Gremill wrote:Saw this last night and despite all the criticism here being valid and all - I really enjoyed it from beginning to end. Â Great performances, astonishing spectacle and gruesome body horror FTW. Â I was aware of the bewildering inconsistencies, daft script, confusing motivations of the characters and frankly ludicrous actions/inactions of those characters but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't along for the ride for the whole thing. Two minor moments of sheer idiocy stood out though - Guy Pearce walking like an insane cross between Forrest Gump and John Cleese in his leg braces and Noomi rolling slightly to the left to avoid the massive crushing spaceship death. Â Stupid on a Roland Emmerich level of stupid. Having said that, I like Chronicles of Riddick so I may not be the best judge of these things.
g.man wrote: Again, terrible "how do we get there" exposition. They throw in that scene where she coos over the incredibly rare medical machine and says ZOMG, you've got one of these incredibly rare medical machines, in a feeble attempt to justify her use of it later in the film. But ffs, she's an archeologist. Why would she know how to operate the machine, let alone, trick it's programming into performing an operation it's not actually programmed to perform. absolute garbage g.manBollockoff wrote:Only one thing I need to say.To be fair it is established she knows of the machinery and its manufacturer earlier on in the film. And from what I remember of the C-section scene she actually tricks the machine into doing one by selecting foreign object removal from an easy drop-down menu. Which come to think of it was more related to her imminent exploding cavity problem anyway. Why the fuck was it even a squid? It was obvious that it was ready to "hatch" and it looked nothing fucking like its host.girating. man wrote:is able to programme an incredibly rare medical machine to perform an emergency c-section on herself
Tempy wrote:I can't find it now, pretty sure it was on Time's website, but Lindelof was interviewed about working with Ridley and it talks about the start sequence. Ridley had it hashed out, and Lindelof asked him where it was, Ridley told him and the Lindelof suggested putting up a credit to say where it is happening, and Ridley told him not to.
So it is open to interpretation. Most likely one is that it is Earth I guess, him creating the 'primordial soup' given that the gooey stuff acts as some kind of evolutionary accelerant.
regmcfly wrote:Err.. People who are thinking this now won't do well, a quick trip to boxofficemojo will tell you it pulled in $46 million overseas last week, and is on course to getting at least $50 million this opening weekend alone in the states, which will put it up in the top openings for an R rated film. Considering its also going up against a new Madagascar film, that's a pretty strong opening. Like it or not, film is taking bank.
XTC_NRG_4_DARKRAVER wrote:Lots of money to chuck at a pretentious b-movie script. I think I spent the entire film distracted with 3D.
They spent hundreds of millions of dollars making a film based on the Battleships game, your logic doesn't apply here.Mr_Knight wrote:I highly doubt there will be a sequel, I just don't think the demand will be there from the public coupled with the fact that the narrative has ventured into the realms of the absurd.  This will have to do very big money for one to be green lit. The fact that Lindleof is already starting to distance himself from this also doesn't bode well.
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