I don't think you can really call out Ridley Scott for ripping off other sci-fi movies. Maybe repeating himself, but not ripping off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Snowballs
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I don't think you can really call out Ridley Scott for ripping off other sci-fi movies. Maybe repeating himself, but not ripping off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Snowballs
For starters, calling out Scott is ridiculous. He was merely the director, the man responsible for the visual images we saw. He interpreted the words that were given to him via the screenplay.
If you were to call anybody out, it would be the screenwriters: Jon Spaihts (wrote The Darkest Hour, a pretty mediocre sci-fi/horror movie) and Damon Lindelof (created/wrote Lost, also wrote Cowboys & Aliens, the latter of which was a pretty mediocre sci-fi western).
Saw it last night. Incredible. Loved it.
If you like the first Alien movie, go see this one.
Fucking hell that was all I needed to know. Wish I was privy to that before shelling out $13 for this thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
LOST - one of the best shows ever ... until it became one of the worst. After the final episode, David Chase and Larry David probably high-fived each other.
This pretty much sums it up for me as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by brice618
In the other Alien movies you start with a premise and the humans are left to their own devices to try to devise a solution and survive. There was something visceral and personal about the character's struggles. In this one, Scott jumped into the philosophical realm, using the aliens as a plot device. It's not what I was expecting.
As a stand alone movie I thought it was barely passable, interesting ideas and good special effects, but as a prequel to the Alien franchise it fell short, and by more that a little.
Saw it. I actually liked the score and of course the chutes in the background on this 'moon.' I spent most of my first night asleep trying to fill in the holes, especially the beginning sequence and how that relates to whole film and the ending. I guess the positive note is that I can't wait to see what the Blu-ray provides with additional scenes.
It was a movie, I enjoyed it a bunch.
Crack open life-force, you don't know what you'll get.
Brian DePalma's Mission To Mars (2000) was just on AMC...
and while I saw it some 12 years ago in the theaters, seeing it again now, especially in the fairly recent wake of Prometheus, it's interesting, to say the least.
Some of the similarities that exist between the two films are striking (i.e. it's seems rather obvious that the screenwriters of Prometheus were more than casually familiar with M2M).
Man, I thought M2M was terrible... even worse than Red Planet.
No contest there Tipp.
My point was that while watching M2M the other night the entire last 1/3 of it was like watching Prometheus in deja vu (or vice/versa). Lots of the same concepts and very similar images. Very surprised that I didn't see more mention of the similarities when Prometheus was out in the theaters.
Just saw it and thought it was something else. The plot wasn't perfect but the visuals were fricken stunning. The design of everything was breathtaking- the space suits, the ship, the helmet the Engineer wore.
Noomi Rapace is a little badass.
Really wish I'd been able to see it in 3D.
I saw it in IMAX 3D when it came out, it was spectacular.Quote:
Originally Posted by sidewall
Just watched this for the first time and really liked it. I don't think I have ever seen better special effects. The plot was more engaging to me than the prior Alien films. The robot David was the most compelling character in the film for me. You could never really decipher if he had a soul. The only 2 things that bothered me were the naive scientists that were in such a huge hurry to engage a life form that they knew nothing about. Also the idiot that thinks some alien creature that looks like a king cobra sticking up out of a black muck looks cute and reaches out to shake its hand was astoundingly stupid ( I was glad he got killed). Those quibbles aside I think I will buy the Bluray for my collection and watch it again. Edited. I really need to quit posting when I am about to fall asleep :)
David actually has two soles, bipedally speaking, just like us really peoples. Come to think of it, he probably has two souls as well - what with his back-up hardwiring and all.