Is that the one where we see Newt's family die at the beginning?Obligatoryfor the Aliens Special Edition.
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More than likely, though DVD copy I got is called the Extended Cut. I do prefer the Extended Cut over the Theatrical and makes for a better and even stronger movie.
A ā ā review of Alice in Wonderland (2010)
āDo you think I've gone 'round the bend?ā āI'm afraid so... you're mad. Bonkers. Off your head... but I'll tell you a secret... all of the best people are.ā The plot of this movie is actually a quasi-sequel/re-imagining of the animated original. Now 19, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) finds herself in...
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And yes, the Extended Cut is the one that adds that scene, among others.
Rewatched OG Road House, followed by the remake.
So the original is cheesy, lurid, so-bad-it's-good and infinitely quotable ("Pain don't hurt"). The movie only begins to make sense if you imagine it's a godless shithole in the 1800s and Swayze is the new sheriff in town. That one man would be able to amass fuck-you money by terrorizing the one hardware store and the one roadhouse from Jasper, Missouri in 1989 for 10%, and be able to murder and firebomb the local populace without ever drawing attention from cops or media... isn't even the most incredible thing about the original movie. But if you ever liked or disliked it has nothing to do with credibility. The movie doesn't even pretend to be credible. It's happy with its warped, dumb version of the real world, in which bouncers are revered as wandering ronin and everybody is desperate to pick fights they cannot possibly win. And like every other 80s crime movie, it ends with the hero storming the bad guy's mansion.
The remake is fun but nowhere near as funny; it's clearly the better movie but it also takes itself a little too seriously. It makes everything a little more plausible - Dalton is famous as an ex-UFC fighter, not a bouncer; the bad guy's reasons for harassing the roadhouse hold more water; cops actually exist in the remake (and most of them are bent); etc. But I dunno. I don't think anybody will care about the real estate/drug angle as much as the movie does.
The action is pretty good and has some decently choreographed skirmishes. They do the handheld over the shoulder camera thing with quick pans and 180s constantly reframing the action in an exciting way. There's quite a bit of CGI involved in connecting the punches but it didn't bother me much. I also don't believe for a second Jake Gyllenhaal would walk away from a punch from Conor McGregor but sure, it's fun to pretend.
Neither movie quite pulls off the romantic subplot. OG always felt forced and porny, and Kelly Lynch looks as believable as a doctor as Denise Richards playing a nuclear scientist. Conversely the remake does the very 2024 thing of being offended by the idea of a romantic subplot: it's there, kinda, but mitigated by recrimination, disappointment and a lack of sex or passion.
So the original is cheesy, lurid, so-bad-it's-good and infinitely quotable ("Pain don't hurt"). The movie only begins to make sense if you imagine it's a godless shithole in the 1800s and Swayze is the new sheriff in town. That one man would be able to amass fuck-you money by terrorizing the one hardware store and the one roadhouse from Jasper, Missouri in 1989 for 10%, and be able to murder and firebomb the local populace without ever drawing attention from cops or media... isn't even the most incredible thing about the original movie. But if you ever liked or disliked it has nothing to do with credibility. The movie doesn't even pretend to be credible. It's happy with its warped, dumb version of the real world, in which bouncers are revered as wandering ronin and everybody is desperate to pick fights they cannot possibly win. And like every other 80s crime movie, it ends with the hero storming the bad guy's mansion.
The remake is fun but nowhere near as funny; it's clearly the better movie but it also takes itself a little too seriously. It makes everything a little more plausible - Dalton is famous as an ex-UFC fighter, not a bouncer; the bad guy's reasons for harassing the roadhouse hold more water; cops actually exist in the remake (and most of them are bent); etc. But I dunno. I don't think anybody will care about the real estate/drug angle as much as the movie does.
The action is pretty good and has some decently choreographed skirmishes. They do the handheld over the shoulder camera thing with quick pans and 180s constantly reframing the action in an exciting way. There's quite a bit of CGI involved in connecting the punches but it didn't bother me much. I also don't believe for a second Jake Gyllenhaal would walk away from a punch from Conor McGregor but sure, it's fun to pretend.
Neither movie quite pulls off the romantic subplot. OG always felt forced and porny, and Kelly Lynch looks as believable as a doctor as Denise Richards playing a nuclear scientist. Conversely the remake does the very 2024 thing of being offended by the idea of a romantic subplot: it's there, kinda, but mitigated by recrimination, disappointment and a lack of sex or passion.
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And the sentry gun scenes, which now I can never see the movie without because the cuts are so obvious to me.
Yeah, and the one that completely changes the dynamic between Ripley and Newt from 'two survivors and Ripley healing from her trauma by protecting this girl' to 'Ripley lost a daughter (that we never knew about or cared about) and Newt lost her parents, so now they found eachother'. I fucking hate it.
And that scene where it's specifically Newt's family, like their whole goddamn family, that gets sent to the alien derelict...
Yeah, we get it, someone disturbed the aliens, it doesn't matter who.And that scene where it's specifically Newt's family, like their whole goddamn family, that gets sent to the alien derelict...
Bought this second hand for like $2, and that was a bad investment. There are scenes which would be better in a Simpsons parody of a generic Tim Burton movie, rather than actually in one.A ā ā review of Alice in Wonderland (2010)
āDo you think I've gone 'round the bend?ā āI'm afraid so... you're mad. Bonkers. Off your head... but I'll tell you a secret... all of the best people are.ā The plot of this movie is actually a quasi-sequel/re-imagining of the animated original. Now 19, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) finds herself in...
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āI see you've done your homework. Unfortunately for you, it's not that easy. After all, I am the wishmaster here. So any wishes pertaining to me are circumscribed by the prophecy.ā The plot of this film follows Morgana (Holly Fields). After her boyfriend steals a gem from a statue that gets...
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A ā ā ā ā review of Godzilla (2014)
āArrogance of man is in thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around.ā The plot of this film follows a father, Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) and his son Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). 15 years after his wife died in a reactor accident, Joe is convinced that the Japanese government...
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Watched Willy's Wonderland, one of the lamest, cheapest looking movies I've seen in a while. It barely qualifies as a FNAF cash in, and makes the FNAF movie look like The Shining.
It stars Nic Cage in a nameless, voiceless role that has him cleaning up a derelict children's party place for a night. At intervals he is attacked by murderous "animatronics" (clearly stunt people in costumes), which he easily beats up and kills. Come dawn he rides away into the sunrise. It's not even 90 minutes. Halfway through they throw in a bunch of teens to up the body count, and the kills are just as lame and uncreative.
Avoid, Will Robinson.
It stars Nic Cage in a nameless, voiceless role that has him cleaning up a derelict children's party place for a night. At intervals he is attacked by murderous "animatronics" (clearly stunt people in costumes), which he easily beats up and kills. Come dawn he rides away into the sunrise. It's not even 90 minutes. Halfway through they throw in a bunch of teens to up the body count, and the kills are just as lame and uncreative.
Avoid, Will Robinson.
Really? Because I didn't get that at ALL. Between Dalton's casual, flippant, nigh apologetic attitude towards kicking everyone's ass, the incompetent thug who's overly helpful and just wanted to ride bikes with friends, and every scene McGregor is in, this played almost like a violent comedy to me. I laughed way more than I felt any substantive gravitas.
That said, I enjoyed it. I never saw the original Roadhouse, so my gf put it on for me afterwards, and I immediately got the vibe that it is a very different film to the 2024 remake. I couldn't get into it; made it about 20 minutes in before deciding I'd had enough. Also realized that I don't really like Patrick Swayze. I dunno, I just associate his face with '80's women's romance fantasies, and I can't take him as much more than a dime store character put on screen. The only movie of his I liked was Ghost, and that was mostly for Whoopi Goldberg, not anything exceptional that Swayze did. Maybe I'd feel differently about him if I was a middle-aged woman?
Both my parents are Patrick Swayze fans. With my dad, it's less romantic fantasy, and more that he likes the guy and said he always had great charisma. Similar case with my mom too, but she always considered him a sweetheart.
I for the life of me cannot defend this movie. It's okay, but I have a little reason to go back to it because of the sequels being so much betterA ā ā ā ā review of Godzilla (2014)
āArrogance of man is in thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around.ā The plot of this film follows a father, Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) and his son Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). 15 years after his wife died in a reactor accident, Joe is convinced that the Japanese government...
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Pretty sure that's not possible, but if true... that's incredible.
I do not know why Google deleted some of the words I put in. I fixed the grammatical error. I forgot to mention this, but og Roadhouse they love especially.
As convincing as the GIFs have been, my opinion is still pretty steadfast on this one. My apologies to Mr. Swayze who is apparently highly regarded *sheesh*.
