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Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?
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Scott still has the eye, but plot wise not a clue as doing more harm than good. He cocreated a masterpiece and has been seemingly on a path of disassembly & destruction for years.
Give Blomkamp the reins and keep Scott out, best Alien film never made is Isolation prime for the picking...Working on tuning up that bad boy to be more vicious, but as of now it will rip you a new one in a heartbeat...
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Think the intention is good, is an OK Sci-Fi film but it's not Alien, Aliens or 3. Better than Covenant admittedly that's not saying much. Watch & see then let me know, is an OK film at the right price and it has a level of depth.
Rec you watch the WW1 short on YT is way better. That said Romulus is well acted, it's growing on me. Is on the right track, well first 3 acts, 4th falls down as Ridley Scott's Black Goo spoils everything same as Covenant...
Has a lot going on, Navarro's prayer is very telling and sets the scene for those that understand.
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They're not movies, but they're feature length direct to video. Anyhow, I've been binge watching some animated Batman direct to video "movies" and I have to say I quite enjoyed them. They don't deviate from the comics.😍
Next on my list is Batman: The Killing Joke.
Next on my list is Batman: The Killing Joke.
Lock Up (2010) - Plot keywords - IMDb
Lock Up: Directed by Xavi Giménez. With Marcel Borràs, Ona Casamiquela, Carlos Cuevas, Cristina Dilla. A father with problems to communicate with his son and to educate him decide to send the problematic child to a correctional center. The father can't imagine the type of education that this...
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seen actual stuff like this on Youtube, super sad.
Prometheus lifted my hopes way up there and then crashed them down (Covenant), laughing at me the whole way... although I was braced for disappointment, and I got what I expected, after reading some reviews prior to seeing.
He really did not want to launch into a new chapter for this franchise, engineers their motivations, our possible interaction with them. He just poured black goo on them and said "forget them, I want to keep retreading spring loaded mandibles..." 👎
I feel Scott wanted to make an Ancient Aliens film, however even with his clout he couldn't get it off the ground so rolled it up in the Alien universe. He should have stuck to his guns as Prometheus was an interesting offshoot and deserved a sequel. Covenant is just a pile of garbage acted out by planks of wood, but it looks pretty...
As for the Black Goo worst lazy screen writing, as it's now just a plot convivence/device for anything they want to happen, but cant really explain in an intelligent manner. Ridley Scott should have kept well out of Alien as it was the perfect film and not mucked about with the lore. Explaining the unownable simply breaks everything set up in the original trilogy and inferior on multiple levels.
Romulus is better than Covenant, equally not an Alien or Aliens, just better. Well first three acts... Also should be considered that Romulus was never intended as a full theatrical feature and was intended to go direct to streaming so I can forgive some of it's missteps.
TBH the WW1 Alien fan film on Youtube is better as it actually has some imagination. Romulus is very much a fan service film following a well tread path, it's OK and will hopefully spark something better. Predator got it right with Prey, a completely different direction that both surprised & entertained...
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