Just from the pictures and the review this looks great.

Going to New Orleans this weekend for a bachelor party. Most people haven’t been and we’re kind of searching for reco’s w/r/t Food, Drink, Music, Activities, etc.

Yeah I realized after the fact that you might’ve been going the sarcasm route but hey, 2017.

False equivalency. Lumping people into the worst aspects of their arbitrary generational categories is clearly not a good habit, but to imply that the man who got punched- who we know nothing about -is on the same level as the coward who cold-cocked him is preposterous.

I’m sure there are plenty more references and connections to other works, but during K’s intimate scene with Joi / San Junipero girl, it was almost identical to the attempted sex scene Joaquin Pheonix has in Her. with Scarjo and surrogate.

Yup, that’s exactly what happened. I don’t know why they couldn’t accommodate us with vouchers to IMAX showings; is it the theaters licensing the projector from IMAX and allowing vouchers to regular price theaters to view IMAX fudges the reported figures?

The run-time was only an issue for me because the AMC I went to go see it at in NYC had the IMAX machine crap out with what I’m assuming was ~30 minutes left (still don’t know how it ends) and apparently it’s such a time-consuming process to reboot those things that they had to kick us out in order to accommodate the…

I would really like someone to photoshop a cape on him and throw a wizard staff in that hand. It’s a fantastic reaction, whatever the hell it is.

I read the book ages ago so I’ll defer to your explanation, and totally believe it. But yeah my question was more to the statement that eyes are a recurring motif within Scott’s movies. I guess Black Hawk Down has some shots of folks with debris and stuff over their eyes, but I never found any overarching obsession in…

Does Ridley Scott have an obsession with eyes? I know Kubrick had his patented stare, didn’t realize Scott has a fixation as well.

That Chemical Brothers score is fantastic. I regularly listen to both “Escape” tracks and Devil is in the Details.

Fair enough. I think it’s a beautiful movie; if others don’t dig it, no problem.

I think they’re talking pitchers, here.

Is everything with an alien automatically sci-fi? Is Star Wars sci-fi? I was under the impression something about the technology was to play an integral role in the plot. For Predator yeah, the lasers and thermal stuff make it a tougher opponent, but it doesn’t really drive the plot in any way, it’s just gadgetry…

It wasn’t a random pig, though, right? Part of the procedure when those people are abducted is that part of them (their brain? it’s been awhile since I’ve seen it) is placed inside the pig; that whole process seems to keep their real life person foggy and in the dark and they can’t put it together. But when the two of…

None of the tech in any science fiction is real, that’s what makes it science fiction.

Yeah, depends on how broad the definition is. I’d say Arrival had more sci-fi in that the aliens (spoilers?) end up giving Amy Adams their language, which allows her to Billy Pilgrim herself through time and solve problems. I’d say that’s a lot more direct intervention of alien / foreign tech than the predator, who’s…

Fair enough, agree to disagree on that one!

I dunno, the mind-control secretion and ensuing operations on the pigs in Upstream Color has more an element of sci-fi (biology, in this case, not just space stuff) than Donnie Darko’s sic-fi which, if I remember correctly, was basically that there was a worm hole?

Is Predator considered sci-fi? It’s more that the alien has some gadgets, but it’s basically an action movie that turns into a monster movie, and the monster has some lasers and shit.