Friday, October 30, 2009

Delightful Dialogue: Event Horizon

Dr. Weir: Right. Well, um, using layman's terms... Use a retaining magnetic field to focus a narrow beam of gravitons - these, in turn, fold space-time consistent with Weyl tensor dynamics until the space-time curvature becomes infinitely large, and you produce a singularity. Now, the singularity...

Miller: "Layman's terms?!"

Cooper: Well, fuck layman's terms! Do you speak English?



~ Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, and Richard T. Jones in Event Horizon (1997)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was just talking about this movie with a friend of mine. She said she is not looking forward to "Avatar" because she doesn't like "any Sci-Fi movies because they go well beyond the realm of realism. "I then asked her if she has ever seen Event Horizon because it's one of the greatest Sci-Fi space movies ever created. She then said 'Event what?' To which case i asked her if she has seen 'Space Odyssey 2001'... a blank look on her face.. poor deprived child.

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Pat Tillett said...

I'm always totally surprised that so many people never saw, or even heard of "Event Horizon."

I loved that movie and it scared the crap out of me!

A question: Don't you think Sam Neill would have made a better James Bond, than many of the 1000 other actors who got the role?

Angie said...

Pat - this movie scared the crappers out of us too! Totally underrated as a sci-fi film.

And YES! In his younger years, Sam Neill would have been an amazing Bond!

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Pat Tillett said...

This link goes to a post on my blog. Another scary sci-fi flick. You might think its interesting.

http://patricktillett.blogspot.com/2010/03/its-cool-man.html