I loved them both.Last movie venture I took was I went back and checked out the full Alien series because I was curious about the new ones and hadn't seen the old ones since I was a kid. It was interesting because I remember thinking that Alien was kind of lame and Aliens was pretty awesome, but never really cared much for the franchise or thought about it in a big way since then. After watching through them, good lord, Aliens is a giant piece of crap and James Cameron is the biggest hack filmmaker of his generation. Alien was great, interesting and unique and sucked you into the story. Aliens was every dumb cliché thrown at you in the book and was painful to watch. The third and fourth film were forgettable, nothing really of note there even though Fincher at least tried some shit in Alien 3 at least.
Then when it comes to Prometheus and Covenant, those movies get shat on pretty much across the board by everyone out there but I was completely into them and thought they were both head and shoulders above anything made since the first Alien movie. The stories were interesting, the acting was great, the pacing was a slow burn but it dragged you into the films similar to the first one. Best of all, Franco was killed off basically immediately and you didn't have to suffer through his one facial expression for more than a few minutes which was great because I was worried he was going to completely ruin that movie.
Anybody else like those two movies or am I alone on that?
I remember watching Children of Men in theater while being quite high and freaking out at how incredibly long this scene ran as one take:![]()
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Starts off with the longest single camera sequence I've ever seen. Impressive.
And Florence Pugh is delicious.
Great movie for sure.I remember watching Children of Men in theater while being quite high and freaking out at how incredibly long this scene ran as one take:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjFHqohaHYU
Especially considering the complexity of the scene it was mind-boggling to me at the time, considering all of the behind the scenes planning and execution to pull it off.
Another great one from earlier in the film that was incredibly well done:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3zzVH72tHA
Children of Men was an awesome movie as well and I highly recommend to everyone.
Braveheart lite. Was underwhelming imo.![]()
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Starts off with the longest single camera sequence I've ever seen. Impressive.
And Florence Pugh is delicious.
I gotta agree...love period pieces and that era/location...but took me 3 sits to finish, kept turning it off and doing other shitBraveheart lite. Was underwhelming imo.
It had no real climax I felt. It was meh.I gotta agree...love period pieces and that era/location...but took me 3 sits to finish, kept turning it off and doing other shit
Ended up watching The Nice Guys. I always thought I wouldn't like it at all because I don't care for Ryan Gosling (that Breaker High cast off...) and I find Russell Crowe to be very hit and miss with his movies. God damn I enjoyed the hell out of this movie. Both guys played their parts perfectly, lots of great supporting characters as well and the whole movie played out perfectly pretty much from start to finish. I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klOzp_wWaoU