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Sin Pew
Dakini Rising The Kali Cartel
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Posted - 2012.06.13 13:12:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote: When WiS really goes live, there better be aliens, I say. "- You want a sandwich, Bacon?" Support horizontal scrollbars in Eve! Click here, tyvm. |
SpaceSquirrels
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Posted - 2012.06.13 14:53:00 -
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Was discussing this with a friend the other day. I think audiences for movies tv etc. Expect everything to be wrapped up and explained. Take stories in novels, comic books etc, and they can leave you hanging or not answer all questions. Why is it allowed in one medium, but not the other? Furthermore where is it written that "
ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED OR EASILY DERIVED?" I don't recall signing that form. Granted it would be **** poor authoring to allow major gaps. But the major question/plot point was answered in the film...Rather bluntly too might I add. (WTF is going on on this here planet, and we're we made?)
This isn't so much a criticism rather an observation. But most people I see with anger in their bellies at this film are nit picking small points, such as (Why did aliens run into the container room?) (Was the goo a weapon or...mutagen, birth giver...XYZ theory.) (Why are those guys so jacked? I saw no signs of a gym anywhere on that ******* planet!!!)
That or many are feeling childhood nostalgia over the first 1 which btw everything seems more awesome when you were a kid... It's called being a kid. |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2012.06.13 15:49:00 -
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SpaceSquirrels wrote:Was discussing this with a friend the other day. I think audiences for movies tv etc. Expect everything to be wrapped up and explained. Take stories in novels, comic books etc, and they can leave you hanging or not answer all questions. Why is it allowed in one medium, but not the other? Furthermore where is it written that "
ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED OR EASILY DERIVED?" I don't recall signing that form. Granted it would be **** poor authoring to allow major gaps. But the major question/plot point was answered in the film...Rather bluntly too might I add. (WTF is going on on this here planet, and we're we made?)
This isn't so much a criticism rather an observation. But most people I see with anger in their bellies at this film are nit picking small points, such as (Why did aliens run into the container room?) (Was the goo a weapon or...mutagen, birth giver...XYZ theory.) (Why are those guys so jacked? I saw no signs of a gym anywhere on that ******* planet!!!)
That or many are feeling childhood nostalgia over the first 1 which btw everything seems more awesome when you were a kid... It's called being a kid.
Because if a book is worth it they'll make a movie out of it
Movie answered all my questions. Where the aliens really came from has been the question since the 70s |
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CCP Affinity
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.06.13 16:58:00 -
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hmm I really didn't like it... CCP Affinity | Team Five 0 |-á @CCP_Affinity |
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Sin Pew
Dakini Rising The Kali Cartel
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Posted - 2012.06.13 19:59:00 -
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CCP Affinity wrote:hmm I really didn't like it... So e'll have no aliens in stations... "- You want a sandwich, Bacon?" Support horizontal scrollbars in Eve! Click here, tyvm. |
Mund Richard
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Posted - 2012.06.13 23:17:00 -
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I liked the promo vid for it more than the movie itself!
Apparently making a phenomenal visual orgasm is more important than making sense. I've read a long explanation on the stuff. Some of it made sense in a weird alien way. I like it, if aliens make sense in a not-so-human way. But most of it felt more like trying to explain why it's not just random scenes in a row and aliens behaving as it suits the plot(background).
Apart from the aliens not making much sane sense (sanity is for the weak anyways), the rest of the movie had too many moments that felt like they were supposed to be scary and shocking, but having seen it way ahead only the visual had an impact. I can turn on the news and see scenes of accidents or crimes, that have an impact if I consider what happened and what is behind the mosaics/wrecks. |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2012.06.13 23:40:00 -
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I liked it! there was space, explosions, and it began with a guy killing himself with acid stuff that made his genetic stuff go somewhere else |
Hunter Ace
Fuctifino
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Posted - 2012.06.14 15:36:00 -
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SpaceSquirrels wrote:Was discussing this with a friend the other day. I think audiences for movies tv etc. Expect everything to be wrapped up and explained. Take stories in novels, comic books etc, and they can leave you hanging or not answer all questions. Why is it allowed in one medium, but not the other? Furthermore where is it written that "
ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED OR EASILY DERIVED?" I don't recall signing that form. Granted it would be **** poor authoring to allow major gaps. But the major question/plot point was answered in the film...Rather bluntly too might I add. (WTF is going on on this here planet, and we're we made?)
This isn't so much a criticism rather an observation. But most people I see with anger in their bellies at this film are nit picking small points, such as (Why did aliens run into the container room?) (Was the goo a weapon or...mutagen, birth giver...XYZ theory.) (Why are those guys so jacked? I saw no signs of a gym anywhere on that ******* planet!!!)
That or many are feeling childhood nostalgia over the first 1 which btw everything seems more awesome when you were a kid... It's called being a kid.
I agree. I think part of the point of the plot was that there would be more questions.
It would have been far less believable to me if they had showed up on this alien world and within the space of 24 hours or so derived the answers for all the questions they came for.
Loved this movie. Can't wait to see it again. |
AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
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Posted - 2012.06.14 18:21:00 -
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SpaceSquirrels wrote:ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED OR EASILY DERIVED?
Stories without a conclusion are not stories; just a bunch of stuff that happens to characters in a situation.
If, at the end, there was a 'to be concluded/continued', then fine.
If you raise a question directly related to the main plot or one or more of the main characters, and then do not answer the question - that is poor story telling as you have not told the conclusion of the story.
I'd even go with the classic 'and they lived happily ever after' if it was justified, at least that concludes the story.
Said it on the other page; flying off to never-never-land does not conclude a story.
AK GÇ£You go into combat, and itGÇÖs NOT going to be WagnerGǪindustrial techno or really hard drum and bassGÇ¥ Reynir Hardarson, founding member of CCP Games, 2002.
somethingjustgotreal.com |
Evet Morrel
Kadavr Black Guard Shadow Cartel
39
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Posted - 2012.06.28 00:22:00 -
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I found this, I hope you find it fascinating - it contains spoilers however. Prometheus Mysteries Analysis part 1 Prometheus Mysteries Analysis part 2
It fails to make the turd smell any better but .... |
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Jada Maroo
Mysterium Astrometrics
755
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Posted - 2012.06.28 03:19:00 -
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I'm convinced that some directors just can't conceptualize the way normal humans act or react. Sure, not every person will react the same way in a situation, but there is a range of normal human reactions that make sense.
For example, if you are on a hostile alien world and there is an almost cobra-like creature snaking up from a pool of creepy black ooze, the normal human response, especially if you're a scientist, is probably not to poke it with your ******* hand and giggle like a god damned idiot. |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
1597
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Posted - 2012.06.28 03:29:00 -
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Jada Maroo wrote:I'm convinced that some directors just can't conceptualize the way normal humans act or react. Sure, not every person will react the same way in a situation, but there is a range of normal human reactions that make sense.
For example, if you are on a hostile alien world and there is an almost cobra-like hissing creature snaking up from a pool of creepy black ooze, the normal human response, especially if you're a scientist, is probably not to poke it with your ******* hand and giggle like a god damned idiot.
Also, why was the crew of the Magellan so carefree about losing their own lives? I can understand the captain sacrificing himself. You can even make an argument for one of the other crew members staying - the one who said the captain is a bad pilot. But even then, is the captain such a bad pilot that he can't ram the ship into another, massive ship on his own? But, fine, let's assume he was. So why did the third guy stick around? He literally just decided for no good reason "Well I might as well die with these two."
It's a military concept, that kind of survivor's guilt isn't something you want
*Edit: also where the hell was he supposed to go? Live on the exhaust pipe planet till his air supply runs out?
Oh wait, go with the crazy chick to the planet populated by the things that tried to kill you! |
Hunter Ace
Fuctifino
7
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Posted - 2012.06.28 15:34:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Jada Maroo wrote:I'm convinced that some directors just can't conceptualize the way normal humans act or react. Sure, not every person will react the same way in a situation, but there is a range of normal human reactions that make sense.
For example, if you are on a hostile alien world and there is an almost cobra-like hissing creature snaking up from a pool of creepy black ooze, the normal human response, especially if you're a scientist, is probably not to poke it with your ******* hand and giggle like a god damned idiot.
Also, why was the crew of the Magellan so carefree about losing their own lives? I can understand the captain sacrificing himself. You can even make an argument for one of the other crew members staying - the one who said the captain is a bad pilot. But even then, is the captain such a bad pilot that he can't ram the ship into another, massive ship on his own? But, fine, let's assume he was. So why did the third guy stick around? He literally just decided for no good reason "Well I might as well die with these two." It's a military concept, that kind of survivor's guilt isn't something you want *Edit: also where the hell was he supposed to go? Live on the exhaust pipe planet till his air supply runs out? Oh wait, go with the crazy chick to the planet populated by the things that tried to kill you!
Exactly, those guys stayed because they knew, beyond all certainty, that they were going to die....so why not die in a big explosion?
As for the scientist dude abandoning common sense....he was a alien biologist, he's probably spent his entire life searching for extraterrestrial life of any kind and this was very well the first alien creature he had encountered. Scientists are crazy like that. |
Evet Morrel
Kadavr Black Guard Shadow Cartel
39
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Posted - 2012.06.30 12:44:00 -
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Jada Maroo wrote:I'm convinced that some directors just can't conceptualize the way normal humans act or react. Sure, not every person will react the same way in a situation, but there is a range of normal human reactions that make sense.
For example, if you are on a hostile alien world and there is an almost cobra-like hissing creature snaking up from a pool of creepy black ooze, the normal human response, especially if you're a scientist, is probably not to poke it with your ******* hand and giggle like a god damned idiot.
Also, why was the crew of the Magellan so carefree about losing their own lives? I can understand the captain sacrificing himself. You can even make an argument for one of the other crew members staying - the one who said the captain is a bad pilot. But even then, is the captain such a bad pilot that he can't ram the ship into another, massive ship on his own? But, fine, let's assume he was. So why did the third guy stick around? He literally just decided for no good reason "Well I might as well die with these two."
Agreed it seemed odd but for me it wasn't that it was inherently implausible but that the noblest act in the film had little or no emotional impact. |
Vyktor Abyss
The Abyss Corporation
148
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Posted - 2012.06.30 14:02:00 -
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It is a poor film by his standards.
Watched Alien again the other night and the gulf in class is obvious.
Great cast for Prometheus ; People like Guy Pierce who's screen time was wasted in some aweful make up job. Charlize Theron, wasted as some grumpy 2d eye candy.
Then there's the terrible plot.
The guy with the map things getting lost, The map man randomly coming back as some super ghoul attacking the crew The robot murdering one of the archeologists The engineers just being fail in general
Dont even get me started on the main woman's surgery.
It was very disappointing. Even Alien 3 beat this steaming pile. Ridley lost some respect from me as this appears to be a cash in flick. :( |
Arkturus McFadden
Sonoran Shadow Black Mesa Complex
55
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Posted - 2012.07.01 13:52:00 -
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I don't know about you guys. But the racial archetypes in EVE Online were incredibly evident in that film :]
Made it that much more enjoyable I think! |
Razin
The xDEATHx Squadron Legion of xXDEATHXx
295
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Posted - 2012.07.02 14:04:00 -
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Destination SkillQueue wrote:
I actually sort of want to see it now just for the lolz.
Seems like a frustrating experience on the whole. Like they had masters of their craft and incompetent baboons in the same team making the film. You get a taste of a masterpiece and what the movie could have been, but the bad is too strong to ignore and turns the overall experience sour.
That's a good way of putting it. The bad parts are so bad, and there are so many of them, that they blot out everything else. |
Razin
The xDEATHx Squadron Legion of xXDEATHXx
295
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Posted - 2012.07.02 14:23:00 -
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SpaceSquirrels wrote: This isn't so much a criticism rather an observation. But most people I see with anger in their bellies at this film are nit picking small points, such as (Why did aliens run into the container room?) (Was the goo a weapon or...mutagen, birth giver...XYZ theory.) (Why are those guys so jacked? I saw no signs of a gym anywhere on that ******* planet!!!)
I don't know man, most reviews of the film that I read ask why this trillion-dollar first contact mission was staffed by some of the most boring idiots in the movie history before nitpicking about holograms and alien conniving. |
AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
296
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Posted - 2012.07.03 11:09:00 -
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Razin wrote:I don't know man, most reviews of the film that I read ask why this trillion-dollar first contact mission was staffed by some of the most boring idiots in the movie history before nitpicking about holograms and alien conniving.
Most reviews musta forgot it was privately funded.
NASA it was not.
If I had a trillion dollars, I wouldn't fly off to some remote part of the galaxy, I'd just put a big satellite dish on the moon, so people could look at it and say "that's no moon..."
AK
GÇ£You go into combat, and itGÇÖs NOT going to be WagnerGǪindustrial techno or really hard drum and bassGÇ¥ Reynir Hardarson, founding member of CCP Games, 2002.
somethingjustgotreal.com |
Razin
The xDEATHx Squadron Legion of xXDEATHXx
295
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Posted - 2012.07.03 17:33:00 -
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AlleyKat wrote:Razin wrote:I don't know man, most reviews of the film that I read ask why this trillion-dollar first contact mission was staffed by some of the most boring idiots in the movie history before nitpicking about holograms and alien conniving. Most reviews musta forgot it was privately funded. NASA it was not. Because a CEO of a large and powerful corporation would hire obvious idiots to accompany him on a mission that may cost him his life? |
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AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
296
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Posted - 2012.07.05 11:23:00 -
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Razin wrote:Because a CEO of a large and powerful corporation would hire obvious idiots to accompany him on a mission that may cost him his life?
Erm, you must be trolling.
Questionable CEO's have existed since the beginning of time, or at least, CEO's have admitted they have made mistakes - Hilmar included.
Just another mistake by a CEO....I have no issue with this being in the movie.
"Inception" springs immediately to mind, when the two most powerful energy company chairmen are:
a) in the same aeroplane together b) In 3 dream sequences together
And one of them (Robert Fischer) does not recognise the other (Saito), analogous to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates being on the same aeroplane together and Steve not recognising Bill.
In the case of Inception, it breaks the wall; in the case of Prometheus, it doesn't.
AK GÇ£You go into combat, and itGÇÖs NOT going to be WagnerGǪindustrial techno or really hard drum and bassGÇ¥ Reynir Hardarson, founding member of CCP Games, 2002.
somethingjustgotreal.com |
Razin
The xDEATHx Squadron Legion of xXDEATHXx
295
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Posted - 2012.07.05 14:36:00 -
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AlleyKat wrote:Razin wrote:Because a CEO of a large and powerful corporation would hire obvious idiots to accompany him on a mission that may cost him his life? Erm, you must be trolling. Questionable CEO's have existed since the beginning of time, or at least, CEO's have admitted they have made mistakes - Hilmar included. Just another mistake by a CEO....I have no issue with this being in the movie. "Inception" springs immediately to mind, when the two most powerful energy company chairmen are: a) in the same aeroplane together b) In 3 dream sequences together And one of them (Robert Fischer) does not recognise the other (Saito), analogous to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates being on the same aeroplane together and Steve not recognising Bill. In the case of Inception, it breaks the wall; in the case of Prometheus, it doesn't. AK If you think mistakes or inconsistencies from another movie excuse the absolutely amateur writing for Prometheus you are an idiot.
In any case, the low intelligence displayed by the expedition members is just a small subset of the problems with this movie. My hopes that some future DVD version of a director's cut will fix some of that are most likely unrealistically optimistic, as the saying "you can't polish a turd" applies all too well here. |
Da7id Huren
EVE University Ivy League
0
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Posted - 2012.07.16 19:11:00 -
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With a month and a week of perspective on a couple of viewings, I realize I liked the movie more than most but I'm terrifically disappointed with the story: I wanted aliens, not extra large humanoids with issues. |
AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
302
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Posted - 2012.07.19 11:58:00 -
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Razin wrote:If you think mistakes or inconsistencies from another movie excuse the absolutely amateur writing for Prometheus you are an idiot.
Read my post again, and then return to appologise; unless your really are a Berkshire hunt.
AK GÇ£You go into combat, and itGÇÖs NOT going to be WagnerGǪindustrial techno or really hard drum and bassGÇ¥ Reynir Hardarson, founding member of CCP Games, 2002.
somethingjustgotreal.com |
Tiberius Amzadee
The Omega Sovereign Flux Initiative
33
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Posted - 2012.07.20 15:36:00 -
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The only part of the movie that was worth watching where the spaceships,those things where bad ass even though they were just frigates. It was like watching a minor clash between the Caldari and Jovians. |
Karkaroph
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
40
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Posted - 2012.07.21 06:37:00 -
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Karkaroph has not yet seen this movie.
he does not wish to spoil the experience by cramping himself into a small chair in a large room with four hundred adolescent males making the "oooo" sound every time a pretty girl gets mauled by a tentacle.
he cannot wait for the Blu-Ray release. Yet I fears he must wait for it.
No spoilers please. Or - if you must spoil for Karkaroph:
Good spoilers please. I have seen so much of it, that truly I know nothing of it, except that it embaces me.
I, Karkaroph. |
Anyanka Funk
GNFK
0
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Posted - 2012.07.22 09:32:00 -
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So glad I saw this in 3d. I loved it! Yeah, it has major issues, but I can't remember a sci-fi movie that actually had as much of a connection to our reality. Hopefully the next one will be better though. |
Herb Solow
Zervas Aeronautics WHY so Seri0Us
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Posted - 2012.08.07 10:55:00 -
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Did I see that right? Did the captain of Prometheus wear an EVE T-shirt? It went all so fast that I might be mistaken. it seemed like the Eve on-line logo. and under the three big letters something like - I fly "bla-bla" - |
Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
2540
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Posted - 2012.08.07 11:20:00 -
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Herb Solow wrote:Did I see that right? Did the captain of Prometheus wear an EVE T-shirt? It went all so fast that I might be mistaken. it seemed like the Eve on-line logo. and under the three big letters something like - I fly "bla-bla" -
It's a Weyland corp logo. The logo looks very similar to the EVE logo, so it's an easy mistake to make.
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Moe Cislak
EVE University Ivy League
1
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Posted - 2012.08.07 11:51:00 -
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I wasn't hyped about this movie, not being a huge Alien fan, but after seeing it I really can't wait for the sequel!
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