Reply With QuoteAz (June 21, 2012), Elok (June 6, 2012), Jon Miller (June 6, 2012), kentonio (October 7, 2012)
I just saw "Prometheus". It sucked!
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"A world without guns is not a more peaceful world, but a more savage one, where brute strength allows bullies to exploit people incapable of fighting back."
Sam Harris
Az (June 21, 2012), Elok (June 6, 2012), Jon Miller (June 6, 2012), kentonio (October 7, 2012)
This is the space jockies!
What was seen in "Alien" is a space suit.
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"A world without guns is not a more peaceful world, but a more savage one, where brute strength allows bullies to exploit people incapable of fighting back."
Sam Harris
I assume its the Classic Story how Mankind got the gift of Fire and how Prometheus was punished by the Gods for it?
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
I hate movies were humans can fly to the stars and then walk into the most simple of traps.
"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."
IIRC Ebert and Roeper both hated it too. They disliked it for different reasons--flawed cinematography, silly costumes, recycled plot, heavyhanded symbolism, and something called mise-en-scene--but both agreed it had "too many niggers."
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Pax (June 27, 2012)
lolOriginally Posted by Elok
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"A world without guns is not a more peaceful world, but a more savage one, where brute strength allows bullies to exploit people incapable of fighting back."
Sam Harris
How did you get to see it early?
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
It was pretty lame.
5/10
"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
From a pirate download site.
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"A world without guns is not a more peaceful world, but a more savage one, where brute strength allows bullies to exploit people incapable of fighting back."
Sam Harris
Get a job yet?
“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"
not yet, only one auto. Now that school is out I can go back to work.
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"A world without guns is not a more peaceful world, but a more savage one, where brute strength allows bullies to exploit people incapable of fighting back."
Sam Harris
Ebert actually said it had "too few niggas" - get it right
(FWIW, he also gave the movie 4/4)
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
Wait, the movie is actually good? WTF?
the trailers drive me nuts, anybody that intent on pissing me off wont be getting my $$$
What is driving you nuts?
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
Why wouldn't it be? It's Ridley Scott revisiting his best movie ever and starring Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender. It'd take some effort to make that truly suck.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
But it's called "Prometheus", which basically gives away the entire plot.
Technically so does the title "Alien"
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
And somehow he managed to succeed.
"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
You know what I hate? I hate plots that depend on vehicles being parked too far away from the action. Ugh.
Oh, but they make that effort! Jesus H. Christ it's bad. As far as I can tell, the premise is that, 50 years before we fly to the stars to seek an alien race, somehow our collective unconscious is wiped clean of all memories of science fiction narratives. Among the many amazing things we then have to learn anew are (and I don't thing these are spoilers, per se):
1) Landing in one valley on a planet and not seeing anyone there does NOT mean the planet is uninhabited.
2) If you're stuck in an enormous structure for a while, and one part of it has a whole bunch of dead bodies piled up, that is NOT the one place you should decide to hunker down.
3) If you are a biologist and encounter an alien life form that you describe to your ship's crew as "four feet long, reptilial, with translucent skin," your first instinct should probably not be to try to play with it.
4) The creepy robot seems creepy for a reason.
That's just the idiocies. Don't even get me started on how bad the script is overall or how inane the whole premise is. Seriously, if you want to see "Prometheus" and your girlfriend wants to see "What to Expect When You're Expecting," just take her suggestion and use it as a bargaining chip for something new to do in bed after; you'll get better sex AND a better movie.
Last edited by Rufus T. Firefly; June 11, 2012 at 10:15.
"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin
Are there NEW and IMPROVED H.R. Giger genital-demons?
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"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
Comparison time - what did you think of "The Avengers"?
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
Best movie so far this year.
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"A world without guns is not a more peaceful world, but a more savage one, where brute strength allows bullies to exploit people incapable of fighting back."
Sam Harris
I thought The Avengers was pretty disappointing too, but at least it doesn't pretend to be about anything other than comic book superheros...
"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
the repetitive blaring sound like an ambulance or prison break
is blaring a word?
I just mute the damn things if the remote is close
It is the same sound they used in the original Alien trailer.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
Well screw you guys, I thought it was great! An excellent mystery sci-fi. Kind of reminded me of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, well, you know, if there was looming killer aliens in the background.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
That's OK Imran, I actually enjoyed movies like Hudson Hawk and Deep Blue Sea when they came out - we're all allowed the odd guilty little peccadillo from time to time...
"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
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