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Willie is like a sharp Jar Jar poked into my eardrums over and over.
If you guys have never seen Infodroid's edit of Doom, you should give it a spin.
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SilverWook said:
Spooky timing, Tobar.
Raising Arizona (1987)
Thought about jumping into Total Recall but decided I was in a more lighthearted mood. I always get a kick out of films set in Arizona that were also filmed here. As was the same with Used Cars (1980), Arizona is populated with a bunch of oddballs. (Probably not too far off the mark.) =P A very fun film.
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AVENGERS: Surprised by how much I liked it. Great pop-corn pic. First-rate screenplay. Whedon continues to impress. I discovered Firefly/Serenity only recently. There seems to be a sort of short'n'sweet, pointed comic-book kind of cadence to his writing voice. Everything neatly framed and quipy, expository, or poignant. It must make life a bit easier for the directors.
One niggle, I didn't comprehend the great threat to all earth until about four-fifths of the way through. Two or three quick establishing shots of the Army assembling or crying for blood or finishing up a ravaging of another helpless world might have created a 'Death Star plowing through the galaxy' sort of tension and peril.
MIB3: Liked it as I liked MIB2, but not as much as 1. The first had that fish-out-of-water-nothing-is-as-it-seems quality. J is our avatar as we discover the great deception with him. 2 and 3 necessarily goes over alot of ground already trod.
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Tobar said:
SilverWook said:
Spooky timing, Tobar.
Raising Arizona (1987)
Thought about jumping into Total Recall but decided I was in a more lighthearted mood. I always get a kick out of films set in Arizona that were also filmed here. As was the same with Used Cars (1980), Arizona is populated with a bunch of oddballs. (Probably not too far off the mark.) =P A very fun film.
So, you didn't know Richard Dawson just passed away?
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PROMETHEUS
wow. no balls. this movie has no balls.
The only thing it didn't steal from the previous films is the one thing it should have - mood.
the big reveal was ruined by an earlier scene, I predicted the 'twist' that has no real bearing on the story anyway, any scenes that should be scary just come off as gross / disgusting.
Would have been nice to have the willpower to pull an anchorhead on this one.
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I gotta say that while Temple of Doom takes the Indiana series in a very different direction and feel, I still enjoy it as well. I don't enjoy Willie all that much, but I don't hate her either. And frankly, the climax on the bridge is one of my favorites--what a frightening way to have to face the bad guys, everyone struggling simply for a handhold!
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I really dislike the "Tex Avery" stuff that was really starting to pick up in Temple of Doom. I mean the goofy coincidences. I mean Thuggee toughs swinging their hammers and having the head fly off the handle and land on the head of a skinny slave standing in the corner.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
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PROMETHEUS
wow. no balls. this movie has no balls.
The only thing it didn't steal from the previous films is the one thing it should have - mood.
the big reveal was ruined by an earlier scene, I predicted the 'twist' that has no real bearing on the story anyway, any scenes that should be scary just come off as gross / disgusting.
Would have been nice to have the willpower to pull an anchorhead on this one.
Hmmm... disturbing this review is. It's trending fairly well on RottenTomatoes...
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
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It would take a lot for me to give something a 0. I'd have to get no entertainment from it at all.
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how about extreme disappointment?
how's this? - they went looking for answers...the didn't find any. the end.
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xhonzi said:
Johnny Ringo said:
PROMETHEUS
wow. no balls. this movie has no balls.
The only thing it didn't steal from the previous films is the one thing it should have - mood.
the big reveal was ruined by an earlier scene, I predicted the 'twist' that has no real bearing on the story anyway, any scenes that should be scary just come off as gross / disgusting.
Would have been nice to have the willpower to pull an anchorhead on this one.
Hmmm... disturbing this review is. It's trending fairly well on RottenTomatoes...
Ack! I just looked at the spoiler-free reviews in the Prometheus thread. Ack!
Ack!
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
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"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
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Prometheus (2012)
Just got back from seeing this a little bit ago. I have to say, I liked it. I could have done without the exogenesis nonsense but other than that I don't really have any complaints. It was a nice homage to a number of different films. Alien of course but then also to The Thing From Another World and The Thing. The only thing I don't get is how this is supposed to line up with Alien. In that in that the space jockey is found in his pilot seat with his chest burst. Not left in some abandoned capsule elsewhere. That and all the touch screens, feels like a big disconnect between the two technology wise. Eh, but I'm going to watch Alien in a little bit so I can compare them while it's still fresh.
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Tobar said:
Prometheus (2012)
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The only thing I don't get is how this is supposed to line up with Alien. In that in that the space jockey is found in his pilot seat with his chest burst. Not left in some abandoned capsule elsewhere.
I believe that there are two more chapters (films) in this new Prometheus saga that need to be made before we get to that Alien line-up point.
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Prometheus (2012)
Just got back from seeing this a little bit ago. I have to say, I liked it. I could have done without the exogenesis nonsense but other than that I don't really have any complaints. It was a nice homage to a number of different films. Alien of course but then also to The Thing From Another World and The Thing. The only thing I don't get is how this is supposed to line up with Alien. In that in that the space jockey is found in his pilot seat with his chest burst. Not left in some abandoned capsule elsewhere. That and all the touch screens, feels like a big disconnect between the two technology wise. Eh, but I'm going to watch Alien in a little bit so I can compare them while it's still fresh.
It's clearly a different ship, a different planet, the Prometheus is clearly brand new and built for the specific purpose of space exploration (even if the crew seem to be picked for a trip to Crystal Lake).
It's not a direct prequel.
The derelict in Alien is thousands of years old, and Space Jockey is much bigger than the Engineer in this one (at least twice the height if not more).
The Nostromo is an old truck.
Of all the problems with the film this was one aspect of the film I didn't have an issue with.
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Am I going to have to avoid this thread like I'm avoiding the actual Prometheus thread?
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Ye.
I still need to convince my wife to see it this weekend.
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If you go along for the pretty visuals and switch off your brain you might have some fun.
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I shouldn't have to avoid this thread. NO MORE SPOILERS PLZ.doubleofive said:
Ye.
I still need to convince my wife to see it this weekend.
My wife doesn't really want to see it, but she's thinking of going with me as a Father's Day gift. So just knock Mrs. 005 up!
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Somehow I don't think she'd go for that. She still doesn't understand why I want to see a "scary movie". I keep saying that its an Alien prequel, but she doesn't understand why I like those anyway, when I don't like ghost movies and such.TV's Frink said:
My wife doesn't really want to see it, but she's thinking of going with me as a Father's Day gift. So just knock Mrs. 005 up!
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Cinema usually taps into childhood.
I remember weeping like a baby at the end of Peter Jackson's King Kong just as I did watching the original on the television when I was about 5.
If I had a big strong woman to comfort me it would be a very intimate experience.
Tell her you want her to hold your hand through the scary parts (not that there are many).
That will make it a sharing experience.
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Bingowings said:
Cinema usually taps into childhood.
I remember weeping like a baby at the end of Peter Jackson's King Kong...
Are you sure you didn't weep because it was too damn long?
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Prometheus...
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Little sci-fi, little comedy, little romance, little slice of life. probably a good date movie. Movie was created around the story of an ad placed in a newspaper for someone to go back in time, which became an internet thing shortly after. Which could be why it took so long for this movie to get released. or some of the actors stars are rising and the distribution capitalized. Not sure why it got an R rating, seems like it could be a regular on several cable channels. Story follows the quest to find the person who placed the ad and after that what they learn affects their current lives or lack there of.
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I wept because it was so damn terrible. And long.Leonardo said:
Bingowings said:
Cinema usually taps into childhood.
I remember weeping like a baby at the end of Peter Jackson's King Kong...
Are you sure you didn't weep because it was too damn long?
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Buster Keaton's The General.
Granted, it was a terrible DVD encode, but I guess that's what you can sometimes expect from a movie in the public domain and that you bought for a dollar at the pawn shop. It ran half an hour longer than the back of the box claimed, so I admit I did get a bit restless, but I did greatly enjoy it. I admit I am perplexed as to how it was panned at its release only to be revered later. It seems to me that it would have been more likely the other way around. There's a plot, but it does mostly center around the gags and stunts, which, if you're watching just for the plot, tend to bog it down, as the story stops at several times for Buster Keaton to do an extended bit of humor.
That's not to say the humor isn't worth it. Some of it's very impressive, not just comedically, but also technically. Considering most of the physical gags have to do with timing and stunts in and around moving trains, all of which Keaton did on camera without a stunt double... it's pretty amazing to look at.
I'm also surprised that it was based off a real life Civil War event... made into a raucous comedy 60 years later. That would be like us making a World War II comedy, and I have a hard time seeing that fly. And it's not just the stuff with the trains. The climax of the film is a big battle between the Union and Confederacy, with soldiers around Keaton's character dropping dead around him one by one as they're hit by bullets, and he just can't seem to figure out why.
Finally, I'm torn on the love interest character. At first, she really annoyed me because of her whole, "You didn't enlist? Well, the hell with you. You're useless. Not that I can enlist, but I still insist on judging you by a standard to which I am not held." But once he rescues her later on, and she's with him on the train, she actually DOES STUFF. She doesn't just stand around for him to do everything. She actually gets very physically involved with all the stunts and danger without shirking at all, and it's quite nice to see.
So, yes, I rate this quite high, and it's easy to see why it's usually rated so highly.
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
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TV's Frink said:
I wept because it was so damn terrible. And long.Leonardo said:
Bingowings said:
Cinema usually taps into childhood.
I remember weeping like a baby at the end of Peter Jackson's King Kong...
Are you sure you didn't weep because it was too damn long?
I loved it.
In fact in some ways I prefer it to the original.