Boz
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Post by Boz on Jan 22, 2007 0:46:18 GMT
Aliens (0 Stars) James Cameron 1986 Originally Written 5/15/06 Well, my suspicions were confirmed. Aside from the opening twenty minutes, in which we are brought up to date from the first film, I hated this movie. I just really don't go for that brand of Spielbergian, summer action blockbuster type bullshit. It just doesn't interest me. Cameron basically makes a different film with very little connection to the original. A big dissappointment.
And after someone questioned my use of the term Spielbergian
I guess that maybe I don't really have any sort of license to call something Spielbergian considering I conciously avoid watching most Spielberg movies so I don't exactly have a lot to compare to. But when I used that word, I was implying that I was disgusted with this film's use of the mass-audience-appealing mixture of drama and comedy, and Bill Paxton doing a surfer accent and acting like a Keanu Reeves idiot, and people making jokes about a butch puerto rican lesbian, and all this stereotypical, action movie, summer blockbuster bullshit that is so against everything I find attractive or interesting about a movie. I was also disgusted by how much of a variance it was from the first film, which I loved. I thought they took something dramatic and thought-provoking and beautiful and turned it into pure shit.
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