Masochistic Links: | Thanks Ant and Acleacius. |
Play: | Siegius Arena. |
Stories: |
Florida man accused of returning used enemas. Thanks Gawker. Seattle police seek more drones while two sit unused. Thanks Slashdot. |
Science: | Satellite Left Stranded by SpaceX Rocket Falls From Space. |
Media: |
Minecraft Environmentalists. The Onion Takes on TED. This guy is awesome at kicking American footballs. |
Follow-up: | Brevity. |
pnag wrote on Oct 14, 2012, 08:34:These are not films about academics though, they're about scientists and soldiers dealing with challenges, trying to survive. It's unlikely to me that characters dealing with extremely dangerous alien life forms would first think about high concept themes like "creation" rather than first dealing with realities.Dmitri_M wrote on Oct 14, 2012, 07:33:
My opinion on Prometheus and any attempt to remake Bladerunner..potential spoilers ahead:
Prometheus sucked... no one past the age of 10 cares about.
I'll not reveal your spoilers, but instead latch onto the bit above.
No one past the age of 10? Man, the departments of theology and philosophy in the University where I work are gonna be sooooo pissed...
Dmitri_M wrote on Oct 14, 2012, 07:33:
My opinion on Prometheus and any attempt to remake Bladerunner..potential spoilers ahead:
Prometheus sucked... no one past the age of 10 cares about.
1badmf wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 22:38:
and for the record, i do appreciate the backstory and subtexts, but that's completely subsumed by the horrible script from the writer of one of the most illogical, pretentious, talentless shows in tv history - Lost.
1badmf wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 22:38:
...when the APOLLO astronauts came back from the moon they were placed in quarantine in an air tight chamber, but i suppose you think that was a foolish waste of time. that's because, well, you're an idiot. there really is no other explanation necessary - anybody with even a high school level science background can see the blatant stupidity...
nin wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 19:21:
...You could slam your hand in a car door for another two hours, too. But common sense would tell you that if it was painful the first time, it probably won't get any better.
nin wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:39:
The helmet removal WAS stupid.
Why? It made no difference - the contagion wasn't airborne, the atmosphere was breathable. How is this a problem? Cause you say it's stupid?
By all accounts this is deserved, but I remain masochistically curious to see it.
Need to know? Top secret? Weyland was a Howard Hughes type. How is this a problem? Happens in movies/books all the time?
Why didn't people just run out of the way of the towers falling on 9/11?
Anything else? You did, you know, actually watch the movie, right? Cause I think that's the problem - most of the audience didn't. MTV generation who can't pay attention.
Honestly, give it some time, watch it again without preconceptions (hard to do, I know) and I think you might actually enjoy it.
PHJF wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:17:
No it's pretty awful regardless.
PHJF wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:17:
And if we aren't supposed to compare it to Alien then they SHOULDN'T HAVE SOLD IT AS ALIEN. The entire Prometheus marketing campaign amounted to every soul involved playing cutesy-coy about its relation to Alien.
nin wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:39:
Crew signs on, flies across the galaxy, wakes up and STILL doesn't know what their mission is.
nin wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:39:
Crew that enters what is clearly a building (built by SOMEONE), with virtually no weaponry.
nin wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:39:
The helmet removal WAS stupid.
nin wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:39:
A pilot and his crew who, at the drop of a hat, decide to sacrifice themselves and their giant spaceship.
nin wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:39:
A woman that can only run in a straight line to outrun a ship about to fell on her (and seriously, what are the odds of a circular ship managing to roll on it's outer edge like a wheel w/o falling over???).
nin wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:39:
Another woman who has her stomach cut open and can magically run around the rest of the movie with almost no problems.
nin wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:39:
Look, I love Ridley Scott. But this story was a fucking MESS...
pnag wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 16:59:nin wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 16:29:...groan inducing stupidity.
I totally agree with that for both movies...except for the "decent flick"s part.
Jesus... A biologist tries to pet a deadly beast and a geologist with the coolest mapping technology gets lost - those minor bits were stupid.
What else? Don't give me shit about helmets, or an 'invitation' (Shaw's interpretation, which as she says herself was "so wrong".)
I'm totally sick of the Prometheus bashing, as whenever anyone actually says what it is they didn't like about it, it effectively amounts to, "It's not the Alien movie I wanted."
It's not an Alien movie!!! As Scott said, it's set in the same universe. That's it.
IJ4 was disgusting because three people responsible for Indy in the first place (Lucas, Spielberg and Ford) managed to royally fuck it up. It was like they'd never seen the other movies, never mind wrote/directed/starred in them.
More of a legal thing than anything else, but the big (e)book publishers have gotten their asses handed to them with regards to illegal price fixing, and if you bought any kindle books in the last two years, you're going to get some money back.