I have The Lady in the Water, but it's baseball season. i HAVE TO WATCH that first. capslock

Animavore wrote:Prometheus in a nut shell.



I'd add to that - Why was a creationist allowed any where near a scientific expedition? The whole premise was off.

The idea that we're now to start using internal logic as a critical measure in this of all threads is tickling me.

Fallible wrote:Oh yes, and I also like Prometheus .

The Alien series is one of the few sci-fi franchises I don't cringe at. Well, ok, I do cringe a bit, ultimately (most notably at the end of 'Aliens' when Ripley manages to hold on to the ladder when she's being grabbed by the leg by the alien being sucked out of the airlock), but my subjective preferences seem to allow me to suspend judgement for Alien movies more than others.

surreptitious57 wrote:I only like one Shyamalan for the ending was completely unexpected
And this was The Village. An excellent film with a stellar cast as well

Not having predicted the ending to The Sixth Sense either, I'd put them on a par.

archibald wrote:

Spinozasgalt wrote:

surreptitious57 wrote:Jennifers favourite film [ Prometheus ] was on again

I think she likes it so much because she is secretly in love with Michael Fassbender

The weird thing is that I'm not particularly fond of Fassbender, but I was aware of him long before you people were. I watched him in a British series called Hex before he exploded all over everything. I'm less shallow than the rest of you. He and I have history.

Yeah right. I bet you first saw him in Shame. I know the way your brain works and what its appetites are.

Very few actors are attractive. Cricketers, yes. But not actors. It's because the male gaze can only conceptualize and give cinematic voice to a masculine attraction that is diluted through heterosensitive enculturation: the other is wholly assimilated to the hetero-being. And because of this assimilation, the otherness of homoerotic attraction is lost in the surmise of that attraction filtered through the wastes of the phallocentric imaginary and its expectation into and of itself.

Also, Alien is better than Aliens.

Spinozasgalt wrote:Also, Alien is better than Aliens.

Totally. The aliens were wusses, comparatively-speaking, in the latter, which in some ways ruined everything.

This is one reason I generally don't like sequels.

Spinozasgalt wrote:Very few actors are attractive. Cricketers, yes. But not actors. It's because the male gaze can only conceptualize and give cinematic voice to a masculine attraction that is diluted through heterosensitive enculturation: the other is wholly assimilated to the hetero-being. And because of this assimilation, the otherness of homoerotic attraction is lost in the surmise of that attraction filtered through the wastes of the phallocentric imaginary and its expectation into and of itself.

Maybe you just need to watch fewer mainstream/heteronormative narratives.

That said, I confess I can't think of a recommendation, offhand. Books, maybe, but not films.

ETA: though I feel they must exist, for example here...possibly?

http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch/

The_Piper wrote:I have The Lady in the Water, but it's baseball season. i HAVE TO WATCH that first. capslock

The Lady in the Water is pretty much the worst film ever made. It's so bad that M. Knight had a sneering film critic get killed off in a rather petulant way to pre-empt the thumbs down it would get (some say in answer to reviews on his other, horrible films, but I know better).

Spinozasgalt wrote:Also, Alien is better than Aliens.

But how did the alien grow up so fast without taking on bulk in the form of food? This is never answered.

It was mostly hollow.

proudfootz wrote:It was mostly hollow.

Yes. Definitely.

Any theories on the alien?

archibald wrote:

Spinozasgalt wrote:Very few actors are attractive. Cricketers, yes. But not actors. It's because the male gaze can only conceptualize and give cinematic voice to a masculine attraction that is diluted through heterosensitive enculturation: the other is wholly assimilated to the hetero-being. And because of this assimilation, the otherness of homoerotic attraction is lost in the surmise of that attraction filtered through the wastes of the phallocentric imaginary and its expectation into and of itself.

Maybe you just need to watch fewer mainstream/heteronormative narratives.

That said, I confess I can't think of a recommendation, offhand. Books, maybe, but not films.

ETA: though I feel they must exist, for example here...possibly?

http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch/

There are exceptions, of course. Max Riemelt is occasionally pretty. And Janek Rieke has had his moments through the years.

Animavore wrote:

Spinozasgalt wrote:Also, Alien is better than Aliens.

But how did the alien grow up so fast without taking on bulk in the form of food? This is never answered.

The aliens don't eat. They subsist on evil.

Spinozasgalt wrote:There are exceptions, of course. Max Riemelt is occasionally pretty. And Janek Rieke has had his moments through the years.

Sometimes German Arian does it for me too.

Though currently I'm digging this American (singer not actor):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4lD3Uf8_o

Ohhh, so that's what Future Islands look like. I actually have the music video to that track. Pretty sure the track itself got best track on Pitchfork that year.

One other type of genre I do not like are contemporary bio pics. Playing real life characters is flawed for one very obvious reason. Play historical characters who did not live beyond the nineteenth century. Nigel Hawthorne was excellent in The Madness Of King George for this very reason because no photographs or films exist of him so liberties can be taken and
no one other than maybe historians would notice. There is though two notable exception to this rule and one is Colin
Firth as George VI in The Kings Speech a true quality piece of cinema from beginning to end. And Geoffrey Rush was
absolutely sublime. The other one is of course Bruno Ganz as Hitler in Downfall. A better portrayal you will simply
never see. But as a general rule of thumb avoid the twentieth century altogether with this genre unless you have
either doppelgangers or the acting is so sublime that you do not notice

The Lady in the Water is a nice, understated film with a fairytale feel which in places takes me back to those days playing as a child and pretending there were monsters in the tall grass at the end of the garden.

Spinozasgalt wrote:Ohhh, so that's what Future Islands look like. I actually have the music video to that track. Pretty sure the track itself got best track on Pitchfork that year.

I will say this for them, never have I seen such spacktacular dad dancing.

If the chair fits, wear it.

Aliens can survive by eating their own flesh. They have incredibly high immunity to pain and the removed tissue grows
back much quicker each time. Their shit is also entirely organic and can be eaten as well. Aliens are obviously science
fiction but in the animal kingdom all this really happens. Lobsters lose limbs and feel no pain. A human liver can grow
back to full size after surgery. And flies eat shit like it were ice cream