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  1. GORDO
    guy doesn't even know maddox. he won't get it. quote on that one review sums it up ".. characters act in ways that no human being would, functioning more in service of the action than having the action result from the expression of character. If none of that matters to you, then "Prometheus" might well be a great experience for you, but when I don't recognize basic human responses, then drama doesn't work for me. It's that basic."
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    sounds stupid.
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    Uh Damon doesn't resurrect dead projects, he kills them and strips them of any honesty.
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    You got that right! Not in the same league by a long shot! It's not trying to be Alien though. It's a sci-fi flick set in the same universe. I doubt it will be as important 30 years from now as Alien still is, but I'm honestly not sure there's ANY movie released these days that will have the impact of something released before the 90's. when there was an explosion of films pouring out of Hollywood. but that's a whole other discussion. It's much more about ..... what the hell is it about!? It's pure Lindelof Lost style cock teasing! Questions answered with questions & more questions. Nothing makes much sense. You have to interpret the story however you see fit. So you leave the cinema totally perplexed & wondering what the hell it was all about. There is zero satisfaction from this film beyond the breathtaking visuals. Characters are dull, weak & then dead. The story is all over the place & it can't make it's mind up if it wants to be an Alien prequel or a complete new movie. In the end it's neither. It's a friggin mess of epic proportions. Most disappointed with a film I think I've ever been! It's like Phantom Menace/Lucas syndrome all over again. Except this is worse because this is Ridley Scott with his third film in a genre he really did define with Alien & Blade Runner. there's definitely some Lindelof cock-teasing going on. i enjoyed about 1/4 of Lost, i personally think a lot of it was shit television. there's a LOT of stuff that makes sense. there's a LOT of story that is shown in this movie. there's also a lot that wasn't revealed, which is fine by me. the (what we now know is an) Engineer in Alien was never explained, never touched on in all the sequels. huge bit of information that is left unanswered. how the hell was there a face-hugger that impregnated an animal AND Ripley in the events before Alien 3? who knows, it's one of the many mysteries left unanswered, and is most likely unanswerable. they're just horror/sci-fi flicks man...they're enjoyable, and whatever needs to happen to keep the story going happens. whatever the director or writer wants to happen will happen. Prometheus is just a fun decently done movie that is a vehicle for the story, unfortunately. the characters fell to the wayside, and there's nothing we can do. it's done, the movie is still good despite it, in my opinion. the difference with those "mysteries" is that they're not central at all to the plot, they're just details whose solutions make no difference at all. To make the analogy more accurate then you'd have to have all the aliens movies being about some group setting to investigate the engineer, the facehugger and then completely forgetting about their mission for no reason.
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    watched alien last night, seemed to me like the basic plot of both films are kinda the same? crew picks up on signal, they think is an s.o.s. they go investigate, turns out it wasn't an s.o.s. and scary monsters are out to get them. at least that's the same thing one can inferr form the prometheus trailer. anyway.. I'm glad Lindeloff is getting all the hate. It's funny too because in that interview he was all like, "oh no no i didn't write it I just tried to make sure Scott could have his vision done"
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    That interview to me just confirmed my notion that Damon Lindelof doesn't value a good, tight, clever, well written story in which every element adds up to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Seems to me like he only thinks in terms of 'payoff' feelings, which i guess is valid, but is a notion I don't really value. When I think of a great book/film/tvshow/story/whatever I don't think about the story that gave me the longest streak of good 'payoffs'. I mean, all that discussion about ambiguity and how to resolve questions only makes sense if the soution to the problem complements the story and what it was meant to do, sure, if you see it as merely as how to get the best emotional response then his points are relevant but still seems to me a bit cheap and 'cheaty' to only think in those terms. IMO Ambiguity should be there only when the point is to make people think, not just because you think expressing your own intent will deny people the possibility of wondering about things. Seems like an easy way out to me. In the same way, the problem with explaining everything in detail is not that it strips the story of something but that if it's needed it's because you did something wrong from the start.
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    the community episode of the video game was fantastic.
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    im avoiding it merely because of damon lindelof's involvement.
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    so is anyone watching awake? I saw the first one and thought it was meh even if the concept is kinda interesting, the second episode was so boring I didn't even finish it and haven't seen anything else since.
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    latest fringe was kind of cool
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    GORDO replied to a topic in General Banter

    Hm, I suppose I can see what you mean. In the ones I've read so far, there aren't any really relatable or fleshed-out characters. A lot of them just seem like fictional firsthand accounts of unexplainable sort of pauses in (largely literary-based) logic, so there isn't a lot to get attached to in the first place. But to me, a lot of them almost read as enigmatic, self-contained parables, which I find pretty awesome. most of Borges is super boring and pretentious, you can tell he's just trying to show over and over again how much of an intellectual he is. He wasn't much of a writer anyway, more of a pure erudite. A few great short stories but that's it. Now, Cortazar on the other hand...
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    so tell me again how the prison part with the helicopter isn't ripping from Day of the Dead *shrugs* I haven't seen it. but let me spoil that arc completely for you and let you judge by yourself:
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    from cracked: lol http://www.cracked.c...-to-get-better/
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    a lot of hint hints in the season finale, prison, michonne, helicopter ---> governor
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    yes
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    I don't mind her too much, I think she fulfills the "pretty thing to look at" role okay.
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    I saw it more like she realized she was actually in love with Shane and shit. so no matter what circumstances Rick had just killed the man she loves and shit. Also a bit of a realization that the lil' chat she had with him was the trigger for Shane to try to get rid of rick. edit: and shit.
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    In the comic the prison part is nothing like that, kinda the opposite in feel, optimistic. and that trope hasn't been used at all either.
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    In the comic the prison part is nothing like that, kinda the opposite in feel, optimistic. and that trope hasn't been used at all either.
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    GORDO replied to a topic in General Banter

    Now i'm reading this and liking it so far, but wondering if it's going anywhere.
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    currently obsessed with community, so good.
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    GORDO replied to a topic in General Banter

    Just started this.
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    2 episodes left for this season so... no.
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    Carl is responsible for Dale's death and shit, who knows where they are going to go with that.
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    I'm sad that he died I kinda liked him. they kinda gave a away what's gonna happen now, shane will try to stage his coup thing. someone will stop him, most likely killing him, will it be carl? will it be prisoner kid? andrea? and the farm will likely go to hell and shit.
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