Stranded (2013) Reviews

• Lame Déjàvu

  claudio_carvalho2013-06-11

  The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman (Christian Slater) sends the crewwoman Ava Cameron (Amy Matysio) to repair a wing that is full of CO2. Dr. Lance Krauss (Brendan Fehr) warns that the gas may cause paranoia and hallucinations. Ava brings a sample of the meteor for analysis and Dr. Krauss finds that there are spores attached to the meteor. Ava accidentally cuts her finger in a sample but she hides the cut from the doctor. Soon Ava gets pregnant and delivers an alien offspring. However, neither Col. Brauchman nor Dr. Kraus believes in her words and they believe that Ava is delusional. He offspring bites the crewman Bruce Johns (Michael Therriault) and the crew discovers that Bruce has been cloned by the alien. Soon they find how dangerous the clone is. "Stranded" is a low-budget movie and a lame rip-off of "Alien" and other movies of the genre. The characters are not bright as astronauts should be and they usually take the wrong decisions. "Stranded" is not a good movie but there are others worse and worse. My vote is four. Title (Brazil): Not Available

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• The story of 4 idiots who make up the crew of a moon base.

  davelowell-777-4532642013-08-28

  This story is about the dumbest spacefolk in the known universe. Who ever is in charge of hiring the personnel to man this moon base must have sent the company's most incompetent employees to try to get rid of them............. When one of the crew finds a meteorite with something attached to it they proceed to bring it inside for examination. After a while they decide to quarantine the sample as well as a crew member who appears to be infected. In spite of having quarantined one crew member in the sickbay the other crew members spend more time inside the quarantined area than outside of it, leaving the door open on the process... not that it matters by now..... and so on and so on....

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• "You've been exposed to chemicals: HIT THE SHOWERS!"

  gothic-fiction2013-05-28

  Stranded is a movie. I'll give you that. A good one? Far from it. A medium one? Still not quit there. A C+ at its best because really, what the heck was the point of it? 4 people in space, with uber technology (except, the cars are still normal and other stuff that they couldn't "upgrade") with no power for light (the entire movie), with a dialogue that will make you weep at times, and with those very quite intelligent "hey, it really happened!!"; "Neah, it must be all in your head. Even tho what you say makes perfect sense regarding the surroundings, we can't believe you because the script doesn't allow us to". So you have to watch something perfectly predictable, non captivating whatsoever, not original, not even trying to be something. What is the point? Why make a movie like this? It won't help anyone's career let's face it, and most of you out there, the lucky ones, won't get to see it, won't even ever find out it exists. Lucky bastards... In 1986, the movie Aliens appears, a future like none would ever imagine, effects made brilliantly that still stand tall after almost 30 years! In 2013 they make Stranded, and you can't help to wonder, how is this even possible? Any of it? Don't watch Stranded, you'll just waste time that you'll want back. So many other films out there. Try Cargo, a German movie. Try Pandorum. Try Fortress. Just try something else! Cheers!

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• Sadly this movie is terrible

  sws-697-6991542013-05-28

  I am always on the lookout for a good SciFi horror film, so I really wanted to like this movie. I thought maybe with Slater it might be a low budget sleeper with good acting and plot. While the actors do try to get through their terribly written lines in a convincing manner, the movie is really bad. I had a sick feeling when Slater started talking into a folding book-light from the dollar store, that maybe this movie was in trouble. Nothing about the plot makes any sense, and nobody reacts in a manner even remotely realistic. Why wear a spacesuit if nobody else needs one in the same area? Why spend valuable time in the middle of a crisis playing with a rock? Why lock-down a room, just to reenter it ever other minute? The movie is a total waste of time. Don't rent this junk.

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• Beyond words

  colman012013-05-28

  Instead of telling you about the story which you by now already have a grasp of, I will instead focus on how unceremoniously bad this movie is. 1) Being a scifi you expect either a cool story or some nice visuals. This has got neither. It keeps telling us it's made on a shoestring budget, and I'll admit that some parts were actually nice looking - but all the good parts are ruined by blatantly stupid props and(see 2) 2)Contrived plot twists. OMFG. I was sitting there watching with my mind's mouth open - not sure that the movie unfolding in front of me was for real. It is like watching a train wreck albeit less mass deathy. It will only give you eye cancer and brain rot. I could not turn away though because this movie is played straight - it takes itself DEAD serious, no humour. I SAID NO! 3) The characters in the movie are supremely stupid and that just blows away all suspension of disbelief because face it - there is no chance in Hell that those people would be astronauts, technicians and doctors. No one would employ them and give them the responsibilities they have, much less send them to space and pay them. No, really - it's just sad. 4) Actually I just have to reiterate nr 3). THE CHARACTERS are so stupid it's insulting to my feces' ability to render art before it's flushed. I could do a deeper analysis, but I doubt there is any need. When all is said and done - I was entertained in a very weird way. This is in the same category of bad as "Suing the Devil", but not as enjoyably amusing. /basement dweller

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