I forgot about the stage play haha! I love how we got many theatre and musical from stuff (like Saint Seiya and even City Hunter).
Been wanting to watch this one for a while, the premise sounds oddly prescient. Its director, John Boorman, may be one of the most underrated of his kind. He's got a ton of classics under his belt, like Point Blank, Deliverance, and Excalibur, yet he really hasn't gotten the same admiration as the likes of, say, Francis Ford Coppola.
I'm still tempted to watch that weird movie just because Connery is in it haha!
Buckle up for a lot of Beethoven's Seventh, probably one of the only good parts of the movie. The dialogue is pretty painful, and Sean Connery seems downright embarrassed to be on screen half the time. Boorman kinda did whatever he wanted with Zardoz, what with the huge success of Deliverance and all, and you can see how some kind of tempering influence would have gone a long way to making something more interesting.
starship troopers is weird in the 2000s it was know as an underrated classic bit now its reputation has taken a complete 180 where now i would say its a little overrated. not a bad film just not great. i think the problem i had was reading the novel before i saw the movie. it feels like a parody written by someone that never actually read the novel but has contempt for the author.
If anything those old Mortal Kombat movies are underhated, lol. I'm kidding, if someone likes them, I don't care, but to me they fall in the same category as the Monster Hunter movie and the Resident Evil sequels, in that they are very boring and bad in uninteresting and uncreative ways. Definitely not worth getting angry over but also too lame to enjoy in a funny bad way.
It definitely flew under my radar that people disliked demolition man. I know about the PENIS!!!!! Though
This is fascinating. I've never heard this before but it makes sense. If thats the case I cant help but feel like today's kids are being robbed of shows they can appreciate later in life for more than just nostalgia. My favorite movie as a small child was "The Neverending Story" and I can absolutely go back and appreciate/enjoy it today. You're right; 80s shows stoked the imagination.I actually know why this is! Prior to about 1997 or so, the prevailing idea in children's entertainment was that it needed to be "whimsical" to stoke imagination and curiosity. This is why a lot of children's movies and TV shows from the late 20th century put tons of effort into writing and animation (some more than others, of course), because the people making them assumed that was what children were interested in. This is why a lot of those shows, books, and movies are still remembered fondly and enjoyed by full-grown adults today.
In the late '90s, though, what was actually discovered in the field of child psychology is that kids prefer media that's scientifically developed and adjusted to their immediate wants – i.e. lots of colours, context-free noise, and repetition. This is a hypothesis that was tested several times through shows like the Teletubbies, Barney, and the modern incarnation of Sesame Street, which have teams of researchers behind both the development of the shows and the writing of every episode.
It's been academically proven that this new kind of media is better for helping kids develop motor skills and capacitive memory, so, objectively speaking, it's "healthier" for them than something like The Secret of NIMH. Of course, the downside is that they have precisely zero appeal for adults, but there's so much money in kids that it doesn't matter, and, well... here we are.People who were born in the 80s and the first half of the 90s grew up with very, very different children's media than what exists today, and their expectations are wildly-different from reality.
The power of the Internet for you... I even think people are overplaying too much on Metal Gear Rising (without even actually playing it).
Maybe I misunderstood and thought that people were getting bored of action movies but you're right about Snipes.
I would argue that even if a movie is aimed at a younger audience quality shouldn't be missed.
Hoo, but I gotta say, I liked the first okay, but Wrath? My date fell asleep on me about five minutes in, and when the lights came up? I woke her to say how damned jealous I was.
Yeah I found them both pretty fun, I may have actually enjoyed the second one a teensy bit more. I think the big albatros around the series' neck was Sam Worthington. He seems like a decent enough bloke, but for the life of me I don't understand why everyone was banking on him becoming a huge star in the late 2000s. He looks like he was produced by the same cloning facility that made Jai Courtney.
I was about to say "Sounds like SOMEBODY hasn't seen Warrior!" and then saw Joel Edgerton on the poster and forgot he's another identical white guy that I mix up, same facility probably.
