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Topic: So... Splice

I watched Splice this evening because I'd heard it got pretty good reviews and was cool and weird. And it was cool and weird, but mostly kind of meh.

I think it has a great premise but ends up being what I call "writerly". Characters do things because they do them. Things happen because they do. It's not "contrived" exactly because those things aren't implausible dramatic coincidences. They're just... unmotivated. The characters constantly react instead of acting, and there's little build from sequence to sequence, just a barely related string of events. The twist wasn't even a twist.

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There didn't seem to be a point to the main characters' choice of raising Dren. They didn't really even express any scientific curiosity about her. And there was certainly no sense to be made about Dren's biology. It seemed to be some kind of rabbit-bat-human-scorpion-Zoidberg hybrid.

Also, a pharmaceutical company is in desperate need of money? Tell me another one.

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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  • Registered: 2010-01-26
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Re: So... Splice

The most specific thing I can say about this movie is that it's forgettable. As in, I saw it some months ago, I remember not hating it or anything, but I remember very little about it. It just didn't leave an impression.

Which is, really, the worst sin a film can commit. Piss me off, make me hate you, that's all fine. But if I give you my attention for two hours, at least leave me with a memory of the experience. Positive, negative, whatever, don't just waste my time.

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