Post by daniel on Jan 24, 2020 14:33:38 GMT -5
Color Out of Space - Review Thread
I "walked out" of this movie with a nagging feeling. Not only did I feel like I had watched something I had seen before, but that I just spent a long time watching something that seemed very short. Once I realized, through internet researching, that this was adapted from a short story, it made sense. More on that later.
Nic Cage plays the father of a teenage girl and her little brother. When events unfold, the kids find themselves questioning the actions of dear old dad until he outright flips the metaphorical table, and shit gets wild. That movie is called Mom and Dad. In this film, a meteor lands, and a teenage girl and her brother start questioning wtf is happening with dead old dad until he outright flips the metaphorical table, and shit gets wild. Mom is also in the picture, but that's where the similarities diverge as her story arc in Color is less what she does rather than what is done to her.
The meteor itself is a hue of pink, but it starts to emit strange things, namely a spectrum of colors that Nic and his family can't name, though they look similar to ones we are familiar with. The filmmakers cleverly addressed this on film by changing the colors presented so much, that it was hard to identify what it is. However, I couldn't help but think they had borrowed the color design from Annihilation and used it here. Much like in Annihilation, the colors start to affect the world around it, even making new life forms, and transforming already-existing lifeforms. Mentions of comparisons to The Thing are understandable, but misleading, as the comparison is only valid in appearance and not in the sense of a shape-shifting alien causing all the mayhem. Still, some designs in this movie seem like they were, in fact, borrowed or heavily-inspired by The Thing.
The story is interesting enough, but if you've seen the aforementioned The Thing, Annihilation, and Mom and Dad, you're not going to find anything new here. Cage's performance was fine enough, but, again, it seems to harken back to Mom and Dad, mashed with Mandy. So, while it was good, there's no new ground broken here, not that we're used to that with Cage.
That said, I didn't hate this, but it is going to get confused in way later years with other movies that look, sound, and feel like it. I also think the shortness of the overall story would have left this better suited for a Twilight Zone episode format and length. If you want a good sci-fi/horror film to tide you over, I recommend it, but I don't think anyone needs to rush to the theatres for this one.
6/10 (above average, but not quite "good")
I "walked out" of this movie with a nagging feeling. Not only did I feel like I had watched something I had seen before, but that I just spent a long time watching something that seemed very short. Once I realized, through internet researching, that this was adapted from a short story, it made sense. More on that later.
Nic Cage plays the father of a teenage girl and her little brother. When events unfold, the kids find themselves questioning the actions of dear old dad until he outright flips the metaphorical table, and shit gets wild. That movie is called Mom and Dad. In this film, a meteor lands, and a teenage girl and her brother start questioning wtf is happening with dead old dad until he outright flips the metaphorical table, and shit gets wild. Mom is also in the picture, but that's where the similarities diverge as her story arc in Color is less what she does rather than what is done to her.
The meteor itself is a hue of pink, but it starts to emit strange things, namely a spectrum of colors that Nic and his family can't name, though they look similar to ones we are familiar with. The filmmakers cleverly addressed this on film by changing the colors presented so much, that it was hard to identify what it is. However, I couldn't help but think they had borrowed the color design from Annihilation and used it here. Much like in Annihilation, the colors start to affect the world around it, even making new life forms, and transforming already-existing lifeforms. Mentions of comparisons to The Thing are understandable, but misleading, as the comparison is only valid in appearance and not in the sense of a shape-shifting alien causing all the mayhem. Still, some designs in this movie seem like they were, in fact, borrowed or heavily-inspired by The Thing.
The story is interesting enough, but if you've seen the aforementioned The Thing, Annihilation, and Mom and Dad, you're not going to find anything new here. Cage's performance was fine enough, but, again, it seems to harken back to Mom and Dad, mashed with Mandy. So, while it was good, there's no new ground broken here, not that we're used to that with Cage.
That said, I didn't hate this, but it is going to get confused in way later years with other movies that look, sound, and feel like it. I also think the shortness of the overall story would have left this better suited for a Twilight Zone episode format and length. If you want a good sci-fi/horror film to tide you over, I recommend it, but I don't think anyone needs to rush to the theatres for this one.
6/10 (above average, but not quite "good")
