“Human life is part of an endless chain of catastrophies, the demise of the dinosaurs being just one of these events. We seem to be next.” - Werner Herzog
Homo Sapiens creates a monument of the human race. It shows how the intelligent life that is humankind has all but disappeared. The only trace of our existence is in our structures left behind, now relics. The film captures abandoned buildings and structures. Sometimes entire towns and small cities. In one…
“If everything’s ready here on the dark side of the moon… play the five tones.”
How many films have shown intelligent life arriving on Earth? Now, how about films where not a single alien harms a human? Finally, how many where, even more extraordinary, not a single human is hostile toward the visitors? Under all these unlikely conditions, Close Encounters of the Third Kind would better fit in the genre of “Fantasy” instead of science-fiction. The reality is that tomorrow,…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“Power over spice is power over all.”
Dune: Part Two raises the bar for what heights of spectacle the cinema can reach. When the first film premiered my praise for it included the size and spectacle — how no other film had matched the sheer scope of the desert planet on the canvass of an IMAX screen. Dune: Part Two surpasses that benchmark. It is an improvement in scale, and in performance, and in stakes. The audience I saw it…
"The best people to have sex with are the ones who know about Neil Gaiman."
I don't know personally if this is true, sadly, but I imagine it is ;)
