Super Existence

This is positively David Lynch.

He's being used as a 'consultant' which means he has nothing to do with it, he only retains control over the original trilogy.

I'm quite surprised at the backlash of J.J. Abrams. I don't find him offensive as a director in the slightest, he has a reasonably good nostaglic style. But the fact is if not him who else is there? (If people say Peter Jackson I'll puke). The fact is this could have been much worse and LUCAS could have been directing these you need to remember.

I seriously think they should just leave star wars dormant.

Ryuki, when did Alchanphel mention Guyver 3 was originally Zero's unit. I missed that one.

A B-movie is mainly story related. Anything that sounds like a cheap 50's movie is a B-movie. Alien is technically a B-Movie ( a total rip of 'It The Terror from beyond Space.') Doesn't stop it being a great film though. I loved the design of robot jox, they look fit for purpose rather that trying to be too fantasy. Most military weapons are hideous but that's because the aren't meant to look good. The do have way more heft than transformers who seemed to defy our gravity in every possible way.

Sorry to be the moaner but I did groan when I saw Idris Elba giving some pre battle war speech designed to give men some kind of arousal. I also just thought it was uninspiring and although the effects were glossy there seemed to be not enough weight to the robots. I'm still more impressed by the effects and designs of robot jox: There's just a sense that they're real. It all still feels like a hi end game FMV to me. But maybe that's just me.

I could have sworn I did this already and supplied them to the advocacy group when I dd the VDF.

I thought that's what every one was talking about was wearing two Guyvers simultaneously. I still think the boost tissue in his back that summons the Guyver might signal another control medal to remain dormant. Don't forget this was standard issue for the Uranus, they couldn't get any possible advantage out of getting more than one if they both do the exact same job and seeing as they would be handling Unit G's with their own activated it would make sense for an activated unit G to signal dormant ones to stay dormant.

The unit G would probably detect an activated control medal and not activate. It wouldn't do anything.

He could have absorbed the corpse of the barrier zoanoid that FGII split in half without her knowledge

I don't think Aptom was advancing the Guyver in anyway, he seemed to use his own sonic blades to get in and covered Guyver one so that he could cloak him, I really doubt that Aptom could increase the Guyver as it stands.

Back in those days producers were less bothered about elements of story and more on how much money was being spent. I think RS goes off on mad tangents. Seems like he used to listen but wont take anyone on now. Some good examples are: In alien he wanted to see a form halfway between chestburster and adult that looked like an egg with feet, waddling around the ship (like Dark Star) In legend he came up with the idea of making cruise's forest boy jack have green lizard skin until the writer shot him down.

I've seen most of Ridley Scotts BTS doco's and in the majority of them Ridley makes a stupid decision that is over turned by someone else, all through his career he had someone telling him 'no' until he got to gladiator.

You should watch the making of the movie, it's about four hours long but I think it' a bit of an eye opener. It's amazing how much Ridley refuses to capitulate to anyone else's opinion on what works. Guys got way too much authority now.

I think X day was listed at 199X.

I find it hard not to go on a rant these days. I don't think it was the worst film ever. If it had nothing to do with alien I would say it was six out of ten but for me it was the biggest let down ever which is what makes me rant. Yes the film was a hit but that's because most of the cinema going public can't imagine what the movie could have been. The film was aimed at Alien fans plain and simple but halfway through they decided to make a completely different kind of movie but couldn't leave the alien ties behind leaving this very tenuous link between them. If they'd have cut ll ties and made an independent sci-fi movie it wouldn't have caused the uproar that it did, a movie that is neither one thing nor the other. It has no target, it tantalises one thing but acts like another and doesn't deliver on either.

I think that vid checked most boxes of why the script was gaff. The only thing they left out was how good looking the two scientists were despite them being geeky scientists and the crew all being stupid, fearful of the unknown and substance abusers and yet this got by whatever psychological and medical examinations they would have had to have gone through to get on the mission in the first place. Also why an alien race would change so little in the tens of millions of years between the opening scene and the future present. I never realised until I rewatched it how bad the acting of the supporting cast was too. Listen to them choking on their dialogue, worst of all is Fifield, it's agonising listen to the lines he delivers and that demented Clint Eastwood impression he delivers. I sat through the making of the film and it's clear from that Ridley Scott has given little thought to the screenwriting process, you can also listen to the commentary where the writers are clearly pissed at certain things. They would write a fleshed out scene, then Ridley would come up with a new idea then and there and they would have to rework the entire script to conform to that one idea. He thinks he understands writing better than anyone but he is the position of George Lucas now were noone is telling him what a dumb idea that might be. The movie is striving for far too many themes and done the worst thing any movie can do which is to not live up to the history of the mythos that preceded it. I always pictured the Space Jockeys to be as big as the one in the chair and to be godlike, imposing, silent, perhaps psychic, something magnificent but utterly unlike us and instead they were us. He took the single most 'alien' species ever committed to film that had a back story only hinted at and ripe for expanding on and completely depowered them utterly. They are too much like us now with a fairly whacky sense of architecture. To make them the same as us is a pompous metaphor for how great the human race is that we are the centre to all events transpiring our galaxy when the idea that on LV426 was this hint of something much more malevolent and cold going on beyond our knowledge. We should have been insects to them not worth bothering with a blip on their plans which eclipsed us a billion years over. Their ships could have been only the beginning of their technology they could have planets built of such materials, mammoth cathedrals to their magnificence And to have the alien as nothing more than a by product of several species coming together was another bad idea, why not return to the idea of the aliens being mysterious? Something beyond our understanding and utterly ghostly. Why couldn't they have done something cool like the space jockeys development was so fantastic the only thing keeping them from accelerating into something beyond their flesh was the constant threat of the alien which was infecting their galactic empire, or perhaps the alien is nothing more than the universes mass extinction device for a species to difficult to destroy because of their space faring and planet colonising nature. So the alien could have been the only representation of any kind of design or thought behind the universe, a natural weapon of mass destruction that got disturbed by the space jockey's far too curious nature. Nature had decided to wipe out all life in the universe and begin again by using the aliens and the only thing fighting back against this was the space jockeys, a race as old as the universe itself. The possibilities were endless...but to have them as a biological whoops is childish. The black goo could have done something really cool in the movie but instead it wound up being nothing more than a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesesque mutagen. This too should have been as mystical as the alien was with some clear thought behind it rather than the lazy writing approach in this movie which was 'Let the audience figure it out' (BTW there is a big difference in being ambiguous with ideas and not having an actual clue yourself). Screwing this movie up was the same as the Star Wars prequels going it was almost fool proof, everything left behind was set up to make a great film but they avoided the greatness and went for an esoteric episode of the twilight zone. It was a waste really. I was utterly gutted when I came out of the cinema and angry wasn't the word, because Ridley had the money and the impetus to do something great and wound up surrounding himself with hack yes men to create what is essentially a sci fi big budget B movie in the vein of the old Roger Corman movies. I don't mock this movie to seem more clever than it, I wanted this movie to be more clever than me and instead I found it insulting and quite boring especially how it saw itself standing on the shoulders of it's giant bequeathment from Alien.

So Shin is being targeted next. Also interesting to see Aptom has the ability to search memories of those he is absorbing.

They are filming in China but they're doing it in the next few weeks so no footage was ready for the trailer, I think they were suffering a nightmare trying to get China access due to their being potential negative connotations attached. I'm sure I heard Andy Lau was meant to be starring as well at some point, crying shame they couldn't get him for it.

Not sure I like the Iron Patriot colour scheme on War Machine nor for that matter do I like the leaner War Machine but I think the Mark 8 looks amazing, I really like the colour. Seems like this could be much more interesting with Stark encountering his own alter ego.

Robocop was a culmination of everything being perfect, sound, acting, score, etc. This shows why the following ones were mediocre at best. Lightning won't strike twice, the original was right people right movie at the right time. As for the Robocop suit looking more realistic, yes perhaps but stylistically it isn't more impacting than the original or even comes close. I would rather have a stylistically impressing suit rather than something that looks more real. Take the original ED209, that thing was a joke and the flim-makers knew it; over engineered with ridiculous redundancies, a completely impractical urban design and a vent on it's face that is nothing more than a target. To go off and redesign with a Nolan ethos is a mistake and stands only to make a slightly ridiculous character glossed over by genius satire more ridiculous by putting him in a real world aspect. I also think the Dredd comparison is a bad example, the Stallone one was a joke so the new version could only be an improvement, (I wouldn't even call it a remake as plotwise it had nothing to do the stallone version) this movie has to beat the original which is now a cultural icon. I smell another Nightmare on Elm Street scenario coming.

It's up, been up for some time now in the usual place...

I often wonder why the default directors are hacks like Christopher Nolan and even worse Peter Jackson. Those guys suck balls Nolan is at his best doing something low key (He still hasn't surpassed Momento). As for Jackson, yeesh, come on guys use you imagination, don't pick whoever did the worlds biggest movies for that reason alone. Did nobody see King Kong? Salkafar is right Guyver is too dark to be made as a big budget hollywood film, same as Spawn (ok they made Spawn but it was ass). Guyver is ever so slightly grotesque and I think difficult to make it appeal to a broad audience. Also storywise it's a bloody nightmare. There's so many characters to deal with, worldwide organisations, fights on a super epic scale. It's also difficult to reduce it's scope without gutting what makes the story great, a fight for freedom against tyrannical oppression coming from the smallest of people. Guyver needs to be a slow burner otherwise the rest of the story seems a little over the top (men turning into monsters....), as a result it would take about ten films to make a serious dent in the story; Guyver, the Uranus, Mount Minikami, Agito, Cronos, Imakarum, the zoalord 12 Alcanphel, Aptom, Gigantic, The Ark...etc... I personally hope it never happens. Whatever gets done wouldn't come close to what it needs to be (look at the movies so far). Guyvers cool to people who find it cool, if you don't find it cool it's a bit bizarre.

You need a program like bitlord.