Started by Pvt. Himmel, Jan 27, 2017, 06:45:47 PM
Quote from: OpenMaw on Jan 30, 2017, 10:23:33 AMAvatar is okay. I watched it once with my brother, and once on my own. The plot really didn't do it for me, and the end battle is okay... Though Camereon's script really had me rooting for Quatrich and his PMC's over the lead(Jake?). Seriously, Our Hero flips sides in a heartbeat by comparison to say... Dances With Wolves, where it takes Dunbar quite awhile before he really flips.As to Abyss, it was in competition with two... Maybe three other very very similar movies. One of which was Leviathan, and I forget the other one, Deep Water something or other? Basically a bunch of deep sea "horror" movies all at once, and that's why Abyss didn't do as good as it could have. .
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 30, 2017, 09:10:44 AMQuote from: StrangeShape on Jan 30, 2017, 05:48:24 AMIf for anything else, the final battle is gangbusters Cameron styleI've gotta ask, where did gangbusters come from? First I'd heard of that was Cameron describing Alien 3.2 last year. In regards to the topic at hand - I'd agree if it was just going to be a retread. But that doesn't seem to be what Scott is doing. He's world building and expanding the mythology. Prometheus was a misfire for me because it took away what Scott was initially doing - explaining the origins of Alien - because it stripped those actual Alien elements and kept the alikes in there. Covenant (and the prequels I'm assuming)seems to be steering back to that original intentional.Whether we're going to like what Scott is serving is a different question, but it's not like he's rehashing the other films. That we know of, anyway. Quote from: echobbase79 on Jan 30, 2017, 04:53:41 AMIs Avatar a good movie? I've never seen it.It was okay. Nothing special. If anything, I think it's success was likely down to the major turn towards 3D around that time. Narratively, it's quite boring. I fell asleep the second time I tried to watch it. I haven't watched it again since.
Quote from: StrangeShape on Jan 30, 2017, 05:48:24 AMIf for anything else, the final battle is gangbusters Cameron style
Quote from: echobbase79 on Jan 30, 2017, 04:53:41 AMIs Avatar a good movie? I've never seen it.
Quote from: Pvt. Himmel on Jan 30, 2017, 11:14:15 AMYeah i think you're right seeing as how there is not that much time left between Covvie, and Alien.
Quote from: Robopadna on Jan 30, 2017, 07:32:37 PMQuote from: Pvt. Himmel on Jan 30, 2017, 11:14:15 AMYeah i think you're right seeing as how there is not that much time left between Covvie, and Alien.60+ years, isn't there? He's making the trilogy and this is the second movie.
Quote from: StrangeShape on Jan 29, 2017, 05:24:41 PMQuote from: SM on Jan 29, 2017, 09:53:48 AMHow did Prometheus change the basic life cycle?We will have to see how Covenant advances the new ideas, but with the black goo introduced that changes everyones dna into something close to xenos and facehuggers, it seems like anyone can become half xeno just by touching, drinking of inhaling the magic goo. Through that, we already had an octopus instead of a facehugger and not a larva bursting from the host but a fully developed specimen
Quote from: SM on Jan 29, 2017, 09:53:48 AMHow did Prometheus change the basic life cycle?
Quote from: SM on Jan 30, 2017, 04:59:53 AMQuote from: echobbase79 on Jan 30, 2017, 04:53:41 AMIs Avatar a good movie? I've never seen it.srsly?It's fun but excrutiatingly predictable and lacking in subtlety.