I think technically anything that provides backstory to the events of a prior film is considered a prequel.
But it doesn't really do that even.... the xenomorph at the end isn't the first xenomorph to exist, because there is clearly a stone statue of one much earlier in the film. the movie doesn't really explain much of anything actually. I still thought it was a good standalone movie, but absolutely horrible alien prequel.
It might not, but it gives you ideas of what kind of happens and what the Engineers are and what they're doing. Pretty much what alterego quoted didley squat saying. In Alien, you just have to take everything on the the planet at face value since that wasn't the plot of the movie, rather you get to see what they brought back from the planet onto Nostromo.
Mission Impossible 4 I expected crap but it was alright. Hereafter Kind of slow but good like most of Eastwood's stuff.
Sexy Assassins Unlike most porns this one actually had some logic! Not too much now, it plays to it's audience and not wanting their heads to explode (uh... yeah... I don't even know how to explain that one) so, and I'm no einstein myself but, it didn't confuse. But I was oddly amused rather than turned off by the 'Beach Boy' language or 'fantasy sci-fi' BS you typically get. And the starlet was HOT. 10/ 10!
I saw that a few weeks ago. Jonah Hill is a main character so you know it will be funny as his films are always hilarious.
Yeah, I also thought 21 Jump Street was pretty good for what it was. I was surprised because I really expected it to be bad, but it was actually funny. I've seen the old show and you aren't missing much. It's 80s cheese that's mostly known for being one of Johnny Depp's first roles.
21 jump street wasn't funny, it was just trying to be Happy Days where Depp plays the Fonze. I actually don't remember it to well, but I do remember that only my sister's girly friends watched it.
Moonrise Kingdom I thought it did a good job of capturing a sense of childhood wonder, without being obnoxious about it like The Goonies for instance. It had a lot of weird humor typical of Wes Anderson. Antwone Fisher Denzel always delivers. Pretty well acted all around. About an orphan trying to deal with his screwed up past. Layer Cake It was an okay crime drama I guess, but the plot was a bit meandering for my tastes.
The Avengers Lived up to the hype for me. Very simple storyline, but the point of this movie was more about the difficulty in getting the Avengers to...heh...assemble in the first place. It's an action/CGI masterpiece though, and Whedon pulled off the not too easy task of incorporating Black Widow and Hawkeye into the proceedings without them seeming tacked on compared to the other Avengers characters that have had their own films. It also has some subtle self-deprecating humor in it, like Downey, Jr's "that guy's playing Galaga" joke on board S.H.I.E.L.D's flying aircraft carrier. The waves of alien attackers that get picked off in the film's climax are a rough equivalent to a game of Galaga.
Hawkeye is turned into a baddie by Loki and is the key to getting the parts for Loki's portal and infiltrating the S.H.I.E.L.D. flying carrier. He later shoots the arrow that blasts Loki back onto the Stark building and separates him from the alien sceptre that is the key to the portal and his power. Black Widow ropes in Bruce Banner to the Avengers, tricks the trickster Loki into revealing his scheme per the Hulk, kicks Hawkeye's a** on the carrier and removes Loki's control in the process, and fights up to the top of the Stark building to close the portal. But other than that, they were pointless to the film...
Black Widow’s secret power is sexiness and she used that against Loki and Bruce Banner. I’d say they needed her in that regard. It’s hard to make a case for Hawkeye. I mean once he runs out of arrows he’s done right? At that point he goes home and watches golf or something. I just got my 3D bluray version last week. Been meaning to watch it in 3D.
To be honest, Black Widow didn't even need to do that with Loki. I would have assumed Stark's AI, Jarvis would have sent out an alarm when the enemies parked on top of his special building. That old scientist geezer was probably more important to the plot than Hawkeye.
I saw this movie when it first came out. I can't remember a thing except the BW outfit. Same with Batman3, it's a distant memory except for Catwoman.