Paradox Alice

I loved the movie. Watch it for yourself and make up your own mind. Avoid the comments of naysayers on here. This was a low budget independent film. Not a multi-million dollar production full of mega stars. Personally I was impressed with what was done with this movie. I give it 5 stars due to its originality and its ability to make you think about what is going on. Yeah there are some gaps in the story line, but at least you had to think about what is going on instead of having everything laid out for you. Kind of reminds me of The Outer Limits.

This is the worst movie I've ever enjoyed. Imagine some high school kids learned the word protandry in biology class that day and later that night drank a gallon of Boone's Farm and started "what if"-ing.....how long would it take until you came up with a script in which they figured out how to have gay sex by turning the hot guy into a hot chick whose sole purpose is to work with the first two to repopulate the human race somewhere?You know it's going to be bad on every level possible and for such an infinite variety of reasons when you see the fish bowl on the spacecraft. So here's it is - 2 guy astronauts, 1 nerd evangelical and one actual girl astronaut are trying to save earth which is ravaging itself over water and other resources. Long story short. They go into "stasis" to return to earth and are awakened 2 hours out in the middle of a debris field which is, apparently, what's left of the moon. Earth has self destructed.The real girl astronaut dies (because god forbid that would make rebuilding the human race too effing easy) so we have a situation where there is still the one hot guy astronaut, the 2nd astronaut who started out as captain but was demoted by female Hal robot, sigh, and the boy evangelical astronaut who has the gold fish - a bowl with 3 males because, as he says, throw a female in and they all kill themselves...double sigh.......so now we have 3 dudes coming to terms with the fact that the human race is dead - church boy knows god will save them and well dontcha know the hot dude astronaut transforms, all alienlike, into a woman just like protandry specifies. So Alex becomes Alice, who by the way is still captain thanks to lady Hal. The believer astronaut gets creepier and creepier and the creepy ex captain becomes less creepy....so any one piece sucks...but put them all together and after you've said WTF - dismissed the absolutely cheesie special effects and the worst set design you've ever seen our born again dork hatches his evil plan to "have' Alice. Then of course you have to work in a scene where "eve" has an apple, says she's never had it before followed by a dreamy banana eating sequence which ends with creepy captain hitting on his ex-friend but she's all like "I'm so confused"........sigh.....where's our evil evangelical? he's up to no good but the fish are fine, though now they're down to 2 because one has died. Queue required nightmare montage so hot sexy actress astronaut can wake up all sweaty and glistening and watch how she learns to put on her makeup and do her nails because that's something all astronauts need to do ..... then our creepy believer dude shows his true colors ... he's God's prophet and she belongs to him and .........and the weirdest thing is that she looks so much like Marsha Brady. ....none of this can end well and it doesn't.....and all of this makes so much sense because, you know, when you're in the middle of the apocalypse a little Deuteronomy is never enough and gosh darn it you need a touch of Leviticus, a soupcon of insanity and you just keep watching because you know if you just pay attention you too will learn the secret of making a woman obey you even when she wants you dead....queue the 2001 space odyssey choir, watch the necessary rape scene and wait for Rosemary's baby to be born....or babies......and the final scene doesn't disappoint. They even managed to make the final credits annoying vocally but the whole thing in its entirety actually kind of works in this most pathetic effort of wasted talent. I counted over 20 computer graphic technicians in the credit but all they managed to come up with were Atari level effects. But it's a holiday and I have all day to waste on this nonsense. It was fun. But I wouldn't do it again.

I'm occasionally willing to endure mediocre effects, bad acting and subpar writing in a film that's camp or not taking itself too seriously. This film isn't one of those films. This film thought it was a real film and just turned out horrendously bad.The premise was intriguing enough to get me to at least consider it: three men in space head home to Earth only to find it destroyed. Upon discovering that they are the last three humans alive, one of them spontaneously transforms into a woman, presumably to propagate the species. I'm not sure which paradox the title is referring to - that one of them becomes a woman is more of a mystery than a paradox - but I found myself asking questions every two minutes as this rollercoaster of idiocy and ham-handedness barreled on (spoilers, assuming you can spoil a film this godawful), but mostly of the "Are you kidding?" variety: the newly breasted space jockey's name is "Fox", he immediately begins to run around the ship in nothing more than a sports bra, despite being "cold all of the time" because he's "frail now," except for the times when he's sporting a lovely pink robe and a French manicure. Naturally the remaining two crew members vacillate between rapey and creepy, both of whom seem way more horny than bothered by the fact that every person and thing they've ever known was bombed to space dust. In an attempt to add a fourth character where three would do, we're given a HAL-inspired ship's computer that can demote personnel and control the ship's environments and doors, but can't keep a stalking rapist away from mankind's last hope. Given that the computer is personified by a rejected Johnny 5 prototype that shakes like a Muppet when it speaks so we know where the voice is coming from, it's no wonder it's useless.This is easily the most sexist sci-fi film I've ever seen, and I'm not generally predisposed to dismiss something on that factor alone. However, this tripe was so demeaning and over the top ridiculous in its attempts to get to all the "sexy" parts of being a woman trapped in space with two creeps - flashing her boobs, doing her nails, bating her eyelashes, getting knocked up on her first try/rape/asking for...all after being a woman for all of two days - that it ejects common sense, character development and whatever ethical dilemma the title might have referred to if the filmmakers actually knew what the word "paradox" meant. This isn't even good for a drinking game. It's an embarrassment to watch, and everyone associated with making it shouldn't be allowed near a camera again...even the caterer.