Be Excellent To Each Other

I merely weep for the state of the film industry, not over any perceived desecration.

No spoilers, but I thought ghostbusters was excellent.

It's ok, Gaz has spoiled it already

There is a new Power Rangers movie out next year.

Bryan Cranston is returning to it, playing Zordon. He also did the voices for a few of the villains in the original series.

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Ghostbusters was great fun!

Yes it was.

But it has time travelling women in it who can somehow ruin things from your past!

It is far superior to Ghostbusters 2, let's be honest.

Eddie the Eagle is a fucking delightful movie.

Yep!

I concur. Grim... get Swiss Army Man!

Rgr.

YAAAAUYYY!

It is. It's absolutely wonderful. Big grinny happy movie.

Kajaki - fucking hell.

Cor, yeah. Totally that.

After catching some of the Alien films on Film4 the other week, I figured I'd get the blu-ray set 'Prometheus to Alien' and have been working through them. Hadn't seen Alien 3 or Resurrection before so it was their turn over the last couple of nights.

Alien 3 wasn't bad.. a bit slow and the special effects look pretty bad, but still an entertaining film. I remember playing the Mega Drive game years back and it's safe to say that it doesn't exactly keep too faithfully to the film - in the first ten seconds of the game, there are more weapons and aliens than the entire film.

Alien Resurrection - I'd heard this wasn't great, but I wasn't expecting it to be so bad. It's like the only characters that knew they were in an Aliens film were the aliens themselves.

Oh and I've rather warmed to Prometheus now after being rather indifferent to it after seeing it at the cinema.

Alien 3 is so underrated it's unreal. Everyone expected more of Aliens, and were really butthurt when they killed off two "favourites" right at the start, but it's an awesome film - especially in the Assembly Cut (the director's workprint)

No CGI in the entire film either to my knowledge, with the only exception being the bit near the end where the Alien jumps out of the lead at the end and the skull cracks.

Resurrection is balls though. It had some pretty neat concepts (the Aliens being smart enough to escape from captivity by sacrificing each other, Ripley's horror at the "rejected" clones, the rag-tag bunch of pirates (was A:R before or after Firefly?) and even the Newborn at the end if it had been done slightly differently) but none of it hangs together well at all and the CGI is fucking appalling.

There are other bits (weather effects, background painting) but that's the only time they used CGI for the alien (apart from to paint some reflections of the puppet out).

There was certainly some potential there. As I was watching it, it felt a bit Firefly-like and at that point I didn't know Joss Whedon had written the script till I saw it on IMDB after seeing this comment of his -

With regards to the effects in Alien 3, it was usually the scenes where the alien was on-screen with the actors that looked a bit off. I was hoping to find a decent example online, but only found this -

I completely agree that Alien 3 is a good movie, it's hated because it is a step down from the two prior entries in the series, but I think it's great.

I totally agree that despite being the end product being a disaster, Resurrection had plenty of good ideas and interesting concepts. It's a shame that the botched execution squandered it all.

Isn't the Director's Cut of Resurrection somewhat better?

Aye, all puppet work. For the scene where the Alien scurries off down a corridor all dog-like, they actually put an Alien mask on a dog and filmed that.

I don't remember much about the DC, not really sure you can polish a turd though

A3 also gave us possibly the best "moment" in the entire series:

I find that the CG isn't bad, per se, but the compositing is awful. Thick black outlines, no environment mapping, no contrast matching.

In other words, lazy FX team.

From reading this post, the special edition sounds better than the theatrical version. The Director considers the theatrical version to be his version which is why the special edition isn't called the Director's Cut.

It was the special edition I saw last night anyway, so I think I'll be passing on the theatrical version.

Ooh, I dunno...

You're both wrong.

Well, I know what I'm wearing to the BBQ.

Not a bad shout. Carrie Henn doesn't really "do much" in that scene though, whereas Sigourney Weaver really nails the fear.

She can't see it!

Well, no - but she knows there's one about (can't she hear the motion tracker beeping if I remember rightly?) so I'd have thought she'd be a bit more frightened than she looks

Yeah, she can clearly hear it. She survived as long as she did by staying quiet and calm, though, so that could be an excuse.

Girl can scream, though.

Title.

Get in the Aliens thread you nerds!

Fast 8!

Is this going to be a standup fight, sir, or another pug hunt?

Superb

The Killing Joke animated adaptation is pretty good. Has some issues but yeah it's good.

Wonder Woman trailer

Speed is well strange to watch now.

Looks good.

New Dr Strange trailer

Do you know, I didn't really like it. It was just a bit boring. I liked the free-running stuff rather than the fight stuff, and found both the baddy and Cappie/NeoMurdock to be a bit crap.

It was a 90 minute gimmick, but the gimmick was a bit crap.

I really really liked Hardcore Henry.

I dunno as a gimmick it worked ok as a three minute pop video, but I can't imagine watching 90 minutes of it.

I stick by what I said about it in that it's not necessarily a great film, I think you enjoy it in the same way that you enjoy a rollercoaster ride, but it stands up to about the same amount of critical scrutiny.

Wasn't it made by a load of crazy Russians? It's the type of film I would imagine crazy Russians to make.

Yeah I think it was some Russian dude who directed it. I've only seen the pop video he made first and rollercoaster seems a good analogy. Imagine being on one for an hour and a half.