Movies

I watched North By Northwest last night, such a cool score and so many iconic scenes. It's pretty whacky on the outset but gets much more compelling as it goes along. That Hitchcock fella has a future in the Biz (that's Hollywood talk for show business )

I watched Battleship where a drunken burrito thief becomes a naval officer like his brother so he can get the girl and then they save the world from an alien invasion in Hawaii! And a depressed Army veteran with no legs regains his confidence and helps! I'm pretty sure it was paid for by our U.S. military recruiting budget.

We’re goin to see Alien Romulus in the IMAX and I’m pretty excited to learn it takes place between Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986).

I watched Casa De Los Baby's this morning, a film by my hometown boy John Sayles. I really dug it, lots of good acting and an interesting setting. Marcia Gay Harden is an excellent actress.

the new Alien movie is a great contribution to the Alien franchise and a lovely tribute to the first two films. The colony on Jackson’s Star is bleak and the lead role Rain is smart and you pay attention to he suggestions because she is usually making intelligent decisions and her bro is artificial or synthetic if ya wanna be a dick about it and the actors are great and well casted. The outer space shots are amazing to view and perhaps the best outer space shots in a movie maybe. It’s got horror for sure like the OG Alien (1979) and you gotta love how they depict that era technology with the dated computer screens etc and they do some great action sequences to honor Aliens (1986) including a reintroduction to the weaponry of the colonial Marines which fans will enjoy the specific chatter of the gunfire of those 10m explosive rounds. A very cool sequence of acid blood floating around in no gravity is cool and claustrophobic. Go see it in IMAX!

We watched Aliens (1986) last night since we were in an alienesque mood and it’s still awesome but I do think another super tight movie can be inserted directly before that timeline that could show the standoff of the 70-80 families of the mining colony versus the alien invasion and perhaps they can recast Newt when she was in 2nd grade and her brother Timmy and her parents too even though we know it’s a sad ending for them but they really put up a legendary fight. They lead right into the marines showing up for the rescue with Ripley.

We are watching Alien 3 (1993) which is not great but it’s David Fincher’s big screen directorial debut and the guy had to start somewhere besides making Madonna music videos and he makes excellent movies usually.

beginning a thread about movies with "I did not watch one" is peak lork energy

I see it every time I click the thread. It's not an insult. It is funny to me though.

Q: Why quote it?
A: Because it's hilarious.

/water