Why aren't I 50 points ahead Mister Man??
Posted on 12/20/2017 7:34:58 AM PST by C19fan
How can they hate this one and not Force Awakens? FA totally threw out the entire Star Wars cannon.
Yes, Looper was so **&*^ stupid! Had potential and I live Bruce Willis, but it was a total crap fest.
NewsWeak covered this? Figures. We really need a petition that Star Wars fans get lives for Christmas. Thanks C19fan.
Mr. MAN! The first time I saw that movie all I kept thinking about was Kathy Bates was channeling Hillary to get into character.
“Prelude to Axenar”
Wow - no replies yet.
Thanks - I want more.
The original was a 1951 black and white version called "The Thing from Another World" with James Arness as the monster. It was adapted from a SciFi novella called "Who goes there," by John Campbell, Jr. (A good novella, by the way)
The original movie is pretty good but I really like the 1982 version with Kurt Russell.
Haven’t seen the ‘82 version. The ‘51 version is going to be with me for a while yet. Like radio from the same era, most of the terror is in the audiences’ minds.
Funny. I liked the Star Wars films(the 1977-1983 era that is) but it’s not my whole life. Reading about this reminds me about something I learned the other day also concerning Disney and angry/disappointed fans. Apparently some very vocal Disney cartoon princess fans never got over Pocahontas dumping John Smith(the hero from Pocahontas I) in favor of John Rolfe in Pocahontas II. Never mind the fact that the real Pocahontas was never involved romantically with the real John Smith and in real life she actually did marry John Rolfe but they angrily scream “IT’S NOT CANON!!!!!”
Seriously folks whether it’s Star Wars or Pocahontas or some other film series just enjoy the entries you like and ignore the ones you don’t like and move on with life.
Sounds like this one. Remember “It was all a dream”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCEjeTb1rrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG6oHIySYI4
“I recall that Highlander 2 was so staggeringly bad that Highlander 3 literally started with the main character, seated & breaking the 4th wall by speaking directly to the audience, explaining that the second movie didn’t happen and that the third was resuming the first about 10 minutes before that storyline ended.”
So was Highlander 3 any better than Highlander 2?
I think it’s great that there are people who find something as unimportant as a Star Wars movie, go berserk, start petitions, start a rage movement, etc.
Everyone should have hobbies and passions, no matter how silly they may seem to others. :0)
Yes, Highlander 3 was much better - at least more coherent & faithful to the original story - than Highlander 2.
Highlander 1: great story about immortals competing for sole control of the unexplained power that prolongs them; a self-contained tale with a closed ending. The franchise should have stopped there.
Highlander 2: the aforementioned unexplained power is unduly explained as some demented plan by space aliens, who return to Earth and our hero battles them; a non-sequitur tale trying to turn a quasi-medieval thriller into a sci-fi action epic. Staggeringly awful.
Highlander 2B: after extremely bad reviews, H2 was heavily edited to remove the “aliens” component and basically turn it into a completely different movie. Rumors are it’s actually not bad, but with the theatrical version so bad I can’t bring myself to watch the edited version.
Highlander 3: after flatly disowning H2, this one starts at 10 minutes before the end of H1, introducing an “oh crap, there’s one more immortal that hasn’t been defeated, and he’s been buried under a pile of rocks for 400 years and finally dug his way out” sequel story line, on to attempting resumption of the original movie’s fun. It’s not bad, it’s ... a sequel to an unusually good B-movie; it is indeed much better than H2, precisely because it stuck to the same “world” as H1.
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