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The original Alien quadrilogy or whatever they call it these days is an absolutely fascinating film series. It's essentially like an improv exercise between four directors where one person starts a story and the next person takes whatever the person before them said and goes in whatever direction they want with it. All four movies feel like they're from entirely different franchises and it's so strangely interesting to see how each film takes the ideas set by the first film and just goes in radically different directions with them.
 
gaporter said:
The original Alien quadrilogy or whatever they call it these days is an absolutely fascinating film series. It's essentially like an improv exercise between four directors where one person starts a story and the next person takes whatever the person before them said and goes in whatever direction they want with it. All four movies feel like they're from entirely different franchises and it's so strangely interesting to see how each film takes the ideas set by the first film and just goes in radically different directions with them.
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This is such a good point!

I do remember when Prometheus first came out I didn't realise it was part of the Alien series, not sure if it was kept under wraps or if I just never saw any of the promo stuff before watching it. Quite a cool realisation to have during the film.
 
The entire Hellraiser franchise > Every other horror/sci-fi franchise that starts with 1-2 decent movies then has 4-5 direct to DVD movies and/or multiple reboots

(Mostly because my wife and I watched all 9 or 10 of these on Netflix when we first started dating. Parts 5-10 are all direct to DVD and most of them are non-Hellraiser horror/mystery scripts that they just added 3-4 Pinhead scenes into. Those were much more fun to watch than any of the Predator reboots or Alien prequels for me)
 
Selaws said:
This is such a good point!

I do remember when Prometheus first came out I didn't realise it was part of the Alien series, not sure if it was kept under wraps or if I just never saw any of the promo stuff before watching it. Quite a cool realisation to have during the film.
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Same here! I watched it without much info on it at all. Maybe that's why I wasnt disappointed. I actually was thinking it was ripping off Alien ( not necessarily a bad thing I loved alien) and I didn't realized the connection until that scene lol
 
gouis said:
Bad Alien movies are still an order of magnitude better than the Resident Evil movies.
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I must say the thing I liked most about RE is that they are fun cheesy mindless action movies. There's something very distinctly early 2000s in feel about it. Mila in not a lot of clothes wrecking zombies to an electronic soundtrack. The bad cgi, it all holds a place special in my heart. The second one felt like I was watching cheesy cutscenes from a game. Which if I wanted to do, I'd play the games
 
I personally find Prometheus to be a damn fine movie, just a weird addition to the Alien franchise. Almost like a wonderful tangential universe movie with a little tie in at a few points.

Alien is the best movie of them all though.
An atmospheric masterpiece with some of the best set designs out there

EDIT - whoops, it was supposed to be addition rather than addiction, lol
 
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In The Heights is an exceedingly good movie in pretty much everyway and if you haven't been back yet is a great candidate for the return to theaters. 9.5/10 movie at least.
 
Max Sterling said:
That's a hard pass from me. Rob Zombie is a terrible director and I don't need to see Eddie as some depraved pervert or Grandpa going on a murder spree.
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He's supposedly a huge fan of the original, so I would hope he would try to catch that original spirit of it instead of his usual shtick. His track record isn't really my bag, but I'm kind of intrigued how this turns out.
 
Max Sterling said:
That's a hard pass from me. Rob Zombie is a terrible director and I don't need to see Eddie as some depraved pervert or Grandpa going on a murder spree.
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ayayrawn said:
He's supposedly a huge fan of the original, so I would hope he would try to catch that original spirit of it instead of his usual shtick. His track record isn't really my bag, but I'm kind of intrigued how this turns out.
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What @ayayrawn said. Whatever you want to say about his skills as a filmmaker, the man lives and breathes horror and has a deep respect for the classics. The main issue his movies have is that there is clearly no one around to keep him from going off the rails, and I have to believe this Munsters movie is going to be a more mainstream production. I'm not usually into the idea of directors having restrictions put on them, but in Zombie's case it might help to have someone restraining him a little bit. Either way, I have a feeling this will be an example of him trying to do something different and I think it will be more fun and campy than violent and disturbing.
 
gaporter said:
What @ayayrawn said. Whatever you want to say about his skills as a filmmaker, the man lives and breathes horror and has a deep respect for the classics. The main issue his movies have is that there is clearly no one around to keep him from going off the rails, and I have to believe this Munsters movie is going to be a more mainstream production. I'm not usually into the idea of directors having restrictions put on them, but in Zombie's case it might help to have someone restraining him a little bit. Either way, I have a feeling this will be an example of him trying to do something different and I think it will be more fun and campy than violent and disturbing.
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I hope you're right. The whole point of The Munsters was that they looked the part of scary monsters but were more wholesome and mundane than most everyone else. I worry that concept will be lost in a reboot. Culture has changed a lot, so adapting the family into today's dynamic worries me. He might go campy horror, which is not what the Munsters were about, the exact opposite as a matter of fact. Or the other way and integrate them into today's society and I'm not sure I want to see Eddie as a hypebeast YouTuber, either.

There are some things that could benefit from a reboot or modern adaptation, I don't think The Munsters is one of them.
 
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