Tag Archives: #alien

‘Wonder Woman:’ the Good, the Bad and the Contextual

Posted on June 2, 2017 by reelentropy

7/10 Wonder Woman is an uneven experience. At its worst, it’s frustrating and cliched and laugh-out-loud ridiculous, but at its best it’s majestic. In ancient times, after Ares awakened mankind’s warlike tendencies, Zeus created the amazons to appease them. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #alien, #gal gadot, #ghostbusters, #god of war, #kill bill, #man of steel, #Thor, #wonder woman, #zack snyder, 300, Band of Brothers, Captain America, Chris Pine, DAT ASS, DCEU, God bless Chris Pine, Jessica Jones, Neoliberalism, ramping, Saving Private Ryan, Sofia Coppola, Tony Stark | 1 Comment

What can you say about ‘Baywatch?’

Posted on May 26, 2017 by reelentropy

4/10 I really don’t know what to make of this movie. Can’t say it’s everything wrong with 2017 filmmaking, already did that last week. Can’t really say it’s juvenile, that’s the whole point. On Emerald Bay, the renowned lifeguard team … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #alien, #dwayne johnson, #josh gad, #zac efron, Alexandria Daddario, aliens, Are you sure that's not Josh Gad?, Baywatch, Lampshade, sex, That's not Josh Gad, That's racist | Leave a comment

‘Alien: Covenant’ is everything wrong with filmmaking in 2017

Posted on May 19, 2017 by reelentropy

5/10 Watching Alien: Covenant, it’s hard not to think about the death of cinema, as director/producer Ridley Scott recently described with a remarkable lack of self-awareness. Like the edema, back pain and noxious bad breath of advanced renal failure, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #alien, #michael fassbender, #prometheus, #ridley scott, 2017, Alien: Covenant, franchise potential, inglorious basterds, Just make a movie, No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers | 2 Comments

‘Prometheus:’ five years later, still shitty

Posted on May 18, 2017 by reelentropy

Prometheus is probably the most famously bad movie in recent memory. Well, no, there are a lot of people who would pretty condescendingly disagree with that. Maybe it’s the most often defended bad movie in recent memory? The worst good movie … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #alien, #michael fassbender, #prometheus, #ridley scott, #steve jobs, Alien: Covenant, Ancient astronauts, Chariots of the Gods, deleted scenes, Guy Pearce, Leviticus, Max von Sydow, shitty, Space Jesus | 1 Comment

A brief history of space movies

Posted on October 13, 2015 by reelentropy

With The Martian holding steady in the no. 1 spot, it’s time to take a look at how space has been used as a setting in movies over the years. The first space movie — the first science fiction movie, really — was the 1902 … Continue reading →

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