tony de wonderful

I watched it yesterday, decided it was ok but not great, woke up decided it was garbage although good looking garbage.

specialx

Ok, what films recently have you seen that you do like?

tony de wonderful

Quite a few.

Shame
Black Swan
Sarah's key
Fast and Furious 5
Money Ball

Littleted

just watched trailer, Looks sexy

EddScott

A friend of mine elder sister went out with someone who worked on Alien3. Aparently some of the work was done not too far away from where we lived in Oxfordshire (My mothers BF was also involved in some way as he described watching the scene where they haul the EEV in before I'd seen it) anyway, the story went that my friend got hold of a copy of the pre-edited version from the sisters BF. I'd seen this full version and was surprised so much had been taken out. This was all before the internet so there was no way I could find out about the version I had seen.

What does really pi55 me off is if you ask Joss Whedon was the story for Alien: Res all original he swears that it is yet is a complete rip off of a comic story. The only big difference is Newt and Hicks not being in it. I don't get why he's never been pressed over it.

You didn't like Prometheus but liked FF5? wow.

Gear Head

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Says it all really!

CADpaul

harsh but true, the silence at the end when everyone was leaving the cinema said it all really.
it did look great, but should of been much longer to develop the characters, i didnt 'feel' for any of them!!

tony de wonderful

Yeah the characters were just dimensionless. The scripts was puffing hard to give them life but you didn't care about any of them.

tony de wonderful

FF5 does it all with a knowing wink. It was a good action film.

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waste of £8 this film

Ant

Going at 6 tonight hope its good, ignore tdw review as he thinks f&f is good

Kieran_Burns

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Mate went to see it and he was very disappointed (was meant to go myself last night but a mistake by my mate had me giving him my ticket) Film starts well, but (in his words) ends up with people being bloody stupid and attacked by a variety of ****-monsters. The first one you see looks like an upside down ***** with the bollocks forming the head. In one scene at the end, a tentacles **** monster looks like it is face raping a bloke by shoving its tentacled **** in his mouth.

Steve777

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Watched in 3D yesterday. It was ok, some good action stuff, but not a patch on Alien and Aliens

Incidently one of my favourite quotes from Aliens

Apone - All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the Corps!


and

Hudson: Hey top, what's the op?
Apone: It's a rescue mission, you'll love it. There's some juicy colonists' daughters we have to rescue from their virginity. Heh!

Torquemada

A knowing wink, right, whatever justifies it for you.

This does look like it will be a bit of an underwhelming one if expecting revelations of an H.R.Gigers style Alien/s or even anything near the graphic novels but I'll have to look at it with a bit of a stand alone film mentality from the sounds of it and see for myself.

Ant

Just come out of the cinema , I enjoyed it and ties in Very well with alien.

I'll wait a while before us nerds can discuss it because of people moaning about
Spoiling it

maz_man

Is it worth going to see as its gettin a mixed bag of reviews! Massive alien(s) fan so don't wanna be disappointed by it!

tony de wonderful

That's why it's called a prequel.

Ant

I didn't mean it like that, they don't make it glaringly obvious like bringing a child a version of ripley in.

It only became obvious at the end

tony de wonderful

It's all well and good finding a way to explain the crashed spaceship but the film itself just wasn't up to much I thought. I have a long list of geeky 'technical' moans but that is secondary to the actual story and script.

tony de wonderful

Ok I'll ask now:

We see Prometheus approaching the moon but its main engines are still pointing towards earth and firing, thus it would still be accelerating towards the moon and have no way to stop. A ship would have to point in the opposite direction at the midway point of the journey and fire to decelerate or it would maintain velocity forever.

How does Elizabeth do all the running and jumping after having just had a caesarian section which is only stapled back up?

Why does the blue man die at the beginning? I infer it was to create human life but why did he have to die?

Why is Prometheus flown in manual on the moon? It makes no sense with that level of tech to trust a human Captain.

How did the alien thingy grow in the med lab with no apparent food source?

Big 'D'

I really enjoyed this film, many others have not though, it seems that people were expecting a true alien prequel and were dissapointed as there were alot of question raisers and unanswered questions, the film was infact full of things that demand more information, but as it has turned out to be a prequel to the prequel of alien I feel we wont have to wait too long for the answers.

The crashed ship in this film is not the one they visit in Alien.

Cheers Iain

EddScott

Just got in and really enjoyed the film. It isn't the best film ever but certainly doesn't deserve some of the harsher reviews. It's an excellent sci if film. I would say its Alien related rather than an Alien film. Ridley Scott always said the story was to be told of the navigator. I do think there will be another film but might be a while off as Scott I think has Blade Runner and Forever War to make first. Guess it will depend on how well Prometheus fairs.

Edit - quite a bit of talk on the net that part 2 may have already been shot. Just needs putting together. Shooting both at the same time saves costs. They started out saying 2 films would be made.

Ant

All the aliens in the films haven't relied on food to grow tony

DYK

I bet you can't wait for fast & furious 6

Haven't seen the movie yet,but its certainly been hyped up over recent weeks..

tony de wonderful

Well they grow inside people so they obviously require some form of sustenance.

We've never seen any adults eat but otoh they have never been seen locked in a small room only to grow about x1000. I'd argue that it is sound to infer that they eat off camera.

Gear Head

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Tony, it isn't real!

Ant

tony de wonderful

It's a sci-fi not a fantasy movie. Fantasy can use magic, sci-fi is supposed to be in the realm of the possible.

Gear Head

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Well I am still waiting to see the last 20 minutes as I had to make a hasty exit on Friday to pick up my son.

Hopefully, my friend will have 'acquired' a copy this afternoon!

Ste RB5138

I went to see it in 3D last night and really enjoyed it. It has a few downside like Tony De Wonderful mentioned but well worth watching on the big screen, I mean you wouldnt watch Men In Black 3 or Snow White over this.