Would you outlaw all commercial film if you were granted the power to do so.
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Would you outlaw all commercial film if you were granted the power to do so.
Nah, I'd enforce a rigid censorship that would ban all degenerate hack art that doesn't meet certain criterias.
One does wonder if something like that wouldn't be for the best.
Actually, my film choices are really examples of subtle post-modern irony: not every cineaste can appreciate Ben Affleck in Aliens vs Mac and Me.
Prometheus (2012)
A disappointment.
2/10
A disappointment.
2/10
You are the disappointment, Steve.
Busquets is a better actor than the twits in that film, chief.
fassbender though.. and Idris.. and budget tom hardy! I don't understand how so few people like it. Maybe I need to rewatch it soon, now you're making me doubt myself.
Fassbender was good, tbf.
Are you going to watch Covenant too?
I couldn't find it in the shops, so I bought Alien vs. Predator.
ThatsGreat said:
Having a look-see at the actual movie and making a critical judgement would definitely be in my top 20 best ways to find out how good a movie has been. Tarot is another one.
Observing the tides of dirty industry cash advance and recede would seem to me a rather poor way to find out how good a movie has been.
Next time, just take said money and hurl it into the nearest bin.
watched Blade Runner... found it dull as feck
Which version?
Probably doesn't matter as you have no soul.
Booksmart Started off badly but did pick up in the second half. Very unevenly paced and the humor is rather hit and miss but it means well and it is worth a watch. 6/10
Directors cut I am presuming, but don't think it would have made a difference - just found the concept and plot dull. Graphically well shot but just not my cup of tea - couldn't relate to any of the characters. Shame as I do love a good sci-fi film.
The Final Cut is the best version but the original is very different due to the Sam Spade style voice-over.
The stories told before the flickering flames of the communal fire - our proto-cinema - would sooth that primal, Jungian ache to order and understand the world around us. To regale and to be regaled dear friends is the art of storytelling. The herbert who showed up later on to explain the intricacies of how a Sudoku works was doused in hog fat and thrown into the fire. It was a just time.
Hear, hear.
Just drop the Alien vs and watch Predator instead.
Yes you should - it's really bad. How anyone rates that film is beyond me.
Covenant is even worse than Prometheus. And I don't even think I've seen Covenant.
It has a 7/10 rating on imdb and 73% on RT though... It's not like I'm the only one who liked it.
Phantom Thread - I couldn't help but think that DDL was channeling Richard E. Grant for this role and spent most of the film imagining what it would have been like if Grant had starred in it instead. Anywho, I expected something more visually interesting from a PTA period drama, some more eleborate camera work, Ophüls style and I understand that he didn't want a period drama glow but it looked truly hideous. He also left the kinky shit a little too late.
Those people are plebs though. I on the other hand think it's amazing.
Saw Us just now and I expected a lot more from it with Get Out still fresh in my mind. The whole premise didn't make any sense. Disappointing. I give it a SteveJ/10.
Interesting, I thought he was channeling Nick Broomfield, complete with tantrums. I liked but didn't love the film, though I hugely admired its construction.
I wouldn't have seen the connection myself but thinking about it now I can stretch a link between the way both Ophuls and Anderson show the to-be-respected at their most disreputable. Churchman, Lola, The Master, duelling gents, etc.
Yeah I reckon it's a crap B movie, wrapped in a good B movie, trying to obscure a madly creative spasm.
That's too meta for me
Well it contains a better rendition of Milton than Phillip Pullman managed and there is a moment when the Davids gaze into one anothers eyes that summons up Caravaggio's Narcissus, with an accompanying double entendre that is so delicious.
But the best moment of all is when the spacewoman Charlie Chaps it on the blood spill and ends up burning everything down. Amazing comedy timing.
What a film.
The lazy reference to HAL, using a Halfords bike dynamo placed next to decapitated David's head...
*sobs*
*sobs*
I can honestly say that Prometheus was the best episode of Ancient Aliens I've ever seen I tell you hwat!
Wait, wait, I was talking about Alien Covenant here. Blooming french quoting etiquette causing my reading skills to fail.
Watch Alien Covenant steve.
Prometheus is junk.
Watch Alien Covenant steve.
Prometheus is junk.
I'll watch it, safe in the knowledge that, whether it's good or bad, I won't be able to tell the difference.
It's both and more.
“You blow, I’ll do the fingering”
- Michael Fassbender to Michael Fassbender (Alien Covenant, 2017)
- Michael Fassbender to Michael Fassbender (Alien Covenant, 2017)
If watching people make stupid decisions is your thing, you'll love it.
After seeing the Engineer's impression of Rick Wakeman, I can tolerate anything.
Alien Covenant is abysmal. Not only is it awful, it retroactively ruins the entire franchise.