the wrong scott brother died imo
― tony orlandoni, cheese engineer (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 1 April 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
also why are you torturing yourself like this, mark
lol gods of egypt what did we ever see in alex proyas
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Saturday, 1 April 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link
Burk Sharpless strikes again
― a Brazilian professional footballer (wins), Saturday, 1 April 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link
remember when aaron sorkin was publicly astonished to discover that hollywood isn't a true meritocracy a week or too ago? the two-word counter-argument that should have instantly convinced him that yeah mediocre men DO get way more chances than women or people of colour is 'alex proyas'
― tony orlandoni, cheese engineer (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 1 April 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
I'll still hang out and watch I, Robot and Dark City pretty much any time, though
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Saturday, 1 April 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
i couldn't sit through i. robot once tbh. i caught ten minutes of it on tv recently and holy hell that cg has not aged well at all
― tony orlandoni, cheese engineer (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 1 April 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
for one thing there more than 1 robot, sort it out scriptwriters
― Django Chutney (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 April 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
i did watch gods of egypt on netflix recently and all i could focus on was gerard butler's accent, which literally changes from scene to scene - it's the laziest performance i've seen in forever, even by big gerry's usual mahogany-laden standards
― tony orlandoni, cheese engineer (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 1 April 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
i am rereading this entire thread while rewatching gods of egypt
i've got to the bit -- which seems to have occurred before many ppl saw prometheus -- where ridley cites the agreement of three most important authorities on the "big questions" viz the Vatican, NASA and Erich von Däniken
― mark s, Saturday, 1 April 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
Total road comedy there
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 April 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link
gods of egypt >>> prometheus is all departments, including sci-fi look and "answers the big questions abt where we come from"
― mark s, Saturday, 1 April 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
i post this while watching the "giant lesbian asps in a hellraiser maze" section
― mark s, Saturday, 1 April 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
a teeny-tiny lawrence-of-arabia thing that puzzled-annoyed me while rewatching the space-caesarian of a thread-topic movie yesterday
david watches peter o'toole saying "the trick, mr potter, is not minding that it hurts", and quotes it to himself as he slooches his hair into a version of o'toole's fey do (iirc while he goes back to minding the ship alone while all sleep == the good-idea-for-a-film-within-a-bigger-bad-film)
except he doesn't quote it right, he entirely misses the (also somewhat fey) emphasis o'toole gives the word "minding" -- but he's a robot, why does he decide NOT to get it right, NOT to repeat it exactly?
(of course it's a p bad scene in the david lean movie, in that mr potter is a clumsily signalled comedy cockney and the point, abt burning yrself with a match, is do-you-see obvious, L0A being a big-budget film that looks great but doesn't really know what it's saying, ho hum nothing new under the giant desert sun)
― mark s, Saturday, 1 April 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
L0A being a big-budget film that looks great but doesn't really know what it's saying
had to double-check you weren't talking about prometheus there
― tony orlandoni, cheese engineer (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 1 April 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
<i>(iirc while he goes back to minding the ship alone while all sleep == the good-idea-for-a-film-within-a-bigger-bad-film)</i>
This very OTM.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 1 April 2017 15:51 (seven years ago) link
oops
(iirc while he goes back to minding the ship alone while all sleep == the good-idea-for-a-film-within-a-bigger-bad-film)
They wake up. They're already on some planet. Bad robot. Bad BAD robot. etc etc -- yeah, this would've been cool.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 1 April 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
i assume much stupid blogging ink has been spilled on how LoA is the crypto-key to prometheus, i just wanted to get the much bigger similarity into print viz both films are bad
― mark s, Saturday, 1 April 2017 16:07 (seven years ago) link
still rereading (gods of egypt long over): passage where tuomas suddenly starts posting needs more backstory
― mark s, Saturday, 1 April 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
threadread completed, good work ilxor
― mark s, Saturday, 1 April 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
Various new TV spots, etc. etc. plus this bit of weirdness involving John Denver and what may have happened to Rapace's character:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/new-alien-covenant-footage-teases-the-grim-fate-of-noo-1793989478
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
That alien smashing its head against the glass so it can eat Danny McBride looks so bad it's putting me off this entire movie. Well, that plus the presence of James Franco and Danny McBride, who are both deal-breakers for me. But seriously, that alien actually looks worse/dumber than the human/alien hybrid from 4.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
maybe they're planning to honour alien 3 by opening with the discovery of her corpse in a broken hypersleep chamber and that'll be the extent of her involvement
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:08 (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
💅
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
You guys get het up about the dumbest shit.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
BTW - http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3430628/alien-day-prepares-covenant-theatrical-release-original-1979-film-prometheus/
Alien Day returns on April 26, a nod to planet LV-426 from the iconic Alien films, as the countdown continues for the highly anticipated new chapter in Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking Alien sci-fi thriller, Alien: Covenant, releasing in theaters worldwide beginning May 10.Cast members from Covenant will join fan-focused festivities including a live streaming event, an interactive trivia challenge, worldwide screenings, all-new product launches, special reveals and more.The biggest surprise, however, if a theatrical re-release of Prometheus, which sets the stage for Covenant.
Cast members from Covenant will join fan-focused festivities including a live streaming event, an interactive trivia challenge, worldwide screenings, all-new product launches, special reveals and more.
The biggest surprise, however, if a theatrical re-release of Prometheus, which sets the stage for Covenant.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
jared kushner is basically gob bluth in that episode of arrested development where he
mods new board descrip pls
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
well that was weird
Jared Kushner, xenomorph
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Prometheus and, I'm sure, Prometheus 2 are the dumbest shit but are people really getting het up about it
― in time of lost search (wins), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
xxp I don't know what you expected.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
On here I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of THEY RERRRNED GERRRSBERRZTZZZ elsewhere
― in time of lost search (wins), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
I second that new board description nomination
Is nail polish emoji the new "I would like to point out that I have been otm in this thread"?
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
NO WE'RE NOT YOU SHUT YOUR LYING MOUTH RIGHT NOW
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
I second that new board description nominationIs nail polish emoji the new "I would like to point out that I have been otm in this thread"?
that's what i was aiming for, aye
THEY RERRRNED GERRRSBERRZTZZZ
irl tears of lol
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Tombot otm otm
― a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link
Huh.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/watch-elizabeth-shaw-return-in-a-short-film-linking-pro-1794675880
For Alien Day, Fox just dropped this official Alien: Covenant prologue short called The Crossing, which stars both Prometheus survivors David (Michael Fassbender) and Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeMVrnYNwus
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
Also of note, this is the second prologue video released for Covenant. The first focused more on the crew of the titular ship, who are in space hoping to start a new world. You can watch that here.
Lots of intriguing backstory to chew on before the first frame of footage even rolls.
what a time to be alive
― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
haha wait the aliens have their own cryopod thingies? that humans (and/or human-created robots) can operate? and they work on human bodies too?? OKAY
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link
They're the USBs of the galaxy. Anyway, said cryopods were in Prometheus and all.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
haha i think i blocked that out, along with all the other bad parts of prometheus.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
YES THERE ARE PARTS I DO REMEMBER THANK YOU
it's a pretty dope movie that way tbh, plus it's only six to eight minutes long so it slots pretty easily into your viewing schedule.
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link
Could just put this on loop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTOcA_y1R_U
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
it's a pretty dope movie that way tbh, plus it's only six to eight minutes long
^^^
you guys are such suckers
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, April 26, 2017 5:34 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Of course they work on human bodies, our DNA is 100% identical according to Prometheus! Even though it results in entirely different morphologies!
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link
lol i think i forgot the whole plot? time to rewatch :D
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
they must have cut the scene where they inflate noomi to space jockey size so she can comfortably fit in their pods.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
They have little pods for little Engineers.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link