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Thinking about it more.
The reason why I don't like the reboot is this.
Terminator 2 is the most successful movie. It is an action movie. As are 3 and 4 kinda (fuck I don't really know what salvation really is).
The franchise started off though as a horror movie. It was two people, with inefficient weapons up against an unstoppable killing machine.
Horror movies don't make as much money as action movies though. James Cameron got green lighted for terminator as he did it on a smaller budget than an action movie would have gotten.
Now that terminator is a franchise and is a big deal. Most likely. Studio executives won't want to waste money making a tiny movie with a small scope and a slightly smaller scope when they could just make a big dumb expensive movie and please a lot of people.
As far as what Blake is saying, while I like both of the first two movies for entirely separate reasons, much like the first two Alien movies I find that the second installment is the one I am far more likely to want to watch at a given time
Alien suffers from the problem all successful horror films suffer from: the outcome is known via public osmosis, and therefore the tension and suspense is lost.
Weaver was an unknown when the film first came out. The Xenomorph was an unknown when hte film first came out. You didn't expect her to be the survivor, and you sure didn't know what the Xenomorph looked like.
It's a shame because they worked so hard at making sure each character was on the same level as the others, but now anyone watching it is thinking "she's the main character."
Success being the destroyer of a horror film's potency is something that I think should be addressed in a serious analysis but I'm not sure if anyone has actually done such a thing.
I'd do it but who would pay me to put the time into writing it, eh?
Alien suffers from the problem all successful horror films suffer from: the outcome is known via public osmosis, and therefore the tension and suspense is lost.
Weaver was an unknown when the film first came out. The Xenomorph was an unknown when hte film first came out. You didn't expect her to be the survivor, and you sure didn't know what the Xenomorph looked like.
Eh......
To an extent.
I watched the original. And you might know that ripley survives. But it doesn't really matter. It's still enjoyable. And I can remind myself that I shouldn't "know" what the alien looks like yet so I can enjoy the peaks of the tail and whatnot.
I still vividly remember in my "Monsters in Film" class in college where I was literally the only student in the class trying to defend the merits of Alien. I know at least a couple other folks there appreciated the film but I was the only one who dared to speak up against those who called it "boring" and claimed that "nothing happened in the first half hour".
I still vividly remember in my "Monsters in Film" class in college where I was literally the only student in the class trying to defend the merits of Alien. I know at least a couple other folks there appreciated the film but I was the only one who dared to speak up against those who called it "boring" and claimed that "nothing happened in the first half hour".
I still vividly remember in my "Monsters in Film" class in college where I was literally the only student in the class trying to defend the merits of Alien. I know at least a couple other folks there appreciated the film but I was the only one who dared to speak up against those who called it "boring" and claimed that "nothing happened in the first half hour".
Good lord!
I know, right? It's like I was the only one who could recognize that the permutation of popular culture does not mean the dilution of the original work renders it somehow less powerful!
Fuckin' Philistines probably would've dismissed Lord of the Rings as generic/derivative.
I still vividly remember in my "Monsters in Film" class in college where I was literally the only student in the class trying to defend the merits of Alien. I know at least a couple other folks there appreciated the film but I was the only one who dared to speak up against those who called it "boring" and claimed that "nothing happened in the first half hour".
I'm not personally entertained by Transformers, but as a "well this is a bunch of dumb robots punching each other for a couple of hours", it's okay enough
But the idea of it being the best anything is what blows my mind, let alone best action movie
They're not even the best giant robot action movies!
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Isn't he of a similar standard to Sam Worthington?
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Emilia Clarke could be a decent Sarah Connor too, who knows
Although they had fucking Christian Bale in the last one and it didn't help so I don't know why I'm getting my hopes up
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Terminator is one of the few franchises which it almost makes sense to reboot, what with it involving time travel
The original was sci fi horror movie movie. That worked. This is probably going to just be some kind of high speed rip off of terminator 2.
Terminator 2 is a Good Movie. No doubt. But the things that made Terminator good did not necessarily make the second movie good and vice versa.
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The reason why I don't like the reboot is this.
Terminator 2 is the most successful movie. It is an action movie. As are 3 and 4 kinda (fuck I don't really know what salvation really is).
The franchise started off though as a horror movie. It was two people, with inefficient weapons up against an unstoppable killing machine.
Horror movies don't make as much money as action movies though. James Cameron got green lighted for terminator as he did it on a smaller budget than an action movie would have gotten.
Now that terminator is a franchise and is a big deal. Most likely. Studio executives won't want to waste money making a tiny movie with a small scope and a slightly smaller scope when they could just make a big dumb expensive movie and please a lot of people.
Satans..... hints.....
I think I'm hallucinating so I go to my profile and click on my posts.
There is my post, in this thread, that I remember making.
I click on it. And it pulls up the previous page of the thread, but the post is not there.
What the hell Skynet Geth?
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Arnold is confirmed to be in it
Thus I don't think it's a hard reboot but the continuity is questionable, I assume due to time travel
the speculation is that Arnold will be playing a human upon whom the T-800 is based
Weaver was an unknown when the film first came out. The Xenomorph was an unknown when hte film first came out. You didn't expect her to be the survivor, and you sure didn't know what the Xenomorph looked like.
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I'd do it but who would pay me to put the time into writing it, eh?
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how is that possible
Eh......
To an extent.
I watched the original. And you might know that ripley survives. But it doesn't really matter. It's still enjoyable. And I can remind myself that I shouldn't "know" what the alien looks like yet so I can enjoy the peaks of the tail and whatnot.
Satans..... hints.....
The film is ultimately about biology and how disgusting it is.
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And it's not about the destination IMO it is about the horrifying journey.
Good lord!
He thought that the best action film ever was Transformers.
He liked the prequels more than the Original Trilogy and he saw the first movie in THEATERS in 77.
I know, right? It's like I was the only one who could recognize that the permutation of popular culture does not mean the dilution of the original work renders it somehow less powerful!
Fuckin' Philistines probably would've dismissed Lord of the Rings as generic/derivative.
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I am the forum post equivalent of speechless.
Then the teacher failed everyone right?
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I just watched it last night
It is still great
I was legitimately looking forward to the inevitable 3D rereleases. I kind of wish Disney had gone ahead with them.
(I will admit that they are not good movies though)
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But the idea of it being the best anything is what blows my mind, let alone best action movie
They're not even the best giant robot action movies!
fuck the special editions
Even though I grew up with some scifi channel recordings on VHS tapes...
Enemy Mine was on the same tape with A New Hope...