"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise..."

The same thing happened when our president (and 95 other people) died in a plane crash in 2010. Some people will use any opportunity for shameless self-promotion. We've had our fair share of that for the last 3 years... I'm sorry to see that now it's America's turn.

I eagerly await Star Trek Into Darkness... and I sincerely hope the distributors won't screw my country this time. Some Star Trek movies weren't screened in Polish theaters at all, others were limited to a few cities.

Strangely enough, this prejudice applies only to Star Trek (other big sci-fi movies almost always get a country-wide theatrical release in Poland).

The 2009 Star Trek was basically a Star Wars movie. And a pretty good one, too, so there's cause for optimism.

During the communist era we didn't 

Back then we had our own custom posters for almost all foreign movies. Now we get the generic ones (the 1997 Special Edition theatrical release in Poland had the standard US posters).

There's another gallery here.

These two come from Poland:
http://www.filmweb.pl/Gwiezdne.Wojny/po … er-7376767
http://www.filmweb.pl/Gwiezdne.Wojny/po … er-6940998

Nowadays, only some arthouse cinemas in Poland occasionally commission custom posters.

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It's really sad to see those Facebook-addicted kids nowadays... Someone should explain to them that friend whoring does not make one great.

Oh, wait... 10 years ago there was no Down In Front or TV Tropes 

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So far I haven't seen any of the old episodes, so I've got only three Doctors to choose from. Of the three, Tennant has the best balance of quirkiness and seriousness. Besides, I think he got the best scripts ("Blink" and "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" are my favorites).

Season's greetings from snowy Poland.

The real issue is... Prometheus doesn't really know what it is and where it is going. While it's still a moderately entertaining movie that can be enjoyed on some levels, it's a shame to see the wasted potential. Story-wise it was incoherent, the writers simply didn't focus on the job.

It must have been written with LV-426 in mind, since it used all the classic imagery from Alien. Changing the location to LV-223 is probably the most egregious example of sloppy writing in the movie.

Erich von Däniken's theories make an interesting movie premise. Is it really so hard to execute it in an interesting manner? Writers of the Stargate franchise had an uninterrupted run of 14 years and they didn't explore the premise very well (they just preferred to play it safe and focus on the action & humor).

Most of the bad science doesn't really bother me - I guess at this point I've gotten used to it. Remember the supernova that "threatened to destroy the galaxy" in Star Trek (2009)? It was way worse than anything in Prometheus... And we've seen FTL travel and artificial gravity in all other Alien movies (we simply didn't know the exact date). It's just very hard to portray interstellar travel without them.

I wouldn't exactly call Prometheus a clusterfuck... but it had the potential to be much more than it is. IMO it's much better than The Phantom Menace, which was the worst bummer of its decade.

Compared to Alien 3 & 4 and Alien vs Predator movies, Prometheus is not bad at all.

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The Dark Knight Rises didn't disappoint me, since I already knew nobody could out-Legder Heath Ledger anyway.

I found Men In Black III, American Reunion and The Hunger Games pretty entertaining, but not mind-blowing.

It's much more interesting than Death Proof (and there's a DIF commentary for it).

Here's another one: Kill Bill is not that great. It feels like an over-indulgent fan film that has more style than substance, a 4-hour-long homage to old movies. Death Proof is another (more egregious) example of this.

6 °C? By Polish standards, that's a very warm winter