Don't see the need. Gonna watch "Alien Covenant" tonight. From 2017. See how it stands out.
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I thought it was enjoyable. Good sequel to Prometheus
Piggy backing this and going to agree, highly enjoyable would definitely rewatch whenever possible.
I didn't like it. I fell asleep.
I still haven't managed to get through the whole movie. It just doesn't capture my attention like the others do.
Well, I'm not gonna nitpick Covenant to death. Production values were up there, some great set designs... One reviewer on Netflix posted a comment meant to skewer the apparent lack of screening deep space exploration crews, and he/she has a point. The levels of freak-outs and hysterics crossed over from heightening tension into plain annoyance.
Guys walk on a foreign planet without PPE beyond gloves and boots, stick their nose into bulbs releasing spores, and voila. Tough luck, dumb ass.
There were some shots reminiscent of the original, as when the Alien's scorpion tail curls up between a human victim's legs. It was creepy the first time. Thirty-eight years ago. Now, it's lazy.
One good scene did redeem some of the film, between the synthetics David and Walter, when Walter corrects David about who wrote "Ozymandias", the argument setting them apart and on a collision course. More could have been done with that.
Some characters appeared to pour out of the writers' blender. Captain Oram (Billy Crudup) looked like an version of Dallas (Tom Skerrit) who is an emotional mess. Transfer the name Dallas to Tennessee (Danny McBride) and you end up with a composite of Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton).
In the end, I wonder what exactly is David's plan, but I'm not interested enough to bring in the next installment. Doctor Lecter in space with the Alien creatures doing the cannibalism schtick by proxy? Fucker can't differentiate between Byron and Shelley, so whatever plan he comes up with will be close enough for government's work I guess...
Guys walk on a foreign planet without PPE beyond gloves and boots, stick their nose into bulbs releasing spores, and voila. Tough luck, dumb ass.
There were some shots reminiscent of the original, as when the Alien's scorpion tail curls up between a human victim's legs. It was creepy the first time. Thirty-eight years ago. Now, it's lazy.
One good scene did redeem some of the film, between the synthetics David and Walter, when Walter corrects David about who wrote "Ozymandias", the argument setting them apart and on a collision course. More could have been done with that.
Some characters appeared to pour out of the writers' blender. Captain Oram (Billy Crudup) looked like an version of Dallas (Tom Skerrit) who is an emotional mess. Transfer the name Dallas to Tennessee (Danny McBride) and you end up with a composite of Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton).
In the end, I wonder what exactly is David's plan, but I'm not interested enough to bring in the next installment. Doctor Lecter in space with the Alien creatures doing the cannibalism schtick by proxy? Fucker can't differentiate between Byron and Shelley, so whatever plan he comes up with will be close enough for government's work I guess...
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Always good to hear some Wagner though
Which went rather well with the set designs of David's lair, it's true...
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Just watched American Made with my son. Not bad. It was a good opportunity to give the kid a history lesson on the Iran-Contra affair.
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Saw “I, Tonja” last night. If the phrase, “why me? Why anyone?” rings a bell, this is a must see. It is really really good.
Margot Robbie's 'I, Tonya' is a champion bioflick
Margot Robbie's 'I, Tonya' is a champion bioflick
The Goon was in my opinion a good movie. The sequal, yea not so much.
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I would go so far as to say I thought the sequel was complete shit. In fact I wish I had not watched it.
This move is fucking funny as...but you tend to laugh at the inappropriate, it's definitely not Oscar Wilde.
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SAINTS vs PANTHERS game had 3 good previews, all coming out next week:
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I would love to see both Margot Robbie and Allison Janney get Oscar nominations for their performances.
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I remember after the Olympics she was on a float of some type in a parade, I think it was Disney related. She got picked up on a hot mic saying , this is so lame!” Probably was , but she took a lot of flack for that.
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I ran into Kristi Yamaguchi locally; her husband used to play hockey for the Hurricanes. I saw her in a store at a mall. She was a first-class cunt towards the employees.
But Harding and Kerrigan...I could see a threesome. A good girl/bad girl thing.
But I, Tonya does look like a decent flick.
I will see 12 Strong. I anticipate artistic license, but I hope it stay relatively true to Horse Soldiers.
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Girlfriend saw I, Tonya, with her mother. Stated that it was sad. I remember watching the 30 for 30 on it, apparently this had a lot more details about the mental and physical abuse she suffered from her mother and husband.
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