demagogue on 20/5/2014 at 07:48
For the record, it was in New York City, so I'm sure they got it and they probably weren't actually offended, but they just didn't like the humor. People there are usually at least culturally competent.
On the other hand, speaking of my hometown in Texas, I know people just like the etiquette lady in that movie, who are surreally detached from cultural reality.
This all reminds me that I almost never watch movies in theatres anymore. Not Prometheus. Actually now that I think about it, Oblivion was the last movie I did so, I think. Well, excepting some throwaway Japanese movies here. Now that I think about it some more, the reason is probably because by the time Western movies get here it's been a few months and there's almost no sense in going to watch them then.
Briareos H on 20/5/2014 at 08:15
The only time I walked out of a cinema was for a truly abominable horror film, I don't remember if it was Blair Witch 2 or the remake of The Ring but I remember enjoying every moment of walking up that little alley and flipping the bird to that screen.
Harvester on 20/5/2014 at 10:15
The remake of The Ring is not abominable at all. Of all the J-horror remakes, it is one of the best if not the best. It just does things differently from the Japanese version. I actually prefer the remake.
All those otakus who keep claiming that American directors of J-horror remakes are hacks who can never compare to the brilliance of the original Ringu director should remember that that Ringu director directed The Ring Two and it sucked balls.
N'Al on 20/5/2014 at 10:16
Didn't leave the cinema during Blair With Project 2 either. Goddamnit, so many missed chances!
june gloom on 20/5/2014 at 10:34
Quote Posted by Harvester
The remake of The Ring is not abominable at all. Of all the J-horror remakes, it is one of the best if not the best.
That means it's probably The Ring that BH walked out on.
Briareos H on 20/5/2014 at 11:03
I never really liked the original to begin with but now that I think of it, that remake was fairly bland and harmless yeah. Probably Blair Witch 2 then. This was a real stinker.
SubJeff on 20/5/2014 at 11:34
The remake is nowhere near as good as the original, but it's still a good film. Unnecessary but apart from one or two bits that lose the subtlety of the original it's a good remake. And I hate the concept of remakes. Old Boy? Get out.
DDL on 20/5/2014 at 15:11
I think the slightly off-kilter weirdness of japanese culture is part of what makes the ring movies. Japan has a lot of folklore douchebag ghosts who are dicks just..because.
Thus Ringu didn't really even try to explain the mechanics behind sadako: it was basically "vengeful ghost mutant monster girl hates everything, also somehow via VHS. Deal with it."
Whereas The Ring (being, I assume, westernised. Or at least Wattsed), tried to frame it in a slightly more coherent way that simply served to highlight how silly the concept is.
Of course, I did see Ringu first. At one in the morning. On my own. In a dark room. On a crap TV. On VHS.
....so it made a fairly lasting impression.
Renault on 13/9/2016 at 17:26
Back up in this beyotch - the Prometheus sequel, now called "Alien: Covenant" is less than a year away (August 4th, 2017). Not much is known yet, but here's a short description:
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Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant find what they believe to be an uncharted paradise. What the crew discover, however, is a dark, dangerous world, whose sole inhabitant is the "synthetic" David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition. The film is expected to answer some of the series origin questions raised by the Prometheus film.
Ridley Scott also added this:
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[They] are going to the planet of the Engineers and they are going to see what happened there. It was a disaster. And they will be in that alien craft that takes them there, but with a new group that’s incoming, a new group of travelers in the beginning of the first act,” the director described.
Fassbender is back as David, and although Ridley Scott originally said Rapace would
not be back as Shaw, she has been seen on the set in recent months and was supposedly there for several weeks of filming.
So the whole thing with Shaw originally not returning is strange, given the ending of Prometheus. Yet they are definitely calling this a sequel. It appears they're skipping a large sequence of what happened when David and Shaw left for the Engineer's planet, but maybe they'll flashback to it, who knows.
Here's hoping this movie will be less of a trainwreck than the last installment.
Neb on 13/9/2016 at 17:37
So, the one thing that I actually liked about Prometheus - Shaw carrying David's head, and fragile cooperation with the possibility of mindfuckery - is not going to be in the sequel.
I even like the idea enough that I'd love to see an RPG game which begins with you defeating an immortal villain by beheading him, and then the whole game is almost a psychological thriller of you working out how to actually kill him while avoiding manipulation.
Anyway, sorry, Prometheus sequel.
[EDIT]: OK, maybe jumping the gun me claiming that it won't be in there. I've got a bad headache at the moment and I'm not reading details correctly.
