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| bartist |
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marantzo wrote: Marc, Bart and my son, Dylan...three thumbs down for Prometheus
Looks like I'll give it a pass.
It really depends on how much you liked the original Alien, with the Nostromo and John Hurt's indigestion attack and all that. If you liked the original, this might fall under "interesting failure." Definitely a waste of time if you wait for DVD, as the visual art needs a big screen.
Speaking of sci-fi franchises trying to be resuscitated....
http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2012/06/12/charlize-theron-shaves-her-head-for-mad-max/ |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:21 pm |
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| Loved the original Alien and Aliens just as much. Alien III was a big disappointment. The final Alien was enjoyable. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:03 pm |
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| Like Alien quite a bit. Thought Aliens was a steaming pile of shit. Cwute widdle blonde orphan was intolerable. And Weaver's "Get away from her, you bitch!" to the alien just patently ridiculous. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:38 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Like Alien quite a bit. Thought Aliens was a steaming pile of shit. Cwute widdle blonde orphan was intolerable. And Weaver's "Get away from her, you bitch!" to the alien just patently ridiculous.
Agreed. Alien was a classic. Aliens was incredibly overrated. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:49 pm |
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| Aliens was a superb action movie, no doubt about it. A western in outer space. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:40 am |
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| Marc and I are on the same page here. Aliens is top notch. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:56 am |
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Alien - great. Aliens - good. Rest of the franchise - meh. (total disclosure: haven't seen Alien v. Predator)
Noomi Rapace is very durable and Swedish, but she's no Sigourney Weaver. I guess Noomi torch bearers may find something of interest in the scene where she gives herself (with the assistance of a robotic medical unit) a Caesarian. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:24 pm |
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| I really can't see a reason not to see Prometheus. I've never seen an Alien and I really don't want to miss Michael Fassbender sightings......Noomi, too. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:02 am |
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I can think of a dozen reasons not to see Prometheus, headed by its extreme length. Long movies are beginning to annoy me no end. Especially when they sound as overwhelmingly pretentious as this one.
I can think of no reasons at all to miss Your Sister's Sister, a movie which has me frothing at the mouth. Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass, and Rosemarie DeWitt are three of my current favorites and the premise sounds enticing. Will try to see today if at all possible. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:39 pm |
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Marc wrote: Man was Prometheus a bore. Plodding, shallow and, with the exception of Michael Fassbender, lacking in characters you give a shit about...and Fassbender is a fucking robot.
Audiences seem to agree with you. The box office fell 73 percent in the second weekend.
Tom Cruise in Rock of Ages and Adam Sandler in That's My Boy are two gigantic floperoos. TMB is Sandler's biggest turkey ever and from the look of it bad news couldn't happen to a more deserving movie.
(I still want to see RoA--and will, sooner or later.) |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:06 am |
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Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea has been made into a much praised movie by Terence Davis. It is set in London of around 1950 and shows all the bleakness and ugliness of post-war Britain. It is about the unhappy wife of a judge who falls in love with a soldier. It is interesting enough, but must have been much more enjoyable in theater. I did see Rattigan's Ross on London stage with Alec Guinness. That was quite an experience. Also a very enjoyable movie based on Rattigan's Separate Tables won David Niven an Oscar. Rachel Weisz is excellent in The Deep Blue Sea.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:07 am |
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| Your Sister's Sister is one of the most enjoyable movies I've seen this year. It rises or falls on the strength of the three lead performances by Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass, and Rosemarie DeWitt, and they are all wonderful. It's about three very modern, very likeable neurotics and it's mostly about their verbal interplay, which is largely improvisatorial and almost always delightful. The only problem I found with the movie was the dichotomy between the very "realistic" dialogue and the somewhat sitcom plotting. It's as if Nichols and May were teamed with Three's Company. Not that YSS is in any way as crude or cheap as a sitcom, but the plot definitely makes some very TV-style turns. Never mind them; just see it. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:46 am |
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The Irish comedy The Guard is a riot. Two police officers, unlikely partners, are investigating a drug smuggling operation in Ireland. Brendan Gleeson is a village cop, as non-P.C. as they come. Don Cheadle is a Yale educated polished FBI agent. Their interactions are hilarious. One of the funniest movies I have seen in years.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:05 am |
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Ghulam wrote: The Irish comedy The Guard is a riot. Two police officers, unlikely partners, are investigating a drug smuggling operation in Ireland. Brendan Gleeson is a village cop, as non-P.C. as they come. Don Cheadle is a Yale educated polished FBI agent. Their interactions are hilarious. One of the funniest movies I have seen in years.
Sounds awful and formulaic -- but if it works, it works. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:30 am |
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| Ghulam's right. Saw this a couple years ago - Gleeson and Cheadle are great together. Nobody does the bigot with a good heart quite like Gleeson. |
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