Alien - A+Quoting Skitch (view post)
Blade Runner - B+
Gladiator - C+
Hannibal - C+
Prometheus - C-
The Martian - B
I should see more... but I don't really want to?
Alien - A+
Blade Runner - B+
Gladiator - C+
Hannibal - C+
Prometheus - C-
The Martian - B
I should see more... but I don't really want to?
I care.
Seriously, the space jockey was the most mind-melting thing about Alien to me. The rest of the movie is great too, but going into the ship and seeing all that had me like "what the serious fuck is up with all this stuff??" I want to know more.
Yeah, I care. I think the universe building stuff has always been a cool angle.
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Watch The Duellists. It's his second best film after Alien.
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As Tears Go By (1988) 65
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I was happier bringing my own thoughts to the Space Jockey origins/goals. The more I learn about them, the less interesting they become, especially when the Jockey at the end of Prometheus just went full-blown The Thing James Arness and started slapping bitches.
I have said this before, but Ridley is such a great visual storytreller that I wished he chooses scripts better or realizes and tweaks them while filming better. Normally the stupidity like the ones in Prometheus would give me anger aneurysms, but it is so fluidly atmospheric, gorgeous, and relentless that I still got swept up in the moment.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
Ridley Scott wants to make six more 'Aliens' films.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/ridley-...161138717.html
"We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."
"Eat my ass, James Cameron."
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That would take a minimum of 12 years. I dont know how he could possibly do that at age 78. He'd be 90 by the time he was done if he just stuck with Alien movies.
He's had several stretches where he's produced a flick every year for four or five. If he stayed in same universe, its possible only take 8 years. Is the world clamoring for an Alien movie every year? That seems more implausible than Ridley being able to do it.
That doesn't read like a sound business plan so much as a refusal to accept death, which I respect.
No you don't. Not really. :PI care.
Seriously, the space jockey was the most mind-melting thing about Alien to me. The rest of the movie is great too, but going into the ship and seeing all that had me like "what the serious fuck is up with all this stuff??" I want to know more.
I get wanting more stories in a particular universe, but I also think there's a degree to which fans are so hungry that they'll take anything that's offered.
The Star Wars prequels should have been a big, ugly decades-long warning that when a producer worldbuilds out their ass, when they get lost in the weeds like Lucas did, everybody loses.
That's about where Ridley is now with these Alien prequels.
Looking at it this way, I guess me too.
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No way can you compare the two! In each one of those prequels we were shown 37 new planets, 57 new creatures, 107 new ships.....
Ridley is making it much more subtle and subjective to the viewers which is why I loved Prometheus so much- the Jesus/Biblical undertones were great. And the backstory about faith was the perfect match for the character driving plot.
What makes me most excited about this movie, is not the continuation of Shaw's story (Which i think we can all agree by the Covenant trailer, it sounds like she made it to this new planet, planted some food, and got overrun by the black goo which looks to have destroyed the planet's wildlife) but a new female heroine, with (hopefully) different beliefs (and mindset), taking on the Aliens.
Can't wait.
#2 most anticipated movie for me this year
https://letterboxd.com/dukefrukem/li...ovies-of-2017/
Another very cool standalone video confirming something I'd thought/hoped for a long time...
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Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
GOOD. I wouldve been really annoyed otherwise.
Its awesome that its like a Cadillac commercial or something lol.
Walter / Westworld joke.
Really sad they didn't go with a name starting with "E".
This looks eerily like my forearm tattoo. I want it.
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Dude. You gotta post a pic of the tattoo now. WTF
Heh. I dont post pics of my tattoos. It's too hipster.
Is hipsterism your kryptonite?
Not hipster.
That's an incredible poster.
Probably way better than Duke's tattoo.
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