Yeah, cute little subversion of the 'sexy times' trope by very CLEARLY crossing the line into something that would make the audience (and the characters) uncomfortable and weirded out by the situation.
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I'm just saying, that particular point of logic doesn't make much sense. Pretty much every monster in the film was 'popularized' in Film, so that doesn't fit. You could use that point of logic on nearly anything: Hell, the image of Zombies as slow, shambolic blue-skinned types were popularized by the Romero films. …
Similar (but less of a skewer) is the stereotypical Jock, who is of course, not only quite intelligent but a pretty nice guy over all. They basically have to dose him with stupid repeatedly to make the audience 'root' for him to die, because we're supposed to want to.
...How is that related? You uh, know It was a book first, right?
Well, that can't be the case, because that happened. :P Besides, it has to be something from the cellar, because it's referenced fairly specifically. 'They don't have to go down there.'
1). If viewed through the lens of horror films, the idea that each country has its own 'rules' becomes easier to swallow. The 'rules' for a J-horror film are intrinsically different from say, the rules of an American horror film (a good short comparison—the Japanese and English versions of the Ring are completely…
(Man, lot of people are saying stuff like this lately). Paleontologists are almost 100% certain that Dinosaurs are endothermic The idea that Dinosaurs are like Lizards has been out of vogue for decades. Robert T. Bakker posted a paper in the 60s that laid the evidence for that claim and it's only been getting…
The most current reasoning on Dinosaurs suggests they are endothermic, not ectothermic. And they haven't been Lizards for a while.
Fuck, ask a few species how being suspected of stealing from farmers work out. There's a big legal battle going on up here in the Pacific Northwest over this, as a few Seals have figured out that nice little salmon bridge built to help Salmon up the dam is a delicious little smorgasboard, so they've got the okay from…
To add on to the quotation of Cersei 'winning', it's made all the worse because the power play actually erodes Cersei's own power base a little (juxtaposed in a lovely fashion by Joffrey, who's busily alienating everybody and anybody around him and losing the kingdom without even knowing it). Her power play aside,…
Yeah, I know the books have kindled an interest in a lot of people—but the book has been out for a long time now. Just because you walked into a series during a surge of popularity doesn't mean the entire fandom has to tiptoe around you just because you came in during say—a syndicated release of a series that's been…
Not to be a huge prick, but Storm of Swords is nearly 12 years old now. What's the statue of limitations on things being 'spoilers' versus 'This part of the series is 12 years old, if you're that worried about it maybe you shouldn't go clicking links to news until you've caught up.' I mean, even if it, say, Feast of…
Personally I'd imagine the Lannister's as more Nylarthathotep's kinda schtick. Cthulu's a little cra—you know what? I just remembered the last two books and all of Joffrey's story and decided you're right.
I know the 'R' rating has always been something Hollywood has typically avoided, but we're really just getting absurd now. I dunno, I guess hearing that kind of sentiment—from Ridley Scott of all people—bugs me. Maybe it would bug me less if the MPAA's ratings were at least slightly fucking consistent, but there's…
There's an old Giger-artbook as well that talks a lot about the behind the scenes stuff in Alien and shows off a lot of his work: Good luck fidning it though, it was in the 'rare book' section of Powell's when I found it and it too much for me to buy a fucking awesome artbook that was all his art and design for Alien,…
Personally, after sitting a few discussions around on how basically 'Xenomorphs are done', I feel this is the only way to make the mythos interesting again: By making it so they're just one facet of the various weirdness and horror out there. The irony is this is probably the best way to do it: Small connections…
As Nivenius said—this can be easily explained away with the fact the Nostromo is essentially a transport. Ugly and it gets the job done. The 'Prometheus' is a corporate-bound explorer vessel. Not only is it designed for a more specialized task, it could be argued to be designed for P.R.. Glamour shots of the…
As Nivenius said—this can be easily explained away with the fact the Nostromo is essentially a transport. Ugly and it gets the job done. The 'Prometheus' is a corporate-bound explorer vessel. Not only is it designed for a more specialized task, it could be argued to be designed for P.R.. Glamour shots of the…
Probably never will get a good look at the jaw either. Sharks just don't leave very good remains behind. Even partial jaw fragments are so rare as it's going to be the equivalent of winning the paletological lottery. twice.
"I've been told that this is all just nitpicking; that it's absurd to worry about accurate archery in a movie featuring a god, a flying armored guy, a shield-flinging WWII super-soldier, and a radioactive monster battling aliens and giant reptiles. It's not supposed to be realistic, it's supposed to be cool. The only…