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  1. lumpenprol
    more gay flutes
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    If you ask me it has. It's still really good, but for me Quaristice was the turning point (or, arguably Untilted). Though I think Oversteps is better than either of those (sue me). The run from Tri Repetae through Draft was just incredible, for any artist. Hard not to see it as a long, sustained peak of creativity and productivity. Anyhoo. Sorry I'll shut up. I am excite, too. I do believe they will always drop something surprisingly awesome from time to time, like the incredible live stuff...
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    i agree. Wish they would've rethought the remainder of the album after treale. It has some highlights (I for one like krylon, though others slate it), but it doesn't have as coherent a feel as the first half. Seems like a collection of random thrown together stuff (a bit like MoT).
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    certainly don't want to sour the mood but my zeal for all things ae has declined a bit over the last two full-lengths and MoT. I really liked Oversteps, but at the same time, feel it's not as autechre-y as past albums. In the same way that I really liked Campfire Headphase, but found it not as Boccy as their other releases. I'm still really looking forward to it, just not as crazily as in the past. Overall I thought MoT was really mediocre...
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    what is that, a bear shouting through a deer's ass? Amazing!
  6. lumpenprol
    actual lol
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    real lol
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    because his album art is eye-blisteringly ugly?
  9. lumpenprol
    Half Life 2 by Alfonso Cuaron. Oh wait...
  10. lumpenprol
    you mean the same guy that did every one of the increasingly pointless and meandering Pirates of the Caribbean movies?
  11. lumpenprol
    damn you, you finally got a lol out of me
  12. lumpenprol
    Harry Potter Lovecraft's "A Love Supreme"
  13. lumpenprol
    well maybe if Lovecraft hadn't been so busy ripping off HR Giger and Lost it wouldn't have been a problem, ever think of that?
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    After re-reading it, I was getting excited about the prospect for a film version, because I think it could actually benefit from an update. The book is filled with some outdated 50s thought and plenty of male chauvinism, but the core idea is still strong. If I was a screenwriter I would think it would be a lot of fun to re-envision the first 2/3 of the book into a more modern setting, while leaving the last part mostly untouched. Could be awesome, and actually improve on the novel (I know, heresy). wtf? He did a guide to fantasy? Checking...
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    Barlowe's Guide To Extraterrestrials
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    Wayne Barlowe did a pretty good job in my favorite childhood book:
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    lol, I still haven't seen Prometheus, but I'm really enjoying this thread. Btw, I re-read Childhood's End yesterday, after being reminded of it by a post on watmm recently. I would love to see a film version, probably more so than Rendezvous with Rama...
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    indeed...the effects were great, which is quite interesting considering it was a complete last minute rush job by ILM. Always been impressed they threw it together so quickly.
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    yeah, my opinions are based on trying to rewatch it a couple of times and being bored out of my skull. I don't care about Julianne Moore and her silly revolution, or the bums at the end, or any of that stuff. Clive Owen did manage to be soulful, and I did care about the baby, but otherwise... Actually someone mentioned War of the Worlds and I think it's a lot like that. Several really strong scenes but the connective tissue is hit-and-miss. Although I spent much of War of the Worlds wanting to drown Dakota Fanning, and I don't think any character in CoM evoked such a visceral reaction :-)
  20. lumpenprol
    Children of men is a boring film. Nevertheless, Cuaron is some sort of visual wizard savant genius dude. And not in the turgid, dull Fincher way, but a bona-fide one-of-a-kind. A close but weird comparison might be with Michael Mann, the way he can get an action sequence "just so." Cuaron knows how to impeccably choreograph things without it feeling overworked. Visually, I think he's one of the best around, probably the best of the current generation. Nonetheless, a whole lot of nothing happens in the film, and even Michael Caine can't save that. The film can basically be boiled down to four memorable sequences, in my mind: 1) the Brazil-esque rich-dude-with-autistic-freak-son meeting (with Pink Floyd album cover in background); 2) the attack on the car; 3) the escape with the car; 4) the city tank attack sequence. Rest was, more or less, filler. The world is so rich you don't really feel that the first time around, but I don't think it has a lot of replay value. Except to watch and re-watch those scenes, in the same way you might dissect one of the chase scenes in the Road Warrior. Just imo. Still one of the best modern sci-fi flicks, for atmosphere alone.
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    i simultaneously shat myself and burst out in tears reading this, then wiped up my tears with my soiled undergarments
  22. lumpenprol
    If that was Scott's intent it would be hilarious, I can see him re-hashing Blade Runner's twist in a vain attempt to recapture his glory days
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    Although, just to play devil's advocate (and having not even seen the film!), given that people have now seen everything possible in films, games, and on the internet, would we still react the same as people in the 70s? It's sort of funny how mentally well-prepared we are for aliens now, I think. We'd just be all "goatse xenomorph at 11 o' clock, pffft what an unoriginal design, someone get the flamethrower"
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    I still haven't seen the film, but this thread has nonetheless been quite a rollercoaster.. ..in my opinion of Lindelof. At first after seeing that video interview I liked him (having never watched a single episode of Lost). But the more comments I read, the more he sounds like an incompetent.
  25. lumpenprol
    The part with the woman and the alien and the spaceship was so cool!!!
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