― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 April 2006 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 17 April 2006 04:56 (eighteen years ago) link
also kenan you sound like an ass
Well, Alien is a horror film, not an action film, so maybe you're onto something. But you sound like an ass most of the time, too.
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 04:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Try it out, it's UNCANNY.
― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 April 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 April 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
also a lot of her reasons for disliking the movie were part of its strength! it really is a visual movie, despite the powerful score and quotable dialogue. 'the design is the statement", etc. IIRC she didnt like 2001 either.
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes! I always thought this was clear too, yet have heard a lot of people argue against it, though with no footing, mostly "He can't be!" Get one ability to follow metaphor? I don't know.
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link
-- gypsy mothra (meetm...), April 17th, 2006.
otm!
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
(altho if she hadn't retired she might've raved up mission to mars).
oh man that movie
*begin digression*
mission to mars is soooo bad. we saw on it on my brother's b-day and he was so exasperated at the movie and its retardedness that when the alien hologram thingie shed a tear he burst out laughing in the crowded theater, making a bunch of others laugh with him. god bless my brother.
and goddamn the amount of eye shadow gary sinise wears in this movie.
*end digression*
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Ebert!
Ebert gave this movie three stars. He did not understand it at all.
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link
i think in one of his reviews he admitted he prolly would have rated it higher if he was reviewing it nowadays.
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Before the shooting began, Christopher Nolan invited the whole film crew to a private screening of Blade Runner (1982). After the film he said to the whole crew, "This is how we're going to make Batman."
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Though they do both have Rutger Hauer. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link
very true, but the scene seemed so close
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link
um... you think we just figured this out right now?
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link
i was criticizing her writing, smuggo
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.itsvery.net/BladeRunner/Tyrell%20Office02.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link
-- kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (jdsalmo...), April 17th, 2006.
otfm! like 2001 and the first two Alien movies, it really holds up amazingly compared to other movies in the genre, then and now.
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I didn't care for Black Hawk Down that much, but it wasn't because of Scott - if anything his work was the one thing I liked about it.
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
sorry, Ned, others brought it up
― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link
As I said upthread: "The visuals. God, what visuals. They do not age, which is point of discussion in itself. This movie should look dated, but it doesn't. Why?"
Maybe because, apart from the special effects it employs, it borrows so much from noir that it doesn't age? And that the city shots are so borrowed from every other futurescape ever (Metropolis especially) that they're more like amalgams of futurity than original visions?
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link
what would this movie have been like if tony had directed it?
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't know what you mean. Please explain why talking about this movie is academic.
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.soniguales.com/fotos/LeonKowalski.jpg
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link
i mean, i know, comic exaggeration and all, but it's still comes from a pretty ass-y place.
― amateurist0, Monday, 17 April 2006 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link