With respect, I don't find a series that's basically how many different ways can you brutally torture and/or kill somebody all that fun. If I want glorified violence and psychotic mayhem, I'll load up Grand Theft Auto V or Saints Row 2 and go nuts there. My Favorite Movies: -> The Star Wars franchise -> The Fly (with Jeff Goldbulm) -> The Lord of the Rings -> Under Siege -> Aliens -> Starship Troopers -> The Classical Disney Movies -> Airplane -> The Terminator Trilogy -> Jurassic Park. (The first two movies. The third. Did. Not. Happen.)
For me, its gotta be Primer- low budget head frak. (Watched it at least 10 times - still dont really get it) Time crimes- beautifuly put together looper masterpiece Blade runner- first sci fi crush Dredd Serenity Battle beyond the stars Silent running Philadelphia experiment Countdown ??? Time travel war stuff Ice pirates Westworld Oldies One flew over the cuckoos nest - epic ! Book and movie Calamity jane- dont ask- but its always in my collection - first cowboy crush?? Mr hollands opus Magnificent seven Westworld Hang em high Good bad ugly Kellys heroes Bridge too far The big red one Dirty harry I have too many mood swings to say which of my collection is my favourite, if its sci fi or war... I always go for a clint movie when bored, the only one he is missing from is The Gunslinger- but that movie remains in my head, (fan boy story hidden away) Seriously, Primer- watch it and tell me if you get it? Worst in my collection, bottom drawer stuff - real disapointments that got only one viewing... Jupiter rising Starsky and hutch The day Alex cross Man of steel Slow west Beasts of the southern wild Monsters dark continent
I gotta ask the following: - Which is better: Alien or Aliens? And, next question: Terminator or Terminator 2? I think these two pretty much divide people down the middle. For me I think Alien is vastly superior to Aliens (although I like Aliens a lot) and I think Terminator 2 just edges Terminator (although it is essentially the same film with bigger explosions).
For me, it's a toss-up between Alien and Aliens. I probably prefer Aliens because it's a flat-out action movie. Alien is a horror thriller, and I don't really go for those. I definitely prefer Terminator to Terminator 2. Watching that chrome skeleton rise out of the gasoline flames chilled me. This machine is unstoppable and nightmare scary! Terminator 2 was okay, but it looked to me like it was trying to make up with high-budget effects what it couldn't do with solid storytelling.
Nice! That would be on my list too. The Crow is one of my favourites. Big fan of James Horner - it was the scoring of Braveheart and Titanic that made those films particularly moving.
Titanic is essentially Terminator 2 on water. Just exchange Leonardo Dicrapio with Arnold Schwarzenegger; Kate Winslet with Edward Furlong and Billy Zane with Robert Patrick.... same movie.
Sure. Liquid-metal Billy Zane desperately tries to marry kill have a relationship with little Eddie Furlong who instead falls in love with indestructible future assassin Arnold Schwarzunspellable who contains within himself the Big Evil Thing That Must Die so, despite that, he aids little Eddie and his mom (where is she in your analogy, anyway?) until poverty-stricken Leonardo Unspellable begs Kate Furlong's mom to lower him into the molten metal (feverish moneybags Billy Patrick?) so he can give a hopeful thumb's up gesture as he (who?) dies, thus foiling the Evil Plans of the Machines of the Future (Kathy Bates? Bill Paxton? Ancient Gloria Stuart?) and ultimately allowing little old Grandma Eddie to throw his her someone's precious expensive gemstone into the sink ocean kiddie pool because he she them has no further use for it because he she themselves can't masturbate any more anyway and has no descendants except for his her thems great granddaughter who might really like to inherit something that valuable. Plus William Shatner (I guess) as the iceberg and Christopher Walken as the explosions (okay, it took some makeup).
Obviously Kathy Bates is Linda Hamilton; and the iceberg is the nuclear war. Zane/ Patrick pursue an essentially destructive relationship with Winslet/Furlong. Winslet/ Furlong are saved from imminent death/ suicide by Dicraprio/Schwarzenegger. Despite being very different they gradually forge a relationship against all the odds. Hamilton/ Bates helps protect our MCs from the looming threat of Zane/ Patrick. A lengthy chase scene ensues where Dicraprio/Schwarzenegger and Winslet/ Furlong desperately try to escape Zane/ Patrick. They make their escape, Winslet/ Furlong survives and DiCraprio/ Schwarzenegger tragically sinks in the depths of the ocean/ molton metal.
The good guys defeat the bad guys! Every movie is just like Terminator 2! James Cameron invented storytelling and all of human culture!
Interestingly they are both exactly the same movie as Avatar as well... oh wait, Avatar does not have a plot.
Sure it does! It's basically ‘white guy learns the culture of the Natives and takes over as leader as he bands with them to fight against the guys who put him there in the first place!!’ *flees*
I like to watch movies based on novels after having read the novel. Not the other way around. Sometimes the movie adds to the novel. Other times it is a disappointment. The Wright Stuff is an example of the movie being at least as good as the novel it is based on. The Bonfire of the Vanities-movie however was a deep disappointment. Tom Hanks was a complete miscast in my opinion. How could they overlook Alec Baldwin for the part of Sherman? Beyond me. Tom
