Comments on: Why the Movie Pandorum Warrants Explanation and Walkthrough

By: Jasdan

Jasdan — Thu, 16 May 2024 08:18:39 +0000

Just a clarification, Payton was woken up at some point in the past, somewhere between Gallos learning the truth, and the reactor malfunctioning, which woke up Cooper, and Bower.
Gallos then got into Payton’s pod, and due to the amnesia, even himself didn’t knew he wasn’t actually Payton.
Payton’s fate is unknown, but he must had been dead for around 800 years at the time of the movie’s events taking place.

By: Jasdan

Jasdan — Thu, 16 May 2024 08:13:53 +0000

Uhhh…
CBlaze?
Looks like you were multitasking with Fornite while watching the movie
One of the most relevant parts of the plots lies in the characters being inside pods, those cylinders they ejected in at the end?
Well, those were for Hyper-Sleep which in Sci-Fi tends to be technology that allows a person to be in an induced comatose space where their body doesn’t age, used for space travel, as it tends to take a long time to get to a destination, sometimes a story will use “cryogenic sleep” instead, but it has a very similar end result.
Bower was a member of a three men team that was meant to manage the ship, they would work for two years, then go back into sleep as another team takes the handle, this would last for a century, but since the news of Earth’s life dying reach one of the teams (Gallos team), then Bower and his companions were never woken up, and thus they never aged.
Being in hyper sleep for over 900 years did affect them negatively, as it caused them a severe case of amnesia, a detail which is essential to the plot.

By: CBlaze

CBlaze — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 06:10:30 +0000

The only thing I want answered about the movie is how do the main actors live over 900 years? I get that the “mutant monsters” are supposed to be a few generations of “evolution” (Hollywood style), but the main character Bower talks about when he lived on Earth still and being dumped by his girlfriend which is why he signed up for the mission. Yet there he stands 900 years later and hasn’t aged appropriately. Not that there is appropriate aging for NINE HUNDRED YEARS anyway.
What am I missing? Was it a false memory and he was really born on the ship. Well then he would have had to have done his training on the ship and started only a few years prior to all this and… well the monsters should have been there too… oh God. It hurts my head. The only way I can make sense of it is if science figured out a way to make people live for hundreds of years and not age.

By: Shoya

Shoya — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 15:07:17 +0000

If you were paying attention instead of multitasking with Fortnite youdve realized the drugs are meant to help them adapt to whatever environment they are in, not for the “assumed” environment of the planet. They turned into hideous monsters because “the king” (Payton/Gallos) woke up before the story began, went crazy and took over the ship, using the lives of the crew and passengers as sick experiments. Eventually he got bored and went back to sleep, and 800 years of adapting to the ship and the reactor radiation turned them into monsters, so there’s no reason why any of the survivors on the planet would. Also is “reset the failing reactor” really too jargon to understand?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:45:03 +0000

Its interesting to read peoples comments about this movie… There is a lot of speculation. But movies generally tell you what they want you to know. Its a movie… not the filming of an actual event. People make speculations as if the movie was an actual event. The movie explains itself, as movies do. Although the plot was convoluted… It still told us what we needed to know. It was explained that Gallo went mad, killed his crew, woke-up other crew members, played God, and banished them to a room beneath the nuclear reactor, which is where we saw the “nest” toward the end. Obviously those people were mutated by radiation from the reactor, and possibly mutated more quickly or more significantly because of the “evolution drug”. People saying there was a hull breach, and the mutants were aliens weren’t paying attention to the movie and seem to have forgotten that when the hull was breached at the end… the ship announced it and sounded the alarm… and jettisoned the pods. That only happened at the end. This review left out the entire reason that the mutants were there… which was due to the Pandorum infected Gallo character confining them to a room below a nuclear reactor, which mutated their genes for generations (800+ years) This is what happens when a non-horror fan writes a review of a horror film with a few plot twists. Since the other people still in stasis did not suffer prolonged exposure to the nuclear radiation, and did not spend more than 2 years living outside of their pods (crews 1-4), they will be able to adapt and flourish on the new planet. If this was an actual event… then of course we could speculate about what happens next, but the movie clearly suggests that there would be a dawning of a new humanity. Others suggested the possibility of decompression sickness, I also suspected this when I first learned that they were underwater, but then I realized that the ship is pressurized… that’s how it flew through space, and the pods are also pressurized… so it doesn’t make sense that the people would suffer from any decompression effects from being underwater. Hope this helps clear up some details… I liked this movie… It makes you think!

By: Mattfromphilly

Mattfromphilly — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:42:56 +0000

I think most of the comments are insightful, however, even the voyage of the ship took place a century and a half after present day. Can you imagine the advancement in medicine, genetics, chemistry, etc.? Look at progress in just 10 years. So the drug that was supposed to ease the transition to Tanis may have been an evolutionary accelerator, coupled with leaking radiation that created the creatures. They are not “the passengers”, they would be the offspring of the offspring and so on. Many generations of inbreeding and a futuristic chemical.

By: cronos

cronos — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 07:17:12 +0000

A lot of people seem to have the idea that radiation and a mutagenic drug ‘just made the crew evolve’ into some other being. That’s not really how evolution, or adaptation to the environment, works. A genetic mutation will not change much in a person, expect maybe death or cancer. Mutations only really start to take morphological effects in the offspring. So the crew must have started reproducing and gradually evolving into these monsters over the 800 pear period. This is probably why they made a big deal out of the child monster thing. But even with the aid of radiation and mutagenic agents, 800 years would still constitute a rapid pace of evolution, turning from humans into the weird monster things.

Also, how did those two people end up so proficient at armed combat? And how did the mad guy manage to stay so strong despite eating barely anything but algae? There’s a few gaps that need to be filled beyond monster evolution.

Overall, the concept of the film was great, eg the idea that they’d already made it and only had to evacuate in the escape pods to get to land. I just think they could have done without the monster nonsense. Maybe if the crew were still fighting each other for resources, perhaps even cannibalistically, but not as monsters. Or, as suggested above, if the monsters were just a hallucinatory effect of Pandorum and they were just other humans all along.

By: deus

deus — Mon, 17 May 2021 01:10:11 +0000

they just driven to madness and canibalism, and living below nuclear reactor made them mutants and monsters, so i believe it hadnothing with drugs for adopton. pdestiny waited 800 years to tanis bcome suitable planet, i think tanis wasnt such ideal place and now 800 yars later is more suuitable for people, but it is still paradox that they arived 800 years ago and gallo was so crazy to ignore fact that he could be free of ship. thats tha part i dont understand dsid he get mad and didnt realize that or just gone mad and ignore it and acting like false god. and in movie nevers exolaibed how he control all peeole to made them to fight eat each ther and the bansihed them to reactor he is still one man noo matter of padnorun situatuin and his manipualtion. anywway ine of the greatest sf ib decades renudb ne on great event horizont, to bad that this movie didn get sequell. according to budget this is a clas sf horor movie with great cast…

By: Rosemma

Rosemma — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:52:24 +0000

I watched this movie ages ago but without paying to much attention, the only thing I really remembered was that the6 are underwater.
I watched it yesterday again, one thing I can’t find explanation anywhere but I am not sure is an issue, what about decompression sickness when the pods go up to the surface?