My thoughts on Splice AKA WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!
Obviously contains spoilers for the movie and talk of things that might be triggery for some (highlight to read: mentions of rape).
Ok first of all, HOW DID THIS MOVIE GET A 14A RATING? DID THE RATINGS BOARD NOT WATCH THE MOVIE THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH? THIS IS WAY MORE THAN 'SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE SCENES' OK?
Short version:
THINGS I LIKED:
-the title sequence was pretty cool
-David Hewlett was in it (and looking good)
-Adrian Brody was kind of hot in that nerdy, geeky way (up until the 'OH GOD NO HOW COULD YOU DO THAT!' moment)
-baby Dren was kind of funny/cute
-special effects were good, not overdone
THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE:
-PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ELSE
Long version:
I hadn't read any spoilers for the movie before going into it, so I was expecting a horror/thriller flick with some sci-fi elements. OH HOW WRONG I WAS. This is not the kind of horror where you go to get scared in the traditional sense. This is the kind of horror that is disturbing and wrong and bad.
The start of the movie is actually not bad. It's a standard setup for a 'science takes it too far' type of film. And me, expecting a traditonal horror, kept expecting Dren to go insane and start a murderous rampage. I'm not going to talk about my views on the science and the logic!fail of somehow keeping a human/animal/synthesized organism in the lab for two months-ish (at least) and having no one notice, because 1) it's a movie and 2) it is so so far from my main problem with this film.
Once you get about halfway through, the CREEPY BAD WRONG VIBES start to come out. The part where Dren watches Clive and Elsa having sex was weird and uncomfortable, but the point where I started to clue into where the movie was going to go was when Clive and Dren were dancing. The scene started off fine - it was all happy and laughing! Perfectly innocent! And then he started staring at her in that way and I was all 'OH FUCK NO D:'. And then it got worse.
I swear, every time I thought to myself, 'this is it, people are gonna start getting killed now, this is gonna be the end'; IT WASN'T. And I guess, in that sense, they succeeded in doing what they wanted to do? Like, I definitely didn't think that they were going to take it as far as they did. But on the other hand, there is no way in hell that I'm going to be watching this movie again because it made me so deeply uncomfortable.
Elsa cutting off Dren's tail was one of the most disturbing scenes in the whole movie. I get the implication that Elsa is turning into her mother, and just, OMG how fucked up was her mom to get Elsa to a point where she would mutilate her experiment-turned-child?
And the sex scene. My brain was torn between 'ooh Adrian Brody's getting nekkid! :D' and 'OH GOD ADRIAN BRODY'S GETTING NAKED DDDDDDD:' The D: won out pretty quick. I can't say which is the most disturbing aspect for me: the pseudo-pedophilia, the beastiality, or the cross-generational incestual vibes, but IT ALL KIND OF GETS LUMPED TOGETHER INTO A BIG FAT BALL OF DO NOT WANT.
By the end I was actually kind of hoping that male!Dren was raping Elsa with his tail, because then at least EVERYONE INVOLVED WOULD BE DEAD. Which brings me to another question, WHY IS SHE GOING THROUGH WITH THE PREGNANCY? I mean Elsa has issues. And she thinks that she can have another spliced kid and she can be detached enough to let it be experimented on? Or that she thinks she's stable enough to raise it healthy and happy? What? I honestly don't understand her at all.
AND THE SEX CHANGE. I could believe it of Fred and Ginger, but for Dren? Who seems to have the reproductive system of a mammal? And the sex change occurred sometime between when Clive and Elsa buried Dren, to the time that David (I don't remember his character's name in the movie) and Clive's brother showed up. Maybe an hour or two?
TL;DR version: I won't be seeing this again.
Also, I hate how their names remind me of one of my favourite Suikoden pairings, Clive and Elza T__T
This entry was orginally posted at Dreamwidth.
Ok first of all, HOW DID THIS MOVIE GET A 14A RATING? DID THE RATINGS BOARD NOT WATCH THE MOVIE THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH? THIS IS WAY MORE THAN 'SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE SCENES' OK?
Short version:
THINGS I LIKED:
-the title sequence was pretty cool
-David Hewlett was in it (and looking good)
-Adrian Brody was kind of hot in that nerdy, geeky way (up until the 'OH GOD NO HOW COULD YOU DO THAT!' moment)
-baby Dren was kind of funny/cute
-special effects were good, not overdone
THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE:
-PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ELSE
Long version:
I hadn't read any spoilers for the movie before going into it, so I was expecting a horror/thriller flick with some sci-fi elements. OH HOW WRONG I WAS. This is not the kind of horror where you go to get scared in the traditional sense. This is the kind of horror that is disturbing and wrong and bad.
The start of the movie is actually not bad. It's a standard setup for a 'science takes it too far' type of film. And me, expecting a traditonal horror, kept expecting Dren to go insane and start a murderous rampage. I'm not going to talk about my views on the science and the logic!fail of somehow keeping a human/animal/synthesized organism in the lab for two months-ish (at least) and having no one notice, because 1) it's a movie and 2) it is so so far from my main problem with this film.
Once you get about halfway through, the CREEPY BAD WRONG VIBES start to come out. The part where Dren watches Clive and Elsa having sex was weird and uncomfortable, but the point where I started to clue into where the movie was going to go was when Clive and Dren were dancing. The scene started off fine - it was all happy and laughing! Perfectly innocent! And then he started staring at her in that way and I was all 'OH FUCK NO D:'. And then it got worse.
I swear, every time I thought to myself, 'this is it, people are gonna start getting killed now, this is gonna be the end'; IT WASN'T. And I guess, in that sense, they succeeded in doing what they wanted to do? Like, I definitely didn't think that they were going to take it as far as they did. But on the other hand, there is no way in hell that I'm going to be watching this movie again because it made me so deeply uncomfortable.
Elsa cutting off Dren's tail was one of the most disturbing scenes in the whole movie. I get the implication that Elsa is turning into her mother, and just, OMG how fucked up was her mom to get Elsa to a point where she would mutilate her experiment-turned-child?
And the sex scene. My brain was torn between 'ooh Adrian Brody's getting nekkid! :D' and 'OH GOD ADRIAN BRODY'S GETTING NAKED DDDDDDD:' The D: won out pretty quick. I can't say which is the most disturbing aspect for me: the pseudo-pedophilia, the beastiality, or the cross-generational incestual vibes, but IT ALL KIND OF GETS LUMPED TOGETHER INTO A BIG FAT BALL OF DO NOT WANT.
By the end I was actually kind of hoping that male!Dren was raping Elsa with his tail, because then at least EVERYONE INVOLVED WOULD BE DEAD. Which brings me to another question, WHY IS SHE GOING THROUGH WITH THE PREGNANCY? I mean Elsa has issues. And she thinks that she can have another spliced kid and she can be detached enough to let it be experimented on? Or that she thinks she's stable enough to raise it healthy and happy? What? I honestly don't understand her at all.
AND THE SEX CHANGE. I could believe it of Fred and Ginger, but for Dren? Who seems to have the reproductive system of a mammal? And the sex change occurred sometime between when Clive and Elsa buried Dren, to the time that David (I don't remember his character's name in the movie) and Clive's brother showed up. Maybe an hour or two?
TL;DR version: I won't be seeing this again.
Also, I hate how their names remind me of one of my favourite Suikoden pairings, Clive and Elza T__T
This entry was orginally posted at Dreamwidth.