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In fact everyone here should watch it @thirdform too so we can add to this thorough discussion and see where everyone stands

@0bleak Never saw the original so no but I looked it up!

I’d wholeheartedly recommend you watch it

Trying to use Danny McBride as comic relief felt half-hearted and unnecessary from what I remember too. But as long as they keep the Weyland or Creator lore central I’ll keep coming back for more in the future

I’ll write more later but it never broke our will, compelling enough in its idiocy to force us on to see what kind of bow it would ultimately be wrapped in. Entirely predictable with its feel-good ending but devil’s in the details of course

Covenant is good!

Alright, Body Snatchers was awesome, just brutal. Loved it even as it exhausted me. But jesus @sus The Abyss my girl and I agreed was just about the most low IQ expensive hunk of shit we’ve ever seen. Dripping with the most pathetic nihilistic misanthropic ideology, dressed up in the phoniest...

“Life finds a way” etc. I also didn’t realize at first that the perpetual nature of the explosion Portman’s character sets off is more unwitting refraction and mimicry on the part of the Shimmer. That it doesn’t know that its killing itself is very creepy

Yeah even with both using of the idea of the alien mimicking earthly forms, Annihilation‘s playing with “refraction” where the The Thing devours and replicates. The former’s neutrality definitely plays with your sympathy more but may also be even more perverse, the way Portman’s double is left...

I won’t dare comment on Adams in her presence!!!

Oh its so good, we were lamenting how the rest of the soundtrack was that cheesy acoustic guitar on account of what great work they did with that piece. Co-produced by one of the Portishead guys

Think we’ll do the 70s Invasion of the Body Snatchers tonight

Annihilation was pretty good, strange in a ‘now’ way (cinematographically, soundtrack and acting-wise) but also laudably so. It bracketed a lot out to focus on the themes it wanted to raise which is respectable and the final sequence where there’s a climax of otherworldly revelation that doesn’t...

Saw it in a theater recently, a little drunk. Stone cold bleakness and mundane despair, with a fantastic chase scene at the end

Watched The Thing last night and it ruled, similar vibes where a crew is in uncharted territory. Anyone got recs for what sci-fi in this vein I should watch next tonight, in the mood for that sort of thing

Is there democratic-centralist jungle? https://www.bolshevik.org/Pamphlets/LeninVanguard/LVP%200.htm

@mvuent Heathen Earth is the best TG record imo

@thirdform take a stance on this

Does anyone listen to Red Scare here? Some roommate of a friend was saying “black people peaked in the 80s” and “Native Americans didn’t use salt before European contact” and we’re all pretty sure she listens but wondering where she’s regurgitating that from

@thirdform make another mix! I promise I will make another one soon so you can castigate me about its weaknesses, I will humbly accept