This reminded me of an old short story I read when I was younger. A man was writing a letter in his dining room when he noticed a black, inky spot on the corner of his paper. Everytime he took his eyes off the spot, it grew in size, but not by much. The man called his butler in to get a second set of eyes on the spot, but eventually both men were distracted by a knock on the front door. When the two men look back, the spot is gone. They split up to find it, and after searching for awhile, the man hears a scream coming from his dining room. He rushes back to see that the floor is now a black, inky void, and the butler is nowhere to be seen. The front door is on the other side of the void, but he also knows it's only a matter of time until he has to blink. It's been awhile, but that's the ghist of the story. Thanks for another great video and keep up the fantastic work!
I love this. Such a great little story, i even saved for later. Thank you. Do you know where this story is from? And do you know more stories like this? Btw i told my girlfriend, she didn't get it 😂
@@Oravankarva I do not recall where I found it unfortunately, but it has stuck with me for the better part of 2 decades now. I am never able to find the story online, but hopefully my luck changes and I come across it
@@tylerbaldwin3269 Well i can only say, thanks to you, you keep it alive and in the net for others to find. Thanks for sharing, it will have been a shame, if it will got lost in time.
The ending of this film really threw me. Less Calvin making it to earth, but more the fate of the scientist, cast off into space. No hope, alone, adrift and doomed to a death in the void. Her screams at the end made me feel genuinely uncomfortable.
@@Ediblebomb nah, that was "I'm fucking dead and I there is nothing I can do about it whilst I wait for my sand timer to run out." that was a scream of a fate in line with the worst one could imagine. At that point, I doubt Calvin getting to earth factored into her thoughts at all. Alone in the Void with a short supply of air and an ardously slow march to dying.
@@combatwombat2134 I think eventually she would just open the hatch of the pod, exposing herself to the empty vacuum. It would be over for her in seconds.
@@combatwombat2134 Self-preservation is not something that is practiced by someone with higher intelligence. Rebecca was supposed to be the one who thinks logically and is the person responsible for the contingency plan. But yeah, i doubt someone who is working at the space station because of her intelligence, her final thought would be " Damn, i m on the wrong pod". You guys are amazing. I wish i was like you guys. The entire earth is going to get wiped out but yeah let me scream because i am going to die slowly.
The interesting thing is that while the creature itself seems to have been nearly unkillable, it was by no means undefeatable and the failure of the crew ultimately rested on a succession of failed decisions which ended costing them everything. Reanimating it was the first mistake (before they knew he was capable of aggression) but that could be forgiven. But then they proceed to break quarantine area to try to rescue their colleague, which endangered yet another person. That person then used fire, which gave the creature the opportunity to escape the pod. Then one of the members pretty much sided with the creature. Then another guy misread the situation and burned the thrusters with the creature into a collision with earth. Then the Quarantine expert who was aware of every safety protocol did not inform the crew of what was about to happen. Then because of that another crewmember forcefully entered into the last safety protocol and led to their deaths too and to the space station going back to orbit. There are about half a dozen opportunities they had to control it. But I enjoyed the movie overall, would be nice if there would have been a sequel.
My interpretation is that it's the alternate universe where the smartest people, scientists-cosmonauts, are quite dumb by our standards. And they all get Darwin's (which they deserve 100%).
I don't get how Ryan Reynolds was spraying flames all over the room trying to kill the thing and nothing happened. Then after it killed him, the flamethrower with a tiny pilot light going, bumps into a sensor. Only then does the room's fire extinguishing capabilities activate, allowing the creature to escape. It was at that moment that I realized this was going to be a movie full of contrivances in order for the plot to move forward.
In a world where all the people with common sense have died, an alien named Calvin outwits and fucks the rest of humanity. Directed by Michael Bay Lyfe
This movie makes you go through a whirl of emotions but because it was not what I expected this movie to be I didn’t like it much like other viewers this is probably why it went to DVD and blue ray really quick
The crew should've just used their remaining fuel to push the ISS into deep space the moment they realised that Calvin was both intelligent and hostile, and unstoppable.
But that's the whole point of the movie. It's Life, you'll either get destructive like Calvin for survival, or do whatever you can to avoid death bc you want to live, like the space explorers.
@@chrissi.enbyYT you say that, but humans are inherently selfish creatures. If you were in an enclosed space with limited oxygen and supplies along with a being perfectly designed for killing you in a horrific manner, your instincts would be screaming for self preservation.
The whole trust thing with Calvin is a good metaphor for using violence and how it destroys all chances of coexisting peacefully. And how it’s ultimately your greatest enemy. It wasn’t Calvin that facilitated these events. It was perceived violence. The interaction with the rat reinforces this, for me at least.
Well if the creature isn't sapient it can't be evil by definition. Malicious intent requires sapience. Very few "monsters" are actually evil because they are not sapient.
2:33, it's supposed to be scientifically accurate on how we could encounter an alien being and what we should or shouldn't do when we have said encounter.
Trying to go to Mars and we have no idea what's there or what has happened this can very well happen because curiosity kills the cat always a man trying to to play god to be famous and let loose a parasite that will destroy mankind
This will be on the seventh year Trump is our President. President Trump will say to all of Humanity as the Third World is busy being consumed by the alien(s), "Oops!", @@GoddessArkasha
Also Calvin is a reason that if I ever build one of these testing chambers, the gloves will be fully armoured to prevent shit like that from happening among other things
"Life Explained" In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has widely been considered to have been a bad move.
Then some super advanced alien species asked the super computer they built, "What is meaning of Life?". Their super computer told them to come back in a few million years. They came back on the dot. Their leaders reiterated their original question to their super computer. Their super computer then responded, "Forty-two.".
It must be pointed out that much as Calvin killed humans to survive, humans were trying to kill it for the same reason. What is interesting is that everything unfolds due to one of the parts perceiving the other as hostile and this shows one of the most difficult situations in a first contact scenario, we do not have the means to communicate with one another. Maybe Calvin tried communicating but its method of communication was like that of ants, through pheromones which we are completely unequipped to comprehend. Going back to my previous point, what we might perceive as hostility might not be intended as such. I think this is best illustrated in Calvin's interaction with the rat. Calvin curiously get close to the rat, no hostile intention, the rat perceives this as hostile yet responds with a feint of a bite most probably not hostile and more intended as saying "just back off a little", yet Calvin reacts with fulminating hostility this time. Neither Calvin's nor the rat's initial action and reaction were intended as hostile yet perceived as such by the other part. On the other side of things, what if an action was intended as hostile yet not perceived as such?
The ending was disturbing in a good way. It made me feel so disturbed knowing that the scientist will forever drift to space with literally no one to hear her until she dies and the scene those fisherman would have seen and suffered
I'm going to be honest, Life was fun. It's tacky, it's got idiot mistakes, and it's honestly predictable (despite what Nyat/FCE states in the beginning), but it's still fun. You really can't go wrong with a classic creature horror/thriller set in a scifi environment. What it DID do differently was have it take place in a slightly more "realistic" setting in the near future. The fact that Ryan Reynolds was also cast as one of the characters was also a pretty swell idea as it gave us some unrealistic expectations about his character such as whether or not he'd be a lead or if this was going to be a horror-comedy. And while many people can agree that we've been kind of fed up on just-CGI monsters instead of the classic practical effects approach Calvin's design ultimately works for something that should be used to a more aquatic/low-gravity environment like it would have had back on early Mars.
@@jacknewell1847 Oh lol, I thought that one was In The Hood, looks like they did make one in Space. At least Warwick Davis has fun making movies like that.
I disagree about it having too look like it’s predecessor back on mars but it is stated that it will evolve too look any kind of way based on what it preyed on and its environment
I love how there's a comic arc in calvin and hobbes where they go to mars and meet a tentacled creature. I think this "Calvin" is a subtle reference to it.
You good sir are doing far more kindness than you might know. I have a chronic illness, and it is very difficult for me to perform any action lately. I survived on video games for close to 16 years for the premise of agency, but the last two years I've not had much energy to do even that, and strangely the moving virtual environments started to hurt my nerves somehow. I've been using youtube as a way to satiate my needs as an entity (alongside reading every science journal I'm allowed, wish I could afford a sub to Nature), and I just wanted to tell you that your content and presentation of it has helped me IMMENSELY. Just want to thank you, I've been a sub and fan for a long time, and just... thanks, so much for your work and effort you've put into this channel and your kind presentations. Somehow you always make me feel like a student leaving the auditorium after the lecture of a profound and kind professor, with more on my mind towards ongoing life than grades and presumed-necessary achievements. Don't get me wrong, hard work and study are things I wish I could encourage others towards more than I already do. Yet your warm generousity and constant tone no matter the subject has managed to help me keep going through long, long days, weeks, of illness and the desire to give up all of it. I do NOT want this comment to be negative, in any way. I just want you to know that you have managed to help not just me but all your subscribers, and some of that help might not be easily seen. Thank you for opening up the world I love despite my isolation, and thank you for opening up the minds of we viewers and giving us a platform to discuss things of great import while on equal footing. *smiles* I may be very ill, but what's left of my mind still enjoys talking to others and I must admit I crave it actually, and you have built so many places for so many people to explore the natures of ourselves, our stories (as presented on film and page), and our entire world. You have given SO many people a place to come together and marvel and discuss what is, for film and written word/comics are THE places we use now to examine ourselves and concepts. Film, comic books, all of the modern versions of our great bard-given myths are meant to examine the human condition whether it applies to us immediately or not. That is for the mind to decide. What a marvelous thing, and opportunity, and I just want to thank you and everyone here on this channel. Best wishes to everyone here, and thank you all. Best luck, and farewell.
I see your plea, and I fight for the broken, for those who cant fight, as for your illness, I encourage you to scour your world for plant based remedies, turn away from big PHARMA, they are not on your side.
I haven't watched this movie, but has ever occured to these guys that Calvin being so intelligent could possibly hear and understand everything they were saying, and therefore be one step ahead all the time? Great recap btw!
Calvin was str8 up overpowered, especially at the stage where he first escaped. Sry but i doubt something that small can produce enough force to break a hand with minimal leverage and also be immune to fire.
It was a good movie that we needed after a dry spell. The fact that it takes inspiration from older pieces and respinning it nods to the heart they put into it.
Loved the premise and the ending. I imagine that if a human was captured then experimented on, then zapped, it would react the same way which made it seem more plausible as a "villain." Just like animals here, species don't always know that you're trying to help them. Also liked that you connected the dots between Calvin's curiosity overcoming his fear and the humans' curiosity doing the same.
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I remember seeing the trailer for that movie and wanting to see it. I knew it was something to do with a Parasite but damn that's way more terrifying than I would've expected. And honestly, it's hard to blame CALVIN because I'm sure there are not many humans on earth where, if they were taken essentially as a prisoner, we would do the same thing. If treated well, we would be almost accepting, but then upon any sort of harm of course it would be a matter of doing what we could to survive. Seems that the movie goes way deeper than just a typical space horror movie like I thought
If only that accident didn't happen.... Calvin could have been the first friendly alien. And your right, when the little guy was tiny, he was so gentle with them. Before the shock happened.
Awesome video. I luved this movie! Lets be real though, eventually calvin was seeing them as food sooner or later! A creature that wiped out all previous life on its previous planet. I am pretty sure whether the trust was there between Humans and Calvin or not still left Humanity on the menu 100%
This movie got very average to poor reviews and I didn’t watch it for some time. A really underrated flick that I absolutely loved. Glad to hear someone else agrees.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache they will be because of how dumb the human race is we will capture/kill and dissect them only for them to turn around and wipe us out
@@blooBerry371 humans being "dumb" (you speaking of your experience huh) has nothing to do with how deadly is alien organism. like read what u wrote .... no sense af.
How it is portraited here is complete and utter nonsense. Nothing here makes scientific sense. Nothing could evolve that rapidly. We're talking about a singlecell organism that completes 1 billion years of evolution in 5 minutes, increasing it's mass by a factor of also 1 billion. So bad. However, alien life (if it exists) will be 100% deadly to earth life, especially so if it is made up of different amino acids, sugars and fats than have evolved to be the basis of earth life. If we encounter an alien biosphere like that, absolutely everything on that planet will be poison for us. The smell of their flowers could act like nervegas on us.
@@blooBerry371 We're not dumb at all though. As far as we can tell we're the only species even capable of space flight. We're either very intelligent in terms of biological life or we're scarily alone.
Well, if you're explaining life, can you tell me how TH-cam works? Is the best way to grow to just make more videos? I've tried seemingly everything and I'm still going but it is only getting more futile.
There's a few dedicated channels that do videos on that. Also, If you're already a creator go to the TH-cam channel Creator Insider, they cover everything - th-cam.com/channels/Gg-UqjRgzhYDPJMr-9HXCg.html
Solaxe S It’s smart to not rely on YT for fame and fortune, but there are people who actually want to make good content on YT. He just wanted assistance to improve. “F&CE” offered to help “Guy 1 and Guy 2” because he asked a respectful question to another content creator. Glad you gave input, but I suggest you give a more constructive reply next time, Solaxe S.
I love your videos dude! I like how in depth you go in your review, analysis, background, making of, ect. These are so much fun to watch, and I get excited every time I see a new video 😁👍 keep up the awesome work!
This movie is serving us as a warning while we explore the vast unknown with weapons in our backs, the creature was peaceful at first, until a spear is pointed at it.
It's comedic how incompetent the crew was. xD In a case like that, the whole space station would really just be blown up anyway. No survivors, no risks.
Honestly, probably the most stressful movie I've ever seen. There were multiple times where I wanted to get up and go to the bathroom as an excuse just to get away from the screen. Fully recommend although it would probably lose a lot of its depth on a home tv.
A life form like that, if it were to be properly culled and understood, could've been something incredible. But do to a minor botch in handling of that creature the potential extraterrestrial bonds are shattered and what is scary about this movie is that it can actually happen.
Once Ekaterina had decided to sacrifice herself to keep Calvin outside the station, she should have grabbed it and pushed off into space. Thereby ensuring the safety of both the station, and Earth.
lol there's no way Calvin could survive reentry, the ship around him and Calvin him self would turn to plasma. bait him into a part of the station that couldn't survive reentry, boom he's now a hot ball of plasma
I think the depiction of Miranda's fate was based on what supposedly happened to a Cosmonaut named Komarov - it's sometimes claimed that there was a re-entry malfunction and he died screaming and cursing at his Soviet bosses. He did perish, but the transcripts don't show anything like that.
I loved hearing about this movie and your in-depth analysis of the film! Going to watch this again later! I also have an anime recommendation of “Parasyte the Maxim” from 2014/2015, and the current mystery/drama “Parasite” by Bong Joon-ho! It would be awesome to see you review/analyze these two!
I love Life! Really i love this movie. How smart it its, and after watching this video, i appreciated even more. Such a rarity to have such innovative story, screenwriting. This movie deserves more love than it get.
I actually watched this in the cinema for reasons unknown. When I saw that there was an alien thingy aboard, we could conclude a few things: 1: Something is going to go wrong, and the alien will be a meanie 2: Most or all people will die 3: Either they will blow up the spaceship or the alien will come to earth There goes all the suspense, and all that's left is to watch the actors struggle for almost 2 hours waiting for them to die off.
"He has to kill us in order to survive" - Wrong... It survived previously fine without them. "It is curious and intelligent" - How about communication then!?
Ah yeah. Let's try this on you. Now, communicate with a dolphin. (since dolphins are the smartest creatures on Earth) Will you even have a functional and informative conversation? LOL Killing to survive is true to the movie. It didn't made any rash and violent actions until it was attacked and hurt (zapped, bitten, burned) YOU'RE IGNORANT
It is kinda hard to survive when you feel a dude shock you with electricity, then not attacking the perceived threat. Try that on any animal - tell me how it works out for you. What makes you think high cognitive functions mean it can communicate by human means? Are you being serious right now?
I hope if it's has a sequel it'll be called Death
And it's actually a super upbeat story with a happy ending
I hope its called mid life crisis
Max Hyde you villain lol
I feel like it’ll be called “Life Goes On”
I starting to see a pattern that I dont like.
Calvin is pretty op, he killed Deadpool, Scorpion and Mysterio
Lmao
Your stupid lol but brilliant 👌😂😂👍👍
Venom vs Calvin?
And green lantern lmao
HAAHAAHHAHAHAHH thats whats funny ryan teynolds was thr first to go out like I think he did that on purpose 😂😂😂😂
"Life explained"
Basically, it only gets worse.
bruh
true
Hahaha, I'm always late with my jokes... I figured more people would make jokes about how bad "life" is 😏
Well he's not wrong lmao
"It just works."
This reminded me of an old short story I read when I was younger.
A man was writing a letter in his dining room when he noticed a black, inky spot on the corner of his paper. Everytime he took his eyes off the spot, it grew in size, but not by much. The man called his butler in to get a second set of eyes on the spot, but eventually both men were distracted by a knock on the front door. When the two men look back, the spot is gone. They split up to find it, and after searching for awhile, the man hears a scream coming from his dining room. He rushes back to see that the floor is now a black, inky void, and the butler is nowhere to be seen. The front door is on the other side of the void, but he also knows it's only a matter of time until he has to blink.
It's been awhile, but that's the ghist of the story. Thanks for another great video and keep up the fantastic work!
I love this. Such a great little story, i even saved for later. Thank you. Do you know where this story is from? And do you know more stories like this? Btw i told my girlfriend, she didn't get it 😂
@@Oravankarva I do not recall where I found it unfortunately, but it has stuck with me for the better part of 2 decades now. I am never able to find the story online, but hopefully my luck changes and I come across it
@@tylerbaldwin3269 Well i can only say, thanks to you, you keep it alive and in the net for others to find. Thanks for sharing, it will have been a shame, if it will got lost in time.
@@Oravankarva It seems like an Edgar Allan Poe story, but I can't find anything about it. If I ever find it, I'll make sure to share the name
@@tylerbaldwin3269 Thanks man, i appreciated. Will be waiting here in the comments, if that day ever happens.
The ending of this film really threw me. Less Calvin making it to earth, but more the fate of the scientist, cast off into space. No hope, alone, adrift and doomed to a death in the void.
Her screams at the end made me feel genuinely uncomfortable.
That scream was most likely because Calvin made it to earth based off of their previous actions
@@Ediblebomb nah, that was "I'm fucking dead and I there is nothing I can do about it whilst I wait for my sand timer to run out." that was a scream of a fate in line with the worst one could imagine. At that point, I doubt Calvin getting to earth factored into her thoughts at all.
Alone in the Void with a short supply of air and an ardously slow march to dying.
@@combatwombat2134 I think eventually she would just open the hatch of the pod, exposing herself to the empty vacuum. It would be over for her in seconds.
Yes but maybe she will be the last remaining human at least
@@combatwombat2134 Self-preservation is not something that is practiced by someone with higher intelligence. Rebecca was supposed to be the one who thinks logically and is the person responsible for the contingency plan. But yeah, i doubt someone who is working at the space station because of her intelligence, her final thought would be " Damn, i m on the wrong pod". You guys are amazing. I wish i was like you guys. The entire earth is going to get wiped out but yeah let me scream because i am going to die slowly.
The interesting thing is that while the creature itself seems to have been nearly unkillable, it was by no means undefeatable and the failure of the crew ultimately rested on a succession of failed decisions which ended costing them everything. Reanimating it was the first mistake (before they knew he was capable of aggression) but that could be forgiven. But then they proceed to break quarantine area to try to rescue their colleague, which endangered yet another person. That person then used fire, which gave the creature the opportunity to escape the pod. Then one of the members pretty much sided with the creature. Then another guy misread the situation and burned the thrusters with the creature into a collision with earth. Then the Quarantine expert who was aware of every safety protocol did not inform the crew of what was about to happen. Then because of that another crewmember forcefully entered into the last safety protocol and led to their deaths too and to the space station going back to orbit. There are about half a dozen opportunities they had to control it. But I enjoyed the movie overall, would be nice if there would have been a sequel.
My interpretation is that it's the alternate universe where the smartest people, scientists-cosmonauts, are quite dumb by our standards. And they all get Darwin's (which they deserve 100%).
I don't get how Ryan Reynolds was spraying flames all over the room trying to kill the thing and nothing happened. Then after it killed him, the flamethrower with a tiny pilot light going, bumps into a sensor. Only then does the room's fire extinguishing capabilities activate, allowing the creature to escape. It was at that moment that I realized this was going to be a movie full of contrivances in order for the plot to move forward.
In a world where all the people with common sense have died, an alien named Calvin outwits and fucks the rest of humanity.
Directed by Michael Bay
Lyfe
tdylan yasss, At that point I lost interest
@@tdylan Seriously. How did the Soyuz even get detached by the one guy opening the hatch thinking it was a rescue pod?
33 seconds in and I'm putting this on hold and going watch the movie real quick
Its a good one checl it out
Smart move..the movie is worth watching
Glad I watched this in the theaters. Couple months later It was released on bluray so I had to cop it real quick. Great movie.
This movie makes you go through a whirl of emotions but because it was not what I expected this movie to be I didn’t like it much like other viewers this is probably why it went to DVD and blue ray really quick
@@dylancarden3646 I was fearful the entire time..because the events in the movie COULD happen
The crew should've just used their remaining fuel to push the ISS into deep space the moment they realised that Calvin was both intelligent and hostile, and unstoppable.
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Exactly, instead of trying to save that one woman
But that's the whole point of the movie. It's Life, you'll either get destructive like Calvin for survival, or do whatever you can to avoid death bc you want to live, like the space explorers.
Underrated flick.
"Life" and "Underwater" ought to be Cloverfield universe.
octagonproplex Underwater is pretty much a Cthulhu movie
@@WesternXC
Except doesn't seem to be an immortal god who drives men mad in its presence.
octagonproplex No but it’s heavily based on him. Even the director said it in an interview
@@WesternXC
Yeah I know, I listened to the Mr.H interview too. 👍
octagonproplex man of the culture 💪🏾
Scientists: Zap Calvin
Calvin: *so your entire species has chosen death*
I would have hired Calvin to visit Trump 😂
“You dare oppose me mortal?”
@@chrissi.enbyYT you say that, but humans are inherently selfish creatures. If you were in an enclosed space with limited oxygen and supplies along with a being perfectly designed for killing you in a horrific manner, your instincts would be screaming for self preservation.
@@skids_97 what an absolutely mentally ill response. You need therapy.
The whole trust thing with Calvin is a good metaphor for using violence and how it destroys all chances of coexisting peacefully. And how it’s ultimately your greatest enemy. It wasn’t Calvin that facilitated these events. It was perceived violence. The interaction with the rat reinforces this, for me at least.
deep
Calvin got to eat too
I think it would've killed them anyway to survive.
Interesting thing about this movie is that there was no "monster", there was nothing malicious about "Kalvin", it was just....surviving.
Much doubt but ok.
@@buddhapimp8890 it's like you didn't watch the video but ok
A lot of monster movies are about creatures just doing their thing... including people in it with bad luck to be in their way. :)
Well if the creature isn't sapient it can't be evil by definition. Malicious intent requires sapience. Very few "monsters" are actually evil because they are not sapient.
@Maria Kelly Watch the movie. It will be explained.
Calvin opens his helmet and looks him in the eye: "I beat you."
Yeah really.
Look at Me I am the Captain -Calvin
I read the "i beat you" in daredevils voice from season 3
@@carston101 ME TOO LOL
Imagine if Calvin developed a mouth and said to him ‘Time to mate’
this movie is very underrated and i honestly think that it deserves to be known more
2:33, it's supposed to be scientifically accurate on how we could encounter an alien being and what we should or shouldn't do when we have said encounter.
Trying to go to Mars and we have no idea what's there or what has happened this can very well happen because curiosity kills the cat always a man trying to to play god to be famous and let loose a parasite that will destroy mankind
This will be on the seventh year Trump is our President. President Trump will say to all of Humanity as the Third World is busy being consumed by the alien(s), "Oops!", @@GoddessArkasha
Also Calvin is a reason that if I ever build one of these testing chambers, the gloves will be fully armoured to prevent shit like that from happening among other things
This is a scary accurate possibility
"Life Explained"
In the beginning, the Universe was created.
This made a lot of people very angry, and has widely been considered to have been a bad move.
Then some super advanced alien species asked the super computer they built, "What is meaning of Life?". Their super computer told them to come back in a few million years. They came back on the dot. Their leaders reiterated their original question to their super computer. Their super computer then responded, "Forty-two.".
@@adamgray1753 I'm surprised i managed to get that reference
7:35, I guess it's true what they say: curiosity killed the cat, literally.
There was no cat. Just a rat and other people so you can't say literally.
Darth Revan the reference orbited over your head, it’s ok.
@@jordyalmonte42 The joke evolved actually, Curiosity got the garbage end of the deal in life, and got everyone else metaphorically rekt once.
Little did the metaphorical/proverbial cat realize that mere satisfaction would bring it back
Jordy Almonte No...It was above no one, it just didn’t make complete sense.
It must be pointed out that much as Calvin killed humans to survive, humans were trying to kill it for the same reason. What is interesting is that everything unfolds due to one of the parts perceiving the other as hostile and this shows one of the most difficult situations in a first contact scenario, we do not have the means to communicate with one another. Maybe Calvin tried communicating but its method of communication was like that of ants, through pheromones which we are completely unequipped to comprehend. Going back to my previous point, what we might perceive as hostility might not be intended as such. I think this is best illustrated in Calvin's interaction with the rat. Calvin curiously get close to the rat, no hostile intention, the rat perceives this as hostile yet responds with a feint of a bite most probably not hostile and more intended as saying "just back off a little", yet Calvin reacts with fulminating hostility this time. Neither Calvin's nor the rat's initial action and reaction were intended as hostile yet perceived as such by the other part.
On the other side of things, what if an action was intended as hostile yet not perceived as such?
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@@Koalagriffin713.Overrated comment
An alien who is cunning enough that it brought fear and made the characters use their instincts and skills to survive yet failed
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Nice
Kalvin didn't fail he made it to earth
@Mister Perfection then he should re edit his answer to make more sense
@Amber Rodriguez you mean that swing and a miss lol.
@Amber Rodriguez Madame I do not know what you're talking about
Sorry English is not my first language sorry for the grammar
It was kinda cute when it was hugging that little light bar though.
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8:52 that poor rat. Those terrifying squeaks hurt :(
rip
PETA probably lodged a complaint about the rat death scene. And the electrical prod of Calvin. Not a word about any of the human deaths. LoL
The ending was disturbing in a good way. It made me feel so disturbed knowing that the scientist will forever drift to space with literally no one to hear her until she dies and the scene those fisherman would have seen and suffered
I'm going to be honest, Life was fun. It's tacky, it's got idiot mistakes, and it's honestly predictable (despite what Nyat/FCE states in the beginning), but it's still fun. You really can't go wrong with a classic creature horror/thriller set in a scifi environment.
What it DID do differently was have it take place in a slightly more "realistic" setting in the near future. The fact that Ryan Reynolds was also cast as one of the characters was also a pretty swell idea as it gave us some unrealistic expectations about his character such as whether or not he'd be a lead or if this was going to be a horror-comedy. And while many people can agree that we've been kind of fed up on just-CGI monsters instead of the classic practical effects approach Calvin's design ultimately works for something that should be used to a more aquatic/low-gravity environment like it would have had back on early Mars.
i hate to disagree with you, but yes u can. think about leprechaun 4
@@jacknewell1847 Oh lol, I thought that one was In The Hood, looks like they did make one in Space.
At least Warwick Davis has fun making movies like that.
@@kerianhalcyon2769 ye its is still shet tho
Man, Kalvin was freaking terrifying when he was bigger and entering bodies. Not much gives me the willies, but climbing in Ryan’s mouth was, whoa 😮
I disagree about it having too look like it’s predecessor back on mars but it is stated that it will evolve too look any kind of way based on what it preyed on and its environment
A lot of people skipped this movie, so intense, too bad was so underrated, awesome video by the way.
I love how there's a comic arc in calvin and hobbes where they go to mars and meet a tentacled creature. I think this "Calvin" is a subtle reference to it.
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I need to watch this again. I didn’t realize that the scientist kind of set everybody up to die.
The Didn’t 😮💨🤦🏾♂️
I haven't watched this movie, but has ever occured to these guys that Calvin being so intelligent could possibly hear and understand everything they were saying, and therefore be one step ahead all the time? Great recap btw!
Finally the meaning of Life
lol
@@filmcomicsexplained Great video btw
42
@Maria Kelly The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A supercomputer determined that 42 is the meaning of life
I remember when people was thinking This was the origins for venom lol 😅
I just want to see a sequel to this movie it’s definitely a classic sci-fi horror film
Calvin was str8 up overpowered, especially at the stage where he first escaped. Sry but i doubt something that small can produce enough force to break a hand with minimal leverage and also be immune to fire.
Any monkey has 2-3 times power to human ör cheetah has the 110km speed while we have 44 at track with spikes and thats world record etc it can happen
Barely even muscles, no bones.
@@sawtmac but Calvin is a boneless tiny octopus. How he could pressure man's hand?
@@metal87power just possible i say , power is about central nervous system not about bones , snake can suffocate animals as example
from the point the black guy said that Calvin has THICK CELL WALLS..
i'm expecting trouble.
This movie gave me goosebumps 😱. Calvin was an amazing villain, and the twist at the end was 👌🏽
Boring invincible antagonist with no weaknesses and I literally said they swapped the pods, that edit was not nearly as clever as they thought it was.
@To Release is To Resolve Well damn!! They can't all be winners
The ending twist simply ruined the whole movie
Love this movie. The ending was terrifying
I loved this movie too! I don’t even get how it got such bad reviews. I loved the ending and it was terrifying haha
🤌🏾🫡
4:25, that was a brutal scene.
SO METAL
the whole movie was brutal
3:36, the perfect organism.
It’s another frustrating movie where u wonder how could things go wrong so fast
That was a great movie, severely under appreciated. Thanks for covering it!
This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for a guide to my life
lol
Calvin, is that you?
I was expecting something completely different after reading the title...
It was a good movie that we needed after a dry spell. The fact that it takes inspiration from older pieces and respinning it nods to the heart they put into it.
Loved the premise and the ending. I imagine that if a human was captured then experimented on, then zapped, it would react the same way which made it seem more plausible as a "villain." Just like animals here, species don't always know that you're trying to help them. Also liked that you connected the dots between Calvin's curiosity overcoming his fear and the humans' curiosity doing the same.
The main lesson I learned from this movie was: don’t freaking shock aliens 👾⚡️ever
I’ve been with this channel since the beginning! I’m so happy to see how far the whole channel has come next step is get accouple sponsors from Hollywood soon and we’ll be in the big league boys
I remember seeing the trailer for that movie and wanting to see it. I knew it was something to do with a Parasite but damn that's way more terrifying than I would've expected. And honestly, it's hard to blame CALVIN because I'm sure there are not many humans on earth where, if they were taken essentially as a prisoner, we would do the same thing. If treated well, we would be almost accepting, but then upon any sort of harm of course it would be a matter of doing what we could to survive. Seems that the movie goes way deeper than just a typical space horror movie like I thought
If only that accident didn't happen.... Calvin could have been the first friendly alien. And your right, when the little guy was tiny, he was so gentle with them. Before the shock happened.
I feel like this film was really underrated. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, even when I watched it a second time.
A leaked scene from the sequel showed that Calvin took on a form of a chipmunk and learned to sing and dance.🐿
😂😂😂😂
Another ‘horror’ where the characters are not idiots, just a few bad or unlucky decisions go against them. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would
Finally I'll understand how to interact with peopl-
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This movie is criminally underrated!!!
Awesome video. I luved this movie!
Lets be real though, eventually calvin was seeing them as food sooner or later!
A creature that wiped out all previous life on its previous planet. I am pretty sure whether the trust was there between Humans and Calvin or not still left Humanity on the menu 100%
This movie got very average to poor reviews and I didn’t watch it for some time. A really underrated flick that I absolutely loved. Glad to hear someone else agrees.
One of the scariest sci-fi films ever made! Almost up there with the "Thing".
Watching this movie in quarantine is a whole other line of anxiety feelings.
This movie really makes you wonder if alien life in real life will be this deadly
Just Some Guy without a Mustache they will be because of how dumb the human race is we will capture/kill and dissect them only for them to turn around and wipe us out
@@blooBerry371 humans being "dumb" (you speaking of your experience huh) has nothing to do with how deadly is alien organism.
like read what u wrote ....
no sense af.
How it is portraited here is complete and utter nonsense. Nothing here makes scientific sense. Nothing could evolve that rapidly. We're talking about a singlecell organism that completes 1 billion years of evolution in 5 minutes, increasing it's mass by a factor of also 1 billion. So bad.
However, alien life (if it exists) will be 100% deadly to earth life, especially so if it is made up of different amino acids, sugars and fats than have evolved to be the basis of earth life. If we encounter an alien biosphere like that, absolutely everything on that planet will be poison for us. The smell of their flowers could act like nervegas on us.
@@blooBerry371 We're not dumb at all though. As far as we can tell we're the only species even capable of space flight. We're either very intelligent in terms of biological life or we're scarily alone.
@@yaldabaoth2 mekhane wins
I've been waiting for a long time for this guy to explain this movie!!!
Well, if you're explaining life, can you tell me how TH-cam works? Is the best way to grow to just make more videos? I've tried seemingly everything and I'm still going but it is only getting more futile.
There's a few dedicated channels that do videos on that. Also, If you're already a creator go to the TH-cam channel Creator Insider, they cover everything
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th-cam.com/channels/Gg-UqjRgzhYDPJMr-9HXCg.html
FilmComicsExplained This was very helpful! Thank you!
@@filmcomicsexplained not all heros wear capes
get a normal job instead of making yet another youtube channel about the same we don't need
Solaxe S It’s smart to not rely on YT for fame and fortune, but there are people who actually want to make good content on YT. He just wanted assistance to improve. “F&CE” offered to help “Guy 1 and Guy 2” because he asked a respectful question to another content creator. Glad you gave input, but I suggest you give a more constructive reply next time, Solaxe S.
I love your videos dude! I like how in depth you go in your review, analysis, background, making of, ect. These are so much fun to watch, and I get excited every time I see a new video 😁👍 keep up the awesome work!
You gotta do splinter at some point. Other than that, still love these
This would’ve been an amazing origin story for the Cloverfield monster.
100% that's a interesting thought
This movie is serving us as a warning while we explore the vast unknown with weapons in our backs, the creature was peaceful at first, until a spear is pointed at it.
i cant wait to see part 2... its the most vicious alien i have ever seen in a movie period
It's comedic how incompetent the crew was. xD
In a case like that, the whole space station would really just be blown up anyway. No survivors, no risks.
a multi celled organism where each cell works alongside one another, cooperating toward a singular goal, life.
In all honesty, I would’ve rather been in Miranda position floating away from earth then in the Capsule with Calvin
Love this film and love this channel. Best of both worlds
Oh this movie. Ending kinda sucked in my opinion considering there probably won't even be a sequel.
Luis Santiago I really wished we saw it it rip apart the fisherman before it cut to black
@@TheIceTrey yeah I feel we could have at least got a bit more chaos before it ended. I mean they clearly set it up for a sequel but still.
The sequel already exists, it's called Venom
Max Hyde I hope that’s sarcasm lol
not everything needs showing, sometimes the power of imagination is the true horror
I'm really surprised you didn't review this one already. I love your stuff and keep going
Basically 40k is right “suffer not the alien to live “
The Emperor protects
YEAHHH thanks for doing my request!
I got a suggestion for a game video: Warframe’s Infestation.
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The scene where Calvin stuffed itself down Ryan Reynolds throat made me think about just how much I enjoyed sushi and hotdog eating contests.
Would've been really awesome if the theory about Life being a secret venom prequel movie was true.
Nope
Honestly, probably the most stressful movie I've ever seen. There were multiple times where I wanted to get up and go to the bathroom as an excuse just to get away from the screen. Fully recommend although it would probably lose a lot of its depth on a home tv.
A life form like that, if it were to be properly culled and understood, could've been something incredible. But do to a minor botch in handling of that creature the potential extraterrestrial bonds are shattered and what is scary about this movie is that it can actually happen.
Calvin is freakishly amazing creature! And the film took me completely by surprise.
Once Ekaterina had decided to sacrifice herself to keep Calvin outside the station, she should have grabbed it and pushed off into space. Thereby ensuring the safety of both the station, and Earth.
This was such a good film imo was a slow burn but the ending is worth it and I was definitely left speechless
lol there's no way Calvin could survive reentry, the ship around him and Calvin him self would turn to plasma. bait him into a part of the station that couldn't survive reentry, boom he's now a hot ball of plasma
You clearly see the pod is in the water from re-entering so...
@@tristangreen5156 I think he meant re-entry without the escape pods.
I think the depiction of Miranda's fate was based on what supposedly happened to a Cosmonaut named Komarov - it's sometimes claimed that there was a re-entry malfunction and he died screaming and cursing at his Soviet bosses. He did perish, but the transcripts don't show anything like that.
I loved hearing about this movie and your in-depth analysis of the film! Going to watch this again later!
I also have an anime recommendation of “Parasyte the Maxim” from 2014/2015, and the current mystery/drama “Parasite” by Bong Joon-ho! It would be awesome to see you review/analyze these two!
Thank you for covering this film ! Ending always shook me
Yes!!! I'd love to see a video on Parasyte!!
I love Life! Really i love this movie. How smart it its, and after watching this video, i appreciated even more. Such a rarity to have such innovative story, screenwriting. This movie deserves more love than it get.
Imagine being handicapped and having a alien feeding on your leg without you noticing 😱💀
That was good watched this a few times cool hearing it from your perspective
"Life finds a way!"
Man, this movie is creepier after your plot breakdown, good job
I actually watched this in the cinema for reasons unknown.
When I saw that there was an alien thingy aboard, we could conclude a few things:
1: Something is going to go wrong, and the alien will be a meanie
2: Most or all people will die
3: Either they will blow up the spaceship or the alien will come to earth
There goes all the suspense, and all that's left is to watch the actors struggle for almost 2 hours waiting for them to die off.
Great presentation! Thanks! I'd been meaning to see this one, but forgot about it. Now I'll definitely remember to!
Your voice is too good you should do a podcast
This is a good Sci-fi Horror film! It has one of the craziest twist endings I've ever seen!
"He has to kill us in order to survive" - Wrong... It survived previously fine without them.
"It is curious and intelligent" - How about communication then!?
Ah yeah. Let's try this on you.
Now, communicate with a dolphin. (since dolphins are the smartest creatures on Earth)
Will you even have a functional and informative conversation? LOL
Killing to survive is true to the movie.
It didn't made any rash and violent actions until it was attacked and hurt (zapped, bitten, burned)
YOU'RE IGNORANT
It is kinda hard to survive when you feel a dude shock you with electricity, then not attacking the perceived threat. Try that on any animal - tell me how it works out for you.
What makes you think high cognitive functions mean it can communicate by human means? Are you being serious right now?
@@Casual-Netizen dolphins are not the smartest animals on earth lol.
the ending was crazy I liked it
"Life explained"
Well, that's mighty ambitious of you.
I’m still trying to understand how that overpowered power flower ate a rat in seconds
Cwyet Well it’s look like it drank it up and swallowed the dried up corpse
Enzymes.
Calvin: destruction is necesary for life to thrive.
Me: looks at mars.
Your breakdown of the movie is almost as eerie and scary as the movie it's self.
Maybe Calvin just needed a good ol' petting :3
I wanna become friends with Calvin :D
I was literally looking for this for 15 minutes