Also, I’m going to change my third one to Mamma Mia. I’d never experienced bleeding out my eyes and ears at the same time until I had watched it.
EDIT: MISREAD A POST MY BAD GUYZ
I actually think I got amnesia from Mamma Mia.
guyver - watching this movie is the worst way to spend your time in front of tv.
the worst.
On a somewhat related note, who keeps giving Uwe Boll big franchises? Satan?
He’s never, ever even made a PASSABLE movie. How does he even manage to stay in the business? It’s ridiculous.
Dude, I gave up back when exceptional films with some of the finest acting ever like Citizen Kane and There Will Be Blood were being dismissed.
The Exorcist (least scary, most fantastically over-rated piece of boring drivel I’ve ever seen)
Pretty Woman (By ten minutes in I had a whole different plot worked out, in which Julia Roberts’ character was secretly seeking revenge because Richard Gere’s character had closed down her assembly-line worker pappy’s factory and caused him to kill himself. My version ended with Roberts’ character bludgeoning Gere’s to death before being gunned down by the cops on the roof of a skyscraper while shouting ‘top of the world, pa!’. It would have been a huge improvement.)
Star Wars (just to annoy people, and because I’ve honestly never liked it, always thought it was silly fairy-tale stuff)
Independence Day - tiresome “USA! USA!” hokum.
Anything with Kevin ‘plank of wood’ Costner in it unless it also has Sean Connery in it and a David Mamet screenplay.
- The Postman
Hideous stain upon mankind that will never come out, no matter how much all purpose bleach we attempt to use - Alien 3
Killed off two/three likable characters that could have developed Ripley’s character, introduced a crap ton of minor characters that existed only to be killed off, wooden acting on everyone’s part, crappy effects, stupid twist, ruined a fantastic franchise and generally felt like watching a guy play around with his Alien action-figures - The Highlander
Heard good things, was sadly dissapointed. Crappy acting and the Queen songs seemed out of place. Left me feeling dirty. Being made in the 80’s isn’t an excuse
Also I didn’t really get into There Will Be Blood. I’m all for good movies, but still, it just didn’t grab me. I left halfway through, went into the other room and browsed deviant art, only to wander in during the last twenty minutes.
I really did like the ending.
As an action film, it’s terrible.
As a comedy, it’s one of the funniest films I’ve ever seen.
You’re kidding. You pick Alien 3 over Aliens? The one with even more minor characters, wooden acting etc?
You are aware he was saying Alien 3 was a Bad movie, right?
Oh har har. It’s a good movie. I prefer it to all the other Alien films.
Dude! Aliens was AWESOME.
James Cameron rules and it set the precedent for so many sci-fi movies after. Aliens introduced us to the idea of the military in the future, space marines that were the inspiration for games like DOOM and Halo. You’ve probably never heard of those.
There wer a few minor characters, I counted four in total. But everyone else had decent screen time and you honestly felt a sting for most of them when they kicked it, as opposed to Alien 3 where you just think “Oh, he’s gone now? 'Bout time”
The film had fun acting, a tense storyline and a machine gun taped to a flamethrower, what else do you want?
Aliens is one of my favoritest movies ever, which is another reason I hate Alien 3 so much.
So, basically, your rebuttal is exactly what I said, except you made something up about it being revolutionary.
It didn’t really matter if they had decent screen time, pretty much all of the characters were annoying dicks who just pranced around being hard nuts then cried when they were about to die. It was basically just a shoot 'em up film.
The people in Alien 3 were all villains in some weirdly run, practically abandoned penal colony which was a very interesting predicament. You were never sure how they would act, since they all seemed to be religious nuts that somehow retain their murderer-ness. Like Alien you had people stuck in this one area all being hunted, but this time you weren’t really sure who to root for. Also, the new type of alien was badass.
I think you meant to say that in Aliens the characters were all colourful and cool and fighting in awesomely staged action scenes with Stan Winston’s fantastic version of Giger’s aliens, whereas in Alien3 they were a bunch of indistinguishable baldies you were waiting to see get picked off by a retarded alien dog rendered in terrible CGI. The major thing Aliens and Alien3 have in common beyond Sigourney Weaver? The directors of both films hate Alien3.
Let me reiterate, the director of Aliens hates Alien3 because it shat on the ending to his film (and after he did such a great job of easing in from the slow and sterile sci-fi moodiness of Alien and picked up its story so naturally, too), and the director of Alien3 hates Alien3 and nearly took his name off it because it was nothing like what he wanted it to be.
That said, I’m a long way from putting Alien3 on any ‘worst of’ list (even bad David Fincher is still good), but to say it’s better than a genre classic like Aliens is just a sin against the movie Gods and might be enough to make me stop loving you, James. :fffuuu:
I’m going to allow you to live on the basis that you may not yet have seen the much superior Director’s Cut of Aliens, which adds nuance to Ripley’s character, backstory to Newt and the colonists, some fucking awesome remote sentry guns, and fucking Captain Hollister from Red Dwarf in a small role.
I saw the Director’s Cut of both, and I preferred Alien 3. I have to say, I did use to love Aliens, but it’s still too action-movie in my eyes.
Maybe I need to watch it again.
EDIT: What did you guys think of Resurrection?
You didn’t see a Director’s Cut of Alien3, because no such thing exists. As I said, the director almost completely disowned it. There was an attempt in the quadrilogy boxset to get a version closer to Fincher’s vision together, but that was only an attempt to resurrect something like his work-print version that was as far as he got before completely falling out with 20th Century Fox and Sigourney Weaver and whoever else was sticking their oar in, and even that recreation was done without any input at all from Fincher who wanted never to touch or see the film again.
Well I for one am in the mood for rewatching the first two again (not sure which version of Alien to watch - the newer Director’s Cut is not obviously better than the one Ridley Scott was happy with the first time around to me), so you should too and we can discuss them like artsy film critics. 
Personally I prefer to pretend Resurrection simply doesn’t exist, my world is a happier one when I do this. The only thing I find interesting about it now is seeing how much of a prototype for the crew of Serenity the crew of whatever the smuggler ship in Resurrection was for Joss Whedon (another man who has completely distanced himself from the Alien film he worked on - he thinks the director mangled his script and having read it I tend to agree).
P.S., of course Aliens is an action movie - it’s one of the eighties films that pretty much invented the genre. It still has some nice thematic weight to it though (the first film was about rape and sex and death and the male fear of birth, the second film is about motherhood and children and the lengths a mother will go to for them)
I just got Alien DC in 1080P ripped on HDTV, so fucking pumped to watch it on the big LCD with 5.1 =D
I found Resurrection to be an ok film up until two things happened that shouldn’t have. They killed off the sharp-shooter for no real reason, and everything after Ripley’s sex scene with the queen was god-awful and unneeded. the whole affair just falls apart after that.
Yes, I like watching Dan Hedeya get the back of his skull bitten off so that he can pull off a piece of his own brain and look at it 
Alien 3 has an interesting premise, yes. But it is poorly put together. None of the scares work because you can see them all coming from a mile away. The only characters that you really care about were from Aliens and are dead already. Ok, so I liked the Doctor and Charles Durning, but I also knew that both of them were going to die as soon as I started liking them. That is just how predictable the movie was.
It may be an interesting concept, but as it is, it just doesn’t work.
Seeing all of this, I think I have to watch them all again… I’ll have to find someone who has them at Uni.
new movie added Nickelodeon hotel for dogs.