First off, I never saw this movie advertised. I ran across it accidentally while checking out the theater listings online. Showing one night only. I read the write-up. No spoiler here - mutants, machines, flying ships and strange looking weapons. I watched the trailer - mutants, machines, flying ships and strange looking weapons. Hmmm... Science fiction? Cool! BUT - half-way into it my wife leans over and says, "This is like watching you play a video game." Well, that blew it for me right there. I couldn't watch it without looking for hidden mutants, secret keys and hidden passages. I'd rather lean over someone's shoulder while they were playing Halo. Where's all the good science fiction?
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4 Reviews
The Andromeda Strain
(1971)
Science fiction classic
15 September 2008
Sure it's dated. So are most science fiction classics, such as Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Planet of the Apes, and the original Star Trek. Big deal, that's what makes it a classic.
Long and drawn out? Why? Because there's no blood, gore, martial arts, and vaporizing death rays? I really enjoyed this film. Much more than the sad television remake for 2008. If you thought this was drawn out, then take a two hour movie and stretch it out for 4. But enough of that version, Let's return to this one. What I liked most about this version of the film is although it was shot mainly from the perspective of Jeremy Stone, it also through in "documentary" scenes explaining how some of the events occurred.
Great science fiction film without all of the relationship sub-plot and diversity overload that seems to permeate the remakes.
Long and drawn out? Why? Because there's no blood, gore, martial arts, and vaporizing death rays? I really enjoyed this film. Much more than the sad television remake for 2008. If you thought this was drawn out, then take a two hour movie and stretch it out for 4. But enough of that version, Let's return to this one. What I liked most about this version of the film is although it was shot mainly from the perspective of Jeremy Stone, it also through in "documentary" scenes explaining how some of the events occurred.
Great science fiction film without all of the relationship sub-plot and diversity overload that seems to permeate the remakes.
The Andromeda Strain
(2008)
Is everyone watching the same movie?
15 September 2008
After reading the first few pages of comments, I jumped to the last page and was reading the glowing recommendations. I wondered how this movie got a ratings average of somewhere in the middle. Are these people watching the same movie? Did they watch the original? Like many of the other earlier comments, I wonder why they had to go overboard on the ethnic and sexual diversity. I felt like I was watching an episode of Captain Planet rather than a science fiction thriller. I also echo the previous complaints of subplots going nowhere, useless characters cluttering up screen, and government conspiracy. This movie, like most of the trash on television and movie remakes, is bad. Thank goodness I borrowed it from the library rather than spending money on renting it.
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
(2007)
Where's the suspense?
29 December 2007
This entry doesn't contain a spoiler. It doesn't have to. The movie is as predictable as the sunrise. The element in the first Alien movies was the suspense that something COULD happen. This was so in the first two Predator movies, though less prevalent. Requiem has totally removed the element of suspense and replaced it with blood and gore. You know people are going to die (well duh, it is a AvsP movie), but you know WHO is going to die and WHEN they are going to die, AND WHERE they are going to die before it happens. The directors should take a lesson from Hitchcock who said, "Suspense is not a time bomb going off under a table. Suspense is a bomb NOT going off under the table". What's the sense in going to a movie when you know exactly what is going to happen and when? If you really, really want to watch this movie, wait until it comes out on video and then RENT IT, but by no means would I ever buy it.
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