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Yes...the entire movie -- and all the jokes -- are in the trailer. You don't need to see the entire finished product. It was garbanzo.
If you're interested, we'll bet. I'll provide proof of my banking transaction and ticket stub to a independent arbitrator. I'll give him $10,000 of my money. You give him $5,000 of your money to hold. The arbitrator then decides who was correct and doles out the money appropriately.
Let me guess...you're not interested, right? You just like talking shit then, right?
I should have said "pixelated like it's the 80's at the latest". Those screens didn't last very long in history. But, of course, I'm not sure how they could have either envisioned or built a more futuristic flat-panel in the 70s. I'm not ripping on Alien like some think, I was just curious if the dot-matrix style devices now feel out of place for a futuristic movie.
One of my favorite movies is "Children of Men" but it still bothers me a bit that their "future" had a lot of old fashioned newspapers in it. In fact, the newspaper industry was at the start of their downfall when this movie was made...they maybe should have seen that one coming a bit more than they did. "Minority Report" was on the right track with newspapers being gone but made a hilarious-in-hindsight error...They still had the paperboy "deliver" the electronic newspaper iPad-type of device to your home each morning! Again, probably should have thought that through a bit more and realized that a new one wouldn't need to be delivered each day, that one device could simply update itself throughout the days and years. The paperboy even threw the device in the front hedges like he was delivering a paper in the 80's, lol!
I didn't watch it? Pffft! Care to put your money where your mouth is? I can prove it via my bank transactions. Let me guess, no, right?
"Great" reviews? Pffft! A 73 Metascore...while Green Dot, just barely. I agree with The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw: "The majority of the movie a long and essentially plotless extravaganza of crashes, bangs, jumps, punches and PAEs (Pointless Action Explosions).” Exactly.
Are you meaning to tell me you actually watched that pile of garbage and came out impressed?! Wow.
Here's just a few of my issues with it: 1) I can't think of one great line or stunt that wasn't already in the trailers...can you? 2) It seems as if Gosling wanted Blunt romantically but stopped acting because of a back injury that...checks notes...didn't seem to be injured whatsoever. He seemingly had no side effects and jumped right back into action just because he thought Blunt wanted him on set. If he wanted her so bad that he was willing to drop everything for this movie...why didn't he simply call her up?! He was the one ghosting her for crying out loud! And Blunt still wanted Gosling but was just sore at him for Ghosting her. So...You know how this could quickly get rectified? If they simply go out on another date! Why all the banter?! If you both like each other, which you obviously do, spare your friends and colleagues the drama and just go out! 3) Wasn't the bantering "the love between the alien and human in the script" bit they kept doing a little too long and forced?? They started out with a never-ending 15 minutes of this early in the movie and really never let up. That bit was tiring by the middle of the movie.
It was a formulaic PG-13 action movie with way too much romance that nobody cared about and could easily solve. I didn't even see the ending and I'm 100% sure that they got back together...was too simple, made for the masses, and not enough high stakes.
Thank you. Yes...I have "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" in my Top 50 since 2000 list...I didn't talk about it because it was the Netflix movie I was speaking of earlier, therefor didn't arrive in theaters (or very limited). Great little flick though.
"Everything" movie was Ok...a bit hard to understand. Holdovers, decent. Nomadland had its moments. None of those 3 would land in my top 100 since 2000 list though, much less my Top 50. I haven't seen the other ones yet.
Yeah I kind of agree w CaptBeefBlower...there's a bit of quality there, but most of that list is unmemorable at best. And, seriously, I see movies all the time and never heard of half of that list. The Batman was a heaping pile of dogshit. John Wick 3 and 4? We're not on the same wavelength...I was complaining about comic book movies and sequels in my monologue lol! I'm talking about classic, real, adult movies (like Oppenheimer or Killers of the Flower Moon). They're few and far between.
I'd say X/Pearl, those would be near my "Honorable Mentions" list, they were good. Dune was Ok. The Holdovers, seems to have been ripped-off from the original writer, but wasn't bad. Barbarian wasn't terrible either. But still...that's not a great list of movies overall for a 4-year span.
But who's sitting down and writing a program which determines the percentage of likelihood that the human population is infected by an alien organism?! And they brought the floppy disk to Antarctica...for what reason?!
LOL!
My response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRm-Rcm65SM
The only people deranged are the ones who storm the Capitol because of a whining crybaby who couldn't accept defeat.
I've been to quite a few movies where the crowd cheered at the end of the movie but nothing else quite like that.
There have been a thousand scenes in movies in which someone points a gun at someone at fires (a blank). According to you, then, thousands of arrests should have been made in Hollywood over the past 100 years for improper handling of a gun. A team of people are there to ensure that gun is not loaded with real ammo before it's used in a scene. If you're an actor, you walk onto a set, someone says we're shooting a scene where you point a gun at so and so and you fire a blank. You don't say "Well, you see, I don't have gun training and I'm not an expert on guns, and I feel that yada yada yada..." ... If someone hands you a prop breakaway chair, then SPECIFICALLY TELLS YOU that it's a prop breakaway chair, the actor himself doesn't need to take it to a Home Depot first to test it out...he can safely assume that if it was handed to him, and he was given those instructions, that it's a prop, and he can swing away as instructed. So if someone swapped that chair without anyone noticing, and the chair wasn't a breakaway prop after all...to then think the resulting injuries is somehow the actors fault...is just...odd. You'd be pointing the finger at the wrong guy in this scenario, wouldn't you agree?
Sorry but that's just not right. Like I said earlier...if a scene required you to swing a chair at someone...and prop chair passed a safety inspection through an Armorer and the Set Director and many others...then you are told to swing this chair at someone...I hardly see how it's your fault if the chair actually wasn't a prop after all and you broke someone's back. You think you should be charged in that scenario if you're an actor? Should you have not touched the chair because you aren't a prop master or a carpenter?
Your answer to the question "Maybe he doesn't know anything about guns" was "In which case he shouldn't have picked one up."...pffft. Sorry, but again you're confusing real life with a movie set. In real life, yes, what you said there was true. On a movie set...If you're in a scene where you have to pretend to knit a sweater, you don't actually need to know how to sew. As an actor, you are given all kinds of tools and objects that you know nothing about that you have to pretend you know how to use. If I'm in a scene where I have to point a gun at someone and pull the trigger (to eject a blank)...I can't tell the Director "Hey, you know what, I don't know much about guns in my personal life so I'm not going to touch it...why don't you just go ahead and remove this pivotal scene from the movie!"...I would be fired. He's not going to care that I don't know about guns off set. He's just going to want me to point the gun and fire it, like he hired me for as an actor. My personal knowledge of guns would be completely irrelevant to him or anyone on the set.
As far as the clothes go though...they were on the move. Somehow those clothes were traveling with them.
And the toilets...These guys were cave-monkeys! Nobody owned their own condo or anything. I didn't see even one public restroom. Didn't appear to be any electricity or plumbing. I'm just saying...I'm not sure these guys had a public sanitation system.
They didn't like someone wasting puke or even one teardrop of water...but if you have plumbing, you have a gray-water sanitation system at the very least. With a population as large as I seen in some scenes in the caves, lots and lots of water would be necessary for drinking, cooking, bathing and sanitation. It didn't seem that desert planet was capable of producing that much water...and if it was, what's the worry about losing a teardrop?!
I've got a couple...
-- At the end, Wonka gets stabbed in the side, then held a blade back with his bare hand, then got stabbed in the chest/shoulder...with the limited doctors/hospitals on Arrakis (and by limited, I'm thinking "none")...he should have died! Seemed like he just sort of "walked off" multiple stab wounds!
-- How did the Natives get the worms to drop them off where they wanted to go?! The worms usually burrowed under the sand...why not just go deep down into the sand if you're the worm and make it impossible for whatever is on your back to breathe?! Or just go back out into the deep desert. Seems like Wonka and the Natives just steered the worms like they were tamed horses. Then got the worms to drop him off without attempting to attack him again. Was a bit far-fetched.
-- So when Wonka and the clan is walking through the desert, they're wearing the water suits. Then when they're in the caves, they're wearing the Muslim-like garb. Exactly where are they keeping their change of clothes?! They have no suitcases, they're not wearing backpacks, they're not carrying them...the correct clothes just magically appear on them whenever they're in one environment or the other.
-- I understand the Muslim-like clothing in a desert setting, I get it. You're trying to keep the sun off you. But it seemed they sort of over-did it. Like they were dressed for winter rather than a nomad traversing the desert. Scarves. Multiple layers of clothing. What seemed like capes. Nobody ever seemed to break out a pair of shorts and a t-shirt at night time, still the same old stanky cloaks. I think they went overboard on the clothes.
-- So no showers for 20 years...and you're still gonna bang that girl?! No wayyyy! I'd need a clothespin for my nose in order to attack that! Not really sure how much toothpaste and mouthwash she was going through either but it didn't seem like much! And after the stinky sex, did they STILL not shower?! I don't think I seen any plumbing on Arrakis!
What do u want us all to do? Open up a "The Guy's Wife in Falling Down Fan Club"?! ;)
Here's my 3-second video response...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRm-Rcm65SM
But...he ATTEMPTED to use those very powers right in front of those guys! The first time didn't work...but if I'm a henchman and my life is over if someone nails "The Voice", even though I think it's highly unlikely a man could do it, I'm just gonna gag him just in case anyway. One would most assuredly think: "Heck, he's trying The Voice right in front of me...perhaps he knows something I don't!"
Both! :)
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