Movie Details
| Title: | Life | |
| Director: | Daniel Espinosa | |
| Year: | 2017 | |
| Genre: | Horror | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.17.25 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.17.25 | Internet | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2025 A multinational coalition of astronauts manning a fictionally beefed-up international space station retrieve soil samples from Mars and find a single-cell organism that reanimates and grows into a troublesome space octopus. This has been on my hard drive since 2017. I don't remember why I wanted to see it but I'm guessing because of the cast and it's space horror. Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, and Jake Gylenhaal together is worth checking out, at least it was in 2017 before pandemics and streaming takeovers and everything else. this was mediocre to ok. I imagine the actors got pretty sick of swaying and acting like they were in zero-g. The wires were erased but sometimes the seat of their jumpsuits look pretty distended. And it's funny how the CG blood floats but not sweat. I also took issue with how smart the creature gets, like from single cell to using tools in like a week, month tops, but you know whatever. The creature's just CG gobbledygook to create tension and kill people off. The fact that it grows (very quickly) by eating blood or knows how to maneuver in zero G or has superior strength or can cut communication lines or how to get out through an air vent or in through a thruster or how it can survive in the same environment humans can even though it came from mars is all just part of the willing suspension of disbelief. Ignore all that and it's fun enough for a 90s minutes or so. This would be a poor note to end on so I think we're gonna do one more. |
