Movies
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"he's a friend from work"
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This looks bloody awesome
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You're damn right!
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@trail:
You're damn right!
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Another Alien: Covenant prologue for @Filthy25ozJunkie.
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Mondays are the cheap day at the local arthouse cinema, and so I caught two films today.
The first was Colossal, whose plot is that a woman whose life is really not together ends up controlling a Kaiju style giant monster rampaging in Seoul.
The second was Free Fire, which doesn't really have a plot. Instead, it's about an arms deal in 1970s Boston that quickly degenerates into a gunfight for the rest of the film. One guy in the audience described it as the first movie of the Trump era!
I enjoyed both films, though I thought that Free Fire was better.
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Another Alien: Covenant prologue for @Filthy25ozJunkie.
i'm so looking forward to this. the reception so far seems positive, so at least I know it'll be better than Prometheus
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I really liked Arrival and Sicario, which were the director Denis Villeneuve's last two films, so I'm reasonably hopeful.
My concern is that it's going to be a retread of the first film. Unless it says something new, it doesn't seem necessary. The original doesn't feel as though it needs a sequel.
Still, I will go to see it, and am looking forward to it.
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Interesting (and long) article on the original Blade Runner.
https://cinephiliabeyond.org/blade-runner-a-game-changing-science-fiction-classic/
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I really liked Arrival and Sicario, which were the director Denis Villeneuve's last two films, so I'm reasonably hopeful.
My concern is that it's going to be a retread of the first film. Unless it says something new, it doesn't seem necessary. The original doesn't feel as though it needs a sequel.
Still, I will go to see it, and am looking forward to it.
I liked Arrival and Sicario as well, so I think the new Blade Runner is in good hands with Denis Villeneuve.
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I went to see Alien: Covenant last week. It's nothing like this.
The film feels like a mashup of the original Alien series and Prometheus. I enjoyed it, but the basic plot of people arriving at a distant planet, then getting dismembered by Xenomorphs feels played out.
Ridley Scott has spoken of doing two more films, and the next is already written. The end of Alien: Covenant sets up what could be an interesting sequel, but I'm not going to spoil things here.
Michael Fassbender's David is still the most interesting character, though he does look very like Severus Snape when he shows up. @trail and arrow showed me this a while back, which stops me from taking either seriously as a result.
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How scary are those Japanese Marines appearing out of the mist in the creek?
Re-visited THE THIN RED LINE yesterday. It's af if the actors had a generic warmovie in mind, and the director an artsy, anti-war flick…
It's a great film though, especially if you like Nolte grunting, shouting and spitting (who doesn't?)...
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Watched Dr. Strange last night. Quirky for a Marvel movie and a pretty enjoyable way to pass two hours.
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Wonder Woman is magnificent, Gal Gadot is perhaps the most perfectly cast super hero ever on screen (apart from Christopher Reeve).
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