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« Reply #90 on: June 19, 2012, 01:29:57 AM » |
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At least I get why people thought there was some sort of depth in MATRIX RELOADED. This is a monster movie with a shitty script and there are people crossing their eyes trying to see 2001 in it.
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« Reply #91 on: June 19, 2012, 02:02:02 AM » |
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I'm somewhere between those two extremes, I think. I recognize the fact that it's mostly a monster movie but I don't think it's a shitty one and I find the themes interesting even if they're not 100% successful. Now that you mention it, I actually walked out of it thinking "Well, Alien was basically just a horror movie, too." Not that this is as good as that. I may be nuts for enjoying it, but I'm not THAT nuts.
Eh, like I said before: I have blinders for Alien and Alien-related flicks. I'm predisposed to like them. Except AVP. Oh man, I tried so hard to like that pile and I just couldn't. This was MUCH easier to enjoy.
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« Reply #92 on: June 19, 2012, 02:19:59 AM » |
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At least I get why people thought there was some sort of depth in MATRIX RELOADED. This is a monster movie with a shitty script and there are people crossing their eyes trying to see 2001 in it.
At least we won't have to suffer through a sequel. At least not a direct one. |
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Dan
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« Reply #93 on: June 27, 2012, 08:27:57 AM » |
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I watched this last night. For the first half of the movie or so, I was under the impression that Idris Elba was the bad guy because of the way he didn't give a crap about the two guys stuck in the tomb overnight. I also thought for the first half of the movie or so that the movie existed in a world where aliens were already a well-documented, known thing, since basically nobody seemed to care all that much one way or the other that they discovered alien life.
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Randy
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You had me at meat tornado.
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« Reply #94 on: June 27, 2012, 05:43:47 PM » |
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I watched this last night. For the first half of the movie or so, I was under the impression that Idris Elba was the bad guy because of the way he didn't give a crap about the two guys stuck in the tomb overnight. I also thought for the first half of the movie or so that the movie existed in a world where aliens were already a well-documented, known thing, since basically nobody seemed to care all that much one way or the other that they discovered alien life.
What are you talking about? Not-Tom Hardy was all mopey that he didn't get to talk to one that he got drunk and poisoned and died. I should probably rank this movie but it was so bland that I haven't gotten around to it. |
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Dan
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« Reply #95 on: June 28, 2012, 09:30:11 AM » |
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Well I mean, other than the main girl being excited, nobody was like "Wow, alien life!" Hell, nobody was excited that they figured out where the human species came from!
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Randy
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You had me at meat tornado.
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« Reply #96 on: June 28, 2012, 10:20:14 AM » |
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Maybe that's why the dumb scientist decided to pet the weird alien penis thing. Seriously, Lindelof.
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JCEFalconi
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« Reply #97 on: June 28, 2012, 12:13:36 PM » |
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or you have a hundred years of mobile telecommunications technology yet you still leave two of your buddies back at the cave ala home alone.
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Randy
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You had me at meat tornado.
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« Reply #98 on: June 28, 2012, 12:17:00 PM » |
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I still don't understand how the guy who used the probes to map out the entire structure, which was being beamed back to the ship, left earlier than the rest and still got lost. He could have just asked Stringer Bell which way he needed to go.
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Steve Lilley
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« Reply #99 on: June 28, 2012, 12:33:02 PM » |
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That, to me, feels like there's a deleted scene somewhere. He couldn't actually see the map, I'll give him that (it's always good to put the map back on the ship, far away from the people who need to use it), so maybe they were in the process of getting lost and Rafe Spall was like "Dude, ask for directions" and he was like "Fuck you, I'm MAP GUY. I don't need directions! Bugger!" (he was British, right? He's British in my head for some reason).
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Randy
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You had me at meat tornado.
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« Reply #100 on: June 28, 2012, 01:42:39 PM » |
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Reflecting on it, I kinda wished they had gone the Jesus was an Engineer that's why they want to kill us route, because it fits the motif of them being roided-up neo-nazi skinheads.
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« Reply #102 on: August 01, 2012, 03:14:40 PM » |
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People complain about America's taste in movies a lot, but I think we've proven we have much better taste in movies than other countries. The way we sort of reject the Ice Age movies, at least comparatively, really makes me proud.
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Shawn
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« Reply #103 on: August 01, 2012, 03:25:52 PM » |
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Wow, I just peeked at the new Ice Age numbers. Over 500 mil foreign? That's crazy sauce.
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« Reply #104 on: November 13, 2012, 04:00:11 PM » |
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http://www.prometheus-movie.com/uploads/112142280-Alien-Engineers.pdf
Non-Lindelof draft. |
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