Last film you watched and your rating

Cuttooth wrote:
Drumstick wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:Prey - 7/10

Good action romp.

I dunno how many other people will get or remember that, but bravo.

In fairness it does accurately sum up my feelings on Prey: a good action film that I enjoyed. Not much else to say, although it does seem a bit cheaty that the Predators drop their people onto alien planets to prove themselves but use cloaking technology constantly. I quite liked the obvious comparison between them and the French trappers in that regard.

The Predators are still far more sporting with their hunting than humans, who'll shoot animals from a mile away.

Greyman - the thing on netlflix with capt america doing his impression of the bad guy from commando.. I think ryan reynolds was busy so gosling is in it instead. bad car chase. Not very good. 2/10.

Prey

That was a great film :wub:

Everything Everywhere All At Once - 6

Honestly expected a little more. It was a cool premise but didn’t feel like it did anything interesting with it and kinda just went around in circles for the final hour.

Preezy wrote:Yeah the old pistol from the end of Predator 2 making an appearance does mess about with the canon a bit, but maybe that might get explained in a potential sequel? Probably more likely just a bit of fan service, which I'm ok with.

I've seen people online moaning about that, but I don't get why it messes/breaks any canon?

Moggy wrote:
Preezy wrote:Yeah the old pistol from the end of Predator 2 making an appearance does mess about with the canon a bit, but maybe that might get explained in a potential sequel? Probably more likely just a bit of fan service, which I'm ok with.

As to why the predators have the pistol in the future? Well they have 300 years to get it!

Prey - As many others have said, it's pretty damn good. It does a lot of things right and probably cements itself as the 2nd best film in the series (for reference, it goes Predator - Prey - Predators - Predator 2 - The Predator with no reference to AVP). So many cool little references to the original movie scattered throughout, from the obvious ('If it bleeds') to some more subtle cinematography nods. I can't believe there is anyone who loves the first movie who won't like this. 8/10

Edit - Also, if you haven't watched Predator 2 in a while then I'd heartily recommend it. I'd forgotten just how completely bat-shit insane it is at times and hits just about every single late 80s action movie trope.

Prey - 4/10

Jokes, jokes - 9/10 Would have been amazing in a cinema.

The Predator is honestly just a horrible, nasty film. Prey is a breath of fresh air in comparison.

Predator 2 is really an excellent little film, the cast is amazing and loads of additions to Predator lore (especially the Alien skull on the wall of the ship)

Predators is a great film, it isn't far off being a classic. Just needed a few more moments. But the pacing and cast lift it.

AvP I'd weird, chunky predators and a final shot that had someone in the cinema shout "of for strawberry floats sake"

AvP2 ... The uncut version is actually watchable. It has some good effects, a lot of gore and action. Plus the Predator is the star of the film. It goes weird with a hybrid alien predator seeking out pregnant women for shock value. And the ending was done better in Return of the Living Dead. But, it's still gory fun.

The Predator is a nasty and pointless film. Only the opening predator bits are good, the cast are poor and the literal destruction of one of cinemas best monsters is horribly done. Then there is the humor based on people's diagnosis. A film best described as nasty.

I watched The Predator on a flight to New York and honestly couldn't tell you a thing about the movie. :lol:

I vaguely remember a plot about autism that followed Shane Black's general enjoyment of borderline humour? I don't think he's a particularly nice dude.

I had no idea Shane Black did The Predator. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys are both great films from him but reading up on him... :dread:

Godzilla wrote:Predator 2 is really an excellent little film, the cast is amazing and loads of additions to Predator lore (especially the Alien skull on the wall of the ship)

Predators is a great film, it isn't far off being a classic. Just needed a few more moments. But the pacing and cast lift it.

AvP I'd weird, chunky predators and a final shot that had someone in the cinema shout "of for strawberry floats sake"

AvP2 ... The uncut version is actually watchable. It has some good effects, a lot of gore and action. Plus the Predator is the star of the film. It goes weird with a hybrid alien predator seeking out pregnant women for shock value. And the ending was done better in Return of the Living Dead. But, it's still gory fun.

The Predator is a nasty and pointless film. Only the opening predator bits are good, the cast are poor and the literal destruction of one of cinemas best monsters is horribly done. Then there is the humor based on people's diagnosis. A film best described as nasty.

Predator>Prey>Predator 2>Predators>>>>>>AvP:R>AvP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The Predator

Four great to good movies, followed by disappointing but fun diversions, then a strawberry floating dumpster fire.

The AvP movies are a weird one for me. I'm the opposite to most people in that I vastly prefer AvP: Requiem to AvP.
Neither movie is particularly good, but AvP is just dull. It's focused on the humans, it's got mostly rubbish fights (The bit where the Predator is smashing it into columns by it's tail is probably the best bit), a boring as strawberry float maze environment and stupidly large Predators that just look wrong. There's also a lot more obvious CGI. I've never rated Anderson as a director. Also having watched both this and Resident Evil again recently it's actually shocking how similar they are in a lot of ways. The details might be different but the structure is almost identical (Colin Salmon gets diced in both of them too).

AvP: Requiem I enjoyed a lot more. Again I rewatched it recently. The CGI is far less noticable and the Aliens and Predators all look much, much better. The Predator actually felt like a Predator. It's the right size, it's moves correctly and it's got some really cool sequences.
It's got some nasty strawberry floating kills in it as well. The PG-13/12 rating for AvP meant it could never really get too violent, the R/18 for this one meant that wasn't a problem. Arguably it's a little too nasty in places.

My main issues with AvP2 comes down to two thing.
One, it's far too strawberry floating dark. I get that it was to help mask some of the CGI work but it makes it so hard to see what's happening.
Two, literally none of the human characters are worth caring about. They're all utterly disposable. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I cared about none of them. So much so I strawberry floating cheered when the blonde girl gets nailed to the strawberry floating wall out of nowhere by the spinning blade.

I'm not going to argue that either of them are profound works of cinema, but I've never really understood why Requiem got all the hate over AvP.
Both of them have contrived plots that don't stand up to scrutiny, with characters who make stupid or senseless decisions in them. But ultimately I'm there to see Aliens and Predators beat the gooseberry fool out of each other for 90 minutes, so I can forgive that.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:I've never rated Anderson as a director.

It's weird. His entire collection is pretty much complete trash, but he directed one film really well (IMO) - Event Horizon.

Imrahil wrote:
Cheeky Devlin wrote:I've never rated Anderson as a director.

It's weird. His entire collection is pretty much complete trash, but he directed one film really well (IMO) - Event Horizon.

The one exception in his entire catalog to be honest.

Great movie, though my wife hates it. :lol:

Event Horizon, now there's a film I need to go add to the Overrated thread. Absolute garbage.

more heat than light wrote:Event Horizon, now there's a film I need to go add to the Overrated thread. Absolute garbage.

Looks like it was critically panned to be fair

Tomous wrote:
more heat than light wrote:Event Horizon, now there's a film I need to go add to the Overrated thread. Absolute garbage.

Looks like it was critically panned to be fair

Yeah but it has an insane cult following. So it's overrated by a lot of people.

Yeah, the Underrated thread clearly makes more sense.

I can't stand Event Horizon, so for me Anderson is 0/13 on good films and 3/13 on films I enjoyed(MK and the first two RE films). :lol:

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