General / Off-Topic Movie Time: The Gorge.

[Stealthie]

The Gorge (2025) ⭐ 6.8 | Action, Adventure, Horror

2h 7m | PG-13

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Just watched this on Apple TV after seeing The Critical Drinker pan it on his Youtube channel.
I thought it was pretty good.

I see the metascore and IMDB ratings are fairly average but if you enjoy movies like The Thing or games like Shadow of Chernobyl, it's exactly the sort of flick you'll enjoy.
A lot of TCD's criticisms are valid but, at the same time, if you're going to watch any movie like this you've got to apply a bit of suspension-of-disbelief.
There's just enough plot to make you think about other stuff that might be happening in the movie's universe, there's enough character development to, erm, make the characters seem plausible and the horror stuff is suitably horrific.

If you enjoy movies like The Thing, you won't regret watching this.

Can't help wondering if this was originally concieved as a video game that changed direction into a movie.
Having seen the movie, I could see this making a really good survival game.

 

[HeatherG]

I watched it. It had a beginning and an end, but nothing really in the middle. I do love a movie with all three.
I thought it was not just a love story but also an action movie. But the actors did so so good. It's was very believable, I just wish there was more.

 

[Stealthie]

I thought it was not just a love story but also an action movie. But the actors did so so good. It's was very believable, I just wish there was more.

Yeah, that was, I guess, what I meant when I said "...makes you think about other stuff that might be happening the movie's universe".

I once saw a movie that was, in it's entirety, about a couple of soldiers manning a checkpoint out in the middle of nowhere, in WW2 Germany.
It was, basically, a series of scenes with an angry businessman who was going to miss a train, one of the soldiers trying to get people to buy him cigarettes, kids throwing rocks at the checkpoint, the possibility of enemy soldiers nearby and the only real "plot" was about a mother looking for her lost daughter and a (presumably) Jewish family that go through in the morning but come back in the evening.
It was (for me, at least) utterly compelling.
I could have watched it for 12 hours and then, if they made it into a TV show, I would have watched every episode of that as well.

I'm not sure if it was deliberate, or just cos that's as much plot as they could think of, but I kind of felt the same way about The Gorge.
It felt like a "here's a slice of the sort of stuff that happens here" movie.

I guess, with the premise, you couldn't really have the protagonists doing too much because that would have been a bit silly but I would, somehow, liked to have seen far more.
They could quite easily make "The Gorge" into the next "Walking Dead" style TV show, with each episode showing what different guards get up to as well as, perhaps, other stories about, say, people trying to get into the gorge to steal stuff or soldiers going in to recover stuff etc.

 

[metatheurgist]

I wouldn't call 6.8 on IMDb average. I don't watch anything less than 6 most days and 6+ for a genre movie is not common. It was definitely watchable, runtime was a bit harsh. They shoulda put that in cinemas instead of Captain Overrated.