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I guess I’ll just keep posting pictures of Lincoln.

But seriously, look at that poster.

Welcome to the big leagues.

When I came home last night and logged into Facebook, I noticed that the opinions on The Dark Knight Rises were rather polarizing. I saw everything from calling it “remarkable” to saying that it was a “90s cop drama with a Batman cameo.” Frankly, I was pretty surprised, but should I be? I mean, we now live in a world where if something doesn’t go the way you want it to, it’s bad. I don’t know what the deal is. I loved it.

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If your dad is anything like mine, then he’s always searching for movies on TV. Well, there’s good news.

Turns out, after a little searching, Amazon is having a pretty killer movie sale for Father’s Day. I kind of wish that I would have seen this sooner so that maybe some of you could have ordered movies to be on time, but whatever. It’s at least worth checking out for your own library. You can see the lists here.

-Nick

So, Sir Anthony Hopkins is to play Alfred Hitchcock in a new bio-pic titled Hitchcock slated for next year. The cast is… interesting, to say the least. 

I think Adam Sandler is coming to the end of his rope. His next “big movie” is called That’s My Boy co-starring Andy Samberg. If he keeps it up, he’ll go to way of Eddie Murphy.

Here’s the painful trailer.

This trailer seems to have just come out. Get excited.

Why have possession movies taken off recently? Am I missing something? And why do almost all of them suck? 

Ridley Scott’s new prequel to the Alien franchise, Prometheus, may not be what you were expecting. I’m not saying that that’s a bad thing. What I am saying is that you may want to clear your expectations off of the shelf before you take a seat at your local theater.

After seeing the trailer, I expected an intense and possibly horrifying look at the events leading to Alien, also directed by Scott. I was partly right. While Prometheus doesn’t really play into the horrific feeling of Alien, it does offer a substantial amount of intensity. Mostly. Prometheus is not a white-knuckle movie. It may not keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time, but it will force you to creep forward more than once.

Keeping with the overtly sexual art of H.R. Giger, the movie is quite stunning to look at. The movie seems to put on display just how sexual these creatures are in the form of phallic and vaginal representations. But after having seen the previous movies, did you expect less?

The story overall doesn’t explain a whole lot. It poses so many questions that in the two and a half hours it was on screen, it couldn’t even begin to answer all of them. The thing is, that’s not such bad thing, and I’ll get to that in a minute.

I was mostly impressed with the cast. I liked that they kept the central character a woman, just as they did in years previous. Elizabeth Shaw, played by Noomi Rapace, was very Ripley-esque. Guy Pearce, for his small roll as Peter Weyland, did a fine job for what he was given. Michael Fassbender, who played the emotionally devoid synthetic David, was terrific. Frankly, he was unnerving.

Now, I say mostly impressed with the cast because of Charlize Theron. By no means did she do a poor job. I just expect a lot from her and I feel she didn’t really push herself with this one.

There has always been an unspoken rule that we as an audience are to suspend a certain amount of belief so that a movie can progress. The thing is, that can only go so far. There will come a point in Prometheus, and I’m not going to tell you what that part is because it’s crucial, that they cross the threshold into a realm where the audience will question its validity. It goes from being a sci-fi to a medical masquerade.

I expected a clear and succinct ending. This goes back to what I was talking about before with the questions. Prometheus leaves itself open for one or what could be two more movies. It asks all of these questions, but we still have time to have them answered. More or less, Prometheus acted as what could be considered an expository episode in a much larger saga.

-Nick

“Wow, he just made the international sign of the doughnut.”