Star Trek: Discovery, Is a big Fuck You to the fans

So, Why you keep watching? Well let's say, right now, it's a masochistic thing, right?

I have just two rules for sequels, remakes, reboots, prequels, whatever...

Rule number 1) You gotta be good. Be good, right? And this is like Prime Directive, cause if the thing is good enough I don't even care about rule number two...

Rule number 2) Be faithful to the spirit of the original.

Ok, so let's go basic here. The name of the show alludes to a travel, a journey through long distances, a trip to the stars, to the exploration aspects of that journey, with perhaps arduous moments or even perilous...

This is the essence of the franchise, the people in it are explorers, adventurers, scientists, diplomats...

They represent the best humanity has to offer, in a bright future were we leave all our differences aside: people from different religions, civilizations, colors, even worlds and races, they all get together, joined with one goal in mind: to explore, to gain and share knowledge, discover (like in Discovery! Isn't that like the most appropriate title for a Trek show?... Isn't that opening sequence a work of art? The guy that made that shit, he really knows what Star Trek is all about... you should put him in charge)...

(Nope: WAAAAAR FUCK YOUUUU!!!! I'M GONNA STAB YOU TO DEATH, YOU FUCKING CUNT!!!!!!)

That was what Gene Rodenberry envisioned back in the 60's. He wanted to make that optimistic show, in a world that in some ways was even darker than the one we are living today... That world was on the verge of large-scale nuclear conflict...

At the same time, the 60's were an innocent period, where there was still some room for hope

You had all this people fighting for the minority rights (like Martin Luther King and that other guy? Charles X?) people fighting against the war in Vietnam, and even the motherfucking hippies: they wanted to make the world a better place (by not showering, fucking each other like rabbits, and taking some good old acid...)

Yes! they failed horribly, but they tried, right?

These days... We... we develop into, like cynical, lazy, indifferent assholes: We don't even fucking care anymore!     

Ok, back to Star Trek.

These "explorers" from the show would eventually find some trouble, face violence and all sort of threats. But how would they address these? Well, resorting to dialogue, to understanding and appreciating the other side, reaching agreements, getting mutual accords. That's the Federation way, and that has always been the moral of the show. 

Even when the conflict is inevitable (like in a lot of episodes of most  of the series) at least they try to solve their problems through diplomacy. And when they not, they somehow learn that violence is never the answer.

(That's for pussies, I rather have WAAAR)

So, how do we got here? Well 50 years have passed and Toto, we are not in the 60's anymore.

Most people who made the original show are now dead. Audiences changed and TV with them. The old Science Fiction weekly episode format is no longer feasible. It's all about the big picture now: at least 8 seasons on netflix, you missed a couple of episodes

and you're fucked! But that's modern show business, What can you do? 

Also let's be real, Sci-Fy is kind of dry. Sci-fy presents you an ethical problem, usually in the future, - it might be linked to technology -, and reflects on that problem, most times adopting a philosophical point of view...

And all that it's kind of... dull... you know? by nature, it's slow, not easy to get your mind around, and it guards no definitive answers. 

It's hard, it's painful... some people call it boring... but it's rewarding. It fulfills you, like a good meal, because is not easy to make. Is not junk food.

Or as that famous poet D. T. Somerset puts it: 

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” 

I mean it's easier to smoke some crack, and just keep watching your dumb super hero action show. Love costs. It takes effort and work. And people don't want that! They want to eat cheeseburgers, play lotto and watch some Television.

They don't want Sci-Fy!!! They want Action and Drama. They want War. 

Enter, Star Trek: Discovery. What a shocker, uh?!

Now like I say the name of the show is such a fucking joke, right?

So it is the name of Gene Rodenberry in the opening credits (Based upon... etc), cause he must be rolling over in his grave.

Cause the show is about war, and hate, and murder, and treason, and weapons of mass destruction, animal torture, animal experimenting, biological warfare, suicidal vulcan fanatics, prisoners rape.  sex with ugly cougars,

Each episode is like they reach a new low. I'm not even exaggerating. It goes against everything Rodenberry believed in (Who cares what an old fart thought right?)

This should be called Star Wars but not even Star Wars is about actual war (except perhaps that depressing piece of crap, Rogue One, if you haven't watch it, I won't ruin it for you:  everybody dies by the end)

What are people blaming Michael Burnham for? (Oh I can fucking hear to the writer that chose that stupid name. Smoking and explaining: "She's called Burnham because she has been burned")

I mean I know what she did, I know how stupid and impulsive she is,  What I don't understand is why the writers made her character be raised among Vulcans.

She's like the anti-vulcan character. She's all about impulsiveness, irrationality and emotions (in one sentence, she's a woman!).

What are the other characters exactly blaming her for?!

Is it for killing the first Klingon, like the one that was trying to start-up the torch thing-u?

But that was completely in self-defense... Ok, but maybe the other characters don't know that... But she knows it! and still blame herself in later episodes.

Is it for mutiny and try to launch an attack against the Klingon vessel? I guess. But she didn't succeed in that!

So that act of sedition had no real consequences. And then when she escape-save herself from the cell, Michelle Yeoh doesn't seclude her in another cell, so I'm guessing she forgives her? or at the very least that she though Michael Burnham was right from the beginning, that perhaps the way to avoid war was actually to show those damn Klingons some power. In any case she thinks the plan of kidnapping the Klingon Holy Man is dah shit brilliant (even though is the most stupid reckless thing ever). 

Is it for killing the Klingon leader? Don't get me wrong there's no way I could ever get why she turned her laser from stun to kill specially when she's the one saying "That would make a martyr out of him" just like, What? 3 minutes before?

But shouldn't the federation blame Michelle Yeoh for it? She was the one in charge. Ok you need to blame someone and you're not going to blame the dead. I get it. But... Yeah... I just think it's a bit strong to say Michael Burnham ignite an entire intergalactic war.

It would be great if the show presented things in a way that made all the other characters blame and mistreat her for starting the war but she were actually innocent... then you could empathize with her, maybe even like her... Or not. Go the opposite direction. Make her destroy the Klingon vessel at the exact time when all the other Klingon houses were rejecting the idea of going to war. And yeah, the attack then change their minds.

Then you could make a character in need for redemption out of her. Because as it is right now, the only thing you feel for her is rejection on behalf of how stupid she acts. And so, this way she has become the worst thing a human being can possibly be: 

she is a fucking moron. 

But like I said, each episode is a new low...

And then some writer got the stupid idea of making Vulcans, I mean goddamn motherfucking Vulcans... part of some Jihad cult or something. Like I need to be reminded that there is a world out there in my Sci-Fy escapist show: You got a Vulcan committing bombing suicide, activating some kind of organic bomb, because he's a member of some extreme racist faction.

Vulcans: who are all about logic, no feelings, the passions of the soul... nothing is too drastic, or extreme with them...

Yeah I know Spok almost killed Kirk once because he was in heat... But he was in heat, right? and...

Ending an episode putting emphasis there's a gay couple on the ship? And then you have like the actor screaming "intolerant" people for disliking it (and also: "Kevin Spacey wanted to touch my we wee when I was 14!" You know, I sympathize with you, but boy, just kick him in the nuts!!! And then go tell your mom )

But I, just happen to find of very poor taste to put it at the END of the episode (and not somewhere in the middle), the end, where in modern shows you usually use a twist for your audiences to be hooked up until next week. Is not something casual!  (Like what they did on Beyond. Which is in my opinion really insulting to George Takei's sexuality which happens to be real, not something made for a character in a fictional world. It's also sending the message that gay people can only play gay characters. And Hollywood do believe that shit: look at Ellen Page's career since she came out. Is not only me, George disapproves it, basically he said: I am gay. The character wasn't.) 

Here is like them saying: "Hey Look: Gay People. We're being controversial here! it's  a big deal, See you next week"

No! It's not a big deal. Making Kirk kissing Uhura, that was big back in the 60's when black people were not allowed to shit in the front of the bus.

These days every show has a gay character. And you know What? They're usually minor side characters, like... here. 

And  a bit neurotic, a bit annoying, like... here, here. 

Do you wanna shake the world? Make your main character, the protagonist a lesbian, that would be big: you don't see that every day. I though they were going for it with the whole Tilly roommate... (maybe I'd just love to see those two fuck?)

So Fuck you STD creators! YOU are the prejudice assholes!

And people then complain, about the stupidest shit. Like the way the Klingons look. Or they point out the STD thing (Yes! They were so dumb, they didn't realize that was going to be the acronym for the show... forever)

But I don't care. STD: it sounds cool to me.  At the very least It implies that you had sex one time in your life. (Yes, I know you could also get it like in a filthy public bathroom. But that didn't work when you told it to your Waifu, and it won't work here)

There are also some cool STDs, I'm not talking about High Five.

But Like Clap. Clap is not that bad. And when you look at it objectively, Herpes is just a skin disorder. Yes it's ugly and messy, like fucking a Lepper but you know, it could be exotic...

And STDs could even be funny. That's why we put them funny names like Crotch critters, Sock Puppets, The Blue Waffle, Cockroaches, Throwing the Chancla, French Crabs, Bieber Fever, The German Angst, The clam rot, The Spanish Pox, That Gooey Disgusting Green Stuff that's dripping from your Vagina,

Geena Davis and The Flies... 

The show is not all that bad. I mean by the end there's something like startreksie there, but by then you lost me already...

I hate all the characters, I hate the story, I hate the atmosphere, I hate the look... I hate all of it.

 I HATE YOU STAR TREK STD!!!  (by pelida77)

10 Underrated movies from this decade (I)

I love searching the web for an unknown little gem of a movie. This list is for people like me, so hopefully you'd find here one movie - just one movie would be enough - that sparks your interest.

1. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach / Coming of Age)

It's a film about growing up (the pain of coming of age) and becoming distant with someone you really love (a bit Queer-ish). Also about being in a shitty place of your life, but you somehow manage to... you know, go on.  With Frances you feel: Hey I've been there too! Hang in there, baby!

2. A Most Violent Year (2014, J. C. Chandor / Business-Drama-Thriller-ish?)

This movie is so fucking awesome. Poe Dameron owns a small Oil Company, but in the year he's about to expand, all his life seems ready to explode. Super intense movie, like a business drama but at the same time with a certain realistic quality to it? An honest man - Or is it? Or is it?- trying to make his way through all the intricacies of business world.

Jessica Chastise is fine too, in the role of the cold hearted bitch Waifu (a bit redundant really, all of them are! all of them are fine)

3. Only Lovers left Alive (2013, Jim Jarnusch / Vampirism? ) 

 Another fucking vampire movie! But it's the opposite to things like Twilight... the premise is: What would a couple of vampires do with an eternity of time? And of course the answer: being awesome creative people. Drink no-aids blood from popsickles. Read a lot and invent some Tesla shit

4. Trumbo (2015, Jay Roach / Biopic)

A biopic about Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter with communist affiliations during the blacklist period. In a perfect world Bryan Cranston should have been given an Oscar. Anyway ... " that small, worthless golden statue is covered with the blood of my friends" 

(Well I guess they didn't want to give it to the portray of a commie, right?) It makes you want to know more about Trumbo and the blacklist, it has that feel that you are watching that moment in time...

5. Enemy (2013, Denis Villeneuve / Psychological weird, existential drama?)

Mindfucking movie. The movie wants to fuck with your mind. I'm forever scared by this movie.

I already said all I wanted to say about this on a previous entry. HERE!

6. Jagten / The Hunt (2012, Thomas Vinterberg / Drama)

In a little town Mads Mikelsen is unfairly accused - Or is it? Or is it? - of being a paedophile, so it becomes the ultimate nightmare for him.

7. Starlet (2012, Sean Baker, independent? if that's a genre)

Explores the relationship between an 85 year old woman and a 21 porn actress (I think she was a porn actress? She looks like it, or a Whore at least. But there're no like explicit porn actressing scenes... If there were, I'd remember it and this would be like my favourite fucking movie of all time. Dree Hemingway is like the great granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway or something, the guy that wrote 

"I drink to make other people more interesting" second only to my favourite quote of him: "I write to buy more booze" - (I think he said that...)

And finally, she's been the first non nude playmate, Miss March 2016 (Isn't like really sexist to still call them by the month they appeared on the magazine? And regarding that, Isn't like the most stupid thing ever when Playboy announced they wouldn't portray nude women pictures any more? So funny: it lasted like a month or so?) 

Sorry but I just can't stop, cause all of this is super interesting (essential to cinema understanding I'd say): She's a second generation playmate!!! Can you believe that? Her fucking aunt Margaux Hemingway was also on playboy!

(But she was all Bush in. It was like a thing in those days: au natural. I was going to post a Picture of Margaux nude with a George Bush face covering her vagina, but then I felt it would be disrespectful cause she's dead: a sad story really,  she was like a super model, and was abused or something as a child, and then became addicted to crack and then die of overdose) she was an actress too, in an erotic thriller: My Inner Sanctuary (I'll just stop reading this shit, cause I'm sure I'd find something else and this would go on, and on, and on...)

8. Vi är bäst / We Are the Best (2013, Lukas Moodysson / Teens Comedy-Drama-ish?)

Back in the 80's three tweenies decide to form their own Punk Rock Band. You gotta love these girls: they're so full of life and positivity. They're not cynics yet. And they never will, cause they're just characters in a movie.)  They haven't known the shadows of alcoholism, yet... or obesity, "horrible morbid obesity"... (High five if you get that reference)

 9. A Most Wanted Man (2014, Anton Corbijn, Spy-ish)

Final role for Phillip Senior Hoffman (like señor Spielbergo). Well, if you think Synechdoche or something was the greatest piece of shit ever, you have my right! Cause I fucking hated that movie. But this is nothing like that. Phillip Hofman is the director of a German Counter terrorist unit; so he brings his trademark acting: being absolutely pathetic in a character that you imagine or expect to be cool... His character is an alcoholic, and probably Phillip was back on heroin at the time, so the whole thing is kind of creepy too... He was the king of losers (characters I mean) and the most gifted actor of his generation (Rest in peace Mr)

And honorable mention (cause is not as good):

10. I'll See You in My Dreams (2015, Brett Haley / Third Age Comedy?) 

Third Age Woman in search for a fuck. Yeah cuz you know 3rd age people still like to have some... They're alive and have blood running through their withered sexual organs. 
You know: there's a rat in the house, and you are drinking too much wine, and you start looking to the pool boy with lust in your eyes... 

That's just the way it is, as Malcolm so eloquently put it, life find it's way... I'm all for it! And it's not like she's gonna kill her male partners by having sex with them, right?

Ok. Enjoy!

(By Pelida77)

Just Whitewash Ghost in the Shell already!

Ok, so I watched the new Ghost in the Shell 2017 movie. A film by Rupert Stiltskin. And surprise! It didn't completely suck... Well it wasn't good either, which is worse in my opinion: a train-wreck is always memorable.

What was the main problem?... Well, the script... 

Whatever: the movie is so dull is not even worth to talk about it. What is really interesting - at least to me - is the whole whitewashing controversy the casting of Scarlet Johansson created. 

Yeah, for the leading role -who supposedly should be Asian- they cast a White Caucasian. 

Now. Why did they Whitewash the movie? 

Well, the number one market for Hollywood has always been the States; and the American society (you need to hear this) is racist as fuck. The country is great and all, it has some great institutions (backed up by even greater people), it is the land of the free (all that shit is real),

But I'm not making like a great sociological discovery here when saying they have racial issues. You see it on the news every fucking day, they voted for Trump for God'sake, the man who's main proposal was to build a wall to keep those rapist Mexicans out 

(Well... they voted for Obama too, true)

The second market in interest is what they call "the world", it basically represents all of us, the rest (the scrapyards of society... like a Battle Angel Alita thing)...

Yeah in the mind of a racist that makes perfect sense, you know, to generalize all of us, different countries and cultures, even different colors under one term: World. You don't care what you feed to the World a.k.a. the pigs, cause pigs are filthy animals, and so they would eat whatever shit you feed them... That is the mentality.

You only need to be careful with your own audience, the main market, composed by White Supremacists in potency... I'm being too harsh here... I'm joking, they're not really white supremacist!!! (not all of them) but yeah they won't buy a ticket for a movie with an Asian lady in the lead (or Latino or a Black guy, or God prevents, an Arab!) 

  

So it becomes like a... How do you call it? A self-fulfilling prophecy? (not sure that's the right term here, like it's close... m hmm)

They're afraid that if they lead with non-white people, the movie would flop, so the only roles non-whites get to lead are usually in B movies (let's call them not A Movies) or indies... and those movies are bad or they could be good, excellent, whatever, but not massive at the box office (cause they don't have the budget for the production itself, distribution, theaters, advertising, etc.)...  Also, the people are not used having non-whites in the lead, so every 10 years or so when a studio or a producer are perhaps feeling a little adventurous and they take a chance with their protagonist, the movie of course doesn't do well.  

And then I imagine the suits looking at the numbers and saying "Hey, I told you we shouldn't hire that fucking N..."

We'll never get to see a AAA lead by other than Ryan Gosling or Jennifer Cuntlawrence. 

The best roles, the best scripts, and the greatest budgets are

 reserved for beautiful people. People like THEM... sad but true: truth hurts.

But their logic is all wrong. Because you already have like a real fucking weird movie in your hands, right?

It is based on a freaking manga/anime: you can't get more weird than that! Mainstream audiences won't watch this unless is good (and receive good reviews) and even then, just maybe... 

They worry about not scaring their Whitey-Mainstries, when they should REALLY worry about not pissing off these guys:

And these guys are sensitive (you can tell! Specially the one who's giving a drink to the pillow)

You know what I find funny? Like Rupert Stiltskin, Film auteur Rupert Stiltskin mind me; whom we know from classics like The Huntsman and Snow white or something, talking about Scarlet Johansson and saying:

"There are very few actresses with 20 years' experience who have the cyberpunk ethic already baked in. You know, she comes from such edgy films from Lost in Translation to Under the Skin 

she’s got an incredible body of work and the attitude and toughness of her really is to me The Major. I stand by my decision—she's the best actress of her generation."

Who da fuck cares what you stand for?!!! You're not Martin Scorsese!, you are not Michael Mann, You are not even at Michael Bay levels,  You are Rupert Stiltskin motherfucker! Learn your place! 

The only reason we know you is because you were fucking Kirsten Stewardess. 

Also, What is cyberpunk ethic? I think he was trying to say 'aesthetic' (I mean he's British. I'm not: I have that as an excuse for my misuse of the language), but in any case why in Hell Johansson has the Cyberpunk Aesthetic baked in?

She's blonde, white, green eyes, perfect teeth, 5 ft 3, thin beautiful body, perfect breast and ass. Did he even read like a Cyberpunk novel? or a comic book? Watch a Cyberpunk movie?

What in the name of Tetsuo's butt hole he meant by that?!!!

[Prediction: they'gonna adapt Akira and Leonardo DiCaprio (or similar) it's gonna play Kanedaaaaa!] 

  

I miss the good old days of Hollywood with their open racism thing. At least there were honesty there: We are racist, yes! and fuck you if you don't like it. 

At least Mickey Rooney didn't know better, he was raised a racist, and when he fucking made all his Jap guy imitations among his alcoholic bar pals, they though he was da shit funny. He didn't do it out of malice or absolute dumbness, just plain old ignorance. And he asked for forgiveness: yes, 40 years later but still...

Today the motherfuckers don't even admit they are being racist. You know, What...?... ah fuck what's her name?, I keep confounding her with Charlize Theron... Scarlett Johansson that's it, you know what that dumb bitch said? (yeah I'm a misogynist):

"I would never attempt to play a person of a different race, obviously" (in a promoting interview for Ghost in the Shell)

But you did! 

She can't be that dumb! Her character in the movie is Asian, she lives in Hong Kong or something, she has an Asian mother! She likes Asian tea, She has an Asian name, Her fucking boss speaks to her in Japanese or Korean!

So in my opinion, what dear Scarlett Johansson meant by that is 

'I would never use prosthetic s in my teeth, elongate my eyes or dye my skin yellow the way Mickey Rooney did cause that would  be considered racist... But I have no issues in playing a character that used to be Asian (because she was yellow and had weird eyes) but now is in fact just a brain, which has no race, Dah!, inside a robotic body. Obviously!"

And call me whatever, but when a grown up woman tells you things like this, you can only roll your eyes and conclude that she's just a shallow dumb bitch!

You are full of shit lady. Fuck you, Fuck all of you. You all Whitewashed the film and you knew it.

Her performance is fine... But she's so White, right? And to hear the original name of the character: Motoko Kusanagi, paired with all that whiteness, Would be fucking distracting, right? 

So, what was their solution? They re-name her

Mira Killian, an Irish surname (which was super fucking distracting to me, cause I kind of like the original anime film, so I know all of this) so I get the vibe of a fan service? M. K. you get it? YOU GET IT!!!! But, yeah, we all hate it. 

But the worst part is that all this is just pointless, because for the majority of the movie all the characters in this world just call her "The Major", so they don't even use her fancy Irish name that much. 

But in any case that is also really distracting, cause all the time I'm thinking... If the "accident" occurred just one year ago, How come she's already a Major?

And then you got the "twist"?... Can you call it a twist when you spot it from a mile?

It turns out that Major's real name it is in fact Motoko Kusanagi, that she is in fact Asian (with an Asian mother)

That the evil corporation took her brain out and put it inside a robotic body. And that body, superior in every way to normal bodies just happens to be a Western body (and previously they did the same with some Asian guy named Hideki or something and turned him into Michael Pitt? Another Westerner?) that means that THEY, the Handa corporation or something, are the nasty racist

Whitewashers and not the honest people of Hollywood's movie-making industry.

Well in this sense the twist end up to be really something, because it becomes so meta, right?  

 (by pelida77)

    

Enemy (2013, Denis Villeneuve): the Tragedy of Mankind

Let me tell you a story about a guy. His name was Anthony Claire. Worked as an actor, wishing some day he'd become rich and famous. Each single night he had sex with this astonishing gorgeous blonde:  Mélanie Laurent, also known as the au-revoir Shoshanna girl, or even the other girl (super hot too), or both in a threesome... Those days! Riding a bike. Feeling the wind on his face. Living the dream! Very happy. Free!

But then something terrible happen (it felt like an explosion... or like a car accident: Boom on his face!!!) Blondie "forgot" to take her birth control pills, and now she's knocked up.

So, is the oldest story really. Like something taken from certain 80's masterpiece

He had to get married, had to get like a real job, like a boring life now.  Now he is a History teacher. He's teaching history for God's sake!!! Could you imagine a worse destiny?

And she made him do it! She's the one controlling everything now... like in a Dictatorship, "control, is all about control"... or like a... like a spider.

That's it! A giant disgusting hairy Spider! With her spider webs all over the place, feeling the vibrations on her web, ready to make a meal out of you, searching your pockets, looking through your internet browser history, your phone calls, msgs... 

Whenever he says no, whenever he puts a limit, they get into a fight... and you know there's no possible victory from that, cause she's pregnant now (and so she is "Fra-gile") also she's the one with the vagina, so if the guy refuse to submit he won't get any action. 

Vagina and spiders... I'm gonna point out this -for the third time in this blog I think - Hairy spiders are a symbol of the vagina.

I don't know why?!!!... I guess snatches are hairy too... I guess they catch unwary insects (I don't mean snatches here, I meant spiders, or did I?... idk, lost myself in the analogy...) Well whatever, they catch insects with their webs (which they produce right out of their abdomen) 

Get their food without having to fight for it? It's the primary trickster animal!

I'm not the one being misogynistic. Myths are! You can blame Claude Lévi Strauss, and sir James George Frazer for it

So, yeah: like in that scene where he wants to get some (after watching the movie), but she won't unless he gets a new job. 

Or the scene where they are having sex and suddenly she starts screaming cause she sees the mark of the ring on his finger (like a destiny thing) but not ring on it: Symbolically she demands to get married! 

Yes. We are not talking about just one guy here, but also about one woman (not two).

Anyway, she did it. Her life's achievement. Something to be proud of. The Spider-Woman. With her Spider-Ally: The Mother.

Doesn't matter if she's your mother or hers... Women always fight each other or become allies... and, I tell you, you sorry sob, you better pray they like each other and choose to be allies...

Anthony is no longer an individual... He is a... an Adam Bell now.

Disgusting, just disgusting...

Dressing that white shirt with brown yellow trousers (no more leather jackets for him). Teaching History (poetry's boring sister). Driving a van. Talking with his colleagues about movies (not women). He's just a shadow of his former self: crying silently, nestled over the couch, waiting for her to come and "take" him. After the mating, she'll eat him alive. Devour his soul.

This guy we're talking about he's on the verge of suicide. Sometimes he fantasizes: "What if I crash this FUCKING car and kill us both? I swear... if she starts again, I'll do it... I'll do it!"

Fortunately, he finds a healthiest path. The immemorial solution to this eternal problem. He -of course-, resorts to hookers.

[I feel like this just gave me the perfect excuse to compose a big collage of my favorite movie hookers!]

You know, hookers are spiders too. Trust me, you don't want to get in a liaison with a hooker. But the thing is that for the right price they're always available. They might have spider heads (that's why you don't kiss them) but their bodies remain feminine... human.

That's more than you can say about wives. As soon as they get married they start eating. And they don't shave. And they leave their panties on the handle of the shower. And everything starts to fall: varicose veins, stretch marks, acne. You don't wanna know the whole picture.

Whatever. In a dark room of some lost motel, waiting for the hooker. this guy finds himself.

"Oooh, there you are Peter!!!"

And then accepts who he really is: I'm a Man, goddammit! I have needs. I want to breath. I have hopes and dreams. I want to join a gentleman's secret sex club!

So he gets a key (identical to Eyes Wide Shut). 

And here we come to the end of our story... I don't know how some people get that the spider at the end of the movie is afraid of him.

Watch the scene again. That spider is FURIOUS!!! She's about to jump and rip his freaking head off.

"What do you mean you think you can go out?! Where to? Whit Whom?! Cause honey... I've just talked to your mother - the only other human being you're allowed to interact with -, and I KNOW you're not going out with her! So... Wait a minute! What's that in your pocket?!!! Is that a Personal and Confidential White Envelope? Are you lying to me? Are you hiding things from me? Do you have like an interior life I know nothing about?!!"

Ok. That's one plausible explanation. The other one is that she's finally having the baby. This movie is like Alien (upside down) and the coming of the baby is like the spider-alien here.

Yeah I know she's only 6 months, but this guy's mind is all twisted up, so... Who knows really.

When women go into labor they tend to blame their husbands (specially with the first child):

"Go grab the bag. Don't forget the papers. Drive faster you stupid sob, you want me to have this baby here? On this filthy street? Where I could catch filthy street diseases? Slower you maniac!!!, you wanna kill us both? You wanna murder your own offspring?! 

Take that one. A jam, I told you not to go this way!!! Call mom. Get the doctor. Call YOUR mother. Get the nurse. Get me some epidural. Stop breathing: I'm the one in labor!"

So, yeah. Great movie. A pain to watch.

(by pelida77) 

Alien 3 is a movie about Rape

I think people hate this movie cause is not fun... daaah!; but really, is just depressing.

Symbolically it's a movie about rape. Well, the franchise itself is a very rapey one. Facehuggers force people into fellatio, and the chest burst moment is always sexually violent,

(And the idea of having an alien inside you is reminiscent of an unwanted pregnancy or even fantasies about having a deformed child).

But specially this one. We could say the whole plot is about a woman getting gang-raped, becoming pregnant, and then deciding on having an abortion (and dying in the process) Deep Shit!

Fury 161 it's a penal colony filled with rapist that have found "some sort of redemption", God in the ass-end of space.

"You don't want to know me, lady. I'm a murderer and rapist of women." Says Dillon [BTW Charles Dutton is amazing in this movie. He was really convicted for manslaughter; murdered some dude in a fight (though he claimed it was in self defense), and spent 10 years in a federal prison... While in solitary confinement read an anthology of Black Plays: that's how he learned acting... This dude knows his shit... He's not pretending, he's being there... I try to think of him whenever I hear stories about people like Jared Leto sending used rubbers and dead rats to his female co-workers, cuz he's a serious method actor (Fuck You!)] 

"We've twenty-five prisoners in this facility... all double-Y chromos... all thieves, rapists, murderers, child molesters... all scum." Resumes Superintendent Andrews insisting on the sexual nature of the inmates crimes.

But to this Lost Paradise comes a Woman!

"We view the presence of any outsider... especially a woman, as a violation of the harmony... a potential break in the spiritual unity." (Dillon)

In the Paradise before the Fall there's always a peaceful harmonious coexistence between man and beast: represented in the movie by the relation between the inmates and their dog...

But like in the Genesis tale and other myths of creation, Women are always the cause of the lost of this universal harmony.

Traditionally Women are blamed for the Fall of humanity (and everything really)... The Woman here, with her coming to the planet, turns the dog into a nasty man-hunting Beast (which is how the inmates now, in biblical fashion call the alien)

So it becomes a symbol of that, but also of something even darker: lust, and rape that turns men into beasts.    

  

Andrews is specially concerned about the possibility of Ripley getting raped. He wants to prevent that...  But what's his solution?:

Secluding her "confined to the infirmary. Quarantined" like she were a filthy, sick, disgusting being

"I don't want a woman walking around giving them ideas."

There's a terrible subliminal message here. Victim Blaming: Women are the cause of rape, they shouldn't be allowed to go out alone! 

Young, attractive women, who flirt and wear revealing clothes, are raped. They should wear fucking burkas or something. Also, the idea that once a man is sexually aroused he cannot help himself: he has to have sex.

You don't want that sort of Women-hate message, When the protagonist, the hero of your movie is a Woman (and one of the most awesome female characters in cinema history).

Aliens (1986)-James Cameron movie-, was all about female empowerment... Vazquez with her muscles and big gun, and Ripley. She's the one saving all the marines from the alien's nest. 

By the end of the movie becomes this bad-ass, shooting grenades and a flame thrower, that saves the day, even to macho character Corporal Hicks (blind and helpless like a fucking woosie) 

Instead, Alien 3 is like a depressing reminder of What's the real place of women in the world.

Finally the big subject of discussion after 'rape' (at least in a coffee table with left-wings): an unwanted pregnancy and the consequent abortion. 

Following the religious interpretation, Ripley here is like Lilith, Adam's first wife, a demonic figure who killed her newborn children (she strangled them). Ripley here is killing her baby!

"Why innocents must suffer?" Asks Charles Dutton character while they're dispossing of Ripleys symbolical child: Newt. 

According to the religious view the fetus is innocent.

She killed Newt... I mean she was fine there at the Terraformers base. We know she survived longer than 17 days there. So, I think her chances were good, but then we know what happened. Ripley "rescue" her.

Anyway, here, in Alien 3 the "autopsy" performed on Newt looks very abort-sy to me, with that bloody scalpel... yikes

In the Collective Unconsciousness (as Carl Jung, the patient banger, used to say) the scalpel is always related to abortions. So here, is not an autopsy but a symbolical abortion.

And the noises. They opened a 9-year-old chest with a saw, and you hear all the cracking of bones and slicing of skin: now go on, tell me this movie isn't fucking awesome!

In that final scene, when she throws herself into the fire, she's also having an abortion.

"We've got a surgical bay on the rescue ship. Come with me. You still can have a life. Children. Most important, you'll know it's dead." Says Bishop. 

But, alas... Sometimes the only choice Women have is the dirty illegal clinic over the backyard alley... and that often lead them to not being able to have children in the future (as Bishop reminds her) or even death. (but don't worry they took some blood samples... Omg! who though that could work?) 

Like I said. It's a very profound movie. But Nobody wants to watch a movie about rape, abortion or child molestation. This are horrible things!

IDK maybe I'm blinded by nostalgia, cause Alien 3 was my introduction to the franchise. I mean, I dig it at least as much as the other two. I saw it on TV back in the day and loved it! And in those days you couldn't choose what to watch, so if that night they decided to broadcast Alien 3 you were fucking grateful to your luck! super excited, cause it was so much better than getting something like A walk in the Clouds, The 3 Ninjas, or anything by Jim Carrey (I hate that fucker).

By the way, all I'm saying is not applicable to the Assembly Cut. Soon enough that's all people are gonna watch, millennial newcomers and revisiting old timers; and of course being such a boring cut they'd think Alien 3 is shit. 

Only morons like a cut ordered by a committee, like 10 years later from release to make money with DVD sales, with a bunch of extras unused shots and scenes, the discarded material: What they didn't use because...did not work!

What was the editor's criteria in the Assembly Cut? Well, if it makes for a longer movie is better. 

It doesn't matter if you end up putting a fucking space cow in one of the most awesome Sci-Fy movies from the 90's, if it gives you 15 more seconds is better!

And with the sum of all parts (most of them pointless changes) you end up with a movie that last 2h 24 minutes: in-fucking-tolerable, slow and boring.

People complain CGI in Alien 3 looks bad. You'd be surprise to know most of it is practical: but indeed, it does look bad! So that's Why they decided to leave it out.

"Hey I like the Assembly Cut, you can see what David Fincher was trying to do"

I don't know what David Fincher wanted to do. Nobody knows, probably not even Fincher. He doesn't really like to talk about Alien 3 that much, being such a terrible experience for him and all.

All I heard is some idea of making Ripley and that Golan dude the new Adam and Eve of space, or something, which sounds terrible...

I believe that some degree of Studio intrusion is always good (some, not completely fucking your own movie. But yeah, restraining a little bit the director, cuz as you know they're usually insane... Creativity and madness are very similar. Creative people are crazy, you need the suit assholes to ground them on reality)

I can say this much about David Fincher: I respect the dude, not because of his vision and shit; but because they probably offered him a ton of money to make a "Director's Cut" and he told them to fuck off.

Movies are what they are. And you can't fix the past! You can't make Grido shot first.

(by pelida77)