I am back folks. Told you I would be! This time I watched the flick 400 Days. It stars Brandon Routh, Dane Cook and Caity Lotz. "With their four hundred day mission simulation nearing completion, four astronauts begin to feel that something is amiss." It was made by SyFy but not a made for TV flick. Enough of this stuff, lets start the fun!
- Roth as a drunk is so weird after watching him on Arrow and Legends and Chuck.
- Damn I just want to punch Dane Cook in the face!
- White Canary is in this too? I think Wells is as well. Its like a DC Universe trial run!
- Gross recycled pee!
- That really is some simulation
- I'd love to go into this type situation/experiment/simulation
- Roth's girlfriend, White Canary, has been part of the experiment all along
- He named the mouse?
- Damn Cooks character is a jerk!
- I feel like this is one of the vaults in Fallout
- And Cook is quite the hound in all ways
- This is quite interesting and I think would make an fascinating real life experiment
- Oh yeah White Canary is in on it. We have yet to see her take one of her shots
- Well that was unsettling
- Wait...this is a SyFy flick? It isn't bad for a TV SyFy flick
- Wait again...perhaps not a SyFy TV movie...who knows
- Is it still Earth?
- My guess it that they moved them to some sound stage type place
- Obviously not the moon, because they could breath
- No other known planet has oxygen
- Tranquility huh?
- Why are there still lights on
- Damn Wells is creepy as sin
- The moon got exploded?
- Roth has made a few mistakes: Never should have opened the main hatch. Should have left half the crew at ship. Never follow a map to the only place in miles you can see that has lights
- Of course the lights go out now
- Is it possible this is all a bad dream of Roths
- ITS PEOPLE! THE SOUP IS PEOPLE!
- Still think White Canary is in on this
- Busted! Sorry White Canary
- That is how you end it?
Well that was interesting. Lets start with a rating. I give it a 6/10. It isn't bad at all but the ending left a bad taste in my mouth...well the lack of an ending.
I found the film to be really enjoyable till the very end where the lack of an ending disturbed me. I realize that to some extent we all continue the stories of movies in our mind often. but in this case we didn't get an ending, a resolution.
I get what they were doing. They were allowing us to come to our own conclusion. Was it all like Cook said, part of the experiment? Were they all in on it? I mean yes Roth did seeming cripple one and possibly kill the other but that's it. We don't see Canary kill Wells. We don't see anything happen to Cook and the Bug character. So it is possible that it was all part of the test.
The acting was great as you'd imagine with the cast. Hell even Cook wasn't bad! There were a few scifi classic references in there as well. From a pure film making stand point there wasn't any major flaws.
From a story telling stand point there were a few. I felt the history of Bug's character could have been better and things were missing. Also I feel like some of the thing that we were expected or pushed to look into were then never explained. The shots. The pills Canary was taking. Why was Canary trying to contact mission control on her own stressing she was alone. Too many loose ends with a flick only 90 minutes. Another 10 or 15 minutes to explain things.
Overall not a bad flick at all. If you're bored find a copy of it.
