Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Alex]

Damn the next day. I was moderately ok with it yesterday. I suspect I will join mousepod in hatred by the end of the week.

[innerSpaceman]

I'm liking it less and less in retrospect, but I'm glad I enjoyed it while it unspooled (until the last 20 minutes ... seriously that set-up then ruin-the-set-up seriously unnerved me).

[Alex]

That said, I'll remain hopeful for the DC. The DC of Kingdom of Heaven really is massively superior.

[innerSpaceman]

Ditto on that. Usually I loathe Director's Cuts - they add back stuff that was rightly left on the editing room floor, bloating their movies, removing slick tightness, and ruining mood links for the sake of putting in scenes that perhaps are even good in isolation.

Kingdom of Heaven is a different animal entirely - and I can hardly believe the studio forced Scott to release a decidedly inferior film.

[BarTopDancer]

I am so sad. I had no idea (until I saw Jesse's FB) that this was a prequil to Alien(s). Horror movies are scary, I don't watch them. Is this more sci-fi dark/twisted/fvcked up horror or psychological/clown/gore scary horror*?


*For point of reference, I consider Farscape dark/twisted/fvkced up (but not horror)

[CoasterMatt]

That's alright, Marla. Prometheus gets confused as to whether or not it's an Alien prequel, too.

[Alex]

I predict:

Spoiler:

Once she gets to the BBA home world she'll discover that the entire thing was a program to develop a new creature capable of doing battle with Predator.

They'll have not heard that the Predator Aliens are so wimpy that one was taken out by 75-year-old Danny Glover.

In the climactic scene of the third movie in the trilogy Rapace will realize that they're needed and send the ship back in time for the events of the first AVP movie to take place.

In other words, this is not a prequel to Alien but rather Alien vs. Predator 3.

[Alex]

The three episodes I managed to stick through of Farscape didn't tickle any dark/twisted nerves in me. I thought it was supposed to be camp stupidity so maybe I was watching it wrong.

So I can't answer on that scale.

I'd say it is somewhere in between Alien and Aliens on the horror-action spectrum. Nothing was particularly scary but there is some gore and tentacles in orifices type stuff. But the action sequences didn't really have the heft to them that Aliens had.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Farscape is not horror and not intended to be scary--it's sci-fi. It also takes a while to get into the groove. I lived the first season, but it really grabbed me by the balls starting in 2nd season.

[Alex]

Wish I'd seen this Ridley Scott quote before going to the movie, would have gone in not expecting any particular intelligence in the story:

Originally Posted by Ridley Scott

NASA and the Vatican agree that [it is] almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way... That’s what we’re looking at (in the film), at some of Erich von Däniken’s ideas of how did we humans come about.

Anybody who can say von Daniken's name without smirking is probably an idiot.