Johnny Ringo

I once tried to create a Zork type game using qbasic but I never finished it.

The only actual Zork game I've played is return to zork, but that's not really the same thing - it was all mouse driven and bad acting..

Janek fills Vickers in? - isn't the movie already R rated? something odd about some of the titles - like it's too good to be true - the engineer speaks?, seems almoat like a combination of wishful thinking and leaked concept details..

As much as I hated the film, I'm curious to see how it could have played out and if there's any hope of patching it up - it's just a shame that they dress differently every time they leave the ship.

Hopefully there's a lot of content in good condition. 5 minutes and change seems like a long runtime for a deleted scene - maybe those are a hyrid of deleted and existing footage?

I remain hopeful yet skeptical.

The Three Stooges.

Good fun. laugh out loud moments, decent story for the most part, great casting - I didn't even recognise Larry David

I know it's a big part of the plot but the Jersey Shore stuff really diminished the fun I was having, so on account of that -

2 Balls.

Melancholia.

No balls.

I really wanted to like this film but in the end it just feels like wasted potential. The ending is shown in the opening moments off the film so for a lot of it you are just watching characters either doing absolutely nothing or just being dicks to each other.

The movie does have great visuals but that is all it really has going for it and there's a great cast but they just have nothing to do.

Right now I'm reading 'The secret history of Star Wars' - not sure which edition it is but I've spotted quite a few typos...otherwise it's quite good so far. 

Planning to start reading 'from the mountains of madness' after hearing a fair bit about it recently. - I read a synopsis and it sounds interesting. Anyone read it? - no spoilers please.

Doom 2 on xbla comes with a new side episode called No rest for the living. IMO the levels are a lot better than some of the stuff in Doom 2 actual. I wish they'd release more episodes as DLC. Doom and Doom 2 are games that I often go back to.

Men in Black III

Good fun.

Josh Brolin was perfectly cast as a young Tommy Lee Jones.

3 Balls.

always wanted to see that. 

The Dictator 

Funny in places but quite boring in others.

2 balls [1 of them for the music]

watching the live stream. pretty exciting.

should be landing in a few minutes..

edit - landing has begun.

looks like a bit of fun but I get tired of watching M and Bond bitching at each other every movie..

That's great to hear

The Dark Knight Rises.

it was good...but not as good as TDK, sadly.

For a BATMAN movie there really isn't very much BATMAN in it. on the whole it feels like there's something missing [other than BATMAN], the story moves from scene to scene without feeling like anything is really connected..

2 balls.

There's a pretty luxurious cinema about 45 minutes from her, I've never been but I hear good things. the plan is to go there with friends on the weekend for TDKR.

I guess a 3 hour movie demands comfortable seating - something that Village / Roadshow still haven't got the hang of..

currently watching a Batmaraton of BB / TDK in preparation.

Lockout. okay action flick but the effects look really fake. 1 Ball.

The Grey. 1 Ball.

Liam Neeson dropped into a generic horror flick.

There are a few good bits but nothing that makes the whole thing worthwhile. And I HATE when movies cut away to the end credits DURING the final scene. 

xhonzi said:

 

Johnny Ringo said:

Tron:U is a bit of fun. reminds me too much of Batman Beyond, though.

I enjoyed the first episode quite a bit. Yes, I agree that connecting the two movies is a bit hard and this seems to be going at making it even more difficult...

Everyone's legs are too long, and I was surprised at the innuendo, such that it was.

Batman Beyond successfully made someone else Batman... who else can claim that?

 

I'm Batman

Watched the whole first season of suits to play catch up. I like it. I like it a lot.

Also started re-watching Titus with a friend who's never seen it. Great show that!

The Newsroom - They managed to make a really compelling show out of something I find incredibly boring - the evening news. 

doubleofive said:

I was a super nerd, so while Mrs O'Five watched The Bachelorette, I flew to Deep Space Nine to take a picture like the super nerd tourist that I am:

can you go through the wormhole?

agreed - and no word of an extended version of the film, at least the documentaries sound extensive. maybe we'll get an understanding of what the movie was meant to be..

as much as I enjoyed the 3d element of the film it really felt like overkill, like David watching Lawrence of Arabia in 3d and the holograms in Vickers quarters in 3d. Hopefully the bonus features will be available in a 2d only version as well.

He looks like he just travelled back in time and became his own grandmother.

But Robocop himself was a reboot...of Alex Murphy.

Bingowings said:

I'm not sure if I like the idea of Vickers being an android.

I quite like the idea of her acting like one because that's what her father responds better to (a human making herself in the image of an android made in the image of humanity).

It might be fun to reveal that there is more than one David on board by compositing footage from one scene into another.

That way we could have a 'nicer David' who is interested in humanity and a more literally obedient slave who spikes Holloway's drink etc.

There could be a bit of ambiguity at the end regarding which one Shaw has left with.

What's odd is the way she slams David up against the wall, when we see him show off superhuman strength. Maybe she just caught him off guard?

The clip of Shaw is a pretty different aspect ratio to the actual film - pretty tall. Not sure how you'd include it. Maybe side by side but that might be overkill - 4 Shaws...

- there will probably be more viral clips released before the bluray, we've seen two since release already. Weyland muttering to himself and some doctor talking about the magical properties of the medpod.

Also noticed the date on the clip is 2079 - that would make sure about 18 at the time. That also means they've been hounding Weyland for years and probably had quite a few discoveries at that point.

I would think that she probably wouldn't have learned that she couldn't have children until she tried, but they never really explore that idea. not in any interesting way, anyhow. Would she really be planning the family in the middle of travelling the globe digging through caves? and in 2079 she should be too young to be concerned with such things..

it really does feel like they threw ideas into a hat and pulled them out randomly. 

Somebody said the other day that the creatures in the film all seems to have features we'd identify with marine life / sea creatures. I hadn't really thought about it until then. The chestburster has a fin, the snake / worm has a hammerhead, there's a squid...

I wonder if it's an indication of a radically changed setting or just an interesting design concept..

That could be interesting, there's more than enough footage of David.

This dream was brought to you by - Weyland Corp.

have Shaw's phone call to Weyland play as Vickers' dream

This is an interesting idea if coupled with the intent to present Vickers as an Android - Given that the clip is clearly some sort of computerized analysis. The Yutani branding could also imply that maybe she's a double agent of sorts? Might add some context to her 'agenda' 

I did a little tinkering to get an effect like we see in Shaw's dream but haven't quite got decent results. In the end I'd probably ditch that scene anyway / maybe replace it with something else - although I did like Patrick Wilson as the dad...I kinda felt like he was only there so you feel upset later when David talks about him...it felt kinda awkward. isn't Ebola rare these days? - and the character would have to have died somewhere after approx 2070. - haven't done the proper math [assuming Shaw is the same age as Noomi Rapace - 32 and he was a live when she was a young girl] 

Although that brings up another interesting point - does age matter in a story where characters routinely use stasis?

I was also thinking about using the 2033 clip as an alternate main title sequence - maybe adding some wierd filtering to appear to be poorly preserved archival footage, kinda like a movie set now using stock footage from the 1950's. maybe something like this - 

I'd definitely remove the original opening / title reveal for a few reasons - 

1 - it's not interesting to me to see characters speculating / debating things that we've already seen presented as fact

2 - i dislike that the title sequence mimicks the first film. The other films in the saga have interesting title sequences and it feels like a rehash.

3 - the character of the selfless engineer seems at odds with everything else we see in the film.

Catch me if you can by Frank William Abagnale, Jr.

doubleofive said:

Warbler said:

TV's Frink said:

I'll handle that one...when you have that many kids, there is no off time.

do we know for certain that Xhonzi has many kids?

If Frink has been in his kitchen, we can assume Frink knows how many children are fed in that kitchen. ;-)