Favorite Lines from the Audience:
"Maybe it's an alien sex toy." (said approximately one minute before same line in movie)
"Is Kahn going to show up?"
Favorite Lines from the Movie:
"Maybe it’s an alien sex toy. It kinda looks like..."
"Who ever they are they're as smart as god and a whole lot less nice."
Reviews
Dogburt
Let’s see what we’ve got here... a stereotyped crew, a stereotyped bad guy, a stereotyped space craft, a stereotyped plot-line... you get the idea. This is a cookie cutter movie with all the bad pieces in place and none of the good ones. You’ve got the sage-like captain who sacrifices himself for the good of the spaceship, the grave understudy that nobody really trusts, the idealistic female, strong but vulnerable, the male and female couple who are constantly looking for a dark corner to, um, experiment, and finally, the "indestructible" bad guy who needs to kill everyone except the idealistic, strong, but vulnerable female, with whom he just wants to get jiggy with it. Just for kicks and giggles, you’ve also got a "robot from the twenty-first century" who is trying to do the "80’s robot break-dance" and a horny central computer named "Sweetie." This movie ripped off a number of well made sci-fi flicks without actually building anything redeeming or interesting, or even mocking, on top of them. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen- good, bad, anything... but it never did. I don’t think I’ve seen a more boring movie in a long time. Even the climax was anti-climactic. At least the original Genesis machine brought Spock back to life; this one just seemed to stroke Lou Diamond’s massive, uh, ego. The true litmus test of this movie is to compare it to "Galaxy Quest," which parodied the concept of the sci-fi movie, and still managed to come up with a better plot, cast, and even special effects, than this cinematic narcolepsy. If you think I’ve given away too much of the plot for you to go and see this movie objectively, you can thank me for it later.
Sharky
I have not been to many movies with the club recently, so I can't believe I decided to go to this one. The reason I went is because Charlottesville is still (supposedly) snowed in. To put it simply, I wanted to get out of the house. Shankster thought this would be a fun bad movie. He was unfortunately wrong. It was just plain BAD!!! It ripped off so many other movies that we had a hard time remembering how many at the end.
Shankster
Normally I try to come up with something witty or at least pithy to say about a film, unfortunately Supernova has nothing worth while to mention. I can certainly understand the litany of directors who wanted nothing to do with the film, because I'm not sure I want my name associated with watching it. It really is so bad that it isn't brilliant. I will give Supernova some credit, they were fairly creative in ripping off other science fiction films in a blatant slap in the face manner. It was fairly obvious that none of the directors could figure out where they really wanted the story to go, it had a weak plot, poor character development and schizophrenic filming, but hey it was definitely worth 90 minutes of my time. It's one of those bad movie's that is great fun to mock, especially since I think the trailer was better.
Fabio
It was better than Event Horizon.
Batman
This movie was the cinematic equivalent of "Where's Waldo?" The difference is that instead of trying to spot Waldo you try and spot ideas stolen from other movies. Supernova is a shameless thief of ideas from much better sci-fi flicks. I don't imagine anyone will get mad at them for it though. The movie does such a bad job with those concepts nobody would want this movie in any way associated with their film. The list of movies it rips off is long. Aliens, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, Buck Rogers, Star Wars, etc.
The lack of originality isn't the worst part though. A good tagline for this movie might have been "In space, no one can hear you yawn." It was boring. Everyone once in a while I got the impression that something good was about to happen. When I woke up several minutes later it turns out that nothing good had happened. The movie is littered with ideas that never take shape. There is a lot of talk about addiction to a drug called Hazen but nothing comes of it. There is talk that it is necessary to get a license to have a baby but that goes nowhere. Even the ending goes nowhere. We might all die in 51 years or maybe we'll evolve into a higher level of existence. Woo hoo!
Why is it that no one ever thinks to quarantine the guy taken on board? Or maybe just his stuff? The ship is supposed to be a medical rescue vessel but they seem pretty clueless about what they're doing. Who thought up that robot helper for the medical staff? The design was so bad I actually cringe thinking about it.
This movie just reeks of badness. There might have been a kernel of a good idea here at one time but between the numerous writers, directors, editors and general studio interference it never had a chance to make it to the screen.
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