[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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Another Swedish book-turned successful film is The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, sort of Forrest-Gumpy with fewer sad moments.
Original Theatrical Release, or the one with Jabba?
Not that there's much difference, but in the former, Han doesn't step on Jabba's tail. It makes me wonder what Return of the Jedi would have been like if human-Jabba hadn't been left on the cutting room floor.
Oh yeah. I forgot there's that difference, too.
Alien Covenant was hot street trash.
Knowing the origin of the xenomorph makes them a quadrillion percent lamer. Especially from how God awful that origin was. Fucking horrible.
Of course, just like Prometheus, the cast was too stupid to live. Every one of them deserved to die for being so God damn dumb. One iota of common sense would have saved every one of their lives.[DOUBLEPOST=1495319078,1495318965][/DOUBLEPOST]I would rather watch Alien 3 and 4 on loop for the rest of my life than watch Covenant again.
Prometheus was a better movie.
Knowing the origin of the xenomorph makes them a quadrillion percent lamer. Especially from how God awful that origin was. Fucking horrible.
David made them! FUCK OFF.
Of course, just like Prometheus, the cast was too stupid to live. Every one of them deserved to die for being so God damn dumb. One iota of common sense would have saved every one of their lives.[DOUBLEPOST=1495319078,1495318965][/DOUBLEPOST]I would rather watch Alien 3 and 4 on loop for the rest of my life than watch Covenant again.
Prometheus was a better movie.
That's one of the cruelest things anyone has ever said.
That's so stupid. That's actually worse than the simple solution of the comics.
Space jockeys made them--and not by accident like Prometheus implies.
Remember when this series had interesting, intelligent, memorable characters? You know, 31 years ago.
I remember that.
They were designed to be a perfect biological weapon - adaptable, cunning, lethal, self-perpetuating. Their creators would seed a world with eggs, wait for the carnage to end and the critters to go dormant, then they'd wipe out the nests and claim the now uninhabited world. The Space Jockey was a case where something went wrong.
I've never seen the comic origin, but yeah, I was always under that similar impression: they were designed to be the perfect biological weapon. And then they went above and beyond their creator's expectations and turned on them.
I'm honestly surprised the same guy behind the greatest sci-fi horror film is also responsible for dreck like Prometheus and Covenant.
EDIT: Jeez, looking at his IMDB credits, I forgot some of the hits he's made. You'd think the guy who made Alien AND Blade Runner would have more film masterpieces under his belt. I COMPLETELY forgot he directed The Martian, my favourite movie from 2015.
I'm honestly surprised the same guy behind the greatest sci-fi horror film is also responsible for dreck like Prometheus and Covenant.
EDIT: Jeez, looking at his IMDB credits, I forgot some of the hits he's made. You'd think the guy who made Alien AND Blade Runner would have more film masterpieces under his belt. I COMPLETELY forgot he directed The Martian, my favourite movie from 2015.
Who's GTFO? And why are they equally as good as Ripley?
Age hasn't made you wiser, smartass.
Saw GOTG2 this afternoon, I had stopped watching any trailers after the second one, and didn't read anything about it since it premiered. I was pleased, enjoyed it, some good jokes, good action, loved the Rocket scene vs the whole gang of people that was partly shown in the trailer. I think that Mantis was used well, liked the interaction between everyone. Some cool little easter eggs in the credits (not talking about the stingers) and loved the music. "It's what everyone is using now."
The Ripley-lite in the new film is a pale imitation at best.
I bought the Alien Quadrilogy the other day and it came with a coupon for Covenant. With all the bad reviews, I don't know if I want to see the movie at all, even with using the coupon.
I saw it last night and thought it was...fine, I guess? Definitely formulaic, weaker than the original two and not something I feel the need to see again, but I don't regret the time I spent watching it.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
This may be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. This may be one of the worst movies ever made by professionals. I've had to stop watching it twice in the first 30 minutes. The movie is aggressively stupid on every level and leaves you with so many questions that it takes you out of the movie repeatedly.
"They used super prototype bullets in Africa that aren't available anywhere!" Why? There's 10,000,000,000 surplus Russian munitions circulating in the third world that no one's keeping track of, why use something so unique it's instantly identifiable?
Why would they assume that an alien who can fly, has laser vision, is bulletproof, and can literally punch people into a red mist, would have picked up an AK and shot a bunch of Tauregs?
Why did Clark bring the groceries into the bathroom?
Why does a reporter have a bathroom big enough to play baseball in with hardwood floors?
Why did Clark ruin her hardwood floors and presumably the apartment below hers' ceiling?
Why did the secret government guy just suddenly give Lex access to everything?
And if they were giving him everything, why not just bring the mineral overseas covertly?
Does Batman just carry a torch for heating his branding iron with him?
Why brand people?
And why would that make them a target in prison?
"The Gotham Bat" - for fuck's sake, just call him The Batman - "seems to be most active around the port area, and from what I can tell the police are helping him." Well, Clark, first of all, you're apparently a sports reporter, so shut the fuck up. Secondly, waterfront areas are notorious for organized and street crime in every major city, so it would make sense of a vigilante to focus there. Third, we just saw the police SHOTGUNNING AT HIM. So instead of raising a valid point, you just sound like an asshole.
This may be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. This may be one of the worst movies ever made by professionals. I've had to stop watching it twice in the first 30 minutes. The movie is aggressively stupid on every level and leaves you with so many questions that it takes you out of the movie repeatedly.
"They used super prototype bullets in Africa that aren't available anywhere!" Why? There's 10,000,000,000 surplus Russian munitions circulating in the third world that no one's keeping track of, why use something so unique it's instantly identifiable?
Why would they assume that an alien who can fly, has laser vision, is bulletproof, and can literally punch people into a red mist, would have picked up an AK and shot a bunch of Tauregs?
Why did Clark bring the groceries into the bathroom?
Why does a reporter have a bathroom big enough to play baseball in with hardwood floors?
Why did Clark ruin her hardwood floors and presumably the apartment below hers' ceiling?
Why did the secret government guy just suddenly give Lex access to everything?
And if they were giving him everything, why not just bring the mineral overseas covertly?
Does Batman just carry a torch for heating his branding iron with him?
Why brand people?
And why would that make them a target in prison?
"The Gotham Bat" - for fuck's sake, just call him The Batman - "seems to be most active around the port area, and from what I can tell the police are helping him." Well, Clark, first of all, you're apparently a sports reporter, so shut the fuck up. Secondly, waterfront areas are notorious for organized and street crime in every major city, so it would make sense of a vigilante to focus there. Third, we just saw the police SHOTGUNNING AT HIM. So instead of raising a valid point, you just sound like an asshole.
Yay. I'm getting better at turning my brain off when watching dreck! I didn't notice any of that.
This afternoon I finished GrimBat vs Superdark: Dark of Grimdark after taking a break from it overnight, then taking two more breaks while watching it this afternoon.
What a fucking terrible movie. Astonishingly terrible.
I can say this in the movie's favor: Despite Batman being fucking terribly written, Ben Affleck did as fine a job in the role as you could ask, and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman was fantastic.
Jesse Eisenberg was the shittiest part of a rancid turd sandwich. I can't believe people watched his performance and said, "Yes, we should include this in the movie we're making."
What a fucking terrible movie. Astonishingly terrible.
I can say this in the movie's favor: Despite Batman being fucking terribly written, Ben Affleck did as fine a job in the role as you could ask, and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman was fantastic.
Jesse Eisenberg was the shittiest part of a rancid turd sandwich. I can't believe people watched his performance and said, "Yes, we should include this in the movie we're making."
It's like two hours into the movie they said " fuck, we titled this shit Batman v Superman, guess we better fight "
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I don't know... did you see the Hobgoblins episode of MST3K? That movie was just awful.
No, but Hobgoblins was a B-movie made by C-list actors out of a dude's garage production company on a budget that wouldn't buy you a new Toyota Camry. I'm sure it was terrible, but it's terrible in the same way that a beer league softball team is terrible - it simply doesn't have the components to be any good.
Grimbat vs Superdark was a $250 million picture made by one of the biggest studios in Hollywood featuring top-name talent, but used a script that was probably written by a tumor and directed by a fratboy fuckhead and wound up being awful despite having many things going for it.
GasBandit
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Did you accidentally go see Aliens instead and kept waiting for Rocket to come rescue everybody?
...did she not clue in when the title sequence started?
GasBandit
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Probably on her phone for that part (and most of the movie). She doesn't sound like a Rhodes Scholar, exactly.
I won't be seeing Alien Covenant until it's on Netflix, but it's possible it didn't have one.
Still I think Gas's hypothesis explains going through the whole two hour movie expecting Rocket Fox to show up.
