Comments on: Splice http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/2010/07/03/splice/ A Deviant View of Cinema - Film, DVD & Book Reviews Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:28:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alex Fitch http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/2010/07/03/splice/comment-page-1/#comment-20709 Alex Fitch Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:00:43 +0000 http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/?p=1231#comment-20709 You took your nine-year-old daughter to see it 5 times?! Was it in response to the question "Daddy, where do babies come from?"? I guess I was right about you Canadians... ;) Overall, I really enjoyed it too, and agree that an unrated DVD might iron out the few problems I had with the film. I'll be interviewing Vincenzo Natali soon, so will ask him if he had to curtail the running time at all and cut any more extreme moments... Further to what I said about Cube arriving too soon to create an interest in the locked room / survival torture sub-genre, I see that Inception covers some of the same ground as Cypher, so I guess he was ahead of the game with that too! BTW: I'm thoroughly enjoying your Colonial reports... One day I'll make a pilgrimage to Winnipeg! You took your nine-year-old daughter to see it 5 times?! Was it in response to the question “Daddy, where do babies come from?”? I guess I was right about you Canadians… ;)

Overall, I really enjoyed it too, and agree that an unrated DVD might iron out the few problems I had with the film. I’ll be interviewing Vincenzo Natali soon, so will ask him if he had to curtail the running time at all and cut any more extreme moments…

Further to what I said about Cube arriving too soon to create an interest in the locked room / survival torture sub-genre, I see that Inception covers some of the same ground as Cypher, so I guess he was ahead of the game with that too!

BTW: I’m thoroughly enjoying your Colonial reports… One day I’ll make a pilgrimage to Winnipeg!

]]> By: Greg Klymkiw http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/2010/07/03/splice/comment-page-1/#comment-20684 Greg Klymkiw Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:29:38 +0000 http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/?p=1231#comment-20684 Hey Alex! Good review, though I do take slight exception (or perhaps wanted a bit more expansion) on your comments regarding the film's speedy approach to "the shifting attitudes and desires of the creature’s makers" and the final act's similarity to many other movies. First of all, what impressed me was the film's originality, perversity and intelligence, but that these elements were enclosed within the context of a slick, efficient package that DOES still deliver on a solid level of genre expectations. While I personally could have used more emphasis on those shifting attitudes, I would only have wanted the emphasis to have been even more excessive and/or intense with respect to the more perverse aspects of these changes. I'm only hoping there might be an "unrated" DVD/BluRay that appeal to my peculiar fetishes. As for the end, I too found it a tad predictable, however, not in any annoying fashion, but rather, one that was incredibly suspenseful in spite of the familiar territory. I found it a thoroughly satisfying work and, because of my wonderfully precocious nine-year-old daughter's obsession with the picture, I was forced, during its opening two weeks of release to see it four more times.. Each time seeing "Splice" got richer for me and I was never bored on subsequent viewings. Hey Alex! Good review, though I do take slight exception (or perhaps wanted a bit more expansion) on your comments regarding the film’s speedy approach to “the shifting attitudes and desires of the creature’s makers” and the final act’s similarity to many other movies. First of all, what impressed me was the film’s originality, perversity and intelligence, but that these elements were enclosed within the context of a slick, efficient package that DOES still deliver on a solid level of genre expectations. While I personally could have used more emphasis on those shifting attitudes, I would only have wanted the emphasis to have been even more excessive and/or intense with respect to the more perverse aspects of these changes. I’m only hoping there might be an “unrated” DVD/BluRay that appeal to my peculiar fetishes. As for the end, I too found it a tad predictable, however, not in any annoying fashion, but rather, one that was incredibly suspenseful in spite of the familiar territory. I found it a thoroughly satisfying work and, because of my wonderfully precocious nine-year-old daughter’s obsession with the picture, I was forced, during its opening two weeks of release to see it four more times.. Each time seeing “Splice” got richer for me and I was never bored on subsequent viewings.

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