I’ve been rewatching Ridley Scott’s Prometheus recently and while his reported weariness of dealing with the Alien is fairly obvious, what bears mentioning is that there are few directors with an eye as all-encompassing, as acute, as Scott’s. From the way its shot to the casting, special effects, prop design and costumes, everything just works […]
Late in 2019 Universal Pictures pulled the Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse-written thriller The Hunt due to complaints about the subject matter (rich Liberals hunting down and killing select conservatives) combined with a mass shooting that happened in El Paso, Texas in August of that year. Apparently they feel that there’s been enough time between […]
When I heard Damon Lindelof (Lost, Prometheus, Star Trek: Into Darkness) was tackling Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen I wasn’t too optimistic. And my hesitancy–on the surface–was justified because Into Darkness ranked among one of the most irritating movies of 2013 while Prometheus (2012) may have looked spectacular, its story was underwhelming and for […]
Damon Lindelof’s interpretation–truth be told I’m not at all sure what to call it–of Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is a pretty interesting bird. And as much flack as Lindelof gets for Star Trek: Into Darkness and Prometheus (relatively little of which was actually deserved) you can’t say that the man is afraid to […]
I’m assuming that this is the last trailer for HBO’s upcoming Watchmen series (especially when it premieres this year) but I’m liking what I’ve seen thus far. And while that’s been damn little at this point, it at least looks like it’s striking new territory, as opposed to just repeating what Alan Moore did with […]
Damon Lindelof’s a bit of a controversial figure as far as fans of genre movies are concerned. His introduction to mainstream audiences was with 2004’s Lost, and he’s been irritating fans to various degrees every since. From Prometheus (2012) to Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) he’s not only not afraid of tackling beloved franchises, but […]
What I referring to is in interviews how Ridley Scott often says that he feels as if he’s taken the Aliens as far as he’s able–keeping in mind that Prometheus as originally written was firmly entrenched in the Alien universe, till Damon Lindelof joined the project and excised most of those elements from Jon Spaiths’ screenplay–yet he keeps […]
I don’t know about Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland. Maybe it’s because Damon Lindelof wrote it, and I still haven’t gotten over the silly “smoke monster” from Lost or the way he butchered Jon Spaihts’ original script for Prometheus (I know that it was his job was to remove the Alien-related references, and then stitch things back together […]
Hollywood can be so fascinating. It seems that lately there’s a trend revolving around religious-based movies, from Noah to Exodus: Gods and Kings, God is in. This isn’t something that’s been ignored by either comedies, This Is The End, Rapture-Palooza (a really funny movie. Well worth checking out), dramas, and horror films. The most recent example of […]
Let me begin by saying that I didn’t start out hating “Lost” when it originally aired back in 2004. In fact, I honestly didn’t watch enough episodes to form any sort of opinion (of the informed variety, at any rate). The thing is, I am a huge fan of horror and science fiction movies and […]
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