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Oh I have no doubt about that, but some part of my completionist brain just wants it for the sake of symmetry
obviously the best scene is still the part when Green Goblin throws a bomb that turns like five dudes into skeletons but equally impressive is that it fits as much story as it does into two hours
I’m so much more forgiving of the idiots in Covenant because they’re just fuckin’ dudes and ladies. They’re not soldiers or scientists or people interested in research or answering the big questions of humanity, they just wanna set up a fuckin’ religious space commune and farm stuff
Meanwhile the Prometheus crew are all like biologists and geologists and anthropologists, none of whom were told why they were going to space until they arrived at their destination, and then none of them shows a single shred of interest in what this alien world has to offer their specific field! Except for like the main lead and her boyfriend but even her boyfriend gets pissy when, even though he finds literal evidence of his long held belief in ancient aliens, he’s still depressed because they’re all dead and he can’t personally speak to one!
Oh, and then the guy who maps the alien stronghold, the guy who made the map, the guy with the map? He gets lost!!
Oh and then the other guy, the biologist? Sees an alien corpse, a literal preserved alien body, the ultimate discovery for someone in his line of work, and he immediately gets scared and leaves!! And then later he sees a live alien, a freaky one that unfolds like a venomous cobra, and he’s like “”oooo you’re cute lemme touch you”!!!
Prometheus is a movie that carries itself like it’s smart and portentous but despite every amazing piece of production design and every interesting thematic connection, it’s all held together by the dumbest characterization and the most hamfisted, unnatural dialogue and I hate hate hate it
I don’t think I’ve been more disappointed by a movie in my life, cuz by god those first trailers looked incredible
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Covenant still rules, by the way, I like it a little more every time I watch it and it is tragic we won’t get to see Fassbender as that character again
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They can even become senators and cabinet members!
It makes for unsympathetic and frustrating movie characters tho that’s the thing
I definitely don’t think covenant is good by any stretch, but it has two action sequences with a xenomoprh that are actually decent so I appreciate those crumbs of value
The sound, music and visuals are great in both, but yeah my god the scripts and dialogue are terrible
These aren’t real doctors, they’re movie doctors, furthermore they’re science fiction movie doctors
I want different things from my science fiction movie doctors
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Did raise an eyebrow when the Asian superheroes
In a movie that' mostly good about its representative agenda it felt a little like harkening back to when every Asian heroine had a purple streak in their hair
I genuinely found that super creepy. Despite being cg it was a decent collection of creepy imagery. But would’ve been so much better with some practical work
It’s why I actually found the Engineers to be the most convincing visual and I really dug their vibe. The concept of them and their dismissal of the humans was genuinely cool. I love how it’s just like “ugh vermin” and wrecks them all. Unfortunately in covenant they changed the look of the engineers and they weren’t as unnerving
I fucking love this part and it’s part of why I think the movie’s good
We’ve seen so many fucking alien movies by now that they’re not actually scary anymore, they’re like Draculas or whatever, we know all their moves and all their lore so there’s nothing unknown anymore
Covenant makes them scary again by just changing their rules and behaviors a little bit and it’s genuinely freaky! When that one weird, gangly, pale, soft-shelled lookin alien just stands up and breathes in front of David and it has no visible eyes or face but a bunch of blood around a barely visible mouth… man that shit legit unnerved me!
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Ooooh that’s another good one, solid creature feature with good kills
Admittedly it’s been a while since I saw it but I also felt like Life’s scientists were at least stoked to find an alien! Like their reactions to it made sense and made the whole turn more tragic when it started doing space murders
And y’know all these movies are kind of anti-science at the end of the day, but Life’s whole moral center is basically “don’t go looking for shit, don’t go caring about shit, don’t go being curious about shit, shit will kill you you dumb fuck”
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So your argument is that the
This seems... incredibly unfounded and indefensible.
My argument is that the people making the movie know you've seen a movie before and so the reveal is a confirmation of what you already knew and is only a "twist" to the main character at the end
They could have taken the time to show the key detail in full and confirm it earlier, but why bother when you've seen a movie before
It's also hardly a smash cut, it's a full-on victory lap for the character involved, it's doesn't end like the friggin' Prestige or anything
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Satans..... hints.....
My favorite documentary is Dr. Giggles
Thoughts? Ehh... That wasn't the best James Bond film.
But it's a movie I prefer to occasionally remember, than to actually rewatch.
Scenes/sequences just go on and on, and I start checking out.
I honestly think all of the Bond films are so mediocre that there is no best Bond film. But gun to head if I had to pick it'd probably be Skyfall just by process of elimination.
Goldfinger is good! It still holds up!
Just some of these early ones have a very confusing plot that isn't very dynamic.
Personally holding out for Ghostbusters: Afterlife or the Belle anime movie, whichever comes first. Keeping my fingers crossed but there is a lot of time between now and mid-November for more of *all of this* to go south.
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I'm sure most people have seen Williams in The Wire and such, but please check.him out in Hap and Leonard, a weird Southern noir series with all three seasons on Netflix.
It's a neo-noir starring Michael Greyeyes, I've heard exclusively incredible things. My head's not quite in the right place for neo-noir, but I'm really looking forward to it when I can get my head right.
But as people are becoming aware of what an absolute powerhouse Michael Greyeyes is, I figured I should put up the proverbial signal flare
Simu Liu is out there living his best life and I'm here for it.
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