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You guys were discussing worst apocalyptic or nightmarish scenario for each of you. Haunted house, zombies, unicorn, The Thing, etc.
It's gotta be (Giger) Aliens. Face-raping, chest-bursting, acid-for-blood, skull-puncturing, pure viciousness. It's the most perfectly conceived movie monster (of roughly human size).
Give me vampires, zombies, Frankenstein, any day over frigg'n aliens in the basement.
Spoilers: Like Sunshine, it suddenly becomes a zombie / slasher movie. Scientists (field geologists) stationed on Mars looking for life are infected with an alien virus that picks them all off one by one. The setting could be a cabin in the woods ('damn, our communicators aren't working'). It rips off Prometheus, Red Planet, Mission to Mars, Alien, and many other tropes, in a discount B-movie sorta way. Effects are competent (particularly the rovers). The cast is okay. The screenplay makes use of the letter 'a' a lot as in 'raaaaaaaaaaaaaa'. It's a pity so many film-makers can't think of anything better in the sci-fi genre than reduce it to 10 Little Indians.
TREE OF LIFE was so close to working for me for a little while there. I watched it as part of the Best Picture showcase and I knew a lot of people had hated it, but about an hour and a half in I found myself thinking I was going to have to be the contrarian and carry its torch.
Then it kept going... and kept going... and marched steadily further and further up its own ass. It had me, it really did, and then it lost me.
Rob wrote:What made that really sting for me is, when I initially saw TTOL, the first half of the movie—dinosaurs keeling over and such—got me excited that maybe Malick was heading toward almost the exact opposite sentiment. I.e., the universe doesn't care about us, so we should jolly well care about each other.
YES. This is exactly what made me think I might just love the movie, then it went the opposite way and so did my feelings on it.
Here in London there's a revival cinema that screens Tree of Life together with The Fountain for a 'let's get stoned' double feature. Yes, a one-hour cut for Tree of Life could be great, keeping the Creation sequence and some of the first half and severely gouging the Sean Penn stuff in the second half
Episode 1 is still bad even if it isn't a star wars movie.
The one good thing about Episode 1 is that it prepared us for further disappointments when other classic franchises are resurrected. Crystal Skull. The Hobbit. Terminator Salvation. Predators. Prometheus. Pirates 4.
Now we KNOW that anything fantastic from the past that is dusted off and milked for more is virtually guaranteed to suck. We can all dial our expectations way down for Jurassic Park 4, Episode 7, etc.
Ripley: They cut the power.
Hudson: What do you mean, "*They* cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!
Or this... I don't want to talk about time travel...
Here's a classic lantern with time travel paradoxes:
Basil: I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself.
[to camera]
Basil: That goes for you all, too.
new blooper reel...
I just think it's more than a bit premature to make that kind of statement, Scorcese has 20 years of movies on Cuaron, and he's still had some really good ones the last decade. If in 20 years Cuaron has still had nothing but hits, then we can talk, but statistically speaking he's probably going to have some bad movies down the line, it's just what happens. It's just way too early to make this kind of comparison one way or the other.
That's a good response. Not many film-makers have seminal iconic high-quality work sustained over four or five decades. His top ten take some beating, and the output from Taxi Driver to Goodfellas is as strong as anyone's oeuvre. Yes, there is a drop-off in quality with Scorcese as he gets older, but you'd expect that given how prolific he's been.
Since Dorkman was the trooper that carried that ring all the way there and back again, I'm predicting he'll be last man standing again, at midnight.
All this is just preparation for the James Bond marathon, right? 
Meh, I don't think it's too much to ask for people to ensure their pictures/videos/gifs actually work before posting them.
Well that's hardly a controversial opinion, which is ironic for this Topic. Technically, Jimmy B's comments are more relevant to this thread. 
bullet3 wrote:...and that awful ending music.
This entire Topic may need to be deleted so we don't incriminate ourselves in the future e.g. get denied a date or job or entry into uni or a nursing home or someth'n. It might be too late - the NSA have probably already logged our 'controversial' opinions and matched them to our IP addresses. Some teens post nude photos of themselves. Others say they didn't like Blade Runner.
The only way to enjoy this is to have your mind erased of the last 40 years of movies. Then it'll appear fresh and original and awesome. Rather than just checking off the clichés.
Maybe one day there'll be a drug that knocks out your hippocampus, so every movie will be like Star Wars / LOTR for the first time.
"No, there's still something left. Activate the sack of hammers."
I'm waiting for someone to defend Transformers, Adam Sandler, M. Night Shyamalan, Damon Lindelof, Episode 1, and the Wayans.
C'mon - which bozo is gonna say they're underrated?
...so anyway, BLADE RUNNER is overrated.
[Grabs pitchfork] Burn the witch!
The Amazing Spiderman wasn't
The Man Who Wasn't There was plainly there
11 hours later, you still don't actually see the Lord of the Rings.
Bourne Ultimatum had no ultimatum in it.
Brazil.... wtf?
I only had two minor problems with it...
1. I couldn't see the kaiju and jaeger fighting because it was (a) too dark (b) too wet (c) edited too fast (d) camera too unstable and (e) zoomed in too close
2. Even if you could see the fisticuffs, the fight sequences were too short, resulting in the rest of the movie playing like a glossy Asylum straight-to-video job with D-list actors and 10 clichés-per-minute screenplay.
I wanted giant monsters versus kickass robots in a Matrix Burly-Brawl punch-up trashing Manhattan.
Yeah, the problem with that is that I have yet to hear a convincing argument against the film's logical consistency.
Sin City - XXL edition.
Yeah, the entire movie industry is trying to duplicate The Avengers formula.
Fox got there first when they crossed the Aliens and Predators streams. 
Here's one: Marvel Studios is doing one of the most revolutionary things in film history, and no one's paying attention because they're comic book movies. There has NEVER been a franchise like the Avengers.
No one's paying attention? Avengers is top of the biggest grossing non-James Cameron movies in history.
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