PANDORUM
Watchable. There were just a few good scenes:
1. Normally films, even documentaries, show astronauts striding confidently from the spacecraft towards the camera. The reality, as far as I know, is different - they are taken out on stretches as their muscles need to readjust to gravity. Hibernation in movies is also glossed over - they just come to. In "Pandorum" it was impressively more realistic: they shiver, their faces are red, then their bodies cover in sweat, their hair is greasy, they are disoriented and suffer a temporary memory loss.
2. The scene showing a few stories high shelving full of genetic samples needed to colonise a planet.
3. The "historic" account of "the worst catastrophy of space flights" when two flight team members come down with a mental disorder resulting in them believing the spaceship is evil and "evacuating" 5000 passengers sending their hiber beds into the outer space "like flying coffins".
4. The vision of future Earth where the protagonist stands close to the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin with goggles on his face and a turban-like scarf around his head to protect him from the dust of extreme pollution.
5. The 2 views of the alien environment towards the end of the movie.
All the rest should be entitled "Zombies In Space". The mythical reference in "Pandorum" implies more intelligence.
Funnily the next film on my list was
ZOMBIELAND
Watchable. I'm really fed up with the recent zombiemania among movie-makers. How many aggressive corpses dripping of blood and green saliva can you watch? At least it was well acted and funny. Woody Harrelson is better than ever before - a natural born zombie killer. And the jokes are good, e.g. after being mugged by the same two girls in one day: "You are thinking about fucking Wichita?! The two girls have been fucking us the last 24 hours!"
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