tell me more
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 16 November 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
i feel that your post may not be... 100% sincere.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 16 November 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
no, just that your post more or less summarizes about 75% of this thread.
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 16 November 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Sounds interesting.
― latebloomer, Monday, 16 November 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link
yeah i guess i'm just voicing the conventional wisdom.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 16 November 2015 23:02 (eight years ago) link
'Missed Opportunities: The Movie'
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
this movie was like watching Michael Stipe drink a tainted Pepsi
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link
remove the last seven letters and you're there
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 06:49 (eight years ago) link
That's a decent sounding premise actually. Will probably still be crap.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 11:30 (eight years ago) link
Hoping this is just going to be a movie-length version of campy late-90s CanadianTV sci-fi The Lexx.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 11:32 (eight years ago) link
Has Scott made a film that people have actually liked since Gladiator?
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 11:54 (eight years ago) link
Black Hawk Down pretty much was where I hit the pilot eject
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:08 (eight years ago) link
Gladiator is shit tbf
― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:18 (eight years ago) link
yes it's called Prometheus
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link
― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague)
I'm not a huge fan, but it is considered a classic by many. Unlike Prometheus.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
Point is that Scott's hit rate is low enough to look accidental by now
― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:24 (eight years ago) link
Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ALIEN
Scott is obviously #3 or lower in the list of people involved in the creation of the ALIEN universe.
― ledge, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
Prometheus got me hooked on Alien. I watched it again with my OH and she loved it, then we went back and watched Alien through Alien 3 and loved those. In retrospect Prometheus only suffers from an ostensibly nonsensical plotline, but it would be amazing if this new film went on to explain some of the ostensibly random events in Prometheus. (It won't)
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link
Gladiator is considered a classic by many civilians
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
Prometheus, gladiator both very different types of failure at least.
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:56 (eight years ago) link
In retrospect Prometheus only suffers from an ostensibly nonsensical plotline
That's a big "only." Also there's no way the 15-foot tall petrified creature in Alien is the same as the 8-foot tall albino in a suit in Prometheus. The OG Space Jockey was supposed to appear so large in proportion to humans that Scott had children in spacesuits used in the long shots.
Kinda hope Dan O'Bannon's estate puts out a hit on him.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
imo gladiator is ridley scott making his own braveheart film without all the gibson trappings and the "hah hah, throw the gay guy out the window" scene that was played for laughs
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
minus also bagpipes
― ryan, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
My brother pointed out that both films have a near-identical scene of the main dude in battle bellowing "HOLD...HOLD.....HOLLLLD.....NOW!" and that's how you know they are a great general
― Amblyomma_americanum_tick.jpg (wins), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Giant Wheel Thing: The Movie
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_PeQCPq8QA
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
for all its flaws, a better film than prometheus
― Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
Alien: Covenant will apparently be the first of three more prequels, Ridley Scott now claims in new interview filled with garbled Ridleyspeak:
"So I’m now going to the next one, which is the next evolution directly connected with the first one, which was this Shaw, when he replaced Michael Fassbender in two pieces and we’ll kind of pick it up there and it will evolve. When that’s finished there’ll be another one and then another one which will gradually drive into the back entrance of the film in 1979.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ridley-scott-alien-covenant-is-844051
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Friday, 27 November 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
ok whatnow
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 November 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
back entrance indeed
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 November 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
was he having a stroke while saying these words?
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 27 November 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
Oh, wow, if they manage to keep the quality level the same as with Prometheus, they'll have ended up making six sequels in a row that nobody liked! That must be some sort of record?
― Frederik B, Friday, 27 November 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
He's saying he's going to fuck original Alien in the ass ?
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 27 November 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
Only one of these will ever get made
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 27 November 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
well certainly not by ridley scott... isn't he pushing 80?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 27 November 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
In these prequels we will learn the aliens grew up in an abusive household
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 27 November 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
I'd take anything Scott says with a salt shaker.
― latebloomer, Friday, 27 November 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
Again with the back entrance
― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 28 November 2015 04:49 (eight years ago) link
From a strict narrative sense, Prometheus is riddled with every conceivable kind of inconsistency and logical lapse. But you could say that about Lynch's films, or Jodorowsky (and Aeon Flux). To read such works literally is missing the point.― Peter Chung, Monday, 30 November 2015 03:30 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Peter Chung, Monday, 30 November 2015 03:30 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
yes that's the creator of aeon flux, on this board, 9 hours ago
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 November 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
Ah, the auteur defence. Seriously though I'm happy for the people who enjoyed this rude fart of a movie.
― ledge, Monday, 30 November 2015 13:31 (eight years ago) link
peter chung did not direct prometheus fyi
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 November 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
Good to know.
― ledge, Monday, 30 November 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
give him one of the new films, imo
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 30 November 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
To read such works literally is missing the point.
no, to read a supposedly realist SF film as a surrealist masterpiece is missing the point
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Monday, 30 November 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
Prometheus is riddled with every conceivable kind of inconsistency and logical lapse. But you could say that about Lynch's films, or Jodorowsky (and Aeon Flux)
hmmm one of these things is not like the others
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 November 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
Danny McBride is going to be in this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Number None, Thursday, 11 February 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
please let him speak the line "give me a space abortion!"
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 11 February 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 February 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
"I don't need some kinda freaky fuckin space squid in my guts, dawg."
― we salute you, our half-inflated dark lord (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 11 February 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
he just wants to ride the space wheel
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 February 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link