Not exact matches
The Amy Adams - starring sci - fi
movie, an
early Oscar favorite, is much more than just another
aliens - make - contact thriller.
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.
District 9 is partly presented as a faux documentary (rather than a mockumentary, which is what Roger Ebert wrongly labels the film... there is nothing funny about this
movie), detailing how 20 years
earlier, a huge
alien spaceship (think Independence Day) parked itself over Johannesburg and... sat there.
Early word filtering back from some attendees immediately shorthanded the
movie — for better or worse — as the «Scarlett Johansson naked
alien movie.»
This is «the company» referred to in the
earlier «
Alien»
movies.
Following John Carpenter's announcement
earlier today that David Gordon Green (Stronger, Our Brand Is Crisis, Joe, Pineapple Express) and Danny McBride (
Alien: Covenant, Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals) will write the new Halloween
movie which Green will direct, we have now received the official press release from Trancas International with quotes on the project from Green, McBride, and franchise producer Malek Akkad!
The film follows a group of friends who discover an
alien invasion during a pub crawl, though the genre aspects of the
movie, as in the
earlier films, function as a framework to explore deeper topics like nostalgia, addiction and male friendship.
Early on in
Alien Vs. Predator (a film trumped by not only every single other entry in the respective titular franchises, but also Freddy vs. Jason), someone's watching an old Universal horror film on television — I think it's House of Dracula — and it announces in a promisingly self - knowing way that the
movie knows what its roots are and that it intends to honour them.
But you are in fact watching Forbidden World, an
Alien rip - off made by «legendary» B -
movie producer Roger Corman in the
early 1980s largely to reuse sets and props featured in some of his previous
movies such as Galaxy of Terror and Battle Beyond the Stars.
This usually goes two ways: either the
movie is terrible, and the studio are trying to prevent bad word of mouth affecting
early box - office takings (Suicide Squad), or, it's good and features twists the distributors do not want revealed (
Alien: Covenant).
The 80 - year - old Scott, whose credits include Blade Runner,
Alien, and Gladiator (along with many terrible
movies: Exodus: Gods and Kings, A Good Year, Robin Hood, etc.), takes his usual care with design in creating a visually enticing recreation of the shabby
early 1970s, and All the Money is for a while a reasonably absorbing thriller.
When I first experienced
movies like
Alien and Terminator, and
early Cronenberg, it opened a door for me as to how I wanted to take my figurative sculpture.