
MY LATE-LIGHT REVIEW OF THE 2009 SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE "PANDORUM." THIS MOVIE IS LIKE IF YOU COULD DOSE YOURSELF WITH IPICAC THROUGH YOUR FUCKING GANDERBULBS. EXCEPT DESPITE ALL ITS BLEAK, RETCH-WORTHY IMAGERY, IT'S. NOT AS PACKED WITH TASTELESS GORE AS I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT. IS IT DRESSED UP LIKE A GARBAGE B-MOVIE? IT FEELS LIKE ONE AT TIMES, DUE TO LOOKING LIKE IT WAS SEPARATED AT HATCHING FROM "EVENT HORIZON" (1997), BUT IT TREATS ITSELF LIKE IT HAS SOME GENUINE SELF-RESPECT. THIS IS A MOVIE THAT DID THE BEST DAMN JOB IT COULD WITH WHAT IT HAD AT THE TIME — MUCH LIKE A GENERATION SHIP BEING COBBLED TOGETHER BY A BUNCH OF BACKWATER, UNEVOLVED MORONS SO IT CAN HURTLE SLOWLY THROUGH SPACE LIKE A FUCKING BOULDER, ONLY TO FIND OUT THERE'S MORE DEPTH TO THE MYSTERY UNDER THEIR FRONDS THAN THEY COULD HAVE DREAMT OF IN THEIR WORST DAYMARES. HONESTLY? DESPITE BEING "YUCKY" INCARNATE, THIS MOVIE FUCKING RULES. I GIVE IT THREE AND A HALF OUT OF FIVE MIDDLE PRONGSTUBS. AND THAT'S BEING GENEROUS. TAKE MY FUCKING CRUMBS, PANDORUM. YOU DID A PRETTY DAMN GOOD JOB. HERE'S HOPING YOU GET REMADE DOWN THE LINE, OR SOMETHING. YOU DESERVED BETTER.
