The Alien Prequel
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The Alien Prequel
I am so torn. On one hand it's Ridley Scott. On the other hand it seems all the greats are screwing up their earlier master pieces. I got an email from movie blogger that holds Movie Poster contests every once in awhile. So I put one together.
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Is that the official title?
I, personally, think Ridley Scott only directed one good movie in his life: Alien. The rest were mediocre to bleh. James Cameron's movies are at least mostly entertaining....
I, personally, think Ridley Scott only directed one good movie in his life: Alien. The rest were mediocre to bleh. James Cameron's movies are at least mostly entertaining....
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Kevin, what is that? I don't even know what I'm looking at.
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I feel so much better that someone besides me saw an elephant.Sunbaneglasses wrote:Looks like a partially decomposed elephant under a black light.
On Scott...I also liked Blade Runner, and Legend, despite Cruise and inconsistency, had some really good things and a KILLER soundtrack.
the rest is, meh or meh-minus.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Haven't seen Legend. I may have to look it up (I want my disrespect of Scott to be pureVraith wrote:I feel so much better that someone besides me saw an elephant.Sunbaneglasses wrote:Looks like a partially decomposed elephant under a black light.
On Scott...I also liked Blade Runner, and Legend, despite Cruise and inconsistency, had some really good things and a KILLER soundtrack.
the rest is, meh or meh-minus.
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Have you seen The Duellists? That is an astounding film. As far as I'm concerned, Scott made three great films - The Duellists, Alien, and Blade Runner. He then went from being a visionary to being a very competent hack. Most of his films are of no interest to me.Orlion wrote:Haven't seen Legend. I may have to look it up (I want my disrespect of Scott to be pureVraith wrote:I feel so much better that someone besides me saw an elephant.Sunbaneglasses wrote:Looks like a partially decomposed elephant under a black light.
On Scott...I also liked Blade Runner, and Legend, despite Cruise and inconsistency, had some really good things and a KILLER soundtrack.
the rest is, meh or meh-minus.
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That's because the Jockey Pilot from Alien looks like a partially decomposed elephant. I just drew it and put it under a black light.Sunbaneglasses wrote:Looks like a partially decomposed elephant under a black light.
Oh and the plot of the Prequel is rumored to be about the Jockey Pilot race hence the dead elephant on my poster
This time they explain the origins of the Alien with a little Broke Back Mountain thrown in.
So Married Male Aliens in love with each other and fighting against prejudices?Kevin164 wrote:That's because the Jockey Pilot from Alien looks like a partially decomposed elephant. I just drew it and put it under a black light.Sunbaneglasses wrote:Looks like a partially decomposed elephant under a black light.
Oh and the plot of the Prequel is rumored to be about the Jockey Pilot race hence the dead elephant on my poster
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Agreed, Scott's made two astounding movies (The Duelists and Alien), and made a bunch of others that suck to varying degrees.
I'm skeptical about this film. It seems completely unnecessary.
I'm skeptical about this film. It seems completely unnecessary.
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You aren't into Bladerunner? That has got to be one of the top 100 films ever made!Cail wrote:Agreed, Scott's made two astounding movies (The Duelists and Alien), and made a bunch of others that suck to varying degrees.
I'm skeptical about this film. It seems completely unnecessary.
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BR is an OK film, but a horrible adaptation of P.K. Dick's book. It is, as far as I'm concerned, an overwrought, style-over-substance mess.Lord Zombiac wrote:You aren't into Bladerunner? That has got to be one of the top 100 films ever made!Cail wrote:Agreed, Scott's made two astounding movies (The Duelists and Alien), and made a bunch of others that suck to varying degrees.
I'm skeptical about this film. It seems completely unnecessary.
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I never could read Phillip Dick. He will suddenly alter everything he's writing about and there is absolutely no context to understand what he's writing about.
"Do Androids dream of electric sheep?" is the most accessible thing I've tried to read of his, but I can't understand it either.
My daughter doesn't like it either. She doesn't like the acting.
How old are you Cail? Joust curious. Younger people who do not remember when the film came out don't realize how ground breaking this film was.
I'd kind of like to check out "the Duelist" now.
"Do Androids dream of electric sheep?" is the most accessible thing I've tried to read of his, but I can't understand it either.
My daughter doesn't like it either. She doesn't like the acting.
How old are you Cail? Joust curious. Younger people who do not remember when the film came out don't realize how ground breaking this film was.
I'd kind of like to check out "the Duelist" now.
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I'm 42. I saw BR in the theater during its original release. I was suckered into seeing it again when the "Director's Cut" was released ("oh look, the unicorn from Legend").
And sorry, there really isn't much "ground breaking" about BR other than the set design, which I will whole-heartedly agree is fantastic. The story is so-so, the acting (except for Rutger Hauer) is somnolent, the pacing is off, and worse, the film just doesn't work for me.
As an '80s, sci-fi take on noir detective films, it's not bad. As a statement on humanity it fails.
And sorry, there really isn't much "ground breaking" about BR other than the set design, which I will whole-heartedly agree is fantastic. The story is so-so, the acting (except for Rutger Hauer) is somnolent, the pacing is off, and worse, the film just doesn't work for me.
As an '80s, sci-fi take on noir detective films, it's not bad. As a statement on humanity it fails.
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Ummm....is that a joke I'm not getting? or does something like the Unicorn, or it's scenes appear in the that version of BR?Cail wrote:I'm 42. I saw BR in the theater during its original release. I was suckered into seeing it again when the "Director's Cut" was released ("oh look, the unicorn from Legend").
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
There's a scene in the DC of BR of a live-action unicorn that is lifted from Legend.Vraith wrote:Ummm....is that a joke I'm not getting? or does something like the Unicorn, or it's scenes appear in the that version of BR?Cail wrote:I'm 42. I saw BR in the theater during its original release. I was suckered into seeing it again when the "Director's Cut" was released ("oh look, the unicorn from Legend").
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Cool poster kevin! Immediately knew that was the space jockey. It's a rather iconic image if you're a big Alien fan!
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P.S. Black Hawk Down was an excellent movie from Ridley Scott.
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