Still a better design than the Event Horizon.
This comment can only be made by someone who missed the point of Event Horizon - the gothic ship that opened a gateway to hell.
The ship wasn’t designed to be a gothic gateway to hell. It was a starship on its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri that got lost and reappeared near Neptune. The starship designers on Earth thought lots of dangling chains was really important to have on a deep space mission to another star system.
You’re aware that it’s not a real ship right? It wasn’t designed to be a starship on its maiden voyage to some far away star. It was a location for movie based on a space ship who’s advanced technology accidentally traveled to hell and back.
Like I think this is equivalent to not understanding why Batman’s vehicles are called “the batmobile” or the “batjet” and they have clear bat-like design and styling. It’s not because that’s what makes the most realistic car or helicopter or whatever, it’s because it serves the narrative purpose of those stories. In that way, the modern The Batman car is as well designed as the campy Batman and Robin batmobile. I prefer the handmade, badass sounding car of the modern movie but I would never say the old campy batmobiles are poorly designed. They served the movie they were in positively.
The Event Horizon wasn’t designed to look like the most functional, efficient space craft because it wasn’t for The Expanse, it was for Event Horizon - a movie about opening up a portal to hell. In that sense, the cross shape ship, the gothic hallways, the spike laden engine chamber all served the purpose of the film and themes. In that way, it was well designed.
So again I state that proclaiming the Event Horizon to be poorly designed is missing the point of the art/media/movie.
Like I think this is equivalent to not understanding why Batman’s vehicles are called “the batmobile” or the “batjet”
Batman designs everything with a bat theme. If the batmobile was filled with chains, it would be correct to point out the weirdness of batman filling his car with loose chains.
The spaceship in Event Horizon wasn’t designed to go to hell. The story said it was a regular ship. In other horror movies, regular locations aren’t “horrified” without explanation.
The tugboat in Jaws doesn’t have chains everywhere. The Antarctic base in the Thing doesn’t have chains dangling everywhere. Regan’s bedroom in the Exorcist didn’t have chains dangling everywhere. It was a regular room. Because it would be silly to say “This is a regular young girls room that has chains everywhere because the viewers need to know this is a horror movie.” Oh now the devil has possessed her!
The setting might change after the horror starts. But what would an extra dimensional evil force need to create dangling chains everywhere? Well written movies are internally consistent even when including the supernatural.
Its been too long since ive seen event horizon, because I remember none of that. In my head I’m thinking “wait, there were chains” and “wait the chains were there before it visited hell?”
Clearly I should watch it again soon
Didn’t they admit it was their take on a warp breach from warhammer 40k? In which case it would be a perfect night lords ship.
Also highly likely that the ship was corrupted by the warp…
You have to lubicrate your chains!
First scene I saw as a child on 80s broadcast TV. Yeah, I shit my little britches and changed the channel before anything happened.
If you haven’t watched Alien in some time, it’s worth a revisit! My wife had never seen it and was engrossed! She was shitting bricks with tension! I hadn’t sat down and really watched it in years. I was shitting bricks!
#1 finest horror movie of all time. All time!
When you have hand valves located high, you can build a platform and stairs for operators to use them, or you can cheap out and put a chain actuator in it to turn it from below. It’s also common to have several valves together in what’s called a manifold.
Then, if you’re really cheap, you don’t really maintain the valves that don’t carry dangerous or high temperature chemicals, and let them leak. Who gives a shit if it’s leaking water, it’s not dangerous.
Then, when a big heavy xenomorph uses the valves to climb up, the valves start leaking hard.
The set designer not only knew industrial environments, they also reinforced the message that W-Y didn’t care at all about its employees.
