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2013/01/22

5ilence

I feel a slight tingle as i begin to regain the sensation in my hands. My heart has slowly started to regain its natural rhythm. I try to open my eyes. Nothing. I'am motionless in darkness, fearful that i had never even been able to see at all.

Gradually a muffled noise begins to grow. i try to pinpoint the source of the sound in total darkness. and then slowly the darkness gives way to a grey haze, until it becomes a white haze. My eyes fully opened, they hurt in the blinding light. Then i remembered i had been in cryo-sleep for a few months now and my eyes were merely getting used to the light. With most of my senses in check i see the glass coffin covering me, there is another attack of panic after i realized the limits of my space. My hand shoots up and my palm immediately hits an invisible barrier. Its glass. Still in panic my other arm shoot up and my heart begins to race. then a cold sweat begins to cover my body. I hear a sharp high pitched muffled sound coming from outside the glass. This does not help sooth my hysteria. Then suddenly i see the silhouette of a persons head appears over my body. The silhouette now moved there arms over my enclosure accompanied by voices drowned out by the beeping from the outside. Then suddenly a slight hiss, signals air coming in or out. I had been kept in my tube for so long that my senses of smell had grown accustom to the sterile clinical air of the pod. And anything compared to the air from my filtered environment passes as stale.

5ilence

This is the opening part of something I wrote in 2010. Reading it now feels a lot like Arthur C Clarke and the Odyssey books. If you want to read more, ask yourself: "Why?". There are a few more words left, mostly dialogue. It reads like all the set-ups to characters that have been in cryosleep being introduced in the narrative to a reader or viewer(Think Alien, 2010, Prometheus)

2012/06/17

Review : Prometheus

I loved this movie. No ratings, no stars, I just love it. From director to cast. I don't really have that much of a problem with Lindelof because I never finished Lost. With all the vitriol he's getting on the internet I do fear for the future of another franchise hes penned. He seems like a nice guy on The Nerdist Podcasts.

I did not see this in 3D, and having seen it twice now, I wish I had. I could see the intention of the technology used, just like How to Train Your Dragon. *sigh*

I have never seen the original Alien on the big screen. The first time I saw it may have been on TV. Lately I've been rewatching it on my computer. That's not really the best way to see it especially with the ships trying to look heavy, and the landing scenes. "All the excitement of parking." Did I mention I've been rewatching it with Rifftrax? That's probably not good too.

But seeing the original with my limited knowledge of the craft I could see, again, intention. I may never get to experience what most of you got when you saw it for the first time, in the theater, in colour. So when Ridley Scott comes back to not only a genre, but a franchise he helped create I was on board and rode that enthusiasm to the cinema.

David stole the show, every time he was on screen I just knew he was going to do something, probably on orders or on his own. Hello HAL is that you?

And who would anyone here pick to take out to dinner; The Ice Queen(Vickers) or The Nun(Shaw)? This was really the toughest question on my mind after the movie.