute I thought you were reviewing 28 Days Later =O NT by FABIO 04/02/2008, 10:40pm PDT                         I did too! by Bananadine 04/03/2008, 10:21am PDT                 "And I even got hot, when I saw Janette Scott, fight the triffid that spits pois NT by Rocky Horror Picture Show 04/03/2008, 10:30am PDT     My first adult sci-fi novel, and still one of my favourites. by Fussbett 04/03/2008, 10:45am PDT         I got Triffids, the other class got Crysalids. ENG2A I think. NT by McMoo 04/03/2008, 5:12pm PDT     You and Danny Boyle have something in common by fabio 10/23/2013, 5:31pm PDT         Oh duh! That was my next guess! by Mischief Maker 10/23/2013, 7:21pm PDT             It sucks by fabio 10/23/2013, 11:00pm PDT