Thursday, June 21, 2012

Ridley Me This, Batman

Prometheus is the heartfelt and charming story of a sexy android, played with compelling wit and an assured twinkle by Jude Law and his best friend and sidekick, a plastic surgery pod played with intelligence and grace by Michael Fassbender's excellent posture, as they traverse a future America in which Ethan Hawke is played by Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman is played by the Norse god Heimdallr, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Idris Elba.  The Android, named David, is obsessed with Italian cycling, but his father just doesn't understand.  Eventually, they find the fifth symbol and open the Stargate, but what they find on the other side is not the answers, but the police.  David asks the surgery pod if they should just keep going and guns the engine.  Charlize Theron sprints after them, but it is too late.  Mark Ruffalo's butt.  How many times have I told them to put locking mechanisms on the vehicle doors? In the end, the Octogator impregnates the Sharktopus.  I happen to know that a little Lebowski is on the way.

103 comments:

Anonymous said...

my favorite part was when that one scientist deep-throated that alien snake.

hungryghoast said...

I never see Breaking Away references coming but they're never not welcome.

Rob Payne said...

It was the brothers’ first promotional gig for Interview and a savvy foray in utilizing their increasing fame. They were decked out in Jitrois jeans (leather for Peter, denim for Harry). Peter’s outfit was rounded out with an Armani shirt. His slicked-back pomaded hair accentuated his strong-jawed model looks. Harry was working a designer armed forces look in a Louis Vuitton military jacket and Saint Laurent combat boots. Harry’s style has evolved.

“I used to only wear overalls, Alaïa T-shirts and my mom’s Manolo Blahnik loafers,” he said. “That was my uniform.”

Harry, 15, and his 18-year-old brother are the well-spoken product of cross-pollination of the Übermenschen. Their father, Peter M. Brant, is the industrialist, art collector, polo enthusiast and publisher of Interview. Their mother is the supermodel Stephanie Seymour.

IOZ said...

I'd like to squeeze the guys out of both of them if you knowwhudahmean.

Rob Payne said...

Finish that book!

Bret Easton Ellis said...

You can't do that.

Anonymous said...

Monsieur,
As a gay man, are you more attracted to Uma Thurman or Ethan Hawke?
J

Professor Coldheart said...

By the pricking of Guy Pearce's cheekbones, something wicked this way, um, hold on, let me start over.

anne said...

michael fassbender ..dreamy

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

This is a good idea, M''siuer. Instead of Foodie Friday, toss the youngsters something they can really chew on.

Let it never be said you didn't how to play your pit as well as your galleries ...

demize! said...

I just mentioned "Breaking Away" yesterday when someone said "The Cutters" would be a good name for a band. I like to use 'Cinzano'd' as a verb.

Enron said...

"Eventually, they find the fifth symbol and open the Stargate, but what they find on the other side is not the answers, but the police."

Not satisfied, she flies to planet Parker Center to investigate the Chief of Police himself

PR said...

What does Spock have to say about all of this?

CK said...

John Carter does it better.

homoya said...

i'd pay to see that.

Anonymous said...

Fucking LOL!

lucid said...

For future reference, right-handed men don't hold it with their left.

Anonymous said...

Christ, again with the spoilers.

lucid said...

For all of the little Lebowski's out there...

right handed lefty masturbator said...

"lucid said...

For future reference, right-handed men don't hold it with their left."

speak for yourself.

Anonymous said...

i recall way back when, a few weeks back, the dude's a lazy man, no i ain't looking it up, that the best movies overwhelm you w/the weight of their eye-candy whiz bang stuff but collapse under the weight of their own incoherent stupidity.

by that standard, w/Prometheus, we've got a winner.

i'll still take the one scene of deckard boozing it up at his piano in blade runner over the entirety of that piece of shit.

lucid said...

Masturbator - fyi, it's a line from Gattaca which the OP is clearly referencing, unless there is another sci-fi film I can't remember starring Jude Law, Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.

Paul Sherrard said...

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ZL "Kai" Burington said...

And that plot is only a little less ridiculous than the film.

Paul Sherrard said...

I saw Prometheus last week. It was pretty.

Rob Payne said...

I think it’s interesting in a telling way that science fiction TV and movie writers want humans to originate somewhere other than earth. I think it has something to do with an aversion to monkeys. At any rate the idea that we originated on the planet Moola-Moola ignores the fact that all life on earth shares the same DNA as well as ignoring evolution where the physical evidence is abundant unlike some other “sciences” I could mention. While the classic notion of science is that it is about searching out or deducing the truth it is more akin to politics where concerns of job position, careers, and money take precedent. Or ask yourself why so many physicists choose to earn their keep in the weapons industry. Computerized special effects have become exceedingly boring reducing actors to set pieces. Hollywood occasionally produces some good movies but like most art they are rare and far between.

LeonTrollski said...

while we're talking sci-fi, who else is pumped for 40k 6th edition? most changes look fun.

Anonymous said...

clensing ones' asshole... after shitting... more common even, than pleasuring self, others.


@253
your dexterity, hand adroitness ... amazing

The Dull Sycophant

Rob Payne said...

toilet paper, greatest scientific discovery ever.

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

OK, M'sieur - you've given the groundlings their turn, and I'm sure they're now recommitted readers.

So can you please return us to our regularly scheduled programming now?

Anonymous said...

el, instead of complaining, why not offer a poem?

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

well done, nonny@11:43 - triple sec

Anonymous said...

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TDS

fish said...

Hollywood occasionally produces some good movies but like most art they are rare and far between.

Saturday Night Live isn't funny any more.

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

fish@9:15am

There's a great aprocyphal story about one of the old-time Hollywood moguls (Goldwyn or Mayer).

Some artsy type asked him why his studio produced so few really good movies.

And his reply was something like ...

... "you seem to be forgetting we don't have to produce ANY ..."

meaning of course that his profit line would be the same either way, and perhaps slighter better if he didn't bother with quality product

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

Kind of like the way it his here chez IOZ.

IOZ can post a fluffer piece like the top-post here and get esponses from more of the commentariat than when he waxes passionately and seriously.

Hmm come to think of it ... I wonder what it would be like to be wazed by IOZ passionately and seriously ... heh heh heh

Rob Payne said...

EL
Or maybe the mogul was just making a comment on the people who watch the movies. Perhaps he knew his audience and he just gave them what they wanted. Or look at how the Japanese movie industry keeps cranking out Godzilla movies. They wouldn’t do it if people didn’t want to watch kung-fu dinosaurs. And it isn’t like the Japanese movie makers aren’t capable of making good movies because I’ve seen one or two that were actually quite good (no, they were not Godzilla movies).

Anonymous said...

@Rob Paine:

So, you've seen one or two that were quite good have you? Well, imagine that! Those little yellow nips actually know something about movie making do they? Well fuck a duck!

You patronizing pig-fucker.

Anonymous said...

destroy all monsters!

Anonymous said...

I'll bet that Akira Kurosawa guy could have made a hell of a Mothra meets Gamara.

Anonymous said...

dig it

Eerily Lackadaisical said...
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Eerily Lackadaisical said...

onny@4:44

the whole discussion reminds me of an old joke I'm told they told during WWII.

the punchline is:

"Ah so, but you make one mistake, Amelican fryer ..."

(Cue my favorite nonny to tell me I'm racist, even though the joke is actually on the American "fryer", and even though as an ABD linguist, I know more about r and l not being "phonemic" in Japanese than most readers here ...)

Rob Payne said...

@10:04

The point is most movies are aimed at a certain audience with the intention of making a profit and art has very little to do with it. There is merely a recipe for twits like yourself which includes x amount of foul language, x amount of spectacular explosions, x amount of chase scenes, and x amount of various amounts of women’s anatomy being exposed. This is not art it’s a formula and one which you no doubt are intimately familiar with.

Anonymous said...

"ABD." Fucking hell. We don't need to hear your life story, pops, and everybody's an almostPhD on the internet.

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

As M'sieur loves to say to Ryerson, nonny@7:03pm ...

Score.

Anonymous said...

As IOZ likes to say to EL...

...........

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

nonny@12:15 -

That's OK, I can still

[sycophancy motif alert]

worship him from afar

[end sycophancy motif alert]

Sorry said...

I got the Criterion DVD of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence from the library. Last time I saw it was on a grainy VHS. It's really good. Also, a climatologist told me there is a vagina-headed penis in Prometheus.

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Eerily Lackadaisical said...

Speaking of movies, few here probably realize that Nora Ephron's best movie was "My Blue Heaven", and that one line in it is quite relevant to concerns of M'sieur's and many of his commentariat.

It's when Steve Martin says to Joan Cusack (after defending the presence of swordfish in his trunk):

“I am the worst-case scenario of Thomas Jefferson's dream.”

Discuss, if you like ...

Anonymous said...

speaking of movies, m hulot on vacation (or whoever it's translated from the french) has one of the most amazing scenes of pingpong in all of cinema history.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, let's discuss what EL just typed.

I say EL's taste in movies is in his ass, but never mind that. A sane person would say "based on the gate receipts, few would probably agree with me that My Blue Heaven blah blah blah." In stating that few people "realize" that one of Ephron's worst movies ..(which pales in comparison to her husband's book on the same subject; Henry Hill).. is actually her best(as if such a thing is quantitative), he displays a complete lack of understanding of the subjective nature of art, and a combination of arrogance and ignorance that is the very essence of why he's so popular on this board.

lucid said...

Nony - I don't think My Blue Heaven can hold a candle to the galactic suckage that is You've Got Mail.

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

nonny@3:07

[arrogance/ignorance motif alert]

Gets ya every time, don't it?

But really isn't this getting redundant?

I mean, fer crissakes, how many Wanda's does one person need for sushi? And can't you put up a little bit more of a struggle instead of just ju,ping out of the tank like that?

Well - let's try and make some chicken salad here ... you wouldn't happen to be able to speak Russian and Italian simultatneously, would you?

If so, can you simultaneously masturbate with one hand and pick your nose with the other, like that Scoutmaster in "End of the Road"?

[end arrogance/ignorance motif alert]

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

lucid@3:19 -

the bit where Steve Martin says something like "Why dontcha go fuck yourself?" to the supermarket manager the first time he goes shopping in CA is worth all the dialog in You've Got Mail and When Hairy Did Salome put together ...

Not to mention the FBI agent breaking out into the most admirable merengue since Carmen Miranda trod the boards of the Latin Quarter ...

I mean - there are so many incredibly good quirky bits in MBH that one could go on for hours ...

Anonymous said...

lucid-

I think You've Got Mail is sappy, maudlin tripe, but it killed at the box office compared to Blue Heaven. There's just no accounting for taste in movies (or any other form of art), but some people try.

High Arka said...

There's an accounting for taste; however, what you're referring to above when you say "taste" is not taste, but something that is even more sadly and simply reducible to accounting.

(You really thought you went for the fish and chips, didn't you?)

Anonymous said...

Lady Macbanal~

When discussing Nora Ephron's "best" movies, the only quantifiable is gate. (iow- it was a play on words. The old saying is "there's no accounting for taste" except when you try to boil it down to simple accounting.) That's why people who understand the subjective nature of art explain why they think a is better than b, rather than stating (arrogantly and ignorantly) that those who disagree don't "realize" that a IS better than b, or even more ridiculously, that a is "best."

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

nonny@5:20pm writes:

"That's why people who understand the subjective nature of art explain why they think a is better than b, rather than stating (arrogantly and ignorantly) that those who disagree don't "realize" that a IS better than b, or even more ridiculously, that a is "best."

And of course, the real-life case that givcs the lie to Nonny's Nonsense consists in the miserable state of "modern poetry" compared to the size of the crassly large endowment given to Poetry Magazine several years ago.

High_Arka has the subtlety of thought as well as the professional background to tease out the implications of that case, as opposed to nonny@5:20, who can only repeat what's currently being taught in the "best" university writing workshops.

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Anonymous said...

Engage sycophancy motif!

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

And, I might add, those who are tired of the jejune commonplaces of the lumpencommentariat here might well find the "pause that refreshes" by reading High_Arka's last two posts on "Art" here:

http://higharka.blogspot.com/

Actually "thought-provoking" in the original sense of the term ...

Anonymous said...

Switching to sycophancy motif warp drive!

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

yes nonny at 5:41/5:45 -

I do confess to having a talent for introducing novel memes on the net.

Thank you for recognizing the potential in one of them and running out the riff ...

Rob Payne said...

"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
--Groucho Marx

Anonymous said...

EL, you are sycophantastic!

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

Thank you for the encouragement, nonny@7:49.

You've emboldened me to take it to the limit.

To wit:

IOZ is Prospero, we are all bad dreams of his, and when he closes this blog, we will all vanish into thin thin air (and Leonard of course is Caliban and Anne, Ariel)

Or how about:

IOZ is Chaucer, and we are all travelling pilgrims thrown together for the nonce on his journey, with High_Arka as the Wife of Bath (do you think she has that high-sexed front tooth gap?), and "Oxtrot" (KFO), of course, as the Miller.

Or:

IOZ is Patrick Kavanagh and we are all penitents whom he is observing at a virtual Lough Derg of his own construction.

In any event, Absalom is branded on the bum/God save us all till Kingdom Come ...

Anonymous said...

Hey IOZ u see the recent opinion piece (of scat) from CNN on Fast & Furious?

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-06-26/opinion/opinion_granderson-fast-furious_1_fast-and-furious-iran-contra-scandal-pakistani-government?_s=PM:OPINION

It concludes:

"But to go much beyond the criticism of these men runs the risk of learning that this great nation of ours is heavily involved in doing some things that are not so great.

Think about it: We have allowed weapons to cross the Mexican border and into the hands of criminals for years. Many of these weapons were involved in killing innocent Mexicans. There's nothing very admirable about that. But the truth is, it's very American.

By allowing guns to infiltrate Mexico's drug cartel, we thought we could trace them up the ladder to the leaders. Take off the head and the body dies. As for the innocent people who lost their lives? Collateral damage. That's the uncomfortable backstory to this scandal. And there are likely other operations like it in our nation's history that we don't even have a clue about.

And maybe it's better for us not to be so nosy, not to know everything because, to paraphrase the famous line from the movie 'A Few Good Men,' many of us won't be able to handle the truth."

Anonymous said...

Hay, the two resident misogynists are now engaging in some hot, public mutual appreciation! Blog linkin' and so forth! I feel a poem coming on... something about how She was the only lady who knew Her Place, and I Loved Her the Better For It.

Anonymous said...

see 71 comments
scroll to bottom
see EL and arka grappling with local anonymous
ioz come back soon
your house sitters are BORING

High Arka said...

This might amuse you in the meantime.

Sigh. He was right about the shoes.

Paul Sherrard said...

IOZ is King Fausto and EL is Susan Tyrell. Foxtrot is Squeezit Henderson and we was hatched out of a witch's egg, doomed to fly high, like a crane with no legs.

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

Wow Paul - d'ya think if I updated my material to include flashy current references like yours (instead of references to the "classics"), then my stock around here would go up (and nonny's would stop calling me "Pops")?

Anonymous said...

el, you should just swear more in yr comments. it's what all the kids do.

Paul Sherrard said...

Um, yeah, EL. You could at least reference the Prospero in Masque of the Red Death, which fits the apocalyptic nightmare mood better anyway, leaving behind a palace full of pulpy red corpses rather than a faded insubstantial pageant, plus it's 250 years more flashy and current. This is the 21st Century, dude, damn.

Karl Franz Ochstradt said...

Sherrard, since I don't know that reference I think of a different Tyrell situation where you'd be better to peg Oxtrot as JF Sebastian or maybe a non-Tyrell situation with a glowing trunk on a 65 Malibu where Oxtrot might be Miller. Got no idea about some Zit Squeezit character.

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Paul Sherrard said...

Foxtrot, you're Susan Tyrell and EL is the evil Necron, Michael Dawson is Darkwolf, Coldheart is Larn, and Mr Fundamental is the lovely Princess Teegra. Monsieur, of course, comprises Ralph Bakshi, Frank Frazetta, and Saul Zaents, through him all things are made.

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

"Monsieur, of course, comprises Ralph Bakshi, Frank Frazetta, and Saul Zaents, through him all things are made."

Ralph Bakshi ???
Ralph Bakshi ???

FritzTheCat is SO last-century.

And besides, I think M'sieur is more an R. Crumb than an R. Bakshi.

[sycohphancy motif alert]

But, agree with your general obeservation that:

"through him all things are made"

[end sycohphancy motif alert]

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

PS Paul - but I CAN imagine a gay FritzTheCat as a role Johnny Depp should have made his break-out role after 21JS (when there were more sentient folks around who knew that they couldn't remember whether they remebered Fritz or not, due to high lysergic uptake, etc..)

Karl Franz Ochstradt said...

Not being an Elfman scholar I'll defer.

Paul Sherrard said...

How about the comments page as Mortville, Oxtrot as Mink Stole, EL as Edith Massey etc etc etc; & M'sieur as a certain pencil-mustached Baltimore denizen? No? Do you guys watch, like, ANY movies at ALL?

Karl Franz Ochstradt said...

While I have lived in Charm City and seen movies at the Senator, I am not really up on Waters movies, so deference is again granted.

I didn't understand that Elfman movies and Waters movies were essential viewing in order to be a genuine human being.

Raise your hand if you can name a movie no-one else has seen, triumphantly declaring everyone else ignorant!

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

KFO @ 326:

All the time we are all watching movies in our own heads that no one else has ever seen!

Paul Sherrard said...

Nah, not essential for human viewing at all, & not (to my knowledge) "hip" currency either. A whole lot better than Gattaca however.

Karl Franz Ochstradt said...

Kidding in lines 2 and 3 above, not insulted.

Doesn't Gattaca get cleverkids browniepoints for its name?

Eerily Lackadaisical said...

I would be proud to play Edith Massey, Paul.

I don't think I've ever told you that I once played Princess Grace in Brendan Behan's The Hostage, only a few years after Joan Littlewood's signature production at Circle in the Square in NYC.

I killed in that role, but then again, I still had my boyish figure.

Anonymous said...

Mark Ruffalo's butt is like Shakespeare next to this diarrhea squirt of a flick.

High Arka said...

300 years from now:

Anonymous said...
Anastasia Cameron-Affleck's butt is like Rowling next to this diarrhea squirt of a VR.

2:59 AM

Anonymous said...

Over three hours for one of the supercilious twits here to sneer at Shakespeare? You're slipping.

High Arka said...

It make one pre-break period become stupid netperson for make negative emotion Rowling? You funny me!

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