A few films recently watched.

  On 6/13/2012 at 4:25 AM, lumpenprol said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 3:42 AM, baph said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 1:21 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 12:55 AM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

Alien

Stunning visually. Iconic scenes. Must confess I have no idea what the alien was doing at the end chilling in the wall.

lol

she was going to take a nap during the trip or something like that...

 

The alien was heading toward warm bodies and camouflaging itself amid the pipes and spacey wall moulding

 

it's kind of hard to remember now how startling the alien design was at the time, not it's become iconic, part of our familiar visual lexicon. No doubt that Giger was an artistic genius, of a kind.

as i posted in the PROMETHEUS thread, i just watched the director's cut of Alien and it's very good.

secret honor - 8/10

insomnia (swedish version) - 8/10

Underground - 9/10

Tucker and Dale vs Evil - 6.5/10

The Raid: Redemption - 6.5/10

So there.

Tyrannosaur - Domestic violence. Loneliness. Despair. Depressing ruined lives. Brilliantly acted. A strangely beautiful film 8.2 / 10

The Baader Meinhof Complex - Engaging biopic of militant left-wing german radicals in the 60s-70s. If you weren't alive at this time, you may have no idea of the crazy shit these guys accomplished. I wished it had given more context - it's pretty much limited to its characters - but they already crammed a lot of stuff into a fairly long film. Quite depressing when you consider how much further American Imperialism has gone since the 70s, how far corporate wealth has expanded and how far the rich/poor divide has spread while most young people are entirely apolitical and apathetic. Also, some great boobs, if you're into that sort of thing. 7.7 / 10

  On 6/13/2012 at 5:40 AM, tontonz said:

just finished bastion from the humblebundle deal

 

really fun to play, definitely had me playing for hours.

but it sort of became a grind fest near the end and became a lil repetitive.

also, waaaaay to short!

other then that, excellent gameplay, and nice music to bout!

Oh yeah, what were the DVD extras like?

  On 6/13/2012 at 11:57 AM, LUDD said:

Tyrannosaur - Domestic violence. Loneliness. Despair. Depressing ruined lives. Brilliantly acted. A strangely beautiful film 8.2 / 10

peter mullan is good fun to watch, i always enjoy watching him. he has infectious smile and endearing, warm, yet callus and cynical charm in this

  On 6/13/2012 at 11:57 AM, LUDD said:

The Baader Meinhof Complex - Engaging biopic of militant left-wing german radicals in the 60s-70s. If you weren't alive at this time, you may have no idea of the crazy shit these guys accomplished. I wished it had given more context - it's pretty much limited to its characters - but they already crammed a lot of stuff into a fairly long film. Quite depressing when you consider how much further American Imperialism has gone since the 70s, how far corporate wealth has expanded and how far the rich/poor divide has spread while most young people are entirely apolitical and apathetic. Also, some great boobs, if you're into that sort of thing. 7.7 / 10

ha I think I gave almost an identical review after I saw it except for a higher rating. Powerful, nuanced & informative film, exactly what I want from a historical drama.

  On 6/13/2012 at 3:42 AM, baph said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 1:21 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 12:55 AM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

Alien

Stunning visually. Iconic scenes. Must confess I have no idea what the alien was doing at the end chilling in the wall.

lol

she was going to take a nap during the trip or something like that...

 

The alien was heading toward warm bodies and camouflaging itself amid the pipes and spacey wall moulding

please explain - does anyone understand what the alien was doing?

Piranha 3DD - 10/10. Ving Rhames with titanium shotgun legs. nuff said.

  On 6/13/2012 at 8:35 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 3:42 AM, baph said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 1:21 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 12:55 AM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

Alien

Stunning visually. Iconic scenes. Must confess I have no idea what the alien was doing at the end chilling in the wall.

lol

she was going to take a nap during the trip or something like that...

 

The alien was heading toward warm bodies and camouflaging itself amid the pipes and spacey wall moulding

 

please explain - does anyone understand what the alien was doing?

he was getting ready to participate in a climactic confrontation with the heroine.

  On 6/13/2012 at 8:35 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 3:42 AM, baph said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 1:21 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 6/13/2012 at 12:55 AM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

Alien

Stunning visually. Iconic scenes. Must confess I have no idea what the alien was doing at the end chilling in the wall.

lol

she was going to take a nap during the trip or something like that...

 

The alien was heading toward warm bodies and camouflaging itself amid the pipes and spacey wall moulding

 

please explain - does anyone understand what the alien was doing?

the alien was very obviously trying to get its dick wet

he's right actually. the alien was going to fuck the cat.

  On 6/13/2012 at 6:03 AM, zaphod said:

insomnia (swedish version) - 8/10

Very generous. I thought it only marginally better than the terrible Nolan version. Probably just a boring subject matter for me.

i didn't think the nolan version was terrible by any stretch of the imagination.

don't look back - 5/10 maybe you had to be there, but bob dylan just seems like a little cunty kid in this. maybe that's the point? i dunno. nothing he said was interesting, he actually reminded me of a video i watched on pitchfork a while back with that shitgaze artist wavves walking around the fader fort levi's festival or whatever the fuck it's called with his floppy hair and sunglasses acting like nothing in the world matters. maybe this type of celebrity only worked in the sixties. i guess that makes joan baez that talentless bitch from best coast and maybe alan price is their cat. useless hipsters: the movie.

  On 6/13/2012 at 9:00 PM, zaphod said:

he's right actually. the alien was going to fuck the cat.

i'm not ripley

oh, and i'm the cat???

but seriously. how can you end your incredible film with a scene that doesn't make sense. alien was taking a nap is the best I can work out. or maybe it knew it had her trapped or it knew it needed her to fly? fuck knows. haven't rewatched aliens but the trailer makes it look ridiculous and nothing how i remember it

That really was a cheesier scene than almost anything in Prometheus, but it's a classic, so it's internet hipster cool to say that it's far far better than anything to come out in the last 20 years.

snowtown 7/10 depressed the shit out of me

bad boy bubby 5/10 could've been great like dogtooth but nah

  On 6/13/2012 at 9:40 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

but seriously. how can you end your incredible film with a scene that doesn't make sense. alien was taking a nap is the best I can work out. or maybe it knew it had her trapped or it knew it needed her to fly? fuck knows. haven't rewatched aliens but the trailer makes it look ridiculous and nothing how i remember it

wait, you're serious?

I dunno dude, if I were a stealthy predator with even a low level of sentience, who had just murdered and skull fucked an entire crew as per my instinctual drive, I would probably head toward a place (a) where I could be stealthy and hide my weird-ass dick-skull up until the point (b) where I would need to murder/skull-fuck/eat/cocoon/whatever things again, which means I should probably do it near those warm bodies or the anticipated next location of those warm bodies (If the alien being able to plan that much is problematic, basically all of Aliens makes no sense. Fucking elevators, how do they work?). The cat was perched at the entry way of the escape craft, and the alien was sort of checking Jones out and appeared to be sort of considering shit, so it's not that far fetched that it would select the craft as a future hiding/dining location.

And the whole stealthy hiding/camouflaging thing is anticipated by the Giger's biomech set designs of like nested dick-skulls inside hardened vaginal secretions, and the thing is shown as being a stealth hunter throughout the film, so its location scouting at the end seems to me to be just good sci-fi writing to the extent a sci-fi alien would be based on evolutionary biology and behavior and good shit like that.

Plus, from a script perspective, after 2 hours of Dan O'Bannon indulging in his (stated) desire to scare the piss out of male audience members by visually referencing homosexual oral rape and skull fucking and egg laying inside dudes, it really just makes thematic sense to have an amazon-tall lady in her undies pair up with the ultimate rapist, and have amazon-tall undie lady just totally give the rapist the old I spit on your grave treatment.

the other day i walked past a spider curled up in the corner on my wall and was seriously just like "now what the fuck is this spider doing here?"

  On 6/13/2012 at 10:36 PM, Alcofribas said:

the other day i walked past a spider curled up in the corner on my wall and was seriously just like "now what the fuck is this spider doing here?"

fuck, i lol'd too hard

lol

Prometheus: 8/10 as far as blockbusters go.

A bit too fussy to get a bigger number, still done better than a lot of recent Hollywood-like movies.