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Is the new 'Alien' film . . .

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Posted on August 3, 2024 at 16:46:25
Billy Wonka
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 a return to grabbing box office receipts and the death of the origin films? I am a big fan of 'Prometheus' and 'Covenant' and wanted to see the story continue. Granted the origin films must have a poor ROI but I think they were more stimulating than the acid-dripping Cuisinarts.

 

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Somehow missed "Covenant" until recently and..., posted on August 4, 2024 at 15:00:54
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 really have to wonder how Scott can keep telling the same
fucking story over and over again?

I enjoyed "Covenant" a bit more than "Prometheus" so
there may be hope that a relatively new spin might pop
out of Scott's moribund imagination and have more impact
than the wee baby alien popping out does at this point in
a LONG line of Aliens.


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RE: Is the new 'Alien' film . . . , posted on August 5, 2024 at 08:13:08
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 My guess it is a B grade summer flick. Lots of tension and blood and guts.


 

I was deeply disappointed in Covenant, posted on August 8, 2024 at 07:36:32
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 We left off at the end of Prometheus with two key characters--one human and one android--going off to find answers to important questions that supersede the genre. I liked how Prometheus set that up. I liked the symbolism of the abortion scene and how they flipped the script in sci fi by casting the scientists as retards. Then with Covenant we're back to a basic idiotic monster movie and the key character who survived Prometheus was nowhere to be seen. Super annoying.

But that's been a problem with Ridley Scott's career. He'll make a fantastic movie, then you go see his next one and it sucks. He would be among my fave directors if he had consistency.

 

Watched the Romulus trailer... just more of the SOS from the looks of it..., posted on August 8, 2024 at 22:18:23
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 The story and monsters haven't evolved nearly as much as the tech to portray such has.


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RE: I was deeply disappointed in Covenant, posted on August 10, 2024 at 12:45:27
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 I thought Prometheus was not very good and that it and Covenant were essentially money grabs.

 

Scott is about 85 so he had better . . . , posted on August 11, 2024 at 02:05:43
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 grab a pogo stick and head on back to the studio lot.

I think both Prometheus and Covenant wind up the imagination at the cost of big budgets and fewer ticket sales. And, the plot has gotten more complex with all the characters and aliens to juggle.

 

Well, Gladiator Dos is out this year so it seems he's now a committed RRR convert..., posted on August 11, 2024 at 21:51:31
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 Recycle, Reuse, Rerun.

He has NO use for reduce.



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SOS + sneaky wokeness = Romulus, posted on August 17, 2024 at 14:28:19
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 SOS with a young post-pubescent cast. The cute girl from 'Civil War' and 'Priscilla' was the female protagonist. I didn't expect much and I wasn't let down.

This might be the last one and maybe it should be. Forty-four years of the big bug is enough. I long for the engineers.

 

Alien 90210, posted on August 20, 2024 at 10:48:34
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I have zero interest in this.











'A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on'. -Mark Twain

 

Sneaky wokeness..., posted on August 21, 2024 at 13:30:44
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 That's the WORSE type of that shit!

As far as Alien #____ , in space no one can hear you scream "STOP ALREADY!!!!

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

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