Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible, Briefly (2008)

Re:Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible, Briefly (2008) by Oxydepth on Thursday December 31, 2015 @03:13PM (#10819422)

I think the movie Event Horizon got it right. For anybody who hasn't seen it, someone is ejected out into Space. He's saved within about a minute. Though, he definitely suffers internal bleeding and other damages, he survives.

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Re:Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible, Briefly (2008) by TeMPOraL on Thursday December 31, 2015 @03:20PM (#10819474)

Caution: Event Horizon is also one hell of a mind-fucking horror movie. It's not for the weak-minded. Liberate tuteme ex inferis. You have been warned.

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Re:Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible, Briefly (2008) by to3m on Thursday December 31, 2015 @04:07PM (#10819682)

I went to see Event Horizon in the cinema when it first came out, with a couple of schoolfriends. There was an oldish couple in front of us, maybe in their 50s, possibly expecting a repeat of 2001.

Eventually the film finished, and we all got up, slightly dazed - couple included. The woman said to the man, with pursed lips - "Next time, I'm picking the film" :)

The drive home was about 40 minutes, and my friends and I were silent the whole way. But I'm sure if I saw it again, it would seem adorably tame.

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Re:Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible, Briefly (2008) by TeMPOraL on Thursday December 31, 2015 @05:18PM (#10820020)

I watched it on TV, late at night, as a kid. I remember barely being able to fall asleep out of fear, and I think it took a week for the effects of this movie to wear off. I'm older now and I've seen enough sad, scary and disrupting movies that it doesn't affect me anymore, but I'm pretty sure that if I tried to show it to my SO, I'd have my own Event Horizon right there in the apartment.

EDIT: I also had the "next time I'm picking the movie" moment after I took my then-girlfriend to see Prometheus. The TED2023 trailer looked so cool and I didn't realize it's a prequel to Alien...

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Re:Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible, Briefly (2008) by davesque on Thursday December 31, 2015 @06:52PM (#10820404)

Lol. Yes. I remember doing the same when it came out. Went to see it when I was in high school with some friends. I felt literally physically exhausted (and dazed, as you describe) after I walked out of the theater. We were all expecting an interesting sci-fi movie, not a disturbing horror movie.

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Re:Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible, Briefly (2008) by davesque on Thursday December 31, 2015 @06:50PM (#10820389)

While some aspects of that scene do seem to line up with the article, others don't.

For example, if the timeline of the movie is to be believed, the crew member is only exposed to a vacuum for about 10 or 15 seconds before his eyes seem to bleed massively or explode (actually, an apparent plot hole -- only a few seconds later, he's seen without any blood around his eyes). The article suggests that this wouldn't happen.

At the end of the day, Event Horizon was a pretty gory horror movie and they obviously took a lot of liberties in depicting depressurization.

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