tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post7534015316687926574..comments2023-06-26T11:06:29.465+01:00Comments on Plutonium Shores: Crisis In A Hot ZoneWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-59140761473154307212014-07-25T19:55:18.818+01:002014-07-25T19:55:18.818+01:00I remember my one screening of Alien Vs Predator R...I remember my one screening of <b><i>Alien Vs Predator Requiem</i></b> on Sky Movies - easily the darkest film I've ever seen. I genuinely thought something had gone wrong with the transmission. Whoever color timed that film must have been out for revenge...Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-67301686711521759482014-07-25T19:20:34.945+01:002014-07-25T19:20:34.945+01:00absolutely dude, I needed nothing more than what I...absolutely dude, I needed nothing more than what I had gotten from the original films - things cease to be scary when you know the reasons behind it all anyway. We could probably just vote with our wallets in the future (why oh why did I ever see Alien Vs Predator 2??) but then again, we need to see this stuff to have a perspective on it in 30 years, so we are damned either way!JP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-76701244688125652122014-07-25T13:03:43.382+01:002014-07-25T13:03:43.382+01:00I suppose people were expecting the film to be the...I suppose people were expecting the film to be the answer to all their Space-Jockey dreams and instead they wound up with two boneheaded scientists lost in a cave, menaced by something slimy... nothing no one hadn't seen ten thousand times before... I must admit I was pretty disappointed as well. I just think they is no story left in <b><i>Alien</i></b> - why do we need to know how those eggsWeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-52585057709035697332014-07-25T10:03:09.903+01:002014-07-25T10:03:09.903+01:00See Wes, I completely with you 100% on you compari...See Wes, I completely with you 100% on you comparing Prometheus to Forbidden World, or the New World pics of the time - that's exactly how I felt about it when watching it. I was enjoying it, but I said to myself at around the hour mark, "Fun as this is, it's as dumb as a transformers movie"... yet people seem to think that because it's Ridley Scott, and a writer from Lost JP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-30511987762231977222014-07-25T08:29:04.691+01:002014-07-25T08:29:04.691+01:00Yeah, I think Schwarzenegger was involved at some ...Yeah, I think Schwarzenegger was involved at some point, but whether <b><i>Kingdom of Heaven</i></b> flowed from the same spring as <i>Crusades</i>, I'm not sure, but very likely... <b><i>Prometheus</i></b> I think is symptomatic of this trend we're in at the moment to prequelize or sequelize every important film of the last 30 years - I know Hollywood have always done this, but current Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-14447113644619552812014-07-24T20:35:30.617+01:002014-07-24T20:35:30.617+01:00Allegedly it still is, Wes - I feel the same. Wasn...Allegedly it still is, Wes - I feel the same. Wasn't Arnie attached to that Crusades film at one point? Did Kingdom of Heaven evolve from it? I heard that the script for that had been tossed around for decades...<br /><br />No doubt I'll ease up on Prometheus at some point, but it angers me how so many people took it so seriously - I mean, it was a pretty silly film, that didn't make JP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-12874772164953126842014-07-24T15:39:19.368+01:002014-07-24T15:39:19.368+01:00Is that Blade Runner thing still going ahead ? Jes...Is that <b><i>Blade Runner</i></b> thing still going ahead ? Jesus wept... Yeah, <b><i>Kingdom of Heaven</i></b> was not so great. I saw the film in Italian once, in Rome and it played better somehow... Orlando Bloom doesn't have the shoulders to carry a whole film but it has other problems as well, and y'know the Crusades is a really fascinating chapter of history, it was a shame that Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-83760379135057177582014-07-24T13:43:41.482+01:002014-07-24T13:43:41.482+01:00Absolutely, I've learned my lessons hard on ge...Absolutely, I've learned my lessons hard on getting too worked up from having a great novel to what to expect on the screen - usually I am disappointed, but I find if enough time passes I can come back to the film and enjoy it on its own merits several years down the line.Seeing as I read the book nearly 14 years ago at this stage, the details are nearly extinct, and the film seems like the JP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-9433842744652816422014-07-24T13:06:43.472+01:002014-07-24T13:06:43.472+01:00I'm thinking John, the no-show was caused by t...I'm thinking John, the no-show was caused by the fact that I posted this last year, in the white heat of seeing the Blu-Ray, and then pulled it because I thought it didn't fit in with the rest of the stuff I was posting - not trashy, or weird enough I suppose, a sort of reverse snobbery... I went to read Bowden's book last year but was abandoned because the kindle-file was glitched. IWeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-61191471757854944522014-07-24T11:05:38.283+01:002014-07-24T11:05:38.283+01:00Wes, I'm not sure why, but this post never sho...Wes, I'm not sure why, but this post never showed up in my blog feed - and it still isn't there. Whatever they are doing behind the curtain here is a disaster...<br /><br />Anyways, this is an interesting post. I was very disappointed with this film on release ( I actually saw it at an advance screening a few weeks before it popped) as I was a huge fan of Bowden's novel. The novel wasJP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-31632238880768451332014-07-21T18:29:48.664+01:002014-07-21T18:29:48.664+01:00Yep, I can well imagine the film being something t...Yep, I can well imagine the film being something to avoid in that regard. I don't have any personal perspective on the film I'm glad to say - I wonder would it be a good idea to sit some world leaders down in front of this in the hope of doing something about the bombardment of Gaza or the conflict in Ukraine... I haven't read Mark Bowden's book, but I have read Martin Meredith&#Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-8240668589080065192014-07-21T03:52:42.505+01:002014-07-21T03:52:42.505+01:00I skipped this movie as I had family overseas in t...I skipped this movie as I had family overseas in the middle of all that crap when it came out. Now that they're all home safe, I might check this one out one of these days. Craig Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06037542638067599437noreply@blogger.com