Prometheus. 6/10 : Visual effects and art design were impressive and overwhelming. I liked Fassbender’s performance more than the rest of the cast. But when the movie ended, I was just like ‘meh’. Shame that Theron can’t run sideways.
Then I went on an ALien marathon: Alien - Aliens - Alien:resurrection (Alien 3 was an abomination);
Event Horizon-
Iron Sky -
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
It seems we’re beyond it at this point, but just in case - [i]Spoilers[/i]
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
Was it this one, Roy? Because, I didn’t see it during the movie.
…[/quote]
No. This scene is supposed to be at the end credits (I walked out before so I can’t confirm or deny, but it’s online anyway):
…[/quote]
There was no actual “scene” after the credits, but it did end with this image on screen before fading to black:
Supposedly (from what I’ve read online), you can get to the clip Roybot posted from the website in that image, but I haven’t found it.
I also found this the other day - 5 Simple Changes That Would Make ‘Prometheus’ Better (for Fans of ‘Alien’):
^^Spoilers^^
I totally agree with the first four. The last one would be the biggest stretch to avoid being corny.[/quote]
Thanks for the clarification. I got the clip from a normally trustworthy movie site and didn’t stop to question whether the ‘source’ had seen the movie. Didn’t mean to mislead anybody. I’ve grown weary of post credits cut scenes. Marvel have the all clear, but there’s no need for everyone else to jump on the bandwagon.
I’m actually relieved that Ridley Scott didn’t go down that road. The Weyland Industries logo you posted has a date stamp which is rumored to herald something that hopefully will turn out to be more substantial than just the day that Weyland Industries was “launched”.
The Weyland TED viral took place in 2023…A series of virals documenting Weyland’s rise from 2012 would be amazing.
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
Shame that Theron can’t run sideways.
[/quote]
The boots were pre-set to run in the general direction of a sequel.
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
If you plan on seeing Prometheus, there is a post-credits scene featuring [spoilers] the young Weyland [/spoilers], who should have been the focus of this new franchise. [/quote]
This I have to agree with completely…plus Guy Pearce is too well of an actor to be an afterthought(imo) character.[/quote]
Yes, he definitely was an afterthought.
The Engineers’ reasons for wanting humanity dead seem to be based in a loss of morality - from the Biblical references to the latest viral where Weyland quotes Nietzche. Some readings of the movie have it that sin is the reason that the Engineers decided to end us, but I’d prefer to think that Weyland’s quest for immortality (‘steal fire’) was the real cause. Sadly, it wasn’t.
The Tortured - a by-the-numbers revenge flick partly redeemed by a ‘twist’ ending. Plot contrivances come out to play in a wafer thin plot where a pedo-with-a-gimmick (he likes to dress up in a tiara) kidnaps and murders a six year old boy to assuage his daddy issues.
Said pedo is given a reduced sentence in return for the locations of his other victims, so the grieving parents (one conveniently a doctor) hatch a plot to kidnap tiara guy and get medieval on his ass.
Nothing to really hate about this, except that the twist makes the parents look like fools. This has a movie ph of 7. Everything is so familiar that I almost didn’t feel like I’d seen a new movie.
Ted - Caught this at a matinee showing. This is the one with Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane as the voice of his living, breathing teddy bear. I thought it was pretty disappointing, but I have been disappointed by almost every comedy I’ve seen lately. The jokes felt too familiar, like I’d heard them all before, but this time they were coming from a teddy bear with Peter Griffin’s voice. There were some funny moments, but it got really slow and boring towards the end, as most comedies do when they get too caught up in their stupid-as-fuck plots.
I’d say Redbox it if you’re extremely bored one night.
5/10
Precious - an incredibly depressing but compelling movie based on an equally depressing and compelling book. Christened ‘Precious’ but treated like shit, the titular character is a barely literate teenage mother with a second child on the way.
But her situation is more complicated. Precious never had a boyfriend. Her father raped her, fathered her two children and vanished. Her mother blames her for “stealing her man”, seething with misplaced jealousy, she abuses Precious on a daily basis, treats her like a slave and keeps up up appearances with social workers so she can claim welfare for her daughter and her grand daughter/ step daughter.
The mother is one of the best movie villains of recent years: an irredeemable, shiftless c*nt, who convinces you that she thinks she’s right, even though you know she’s scum.
Precious finds her academic potential in an independent learning class, but it doesn’t have the fairytale ending she’s looking for.
Also features Mariah Carey in good performance shocker…
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
Ted - Caught this at a matinee showing. This is the one with Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane as the voice of his living, breathing teddy bear. I thought it was pretty disappointing, but I have been disappointed by almost every comedy I’ve seen lately. The jokes felt too familiar, like I’d heard them all before, but this time they were coming from a teddy bear with Peter Griffin’s voice. There were some funny moments, but it got really slow and boring towards the end, as most comedies do when they get too caught up in their stupid-as-fuck plots.
I’d say Redbox it if you’re extremely bored one night.
5/10[/quote]
I didn’t like it much either. I had a bunch of people telling me it was hilarious. Only parts I really thought were funny was with Flash Gordon.
I just saw American Psycho and that was really good and stuff…
I am kinda confused though, did he kill all those people or didn’t he???
Was that guy dead or in london?
Anyway ya, really awesome.
And I really enjoyed Christian bale and his nakedness etc…
[quote]strungoutboy21 wrote:
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
Ted - Caught this at a matinee showing. This is the one with Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane as the voice of his living, breathing teddy bear. I thought it was pretty disappointing, but I have been disappointed by almost every comedy I’ve seen lately. The jokes felt too familiar, like I’d heard them all before, but this time they were coming from a teddy bear with Peter Griffin’s voice. There were some funny moments, but it got really slow and boring towards the end, as most comedies do when they get too caught up in their stupid-as-fuck plots.
I’d say Redbox it if you’re extremely bored one night.
5/10[/quote]
I didn’t like it much either. I had a bunch of people telling me it was hilarious. Only parts I really thought were funny was with Flash Gordon.[/quote]
I agree.
I’m not sure if the movie relied too much on the novelty value of a teddy bear swearing and getting wasted, or if Seth McFarlane’s humor just doesn’t translate to live-action that well. Family Guy makes a virtue out of randomness, but there were sub-plots, like the one involving Patrick Warburton and that other dude, that went nowhere and were just unnecessary baggage.
It would probably have worked better with a shorter running time. It is, after all, a movie about a magical soft toy cock blocking a couple.
Also, I expected this to be a more direct tribute to the run of '80s wish movies, like Big, Vice Versa, Like Father, Like Son, which it wasn’t, even though Macfarlane was clearly inspired by those movies.
He started off well by contrasting the innocent ‘child’ Ted with the older more cynical version, to show how we may be living in a more jaded time, but it was quickly left behind in favor of ideas staler than a hooker’s turd.
MacFarlane seemed to be more interested in '80s pop-culture in general, which has it’s place, but how funny and original is an Imperial March ring tone, really?
Not very. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
The Devil’s Double - Uday Hussein ‘persuades’ Latif Yahia, a former schoolmate who’s unlucky enough to resemble him, to work as his ‘fiday’ (body double) by threatening to execute his family. Subtle…
Latif is allowed all the perks of being the son of an Iraqi dictator, including being under constant threat of death for looking like the shark-eyed psychopath standing next to him, who rapes, rants and murders his way through the movie.
Well worth watching for a tour-de-force performance from Dominic Cooper (young Howard Stark in Captain America) as Uday and Latif, but what could’ve been a brilliant study in how absolute power corrupts absolutely is sullied by the revelation that Latif is a habitual liar and made up the story that the movie is based on. Latif never gets tempted by the dark side, no matter how much pussy or cocaine is waved under his nose.
But then, when did the truth get in the way of a great story?
Harry Brown: it’s basically a darker version of Gran Torino with Michael Caine as a righteously irate pensioner doing his bit for the community.
The Bourne Legacy- not exactly a direct sequel, the story plays or more or less at the same time as The Bourne Ultimatum, using footage from it to show how a previously unseen character (Col. Eric Byer, played by Ed Norton) reacts to Bourne drawing unwanted attention to his network of projects, of which Treadstone was only one.
Byer’s solution is simple: kill all operatives and scientists involved, secure all data then start again at a later date. Enter Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a graduate of Treadstone’s sibling project Outcome ( Outcome is supposed to be an upgraded version of Treadstone: while Treadstone produces ‘natty’ agents, Outcome dabbles in chromosome manipulation and some sort of virus that powers up the cognitive and physical capabilities of Outcome volunteers).
Cross is supposed to be eliminated alongside his fellow agents, but avoids death by being on a training mission in Alaska and arriving at base camp two days earlier than expected (his liason tells him he “broke the record” for completing the manouevre).
He spends the rest of the movie trying to secure a supply of the viral drug that’ll prevent him from regressing into an idiot, while avoiding pretty much everyone who tried to do Bourne in ( local cops, evil bosses and the token rival agent). During his search for Bourne movie NZT, Cross crosses paths with an Outcome Dr (Rachel Weiz) who herself had narrowly escaped the purge.
So it’s basically a sly reboot of Bourne using the same characters with different names, and the implied possibility that Bourne/ Damon may return as either ally or enemy to Cross.
It’s a decent movie in its own right, with some exciting scenes. The problem here is that Cross is hyped as a level above Bourne, but everything Cross does is just a shallow imitation of Bourne. None of the fight scenes are as brutal or gripping, none of the tactics are as smart, and the encounter with the enemy assasin, which takes in a rooftop pursuit and a bike chase, is pretty eventless and since there are similar set pieces in previous movies, this really feels like they’re retreading old ground.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
TedI thought it was pretty disappointing, but I have been disappointed by almost every comedy I’ve seen lately.[/quote]
If you haven’t seen it yet, then check out 21 Jump Street- without a doubt one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in quite a long time. Not seen Ted yet myself, but am sorry to hear it’s not as funny as I was hoping it to be…
[quote]roybot wrote:
The Bourne Legacy- not exactly a direct sequel, the story plays or more or less at the same time as The Bourne Ultimatum, using footage from it to show how a previously unseen character (Col. Eric Byer, played by Ed Norton) reacts to Bourne drawing unwanted attention to his network of projects, of which Treadstone was only one.
Byer’s solution is simple: kill all operatives and scientists involved, secure all data then start again at a later date. Enter Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a graduate of Treadstone’s sibling project Outcome ( Outcome is supposed to be an upgraded version of Treadstone: while Treadstone produces ‘natty’ agents, Outcome dabbles in chromosome manipulation and some sort of virus that powers up the cognitive and physical capabilities of Outcome volunteers).
Cross is supposed to be eliminated alongside his fellow agents, but avoids death by being on a training mission in Alaska and arriving at base camp two days earlier than expected (his liason tells him he “broke the record” for completing the manouevre).
He spends the rest of the movie trying to secure a supply of the viral drug that’ll prevent him from regressing into an idiot, while avoiding pretty much everyone who tried to do Bourne in ( local cops, evil bosses and the token rival agent). During his search for Bourne movie NZT, Cross crosses paths with an Outcome Dr (Rachel Weiz) who herself had narrowly escaped the purge.
So it’s basically a sly reboot of Bourne using the same characters with different names, and the implied possibility that Bourne/ Damon may return as either ally or enemy to Cross.
It’s a decent movie in its own right, with some exciting scenes. The problem here is that Cross is hyped as a level above Bourne, but everything Cross does is just a shallow imitation of Bourne. None of the fight scenes are as brutal or gripping, none of the tactics are as smart, and the encounter with the enemy assasin, which takes in a rooftop pursuit and a bike chase, is pretty eventless and since there are similar set pieces in previous movies, this really feels like they’re retreading old ground.
[/quote]
So you are saying its a rental?
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The Bourne Legacy- not exactly a direct sequel, the story plays or more or less at the same time as The Bourne Ultimatum, using footage from it to show how a previously unseen character (Col. Eric Byer, played by Ed Norton) reacts to Bourne drawing unwanted attention to his network of projects, of which Treadstone was only one.
Byer’s solution is simple: kill all operatives and scientists involved, secure all data then start again at a later date. Enter Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a graduate of Treadstone’s sibling project Outcome ( Outcome is supposed to be an upgraded version of Treadstone: while Treadstone produces ‘natty’ agents, Outcome dabbles in chromosome manipulation and some sort of virus that powers up the cognitive and physical capabilities of Outcome volunteers).
Cross is supposed to be eliminated alongside his fellow agents, but avoids death by being on a training mission in Alaska and arriving at base camp two days earlier than expected (his liason tells him he “broke the record” for completing the manouevre).
He spends the rest of the movie trying to secure a supply of the viral drug that’ll prevent him from regressing into an idiot, while avoiding pretty much everyone who tried to do Bourne in ( local cops, evil bosses and the token rival agent). During his search for Bourne movie NZT, Cross crosses paths with an Outcome Dr (Rachel Weiz) who herself had narrowly escaped the purge.
So it’s basically a sly reboot of Bourne using the same characters with different names, and the implied possibility that Bourne/ Damon may return as either ally or enemy to Cross.
It’s a decent movie in its own right, with some exciting scenes. The problem here is that Cross is hyped as a level above Bourne, but everything Cross does is just a shallow imitation of Bourne. None of the fight scenes are as brutal or gripping, none of the tactics are as smart, and the encounter with the enemy assasin, which takes in a rooftop pursuit and a bike chase, is pretty eventless and since there are similar set pieces in previous movies, this really feels like they’re retreading old ground.
[/quote]
So you are saying its a rental?[/quote]
Pretty much. The virus-taken-in-pill-form was hard to swallow and it only really exists as a way to unite the two leads (he needs her to give him the source virus so he can transition off and keep his abilities). Bringing the two together is just to set up a similar dynamic that we saw in the first movie between Bourne and Marie…except this takes up most of the running time getting there.
I read in an interview that they were desperately trying to come up with a way to keep the franchise going. The way they talked about it you’d swear it was something fresh, but it isn’t. It’s just another agent following in Bourne’s footsteps and suppposedly with higher stakes.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing new to see, and Renner doesn’t measure up to Damon (it’s not the acting, so it must be Damon’s aptitude in the fight scenes). In fact, the one thing that would let Legacy become a truly great movie is a dose of Bourne’s amnesia.
You need to forget the previous three movies to enjoy it, but it just won’t let you. If they expect this to be a second trilogy, they’d better make Damon an offer he can’t refuse.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The Bourne Legacy- not exactly a direct sequel, the story plays or more or less at the same time as The Bourne Ultimatum, using footage from it to show how a previously unseen character (Col. Eric Byer, played by Ed Norton) reacts to Bourne drawing unwanted attention to his network of projects, of which Treadstone was only one.
Byer’s solution is simple: kill all operatives and scientists involved, secure all data then start again at a later date. Enter Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a graduate of Treadstone’s sibling project Outcome ( Outcome is supposed to be an upgraded version of Treadstone: while Treadstone produces ‘natty’ agents, Outcome dabbles in chromosome manipulation and some sort of virus that powers up the cognitive and physical capabilities of Outcome volunteers).
Cross is supposed to be eliminated alongside his fellow agents, but avoids death by being on a training mission in Alaska and arriving at base camp two days earlier than expected (his liason tells him he “broke the record” for completing the manouevre).
He spends the rest of the movie trying to secure a supply of the viral drug that’ll prevent him from regressing into an idiot, while avoiding pretty much everyone who tried to do Bourne in ( local cops, evil bosses and the token rival agent). During his search for Bourne movie NZT, Cross crosses paths with an Outcome Dr (Rachel Weiz) who herself had narrowly escaped the purge.
So it’s basically a sly reboot of Bourne using the same characters with different names, and the implied possibility that Bourne/ Damon may return as either ally or enemy to Cross.
It’s a decent movie in its own right, with some exciting scenes. The problem here is that Cross is hyped as a level above Bourne, but everything Cross does is just a shallow imitation of Bourne. None of the fight scenes are as brutal or gripping, none of the tactics are as smart, and the encounter with the enemy assasin, which takes in a rooftop pursuit and a bike chase, is pretty eventless and since there are similar set pieces in previous movies, this really feels like they’re retreading old ground.
[/quote]
So you are saying its a rental?[/quote]
Pretty much. The virus-taken-in-pill-form was hard to swallow and it only really exists as a way to unite the two leads (he needs her to give him the source virus so he can transition off and keep his abilities). Bringing the two together is just to set up a similar dynamic that we saw in the first movie between Bourne and Marie…except this takes up most of the running time getting there.
I read in an interview that they were desperately trying to come up with a way to keep the franchise going. The way they talked about it you’d swear it was something fresh, but it isn’t. It’s just another agent following in Bourne’s footsteps and suppposedly with higher stakes.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing new to see, and Renner doesn’t measure up to Damon (it’s not the acting, so it must be Damon’s aptitude in the fight scenes). In fact, the one thing that would let Legacy become a truly great movie is a dose of Bourne’s amnesia.
You need to forget the previous three movies to enjoy it, but it just won’t let you. If they expect this to be a second trilogy, they’d better make Damon an offer he can’t refuse. [/quote]
Thanks Roy, kind of what I figured from the trailer, but you never know.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The Bourne Legacy- not exactly a direct sequel, the story plays or more or less at the same time as The Bourne Ultimatum, using footage from it to show how a previously unseen character (Col. Eric Byer, played by Ed Norton) reacts to Bourne drawing unwanted attention to his network of projects, of which Treadstone was only one.
Byer’s solution is simple: kill all operatives and scientists involved, secure all data then start again at a later date. Enter Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a graduate of Treadstone’s sibling project Outcome ( Outcome is supposed to be an upgraded version of Treadstone: while Treadstone produces ‘natty’ agents, Outcome dabbles in chromosome manipulation and some sort of virus that powers up the cognitive and physical capabilities of Outcome volunteers).
Cross is supposed to be eliminated alongside his fellow agents, but avoids death by being on a training mission in Alaska and arriving at base camp two days earlier than expected (his liason tells him he “broke the record” for completing the manouevre).
He spends the rest of the movie trying to secure a supply of the viral drug that’ll prevent him from regressing into an idiot, while avoiding pretty much everyone who tried to do Bourne in ( local cops, evil bosses and the token rival agent). During his search for Bourne movie NZT, Cross crosses paths with an Outcome Dr (Rachel Weiz) who herself had narrowly escaped the purge.
So it’s basically a sly reboot of Bourne using the same characters with different names, and the implied possibility that Bourne/ Damon may return as either ally or enemy to Cross.
It’s a decent movie in its own right, with some exciting scenes. The problem here is that Cross is hyped as a level above Bourne, but everything Cross does is just a shallow imitation of Bourne. None of the fight scenes are as brutal or gripping, none of the tactics are as smart, and the encounter with the enemy assasin, which takes in a rooftop pursuit and a bike chase, is pretty eventless and since there are similar set pieces in previous movies, this really feels like they’re retreading old ground.
[/quote]
So you are saying its a rental?[/quote]
Pretty much. The virus-taken-in-pill-form was hard to swallow and it only really exists as a way to unite the two leads (he needs her to give him the source virus so he can transition off and keep his abilities). Bringing the two together is just to set up a similar dynamic that we saw in the first movie between Bourne and Marie…except this takes up most of the running time getting there.
I read in an interview that they were desperately trying to come up with a way to keep the franchise going. The way they talked about it you’d swear it was something fresh, but it isn’t. It’s just another agent following in Bourne’s footsteps and suppposedly with higher stakes.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing new to see, and Renner doesn’t measure up to Damon (it’s not the acting, so it must be Damon’s aptitude in the fight scenes). In fact, the one thing that would let Legacy become a truly great movie is a dose of Bourne’s amnesia.
You need to forget the previous three movies to enjoy it, but it just won’t let you. If they expect this to be a second trilogy, they’d better make Damon an offer he can’t refuse. [/quote]
Thanks Roy, kind of what I figured from the trailer, but you never know. [/quote]
We saw this over the weekend.
It was ok. It just felt like a watered down version of the other movies.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The Bourne Legacy- not exactly a direct sequel, the story plays or more or less at the same time as The Bourne Ultimatum, using footage from it to show how a previously unseen character (Col. Eric Byer, played by Ed Norton) reacts to Bourne drawing unwanted attention to his network of projects, of which Treadstone was only one.
Byer’s solution is simple: kill all operatives and scientists involved, secure all data then start again at a later date. Enter Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a graduate of Treadstone’s sibling project Outcome ( Outcome is supposed to be an upgraded version of Treadstone: while Treadstone produces ‘natty’ agents, Outcome dabbles in chromosome manipulation and some sort of virus that powers up the cognitive and physical capabilities of Outcome volunteers).
Cross is supposed to be eliminated alongside his fellow agents, but avoids death by being on a training mission in Alaska and arriving at base camp two days earlier than expected (his liason tells him he “broke the record” for completing the manouevre).
He spends the rest of the movie trying to secure a supply of the viral drug that’ll prevent him from regressing into an idiot, while avoiding pretty much everyone who tried to do Bourne in ( local cops, evil bosses and the token rival agent). During his search for Bourne movie NZT, Cross crosses paths with an Outcome Dr (Rachel Weiz) who herself had narrowly escaped the purge.
So it’s basically a sly reboot of Bourne using the same characters with different names, and the implied possibility that Bourne/ Damon may return as either ally or enemy to Cross.
It’s a decent movie in its own right, with some exciting scenes. The problem here is that Cross is hyped as a level above Bourne, but everything Cross does is just a shallow imitation of Bourne. None of the fight scenes are as brutal or gripping, none of the tactics are as smart, and the encounter with the enemy assasin, which takes in a rooftop pursuit and a bike chase, is pretty eventless and since there are similar set pieces in previous movies, this really feels like they’re retreading old ground.
[/quote]
So you are saying its a rental?[/quote]
Pretty much. The virus-taken-in-pill-form was hard to swallow and it only really exists as a way to unite the two leads (he needs her to give him the source virus so he can transition off and keep his abilities). Bringing the two together is just to set up a similar dynamic that we saw in the first movie between Bourne and Marie…except this takes up most of the running time getting there.
I read in an interview that they were desperately trying to come up with a way to keep the franchise going. The way they talked about it you’d swear it was something fresh, but it isn’t. It’s just another agent following in Bourne’s footsteps and suppposedly with higher stakes.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing new to see, and Renner doesn’t measure up to Damon (it’s not the acting, so it must be Damon’s aptitude in the fight scenes). In fact, the one thing that would let Legacy become a truly great movie is a dose of Bourne’s amnesia.
You need to forget the previous three movies to enjoy it, but it just won’t let you. If they expect this to be a second trilogy, they’d better make Damon an offer he can’t refuse. [/quote]
Thanks Roy, kind of what I figured from the trailer, but you never know. [/quote]
We saw this over the weekend.
It was ok. It just felt like a watered down version of the other movies.[/quote]
Yeah. Apparently ticket sales have dropped 55% in the past week so most people who’ve seen it felt that way.
Good summary of BOURNE LEGACY roybot. Pretty predictable, and the best bits were rehashes of the previous flicks - just not as good.
*** SPOILER ***
I thought the ending was pretty sudden too - almost like the writer ran out of material. Expected chase scene, then BANG they’re on a boat heading out into the ocean.