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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jan 21, 2019 17:53:18 GMT
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - With my kid discovering the series, this gets a lot of viewing at home as its his favorite. Though it'll never replace Raiders, I still love it for how batshit crazy it is. The mine cart is still also absolutely wild and Harrison Ford is just terrific.
Star Wars: Episode I - Has it been 20 years already? 20 years since I learned the world is brutal and cruel and dark. But in seriousness, beyond the impossible to meet expectations, it's still just not very good.
Star Wars: Episode II - The early digital photography doesn't do the film any favors. As with the previous film, the acting and dialogue is often weirdly stilted and stiff. It does have a better sense of adventure over The Phantom Menace.
Star Wars: Episode III - Though it's not saying much, this is definitely the best of the prequels. It sure doesn't take much for Anakin to start killing kids, though.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 8/10. Love the war movie vibe and the last act is pretty damn exciting.
Solo: A Star Wars movie - 6/10. Doesn't fly that well.
Prometheus - Nope
Alien: Covenant - Nope
Wonder Woman - I may have to see this again. Aside from how striking Gal Gadot looks, I remember nothing about it.
Minions - Merchandise first, movie second.
Monsters University - Cute but not nearly as inspired as the original
X-Men: First Class - Lots of fun and well cast
X-Men: Days of the Future - Probably my favorite within the series
X-Men: Apocalypse - Just disappointing after the high of the two previous films.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - This movie can kiss my ass.
Red Dragon - From the director of mostly bullshit, came a pretty decent thriller.
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly - Wikipedia is listing this as a prequel. Regardless, it's a stone cold classic.
The Thing (2011) - Feels more like just a remake of the 1982 remake. Not much memorable.
The Hobbit Trilogy - I think Return of the King really ruined me for future Middle-Earth movies. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was such a satisfying experience, there's no way this could match up. The decision to stretch a single book over three movies was giving it a scope and scale on par with the previous trilogy. This was a mistake. The decision to push further digitally, through photography and effects, doesn't always pay-off. The 10 hours (per film) of behind-the scenes documentaries on the extended editions are far more interesting.
The Godfather: Part II - Sitting at #3 on my list of favorite movies. "Those were the great old days, you know... And we was like the Roman Empire... The Corleone family was like the Roman Empire... "
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Post by Farside on Jan 21, 2019 18:29:30 GMT
The Star Wars prequels were great. Star Wars "fans" are just losers who never grew up. So of course they can't appreciate them.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jan 21, 2019 18:29:48 GMT
Generally speaking I don't like prequels. They never REALLY tell us anything we didn't already know. Has anyone ever really seen a prequel that made you go "Ooooh! Now I see why or how such and such happened..."? I cant really think of one.
Temple of Doom is only a prequel in that its set before Raiders, but really it could have been told after and it wouldn't change a thing. They just did that to suggest that Indy has had many adventures throughout his life.
And Godfather 2 is not a prequel but rather flashbacks, which may be the only example that comes close to being a "prequel" if you will, that even comes close to truly illuminating previous events that matter to the present day story.
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Post by biker1 on Jan 21, 2019 18:45:17 GMT
I liked 300: rise of an empire better than 300. Mainly due to it's ocean setting. 5/10
the thing (2011), successfully recreated the look of the earlier Carpenter movie, but a promising start was it. 4/10
zulu dawn (1979-uk) is a competent historical prequel to the 1960s classic zulu. 5/10
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Post by James on Jan 21, 2019 18:54:32 GMT
Love Temple of Doom, although I don’t see why it came to be a prequel in the first place.
The Star Wars prequels are the weak link of the series, but RotS is the best of the trilogy and also better than R1 and Solo.
The X-Men prequels are probably the strongest prequel trilogy with First Class and DOFP being very good and Apocalypse wasn’t too bad either.
Origins: Wolverine was pretty lame and the worst of the entire bunch. Thank god for The Wolverine and Logan which both redeemed the way a Wolverine movie should be.
The Hobbit films don’t quite live up to the LOTR trilogy but they work well enough on their own.
Monsters University and Minions are both cute fun but don’t live up to either’s predecessors.
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant are better than any of the others, with the exception of the first two.
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Post by teleadm on Jan 21, 2019 19:42:33 GMT
A 1960s example, Nevada Smith 1966, was a prequel to one of the characters in The Carpetbaggers 1964, played by Steve McQueen in 1966 and Alan Ladd in 1964.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jan 21, 2019 20:12:50 GMT
I have not watched Carlito's Way: Rise to Power.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jan 21, 2019 20:18:24 GMT
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 21, 2019 20:18:53 GMT
Isn't The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly a prequel since the Man With No Name gets his costume through the movie?
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Post by sostie on Jan 21, 2019 20:33:33 GMT
Bumblebee was a massive surprise. So much better than all the other Transformers films
I wouldn't call myself a massive Star Wars fan. Episodes I-III are awful. They got better with each one, but by tiny increments. Rogue One on the other hand is second only to Empire Strikes Back
Temple Of Doom is my least favourite Indy film
The Thing (2011). Despite Carpenter's film being my all time favourite, I liked it, unlike other fans. A decent job considering we already partially knew the story and outcome, as well as it being constrained by the "rules" laid down by the original. Similarities were inevitable, the continuity excellent.
X-Men: First Class & X-Men: Days of the Future are the best of the X-men (team) films
Prometheus, Alien: Covenant and the AvP films I enjoyed...seems I find it hard not to like films about the xenomorphs
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Post by Raimo47 on Jan 21, 2019 20:33:51 GMT
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is definitely the best Wolverine movie.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - 9/10
Logan - 8/10
The Wolverine - 7/10
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Post by ck100 on Jan 21, 2019 20:36:39 GMT
I like the Star Wars prequels and Hobbit films overall. I consider Temple a sequel even though the story makes it a prequel. I don't consider Prometheus and Alien prequel although I get why some would.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jan 21, 2019 20:40:09 GMT
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is definitely the best Wolverine movie. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - 9/10 Logan - 8/10 The Wolverine - 7/10  |
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Post by Marv on Jan 21, 2019 20:40:16 GMT
Temple of Doom still doesn’t make sense as a prequel. How could Indiana go thru all his ‘I don’t believe in hocus pocus.’ Character development AFTER the event of Temple?
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jan 21, 2019 20:42:05 GMT
Temple of Doom still doesn’t make sense as a prequel. How could Indiana go thru all his ‘I don’t believe in hocus pocus.’ Character development AFTER the event of Temple? In terms of story, there's no need for it to be a prequel. What happened to Short Round after Temple of Doom? Probably later fought the Japanese a few years later. |
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Post by Marv on Jan 21, 2019 20:47:47 GMT
Temple of Doom still doesn’t make sense as a prequel. How could Indiana go thru all his ‘I don’t believe in hocus pocus.’ Character development AFTER the event of Temple? In terms of story, there's no need for it to be a prequel. What happened to Short Round after Temple of Doom? Probably later fought the Japanese a few years later. Agreed...and it actually creates inconsistencies if it’s a prequel. Also I’ve never considered The Man with No Name films a hard trilogy...meaning I don’t consider Blondie, Joe and Manco (Clint Eastwood) the same person in those films. |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jan 21, 2019 20:50:54 GMT
In terms of story, there's no need for it to be a prequel. What happened to Short Round after Temple of Doom? Probably later fought the Japanese a few years later. Agreed...and it actually creates inconsistencies if it’s a prequel. Also I’ve never considered The Man with No Name films a hard trilogy...meaning I don’t consider Blondie, Joe and Manco (Clint Eastwood) the same person in those films. Definitely not. Lee Van Cleef is Colonel Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More. |
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 21, 2019 21:35:38 GMT
I actually don't mind Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009), which is a prequel to the original Underworld (2003), and I definitely like it better than Underworld Awakening (2012) and Underworld: Blood Wars (2016).
Sure, Kate Beckinsale's Selene is absent from the prequel (aside from some reused footage from the original film), but I thought Rhona Mitra Sonja was a fine substitute. Plus, Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen fully commit to their roles as Viktor and Lucian. I honestly think the franchise should've remained a trilogy...but I'll probably end up seeing the next one (which really should be the last at this point), in the event that they eventually end up making it.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 21, 2019 23:57:29 GMT
SW: Rogue One feels a like a bonus starter salad to the masterpiece that is Star Wars IV. I don't really treat it as a full prequel because it's about previously unintroduced characters who spoiler alert don't survive . I love R1 btw, it's combo viewing for me with Star Wars. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 0:25:33 GMT
I know I am in the minority, but I think Monsters University is one of Pixar's best movies.
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