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So, seeing jerwin’s post here, I was reminded I’d never gotten around to seeing the film, so I mumble mumble and watched it on my computer. It was like a Chinese promo screener or something, and the audio wasn’t very good, but I think I got the idea —

It was absolutely terrible, in the same ways and for the same reasons as Revenge of the Sith was terrible.

Q: What could be worse than a prequel that doesn’t care very much about continuity?

A: ANOTHER prequel that attempts to stitch the earlier prequel(s) together with the original work, and doesn’t care very much about character or story or plot :-1:

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1890

Did you like Prometheus? Prometheus is the “Phantom Menace” of the Aliens franchise.

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1891

I liked Prometheus. I thought it was an awesome metaphor for anti-corporatism, and for unethical science.

But I despised Phantom Menace.

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1892

do you think the engineers deserved to die?

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1893

Does anyone here watch Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? I really have some respect for the crap Coulson and his agents go through for the MCU, which probably places me even more solidly on the side of TeamCap.

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1894

I didn’t think it made much sense, but it was creepy and weird and I wanted to see what happened next

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1895

I don’t think it’s about “deserving”. I don’t think you can watch any Aliens film – or most horror films, really – and think about who deserves life.

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1896

Or you can watch the Ultimate Cut, which is just nearly shot-for-shot the comic.

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1897

I used to, but I pretty much stopped watching TV entirely a few years back, when Simmons got pulled into a portal of some sort, and the Inhuman crystals started leaking into the water supply.

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1898

You might feel like catching up, as the next couple of seasons give a lot of backstory on the origins of mutants/inhumans and the Kree wars saga that is the backdrop for Captain Marvel.

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ETA: Okay, IMHO Dove Cameron is quite possibly the worst IRL actor in the MCU.

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1899

Owes a lot to Event Horizon.

Starts out pretty slow. You might want to just start with episode 3.

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1900

finally saw Inglourious Basterds (or however the misspelling went). Christoph Waltz is a marvel.

However, it does tend to profane the sacred memory of the Shoah.

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1901

Okay, “Shoah” obviously doesn’t mean what I thought it means.

looks it up

Okay, yes it does.

How could that event possibly be made more profane?

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1902

Had a friend at work who was really into sci-fi/horror movies like Alien, The Thing and so on. But even he was grossed out by Event Horizon. I only saw the previews and said, Nope. So I guess maybe I’ll pass . . . :open_mouth:

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1903

just saying, if you haven’t watched the new Coen bros. film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, you should. it’s very fun, very gorgeous, and very haunting, as Coen bros stuff tends to be.

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1904

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1905

As my thoughts turn to Rankin-Bass holiday specials, I wonder if anyone knows of an online space where the more obscure Animagic specials might be found (preferably free)?
Nestor, Jack Frost, etc. are easy to find, but I’m talking about movies like the Hans Christian Andersen collection The Daydreamer, or The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, or maybe even Willy McBean.

Never mind. Found some on YouTube, which I hadn’t been able to find before, due to takedowns.

ETA: And that was the worst idea I’ve had. The Daydreamer’s live sequences are a Caucasian nightmare product of a whitewashed past. Ugh.

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1906

EH is quite a bit like an unauthorized Hellraiser movie. Maybe see it in a theater that serves alcohol.

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1907

That one turned me off to the whole series.

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1908

Blackkklansman.

Not really much I can say except that it’s one of Spike Lee’s better joints, and the epilogue is a piece of fine editing and craftsmanship.

ETA: Laura Harrier is 28? Dang, she got held back an entire decade at Peter Parker’s high school.

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