Parasite Eve: The Movie

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StanleyPain - 2008-07-13

To clarify, though, Parasite Eve was a novel before anything. Then a video game, then a movie, though the movie is more accurate to the book. The game took the basic premise, but moved in a whole different direction.

Chalkdust - 2008-07-13

Though I'm not sure which began development first, the movie actually predates the game by a year.

StanleyPain - 2008-07-13

Then it might have been a movie first, before the game. In any case, I reviewed this a long time ago when I used to write movie reviews and ever since it has been a minor mission of mine to steer people away from it who think "OH WOW AWESOME PARASITE EVE MOVIE" because it's really slow, overlong, and based on the book which has little connection to the game.
My favorite scene is one of the initial organ harvesting sequences where you can tell they basically put a microphone in wet spaghetti or something and moved it around to create "surgical noises."

plaid_knight

- 2008-07-13

This film is a genuinely odd little piece of cinema.

Relevant excerpt from Wanderer's review of the film:

Watch For: Japanese live-action science horror with more goofy twists than a Crazy Straw.

Best Moment: I believe that Parasite Eve is the first movie in film history where two people join in a touching, romantic, climactic embrace--even though one of them is on fire.

Rating Time: You might recognize the name Parasite Eve from the weird not-quite-RPG made by Squaresoft. Thus, you might be wondering who's playing Aya, and so on.
Well, stop that. Parasite Eve the movie bears little to no resemblance to Parasite Eve the video game, aside from both sharing the same tendency to repeat the word "mitochondria" until it loses all meaning, and both hinging on a plot twist involving organ donation. The movie is slow-moving as hell, and despite having a few decidedly creepy moments, is generally dull. The ending in particular had me scratching my head, as I think the power of love just managed to somehow stop a billion-year-old plan for world conquest. It's odd.

kingarthur - 2008-07-13

Slow-moving and dull are extremely apt descriptions of this movie. I don't remember being creeped out. I do remember falling asleep.

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