We call them engineers. They engineered us. ibid. Elizabeth Shaw
It’s us. It’s everything. What killed them? ibid.
Well, doctor, it’s not exactly a traditional foetus. ibid. David
It must feel like your God’s abandoned you. ibid. David
If these things made us, surely they can save us. ibid. old man
Doesn’t everyone want their parents dead? ibid. David
I am your father … You are my creation. Alien Covenant 2017 starring Michael Fassbender & Katherine Waterston & Billy Crudup & Danny McBride & Demian Bichir & Carmen Ejogo & Jussie Smollett & Nathaniel Dean et al, director Ridley Scott, opening scene
Colonization vessel: Covenant; Date: December 5 2104; Crew: 15; Cargo: 2,000 colonists, 1,140 embryos; Destination: Origae-6; ETA: 7 years, 4 months. ibid. captions
What the fuck was that! There’s another one! ibid. down on planet
Every mission needs a good synthetic. ibid. planet synthetic
Oxygen levels critical. The Martian 2015 starring Matt Damon & Jessica Chastain & Jeff Daniels & Christen Wiig & Michael Pena & Sebastian Stan & Sean Bean & Kate Mara & et al, director Ridley Scott, wakes up alone
Mars will come to fear my botany powers. ibid. Watney
I colonised Mars. ibid.
There’s something big and beautiful and greater than me. ibid.
Enjoy your last walk. Gravity 2013 starring Sandra Bullock & George Clooney, director Alfonso Cuaron, control to Clooney
What’s the point of going on? What’s the point of living? ibid. Clooney to Bullock
The CW-7 which despite being the topic of so much controversy over the past seven years has continued development … The artificial cooling substance CW-7 will succeed in bringing average global temperatures down to manageable levels. Snowpiercer 2013 starring Chris Evans & Song Kang-ho & Tilda Swinton & Jamie Bell & Octavia Spencer & Ewan Bremner & John Hurt & Ed Harris & Go Ah-sung & Luke Pasqualino & Alison Pill et al, director Bong Joon-ho, opening news snippets
Soon after dispersing CW-7 the world froze. All life became extinct. The precious few who boarded the Rattling Arc are humanity’s last survivors. ibid. captions
Passengers, this is not a shoe, this is disorder. This is size ten chaos … We must all of us in this train of life remain in our allotted station. ibid. Minister Mason
My friend, you suffer from the misplaced optimism of the doomed. ibid.
The engine is sacred. And Wilford is divine. ibid.
If this is some sort of peaceful first contact, why send twelve, why not just one? Arrival 2016 starring Amy Adams & Jeremy Renner & Forest Whistaker & Michael Stuhlbarg & Mark O’Brien & Tzi Ma & Abigail Pniowsky & Julia Scarlett Dan & Jadyn Malone & Frank Schorpion et al, director Dennis Villeneuve, news
Violence continues to spread across the US today … ibid.
The first photographs of the aliens goes viral. ibid. news
It has to do with a really rare disease and it’s unstoppable. ibid. Louise
This is where your story begins: the day they departed. ibid.
It’s an old federal textbook; we’ve replaced them with the corrected version. Explaining how the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union. Interstallar 2014 starring Matthew McConaughey & Anne Hathaway & Jessica Chastain & Mackenzie Foy & Ellen Burstyn & John Lithgow & Michael Caine & Casey Affleck & Timothee Chalamet & Wes Bentley & Bill Irwin & Topher Grace & David Gyasi & Josh Stewart et al, director Christopher Nolan, woman in office to father
We’re not meant to save the world; we’re meant to leave it. ibid. Caine
The victim called the local ATF office the morning of the explosion. Deja Vu 2006 starring Denzel Washington & Val Kilmer & Bruce Greenwood & Matt Craven & Jim Caviezel & Paula Patton & Adam Goldberg & Elden Henson & Erika Alexander et al, director Tony Scott, Doug
It’s a brand new program; it’s called Snow White. ibid. Paul
I’ve got that weird I’m being watched feeling. ibid. Claire
We’ve found a way to fold space back on itself. ibid. agent
I told you [Doug] earlier I have a destiny, a purpose. Satan reasons like man, but God thinks of eternity. Well, I prostrate myself before a world that’s going to hell in a handbag, because in all eternity, I am here and I will be remembered. That’s destiny. A bomb has a destiny, a predetermined fate set by the hand of its creator. And anyone who tries to alter that destiny will be destroyed. Anyone who tries to stop it from happening will cause it to happen. And that’s what you don’t understand. We’re not here to coexist. I’m here to win. ibid. Carroll
Do you ever have that feeling where you are not sure if you are awake or dreaming? The Matrix 1999 starring Keanu Reeves & Laurence Fishburne & Carrie-Anne Moss & Hugo Weaving & Joe Pantoliano & Gloria Foster & Marcus Chong & Julian Arahanga & Matt Doran & Belinda McClory et al, directors Andy & Lana Wachowski
Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain. But you feel it. You have felt it your entire life. That there is something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s like there’s a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everything. All around us ... It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. That you are a slave, Neil. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison you cannot smell or touch. A prison for your mind. ibid. Morpheus
You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. ibid.
What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dreamworld built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this [holds battery]. ibid.
Never send a human to do a machine’s job. ibid. man in black
A virus. Human beings are a disease. A cancer of this planet. You are a plague. ibid.
I’m going to be honest with you. I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, or whatever you want to call it. I can’t stand it any longer. It’s the smell. ibid. man in black to Morpheus
The press have dubbed him the Fizzle bomber. We stopped him this time, but this was only a small attack. This is his grand plan: March 1975 – he keeps changing the day – the explosion will level ten blocks of New York and leave over eleven thousand dead. Predestination 2014 starring Ethan Hawke & Sarah Snook & Monique Heath & Olivia Sprague & Noah Taylor & Madeleine West & Christopher Kirby & Freya Stafford & Jim Knobeloch & Christopher Stollery & Tyler Coppin & Rob Jenkins et al, directors Michael & Peter Spierig