I don't care for 2 that much but robocop 1 is one of my favorite movies along with terminator 2
basically cyborg movies own
robocop 2 also had a hodgepodge of scripts that just got slapped together to cash in on robocop
robocop on the other hand is an amazing satire of the 80s
robocop 2 rules just as much and is a great satire of what the 90s would become
ehhhhh
robocop 2 is fun but not nearly as good of a movie as robocop
which manages to be an incredibly smart movie disguised as an incredibly dumb one
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My argument is that I would call Hollow Man, Showgirls and Basic Instinct of a lesser, trashier, rapier, ilk than Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers. Though, it's a lot harder to actually call Total Recall good when you listen to the Commentary. Oh, god, the commentary. We'll just ignore that for now.
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I remember I found Striptease on a VHS as a teen.
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blade has the best use of CGI
wesley snipes wouldn't open his eyes
so they had to CGI in him blinking from another shot
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Oh crap, this thread is going to force me to go watch Alien 3 again....thanks a lot guys.... THANKS A LOT! <
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Striptease, the movie that people confuse as Showgirls.
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You know what sequel is way different than the original? Gremlins 2. When I was a kid I saw 2 and thought it was amazing and then saw the first one and was like "eh". I'll have to watch them again and see what I think of them now.
Apparently the studio approached Joe Dante, who directed the first one, and said "hey can you come back and do a sequel?" and he was like "no" and they were like "please?" and he was like "well, okay, but only if you let me do whatever I want."
Alien Cubed gave me nightmares as a kid, but the end theme of Aliens used to haunt me for most of my childhood -- it was, of course, my sister's favorite movie.
good scifi of the last decade-ish: Moon, Primer, District 9, Attack the Block, Electric Dragon 80000v, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Children of Men, The Host, The Fountain, 28 Days Later, Timecrimes, Inception
of course, there's the full-on rocket jockey swashbuckly or action scifi of Pitch Black, Night Watch, Returner, District B-13, Iron Man, Tron: Legacy, Star Trek. the weirdlings and comedy: Interstella 5555, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Space Cowboys (silly name, but i remember enjoying it when i saw it in the theater.) these are more based on spectacle than mindfuckery or contemplation; the list above the spoiler is movies that i feel have an underlying question or statement about humanity that drives or even derails the plot, whereas the spectacle of the latter two lists is what moves us through the story. haven't really parsed this, just wanted to recommend some scifi i've liked or respected.
i haven't seen Wall-E, Sleep Dealer, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The Road, Redline, Donnie Darko, Sunshine, Paprika, Book of Eli, or Pan's Labyrinth, so if they should be included, whoops! i'll get to them, eventually.
you want a mindbending double feature, watch Primer, then Electric Dragon 80000v. or maybe it was the other way 'round...
Alien Cubed gave me nightmares as a kid, but the end theme of Aliens used to haunt me for most of my childhood -- it was, of course, my sister's favorite movie.
good scifi of the last decade-ish: Moon, Primer, District 9, Attack the Block, Electric Dragon 80000v, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Children of Men, The Host, The Fountain, 28 Days Later, Timecrimes, Inception
of course, there's the full-on rocket jockey swashbuckly or action scifi of Pitch Black, Night Watch, Returner, District B-13, Iron Man, Tron: Legacy, Star Trek. the weirdlings and comedy: Interstella 5555, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Space Cowboys (silly name, but i remember enjoying it when i saw it in the theater.) these are more based on spectacle than mindfuckery or contemplation; the list above the spoiler is movies that i feel have an underlying question or statement about humanity that drives or even derails the plot, whereas the spectacle of the latter two lists is what moves us through the story. haven't really parsed this, just wanted to recommend some scifi i've liked or respected.
i haven't seen Wall-E, Sleep Dealer, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The Road, Redline, Donnie Darko, Sunshine, Paprika, Book of Eli, or Pan's Labyrinth, so if they should be included, whoops! i'll get to them, eventually.
you want a mindbending double feature, watch Primer, then Electric Dragon 80000v.
joe dante wanted to make a looney toons movie and WB told him to pound salt you get gremlins 2 joe
so joe dante said fine y'all can suck my king sized nuts and went ahead and made an incredible, insane movie with some of the best puppet work and practicals in AGES
he literally made a looney toons cartoon but with the gremlin puppets
You know what sequel is way different than the original? Gremlins 2. When I was a kid I saw 2 and thought it was amazing and then saw the first one and was like "eh". I'll have to watch them again and see what I think of them now.
Apparently the studio approached Joe Dante, who directed the first one, and said "hey can you come back and do a sequel?" and he was like "no" and they were like "please?" and he was like "well, okay, but only if you let me do whatever I want."
I've never heard of anyone preferring 2 to the original.
Not that 2 is bad but tonally they might as well not be related to each other.
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You know what sequel is way different than the original? Gremlins 2. When I was a kid I saw 2 and thought it was amazing and then saw the first one and was like "eh". I'll have to watch them again and see what I think of them now.
Apparently the studio approached Joe Dante, who directed the first one, and said "hey can you come back and do a sequel?" and he was like "no" and they were like "please?" and he was like "well, okay, but only if you let me do whatever I want."
I've never heard of anyone preferring 2 to the original.
Not that 2 is bad but tonally they might as well not be related to each other.
Alien Cubed gave me nightmares as a kid, but the end theme of Aliens used to haunt me for most of my childhood -- it was, of course, my sister's favorite movie.
good scifi of the last decade-ish: Moon, Primer, District 9, Attack the Block, Electric Dragon 80000v, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Children of Men, The Host, The Fountain, 28 Days Later, Timecrimes, Inception
of course, there's the full-on rocket jockey swashbuckly or action scifi of Pitch Black, Night Watch, Returner, District B-13, Iron Man, Tron: Legacy, Star Trek. the weirdlings and comedy: Interstella 5555, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Space Cowboys (silly name, but i remember enjoying it when i saw it in the theater.) these are more based on spectacle than mindfuckery or contemplation; the list above the spoiler is movies that i feel have an underlying question or statement about humanity that drives or even derails the plot, whereas the spectacle of the latter two lists is what moves us through the story. haven't really parsed this, just wanted to recommend some scifi i've liked or respected.
i haven't seen Wall-E, Sleep Dealer, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The Road, Redline, Donnie Darko, Sunshine, Paprika, Book of Eli, or Pan's Labyrinth, so if they should be included, whoops! i'll get to them, eventually.
you want a mindbending double feature, watch Primer, then Electric Dragon 80000v.
I really have no coherent idea what actually happens in any of the Alien movies because when I saw any of them I was too young and probably didn't even watch them the whole way through. I don't even know which ones I've seen parts of for sure.
I guess maybe I should watch them?
End on
I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
true story joe dante eventually got to direct a looney toons movie
he was behind Back In Action, starring brendan frasier
it rules
I actually watched it like 4 weeks ago, it wasn't that good.
Like as a kids movie, sure i guess. but enjoying it was an adult that is basically a child, eh, it had some moments.
it's better than it has any right to be, i thought
i don't know, it's not as good as space jam. and space jam had no right to be good at all.
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speaking of things that own i am watching some old-ass sentai from the late 70s/early 80s and it's exactly the right amount of cheesy humor and low budget effects and kickin' rad fight scenes
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I really have no coherent idea what actually happens in any of the Alien movies because when I saw any of them I was too young and probably didn't even watch them the whole way through. I don't even know which ones I've seen parts of for sure.
ugh 28 days later was okay until the second part when it was trying to bludgeon the not very interesting social commentary into your skull as hard as possible
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
ugh 28 days later was okay until the second part when it was trying to bludgeon the not very interesting social commentary into your skull as hard as possible
yeah, that was heavyhanded, but it was nice before all that, and some of the after.
edit: what a useless statement, off to bed soon.
the movie did best when it wasn't blatantly espousing commentary, ie, the activists freeing the animals, the message of hope reveal; showing the empty cities, the loneliness but also beauty of such desolation was new to me in what was, ostensibly, a horror movie. watching these characters come together and deal with horrible shit, with only those elements, would have made it a stronger movie, i think. i haven't seen it in a long time, though, so i could be way off mark; plus, i am a wussy wuss, and have not seen all that many horror movies.
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Satans..... hints.....
ehhhhh
robocop 2 is fun but not nearly as good of a movie as robocop
which manages to be an incredibly smart movie disguised as an incredibly dumb one
wesley snipes wouldn't open his eyes
so they had to CGI in him blinking from another shot
Apparently the studio approached Joe Dante, who directed the first one, and said "hey can you come back and do a sequel?" and he was like "no" and they were like "please?" and he was like "well, okay, but only if you let me do whatever I want."
good scifi of the last decade-ish: Moon, Primer, District 9, Attack the Block, Electric Dragon 80000v, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Children of Men, The Host, The Fountain, 28 Days Later, Timecrimes, Inception
i haven't seen Wall-E, Sleep Dealer, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The Road, Redline, Donnie Darko, Sunshine, Paprika, Book of Eli, or Pan's Labyrinth, so if they should be included, whoops! i'll get to them, eventually.
Except for Johnny #5 with a mowhawk.
Also Cube was awesome.
pooka ya make good posts
it literally was
joe dante wanted to make a looney toons movie and WB told him to pound salt you get gremlins 2 joe
so joe dante said fine y'all can suck my king sized nuts and went ahead and made an incredible, insane movie with some of the best puppet work and practicals in AGES
he literally made a looney toons cartoon but with the gremlin puppets
I've never heard of anyone preferring 2 to the original.
Not that 2 is bad but tonally they might as well not be related to each other.
Man.
That "Civilization" speech. I love it so much.
Why I fear the ocean.
he was behind Back In Action, starring brendan frasier
it rules
I actually watched it like 4 weeks ago, it wasn't that good.
Like as a kids movie, sure i guess. but enjoying it was an adult that is basically a child, eh, it had some moments.
daps.
it's better than it has any right to be, i thought
I guess maybe I should watch them?
i don't know, it's not as good as space jam. and space jam had no right to be good at all.
Alien and Aliens, definitely.
The others, it's a personal judgement call.
Why I fear the ocean.
that's a good point
also turns out event horizon is probably responsible for like 70% of the deep-seated fears i have
cool
space jam had michael jordan in it though
you can't mess with michael jordan
this is a fuckin children's show and one of the hero's just chopped a dude's hand off
what the hell
I remember bits and pieces.
But I barely remember the plot.
Satans..... hints.....
Well, I added Alien, Aliens and Alien^3 to my netflix queue
Satans..... hints.....
I love the scene where they nab him out of the real world.
I don't know why but I do.
Satans..... hints.....
yeah, that was heavyhanded, but it was nice before all that, and some of the after.
edit: what a useless statement, off to bed soon.
the movie did best when it wasn't blatantly espousing commentary, ie, the activists freeing the animals, the message of hope reveal; showing the empty cities, the loneliness but also beauty of such desolation was new to me in what was, ostensibly, a horror movie. watching these characters come together and deal with horrible shit, with only those elements, would have made it a stronger movie, i think. i haven't seen it in a long time, though, so i could be way off mark; plus, i am a wussy wuss, and have not seen all that many horror movies.
theres a lot of disturbing stuff in it
Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
It was, really, really bad.
Satans..... hints.....
you love it because it's just the goofiest damn thing known to man
also larry's not white. larry is clear