Stupidity: After pushing the button for the outer door in the airlock, Justin was brought out of his trance. The door was on a delay, so why didn't he just go to the console and abort the door's opening?
Event Horizon (1997)
1 stupidity since 22 Mar '24, 03:20
Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Jason Isaacs, Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan
Revealing mistake: In the scene where Sam Neill has set the bomb to blow up the rescue ship, Laurence Fishburne comes running up to the sealed door of the Event Horizon whereupon it shakes back and forth like a stage door would.
Miller: Vacate! I want off this ship.
Dr. Weir: You can't leave. She won't let you.
Miller: You just get your gear and get back on the Lewis and Clark, Doctor, or you'll find yourself walkin' home.
Dr. Weir: I am home.
Trivia: Many of the corridors in the Event Horizon are coffin shaped - perhaps foreshadowing the fact that it is a "death" ship?
Question: Why did the Event Horizon choose to come back after seven years? In fact, why come back at all?
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Chosen answer: The movie never explicitly says; but science is as yet unsure what happens to a given piece of matter once it crosses a black hole's event horizon, so who knows? The ship could have been thrown seven years forward in time, or far enough away that it took seven years for it to drift close to Neptune. Pick any explanation you like.