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Wasn't he something of a diva back in his day? Don't get me wrong, I love Sly as much as the next guy but if reports are to believed, Stallone was quite an egotist and hothead during his prime years (probably mellowed out a lot over the years, I presume).
What about The Party at Kitty's and Stud's?
True, he's just known as The Rock everywhere he goes. No one's ever associated him with a specific role he did like with Arnie or Sly (Terminator, Rambo). Hell, no even seems to ever even quote any of his lines from his films or do any impersonations of him (or if they did, it would be of his wrestling persona only).
Dwayne is a strange case of an action star who's every bit as famous and successful as any of the major action stars that came before him (Arnie, Sly, Eastwood, Cruise, Chan etc), but whose legacy on film seems more on par with the likes of Seagal and Van Damme than anything. The odd decent, guilty pleasure action film popping up in his filmography every now and then, but no all-time classics like First Blood or Terminator or any particularly iconic roles either.
He's like the Denny's of action stars.
Ask how many did he watch without touching himself.
I think there's still plenty of great actors out there just waiting for their big break, the real problem is the quality of scripts they're given these days. Had if the 70's and 80's were as creatively bankrupt as Hollywood is today, I doubt folks like Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford would've gone very far.
I was surprised by how good it was myself. When I heard the news they were making a Furiosa spinoff rather than a proper Mad Max sequel, I was concerned it was gonna be the typical woke, man-hating SJW action film that's all too common these days. Surprisingly, this was not the case, as Furiosa is even less woke than Fury Road (a film that I don't think deserves being dumped on as a "feminist flick", anyway) and is instead, merely a balls-to-the wall action film that serves as a nice companion piece to the last Mad Max film.
The only thing I didn't like was the overabundance of CGI. Some folks decried Fury Road for supposedly being too CGI-heavy (Rob Ager), but in that film, they used it to mainly enhance stuff that was already there whereas in Furiosa, it seems like they used CGI more often than not in place of real stunts and locations. Maybe Miller at his age just can't handle shooting complex action scenes in the blazing hot sun anymore, I don't know.
Funny that made you reference to those movies, as I've noticed that they use the exact same font used for the poster of Aliens.
He got accused of rape and has since fled to Israel because of it. I'm not normally one for pointing fingers, but given how he just left the country without even wanting to stand trial, he's probably guilty.
Yeah, you're not missing much. I finished the series last week and it does not get better.
Out of all the ones I've seen...
Liked:
Beetlejuice
Batman
Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood (all-time fave)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Corpse Bride
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Disliked:
Batman Returns
Alice in Wonderland
Dark Shadows
Frankenweenie
A pretty shitty one, though.
Six episodes in right now and can honestly say that it's starting to piss me off. It needlessly convolutes the mythology by adding a new AI creation to the mix, but without actually changing the stakes much. It turns the Terminators into complete jokes with how they can't seem to ever land a shot at point blank range, and the pacing is so ridiculously dragged out and slow (there was one episode where it literally felt as though nothing of importance happened).
I haven't been able to find a single character I've been able to latch onto much, and the show's attempts at philosophical themes honestly struck me as little more than cliche and hollow (humans are bad, we deserve to die blah blah blah). Also, the show has virtually nothing to do with the films aside from the presence of the one Terminator character.
I'm not saying we need to have a complete retread of the John/Sarah storyline again, but it bothers me how this show seems to be using the Terminator name for marquee value only. This honestly didn't even need to be a Terminator show, as it could easily be rewritten to just be its own thing with no ties to the films. Hell, with just a few tweaks, you probably could've made this into a Matrix anime and have everything remain the same.
At the end of the day, it's just another shitty, uninspired cash-in on the Terminator franchise that has no reason to exist (basically, like everything that's come after T2). I'd say skip it.
I think you're only seeing the film at its most superficial level: the plot. Plot is honestly just one of many layers to a film like this, so I don't think you being able to comprehend that means you necessarily fully understood the film at large. I'm not saying that to diss you or anything, just wanted to let it be known that plot isn't necessarily the be all, end all to a film.
I've only seen the film once so far so I can't say I fully comprehended it either, but from what I can tell, the movie definitely has some themes regarding the psychic link between sex and violence, as well as the relationship between love and lust. There's probably more to it than that but that's all I've got so far.
*after taking it in the ass*
I need a vacation.
It'd be extremely unlikely but S. Craig Zahler would be the guy I'd pick. He doesn't have much experience with sci-fi but with Cameron at the helm with the script, I think Zahler could be a good match. Give his films a watch if you haven't.
Another one I forgot to mention is Psycho II. Yes, the original is a classic and is more significant in its contributions to the horror genre than nearly every other film, but I actually think Psycho II outdoes it a bit by further delving into Norman Bates' psyche but without any distractions this time around while also not being weighed down by the burden of censorship anymore.
If you haven't seen it, go check out Rob Ager of Collative Learning's video analysis of Psycho II. That film is every bit as layered and ridden with subtext as Hitchcock's original. It's a masterful work.
It honestly perplexes me as to why there are still people continuing to support M. Night's movies after the guy has made nothing but shit his whole career. He's made two or three good movies at best. He seems like a nice guy and I suppose that's part of the reason why there are still folks rooting for him each time a new film of his comes out, but I don't see how anyone can still have hope when he's got a batting score of 3/16 at this point.
James Cameron - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
Alfonso Cuaron - Children of Men
David Fincher - Fight Club
The Wachowskis - The Matrix
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
Tim Burton - Ed Wood
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
Stanley Kubrick - The Shining
Paul Verhoeven - RoboCop
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