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| Jesus Phish |
 Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:02 pm |
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Eliminator wrote: John Kimble wrote: I'm still undecided about Prometheus, which is hardly a ringing endorsement in itself. However, what has genuinely bugged me about this film is Guy Pearce's fucking godawful old man make-up. I know this seems like a small matter but come one...the makers have pulled out all the stops where design and effects are concerned, money is hardly an issue...and then they dress a fella in the kind of half-arsed prosthetics last seen on that awful Jason Byrne show, Anonymous. Why, just why?
I enjoyed it but there were things in it that seemed a bit unbelievable -
No doubt it was quite an important mission discovering who our makers were, and who do they send up there? A ragtag bunch from the projects or somewhere, hardly professionals.
When the 2 lads get lost in the structure, how did they get lost? They have radios do they not? Then the captain just casually lets them stay in there and "sit it out" ?
When they first fly down to the planet, they were hardly careful about it, then at the first sight of something they land straight away, not even a quick flyover to see what else there is. Then without maybe surveying the area from the safety of the Prometheus they just bomb out on an RV and 2 jeeps as if its Jurassic Park: the lost world.
Some how the 2 lads that got lost and killed were reanimated and it turned into 28 days later for a bit.
Then, when the main character knocks the 2 crew members out that were about to operate on her she legs it to a chamber and the other 2 have just given up on chasing her. All is well though and she removes the octopus thing from her... stumbles into a room and sees David is all like "scraic mate?" , then spots Guy Pearce in old man gear. How the fuck has no one noticed that room before??
Jaysis! Apart from those bits it was pretty good.
Most of the team where scientists of some description if I remember right. The lads who got lost did so because they just wandered off, then they were left there because of the massive storm that made it impassible.
I enjoyed the movie but I'll admit it wasn't flawless. They shouldn't have bothered with Guy Pierce and just used an actual old actor.
*Spoiler starts*
Near the end where the ship has crashed and is rolling slowly towards the two survivors all I could think was "run sideways you dumb fucks". It's not like Indiana Jones where he's in a single corridor with a boulder, no, theyre being chased by a giant circle in a massive open area and only last minute do either of them decide "I'll dive out of the way by going to the side!"
*Spoiler ends* |
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| PatrickReborn |
| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:25 pm |
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| Warfare Noise |
| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:15 am |
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Magnolia
The Life Aquatic
I ♥ Huckabees
All fucking excellent! |
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| Eliminator |
| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:00 pm |
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PatrickReborn wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0
Yeah it seemed there were alot of significant things that happened in the film that didn't receive any reactions from the characters at all. Couldn't understand the fish in the eye now that yer man mentioned it. |
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| Blizzard Beast |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:33 am |
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| Saw Raid redemption recently,great flick,non stop action and definitely worth watching if you like guns and martial arts. |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:29 am |
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| skadk666 |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:44 am |
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Good read that. I loved the film and that has deffinately put an explanation to a few things I was unsure about. |
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| Black Shepherd Carnage |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:59 pm |
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Pinhead wrote: men in black3 wasnt as bad as i thought it would be.anything with
josh brolin is watchable.
You're a shit film-maker's dream! With such high demands we shouldn't have too long to wait until 4 and 5, yay! |
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| Mazzy Maz |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:15 pm |
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PatrickReborn wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0
haha yeah, this video sums up my general feeling towards the film after having seen it twice. The laziness of the narrative was almost insulting, particularly on the second watch. All Scott's high faluting mythological references and amateur theology (puke) doen't count for shit when he couldn't be arsed tying it all together in a moderately cohesive storyline. Seems to me he had all these images and scenes in his head which he then, inconveniently, had to string together in a piecemeal fashion as an afterthought. Not a cohesive work at all in my opinion. |
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| Eliminator |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:23 pm |
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| Yeah the explanation of religious and mythological symbolism in the film makes me care less about the film it seems. |
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| Pinhead |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:58 pm |
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Black Shepherd Carnage wrote: Pinhead wrote: men in black3 wasnt as bad as i thought it would be.anything with
josh brolin is watchable.
You're a shit film-maker's dream! With such high demands we shouldn't have too long to wait until 4 and 5, yay!
Good one.
I had to take my little brother to see it, he enjoyed it anrd thats all that matters really. |
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| ResidentOfBok |
| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:58 pm |
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I watched 'A Serious Man' in a hungover daze yesterday.
Enjoyable enough if very dark (as usual from the Cohen bros). I found the Bar Mitzvah scene hilarious. |
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| BoobC |
| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:02 pm |
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ResidentOfBok wrote: I found the Bar Mitzvah scene hilarious.
 it's great. |
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| i am 138 |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:19 pm |
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| Was walking down South Richmond st last week and noticed a load of trucks,cameras and a movie set outside the old gigs place, just as I walk past who walks out only Andre3000 of Outkast dressed in full Jimi Hendrix costume, totally looking the whole part. I heard theyre filming the whole movie here as apparently Dublin today resembles 60s london more than london does. |
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| BobbyTheBuzz |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:47 pm |
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| They filmed a full scene outside my office all day yesterday up at fitzwillam square....cool to see alright... |
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