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JadedSkywalker said:

I think James Cameron is an overrated director. I think he is a talented guy. But i think Aliens is vastly overrated as a movie. I think Terminator the original is probably his best film. This is not an i hate Aliens screed. Its a fun actioner, its nowhere the masterpiece the original Alien is not even close.

Agreed.

The Terminator and Terminator 2 are the only James Cameron movies I genuinely like. Everywhere I look people won’t shut up about how awesome Aliens is, but I frankly found it to be a pretty generic movie.

As an outsider, Disney’s sanitising of anything pertaining to cruelty and sex is symptomatic of some Americans’ insistence on writing history as pure awesomeness sweeping any fuck-ups under the rug.

I saw Aliens and found it to be a pretty generic movie. Don’t really get what all the fuss is about.

The Boys is the best remedy for that.

Admonisher said:

But Abrams ignored all of that in RISE OF SKYWALKER. Instead, he has Rey grapple with her dark ancestry, redeem the bad guy through the power of love, and reject the temptations of the Evil Emperor. She doesn’t build on Luke’s failures, she just repeats his successes, beat for beat. It was an awful failure of imagination and it left me, as a viewer, totally uninterested and disengaged. Perhaps future films or shows involving Rey will address some of these concerns. But the chance to tell that story in the context of her natural ideological foil, Kylo “Burn it All Down” Ren, has been squandered. And that’s a real pity.

I’ve been saying it for years.

J.J. Abrams can’t come up with an idea of his own. All he ever does as a director is recycle the pop culture he enjoyed in his childhood and adolescence.

NIN’s version feels like the bitter end of a man’s miserable life, whilst Johnny Cash’s version feels like finding peace in the end after a lifetime of suffering.

Anthony Ingruber would’ve been the perfect young Han Solo, as he looks exactly like a young Harrison Ford.

I don’t hate this movie at all, just don’t care about it, Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men.

Seriously, everywhere I look the movie has been praised to the heavens as a watershed in movie history and how prescient it turned out to be and all the subtle visual cues, and at first I wondered if I was watching it wrong, and have rewatched it quite a few times but it still doesn’t do anything for me. I sincerely don’t care about the plot, the characters, the cinematography or anything, it’s just a flat affect for me. I still don’t get what’s so great about this movie, and I’ve actually enjoyed Cuarón’s other movies.

Then again, a guy I know who is a huge fan of CoM once told that if I don’t like the movie for any reason then that’s cool.

I chuckle whenever Republicans accuse the Democratic party of leading the country on the path to communism and portraying them as radical left-wingers.

Trust me when I say the Democratic party is about as far removed from the left as it gets. In any western European country Democrats would be perceived as boringly moderate.

Is that the one starring Dana Carvey?

JackNapier said:

The film Jurassic World Dominon is an excellent story about how one must respect nature or it won’t respect you.

Isn’t that the basic message of all the Jurassic movies?

rocknroll41 said:

We should’ve gotten Rian’s trilogy. That man had vision and, regardless of what people think, proved he could deliver a Star Wars movie on time and under immense pressure.

According to Rian Johnson himself, his trilogy hasn’t been discarded.

I guess the higher-ups at Disney got scared at the prospect of doing something original.

The way I see it, all countries are shady.

I live in Venezuela, a country that has ‘freed’ itself from the American Empire, and frankly the state-run socialist government I’ve experienced for the past 23 years is just as bad as the rampant capitalism of the US, maybe even worse.

Remember that scene in The Mandalorian where Werner Herzog’s character questions whether the Rebellion’s toppling of the Empire has actually accomplished anything? That’s pretty much how I feel right now, as this government has trampled on my every dream and aspiration. I sincerely hope sooner rather than later I can finally leave this country and never return nor hear about it ever again.

You can say I have grown past the common trope in works of fiction about the ‘Evil Empire’ that must be taken down, as my life experiences have taught me that the reality is a lot more complicated.

I’m not American and do not live in the US, but the overturning of Roe v Wade feels so very wrong.

What I miss the most about the old EU is that the writers had genuine freedom to let their imagination run wild, and even wrote stories that were completely disconnected from the movies despite taking place during the same time period. I remember one story about a Rebel unit having a skirmish with Imperial forces far away from the Battle of Endor, and the characters had never had any interaction with the main characters. There’s also the character of Darca Nyl, a human with no Force sensitivity who nevertheless learned to wield a lightsaber so he could properly duel the Dark Jedi who murdered his family.

Under Disney all the stories seem obsessed with linking everything with the main saga, and even when they are unrelated to the main saga, sooner or later they start shoehorning the main saga into the plot (The Mandalorian, anyone?).

I recently read an article on cracked.com about this series, in which the author states that Disney is producing so much SW content we’ve grown desensitised, which is a bad thing because the SW franchise is supposed to feel magical.

I’ve decided this series didn’t generate enough interest for me to check it out.

IMO Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars series fits in a lot better between AotC and RotS than TCW.

Superweapon VII said:

If Anakin and Padme had been close in age, I could buy their romance as authentic (well, more authentic, anyway). As-is, it feels like Anakin, suffering separation anxiety from his mother, latched onto the closest friendly female to ease the pain of his loss. That, combined with his unhealthy fixation on Padme in the years between TPM & AOTC — a girl he’d only known briefly — leave me with the impression that he wasn’t truly in love with her; he was only obsessed with this surrogate maternal figure.

You just reminded me of that scene in the movie Analyze This in which Dr. Sobel explains the Oedipus complex, to which Paul Vitti reacts by asking “Are you saying I wanted to fuck my mom?”

So basically, the Obi-Wan show is the kind of series one watches to pass the time.

OK. After five episodes what’s the general consensus among you guys? Is this series worth watching?

I feel no real desire to watch it.

Superweapon VII said:

fmalover said:

Superweapon VII said:

Villeneuve’s Dune is not an improvement on Lynch’s version. For everything it does better, there’s a roughly equal amount it does worse. Quality-wise, the two pretty much balance out. Though I’ll always revisit Lynch’s film; I doubt I’ll watch Villeneuve’s again, even after Part Two comes out.

What bothers me the most is how many people are hailing it as the definitive Dune adaptation.

I’m sorry, but if there’s one thing the 1984 has over Villeneuve’s is that it fully embraced the book’s inherent weirdness, whereas Villeneuve seems ashamed of it and we’re left with a very bland movie.

I present the Jamis fight as Exhibit A for why the movie fell flat for me. In the source material, Paul sheds tears after killing Jamis. In this movie, he hardly seems phased by it at all.

I’d seen three of Villeneuve’s films beforehand — Maelstrom, Arrival, and Blade Runner 2049 — and all three are emotionally and visually gloomy. That style may suit the world of Blade Runner, but I always envisioned the Dune universe as a more vibrant, resonant setting.

Villeneuve’s customary choice of a desaturated colour palette only adds to the lifeless look of the movie.

Recently rewatched Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, and now that digital projectors are displacing film projectors gave my viewing experience an extra layer of sadness.

Seriously, if you don’t like this movie, then you don’t like movies, period.

Superweapon VII said:

Villeneuve’s Dune is not an improvement on Lynch’s version. For everything it does better, there’s a roughly equal amount it does worse. Quality-wise, the two pretty much balance out. Though I’ll always revisit Lynch’s film; I doubt I’ll watch Villeneuve’s again, even after Part Two comes out.

What bothers me the most is how many people are hailing it as the definitive Dune adaptation.

I’m sorry, but if there’s one thing the 1984 has over Villeneuve’s is that it fully embraced the book’s inherent weirdness, whereas Villeneuve seems ashamed of it and we’re left with a very bland movie.