SUPERNOVA (2000) - WTF Happened to this Horror Movie - Sci Fi Horror, James Spader,

[@carolinafine8050]

He saw Spader as an ‘up and coming’ talent? Sure.... if you forget all about the 80s and early 90s

[@shainewhite2781]

2:44, that's one way describing Event Horizon.

[@marquezhuitzilemilioeduard5734]

Thats because Philippe Eisner, the screenwriter probably took it from this one, it was a very famous still unproduced script at that time

[@marquezhuitzilemilioeduard5734]

Also, make your math, that movie was made in 1997, supernova entered into production, and hell developmant, not long after it's realease, you can make your own conclusions now

[@indybingyi]

or Doom

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

I cant believe anyone defends Event Horizon. Id rather be OJ Simpsons lawyer.

[@jeremysiron9622]

Also, Angela Bassett doesn’t age.....she was hot then and is still smokin’...

[@LucyLioness100]

She is ageless and always wonderful

[@adampoll4977]

Absolutely true! She was spectacular in Strange Days (which is a criminally underrated movie).

[@jeremysiron9622]

@@adampoll4977 I remember well when that movie came out but I never saw it, I remember the distinct trailer though, and I remember the girl from my so-called life being in it, Rhiannon or whatever

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

Wait a minute; "Hellraiser in Space" with Geiger designs? Isn't this essentially the same idea as 'Event Horizon'?

[@realjimmyd]

In 2000 they saw Spader as an "up and coming Actor" ? Has been working for 20 years at that point 😆

[@deathstrike]

Spader was already a veteran, with Pretty in Pink, Stargate, and Network TV. Also the ship in Supernova was NOT called the Nova, it was called the Nightingale.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@@deathstrike James was aslo in wolf with Jack Nicholson

[@popeye697]

My theory is he had never been considered a true leading man by this point in his career, so up and coming talent could easily just mean on the verge of elevating his career

[@marcuswalters8093]

I thought it was alright at the time. I saw it on video.

[@PuppetDungeon]

You really gotta admire Coppola's willingness to grab a paycheck. He moved the intro credits to the end, added a 2nd zero G sex scene, removed the cool mutant kid who was a giant fetus-thing, and moved some scenes to after the jump so things make no damn sense.

[@freakyzed8467]

This was a great movie to see in the theater with friends. EVERYONE was laughing and booing at the screen.

[@hongkongcantonese501]

I really liked this movie, especially Spader as Nick who was intense as hell. Facinelli's Carl was also a menacing villain because he took the Tom Cruise charm, rarely raising his voice, before wreaking utter havoc.

[@TacoWrath95]

I think its funny how the one thing I really like about this movie is that theme that plays when James and Angela are drinking the pear brandy (and the zero-g bumping of uglies afterwards) but no one has that exact theme as an isolated track, not even the soundtrack itself. It's such a smooth, almost sultry track that I desperately wish I had.

[@sebastianwhosez4897]

Almost sultry?. It was, is a smooth sultry track. I'm looking for the name of that track.

[@justamurse5646]

Damn Angela Bassett does not age, looks the same here as AHS decades apart

[@shainewhite2781]

13:40, I'm surprised they released this frickin movie ...1 year later! The film may have been a box office and critical disappointment, but to me, it's a guilty pleasure to watch from start to finish. Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😉

[@Jarppispecial]

Have you seen the alternative ending? it's quite grim

[@johnjohnson1204]

i'm pretty sure digital domain didn't exist when Blade Runner came out

[@pinkplastic81dj]

It’s actually a great film. Every time I see it it gets better. Spader was already massive so that’s bs and Angela Bassett’s character wasn’t a former addict. It was her ex boyfriend who came on board who had been the addict, he was violent, hence she hated Spader’s character so much at the start after finding out he was a former addict!

[@TCFan25]

Only an addict would think so too!

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Its a terrible film. I like all the actors but, TERRIBLE.

[@flyingteeshirts]

It's pretty bad. I felt like the camera was always way to close to people and it was always at weird angles. There wasn't really a chance to just let the set and place breathe or even let the characters be in the setting. The plot really fell apart and the bad guy goes from toying with people setting up a subtle betrayal/attack to just icing everyone. A lot of aspects of the characters are set up then killed before there's any pay off. The AI becoming self-aware is just dropped when it's becoming relevant. The guy staring at the alien artefact is just killed. He's not turned evil or mutated or anything, just beat up randomly and thrown out an airlock. The ending is an absolute disaster with so many loose threads. Like, the supernova that will apparently strike earth in 50 years they caused, or like wtf is with the random announcement that she's pregnant at the end. The two people in the pod was cool-ish but looked really goofy with both of them getting a bright blue contact lens in one eye. Like, it's meant to represent that they got one of each other's eyes but neither of them had blue eyes lol. It's a fascinating film but also incredibly bad. Lots of random sex in zero G, like that scene with the pear brandy right after the dimension jump that crippled the ship and killed the captain. Like, it felt like it was a scene that was way out of place, but then it was apparently needed because of the whole bad guy is her former lover angle... Terrible plot design lol. The film is a testament to the fact that movies are miracles (it's a miracle it was ever released) and what can go wrong in film-making. There's a lot of cool ideas in the film, but the execution was terrible

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

@@flyingteeshirts It sucks.

[@daviddarko5837]

I like the film as well.

[@andresmartin67]

I always confuse the names of this movie with sunshine I always say " the one with cillian murphy" or "the one with buff james spader" Great video

[@JoBloHorrorOriginals]

Sunshine rocked!

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@@JoBloHorrorOriginals sunshine aslo had some issues in its prducthions as well beucse twetntb century fox demanded reshoots and edits but dsny Boyle refused and won the issue x like

[@chindleymuffin]

​​@@zacharyjochumsen9677when you listen to the Commentary for Sunshine they were limited by both time and a lower budget than most Sci-Fi movies at the time. Danny Boyle said that it was his first proper Science Fiction movie and he was nervous about the special effects, which he had to wait for before starting to cut the film, hoping they would turn out okay, if not then it would even longer to get them redone. It did make its money back on home media, but had a bad time at the box office.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

SUNSHINE is a legitimate sci-fi movie like 2001 by Stanley Kubrick. SUPERNOVA is a ripoff of Event Horizon which is one of the worst movies ever. Theyre not even in the same league

[@Mr2stubborn2quit]

R.I.P. H.R. Giger

[@adagiobreeze8493]

James Spader was in full blown Daddy mode in this movie

[@elphaba4674]

Beat by "My dog skip"... I'm speechless 😓

[@interdimensionalsteve8172]

Event Horizon took a similar concept and knocked it out of the park.

[@pathatfield2543]

Yet more proof that producers and movie companies need to leave the damn scripts alone and just film what was written!

[@JediKnight207]

Sounds like Event Horizon.

[@Formakiwi]

This is one of two films I remember reading about in the early 90's, in either Fangoria or Cinefantastique, under their original titles (Dead Star) with their original directors and concepts intact, and thinking "that sounds pretty cool actually," then never hearing anything about them again for several years. The other one was Richard Stanley's famously doomed remake of The Island of Dr Moreau (1996).

[@erikadlloyd5586]

I just re-watched Supernova on Tubi. It's not bad. The plot is intriguing. I like fast pace.

[@aejaygriffin4785]

90s scifi/horror needs this video. It's not my favorite of the era but is definitely worth the watch. So bad it's good kind of picture.

[@shainewhite2781]

3:15, I actually saw his concept art of the Devil coming out of a large portal, almost looking like a gothic spaceship monster hybrid. It's quite beautiful, as a matter of fact.

[@DeftPol]

It’s a shame what happened because you could see the potential there - especially with the whole notion of extradimensional matter being placed as a kind of civilisation bomb. Not something you often see in scifi and certainly much better than the “portal to hell” idea, which frankly had just been done in Event Horizon

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Event Horizon is worse than Supernova. Theyre both terrible movies but I think Supernova has a bit less embarrassing content so it wins default. They both share the same tone so I can see why so many people mistake one for the other

[@carlossilverio7325]

if you see james spader then and now........DAMNNNN i don't believe it.

[@shanecochran2491]

Digital Domain did not work on close encounters . In fact their 1st Couple of movies were true lies, Interview with the vampire, and Apollo 13.

[@shainewhite2781]

6:30, Blade Runner had VFX restored for the 2007 re release.

[@mew10521]

The special effects still holdup today

[@KevinRAAMAAAGE]

Angela Basset is one of the most beautiful women to grace this planet. She looks nearly the same as she does in AHS but with short hair.

[@s.j.p6394]

Dude ur channel suggests some gr8 movies. Cheers man.

[@diogogomes3238]

i remember to watch this movie when i was a teenager... didnt enjoyed back then! i guess i need to give it a try 20 years later

[@riverplate0101]

I enjoyed it. The concept of an "omg ultra advanced alien race leaving behind a bomb disguised a thing that can make you a superior being yourself and your species". That was super addictive. Good philosophical arguments. Like to be the top species in the universe you got to be machiavellian. Not so different from humans ey. I loved it.

[@LucyLioness100]

Believe the Alan Smithee route was taken once this film became a massive bomb

[@BCBaron]

I remember catching this on cable a few years back and being curious enough at the beginning that I wound up sitting through the entire thing really hoping that there would eventually be a good payoff to the plot or at least start to make a bit more sense. Between the somewhat decent (for its time) visuals and the amount of talent in the cast, this easily could have been a respectable film in the sci-fi genre, but it seemed like they just didn't want to take the time to improve the script and settled for a generic psycho/slasher movie set in space. Always felt like a lot of squandered potential with this one.

[@allnamesaretakenful]

I watched this movie a lot when it was on Cable, but at that time, I watched pretty much whatever was on TV.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Seems like Sci-fi was really shitty in the early 2000s only PITCH BLACK is the only good movie I can think of from that time. The special FX are really uneven mix of CG and bad practical stuff which makes it worse

[@shainewhite2781]

I actually enjoyed this film. It's now part of my DVD collection. This film is very similar to the Supernatural sci-fi horror film EVENT HORIZON. This film also bombed due to production problems as well.

[@YOUNGitheGOD]

Event Horizon was much better but Supernova did have the beautiful Angela Basset

[@TBelle507]

IS there a posibilita that you could send It on a file to.my email?. Ive looked everywhere And can Not find It. Please..... Thank you

[@kevincahill1204]

I liked supernova..thought it was good ..it’s a hell of a lot better than most big budget movies today

[@dman5703]

I love this move the alternate ending should of stayed in the final cut where the bomb destroys the universe. And reaches earth in 270 years all the special effects were cut

[@julius-stark]

Yes this is a bad movie, however the concept and effect of the dimension drive is inspired. The way the beam of light pulls the ship into lightspeed is pretty original.

[@travtotheworld]

You're wrong about one thing, Supernova is not an easily forgettable scifi movie. It was probably the most unforgettably boring pieces of trash I ever watched. Decades later and I'll still never forget how angry I was as it just kept going and going and going...

[@DeftPol]

Lol it is literally only 90 minutes. But it’s true- the actuon scenes are truly awful and feel like the go for an interminable amount of time. Also have to love little vignettes like the captain at the start watching Tom and Jerry whilst taking an audio log in which he describes it as an emotional outlet for the 20th century before violent cartoons were banned in the 21st century. I’m guessing they were never show 80s ultra violent anime if that was their bar - let alone the violence in modern animated series 😂.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Its a joke movie because of the serious tone, yet there is an Android that looks worse than DOCTOR WHO and Spader fights the bad guy with Pincher Arms that look like something from Buck Rogers. Serious sci-fi needs serious art direction or its just SAD.

[@TCFan25]

All Hell Is About To Break Loose....from the audience!

[@shainewhite2781]

8:45, sucks that they killed Forster's character early I the film.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

The Captain always dies early in these movies!!!

[@EdwardOberon]

Supernova is diet Event Horizon with 1999 haircuts

[@HC-cb4yp]

"No - we have Event Horizon at home."

[@myrnalaboy2840]

R.I.P. Robert Forrester

[@noneed4me2n7]

I saw this opening day with my eventual wife way back, being a sci-fi fan and all. Even the cast drew me in as I was a fan of Spader and Basset. Needless to say I was disappointed.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

We got to see Robin Tuneys boobs thats one good point at least

[@michaellangwaller]

I have more than once confused this movie with Event Horizon. I see that I was not far off with the original script for Supernova.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

Michalr yeh but event hirzon is more gothic looking influnced by warhammer 40k

[@piapress2959]

I just watched this movie cause I had a huge crush on James Spader.

[@andrew_doucette]

A small correction to your great video...Digital Domain didn't work on Blade Runner (1982) or Close Encounters (1977) as it wasn't founded until 1993. Entertainmemnt Effects Group did the FX for both.

[@sgonzo31]

Did he make fun of the "robot"? I didn't catch it. Even as a kid, I thought the character was hilarious and now looking back, I'm surprised it was ever greenlit.

[@dariostarsky8124]

I actually really liked the movie, and have seen it 4-5 times. A video projector, good sound and a puff will certainly help. Don't just believe what others say - check it out.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

I saw ARAMGEDDON after smoking weed and thought it was "Pretty good"- Watched it sober and wanted to vomit.

[@rockerwithawalker]

i love this movie,u talkin about it makes me wanna go watch it right now,thanx

[@bskilla4892]

I actually really like this movie. It's a chill easy watch, like watching a made for TV movie on the Sci-Fi channel.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Im glad you iterated that you LIKE the movie and didnt say it was GOOD. I admit its fun to watch even if youre cringing every 5 minutes or so

[@chiptankgirl]

I always felt like this movie felt like it should have been better, and now I know why. Thanks!

[@ManOutofTime913]

This movieis strangely fascinating to me. The effects and sets are pretty good and have a unique look to them, the characters honestly all have good setups, and the concept of the ninth-dimensional bomb and its evolutionary effects is remarkably pulpy for a film that takes itself so seriously. It's just the editing and script that completely fall apart in the second half. MGM might as well have caved to another 5 million. With someone at the helm to put the film back on the rails, they might have at least broke even.

[@kaithemessiah2811]

Soooo basically Event Horizon's plot

[@geologist1005]

Great film

[@Barot8]

The casting, especially the actor who played the villain. The villain's performance was bad. Also he's an ex of Angela Basset was an exceedingly poor idea. The director was poor. There were some plot points that were too much of a bad coincidence. The mine sequence was one of the worst segments of the film.

[@ibobeko4309]

what i hate most was, when the villain screamed every time before he tried to hunt the crew. And what people also forget, the trailer is one of the worst trailer i ever watched, the background music is a funny song and shows the movie like comedy then a scfi movie and after watching the trailer you already know whats gonna happen, it shows the whole movie.

[@Barot8]

@@ibobeko4309 He was totally miscast and overacts in a giant way.

[@ibobeko4309]

@@Barot8 i am trying to watch good scfi movies, do you have any suggestions ?

[@Barot8]

@@ibobeko4309 Here's a few in no particular order. There's The Quiet Earth. Not hard scifi but a great movie. Logan's Run, Andromeda Strain (the original one from the early 70s), Colossus The Forbin Project, both the original The Thing from Another World, and the 1980s remake The Thing, War Games, Until the End of the World (which just got it's directors 3 hour cut released), the original Alien, and the Last Starfighter (just a very fun film) are just a few titles. Until the End of the World did some of the first digital painting on film. Some is in English while some is translated (sub-titled) as they travel many countries. It also speculated a large search engine like Google. There's also Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes (1960s version), 2001 A Space Odyssey, and both Tron (a little science fiction) and it's sequel Tron Legacy. Also the original Blade Runner.

[@ibobeko4309]

@@Barot8 already watch them alll

[@saharaf.2670]

Parts of this plot sound similar to the Doctor Who episode, Impossible Planet (the first of a two-parter). Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

[@pitdeadite9937]

What irks me the most....is that Peter Facinelli's final transformation into a demonic space creature was cut entirely.

[@What.99]

I like Supernova. I mean, it’s absolutely not a good movie by any means, but I like it for some reason. The movie has a lot of stupid stuff, like that tacked-on love scene at the end. And the special effects are pretty bad. I have no clue why I like it. Also, the early draft sounded very similar to Event Horizon which came out in 1997 I believe, so that might be why they completely changed the plot of the movie.

[@aquamarine2044]

Actually I liked this movie! I bought a dvd copy for $3.00 not bad for that price. My favorite part where the captain was watching the Tom and Jerry cartoon.

[@harrietsellers731]

It's a B movie. Most horror movies are. It wasn't meant to be oscar worthy. Honestly, i watched it just to see James Spader and Angela Bassett, who by the way we're seasoned actors at the time. You either like it or you don't. I liked it 🥰🤘🏾

[@jamesbaggett3655]

I liked it

[@shainewhite2781]

5:00, Jack Shoulder and Walter Hill directed the film, while Francis Ford Coppola handled the film editing.

[@toddallen8464]

"Original idea" And by original idea, they meant the core idea of Doom. (the game)

[@Formakiwi]

Doom came out in '93. The script for Dead Star (this film's original title) had been around since '91 or so.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Tbf it’s not exactly nuclear fission. It’s a simple premise to hatch from the pop culture consciousness of the late 80’s and early 90’s. They just replaced aliens with demons. Shit, as a game premise alone there’s countless iterations on it. Fucking Dead Space is this - in a nutshell. No concept is truly original. Just have to put a novel twist on things. Fucking Halo, too come to think of it. It’s all just Doom - and it’s only Doom because they were the first to take from film and literature and make it playable. System Shock. Marathon. Icky things in space never gets old, no matter the medium.

[@Dear1Stupit1Dog]

12:21 Editor, go home, you're drunk.

[@ivanelgharbi5861]

I remember triying to see this movie like 5 times on TV, allways sleep like 15 minutes in...

[@marquezhuitzilemilioeduard5734]

Thank You thank yo!

[@theowinters6314]

Man, I saw this one in the theater, and hardly remembered anything other then the captain's dumb death.

[@blazerocker1734]

Do you think the captain's death was dumb in itself, it was dumb because it was predictable or a bit of both? I think it was both but more-so because it was predictable than by itself. That's the worst offense to be because it shows poor writing.

[@TCFan25]

It looks dumb because he looked like a poached egg gone bad in the pot.

[@sinisterindustries6166]

Always wondered why this movie felt so off

[@leejones8582]

So hard to follow that scene with the bad editing reminds me of the theatrical cut of The Curse of Michael Myers.

[@stephanierandall1170]

Classic

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Abandoned by Walter Hill and finished by Frances Ford Coppola. Shocking.

[@mr_0n10n5]

When Among Us became popular, I remembered this movie

[@Radrook353]

I like Supernova as it is. Had it introduced the hell idea, then it would have introduced a concept that accuses God of being a sadistically inclined being. Also, the acting was convincing and the drama was kept intense. What I did find unconvincing was that of the captain risking his life in that stupid way just to rescue someone.

[@richardmurphy9006]

1 million extra for editing nice one frankie

[@dylandozier7239]

I love this movie 🍿❣️

[@drlizzardo4373]

I gave this movie to a mate for Christmas 5 years running, I grabbed the 5 DVDs out of a $2 drop bin in a target store here in Australia, he hates this movie i stuck it in a different case every year.

[@architenthisdux4172]

Some heroes wear capes

[@TBelle507]

Could you send It on a file to may email? I have looked for It everywhere And can Not find It. Please. Thank you

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

You put the DVD in another case so he thought he was getting a BETTER movie???? Evil!!!

[@Hugo_Tate]

5:31 this guy is always doing the peoples eyebrow

[@faithmartin3]

love this movie

[@FirrKrag1]

It ROCKS! Especially on SHROOMS !

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

You know what doesn’t rock on shrooms? The intro to Saving Private Ryan. :/

[@jaredbeilstein209]

You know a movie is bad when they get their director and editor to walk away ... oh, and the editor was FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

[@marquezhuitzilemilioeduard5734]

Joblo, You don't happen to have the Troy/Karl larsson concept art by Patrick tatopolous that was shot but never got released, un which he turns into a bald demonic monster of sorts?

[@feliciakenny5152]

I honestly like this movie

[@tiffanylyons4474]

AB’s character in this movie was not a Hazen addict-Carl Larson was. That detail you can’t get wrong. Especially since it is implied that he was abusive and that led to the Dr. Evers character losing her baby and leaving him.

[@albundy774]

New Line Cinema gave Jack Sholder who had just completed A Nightmare On Elm street Part 2 the job of re-editing Dario Argento's Phenomena into what became Creepers.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

Could you guys talk about chrincles of riddick on your main channel as that movie had yrtroubled production I believe

[@keithrigsby-je5ui]

Even with ALLLL -of-the, STOOOOOPYD-decizionz made-by-the studio (EEEDIYOTS) ths wuz (& IZ!) a GOOD-moovee!! One must first, suspend-dis-belief of, the bad script 'elements' then...., one may ENJOY ths moovee!

[@everyoneash]

Isn't hellraiser in space called event horizon?

[@tomhahnl1927]

I don't even remember if I watched this movie :-o . . . . . . No wait (now at the end of the video) now I remember, I watched it! I remember liking the end when they (last two survivors) had to go into a pod for only one person but they both went in. Well I guess, at least the End is ok ;-)

[@kloudstrife5960]

When I saw this with my friends in high school we laughed our asses off, this movie is far below the dungeons and dragons movie , the girl straight up sleeps with ( every ) crew member except the ( robot ) , also does any of this plot sound like event horizon .

[@mew10521]

She didn't sleep with Nick(Spader)

[@amightyshade]

So basically it was suppose to be doom

[@HC-cb4yp]

You should check out the "hip" trailer for this dumpster fire...

[@wangson]

Yes indeed. Sci-fi/horror are my favourite films. This particular film, didn't do much for me though. The other one, (that it reminds me of and came earlier...) titled, Event Horizon is much, MUCH BETTER!!!! I still enjoy watching that particular film! It's exciting and it's terrifying, it's got great special effects...I could go on...Event Horizon is incredibly watchable and captivating! This one? Supernova? Not so much. In fact, I've tried to watch it twice now and I just can't bring myself to finish it. It's boring.

[@Pupeyes]

I watched this at home and though I can’t remember the movie as a whole, I remember the feeling I felt when the movie was over and I felt so disappointed. I remember feeling like the movie was super lame.

[@footofjuniper8212]

I saw this in the theater when it came out. I remember nothing about it except that James Spader and Angela Bassett have sex while the Supernova explodes, which somehow mixes their DNA together. What was more memorable about my experience was that I bought a big garlic pickle at the concession stand, and it was so gross, I left the half-eaten pickle in its open bag of juices in the popcorn box on the floor. I felt a little bad about making the poor slob who had to clean the floors deal with it, but my guilt was assuaged by the fact that they sold it to me in the first place.

[@luna-p]

🤣

[@popeye697]

The original idea for this movie sounds an awful lot like Event Horizon

[@citabria808]

Never heard of this movie...

[@pdzombie1906]

Loved the vid, guys, but you forgot to mention the original concept of this film seems to have turned into the now cult classic Event Horizon (which you might wanna cover later). Also, please consider all the factual errors pointed in the comments. Thanx!!!