Okay, Alien: Resurrection is much better than Alien 3. It feels more like an Alien movie, and it's pretty fun. Not groundbreaking like the first two, but pretty solid. I can see a little of the proto-Serenity aspect, but I wasn't really able to see the movie Joss claimed he wrote that got fucked up. He was mad that they took his script and played it seriously? The rest of the franchise is...serious. That's kind of a thing.

I wonder who's going to be the token android in Prometheus. And whether we're going to see any Xenomorphs. I wonder, but I don't actually want to know. What was that one article that said that Christopher Nolan's started this new thing where not knowing anything about a movie is why you're interested in it?

Man, remember that first Inception trailer that just sort of came out of nowhere and we were all like WHAT THE LIVING FUCK IS THIS MOVIE I CANNOT WAIT.

It feels more like an Alien movie, and it's pretty fun

Oh, good, I'm glad you liked it. I really enjoyed the smugglers--anytime we see Ron Perlman is a plus--and the Ripley clone was an interesting commentary on the character. I actually felt sorry for the alien hybrid at the end. But I'm a sap.

Well, I think she did too.

The Ripley clone was weird. Because she was clearly not Ripley, even characterization-wise, but she looked like her and had her role. Wasn't sure what I thought about her, although I've encountered several other clone stories recently that handled those questions in interesting ways.

The smugglers were way more interesting and entertaining than the religious prisoners. Although I didn't remember a goddamn thing from this movie. Not even Call's deal.

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Ooooh.

The 2012 spoiler landscape. IO9 covers how many spoilers are out for upcoming TV shows and movies. The article itself isn't spoilery, but comments might be.

They rate spoiledness on a scale of 1-10, and interestingly the most unspoiled movie is not Nolan, but Whedon.

the most unspoiled movie is not Nolan, but Whedon.

I kind of want to know ahead of time if Bane breaks Batman's back (shit, that's alliterative). (I don't know if I should whitefont speculation based on a very old comic plotline, so I will for now.) Some stuff in the trailer makes me think yes, but I sort of want to know going in.

I don't really need to be spoiled for Avengers -- I just want it to get here now, damn it. I'm not really invested in *what* happens; I just want stuff to happen, and I want to see it.

I'm a simple creature.

t edit I posted that before I read the link; I thought you mean Avengers was most unspoiled, but you meant Cabin in the Woods. Interesting.

I'm not really invested in *what* happens; I just want stuff to happen, and I want to see it.

I'm very much that way too, WRT The Avengers. But with DKR, I'm good being surprised with just about everything, lest I start second guessing.

And I figure being unspoiled for Cabin In The Woods (the 1 rating) will be the funnest way to go in.

Spoil me entirely for Hunger Games, though.

I'm skeptical of the "If you haven't read the book, then you're screwed. There's no way to avoid running into people who've read it and want to talk about it." assertion. This board is the only place I frequent online where I've heard anything about the Hunger Games movies, and I have never heard the movies or books mentioned by a single person in meatspace.

I think the movie Hunger Games should be able to effectively deal with the plot and events well enough that it should be close enough to the book. It would be a major fuck up otherwise.

Books 2 and 3 need some tinkering I think. I just can't see how the 3rd book (except for some battle scenes) is all that filmable. Hell, the last part of the book is tell tell tell (very little to show). Hopefully they have a deft screenwriter. Maybe that's why they are going to split 2-3 into 3 movies.