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Better Name
Surrogates-Horrible images of Juno and Baby Mamma flashed through my mind when I first heard this movie title.
Pandorum – echoes of “Pandora”, the chick that just couldn’t keep her grubby fingers off the box that released all evil.
Edge: Pandorum
Premise
Surrogates- People plug in to a machine and control robots out in the real world. This allows them to live isolated lives hooked into machines all day (livin’ the dream). They can feel pleasure through the surrogates (how else would they infuse sex into the story line) but somehow can not experience pain. This lovely world ends when someone figures out how to kill people through their surrogates. Oh my!
Pandorum - What?! Some unfortunate astronauts on a ship in deep space find themselves haunted by something mysterious?! Alien–>Event Horizon–>Supernova–>Solaris… that’s what we call “trending down”.
Interesting, as long as it steers clear of the plot lines from Avatar, The Island, Terminator 1-3, Gamer, I-Robot, Bicentennial Man, The Matrix 1-3, Stepford Wives, and The Parent Trap
Edge: Surrogates
Leading Man
Surrogates – This movie is awesome because not only do we get bald, angry looking Bruce Willis, but we also get his robot played by long-haired- nice-guy Bruce Willis. This is great for Bruce, cause he has been in a slump lately and now has 2 chances to break out of it!
Pandorum - Ben Foster plays creepy (3:10 to Yuma) and creepier (Hostage) because he looks creepy. Age hasn’t made him less creepy. I’d go with him as the bad guy, even if that doesn’t make sense within the context of this movie. Dennis Quaid is somehow a wannabe Kevin Costner, yet manages to produce even more mediocre movies than his idol.
Bruce Willis is so awesome that if he could be a robot of anyone, he would be himself but with bad hair
Edge: Surrogates
Leading Woman
Surrogates - Um.. if you could be a robot of anything, why would you ever want to be a woman? With that said, Rhada Mitchell plays Willis’ partner and helps him by probably asking questions that need to be answered in order to develop the plot.
Pandorum - the only thing I know about Antje Traue is that there is no way to pronounce the “ntj” sound in the English language.
Rhada looks like she could be an Olsen triplet. If that triplet happened to actually eat food and not chain smoke.
Edge: Surrogates
Preview
Surrogates - Too many sci-fi movies start off with the preview being a commercial for some futuristic product. They are somewhat forced to do this in order to explain the premise of the movie, but this one drags on for too long, and doesn’t make much sense. We also get the obligatory human face ripped off to reveal robotic inner workings. Snore.
Pandorum - Really, with these horror movie previews, you can usually stir intrigue by showing a bunch of scared/disheveled people…and this preview is no exception. We’ll even forgive the laughable baby-alien-thing that pops up at the end:
Not the strongest part of the preview...
Edge: Pandorum
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