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- The Scifi Films and Television of 2018
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The Darkest Minds
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The Darkest Minds
What was the last movie Nic Cage was in that was actually good? Seems he’s been in nothing but schlock since the mid '00s.
I don’t know about you but I’m looking forward to checking these out as soon as I get a chance:
An Army of One (2016)
Mom and Dad (2018)
The Humanity Bureau (2018)
Wow. That’s highly offensive to any other film series. Michael Bay projects are a special level of awful all unto themselves.
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
A pretty fun ride. It’s not quite as good as the first but I commend them for staying true to the spirit of the original. The only thing that really drags it down is their reliance on the kid genius trope toward the beginning. Thankfully it’s not overdone and the rest of the film carries its own weight. Hopefully Guillermo will return if they decide to do a third entry.
Well we did just get Skull Island and have the sequel to Godzilla to look forward to!
I gotta hold out hope! Especially since I already bought an IMAX ticket…
I’ve gotten to see a few. It’s always great when I get the chance:
There’s probably a few I’m forgetting. But my dream theatrical experience is to see the original 3D presentation of Creature From the Black Lagoon. If I ever catch wind of them doing it again I will go out of my way to drive out to wherever it may be.
Pacific Rim (2013)
A fun film. Gorgeous visuals and great fight scenes. It gets bogged down a bit by the needlessly convoluted drift concept and the decision to set the film 12 years into the Kaiju war. But the main plot is decent and the character writing is solid. I wonder if del Toro had hoped they could turn the first 12 years into an animated series. It would certainly lend itself to that. In any case, I hope the sequel can live up to the visuals and character moments from the first.
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Fahrenheit 451
The Titan
Nightflyers
My opinion is that the joke is funny, not that the film is bad. I don’t have an opinion of the film, though I do think the twelve year shoot is inherently pretentious if it isn’t good.
That’s a dumb thing to think. If it isn’t good it’s not pretension, it’s just a failed experiment.
Yeah. Whereas A Wrinkle in Time was both pretentious and a failed experiment. 😉
Boy(ʰᵒᵒᵈ), this conversation sure feels like it’s gone on for 12 years.
The sequels aren’t better, either. In Europe the covers are different at this point at least.
Batman - Watching Spider-Man got me in the mood to watch another superhero movie with Michael Keaton.
Check out Birdman if you haven’t, and while not a super hero film, I highly recommend The Founder.
The Land Before Time (1988) - Would have been a great movie if the dinosaurs didn’t talk. C+ > >
Dom is dead to me as well. And this one isn’t nostalgia, I’ve watched it in the last year. Still one of the best Don Bluth films.I didn’t even say it was bad.
You gave it the same score as A Wrinkle in Time.
The Land Before Time (1988) - Would have been a great movie if the dinosaurs didn’t talk. C+
We can’t be friends.
I did a double take because I thought I saw Sebastian Shaw in the cast list. 😛
How deep does this rabbit hole go?
Why do people give a crap about Snoke?
Because he destroyed Luke’s Jedi Academy by seducing Ben Solo to the Dark Side? How is that not interesting?
The reboot is much worse. At least I’m able to enjoy II, despite how dumb it is.
Hard agree on all points.
“Everything” is a little hyperbolic
Not really. The script was horrible. The story was a jumbled mess and the characters are hollow shells of their original novel counterparts. The dialog is some of the worst I’ve heard in years. The performances were near universally awful. The only decent one was by Chris Pine and he’s barely in the film. The special effects are terrible, the designs are cartoonish and the compositing is some of the worst I’ve ever seen in a major motion picture. The costumes were laughably bad, they and this film look like a TV special.
I have never walked out on a film before but I almost did halfway through this. The only reason I didn’t was that my theater won’t refund you if you’ve watched more than a half hour.
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Star Wars: Solo
Prospect
Perfect
Mute
Given the recent proliferation of Scifi television series I’ve added a new section dedicated to it.
Annihilation (2018)
Beautiful and unsettling. Great Science Fiction, it’s a shame how this film was dumped by the studio.
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Awful and confounding. It’s amazing that this had a 100 million dollar budget. It doesn’t look it at all. Everything about this film was a misfire.