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    Yet what they all have in common is Lindelof, so it kinda makes him suck.
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    Or maybe it's because Africa is the most recognizable continent?
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    hannibal lecter makes a cameo as a murderous replicant who eats other replicants. he was being shipped to an ultrareligious prison planet under the supervision of deckard before their ship fell into a wormhole and crashed onto the space jockey planet. when they meet up with shaw, there is tension with david, who thinks hannibal wants to eat him. this occurs through a series of witty scenes as the four survivors wander through the barren alien landscape, looking for the space jockey city. once they reach the city, they find out that the space jockeys want to wipe out humans because they think humans are genetically programmed to be violent killing machines and the jockeys are afraid of humans turning against their creators. after learning this, the humans and replicants go on the run in a dramatic chase scene with plenty of obstacles and close-calls. with a bit of bad luck, hannibal gets infected with black goo and turns into a cannibalistic alien-cyborg, becoming the only hope for the humanity's survival as the space jockeys' weakness is the alien lifeform, as seen in prometheus when their only weakness is the alien lifeform. however, david's new found emotions and "soul" (which are revealed in a touching scene in the desert where he has a heart-to-heart with shaw about her faith) make him unable to trust hannibal and he betrays the humans to the jockeys for their own good, acting like a judas figure (or maybe he's just a secret asshole). the jockeys transform david into another alien-cyborg and he fights hannibal on the top of the space ship that shaw and deckard have somehow commandeered in order to return to earth. all through out the movie, a romance has bloomed between shaw and deckard and we see the culmination of this as deckard must go outside the space ship to activate the relay that allows them to safely navigate the wormhole back to earth. deckard leaves the ship in an emotional moment with shaw, saying "i'll be back." cut to the outside of the ship, where hannibal has thrown david off the ship and deckard goes to comfort him as he dies where we learn hannibal has learned the true value of friendship through his time with deckard. suddenly, david climbs back to the top of the ship and deckard must fix the relay antenna before it is too late, while dodging attacks from the violent cyborg. as deckard runs away, hannibal uses his last bit of strength to fling himself off the ship with david. deckard fixes the relay and goes back into the ship, reuniting with shaw in a display of passion. as they set course for the wormhole, they find out they have a stowaway--the black goo has fused hannibal and david's corpses to make a super-uber-alien. this forces deckard to open the airlock to get rid of the super alien, however he is also pulled out of the ship and only shaw's grasp is holding him onto the ship. she shouts, "i'll never let go!" and deckard says, "i know." he lets go and hits the "close airlock" button conveniently placed near end of the airlock and it saves shaw. the movie ends with shaw in stasis and the pod showing that there are two occupants....... it appears her abortion didn't work as well as she thought, setting up the sequel prom3th3us. I'd pay good money to see that. As long as it's shown in 2D, sepia tone, silent, and with those cards that pop up for the dialogue. And with a live piano player for the dramatic musical cues.
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    I stumbled across this sweet performance of Herbie's Canteloupe Island that I've been returning to several times. Hancock, Holland, Metheny and DeJohnette killing it.
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    The more I read and think about Prometheus, the more the script sucks. Lindelof is a talentless hack and Scott is dumb for going with it. If an extended cut of the movie isn't going to sort out some of the disjointedness, weak characters and plotholes then it must be the numerous re-writes that made it a mess. At some stage in the script development it had the Space Jockey literally being Jesus Christ and him being crucified is why they want to destroy Earth. I mean if even such a dumb idea was even seriously entertained then what the fuck.
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    Heh, I am familiar with every artist and most of the albums on that list. But yeah, it seems that people who dig this sort of music rarely veer out of their familiar milieu, they stay to the same labels and artist. Many of those albums on that page share artists, Posford and Raja Ram (Shpongle) are involved with quite a few of them.
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    I never enjoyed suomisaundi and I thought all those that did were all too much into who could be the weirdest and most fucked up on the parties, that became more important than the music and dancing. Suomisaundi is weird for weirdness sake, not so much because the music needed it. At least that's how I felt. Squaremeat and Haltya were alright, but Texas Faggot was poo.
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    Everything Shpongle and Ott has put out are worth checking out for sure. Although my favourites of both are their debut albums. Ott's remixes of Hallucinogen is also essential. Then the stuff on Ultimae Records is probably also worth checking out. Carbon Based Lifeforms have a couple of nice albums, World of Sleepers and Twentythree, the latter more of an ambient affair. Not much of ethnic woman wailing stuff there. Solar Fields' Movement is nice too and his other material is also worth checking out, some of it is more of a proggy trancey sort of thing. Solar Fields also made the soundtrack to Mirror's Edge, so if you played it you have heard his stuff. Bluetech has a couple of pretty nice albums as well, Sines and Singularities is a stand out for me. It's pretty IDMish at times as well. Come to think of it, the albums and artists that I mentioned aren't really "psybient", whatever that is, but just good electronic albums. Maybe Entheogenic is more "typical" where the goa/psytrance influences are more apparent.
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    Can only hope that this will get the Kingdom of Heaven treatment and turn out to be a much better movie than it currently is.
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    For all of it's flaws as a movie, Gary Oldman did a perfect Texas accent in The Fifth Element. But Gary Oldman is Gary Oldman, he's a chameleon if he wants.
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    Charlize Theron is indeed bonerific. And she seems like a nice person too.
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    The first draft was written by the same guy that wrote that dumb movie about some invisible aliens killing Americans in Moscow, The Darkest Hour.
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    Regarding the 3 points in your spoiler
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    The whole premise of this movie and how it's depicted in it is ripe for some serious 'sperging if you are so inclined. It just doesn't add up to scrutiny, need a lot of suspension of disbelief.
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    Didn't feel it was too talky, although it was sort of a slow burn in the first two acts before all goes crazy. Not much technobabble. There was some blatant exposition, one scene that was pretty out of nowhere and I'm not sure if that aspect could have been picked up by the audience without it. Some of the banter got some chuckles and Fassbender had a funny quip or two. Nothing close to what Aliens had if you are asking that. There was also smoking inside a space helmet, no pipe though. So if there is a writer of Prometheus on WATMM, fess up now and explain yourself!
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    Why?
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    I am sorry things aren't going that well for you that you need to suck dicks. Hope everything works out for you. Just came back from watching the movie and it was a pretty standard sci-fi fair without anything groundbreaking. It's trying to be all profound by asking these deep questions, but in the end it never explores them any deeper before it goes into standard run away from monster sort of trope and set ups a rather superficial reason to make a sequel. Some story elements are rather irrelevant or could have been handled better like mentioned. . The creature design was uninspired. Some characters were written stupidily Yeah, the story was lacking at places, but it's still not a "bad" movie. Probably one of the better blockbuster sci-fi flicks (not that there have been many worth noting) lately. It looked and sounded great, but I also found the music non-descript and bland. The 3D wasn't gimmicky and was there to add depth and sense of scale which it pulled off well. The third act was pretty packed and it looked like Scott needed to cram too much into the film. I hope there will be an extended cut that improves it much more. The ending I find at one level amusing . Props to Fassbender, he played the android well. The other actors did well with what was given. Rapace pulled off a good Ripley-version, actingwise it didn't really bother me. It's the story and pacing that is the biggest problem with it. As mentioned it feels like a lot of material was left on the cutting floor and I hope that an extended version will pull it all together, much like the extended cut of Kingdom of Heaven was much improved over the theatrical cut. As for the Engineer in the end
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    I never understood why some guys are so insecure about their hair and go for painful a hairtransplant operation that will undoubtedly look like shit anyways. It's not like having a bald head is anything weird today.
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    It's apparently a slow burn that picks up towards the end. And there is very little Alien in it and could stand on its own and that's the reason none of the promo explicitly said it was an Alien prequel. People thinking this is a genesis story to Alien will obviously be disappointed but it never was meant to be. Will probably watch it sometime next week.
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    Who still uses cheques and mail them in the 21st century??!
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    Who cares what lame product tie-ins the studio does? It's not like it will change the movie in any way.
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    Why spoil a big set piece on the poster? Sure it's official?
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    While I get that speculation is fun, but does it really matter who's behind it if you like the music? Will you like it even more if it turns out it's SQP or AFX or both?
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    That reminds me... I remember as a teenager, raised as a Christian (as some oldskool watmmers such as yourself may remember), I had a sort of morbid curiosity towards Tool. Christians hate them, but something made me wanna listen to them. I guess the sort of idea of wanting to do what you're not supposed to do. At first they freaked me out a little but it didn't take long to get into them cos the first full album I listened to in full was Lateralus. But I got into them again last year, and I realised... there is very little Anti-Christian in Aenima, Lateralus and 10,000 days. It seems weird that Aenima was this big "no-no"... Tool has been more anti-religion than explicitly anti-Christian. I think the main gripe from Christians has more to do with Tool's use of occult imagery and ideas. Or then it's just; kids like it and it's rock music, therefor bad. It's interesting that Lateralus doesn't have any profanity in it, I think fuck is used once in Ticks & Leeches. On the whole Lateralus is quite a positive album compared to the angry and cynical Aenima.
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