Splice

[MacGuffin]

Trailer

Release Date: June 4th, 2010 (wide)

Starring: Sarah Polley, Adrien Brody 

Directed by: Vincenzo Natali (Cube)

Premise: Clive and Elsa are a pair of brilliant scientists whose cutting-edge experiments in genetic engineering make them superstars in their field. As devoted to their careers as they are to one another, they start conducting unauthorized experiments with new animal species that show great promise.

[socketlevel]

had some bad acting moments, poorly written scenes, low budget in one way (not in another). but in the end, i really liked it.

coming out of the theatre with friends the closest movie i could compare it to was eXistenZ. something about how the imagry/atmosphere/low-budgetness/canadian-sci-fi elements all wrapped together. i'm not often very proud of movies made in my country, but this is a step in the right direction... something we desperately need. i hope some of you guys liked it, there really is some great stuff in there and it's got a creepy dirty feeling to it that leaves with you out of the cinema; which of course is a good thing.

[I Love a Magician]

had a nice Cinema Going Experience with this (it was a fun movie). thought they definitely could've gone further with the ideas and avoided the more generic plot twists, but it was still a little more thought provoking than i expected.

[Stefen]

It's pretty great and a lot of fun until the third act plot twist that just kind of almost ruins the whole movie.

[JG]

which twist?

[I Love a Magician]

spoiler

i don't know if it's a Twist, but i would've preferred it not including that big chase scene near the end.

[Stefen]

Spoiler.

When Adrian Brody has sex with Dren, I rolled my eyes and when Sarah Polley catches them and Brody says, "It's not what you think!" I laughed, then the whole theater laughed, then we couldn't stop. It was like the movie version of the wave during a hilariously bad part of a movie. Oh, really, it's not what you think? You mean you weren't just banging our daughter/monster?

HILARIOUS.

[JG]

i actually thought that was one of the more exciting turns the movie took. its definitely strange, but I thought its funniness was intentional and entirely appropriate.

the whole movie is a hodgepodge of daring sequences like that one and cringe-worthy, lame ones (the climax falling into the latter category). one of the more dumbfounding developments came when we suddenly find out that the girl had an awful childhood, a forced piece of character development clearly placed there to justify her motives in proximate scenes..

prior to the movie, they played the trailers for toy story 3 and cats & dogs, which my girlfriend and i found strange. sure enough, as the lights went down and owen wilson's voice-over began we realized that they were showing marmaduke. the audience started to boo and throw popcorn. wonder what the reaction was like when splice started to play in the other theater.

[I Love a Magician]

marmaduke: it's not what you think

[Pas]

Quote from a blog I found too funny not to post:

Spoils McSpoily

The thing that's crazier than Academy Award winner Adrien Brody fuckin a monster is the way the movie treats him afterwards. Yeah, there's some good shame when his girl catches him monsterfucking. He doesn't know she saved him from being stung to death, but if he knew he'd probly wish she hadn't. But after a few scenes with his head hung low they stop making a big deal about it. It still treats him as a reasonable, sympathetic protagonist, not an over the edge nutball. It's like ah, come on. You'd fuck your monster daughter too. Don't front.

Actually the DVD cover makes it sound like Peter Travers would fuck his monster daughter. It says "A potent and provocative thriller. Sexy and scary in equal doses!" How else can you interpret the "sexy" part? That's gotta mean he wants to fuck his monster daughter, right? You're creepin me out, Travers. But it's rare that a quote whore blurb unintentionally offers a peak into the writer's dark sexual fantasies. So in a way he's advancing the artform of film criticism with this breakthrough.




If only I had never known about that spoiler and by accident saw this film I had no intention of seeing. Ahhh damn you Stefen! Man, I can barely imagine such a plot twist. It sounds so fucking awesome. It's probably the deception of my life.

[Pubrick]

If only I had never known about that spoiler and by accident saw this film I had no intention of seeing. Ahhh damn you Stefen! Man, I can barely imagine such a plot twist. It sounds so fucking awesome. It's probably the deception of my life.

yeah so maybe you should have pre-empted your own post with a spoiler warning.

jerk.

not that i care. just in principle.

[Pas]

If only I had never known about that spoiler and by accident saw this film I had no intention of seeing. Ahhh damn you Stefen! Man, I can barely imagine such a plot twist. It sounds so fucking awesome. It's probably the deception of my life.

yeah so maybe you should have pre-empted your own post with a spoiler warning.
jerk.

not that i care. just in principle.

done.

monsterfucker.

[Stefen]

It's true! Brody does THAT in this!

[socketlevel]

I'd monsterfuck her.