meta link: review of the movie splice by makesomelove

In case you somehow missed this:

Review of the movie Splice by makesomelove. In all caps. Because it kind of has to be.

Warnings for triggery content and sheer wtfery. If you are thinking of seeing it, I--maybe you don't want to be spoiled? Except seriously, maybe you might really need to be. Oh my God.

*re-reading in horror*

Just. No. No.

ETA: Rotten Tomatoes has it at 74%. I am seriously losing my faith in humanity.

Comments

[jaydeyn]

OMG Thank you for linking to that! I WAS THINKING OF SEEING IT. NO MORE.

OH DAVID HEWLETT NO!!!!

D:
Jaydeyn

[concinnity]

O.M.G.

[rembrandtswife]

Oh god, died laughing at the review. Not getting ANYWHERE NEAR the actual movie, wtf. Need moar iced tea nao.

[scrollgirl]

Dude, I did not know this was an actual movie. Ewwww.

[(Anonymous)]

At least the guy from the SF Chronicle didn't like it. He said it was okay for the first half, then it was too slow to be scary and too dumb to be deep, but it managed "disgusting" just fine.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/04/MVKJ1DOO26.DTL

[bluemeridian]

I've been reading the saga of slowly revealing said wtfery at io9 over the course of, what, a couple of months? It's like a train wreck that I have absolutely no intention of seeing but can't look away from. Now I have to go read that review.

[wrabbit]

It sounds very Freudian.

[storm_petrel]

Sweet god in a terrifying box, thank you for linking that. I was actually thinking about seeing it this week, and I would have been TRAUMATIZED FOR LIFE.

[swordage]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT LINK. TAT There are not words for my horror.

[everysecondtuesday]

DDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

I had already decided not to see it, and now I am so glad, because that is not what I'd have expected from the previews at all. Wow.

[gblvr]

Ugh. Not even David Hewlett can make that mess better....

[jamethiel]

*twitches* I. Whut.

HOW IS THIS OK? SERIOUSLY EVER I WANT TO SCRUB WITH LYE AND THEN QUARANTINE THE SCRIPT WRITERS SO THAT THEY DON'T INFECT THE REST OF THE HUMAN RACE WITH THIS...

I honestly don't have words. GAH

[ide_cyan]

I've seen it twice now!

[ithiliana]

Entwife and I took one look at the preview, looked at each other, and shook our heads.

About 98.7% of the time, we agree and are able to establish it in the "see preview/look" moment.

But we are hoping to see "Despicable Me!" (I am in lurve with the littlest girl.)

[seekingeden]

Ah, good to see that my spidey sense told the truth when it tingled while watching the trailer *shudders*

[azurehart]

How much drugs did the writers have to take to come up with this scrip???

Not even the lure of David Hewlett could make me watch this movie. Ever.

[rembrandtswife]

That looks like The Most Appropriate Icon Possible in response to this Freudian nightmare masquerading as a movie. I give it two thumbs up.

[majoline]

I have lost all faith in humanity that is all.

I was willing to suck it up and go see a horror flick for David Hewlett, but oh hell no.

I am kinda traumatized at reading the review. I can't believe anyone liked it.

[perquisitor_omnia]

Thank the gods for my extra sized glass of chianti. If that abomination of a movie got a 74% at RT I have already lost my laughably small faith in humanity. And I thought the trailer was dumb.

[prettybird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's just...a world of no.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

So much.

[trobadora]

It's completely appalling. :(

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Dear God it is.

[chalk-of-doom.livejournal.com]

My thoughts: "OH VINCENZO NATALI NO"

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Poor David Hewlett is in it, too. I feel I should send him flowers.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Yeaaahhh. I was linked to that earlier in the day, and I just- I mean, it's not like I was going to see it anyway. Not my type of movie, based on the trailers. But OMG. KILL IT WITH FIRE.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

See, I probably would have gotten it, since Child loves horror and sci-fi horror in general I can watch too. Now, not so much. Ever.

[poisoninjest.livejournal.com]

Okay, I am planning on seeing this movie later this week. Is it possible to give me some sort of warning without being terribly plot-spoilery?

[thearchpoet.livejournal.com]

What do you consider warning worthy on fics? Rape? Incest? Pedophilia?

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

Yea. Yea. Saw that last night. The more I think about it, the more I want to punch the movie in the face. Damnit.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

David Hewelett did it because Vincenzo Natali's his friend, and of course he got paid. Sarah Polley did it because she thought it was worth her time; same for Adrien Brody. It's supposed to upset you. This is one of the things horror does. It's a beautifully made film, one of the best, most commercial and most interesting things I've seen come out of the Canadian movie industry in dog's years. Hopefully, it'll break Natali wide open internationally. No one is making anyone go see it, though it might be nice if they made up their own minds, but whatever.

Man, does that lady you linked to like to scream.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I don't think someone who is triggered by rape--not to mention incest and issues of consent, not to mention the continuing demonization of Scientists and How They Will Destroy the World, not to mention the othering of a sentient being, which are only teh beginning of my problems with combining the horror and sci-fi genres--would really get the entire artistic angle, to be honest.

Not that other people can't enjoy it, but full disclosure of what you're going to deal with isn't exactly a negative, and you can make up your own mind not to see it based on the fact you have issues with the use and abuse of those things.

Art does not mean people have to like it, agree with it, agree with the presentation, or in fact think it is a perpetuation of widely-accepted stereotypes.