Just watched Event Horizon for the first time yesterday

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Just watched Event Horizon for the first time yesterday

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That scene where they play the final log of the old ship crew fucked me up for the whole day. It was just a few seconds but I think if you're going to be horrified by something that is it. I looked up some reddit comments on the movie and its turning into a rabbit hole for warhammer 40k.

Superb acting by Lawrence Fishburne by the way. I don't know why this g.uy didn't become a bigger star.
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One of my all time favorite movies for sure. Yeah I've heard about the Warhammer 40k connection thing which is silly. For the longest time, the movie's description has been 'Hellraiser in space' which I think is pretty accurate.

They just recently released the first and second issues of an Event Horizon comic which is a prequel to the movie. It tackles the events that happened on the ship before and after they initiated the gravity drive. Search for 'Event Horizon: Dark Descent' in google.
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Grudge wrote:
17 Nov 2025, 21:58
That scene where they play the final log of the old ship crew fucked me up for the whole day. It was just a few seconds but I think if you're going to be horrified by something that is it. I looked up some reddit comments on the movie and its turning into a rabbit hole for warhammer 40k.

Superb acting by Lawrence Fishburne by the way. I don't know why this g.uy didn't become a bigger star.
There's a much longer cut of the film that was screened for the studio. They were horrified, and had the film cut down by about 30 minutes. There was a lot more hell, mutilations and extreme gore. Sadly, the footage has since been damaged badly and cannot be recovered. Good ol' days of storing on films.

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https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/explor ... t-horizon/
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This was also Paul W.S Anderson's last good film.
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yeah i just saw it for the first time a couple years ago, and afterward i was like "damn ok what else did this hard-on bearer direct, time to go on a dive" and was very dismayed :redneck:

i always thought lawrence fishburne did pretty well for himself? had some blockbuster roles, has been consistently working for like 40+ years. he's not tom cruise big i guess, but he's never really languished in obscurity or anything
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aye, it's probably my favorite laurence fishburne movie

then again, i'm not aware of much of his films - i only of the matrix movies, mystic river and this one
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motherfucking deep cover, get on that shit yesterday

his last credit as larry fishburne, iirc
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*puts in list of movies to watch*
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jawn galliano wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 00:35
yeah i just saw it for the first time a couple years ago, and afterward i was like "damn ok what else did this hard-on bearer direct, time to go on a dive" and was very dismayed :redneck:

i always thought lawrence fishburne did pretty well for himself? had some blockbuster roles, has been consistently working for like 40+ years. he's not tom cruise big i guess, but he's never really languished in obscurity or anything
He was really good in king of new york :santa:
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but now I want to suck her soft parts.
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Methuselah Honeysuckle wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 01:30
jawn galliano wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 00:35
yeah i just saw it for the first time a couple years ago, and afterward i was like "damn ok what else did this hard-on bearer direct, time to go on a dive" and was very dismayed :redneck:

i always thought lawrence fishburne did pretty well for himself? had some blockbuster roles, has been consistently working for like 40+ years. he's not tom cruise big i guess, but he's never really languished in obscurity or anything
He was really good in king of new york :santa:
and we certainly can't leave out boyz n the hood
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Methuselah Honeysuckle wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 01:30
jawn galliano wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 00:35
yeah i just saw it for the first time a couple years ago, and afterward i was like "damn ok what else did this hard-on bearer direct, time to go on a dive" and was very dismayed :redneck:

i always thought lawrence fishburne did pretty well for himself? had some blockbuster roles, has been consistently working for like 40+ years. he's not tom cruise big i guess, but he's never really languished in obscurity or anything
He was really good in king of new york :santa:
That's what made me give this movie a try, I recently watched King of New York, and I started seeing Event Horizon in my recommendations.
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jawn galliano wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 01:09
motherfucking deep cover, get on that shit yesterday

his last credit as larry fishburne, iirc
Is that movie good? If so I'll watch it.
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jawn galliano wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 01:35
Methuselah Honeysuckle wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 01:30
jawn galliano wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 00:35
yeah i just saw it for the first time a couple years ago, and afterward i was like "damn ok what else did this hard-on bearer direct, time to go on a dive" and was very dismayed :redneck:

i always thought lawrence fishburne did pretty well for himself? had some blockbuster roles, has been consistently working for like 40+ years. he's not tom cruise big i guess, but he's never really languished in obscurity or anything
He was really good in king of new york :santa:
and we certainly can't leave out boyz n the hood
Absolutely can't be making forget on that one.
vega wrote:But when I am meeting she is a round circle like egg. :oldryan: . She is eating 88% of foods and I am paying 100% bill.
Ninny wrote:
10 Oct 2021, 21:53
but now I want to suck her soft parts.
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Grudge wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 02:42
Methuselah Honeysuckle wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 01:30
jawn galliano wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 00:35
yeah i just saw it for the first time a couple years ago, and afterward i was like "damn ok what else did this hard-on bearer direct, time to go on a dive" and was very dismayed :redneck:

i always thought lawrence fishburne did pretty well for himself? had some blockbuster roles, has been consistently working for like 40+ years. he's not tom cruise big i guess, but he's never really languished in obscurity or anything
He was really good in king of new york :santa:
That's what made me give this movie a try, I recently watched King of New York, and I started seeing Event Horizon in my recommendations.
Oh damn. I feel like it's the opposite for the majority of folks.
vega wrote:But when I am meeting she is a round circle like egg. :oldryan: . She is eating 88% of foods and I am paying 100% bill.
Ninny wrote:
10 Oct 2021, 21:53
but now I want to suck her soft parts.
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Grudge wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 02:43
jawn galliano wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 01:09
motherfucking deep cover, get on that shit yesterday

his last credit as larry fishburne, iirc
Is that movie good? If so I'll watch it.
yeah it is essential early gloryhole era and i highly recommend it
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Corpsepyre wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 00:26
This was also Paul W.S Anderson's last good film.
Wow, there's a Paul W.S. Anderson, Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson :dizzy:
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Methuselah Honeysuckle wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 01:30
jawn galliano wrote:
18 Nov 2025, 00:35
yeah i just saw it for the first time a couple years ago, and afterward i was like "damn ok what else did this hard-on bearer direct, time to go on a dive" and was very dismayed :redneck:

i always thought lawrence fishburne did pretty well for himself? had some blockbuster roles, has been consistently working for like 40+ years. he's not tom cruise big i guess, but he's never really languished in obscurity or anything
He was really good in king of new york :santa:
people fucking sleep on king of new york, what a great movie
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great film, its popping up on the youtube shorts right now for me,

need to watch it again, i have it on bluray somewhere
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There was a really interesting fan theory I read...somewhere...back in the day, that this is actually set in the Warhammer 40K universe, and Event Horizon's drive took the ship into the Warp for the first time in human history.

Which...kind of works. I'd love to see the extended version mentioned above...
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Svartmetall wrote:
08 Dec 2025, 02:54
There was a really interesting fan theory I read...somewhere...back in the day, that this is actually set in the Warhammer 40K universe, and Event Horizon's drive took the ship into the Warp for the first time in human history.

Which...kind of works. I'd love to see the extended version mentioned above...
Oh damn. :interessant:::::::::::
vega wrote:But when I am meeting she is a round circle like egg. :oldryan: . She is eating 88% of foods and I am paying 100% bill.
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but now I want to suck her soft parts.
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This was just announced.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/comics/39 ... -from-idw/
Following the success of the prequel comic Event Horizon: Dark Descent, a sequel comic set 200 years after the events of Paul W.S. Anderson’s 1997 cosmic horror film is landing soon.

Event Horizon: Inferno will launch in April 2026 from IDW Dark.
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cant anyone be content to just let a thing exist on its own

can we spare one single thing from turning into an expanded multimedia franchise

clearly not but ill never stop complaining about this bullshit
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yes
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jawn galliano wrote:
11 Dec 2025, 02:43
cant anyone be content to just let a thing exist on its own

can we spare one single thing from turning into an expanded multimedia franchise

clearly not but ill never stop complaining about this bullshit
Event Horizon never was marketable enough to become a multi-franchise like Alien, Predator and more. It's always going to be a standalone film. These new comics are essentially non-canon. The prequel is really good and is handled with care.
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