movies

[Mary1966]

Has anyone seen Meryl Streep as Thatcher in the Iron Lady? It struck me how relevant the parallels were to the same themes and political arguments today, i.e. the Reagan era recession, tax cuts, Falkland Islands. I don't really recollect the details of her policies, but the movie paints her as a hardline conservative.

I went to see the Iron Lady, I follow British politics so I knew when they took historical liberties and that kind of spoiled the movie for me, but I would recommend seeing it for Streep's performance alone.

[Mary1966]

I just watched Downfall on Netflix. The Hitler Goes Crazy scene isn't as funny when you watch the whole thing. Mrs. Goebbles killing her kids was the worst--it was like watching someone kill all the kids in the Sound of Music. The secretary on whose memoirs the film was based was shown for real at the end.

[docellis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... QpGwnN3dfc#!

this scene was not shown in the movie i saw tonight. was this just marketing, or trailers, - or was this in the 3D versions or something?

edit, this is about prometheus

[SHOW]

I can't think of a reason the engineers remained in stasis for that long. Unless the bad aliens were that much of a threat, they decided to quarantine themselves and wait for help?

David and Ms. Vickers look a lot alike. If Ms Vickers was Weyland's natural born daughter, his sperm was pretty fertile, pretty long. Why does David call her "mum"?

I am unnerved by that reddit author's interpretation of abortion/cesarean.

Who is the little girl playing violin in Vicker's quarters "video screen"?

[go birds]

I assume viral marketing campaign.

Watched alien over the weekend.

[SHOW]

There's definitely a similarity between the alien ships

[docellis]

Thanks to HR Giger.

[Schlich]

Saw The Intouchables... french flick. Pretty nice feel-good movie.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... QpGwnN3dfc#!

this scene was not shown in the movie i saw tonight. was this just marketing, or trailers, - or was this in the 3D versions or something?

edit, this is about prometheus

[SHOW]

I can't think of a reason the engineers remained in stasis for that long. Unless the bad aliens were that much of a threat, they decided to quarantine themselves and wait for help?

David and Ms. Vickers look a lot alike. If Ms Vickers was Weyland's natural born daughter, his sperm was pretty fertile, pretty long. Why does David call her "mum"?

I am unnerved by that reddit author's interpretation of abortion/cesarean.

Who is the little girl playing violin in Vicker's quarters "video screen"?

I hadn't seen that, but the Weyland industries stuff was part of the marketing. They had a similarly long video about David.

[SHOW]

You mean the one engineer that was woken up? He might not have been intended to be there that long, remember the rest of the engineers in that area died in pretty unexpected fashion.

A lot of people have suspected that Vickers is an android or replicant, but Lindelof says no.

Vickers. Yes, she does look like David. Yes, this was intentional. What better way to piss off your daughter than to build the male equivalent of her? But enough about daddy issues (seriously, Lindelof, we get it!), allow me to answer your question. Is she a robot? She is not.

I imagine in a world where David can be built by 2085 or so, that a man of Weyland's means could have his child born from banked sperm around 1960. Similarly, I can only assume the girl playing the violin is Vickers.

[docellis]

[SHOW]

so the engineers were running frantically from the xenomorphs...and that one engineer survived somehow. They had canisters of xenomorphs, right? Stacked everywhere. To bring to earth. I am confused about how they were able to "bottle" the xenomorphs if they were so unsuccessful in battle with them.
Unless that religious guy's explanation is accurate, and the xenomorphs were pure and nice for as long as the garden of eden/humanity was pure and nice, and not the xenomorphs represent present day humanity. I hope that isn't the real story line though.

[go birds]

Remind me again who the xenomorphs were

[docellis]

I have seen that term refer to the things that killed the two scientists left behind, the thing Shaw had aborted from her stomach. I think they use that term because they "morph" into "Aliens" by attaching or implanting themselves into "hosts".

[SHOW]

for instance, this thing attaches to a host -- and becomes that thing that looks like "Alien"

But they seem to look different depending on their host...and in the aborted xenomorph case, completely different, like an octopus sorta, until it hosts on the engineer

edit
Actually, no that doesn't happen because the two scientists didn't "become" "Aliens" the xenomorphs just killed them. And Holloway looked like his body was going to disintegrate in the way the opening scene engineer did.