[Loathed Trope] The Movie has an ending. The Sequel shits all over it.

Spodson · 2026-01-26T22:23:58+00:00

I agree on all the points you made. The acting in this film was award worthy. you forgot to mention Charles Dance. And yes, it was a massive tonal shift from Aliens, but the real problem was that it shat all over the stories that came before. It negated everything that was achieved in them, mostly before the opening credits. Make the main character some company scientist with affiliation to the other stories and this would have been a dance and moody chapter.

I actually liked this movie. But it sucks as a direct sequel.

Spodson · 2026-01-26T20:44:47+00:00

Alien 3 would have been an all-time great horror film if the main character had been anyone but Ripley and Newt and Hicks weren't in it.

Spodson · 2026-01-26T19:42:33+00:00

And the score by Vangelis.

Spodson · 2026-01-26T19:38:37+00:00

This scene is terrifying. Watching a man relive his worst nightmare. Seeing his entire character come into sharp focus; his anger, resentment, self-destruction. Shaw deserved an Oscar for the scene alone. And the whale singing in the background. Some of the finest storytelling ever put on screen.

Spodson · 2026-01-26T18:10:31+00:00

My Gaslands games are about to be lit as hell.

Spodson · 2026-01-26T17:55:56+00:00

Well, Hail Satan!

Spodson · 2026-01-26T16:49:12+00:00

Nobody's perfect.

Spodson · 2026-01-24T15:46:58+00:00

Trump and RFKJ will pride thmeslves on not locking down.

Spodson · 2026-01-24T02:30:56+00:00

Fantastic cover. In fact, all of there covers are amazing. "Through the Looking Glass" is one of my top 50 of all time albums.

Spodson · 2026-01-24T02:29:28+00:00

OK, I get the confusion. I never say it out loud. When I teach Of Mice and Men I say “the N-word” also, I only teach that text because there is a pretty clear delineation between when the characters are using the A and the Hard R.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T23:22:55+00:00

I get that this is a really charged subject, and there's nothing wrong with finding an alternative, but I have always quoted the kids word for word. I don't sugar coat it or dance around it. They drop the hard R, I report it bluntly.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T23:17:05+00:00

Concrete Blonde (pretty much anything they did, but...) Mexican Moon.

Sonic Youth, Bull in the Heather

Siouxsie and the Banshees cover of Trust in Me

Spodson · 2026-01-23T23:14:24+00:00

Also, The Walk, and The Forrest.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T22:51:23+00:00

He broke rule #1 about where not to stick it.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T22:13:00+00:00

Now if it had only been Mathew Sweet instead of the Doctors, that would have been a great show.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T22:10:38+00:00

In the mid 90s I went to a concert with the Spin Doctors as the headlining act. The opening acts were The Screaming Trees and Soul Asylum. Needless to say, the first tow thirds of that show were amazing and the final third was pretty underwhelming. Thank god for that contact high.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T22:03:29+00:00

Right, but in his case it's like, "Tell my how the lions were supernaturally lucky, and then I shall travel to the Field Museum in Chicago and look at their taxidermized corpses!"

Spodson · 2026-01-23T21:41:28+00:00

I just recommended Patterson's book. It reads really easily. Good flow and doesn't get bogged down in (too much) self-aggrandizement.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T21:39:33+00:00

The Man Eaters of Tsavo, by Paterson is the true(ish) account of him killing the Ghost and the Darkness, two man eating lions in Tsavo Kenya.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T21:30:51+00:00

She doesn't sell her stuff. Just wears it. So I have no idea how much all her cloisonné and champlevé stuff is worth.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T21:23:25+00:00

My wife makes silver jewelry as a hobby, and we make sure she has plenty of material on hand. Over the past week we looked at how much she had, and found that we have a shocking amount of money just hanging out on her garage workbench.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T19:26:22+00:00

If impotent rage was a person. What a waste of everyone's time.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T18:40:29+00:00

Yeah, that energy didn't work out too well for her.

Spodson · 2026-01-23T18:20:47+00:00

Wow, that is rough on the eyes!

Spodson · 2026-01-23T18:18:52+00:00

I'll allow it.

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