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Post by liger on Jun 8, 2012 2:29:49 GMT 2
btw, good netflix flicks : mr. nice and rare exports. the first is a british drug smuggler which was pretty decent. the latter is about a finnish santa claus and elves that are pretty fucked up, the whole concept and direction is pretty genius.
another good netflix youve never seen thats super sick is kasper carr street thief
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Post by switch on Jun 8, 2012 4:31:09 GMT 2
Haven't even heard of enter the void-- I will look for that!
rare exports lols I remember the trailer for that looked awesome!
cheers
I'm having trouble getting onto the Flix these days because the wife is serial watching Lost.
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Post by pogue on Jun 8, 2012 20:05:33 GMT 2
btw, good netflix flicks : mr. nice and rare exports. the first is a british drug smuggler which was pretty decent. the latter is about a finnish santa claus and elves that are pretty fucked up, the whole concept and direction is pretty genius. another good netflix youve never seen thats super sick is kasper carr street thief Rare Exports sucked ass. |
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Post by liger on Jun 9, 2012 3:58:55 GMT 2
how do u dislike RE and like dead snow? u sir have no soul :/
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Post by bone on Jun 10, 2012 7:25:58 GMT 2
Prometheus Reviewed...
Did you... ?
• Ever enjoy watching a zombie movies where one character gets infected, and the other characters just pretend it didn't happen until he goes zombie and fucks up everyone's shit?
• Like the part in Starship Troopers when Denise Richards gets stabbed through the arm, and then picks up a gun a minute later like nothing happened?
• Enjoy watching Twister when the protagonists ran from the tornado while staying in its path, instead of just moving to the side if he knew where it was going?
- (or any part in any other movie where some dumbass character turns and runs 50 feet in a straight line and gets crushed by something 5-feet wide)
• Like it in Lost when one character would, like, kill another character's love interest, and then 3 episodes later they would be chill? Like they just forgot that it happened?
• Like the Matrix 2 and 3? Minus the fight scenes?
• Like Signs, or love any and all Mel Gibson movies? (Especially for the dialogue?)
If so, then you will LOVE Prometheus.
Prepare yourself for an hour and a half of not-very-compelling chicken-before-the-egg talk before some poorly developed characters suddenly die for reasons that are never really all that clear. And if all that wasn't bad enough, there are no tits in this movie (unless you count pecs).
Everything here is underwhelming, and I wasn't coming in with high expectations. Do yourself a favor this summer and SKIP IT.
Unless you loved Signs, in which case knock yourself out.
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Post by switch on Jun 10, 2012 12:00:50 GMT 2
DAMON LINDELOF SCREENPLAY. "We like just made it up LOL" Unless you loved Signs, in which case knock yourself out. Signs was *cruisering* great until the aliens were allergic to water. *cruisering* oops. |
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Post by guest on Jun 10, 2012 17:19:23 GMT 2
Verminix's review of Prometheus focused almost entirely on an alien entering a woman through her anal orifice. He seemed to like the movie a lot more than Ducky...
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Post by burgerknight on Jun 10, 2012 18:45:44 GMT 2
PROMETHEUS WAS AN EXCELLENT MOVIE.
IT PROPELLED CREATION THEORY TO THE MASSES IN A WAY THAT IS EASILY DIGESTABLE FOR ILLITERATE MORONS WHO CANNOT PROPERLY COMPREHEND THE TRUTH.
BONE'S REVIEW IS THAT OF A JESUS HATING FINN LOVING SKEPTIC.
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Post by bone on Jun 11, 2012 1:13:33 GMT 2
an actual quote from signs:
"Everything they wrote about in those science books is wrong!"
take that, science.
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Post by switch on Jun 14, 2012 3:33:09 GMT 2
Watched Prometheus recently, was basically what you'd expect: endless character inconsistency, cheap reuse of memes from Alien and Aliens, terribly stupid Damon Lindelof screenplay that was a complete trainwreck and made no sense. Characters you don't feel for or care about all with apparently sinister countervailing objectives. This felt like three or four movies all mashed together with no real idea of where to go or why.
Worst of all, from my perspective, the plot itself ends up being essentially the plot from the Halo series of video games, indicating the long arm of Microsoft's influence over media matters these days...
I presume this was to normalize the events of the movie in the minds of the viewers who, already conditioned to be familiar with the monolith (forerunner, grand galactics, "engineers" etc) alien meme and galaxy destroying Flood won't have to think about anything while drooling over the special effects which aren't that special because almost every scene is an effect...
All of which points to the undeniable fact that this movie was made on the fly to appeal to the lowest common denominator popcorn munching Yuppie demographic- superficiality, fake complexity, "deep" message that is really irreverently silly.
As expected, R. Scott has indeed sold out. It seems he's just going through the motions these days. The last movie he made with any kind of redeeming qualities was Kingdom of Heaven- seven years ago. His other films since then (A good Year, body of lies, Robin Hood) have been Russel Crowe vehicles, and really nothing special. Although I'm perhaps being unfair because these movies have been obscenely profitable.
Shockingly, he's now working on another Blade Runner movie. Let's all hope that doesn't happen.
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Post by pogue on Jun 14, 2012 3:48:15 GMT 2
Watch them get Shia Ledouche to replace Harrison Ford for Blade Runner 2. Next we'll be seeing remakes of Jaws and A Clockwork Orange.
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Post by switch on Jun 14, 2012 3:49:45 GMT 2
*cruiser*. The proliferation of shit movies these days is actually damaging to society.
Speaking of Jaws and Clockwork Orange; Prometheus was rated 14A.
I cannot understand this- I mean, there are plenty of traumatizing scenes in this movie... I suppose the movie is so bad it doesn't really deserve an R rating... but still. It's so obvious the reason it's 14A is because there is no graphic sex in the movie.
What is with ratings these days? Apparently 100% unlimited graphic death and dismemberment of the kind not found in Caligula (1979) is okay for 14 year olds, but if you see a breast or a vagina RESTRICTED.
Stupid.
No wonder children today develop into retarded violence porn worshiping technophiles.
It's odd as well, because if 100 years ago you had told someone that the advanced stages of liberalism will involve the mystification of sex and the proliferation of violence pornography (in space!)--- no one would have believed you.
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Post by pogue on Jun 14, 2012 3:56:10 GMT 2
Yeah, I only ever watch new mainstream hollywood movies if it's something I really want like The Avengers (which was awesome) or The Dark Knight Rises (which if it's as good as The Dark Knight will be fantastic). Hollywood constantly trying to remake classics like Straw Dogs and failing horribly or Lucas constantly *cruisering* with Star Wars is just plain pathetic. I miss the 90's when you could go in a theater and there were numerous hollywood films you could see that were actually good like Goodfellas, Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Glengarry Glen Ross, Heat, LA Confidential, The Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix, Dazed And Confused, Pulp Fiction, etc.
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Post by switch on Jun 14, 2012 4:03:15 GMT 2
Another thing- about sequels. Is it possible to go see a one off movie anymore? Is everything the first part of a trilogy? It seems to me that HBO has influenced movies so profoundly that everything is now a miniseries. I see your point Pogue. Looking at trailers.apple.com/trailers/ these days tends to be like staring at a wall of shit. I think what is going on generally is the decline of the character. People aren't interested in characters anymore- they're interested in flashy spectacle and self-reinforcing memes that are comforting and familiar. Which is why a movie about aliens eating people manages to be boring- at the end the aliens are just humans and humans are so special and important and significant and all that bullshit. Like a warm glass of milk to go with your cookies. |
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Post by vantobia on Jun 14, 2012 4:33:25 GMT 2
Speaking about aliens, I really want to see Prometheus !
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