Rest In Peace...

[wjp666]

What p*sses me off more than anything is horror films which use CGI blood because it makes re-takes easier to set up. How lazy is that? Plus, you can ALWAYS tell and it completely ruins the atmosphere for me.

[GimmeTheSoddingChoc]

I think it was Stanley Kubrick who said that a good special effect is one you don't notice. The minute you do notice, it pulls you out of the zone.

[wjp666]

Indeed - can't argue with The Kubrick!

Not that I'm dead against all types of CGI... I finally watched Prometheus last night and was blown away by the visuals. I just believe there is a time and place for everything, and CGI blood replacing blood squibs is just plain old offensive to me.

[GimmeTheSoddingChoc]

Prometheus. Now you're talking. I thought it was great and the effects were seamless. Can't wait for Paradise.

[wjp666]

I enjoyed it so much it inspired me to immediately watch the Alien boxset I bought years ago but never watched. Going through all the films again (obviously I had seen them all before multiple times, hence the lack of urgency to watch the boxset), it became suddenly clear that, despite all I had read and knew about it and all that, I'd never actually seen the extended version of Alien 3 all the way through... just finished watching it, and I bloody loved it. Finally I have seen a worthy successor to Aliens. The only problem I have with the series now is Resurrection, which as much as I enjoyed as a popcorn flick, doesn't hond a candle to the toher 3.

And don't get me started on AVP!

Prometheus blew me away and I'm so happy the sequel is going forward. I'm kind of hit and miss with sci-fi but this one really did it for me.

[GimmeTheSoddingChoc]

I've got the Alien box set, but I haven't got around to watching the Alien 3 DC. As an aside, I really like Alien: Resurrection. I always liked the idea of the xenomorphs and Ripley finally making it to Earth. As for AvP, well, I like the first one, but it doesn't have anything to do with the main series in my eyes.

[wjp666]

The extended/re-edit of Alien 3 is definitely worthy of your attention (it might've even been better if they managed to persuade Fincher to help out.) As for Alien 4... I watched that again last night, and like I said, as a popcorn flick it's fine... it just plays as a bit tacky compared to the other 3. I blame Joss Whedon's script (NEVER should've got him to write it) and the direction of a french guy who had little previous knowledge of the series. Oh, and Winona Ryder... who ruins everything she's in by default.

I disliked AVP... mainly due to the 12 rating on it. How the hell can you make a film with Aliens and Predators and rate it anything but 18? Having said that, Requiem got a harsher rating and sucked for other reasons. (Mainly by betraying certain aspects of the mythology of the two breeds.) I didn't really like the way the Aliens were protrayed as the Predators 'bitches'. That irritated me. It was after the first AVP film that the likes of Ridley Scott stated they would never have anything to do with either franchise ever again. Thankg goodness he reconsidered!

[GimmeTheSoddingChoc]

Well, I always preferred the comics. I think Fox realised that AvP was never going to continue. At least we have Prometheus to cheer us up! 

[wjp666]

As far as the Predator franchise goes... I genuinely preferred the last one - Predators - to all the others. Yes, I know, controversial.

[wjp666]

RIP the soldier murdered in cold blood by the cowardly islamic extremists yesterday in Woolwich. Feel disgusted to be human today.

[wjp666]

Somebody finally whacked Tony Soprano. RIP James Gandolfini. A great actor, though slightly typecast.

[smurfboy]

Alan Whicker has gone now - pneumonia, aged 87. It sounds like he had a great life though - his long-term partner made a statement about how privileged she'd been to share so many years with him, and how much he'd enjoyed his work.

[wjp666]

Damn, I didn't even hear about this one. RIP. Good guy.

[Rainbow]

Mel Smith.
Actor and comedian, dies of heart attack aged 60.

Silly, funny man. ~x~

[wjp666]

Pit of despair

Indeed. What a guy.