Not exact matches
In its attempt to ask big
questions such as whence and whither humankind, Prometheus presents an action / monster suspense
movie in the place of Kubrick's
classic, but such deep
questions remain to the end in the character of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace).
Both
movies are
classics, and the usual
question of «why do we need this?»
Not all or even most summer -
movie classics explicitly evoke the season in
question, but it helps when mainstream
movies evoke something besides other recent mainstream
movies.
Many of the best Memorial Day
movies have won Academy Awards, some are now considered action -
movie classics and only the select few grapple with essential
questions about military might, mission ethics and the trauma that continues long after the fighting is over.
It might seem like a little bit of a curious, niche
question, but the behemoth marketing machine for Infinity War has that very
question covered over in Japan, where one promotional video for the
movie features some of the scenes we've already glimpsed in the previous trailers recreated as if from a
classic Super Famicom / SNES era RPG.