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Originally Posted by powerclown
Very bold proclamation...but I won't argue.
Nine (2009). 2/10. Waste of time and money except for Penelope Cruz's lingerie dance scene.
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well, my thought is, the rest of the alien movies are sequels, the original Terminator wasn't near as good as Alien (though I like it) Predator wasn't (imho) as good as Terminator...
and all the sequels of these movies have a strong vibe of being a pissing contest of directors and effects companies just trying to out blockbuster each other rather than actually make a good movie with an interesting STORY (imagine that ??) and that's a problem for most of hollywood these days.
I can't remember if Blade Runner came out before or after Alien but I would put all three of them on the same plane of near perfection in a sci fi movie.
Star Wars franchise maybe good too, but ehh, I see them as focused more on a Jr. High School and lower audience...and all the superhero movies are just kinda eye candy pop culture fluff.
I haven't seen Avatar but the theme is totally derivative, Cameron really is just looking to win pissing contests for marketing and box office.
the CG in District 9 was really good, best I've seen in terms of mixing humans, mechs and alien life forms with CG and most likely a fair amount of physical effects so well I didn't find myself nit picking bad shadowing, washed out coloring on humans or CG characters etc. I mean I'm a fantasy/sci fi geek since Harryhausen movies like 7th Voyage of Sinbad and always look at the effects with a critical eye. I can't help it. this was (imho) better than LOTR and Jackson's King Kong was full of bad CG rendering and integration.
and the story was really great. the main character was really getting on my nerves at first but I was drawn in as it went on. and it wasn't just "aliens bad, must kill aliens- the end."