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Reply With Quoteyep seen the dvd and it is disappointing to say the least.
Try 300 thats a cracker
XXX XXX DTS Dave
I had been sort of looking forward to this movie. Sure I knew it was going to be bad.. but I thought it would be entertainingly bad.
However I just saw the trailer here. OMG.. it looks like a standard run of the mill teen slasher flick.
It's like they've taken the two creatures from two highly effective sci-fi movie series and dumped them in the middle of a Final Destination / I know what you did last summer film shoot
The body count in the trailer alone is overkill.. and every kill has to be a different and "interesting" kill.
I'm sorry but this looks terrible.. but I hope to be wrong on that one.
I think they could have renamed it. "I know what you did when you got to your final destination aboard the Nostromo last summer"
yep seen the dvd and it is disappointing to say the least.
Try 300 thats a cracker
XXX XXX DTS Dave
I thought it looked, from the trailer, significantly better than the first AvP (but then I thought that was awful). I can see AvP must be a very tricky film to make. In comics and computer games it's cool to have Aliens and Predators go against each other with a bunch of marines sort of trapped in the middle. However I'm not really that interested in watching CGI battle itself out in my movies; I'd prefer that human element to give the film an anchor. I can see, therefore, why they took the direction they did.Originally Posted by Beowulf1970
Reviews pretty uniformly bad - see the Rotten Tomatoes site.I had been sort of looking forward to this movie. Sure I knew it was going to be bad.. but I thought it would be entertainingly bad.
However I just saw the trailer here. OMG.. it looks like a standard run of the mill teen slasher flick.
It's like they've taken the two creatures from two highly effective sci-fi movie series and dumped them in the middle of a Final Destination / I know what you did last summer film shoot
The body count in the trailer alone is overkill.. and every kill has to be a different and "interesting" kill.
I'm sorry but this looks terrible.. but I hope to be wrong on that one.
I think they could have renamed it. "I know what you did when you got to your final destination aboard the Nostromo last summer"
What we want is to see 'aliens' rampaging through New York, not dicking about in some Colorado backwater. (Of course aliens couldn't get into New York because you're not allowed to take sharp edges into the USA...)
Get hold of the Blade Runner final cut instead, dude, your eyes will thank you for it.
One of my all time favourite Sci-Fi films. Even Rutger Hauer was bearable in it*
(*least said about Ladyhawke , Blind Fury and Crossworlds the better!!)
well Im off to see it tonight and it looks pretty good to me, but then I am a big fan of aliens, predators and humans
Jonothan Ross gave it a pretty good review but admitted if you werent a die hard sci-fi addict or into multi-explosion action type films where "plot" is the bits in between each brutal death, there may be little for you. Sounds fair enough to me.
My daughter has a 6" model of an Alien Queen called fluffy. She loves fluffy
Haven't seen any of the AvPs. Are they any good?
Meanwhile I'm trying to catch up with Heroes, which I missed on TV last year.
oh c'mon Blind Fury is frikkin hilarious...One of my all time favourite Sci-Fi films. Even Rutger Hauer was bearable in it*
(*least said about Ladyhawke , Blind Fury and Crossworlds the better!!)
He wrote the line about "all these - moments - will be lost in time like...tears...in rain", which is no mean achievement. Still gives me a spine-tingle.One of my all time favourite Sci-Fi films. Even Rutger Hauer was bearable in it*
In an earlier version of the film, Tyrell turns out to be a replicant as well, and Batty goes up one more floor in the Tyrell building to find the real Tyrell - who is dead, and like the scene in Dark star kept in stasis to offer help and advice. (This information, and other gems, in the five-disk final cut version...)
Hauer, I think, is a brilliant actor but has turned up in some truly awful films.
I've been pondering buying the Blu-ray version as I believe it includes the cut version and the original cinema one.
That it is.oh c'mon Blind Fury is frikkin hilarious...
I haven't seen the second one. The first is dire. If you haven't seen Alien, Aliens or Predator (1 and 2) they are all great films.
5 disks? Wow thats one more than the Blade Runner PC game that I wasted so many hours on when it first came out.. so long ago now.
Star Wars may have made Harrison Ford a household name.. but Blade Runner was the film that made his career IMHO. (Well that and Raiders of the Lost Ark which came out the previous year but Blade runner was the first non frivolous role.. quite dark, and gritty and showed the cinema going public that he really could act.. and wasn't just a George Lucas/Lucasarts special effect)
his role in the original Hitcher, for example, was just amazing...
And even some of the truly awful films were brilliant... (eg Split Second - 'We need BIGGER *******G GUNS!!!')
Its not dire at all. Its plot-lite and cheesy but I actually quite enjoyed it.
he was chewing scenery in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" thats for sure
his role in the original Hitcher, for example, was just amazing...
And even some of the truly awful films were brilliant... (eg Split Second - 'We need BIGGER *******G GUNS!!!')
I grant you that.. I still remember the Truck/Trailer/"alternative tow rope" scene.. (you know the one) it seriously traumatised me when I saw it.. I came out of the cinema shivering.
his role in the original Hitcher, for example, was just amazing...
he OOZED malevolence in that film .. I still can't watch the scene.. I get as far as him saying "You ... useless ... waste" and revving up the truck engine and I either change channels or press skip on the DVD !
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Blade runner Final cut:
- a new, improved version of the film, remastered visually and - um - audially with modern technology. The stunt Zora's wig (notoriously and hopelessly unlike Joanna Cassidy's hair) was refilmed, e.g.
- original US theatrical release
- original international theatrical release
- Director's cut release
- Workprint release
- Lots of 'making of' videos - art direction, screenplay, casting, special effects - though surprisingly not much about the music, which IMHO is the best Vangelis ever did
- Alternative/deleted scenes - so many that they are put together to tell yet another (much shorter) version of the entire film!
- Commentaries
...deffo worth the playola, man.
Hitcher - one of the only really scary films of the last 30 years or so. The reason why you are so blown away by the truck sequence is mostly down to Jennifer Jason Leigh - she makes the character she plays so loveable, and it seems like there is going to be a chance for her and Thomas C Howell - but the screenplay daringly kills off the major female with a courage which most films can't even aspire to. (Wouldn't mind betting it didn't happen in the 'remake'.)
Hauer's character is a more believable version of the Michael Myers/Jason/Freddy Kruger type of 'bad man'; the effect which those latter characters have is only while you are watching the film. Afterward their stature diminishes as you realise they are only 'boogeymen'. The hitcher is implacable, unfeeling - almost like a force of nature. He is so brutal that he does things amonst which is one that, like Beo, I find truly difficult to watch - in the truck park, while your whole body is clenched with dread and anticipation.
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I've been told that it did happen in the remake ... but they still wimped out, and pulled a role reversal, so it's the guy who gets torn apart. Which, of course, they showed in full gory detail. Dimwits.
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I thought I was being told off for a spoiler, which I thought was harsh since the film is 20 years old. But when I clicked the 'Quote' button, I realised what you had done...
For some reason, remakes are never remakes. There always seems to be some inescapable imperative to improve as well. I shan't watch the Hitcher remake - unless it comes on TV and I can't be bothered to get out of my chair. The original is too precious to ruin like that.
The problem with 'gory detail' is - and most film-makers don't understand it - you spend time going - 'eurh! that's disgusting', whereas in the original you are thinking 'o my god! the poor girl! what a bastard' - etc., all good for the film and for manipulating your emotional response to the characters and to the story. In the other version, you're just feeling 'yuk - now I feel ill'.
Recently Hostel, in my view, and one or two bits in Saw 1, 2 and 3, got that body horror thing right. I'm thinking particularly of [SPOILER] the bit in Hostel where his achilles tendons are cut.
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