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Battleship is a scathing indictment of humanity's warlike tendencies and the military industrial complex. The aliens are pacifists, never attack until attacked, and all their "weapons" are actually just tools with legitimate peaceful uses. It's an utterly baffling movie.
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which one is the one with a scene where they have to cut the alien out of themselves via the automated surgery table. that scene is loving sick
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Vim Fuego posted:Battleship is a scathing indictment of humanity's warlike tendencies and the military industrial complex. The aliens are pacifists, never attack until attacked, and all their "weapons" are actually just tools with legitimate peaceful uses. It's an utterly baffling movie. hey now I already know the kzinti lesson
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LazyMaybe posted:which one is the one with a scene where they have to cut the alien out of themselves via the automated surgery table. that scene is loving sick Promutherfuckingetheus
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Endless Trash posted:It’s extremely easy. And most, not all but most, anti-Prometheus tirades are exclusively focused on logic or plot inconsistencies and I freed myself of that mindset long ago Its a solid defense for Ridley Scott, he stopped caring about plots and stories a long time ago.
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Prometheus is a really weird movie, is like 2/3 of the way towards being an amazing sci-fi horror movie, but every time it builds towards something great, the script just dives off a cliff into pure nonsense. It’s still really disappointing to me, because all of the elements are there for greatness; initial setup, characters, themes, cinematography, effects, direction etc…
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prometheus shows you the danger of drinking strange cum
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colonelwest posted:Prometheus is a really weird movie, is like 2/3 of the way towards being an amazing sci-fi horror movie, but every time it builds towards something great, the script just dives off a cliff into pure nonsense. It’s still really disappointing to me, because all of the elements are there for greatness; initial setup, characters, themes, cinematography, effects, direction etc…
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sci fi idea: some overweight mid 40's dude (i'd say philip seymour hoffman if he was still alive or jesse plemons if he was still fat) investigates why every modern sci-fi show like 3 body problem, constellation, for all mankind, etc, looks and sounds exactly the same and makes a terrible discovery. maybe that he's actually philip k dick having nightmarish hallucinations as he's dying, i dunno i haven't got that far yet
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I like prometheus but most criticism of it is 100% valid. The weird thing is there's a couple of deleted scenes which would of improved the movie and they're only 2-3 minutes each max so it's bizarre they were cut. Just for example there's a scene where they discover the worm much earlier, hence why they aren't bothered by finding it later, and a cool scene where the engineer hunts Shaw. The worst cut is the engineer talking to David as it's sorta important plot stuff. There's no excuse for Alien covenant though! that was just poo poo.
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colonelwest posted:Prometheus is a really weird movie, is like 2/3 of the way towards being an amazing sci-fi horror movie, but every time it builds towards something great, the script just dives off a cliff into pure nonsense. It’s still really disappointing to me, because all of the elements are there for greatness; initial setup, characters, themes, cinematography, effects, direction etc… the script is dogshit. it was written by damon lindelof and jon spaihts who are both involved in a lot of crap. the former wrote much of lost, cowboys and aliens, tomorrowland, star trek and star trek into darkness. the latter wrote doctor strange, passengers, the mummy 2017, and... dune??!?
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colonelwest posted:Prometheus is a really weird movie, is like 2/3 of the way towards being an amazing sci-fi horror movie, but every time it builds towards something great, the script just dives off a cliff into pure nonsense. It’s still really disappointing to me, because all of the elements are there for greatness; initial setup, characters, themes, cinematography, effects, direction etc… I think you can make a great movie out of it if you edit out all the dumb rear end poo poo, reduce the flashback portion to keep the mystery; change some names to distance itself from the main alien-verse; maybe rescore it a bit to let the music sell a bizarre haunting overworld. Of course the people who own it won't allow this but there are alot of parts of a great movie. People put too much blame on Damon Lindelof but it's still a Ridley Scott movie.
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LanceHunter posted:I missed a few pages in this thread, so maybe this got covered, but apparently there is going to be a high-budget remake of Emmanuel, with freakin' Noémie Merlant in the lead role (oh and with Naomi Watts for good measure). It’s gonna be good. You can thank Poor Things sweeping the Oscars for this actually suddenly getting legs. When all is said and done, at the end of the day, people are basically horny
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kalel posted:the script is dogshit. it was written by damon lindelof and jon spaihts who are both involved in a lot of crap. the former wrote much of lost, cowboys and aliens, tomorrowland, star trek and star trek into darkness. the latter wrote doctor strange, passengers, the mummy 2017, and... dune??!? if I ever enjoyed anything by damon lindelof I would go to the doctor immediately
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:if I ever enjoyed anything by damon lindelof I would go to the doctor immediately Watchmen was good
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billymumphrey posted:Watchmen was good I don't think a person can misunderstand a work they were adapting/continuing worse than he had.
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billymumphrey posted:Watchmen was good *rustles your hair* that's great, kiddo!
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billymumphrey posted:Watchmen was good Leonard Cohen intensifies. gently caress me if I don't hate the way Snyder uses licensed music in his films.
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i thought three body problem was alright but i was just remembering the other two better books lol. the only thing i recall from the first book is lengthy dreary text interspersed with neato vr planet fuckery which ruled and somehow making a ship sliced into ribbons with nano wire a slog to read. i literally can't remember a single characters name besides ye wenjie. oh and theres a three body problem adaptation in minecraft on youtube that has no reason to be as good as it is. (the first seasons are v rough though)
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Arc Hammer posted:Leonard Cohen intensifies. oh, honey, they weren't talking about the movie
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I wound up seeing Alien: Covenant long before Prometheus, and came out of Prometheus mostly wishing it had a better sequel.
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I watched Prometheus on a plane and still felt like I’d wasted my time
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That DICK! posted:Five body problem It's mathematically impossible to predict how the orgy is going to go
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Kingo Ligma posted:Digitally replaced with Tig Notaro for Chinese release Here's the big pitch. Person gets a brain injury and starts seeing everyone else on planet earth as Tig Notaro. Suddenly the world is a lot funnier, but also everyone is so droll and sardonic that they can't tell if they're being judged as inferior during all interactions with the outside world, causing their life to collapse. Eventually homeless and living on the streets, far away from the densest populations of Tig/humans, they discover an underground movement of people who have the same brain injury and also don't look like Tig Notaro. It's explained that Tig Notaro is actually an invasive alien species that has been replacing humanity for decades and can only be seen for what they are when the part of your brain that their aggressive mimicry works upon is damaged. Anyways, antics occur, and the film ends with them attempting to blow up the Tig mothership hive; they fail after the Tigs guarding the vessel cooly dismantle their sense of self-worth through cutting wordplay and they kill themselves. Real 70s movie bummer ending, except there's lots of Tig Notaros, so it's also kind of uplifting?
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mysterious frankie posted:Here's the big pitch. Person gets a brain injury and starts seeing everyone else on planet earth as Tig Notaro. Suddenly the world is a lot funnier, but also everyone is so droll and sardonic that they can't tell if they're being judged as inferior during all interactions with the outside world, causing their life to collapse. Eventually homeless and living on the streets, far away from the densest populations of Tig/humans, they discover an underground movement of people who have the same brain injury and also don't look like Tig Notaro. It's explained that Tig Notaro is actually an invasive alien species that has been replacing humanity for decades and can only be seen for what they are when the part of your brain that their aggressive mimicry works upon is damaged. Anyways, antics occur, and the film ends with them attempting to blow up the Tig mothership hive; they fail after the Tigs guarding the vessel cooly dismantle their sense of self-worth through cutting wordplay and they kill themselves. Real 70s movie bummer ending, except there's lots of Tig Notaros, so it's also kind of uplifting? Give it the "Parts: The Clonus Horror" ending where they blow up the mothership and are seemingly successful but then the love interest turns into Tig Notaro in the last shot.
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PostNouveau posted:Give it the "Parts: The Clonus Horror" ending where they blow up the mothership and are seemingly successful but then the love interest turns into Tig Notaro in the last shot. Maybe the Tigs are changing the genes of select homeless "herds" to make their organs acceptable for transplant and if they allow the change to go on too long before harvest the subject becomes a crazed half Tig, half human mutant? It would make for great body horror/action scenes, where a rando or even one of the freedom fighters suddenly and goopily morphs into an 8-foot-tall shoggoth style killing machine with Tig Notaros' face swimming around on the undulating column of meat. Also creates a great tagline opportunity: "There's a little Tig in all of us... pray it never gets out!"
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just a lil ruckus posted:i thought three body problem was alright but i was just remembering the other two better books lol. the only thing i recall from the first book is lengthy dreary text interspersed with neato vr planet fuckery which ruled and somehow making a ship sliced into ribbons with nano wire a slog to read. i literally can't remember a single characters name besides ye wenjie. Three Body Problem was so bad that I refused to even touch the follow-ups and I'm baffled why it got the acclaim it does. I don't remember any other story pulling such a deus ex machina at the end of such a caliber, either.
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poisonpill posted:It’s gonna be good. You can thank Poor Things sweeping the Oscars for this actually suddenly getting legs. When all is said and done, at the end of the day, people are basically horny Maybe we'll see a revival of the Bikini Carwash Company franchise as well!
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Aeble posted:Three Body Problem was so bad that I refused to even touch the follow-ups and I'm baffled why it got the acclaim it does. I don't remember any other story pulling such a deus ex machina at the end of such a caliber, either. I felt like I got pranked when I got to the last act of the book especially the reveal of the aliens. This won the Hugo and became the obsession of one of the few sci-fi novel youtubers? It's structured terribly too which is not the translator's fault but true to the original. Even some of the ideas that are cool in the later books are goofy in execution. The concept that the universe had more dimensions but loses them via galactic warfare was interesting but then it's shown happening to our solar system and it's a ship dropping off a device that looks like a piece of paper. I'd envisioned some aliens being so godly powerful and with technology so impossible to comprehend they could crunsh a solar system across the expanse of space. Dropping off the equivalent of a silly bomb doesn't do it for me. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:I felt like I got pranked when I got to the last act of the book especially the reveal of the aliens. This won the Hugo and became the obsession of one of the few sci-fi novel youtubers? it's truly unthinkable
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:oh, honey, they weren't talking about the movie even worse!
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Maybe there aren't many good scifi books lately. Winning a Hugo award doesn't mean anything to me. I pretty much written off all scifi awards after I read Ancillary Justice. As a genre, China doesn't produce alot of scifi novels for political reason. There are tons more Isekai and "travel back to ancient China" type online novels because they are infinitely safer. The author of 3 body is one of the few writers who took on scifi as a profession and he is considered the best by the Chinese. So if you want to give an award to China, 3 body is one of the very few options. stephenthinkpad fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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colin..... are you there.....?
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Groovelord Neato posted:I don't think a person can misunderstand a work they were adapting/continuing worse than he had. Lindelof didn't misunderstand anything. The Watchmen series was great, particularly because it poked holes in a lot of the boomer bullshit that Moore put into the original comics (that nobody had previously dared to criticize because it was considered such a classic). Taking a second to think "hrm...I wonder what the actual effect on the culture would be and how Vietnamese people would react if the US had annexed Vietnam as the 51st state" is already doing more than Moore did. Hell, considering what any non-white person might be thinking or doing in the world of Watchmen is more than Alan Moore ever took a second to consider.
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LanceHunter posted:Lindelof didn't misunderstand anything. The Watchmen series was great, particularly because it poked holes in a lot of the boomer bullshit that Moore put into the original comics (that nobody had previously dared to criticize because it was considered such a classic). Taking a second to think "hrm...I wonder what the actual effect on the culture would be and how Vietnamese people would react if the US had annexed Vietnam as the 51st state" is already doing more than Moore did. Hell, considering what any non-white person might be thinking or doing in the world of Watchmen is more than Alan Moore ever took a second to consider. I'm sorry you liked the bad show run by a middling writer but what I said was correct.
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alien covenant had one of the funniest scenes in cinema history. like it was only a couple notches down from the ace ventura rhino for me.
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debates over prometheus always boil down to "it was bad" vs "ridley scott made it bad on purpose, as a joke"
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