Max Fustians solo. Reviews of ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT, Sarah Polley’s TAKE THIS WALTZ, YOUR SISTER’S SISTER, LOLA VERSUS and PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE. A look at the career of legendary producer Richard D. Zanuck, a box-office report out, production news and Max will reveal his top 6 selections of THE GREATEST DOUCHE-BAG CHARACTERS IN FILM. (Douche-Bag: An individual who has an over-inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intelligence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears.)
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Props to you Max for flying solo instead of canceling the show due to lack of hosts. Good luck!
@ bumbaclaat
agree, break a microphone…
Regarding the comments you and Leah made that you both felt you needed to see Prometheus again to understand it better, I can promise you that it won’t make a lick of difference. This is not 2001 A Space Odyssey we’re talking about here, where it takes many viewings to decipher a complex and poetic story.
The story in Prometheus is pure nonsense. It’s basically a writer saying “let’s throw a bunch of ideas that would be cool on screen into the film, and then try to make sense of it all later.” As a result, nothing makes, or is intended to make, very much sense. Remember, this is a writer who penned a TV series where he did exactly the same thing–and at the end, nothing made any sense.
(Warning, some spoilers ahead here): Think about how many things in this film were basically non sequiturs that did nothing to drive the plot. The entire section of the film about bringing the head back to the ship did nothing to move the story–you could have cut it out completely without even noticing. Likewise, you could cut out the mutated acid burned guy who suddenly appears to kill half the crew. That’s because this film doesn’t have a real story at all; it’s first and foremost a set of “wow” scenes loosely tied together by occasional clunky exposition.
Basically, this film is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s a B movie piece of junk disguised by a prestigious pedigree and a legendary director.
@toecheese,
You keep on beating the S out of this Hot Mess… has earned every shot taken.
BTW, nice call out on the scenes not advancing the plot, usually the first red line in studio notes (right after needs a love interest), I suspect you’ll nab that promotion to TRO FF Story Editor…