Cocktails of Ice and Water
Animals – by Frank O’Hara Have you forgotten what we were like then when we were still first rate and the day came fat with an apple in its mouth it’s no use worrying about Time but we did have a few tricks up our sleeves and turned some sharp corners the whole pasture looked [...]
Making Sure Your Heroes Aren’t Vampires
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was no Citizen Kane. I’m not even sure how well it worked as an historical fantasy action movie. It certainly outpaced a disaster like the similarly timed Jonah Hex and got points from me for playing it straight rather than indulging in goofy cultural anachronism like Wild Wild West; however, its [...]
Is the Prometheus Alien a Microbe? Do the Engineers practice Weak Intelligent Design?
I have to begin by saying that there are “SPOILERS AHEAD.” However, if you couldn’t figure out from the trailer that the plot of Prometheus involved aliens creating/elevating humans in a Chariots of the Gods scenario and also creating the “Alien” then you’re probably still sounding out the words in the first sentence and thus [...]
Suffering is Optional
“The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.” Peter O’Toole as Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – redeployed with excellent results in Prometheus (2012) by an android Michael Fassbender
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