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"You don't know what kind of man I am." "Tell me."
I ate dinner in Kota Bharu's night market - inexplicably blue rice (tasted normal, was not normal-coloured) and chicken-on-a-stick - and one of the stalls with tables in front of it had a TV showing this movie.
I don't know what movie it was, but I do know it was amazing.
Let's see.
- The hero (who looks like Tom Cruise) admits to the heroine that he massacred a race of implied-sentient dinosaur-like aliens and feels a tiny bit guilty about this, but mostly he's upset that his wife and son got killed by a surviving, pissed off alien. (I'm with the alien.) Immediately after telling this story, the girl picks up a sword given to her by her dead father, who told her that she'd know when she met the right man to give it to, and tells the hero that he's a good man. WHAT THE FUCK.
- The moment of "humans are terrible, terrible" amid all the monster killing was so overdone. After killing all the aliens, giant bulldozers move their carcasses into big pits so that happy colonists can settle down. And then no one seems to care.
- The flashback scene is shown after the camera focused on a fire.
- Despite the hero's mild sadness about killing (most of) an entire race, the rest of the movie seems to be about tracking down and killing survivors of this race. I think.
- There's a jump in tech level from spaceships killing aliens with fire (he actually says "We killed them all with fire") to dudes running around with swords and living in huts, which made me wonder if the movie had changed, especially when a guy called Boromir showed up, but nope, same movie.
- These dudes are Norse/Viking-ish, with names like Freya and funky helmets, but I'm pretty sure I saw Freya eating with chopsticks because my first thought was that she was a fake-Asian.
- The hero freedives to the bottom of a lake and holds his breath forever, and seems to release unending air bubbles every time he's startled.
- A guy got clawed to death, lay around bleeding during many many minutes of fighting and hanging onto cliffsides and so, yet survived just long enough to deliver a nice little deathbed conversation.
- The heroine is useless. When the women and children clear off to let the men fight the monster/alien, she announces that it killed her father and she will help - and gets kidnapped in the next scene. Then, when she's found again, she spends most of the climax cowering and, later, holding onto a cliff she almost fell off. I think she cut off one alien's head, but immediately broke into girl-tears and had to be comforted by Tom Cruise.
- So many meaningful glances and stock phrases and wonderfulness.
I hung around watching this for quite a while. Amazing.
I don't know what movie it was, but I do know it was amazing.
Let's see.
- The hero (who looks like Tom Cruise) admits to the heroine that he massacred a race of implied-sentient dinosaur-like aliens and feels a tiny bit guilty about this, but mostly he's upset that his wife and son got killed by a surviving, pissed off alien. (I'm with the alien.) Immediately after telling this story, the girl picks up a sword given to her by her dead father, who told her that she'd know when she met the right man to give it to, and tells the hero that he's a good man. WHAT THE FUCK.
- The moment of "humans are terrible, terrible" amid all the monster killing was so overdone. After killing all the aliens, giant bulldozers move their carcasses into big pits so that happy colonists can settle down. And then no one seems to care.
- The flashback scene is shown after the camera focused on a fire.
- Despite the hero's mild sadness about killing (most of) an entire race, the rest of the movie seems to be about tracking down and killing survivors of this race. I think.
- There's a jump in tech level from spaceships killing aliens with fire (he actually says "We killed them all with fire") to dudes running around with swords and living in huts, which made me wonder if the movie had changed, especially when a guy called Boromir showed up, but nope, same movie.
- These dudes are Norse/Viking-ish, with names like Freya and funky helmets, but I'm pretty sure I saw Freya eating with chopsticks because my first thought was that she was a fake-Asian.
- The hero freedives to the bottom of a lake and holds his breath forever, and seems to release unending air bubbles every time he's startled.
- A guy got clawed to death, lay around bleeding during many many minutes of fighting and hanging onto cliffsides and so, yet survived just long enough to deliver a nice little deathbed conversation.
- The heroine is useless. When the women and children clear off to let the men fight the monster/alien, she announces that it killed her father and she will help - and gets kidnapped in the next scene. Then, when she's found again, she spends most of the climax cowering and, later, holding onto a cliff she almost fell off. I think she cut off one alien's head, but immediately broke into girl-tears and had to be comforted by Tom Cruise.
- So many meaningful glances and stock phrases and wonderfulness.
I hung around watching this for quite a while. Amazing.
Yes!
Wow, that's recent. From the shitty green goo that came out of the aliens, I expected it to be an older film.
I wonder where the language barrier went.
(Who happens to be Jim Caviezel, the guy who played Jesus in "The Passion" and was cursed to be in terrible movies thereafter.)
The blue rice, aha, was probably stained with blue flowers called bunga telang locally. It's a creeping plant with intense blue flowers and grows prolifically in the right, sunny locations. More food should be coloured blue.
I agree! It made mostly plain rice so much more interesting. Imagine it besides the pandan cakes (although I guess pandan also has a distinctive flavour).