Movie review thread...
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@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Hoyts cinema in Melbourne had a double feature last night, Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986). I hadn't seen either movie in over a decade (maybe even two in the case of the original). Alien had a few jump moments but the dated-ness took away from a lot, the baby alien in particular looked more comical rather than scary and got a lot of laughs. 2.5 secret missions out of 5 expendable crew members.
Aliens was a different story entirely. Action, suspense, awesome 1 liners, generally scary looking aliens. A couple of the spaceship scenes looked pretty bad as did the slow destruction of the reactor with those 'trendy at the time' fake as all hell lightning bolts added post production (seriously they should just edit those scenes and hit them with some modern effects) Despite that I absolutely loved it. 4.5 'they mostly come out at night' out of 5 'mostly'
Terrible first review. Spot on second one. I love the contrasting styles between the flicks. Parker was a cool character, Lambert was a fucken whiny coward and Ash was a fluffybunny. I saw the second at a pub in town and it got laughs mainly because of the cheesy 80sness
I love both flicks and have tickets to the new one in an advanced screening on Wednesday. I'll do a full review with loads of spoilers after I see it.
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@MN5 Ha each to their own. I'm sure at the time I thought Alien was awesome but it just hasn't aged too good.
They did an extended preview of Covenant in between films, and by extended I mean I had a feeling someone had messed up and gave us the full film. Looks really good but I can see some terrifically whiny useless characters whose untimely demise will be the cause of celebration. Hope its better than the Alien3/resurrection incarnations. Haven't yet seen Prometheus and may not from what I've heard about it -
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@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 Ha each to their own. I'm sure at the time I thought Alien was awesome but it just hasn't aged too good.
They did an extended preview of Covenant in between films, and by extended I mean I had a feeling someone had messed up and gave us the full film. Looks really good but I can see some terrifically whiny useless characters whose untimely demise will be the cause of celebration. Hope its better than the Alien3/resurrection incarnations. Haven't yet seen Prometheus and may not from what I've heard about itI loved Prometheus. Brilliant flick.
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 Ha each to their own. I'm sure at the time I thought Alien was awesome but it just hasn't aged too good.
They did an extended preview of Covenant in between films, and by extended I mean I had a feeling someone had messed up and gave us the full film. Looks really good but I can see some terrifically whiny useless characters whose untimely demise will be the cause of celebration. Hope its better than the Alien3/resurrection incarnations. Haven't yet seen Prometheus and may not from what I've heard about itI loved Prometheus. Brilliant flick.
Really?
Not saying it was the worst movie, buuuut it was a film that could have and should have been so much better.
Going through the Alien universe..Alien - Love it, absolute classic, seen it more times then i can count.
Aliens - love it even more, gem of a movie. One of the best if not the best sequel ever made.
Alien 3 - ok, not so great especially when compared to the above. But given the troubles it had, directors sacked, writers sacked etc. Not as bad as its made out to be
Alien 4 - shit
Prometheus - Watched it once. Stupid people doing stupid things. "wow whats this strange alien looking thing, i know lets touch it!'
A space ship shaped like a donut is crashing and heading/rolling towards me, ill run away in a straight line and get crushed! -
@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 Ha each to their own. I'm sure at the time I thought Alien was awesome but it just hasn't aged too good.
They did an extended preview of Covenant in between films, and by extended I mean I had a feeling someone had messed up and gave us the full film. Looks really good but I can see some terrifically whiny useless characters whose untimely demise will be the cause of celebration. Hope its better than the Alien3/resurrection incarnations. Haven't yet seen Prometheus and may not from what I've heard about itI loved Prometheus. Brilliant flick.
Really?
Not saying it was the worst movie, buuuut it was a film that could have and should have been so much better.
Going through the Alien universe..Alien - Love it, absolute classic, seen it more times then i can count.
Aliens - love it even more, gem of a movie. One of the best if not the best sequel ever made.
Alien 3 - ok, not so great especially when compared to the above. But given the troubles it had, directors sacked, writers sacked etc. Not as bad as its made out to be
Alien 4 - shit
Prometheus - Watched it once. Stupid people doing stupid things. "wow whats this strange alien looking thing, i know lets touch it!'
A space ship shaped like a donut is crashing and heading/rolling towards me, ill run away in a straight line and get crushed!I preferred 4 over 3. Ron Perlman was cool and there were some awesome deaths.
Actually Winona Ryder was in it so it loses marks. Lots of marks.
Prometheus did have a lot of dumb 'can't wait til they get killed characters' but which Alien flick doesn't? I know it really divides fans but I'm definitely in the 'love it' category.
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 Ha each to their own. I'm sure at the time I thought Alien was awesome but it just hasn't aged too good.
They did an extended preview of Covenant in between films, and by extended I mean I had a feeling someone had messed up and gave us the full film. Looks really good but I can see some terrifically whiny useless characters whose untimely demise will be the cause of celebration. Hope its better than the Alien3/resurrection incarnations. Haven't yet seen Prometheus and may not from what I've heard about itI loved Prometheus. Brilliant flick.
Really?
Not saying it was the worst movie, buuuut it was a film that could have and should have been so much better.
Going through the Alien universe..Alien - Love it, absolute classic, seen it more times then i can count.
Aliens - love it even more, gem of a movie. One of the best if not the best sequel ever made.
Alien 3 - ok, not so great especially when compared to the above. But given the troubles it had, directors sacked, writers sacked etc. Not as bad as its made out to be
Alien 4 - shit
Prometheus - Watched it once. Stupid people doing stupid things. "wow whats this strange alien looking thing, i know lets touch it!'
A space ship shaped like a donut is crashing and heading/rolling towards me, ill run away in a straight line and get crushed!I preferred 4 over 3. Ron Perlman was cool and there were some awesome deaths.
Actually Winona Ryder was in it so it loses marks. Lots of marks.
Prometheus did have a lot of dumb 'can't wait til they get killed characters' but which Alien flick doesn't? I know it really divides fans but I'm definitely in the 'love it' category.
Winona has a nice rack so there's that, also the scene where the two aliens turn on the small one is great.
I'm not sure what I find more difficult to accept, someone who has the option of supporting the abs but supports Scotland or saying publicly Prometheus is brilliant. -
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 Ha each to their own. I'm sure at the time I thought Alien was awesome but it just hasn't aged too good.
They did an extended preview of Covenant in between films, and by extended I mean I had a feeling someone had messed up and gave us the full film. Looks really good but I can see some terrifically whiny useless characters whose untimely demise will be the cause of celebration. Hope its better than the Alien3/resurrection incarnations. Haven't yet seen Prometheus and may not from what I've heard about itI loved Prometheus. Brilliant flick.
Really?
Not saying it was the worst movie, buuuut it was a film that could have and should have been so much better.
Going through the Alien universe..Alien - Love it, absolute classic, seen it more times then i can count.
Aliens - love it even more, gem of a movie. One of the best if not the best sequel ever made.
Alien 3 - ok, not so great especially when compared to the above. But given the troubles it had, directors sacked, writers sacked etc. Not as bad as its made out to be
Alien 4 - shit
Prometheus - Watched it once. Stupid people doing stupid things. "wow whats this strange alien looking thing, i know lets touch it!'
A space ship shaped like a donut is crashing and heading/rolling towards me, ill run away in a straight line and get crushed!I preferred 4 over 3. Ron Perlman was cool and there were some awesome deaths.
Actually Winona Ryder was in it so it loses marks. Lots of marks.
Prometheus did have a lot of dumb 'can't wait til they get killed characters' but which Alien flick doesn't? I know it really divides fans but I'm definitely in the 'love it' category.
Winona has a nice rack so there's that, also the scene where the two aliens turn on the small one is great.
I'm not sure what I find more difficult to accept, someone who has the option of supporting the abs but supports Scotland or saying publicly Prometheus is brilliant.I think it is possible to support two teams. I'll check and let you know. My other half preferred Prometheus to ANY Alien movie ( apparently they're grose and scary ) so if that doesn't prove all women are mental then nothing does.
As for your other point I'm ashamed of myself as a proud breast enthusiast that I've never realised before...
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Actually Winona Ryder was in it so it loses marks. Lots of marks.
You spelt gains incorrectly.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Actually Winona Ryder was in it so it loses marks. Lots of marks.
You spelt gains incorrectly.
Her character was annoying as fuck and she didn't whip them out. I stand by my original point emphatically.
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okay, so, i watched the new Independence Day last night. I'm really glad i did. Because now i have a reminder of just how bad a movie could be.
How is it that 20 years on, the effects look even worse than the first?
It's just so fucking bad i found myself searching IMDB just to make sure i wasn't watching The Asylum's cheap as shit knock-off version. It's completely preposterous, the entire fucking thing. And while the first was hardly an intellectual watch, it at least had heart, and humour. This had nothing. Fucking nothing. And it is so incestuous, it makes the Star Wars prequels look broad in scope. If you were a central character 20 years ago, you, or your offspring is a central character now, and probably married to another one. Fuck. Off.
Worst movie i have seen in ages. Avoid. I can't even say the effects were worth it. Just shit.
Minus 2 ... you know what, it's not even worth the effort to come up with a good rating. Just minus 2 stars.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
okay, so, i watched the new Independence Day last night. I'm really glad i did. Because now i have a reminder of just how bad a movie could be.
How is it that 20 years on, the effects look even worse than the first?
It's just so fucking bad i found myself searching IMDB just to make sure i wasn't watching The Asylum's cheap as shit knock-off version. It's completely preposterous, the entire fucking thing. And while the first was hardly an intellectual watch, it at least had heart, and humour. This had nothing. Fucking nothing. And it is so incestuous, it makes the Star Wars prequels look broad in scope. If you were a central character 20 years ago, you, or your offspring is a central character now, and probably married to another one. Fuck. Off.
Worst movie i have seen in ages. Avoid. I can't even say the effects were worth it. Just shit.
Minus 2 ... you know what, it's not even worth the effort to come up with a good rating. Just minus 2 stars.
Probably better then Prometheus then
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@mariner4life while you are into watching shite movies, you should watch that new movie called Point Break!
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@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
okay, so, i watched the new Independence Day last night. I'm really glad i did. Because now i have a reminder of just how bad a movie could be.
How is it that 20 years on, the effects look even worse than the first?
It's just so fucking bad i found myself searching IMDB just to make sure i wasn't watching The Asylum's cheap as shit knock-off version. It's completely preposterous, the entire fucking thing. And while the first was hardly an intellectual watch, it at least had heart, and humour. This had nothing. Fucking nothing. And it is so incestuous, it makes the Star Wars prequels look broad in scope. If you were a central character 20 years ago, you, or your offspring is a central character now, and probably married to another one. Fuck. Off.
Worst movie i have seen in ages. Avoid. I can't even say the effects were worth it. Just shit.
Minus 2 ... you know what, it's not even worth the effort to come up with a good rating. Just minus 2 stars.
Probably better then Prometheus then
Prometheus, while not a classic. Wasn't that bad. Yes it had plot problems, but it looked absolutely amazing.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
okay, so, i watched the new Independence Day last night. I'm really glad i did. Because now i have a reminder of just how bad a movie could be.
How is it that 20 years on, the effects look even worse than the first?
It's just so fucking bad i found myself searching IMDB just to make sure i wasn't watching The Asylum's cheap as shit knock-off version. It's completely preposterous, the entire fucking thing. And while the first was hardly an intellectual watch, it at least had heart, and humour. This had nothing. Fucking nothing. And it is so incestuous, it makes the Star Wars prequels look broad in scope. If you were a central character 20 years ago, you, or your offspring is a central character now, and probably married to another one. Fuck. Off.
Worst movie i have seen in ages. Avoid. I can't even say the effects were worth it. Just shit.
Minus 2 ... you know what, it's not even worth the effort to come up with a good rating. Just minus 2 stars.
Probably better then Prometheus then
Prometheus, while not a classic. Wasn't that bad. Yes it had plot problems, but it looked absolutely amazing.
To be fair I was been sarcastic and trying to antagonise MN5, probably should have somehow slipped the Scottish rugby team into the post..
