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Post by Reviewer on Aug 16, 2024 21:22:52 GMT
That and being heavily promoted as an Alien film by the Alien series creator, but then wasn’t that, didn’t help.
Apart from the stupid and it being a bit shit and forget what its own plot is supposed to be, it’s something.
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Post by Reviewer on Aug 16, 2024 21:24:45 GMT
At this point there must be equal the amount of people crying out for nostalgia and easter eggs as there are decrying the use of nostalgia and easter eggs. Those that love nostalgia are going to love the AI generated films in a few years.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 16, 2024 21:25:21 GMT
At this point there must be equal the amount of people crying out for nostalgia and easter eggs as there are decrying the use of nostalgia and easter eggs. Those that love nostalgia are going to love the AI generated films in a few years. I think I've already seen a couple.
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Post by rawshark on Aug 16, 2024 21:30:42 GMT
Wasn’t there an Alien vs Superman comic run many years back?
Spoiler: Superman won. Probably.
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 16, 2024 21:54:52 GMT
I think Prometheus was the most different out of all of them, which is why a lot of people don't like it. It doesn't have an a xenomorph until practically the last scene. You think? I just thought it was because it took the trope of people making stupid decisions but rose it to infuriating levels. The lack of a xenomorph I think was the least of its issues. That and some real unsympathetic characters. Peter Weyland, a man of practically infinite wealth and extremely intelligent, hires the best of the best of Earth to seek out something he's been looking for for decades, places himself at risk doing it and ends up with a spaceship full of people from Idiocracy.
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 16, 2024 22:00:45 GMT
Wasn’t there an Alien vs Superman comic run many years back? Spoiler: Superman won. Probably. One of the best geeky bits from Watch_Dogs 2 discusses the Alien (and Predator) crossovers.
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Post by rawshark on Aug 16, 2024 22:20:51 GMT
Wasn’t there an Alien vs Superman comic run many years back? Spoiler: Superman won. Probably. One of the best geeky bits from Watch_Dogs 2 discusses the Alien (and Predator) crossovers.
Thanks for sharing that. Never played either of the Watch Dog games but that was fun.
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Post by rawshark on Aug 16, 2024 22:30:43 GMT
My Prometheus story is that I saw it twice at the cinema in IMAX 3D, when I didn’t even want to.
First time, my flatmates asked if I wanted to go and I asked my gf at the time if she wanted to come along. She took me asking her to come as an indication I would pay for her ticket. You’ve got to appreciate I was barely earning above minimum wage at the time and an IMAX 3D ticket was a lot for me. Big argument. Not fun.
The next day mum called and asked if I wanted to see the film with the other members of my family. Didn’t have the heart to tell her I’d already seen it and didn’t really like it that much, so second viewing. Any chance of scrounging the ticket off parents is screwed when they suggest IMAX 3D with it’s expensive arsed tickets and glasses that straddle my face like a sweaty gnome…
Seriously, fuck Prometheus.
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Post by beastmaster on Aug 16, 2024 22:38:23 GMT
Hi there. Saw Alien: Romulus today. Will probably review it sometime soon. Just want to shout out to whoever it was wearing the Eurogamer T-Shirt, sitting on the lobby floor at the 5:15 showing at the IMAX Printworks. Would have said hi but didn’t know if it’s someone here on the forum. Plus, busy getting popcorn etc.
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Post by oldschoolsavant on Aug 16, 2024 22:51:29 GMT
At this point there must be equal the amount of people crying out for nostalgia and easter eggs as there are decrying the use of nostalgia and easter eggs. Those that love nostalgia are going to love the AI generated films in a few years. After just finishing Romulus, it felt like the poster child for an AI generated film tbh, except it got confused replacing the phallic emphasis with horror vag. REFERENCES from the first few minutes, REFERENCES peppered throughout, REFERENCES just for the eye rolling sake of it, and then the remix finale... And yet between the 1-1:20 hour mark, I was actually getting into it. Not too bad, I thought. A few original ideas despite the predictable path, and tying together the old and new. Then that line. Then taking a previous finale, splicing it with bits of the other films, and creating an abomination of REFERENCES. With just a pinch of some Ghostbusters. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Make a completely different film, advertise it through good marketing without saying why, throw in some subtle hints not references, and reveal towards a satisfyingly chaotic end. Or just stop. Either would be good.
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Post by cubby on Aug 16, 2024 22:56:32 GMT
Hi there. Saw Alien: Romulus today. Will probably review it sometime soon. Just want to shout out to whoever it was wearing the Eurogamer T-Shirt, sitting on the lobby floor at the 5:15 showing at the IMAX Printworks. Would have said hi but didn’t know if it’s someone here on the forum. Plus, busy getting popcorn etc. That was probably mrtomftw
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 16, 2024 22:57:28 GMT
Hey you know what was a really bad, awful film was Withnail & I
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Post by rawshark on Aug 16, 2024 23:21:24 GMT
Yeah. Xenomorph faith films are a totally unrepresented demographic. And I have a pitch raring to go…
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Post by Tomo on Aug 17, 2024 0:06:02 GMT
Prometheus was by far the most ambitious attempt at doing something new with the Alien films. It's absolutely stacked with new ideas. But I don't think people liked the Engineers, black goo and lack of xenos. All of the films have people making daft decisions, they are just a particularly moronic breed of special cases in Prometheus.
Edit – oops, page hadn't refreshed. Anyway, to do with comments above.
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Post by elstoof on Aug 17, 2024 5:58:19 GMT
A Family Affair, Zac Efron is looking more like David Hasselhoff with every passing day
6/10
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Post by simple on Aug 17, 2024 7:28:47 GMT
Alien Covenant (film4)
The more Alien-y stuff is promising, the Prometheus stuff I still didn’t get on with. Biggest new observation was how ropey and lightweight all the cgi looks now.
Life (film4)
Its fine, pretty unoriginal obviously. Does some Alien stuff better than some Alien films and its pace never really lets up.
The Kid Who Would Be King (disney+)
I assume the pitch was “Harry Potter but he’s King Arthur”, big parts of the execution feel almost more like a CBBC live action show just with a huge budget. Especially anything to do with the school or young Merlin. It feels like it’s designed to be a rainy Sunday/Bank Holiday afternoon movie and it would fit that bill pretty perfectly.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Aug 17, 2024 8:07:16 GMT
Alien: Romulus It was good! Not as good as the first couple of Alien movies. Not as good as Prometheus either (but I seem to like Prometheus more than most people, so make of that what you will) But I was thoroughly entertained all the same. Good scares, some truly disgusting death scenes, and a few callbacks mostly without becoming gratuitous (though I did roll my eyes at that line. 7.5/10
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Post by rawshark on Aug 17, 2024 8:28:56 GMT
A Family Affair, Zac Efron is looking more like David Hasselhoff with every passing day 6/10 Ha, I’m part way through watching Iron Claw (Mrs Shark struggles to watch anything longer than an hour) and was thinking he looks a bit Lou Ferrigno, but The Hoff might be more accurate.
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Aug 17, 2024 16:56:08 GMT
Prometheus was by far the most ambitious attempt at doing something new with the Alien films. It's absolutely stacked with new ideas. But I don't think people liked the Engineers, black goo and lack of xenos. All of the films have people making daft decisions, they are just a particularly moronic breed of special cases in Prometheus.Edit – oops, page hadn't refreshed. Anyway, to do with comments above. Very much so. Even Alien - i.e. one of the greatest films ever made - has smart people making bad decisions. It's baked into the genre, that is, the horror strand. They're just particularly dumb in Prometheus, which is otherwise nowhere near as bad as some of you folk are making it out to be. But you have Kermode on your side, he hates what I enjoy about it i.e. the silly existential questions, the Engineers and so on. On to Romulus: 7/10. It didn't add anything to the universe, not that it's obliged to. It did, though, largely entertain across most of its running time. Especially the last 15 minutes, holy shit, I was not expecting a spindly uncanny valley mindfuck of a final boss. Shame they didn't do anything more interesting with it.
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Post by apollo on Aug 17, 2024 17:46:17 GMT
Prometheus had people making really dumb decisions that it becomes hard to take, a character can make a bad decision but this film had them doing every part of the film.
Watched RLM review of new Alien film, they compared it to fan film rather than AI made, think I will wait till the local cinema puts it on the normal screen as 99% of their shows are imax screens and cost a lot more
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 17, 2024 18:25:48 GMT
Forgot one of my complaints about Alien: Romulus... It's a film set in the future and Weyland-Yutani is an Anglo-Japanese company, why the fuck are they using Fahrenheit on their science station?! Fucking took me right out of it.
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Post by Tomo on Aug 17, 2024 21:36:39 GMT
Wow. Noticing the big details
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Post by Nanocrystal on Aug 17, 2024 21:38:59 GMT
It should of course have been Indigo Prophecy.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Aug 18, 2024 8:54:49 GMT
Abiding Nowhere
A Taiwanese slow cinema thing, with no narrative and basically no dialogue. Just a series of images of various scenes in cities and in nature, mostly occupied by a monk doing walking meditation.
It's hard to really rate this kind of thing, it's like giving a score to a nice view. It's not my favourite modern slow cinema (that goes to Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell from last year), but even so it's a unique experience that I greatly value. Not for everyone, though.
Very very slow walk/10
Black Dog
A Chinese drama about a brooding ex-convict who returns to a dump of a hometown on the edge of the Gobi Desert. There are many, many stray dogs around, and he's hired as part of a team to catch them. He develops a strong connection with one of them, and there, that's your movie.
This dog is amazing, it won the Cannes award for Best Dog, and thoroughly deserves it. The human characters are a bit less interesting, and the plot gets a bit treacley towards the end, but man... what a good dog.
8.5/10
Rumours
A Canadian black comedy about the leaders of the G7 (including Cate Blanchett as the German PM and Charles Dance as the US President) at a summit. Then after some kind of global incident, they get lost in spooky woods, inhabited by masturbating bog zombies and a giant brain.
It was funny, but not nearly as funny as that premise makes it sound. It's obviously meant to be satire, but the satirical beats are all kind of obvious (these world leaders are idiots haha, they are spending their time writing frameworks instead of actually taking action haha), and doesn't offer any kind of insight beyond "lol this is a bit fucked up, isn't it". And it loses the plot in the last half, like they had a good idea for a short film and had to stretch it out to feature length.
Anyway, there were some funny bits, but overall it wasn't great. Better than Don't Look Up though.
6/10
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Post by rawshark on Aug 18, 2024 13:44:43 GMT
The Iron Claw
So I went into this knowing a fair bit about the real Von Erich story, so I can say it’s broadly accurate - with some artistic license taken - and if you can get past the fact that teeny tiny Jeremy Allen White is playing the 6ft3 Kerry Von Erich, they’ve done a great job matching the real people. Also the wrestling scenes are pretty well done, which is a pretty rare thing in film and TV ( the ones in GLOW were painful to watch). I watched with Mrs Shark, who knew nothing about the true story and she found it compelling family drama.
I feel like the story is a little truncated though. There’s a whole other brother that has been cut from the story, and while it spends a lot of time on the tragedy of the family, you never really get to see the family celebrated. They feel like local celebrities instead of heroes in their field - it comes precariously close to just being misery porn.
But that being said the themes of toxic masculinity fit well and I have to admit the room got a bit dusty at the end. It’s a reserved film, maybe too reserved, but so long as you’re not looking for anything too heartwarming you might appreciate this.
7/10
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Post by Chopsen on Aug 18, 2024 14:30:52 GMT
There's a Best Dog category at Cannes?
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Post by MegaChad Sigma. on Aug 18, 2024 14:31:48 GMT
Arcadian
A low budget apocalypse horror with a very small cast, set in a remote rural farmhouse. Nic Cage in s in it for about 30 mins. Nothing special but not awful.
Jericho Ridge.
Police Station siege isnt a new idea by any stretch but this is probably the best one I've seen. It's very good and the lead actress is excellent.
Both on Sky.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Aug 18, 2024 14:37:57 GMT
Those that love nostalgia are going to love the AI generated films in a few years. After just finishing Romulus, it felt like the poster child for an AI generated film tbh, except it got confused replacing the phallic emphasis with horror vag. REFERENCES from the first few minutes, REFERENCES peppered throughout, REFERENCES just for the eye rolling sake of it, and then the remix finale... And yet between the 1-1:20 hour mark, I was actually getting into it. Not too bad, I thought. A few original ideas despite the predictable path, and tying together the old and new. Then that line. Then taking a previous finale, splicing it with bits of the other films, and creating an abomination of REFERENCES. With just a pinch of some Ghostbusters. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Make a completely different film, advertise it through good marketing without saying why, throw in some subtle hints not references, and reveal towards a satisfyingly chaotic end. Or just stop. Either would be good. God, this sounds off-putting. It's like trying to watch that amazon Rings of Power show and every time you start to get into it they repurpose a line from the LotR movies and your brain gets sidetracked! At least mine does.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 18, 2024 14:48:27 GMT
Another Alien: Romulus review:
It’s exactly as you have probably heard. It’s like 9/10 until, ironically, we get to the Aliens and then it just kind of sucks. The initial style, direction and world building is fantastic and then it all just goes into the toilet and is replaced by a YouTube fan film.
It’s legitimately baffling how bad the last hour is. In an effort to speedrun through a greatest hits from the first two movies it loses all structure and completely stops making sense. And who is it for? Anyone familiar enough with the first two to pick out the references probably doesn’t need a cover version of them and to anyone unfamiliar it would seem just nonsensical.
Like I’m aware it’s a jumbled mess because of all the nonsense they are trying to cram in but if this was your first Alien movie it would probably also be your last because it’s so fucking stupid.
4/10
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Aug 18, 2024 14:51:47 GMT
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