I dunno, Aliens just feels like mostly an action movie set on an alien planet. Alien was a horror, but the space setting also had a lot more to do with that horror. The isolation, cinematography, set pieces etc all benefit from the sci-fi space setting. Aliens could have really been set anywhere and had largely the same story.
Take away the space ships, technology, xenomorphs and alien planet and of course Aliens isn’t sci-fi. But it has those things so it is.
Exact same principle applies to Alien. Take away everything that makes it sci-fi and it’s just another horror film.
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Well you proved my point then. Only by removing everything that made it Alien could you make it. With Aliens you could remove everything except the Xenomorphs and it would still be largely the same movie. The sci-fi setting is what made Alien unique. The Xenomorph is what made Aliens unique.
If they remade Back to the Future, let's say for 2020, they would be going back to 1990...does Marty play some dubstep or something at the end that the audience "aren't ready for that yet?"
If they remade Back to the Future, let's say for 2020, they would be going back to 1990...does Marty play some dubstep or something at the end that the audience "aren't ready for that yet?"
No, because nobody listens to dubstep anymore. Thankfully.
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A lot of the great movies have all been mentioned, Jurassic Park, ET, Godfather, Heat, have just inspired me to re-watch a lot of those absolute classics.
Sicario is a movie that I go back to often. Everything about it, to me, is perfect. Benicio Del Toro is just so incredible in that movie; cool, terrifying, sympathetic, frustrating. The scene where they make the convoy to Jurarez and the subsequent line up a the US Border on the way back is a cinematic masterpiece.
Traffic by Steven Soderbergh is a movie that I feel could never be re-made, to me it is perfect.
The Insider by Michael Mann.
Goodfellas is the perfect gangster movie; Scorcese at his peak.
Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker are fantastic films that don't need a single thing changed and had me completely captivated from beginning to end.
As far as comedies: I Love You Man with Jason Segal and Paul Rudd. Anchorman is Will Ferrell at his peak abilities. Dumb and Dumber is a movie that I reference likely every week.
A lot of the great movies have all been mentioned, Jurassic Park, ET, Godfather, Heat, have just inspired me to re-watch a lot of those absolute classics.
Sicario is a movie that I go back to often. Everything about it, to me, is perfect. Benicio Del Toro is just so incredible in that movie; cool, terrifying, sympathetic, frustrating. The scene where they make the convoy to Jurarez and the subsequent line up a the US Border on the way back is a cinematic masterpiece.
Traffic by Steven Soderbergh is a movie that I feel could never be re-made, to me it is perfect.
The Insider by Michael Mann.
Goodfellas is the perfect gangster movie; Scorcese at his peak.
Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker are fantastic films that don't need a single thing changed and had me completely captivated from beginning to end.
As far as comedies: I Love You Man with Jason Segal and Paul Rudd. Anchorman is Will Ferrell at his peak abilities. Dumb and Dumber is a movie that I reference likely every week.
There are far too many things wrong with The Hurt Locker IMO.
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If they remade Back to the Future, let's say for 2020, they would be going back to 1990...does Marty play some dubstep or something at the end that the audience "aren't ready for that yet?"
Johnny B Goode came out only about two and a half years after the time Marty went back to in BTTF.
If they remade it with him going back to 1990, he'd probably perform a popular song from about 1993. Informer by Snow would work.
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There are far too many things wrong with The Hurt Locker IMO.
What?! You don't find a couple of bomb disposal guys deciding they're just going to be a sniper team now realistic?
Or having one of your group getting kidnapped and deciding splitting up to look around is the best course of action?
Or watching the previous two things happen after being told again and again in marketing and critical reviews how this is like the most realistic war film ever?
Awful.
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Most of the time when I watch a movie, I know it's the only time I'm ever going actively watch it. Like, I'll watch something if it's on and I'm not in really in control of the selection process, but in terms of me actually putting something on to watch, I would say that 95% are in the once-and-done category. There's a bunch that I've watched two or three times, but the list of movies I watch regularly is pretty small:
A Few Good Men
Inglourious Basterds
Definitely, Maybe
Love, Actually (every Christmas)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Usual Suspects
High Fidelity
Se7en
Bourne Ultimatum
Superbad
My Cousin Vinny
That's about all I can think of off the top of my head right meow. These are movies I watch at least once a year.
