Alien Romulus, I was fine with it, but my god what an egregious pander to use the same famous kill line from Aliens. Seriously? I will always have fun watching a big budget cyberpunk movie but I wish it wasn’t in something that thinks I’m a moron and clap when presented with something I’ve seen before.
I will also amend this to say it is pretty disgusting the director is doing a press tour to defend necromancy
I watch Orson Wells’ The Trial tonight with a friend. We both really enjoyed it but we both did not remember the book being being as horny as the movie. It’s been probably 20 year since either of us has read it but was the book horny?
I saw Hot Shots! (1991) the other day and am embarrassed to say it made me laugh very hard more than once.
i don’t think kafka would understand the meaning of the word horny but at the same time he would embody it. to answer your question, no.
i’m pretty sure one of the people i saw it with loved it in this particular way lol
All the Police Story movies are on Kanopy, so I’m watching those.
They don’t make em like this no more.
I’m going to have to read it again. I need to know.
yeah the book has sexual type stuff in it very much so
I think I remember in a biography that Kafka was a womanizer but I must have blocked all that stuff out in his books.
I saw Alien: Romulus.
Short version: it sucked.
Longer version: it suuuuuuuucked.
I was appalled at the usage of Ian Holm’s likeness, especially because they did such a bad job of it. It has all the hallmarks of bad AI image generation, where the facial features are swimming around and everything just looks wrong.
There isn’t even any reason for it — it isn’t Ash in this film. There’s no reason for it to have to look like him! They could have just hired a real, human actor and every single thing related to that would have been better. (Except, perhaps, some nvidia stock holders’ portfolios?)
I give it: “probably better than Covenant but lowest possible score any rating system will allow, in protest of this ghoulish bullshit”
I kind of admire prometheus’ and covenant’s attempt to turn what we think of as an alien movie on it’s head even though they aren’t good movies. The problem with making an alien movie is that there’s no possibility of mystery and not knowing what form this creature will take. Giving you a small sense of knowing that this thing is and then upending it. Something the thing managed to accomplish but no other alien movie has. Romulus was perfectly content with being little parts of all the other movies stitched together and it felt completely rote even if competent.
really? i don’t remember
I’m happy they got something out of it
re: Alien Romulus androids:
The Ian Holm-lookalike wasn’t AI, it’s animatronics. My understanding is that it’s supposed to look wrong, because it’s a malfunctioning robot, and since these things are mass-produced, that explains the resemblance. I’m not sure if these reasons justify the decision, but I figured I should at least share the lore reasons, since I also was a little confused by this.
Edit: This article is better than what I linked above. Apparently AI was used in some way to make the voice sound more like Holm’s, but it seems like the appearance didn’t use AI (just “CGI enhancement”)? Though maybe the actual technical details don’t really matter.
double edit: i had been isolated from all discussion about this movie before seeing it (not on purpose – i just don’t use any social media except for this forum) so i didn’t realize how much this particular debate/controversy is part of The Discourse until just now, after already having written this post. I’m sorry for bringing it here!
There are some abrupt dream-like sexual moments in the novel; I seem to remember a scene in which Josef K. finds himself making out with a barmaid behind the counter while her husband is working in the adjoining room.
EDIT: nevermind i am thinking of THE CASTLE. you are allowed to kill me
Yeah, it just feels like a scummy thing to use the voice, when it’s been a fixture of labor disputes for years. To be honest, I think this is a losing battle.
Small moments in The Trial, The Castle and Wedding Preparations are all easy to mix up.
No worries – I too tend to avoid all Discourse of the sort. I’m less interested in whether or not it was generative AI, and more in that I think the entire idea of using his likeness like this – whatever the technical method used – is ghoulish and repugnant. I will say that they sure did a bad job of “CGI enhancement” because it looks like AI nonsense, at least!
After the awful taste left in my mouth after Alien: Romulus I decided that I wanted to watch a good film about aliens. I’d never seen it before but it came to me highly recommended, so I finally got around to watching Arrival. I’m happy to report that it was indeed quite good! It isn’t as clever as it thinks it is, but that doesn’t really matter.
I thought it was really funny that there is a scene with a bomb with a timer ticking down that was less tense than a scene with a mobile telephone call.
I saw Strange Darling today and I mostly enjoyed it. The one thing I wanted to point out that I found strange is that ahead of the title card and along with the production company names, there was a screen that said “This entire film was shot on 35mm film.”
Ok? Maybe you can just start the movie instead of bragging about how you’re retro hip cool guys. Obviously 35mm is cool but what a weird thing to do. Before long these tentpole franchise things are gonna start off by saying “this movie was shot using practical effects” because that’s such a buzz word now.
