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5. Signs
How do you get a former priest whose lost his faith to "open his eyes" & believe again?
Try sending down an alien or two to start forming big ol' circles in his crops.
I really liked the theme of a man-of-faith who has lost his faith that provided the personality conflict of the main character.
And, IMO, the first part of this flick almost matched The Sixth Sense in terms of building up the creep factor.
However, once the guilt-ridden veterinarian (played by M. Knight) announced that he had an alien in his kitchen, & then just drove off (...uhmnnn...whut....?),
it kinda began showing "signs" of the kind of rushed, crumbling logic that we could expect to dominate Shyamalan's future films.
Still, in the end, for me, the majority of this movie make for an over-all solid down-to-Earth alien thriller.
Not to mention, that it's always cool to see Joaquin Phoenix in a role that depicts him as a normal person, as opposed to the alien life-form that he has since become. Nowadays, he's seems more frightening than the extra-terrestrials of this or any other sci-fi-horror film.
4. Apocalypto
Okay, I know that this movie doesn't have Mel starring in it, but because of the anti-semetic controversy surrounding Mr. Gibson at the time, this movie sorta got lost.
25 years earlier, Mr. Gibson starred in one of my favorite chase movies ever as the Road Warrior.
Two & half decades later, he's in the driver's seat of another chase film, but this time as the director instead of the star & instead of a post-apocalyptic future of the Outback, it's set in the pre-Colombian era of the Mayan civilation.
And almost as exciting & suspenseful as it was to watch a bad-@ss Mad Max speeding a gas-semi tanker down a dusty road with a gang of anarchistic rock'n'roll disciples after him,
so is Apocalypto, with a Mesoamerican family tribesman desperately foot-racing through the thickly layered foilage jungles, with a pack of murderous village raiders hot on his trail & even hotter for his blood.
A really great movie with it's ancient Maya South American providing a great distinguishing quality to the film.
3. Maverick
An excellent update that effectively captures the style that gave the original series of Maverick it's distinctive feel that separated it from other western series at the time.
And even though for me the highlight of this film is Jodie Foster as she shows that for someone who has developed a reputation as a serious award winning actress, she can also fit comfortably into a light comedy roll as a sultry Southern Belle whose ability to nick is equals in her power to allure,
I thought that Mel Gibson did a very good job of filling in the boots of the travelin' poker-playin' gambler,
his presence & look easily modernizing the lead character.
2. Payback
...is a bitch. Especially when it's for $130,000.
Oh, wait....
I meant $70,000.
Getting those kind of numbers mixed up is liable to get someone killed.
This is a movie that for me, has become one of those that whenever it comes on TV, I can't help but watch it.
1. Road Warrior
A bad-ass lead character, a feral wolf-boy and his boomerang, , a "junk-yard" fortress, an ayatollah of rock-n-rolla, a kick-ass car-chase, Australian accents, & more S&M costumes than a German hardcore porn video (or so I heard...).
Everything you need to make a solid thrill-ride of a post-apocalyptic action movie, moyt.
How do you get a former priest whose lost his faith to "open his eyes" & believe again?
Try sending down an alien or two to start forming big ol' circles in his crops.
I really liked the theme of a man-of-faith who has lost his faith that provided the personality conflict of the main character.
And, IMO, the first part of this flick almost matched The Sixth Sense in terms of building up the creep factor.
However, once the guilt-ridden veterinarian (played by M. Knight) announced that he had an alien in his kitchen, & then just drove off (...uhmnnn...whut....?),
it kinda began showing "signs" of the kind of rushed, crumbling logic that we could expect to dominate Shyamalan's future films.
Still, in the end, for me, the majority of this movie make for an over-all solid down-to-Earth alien thriller.
Not to mention, that it's always cool to see Joaquin Phoenix in a role that depicts him as a normal person, as opposed to the alien life-form that he has since become. Nowadays, he's seems more frightening than the extra-terrestrials of this or any other sci-fi-horror film.
4. Apocalypto
Okay, I know that this movie doesn't have Mel starring in it, but because of the anti-semetic controversy surrounding Mr. Gibson at the time, this movie sorta got lost.
25 years earlier, Mr. Gibson starred in one of my favorite chase movies ever as the Road Warrior.
Two & half decades later, he's in the driver's seat of another chase film, but this time as the director instead of the star & instead of a post-apocalyptic future of the Outback, it's set in the pre-Colombian era of the Mayan civilation.
And almost as exciting & suspenseful as it was to watch a bad-@ss Mad Max speeding a gas-semi tanker down a dusty road with a gang of anarchistic rock'n'roll disciples after him,
so is Apocalypto, with a Mesoamerican family tribesman desperately foot-racing through the thickly layered foilage jungles, with a pack of murderous village raiders hot on his trail & even hotter for his blood.
A really great movie with it's ancient Maya South American providing a great distinguishing quality to the film.
3. Maverick
An excellent update that effectively captures the style that gave the original series of Maverick it's distinctive feel that separated it from other western series at the time.
And even though for me the highlight of this film is Jodie Foster as she shows that for someone who has developed a reputation as a serious award winning actress, she can also fit comfortably into a light comedy roll as a sultry Southern Belle whose ability to nick is equals in her power to allure,
I thought that Mel Gibson did a very good job of filling in the boots of the travelin' poker-playin' gambler,
his presence & look easily modernizing the lead character.
2. Payback
...is a bitch. Especially when it's for $130,000.
Oh, wait....
I meant $70,000.
Getting those kind of numbers mixed up is liable to get someone killed.
This is a movie that for me, has become one of those that whenever it comes on TV, I can't help but watch it.
1. Road Warrior
A bad-ass lead character, a feral wolf-boy and his boomerang, , a "junk-yard" fortress, an ayatollah of rock-n-rolla, a kick-ass car-chase, Australian accents, & more S&M costumes than a German hardcore porn video (or so I heard...).
Everything you need to make a solid thrill-ride of a post-apocalyptic action movie, moyt.
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Right now, all I'm wearing is a mustard-stained wife-beater T-shirt, no pants & a massive sombrero.
Last edited by TheMightyCelestial; 06-15-11 at 05:35 PM.
