Just saw Thor Ragnarok with my friend, and ok that was the best of the three movies. Had a good time watching it. Honestly, I wasn't expecting Hulk to appear. Again, never been much of a superhero fan so this is new to me, and started watching these because I'm seeing Thor: Love and Thunder with my friend on Thursday. Also, made the connection with Thor's eye and Infinity War, which is cool since my friend also showed me that movie.
Ready for Thor: Love and Thunder this Thursday, should be a fun time at the theater with my friend.
Also, got the best news ever. I'm seeing Trolls World Tour on the big screen again, friend and I are planning to go to the August showing of it in my state. Honestly, being able to see one of my favorite movies in a theater made my summer, and it's great we're going again.
@Snatcher The Bad Guys is a great movie, saw it on Peacock. Great stylized animation and had a few fun twists, even if I found one predictable. I had a feeling the mayor was previously a "bad guy."
@HotGoomba If you like DreamWorks' movies, I have a feeling you'll enjoy The Bad Guys. It's a great movie IMHO. Enjoy it when you get around to it.
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@Snatcher Nope, I agree 100%. Sometimes the simple moments of animated movies can be some of my favorite parts too. I love the simpler parts of the Trolls movies and Smurfs The Lost Village. Though, seeing Smurfette in a beam struggle with Gargamel is so satisfying to watch, even if the outcome is sad
Also, sometimes predicting moments can be fun in a "yes, I was right" kind of way, and that's what it felt like watching Bad Guys. Honestly, it made me like the mayor even more, because she was in on it.
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@Rambler
I don't take any list about alien movies serious that doesn't include either E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial or Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Heck, even War of the Worlds deserves a spot over Mars Attacks!
@seaboyluca
List is the wrong word, maybe. Each writer has picked their fave film with aliens. Maybe they all like ET less than the one they have chosen to write about?
@Rambler Yeah, I was no fan of E.T. when I rewatched it as an adult. I guess it has its charm, but perhaps I was just too cynical by then. Spielberg's schmaltz was beginning to make me throw up by the time of the rewatch.
For what it's worth though, I love Close Encounters and I agree that it should've been on the list as a historic milestone of not just alien movies, but just movies in general. It was optimism done right, without the screaming Barrymore kid.
Edit: Also, The Faculty? Come on. lol I like that film too and thought it was underrated... but The Faculty over some of the more classic alien films in cinematic history? Yeah, it's hard to take this seriously indeed. I get that it's a compilation of "each critic's favorite alien films," but the editor still has the final say on how the article is written and presented, and putting The Faculty in there just makes the whole article look amateurish.
the editor still has the final say on how the article is written and presented, and putting The Faculty in there just makes the whole article look amateurish.
No they don't. The editor for the section commisons the article, the sub editors proof, check and edit the articles. The section editor then signs off on the article.
The editor never goes, "your opinion is wrong, mine is better." Otherwise it becomes a race to the bottom of generic populism.
The editor never goes, "your opinion is wrong, mine is better." Otherwise it becomes a race to the bottom of generic populism.
I don't know about that. I know of at least one or two editors out there who wouldn't approve articles because they don't send the right message the editor, or whomever is in charge of said editor, was looking for.
But that's beside the point. Someone still has to grant their seal of approval to the article, and that someone, as far as I know (which isn't a lot since I don't work in the industry), would more often than not ask the writer to rewrite the thing if he's not happy with it. Maybe that's how the industry worked in the older days and it's no longer the case anymore. I don't know.
Anyway, I think it's a decent article for what it tried to do. But in my opinion, if you're looking to be educated on alien movies that impacted the movie industry with their storytelling, this isn't really the list. But then again, it's a Guardian article, not AFI, so I shouldn't take the article so seriously.
@Maxenmus this is in the arts and entertainment section, and is a commissioned list of writing. The only times an writer would be told to rewrite would be if it contained libellous content or if that standard of writing was sub-par. Then that would probably be actioned by the subs..
Bringing the topic back to movies, I feel like it's obligatory by this point to include "Alien" as a part of lists like this. lol I mean, I agree adding it - it's a prestige horror film worth memorializing - but I'm surprised that one of the critics' favorite alien films was The Faculty, but none of them cited Aliens, the James Cameron sequel. It's like the cooler rock & roll cousin of Alien, minus the Oscar-worthy prestige.
@Maxenmus
I always preferred the original Alien over its sequel. Same with The Terminator.
Speaking of movies with extra-terrestrials; the best one I've seen in the last 5 years or so has to be The Vast of Night. It's a little 2019 indie film set in the '50s about a radio station DJ and a switchboard operator who discover a frequency they believe is being used by aliens.
It's both eerie and compelling and my eyes were glued to the screen. Recommended!
@Maxenmus I always see these types of lists as more as interesting examples of the genre over the past decades rather than the writers "favourites" as they always seem to conveniently span the decades and they never have the same favourites - almost as if they went round the critics and went "You two pick one from the 70s, you do the 80s etc....oh, and if you're both on the same decade you can't pick the same film". I doubt they are their actual favourites.
Went to see Thor: Love and Thunder today, had a really good time with it. Glad I watched the other three movies to get the context too.
Actual Love and Thunder spoiler warning, just in event someone decides to click it, since this movie is still pretty new... Honestly, I thought it was cool to see Jane become just like Thor. The scene where Thor kills Zeus was surprising, loved the battle in the end, and the outcome of the movie, and seeing Zeus survived, and Jane going to Valhalla. Also, loved the appearance from the Guardians.
Next theater trip will be most likely to see Trolls World Tour again as another theater is showing it in August for a summer showing. Between Sonic, Trolls, and this, feels good to go back to the movies. Glad I got to experience this one on the big screen.
Not a spoiler, but... AMC popcorn is stale, seeing Trolls at a mom and pop theater spoiled me and movie popcorn, lol.
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