Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-31330278-20180211164358/@comment-31330278-20180524224602

1. A mystery movie you'll probably like is "Sleepy Hollow". Detective Ichabod Crane (played by Johnny Depp. Just pretend he's Skeet Ulrich) is called to the town Sleepy Hollow after 3 people get decapitated. The killer is the headless horseman, which in this take is "the hessian mercenary", but turns out he wasn't the mastermind. The horseman's boss, who's also the girl who originally killed him, is Lady Van Tassel. Just like Lady Macbeth, Van Tassel executed her murderous scheme (she and the horseman killed 14 people) in order to gain wealth and power. She claim to lose her family's lands, but all she lost was her effective empathy. And Crane was great. The director gave him Malcolm qualities, with being the voice of reason and facing superhuman forces who got woke up by arrogance and lack of common sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow_(film)

2. I got to the part where Gaston rally his angry mob. That scene is another proof he might be the best thing in this movie. The good people did the right choice with giving the angry mob and aura of an armed overthrow. Neither of us would believe it, but Gaston was scary. He wasn't anywhere near cartoonish. He was menacing like the armed psychopaths we see in the news. I don't know what's scarier: The fact people like Gaston are real, or the fact the mob heeded to his call with open eyes. The only villager who came to doubt Gaston's plan was Le-Fou, of all people. His quote "there's a beast running wild, here's no question, but I fear the wrong monster's released" is accurate to terrifying degree.

3. Today I watched "Alien: Covenant". I took your advice and came without too high expectations. First thing I noticed is that Covenant is far better than "Prometheus". Katherine Waterson did a great job as Daniels. I don't care if she's a younger expy of Ripley. She was awesome. Smart, good at leading people, resourceful and mostly level-headed (she was of course crying when her husband burned to death, but she marched on as quickly as she should. That was the one time she wasn't level-headed). Just the way we like it. The whole hazardous fiasco that the crew got into could be prevented if they just listened to her when she said the earth-like planet they found was too good to be real. She even came up with the plan to kill the alien. Except David 8 the android, who turned out to be as cold psychopath as Cindi Tremaine, was smarter than the alien. Just smart enough to fool Daniels. He took the form of a crew member and got Daniels into a (most likely permanent) cryopreservation. Right after freezing Daniels for good, David put some of the face-huggers we know from earlier installments inside the embryos, which means he killed one thousand unborn babies. The scariest android, or every machine for that matter, I can think of.

4. I'm yet to get to Sienna's part, but i'm sure how I feel about her being the leader of the "the white fang". IMO, she should've been another legend. I always say that if Shere Khan was a female, the role of Jungle Book's main antagonist would go to someone else, if only because female tigers are usually too busy with raising their cubs to waste their time at slaying humans. While I respect the good people's creativity, I would like Sienna better if she was Pocahontas or something. Or Marie Antoinette. Not a female version of Weiss' father, because that would be far too much, but many female villains who fit the scale and the concept. I can see Salem's idea of negotiate with terrorist for taking the threat down a notch, but why did she sent Adam to do it? She must be aware the fact Adam is not deserve to be trusted, doesn't she? There's one think I would trust Adam to do though: Being locked in one room with Weiss' father and do to him the same thing he did to Gaston in "Beauty and the Beast" animated version. What I hope Belle will do to Gaston (TV Tropes better not mislead me) is another fate I wish to Weiss' father.