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[shantari]

So the first post for 2012.

I guess this would be a post to tell you about my Christmas and/or New Year. Or about my thoughts about the coming year.

But honestly? I just wanna make this post to say that I saw Alien about a week ago, and that I find it overrated. That is all.

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[shantari]

See, the thing is that other than the horror movie logic, I still think that the movie holds up in terms of look and other such things that would normally date a movie (minus the "we'll all be working/living in space"-bit). The effects are seamless, the sets look really good, and no one is sporting era-defining hair or clothes of what I could see. (Maybe the underwear in the fanservice scene might be a bit dated, but that depends on if women in the late seventies all wore excessively tiny panties or not.)

Metropolis, I really liked that one, loved it in fact. Wish it was possible for a 100% restored version. I'm generally a sucker for old sci-fi. The fears and hopes of the future is always a fascinating subject, and often reveals a lot about one's thoughts of the present. Though I think movie-makers and writers were a lot more subtle in the past, to much greater effect.
I think what I like most about Metropolis is the idea of a "world-city". Not necessarily a planet-covering city (like in Star Wars for instance), but a city that is so large and encompassing that it becomes its own world to the extent that the characters never even seem to think of the possibility of something existing outside of that city. But at the same time the whole city is centered around some form of power nexus, some form of ruler that the city obeys and fears. The ideas and feel of such a city is strongly rooted in me, since I was a kid. It's the kind of sci-fi element that both scares and fascinates me.