Not exact matches
You do actually forget this character is a robot, by the end of the
movie you do look at him as a real person, a little bug - eyed
alien that you don't wan na see
get harmed.
The early part of the
movie, when Wikus
gets exposed to the fluid, you'd think that the MNU or gov» t officials would have some kind of quarantine system in place, in case
alien bio-matter intermingles with human... and indeed later on you hear about there being other cases of mutation — possibly induced by the illegal experiments — so they knew this kind of thing could happen... it seemed to me very reckless to have Wikus stumble about, puking his guts, bleeding from his nose, and not have his co-workers immediately call the medvac people in.
When we do finally
get a glimpse of what happens to the victims after Johansson lures them to her would - be boudoir, the film suddenly sheds its local color and naturalism and takes us just far enough into the
alien lair to quietly offer some of the creepiest imagery you're likely to see in any
movie this year.
What did make this
movie work was the sense of «being there,» of watching these characters go through what they think are grand plans for themselves (Wikus proud of
getting promoted; Christopher thinking he's finally going to fix the mothership and escape) only for random chance, selfishness, and the raw immediacy of simple survival kick in and having them struggle from moment to moment against hostile forces (MNU, the human slumlords, there is no difference between those two groups exploiting the
aliens).
Excellent
movie about a boy who finds an
alien and tries to help him
get home.
Yet, it takes almost half the
movie to
get here, fine back in 1987 when we didn't know what the Predator was or was capable of; in 2010 with one direct sequel and two «
Alien vs. Predator»
movies that followed, to try and replicate that tension is an endeavor that nearly derails the entire
movie.
A brash, effects - laden tribute to all those
alien invasion
movies of the 1950s (just try watching the original «War of the Worlds» without spotting the countless similarities), Roland Emmerich's ultimate mindless actioner is arguably as close you'll
get to a perfect textbook merging of old fashioned sci - fi with modern day big - budget fanfaring.
Co-creating another potential success like Eastbound & Down and
getting to work on an
Alien movie?
We've
got new 14 stills and a new clip from the
alien - invasion
movie The Darkest Hour, coming this Christmas.
Written by Ehren Kruger, who penned the previous two «Transformers»
movies, and directed by Bay, who has directed each installment but says this fourth one will be his last, «Extinction» introduces a new human protagonist in Mark Wahlberg, playing a mechanic who
gets caught in the middle of an ongoing war between rival clans of shape - shifting
alien robots.
It's the most boring monster
movie since the Emmerich Godzilla, even if Chicago usually isn't the city that
gets demolished — yes, there was a recent
alien bombardment in Jupiter Ascending.
Scary
Movie 4 (15) Running time: 113 min ** The Scary
Movie franchise all - too - faithfully follows the «rules» of the
movies it spoofs: each sequel
gets that bit more unashamedly shoddy.Scary
Movie 4 sees Cindy Campbell (talented Anna Faris, who should fire her agent) return as a care worker haunted by a Japanese spirit and battling to save the world from
alien invasion.How many jokes does it take to make a multi-million-dollar comedy franchise?
As cult
movies go, this one's definitely Z - grade, but just try telling that to the misty - eyed sci - fi fan who's moved at the sight of
aliens dropping their warlike ways and
getting into the holiday spirit.
With The Predator under the direction of Black, a veteran of action
movies and master of witty dialogue, Fox seems to want to bring Predator back to its roots of chest - bumping machismo
getting chopped down by scary
alien monsters.
The
movie takes place a couple of years after the end of 2011's «Transformers: Dark of the Moon,» but there have been some changes made; despite the
alien - robot - truck - thingies having saved the world, the U.S. government is now against all bots because they wrecked Chicago in the process, so now we've
got Kelsey Grammer as a secretive C.I.A. powerhouse doing a purge on all Transformers — OR IS HE?
In the same scene, Peter Parker also uses the «
Alien»
movies as inspiration to
get out of tricky situation.
With The Nice Guys hitting cinemas, here are eight memorable buddy cop
movies — featuring law enforcers paired with dogs,
aliens and accountants — to
get you in the mood.
The consensus has been overwhelming positive in regards to Jonathan Liebesman «s upcoming
alien invasion
movie Battle: Los Angeles and that's not going to change after fans
get a glimpse of a new viral website for the film which provides all kinds of details on the
aliens.
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So when you buy a ticket for a
movie about a square, suburban neighborhood - watch team defending their small town from
aliens, you know what you're
getting from a glance at the poster: Stiller will be in furrowed - brow funnyman mode; Vince Vaughn is on board to provide warp - speed patter and full - frontal dudity; and Jonah Hill will do some variation of his peeved, passive - aggressive nerd thing.
That means we're
getting James Franco and Danny McBride in an
Alien movie, and that's just weird to think about.
That there is a shot of the actor Tom Hardy on the set of Venom, the forthcoming Spider - man spin - off starring him as Eddie Brock, the dude who
gets taken over by a gooey tar - like
alien symbiote (we already saw this happen to Topher Grace in the third Sam Raimi
movie) and proceeds to go a lil» wacky.
Somehow I seem to have missed the deal with «
Aliens»... I thought the first
Alien was pretty great, and ground breaking for it's time, but «
Aliens» I don't
get... Seems just to be a fairly mindless action
movie.
But this is not a
movie about people or even about
aliens (we only
get fleeting glimpses of the enemy).
how The Last Starfighter was this totally awesome
movie where a videogame - lovin» kid
gets drafted into this intergalactic conflict and then crashes on a planet and becomes pregnant with an
alien baby but becomes like «My Two Dads» with this other
alien who was initially his mortal enemy but then they become best friends.
It's also we
get a Marvel
movie that doubles as a weird buddy comedy that pairs Thor with Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner / Hulk, who spend much of the film stranded on an
alien - junkyard planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum's royal Grandmaster, a supreme oddball who finds great entertainment in staging gladiator - style coliseum fights.
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alien guests just who's boss and we've
got clips after the jump.
In
movies like Independence Day or even Mars Attacks, humanity comes to terms with
alien life pretty quickly (though we do
get a bit trigger - happy).
The
movie is Absolutely Anything, and it stars Simon Pegg as a guy who
gets godlike powers from
aliens so they can determine if the Earth is worth saving, but he just ends up using them in silly ways like making...
That isn't to say the
alien - invasion framework and neatly - bifurcated dystopian road
movie / romcom structure are purely excuses to see how much mileage Kurosawa can
get out of his generic indeterminacy.
Jon Favreau «s latest
movie starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Sam Rockwell and Olivia Wilde, Cowboys &
Aliens finally
got a teaser trailer.
When the
movie slows down to appeal to the teenage girl fan - base that just want to see Pettyfer and Agron make forlorn eyes at each other (there is a cornball plot development where Pettyfer's
alien race can only ever fall in love once), everyone else
gets frustrated.
Spider - Man's dark twin — last glimpsed in the unloved Spider - Man 3 —
gets his own
movie, with Tom Hardy playing a man possessed by shapeshifting black
alien goo.
The truth is however that the various
movies have been
getting cheaper and lousier with each instalment until the low - point that was
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, which was a by - the - numbers cheapo effort set on Earth directed by two newbie music - video directors.
The
movie rarely stops to catch its breath (when the kids aren't busy fending off
aliens, they're hiding from drug dealers and cops), and you can't help but
get caught up in the excitement.
This was a guy who looked virtually unstoppable as the villain of his own
movie, and now he's just punching random
alien goons before
getting vaporized?
Instead, you play as Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley (who you
get to play as via DLC), the main protagonist from the
Alien movies.
The PlayStation Video team
got in on the fun too, with discounts on
movies like The Fate of the Furious (Director's Cut),
Alien: Covenant (plus bonus features), and Power Rangers.
Sega has revealed that those who pre-order
Alien: Isolation will
get two bonus mission packs that contain the cast of the 1979
movie,
Alien.
Thick - skinned fans of the
movie may be able to suffer through this parade of technical blunders to
get to the small kernel of
movie nostalgia inside, but you have to ask: if this didn't have the
Aliens branding, would it even have see the light of day?
The
alien robot car disaster
movie may not have earned more money in China than the US (you can watch the
movie free on Chinese websites), but its
got enormous buzz.