Legend - in which Tom Cruise plays a forest-person named Jack who meets a nice girl and tries to show her around. But, he makes a mistake and he takes Lili to see the Unicorns, but while she is trying to touch one, which Jack does not recommend, they are attacked by the Darkness's flying monkeys and one is killed. So, the whole magical good/evil balance is swung in the favor of Evil, and this red demon guy seems ready to secure the forest for himself. So, he is on a mission to get the Last Unicorn (not that movie) and Jack is trying to find Lili, who has run off because of guilt and fear. Or maybe the demon has kidnapped her. I should have written this synopsis much sooner. Well, the Darkness is HUGE and red and scary and Tom Cruise is super sweet and the forest is pretty nice. The bad guy doesn't win, I guess that's the important part.
Event Horizon - in which sci fi space body horror gets very fucking real, and totally gross. First, Lawrence Fishburne is a space captain named Miller, and his first mate is Joely Richardson, and she rocks. Her accent is real. A bunch of space sailors are escorting science genius Sam Neill to the wreckage of a space ship. It wasn't just a space ship, it was a massive black hole generating machine, and it recently re-emerged around Neptune, and now its just orbiting, being spooky af. To give all the details, Sam Neill, AKA Dr. Weir, is having creepy dreams about his dead wife in his cryo/gravi-sleep pod before they even get to the abandoned wreck. Oh, its called the Event Horizon. So, once the crew rolls up on Event Horizon they get nervous, because its creepy, and a few people go out to investigate the empty ship. Miller orders Dr. Weir to stay aboard their vessel, and he doesn't do a good job of listening. As soon as the crew splits up, one young guy gets sucked into the g
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