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This film was still better than any of the prequel trilogy films, despite having a lot of dodgy stuff in it. There was nothing in this worse than Jar Jar Binks.
Everything that was great about Alien was missing in this. The 2 films are worlds apart. I'll even happily take Alien's visual effects.
This film sank to the depths of your typical cliched slasher flick for the most part. You have hot looking couples doing stupid things, using the F word superfluously, getting picked off one by one in various gruesome fashion, AND they throw in a sex scene for good measure. It's closer to the Final Destination films in tone than it is to Alien.
I mean forgetting all the bad logic for a second, there were parts of this that were just so silly they came off as unintentionally funny, like "I'll do the fingering", and the moment David gets the newborn xenomorph to stand up with its arms raised. Who thought these would be good ideas?
My main gripe with this film among many, and the reason I'm losing respect for Scott most of all, is the sapping of the mystery out of the Alien movie that this does with its weakly written backstory on how the aliens came into existence. All because of a malevolent droid experimenting? REALLY??
For a PG rated horror from the early 80's I think it does ok. Sure, it's not so scary now but it has its moments and is entertaining. The scene on the staircase with the videocamera is kind of chilling.
I thought it was quite interesting. Reminded me of Minority Report with the Teeps similar to the Precogs.
Having not read any of his books and having only seen film adaptations of his work, I can tell he heavily incorporates dreams, and that looks to be the running theme of this miniseries.
I've just watched this film again for the second time and I didn't mind the ending as much this time round. It did turn a bit actiony once she got out. I could have done without the alien dog monster, and the flaming bottle throw was very improbable. I actually liked seeing the UFO in the sky, and the closing shot with the lightning highlighting the huge spaceship was also a good way to end it.
The only thing that stood out for me about Vader's meeting with Krennic was hearing how much JEJ's voice had aged. I'm not going to knock the film for it because there's little they can do about it, but it was noticeable, at least to me.
I have no problem with them and think they are menacing enough. The Hardhome scene demonstrated that. The mystery behind them as well just all adds to the threat. It's not as if they've been the only villains in the show we've had to rely on. We've had cunning villains, sadistic villains, violent villains. The WW are a bit different. They've just quietly gone about their business in the background as a deadly relentless evil that everyone dreads without knowing much about them.
He's simply a pervert.
Like Cersei said about leaving the family vulnerable and powerless after killing Tywin, or along those lines, I think she's lumping Tommen's death into that to make him feel extra guilty. As an eventual repercussion of his actions.
One of the other dragons, or a spear or some weapon made of Dragonglass would be the best bets right now, other than killing the Night King of course. Maybe even Wildfire would work.
He is but he's meant to be noticeably shorter than the Mountain, hence him being called Mountain.
If the Night King does speak I'd like him to say "Ice to see you"
I think they did right giving him more screen time. He had barely done or said much at all in this season. It wouldn't feel good writing to have his character just be dragged along for the ride in the background as a barely speaking secondary character, considering how much development his character has had over the course of the series.
Hopefully he is given more meaning in the bigger picture for the last season than a rescue mission of his sister, because I can't say I really care all that much for her.
Exactly. Bigger characters like that won't be killed on a whim without a deal being made about it. They even gave one of Jon's red shirts beyond the wall a bit of a goodbye like he was of minor importance.
I agree with you. The miniatures are effective at looking realistic in those scenes. Goes to show how good practical effects can be even in CGI heavy movies. And yeah the scene in the tunnel with Vivica Fox and the cars flying up to a backdrop of flames looks poor now. Not much better than what you'd see from one of these low budget TV movies.
Sooner rather than much later was definitely the time to make this sequel to reap the financial rewards. The audience that saw the original back in the cinemas are 20 years older. I was a teen when I saw it and now I'm in my 30's. I loved seeing it in the cinema as a teen. It felt like a powerhouse of CGI on display and the hype from this made it a real event to go and see it.
History has not been so kind to the film, and on many repeated viewings I noticed all the flaws; the cheese, the cliches, the stereotyping, and the special effects have lost much of their value. Had a sequel been made a few years afterwards when I held the first movie in relative high regard, and big budget effects still had that level of amazement attached, I and I imagine many others who saw the original at the time, would have flocked to see it in their droves.
I like your point about the special effects not feeling so special anymore, although I would disagree about the ones in the original movie holding up. I actually think they've dated quite poorly in parts.
Maybe it's different for the younger generation who weren't around for 90's cinema, but back then CGI in big blockbusters felt fresh. I guess T2 really got the ball rolling with that in 1991, and then Jurassic Park took it a step further 2 years later. It was still special seeing CGI utilised on such a large scale when Independence Day came out and other such movies around that time. Now we've had over 20 years of CGI being the "go to" form of special effects and it's been used in everything, and it's frankly not that special anymore.
It was a good film but overhyped, as are the majority of his movies. Christopher Nolan's next film could just be him taking a dump on the floor and it will find itself in the IMDB top 250.
There was one scene when Mark Rylance's character turned round on the boat and shouted something, and I can't remember if there was loud music or not, but I couldn't understand a single word of his sentence. It was kind of funny cause it came off sounding like gibberish, as if some baby language.
Yeah it was perhaps the weakest part of the film. I gather Nolan wanted to make a point about someone so young and innocent and not directly involved in the war, dying while helping, but I think they could have found half a dozen better ways for him to die than in that silly manner.