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Pretty much everyone. Main reason for me is that Michelle Pfeiffer's character was much more interesting than Kim Basinger's, who was essentially a screaming damsel in distress in the original. Also, they reduced a lot of the campiness, much improved special effects and even though Nicholson is my favourite actor, I preferred DeVitto's performance much more here.
Best comment I've read in ages.
I agree. I recently played Quake 4 campaign, in which there's a great sequence where the protagonist is "biomechanized", and the first thing that came to my mind was this movie. The thought of having body parts (mostly unwillingly) replaced with mechanical ones just terrifies me, and it's a horror subgenre that should be more explored. <i>Robocop</i> was not horror, but it always scared me for that reason.
Always thought the film was somewhat underrated. The concept might be unoriginal, but it has great practical visual effects, pretty good cast, decent atmosphere and terrifying cybernetic organisms. Don't think it's bad as they say, I like this movie. This also made me interested in the video game Cold Fear, which is mostly inspired by The Thing, with the setting of an abandoned Russian vessel, which makes me wonder if the developers were inspired by this film.
And about JohnMatrix's observation about movies with similar plots that were released in the same year or close to each other, this could be risky for the movie released after if the one released first bombed in the office box, and times executives choose to postpone one in order to avoid market saturation.
Yeah, the final season was not as great, but I liked the finale. It was an excellent series that deserved all the praise it got, terrific writing.
IIRC, the writers wrote the first and second seasons as it went, and it was not until they knew exactly when it was going to end that they created a consistent mythology and sci-fi plotlines. And it was not the first time TV show creators lied to the audience about what they should expect, and personally I don't have any issues with those dead-ends due to the absurdly good writing.
And Locke is by far the most fascinating and roundest character I've seen in a series, thanks to consistently outstanding performances by Terry O'Quinn and superb writing. He had so many layers and facets, you never truly knew if he was really special or just a fool for the MIB.
For those reasons, imho his backstory was by far the best one in the series. If I had a miserable life like John Locke had, I would not want to leave the island either, poor guy.
Great idea haha
lol, I wondered the same on a couple of occasions this season, it seems Sam was channeling his inner Jack Torrance haha.
I agree with Beauq81, I mean, I liked the concept of Winchester bros dying in the line of job, doing what they do best, but I didn't like the execution very much, it just felt something was missing.
I have mixed feelings about Dean dying alone, I swear they would go down together. Or maybe I didn't like because I it was too depressing to see Sam living his life he always wished, but without his brother. The segments with "Brother's in Arms" playing over after Dean's death, damn, those destroyed me, I couldn't help but weep. On the other hand, Sam growing old was unconvicing, specially the wig lol.
Anyway, I felt it was a satisfying, yet a bit underwhelming, ending, with the Winchesters finally getting the heaven they deserved after so many years of doing the family business. Besides Bobby, I also missed their beloved ones not there, but I understand why they couldn't reunite Sam and Dean with the other characters.
The road so far was great, and I'll definitely miss the series.
Agree that the first 4 or 5 seasons were amazing, and that it became pretty average from then on. Although I like the character of Castiel and think he was a great addition to the show, I never quite liked the angel, Metatron and Chuck arc lines. On the other hand, I understand that the writers couldn't write monster of the week and deals with yellow-eyed demons forever, otherwise it would get boring fast.
Anyway, I love the Winchester bros and the supporting characters so much that I couldn't stop watch the show even in the latest seasons, I'm already missing them.
I don't live in US, my testimony to show how things have become so f... up in academic medium in my country regarding political indoctrination:
I was in college between 2010-2014 and can't remember any instances of professors indoctrinating us. I had one that was a ultra leftist, as he was the elder brother of a close friend, and he disclosed me that. Fortunately, AFAIK, he only defended his ideology on social networks, so at least he was professional enough to not bring that BS to classroom.
However, it seems things began going downhill since 2015, when accusations of docents indoctrinating pupils started appearing more and more often in the media. News about deans enforcing cultural marxism also began to become frequent, with leftist outlets explicitly supporting the liberal policies.
And since the current conservative president was elected in 2018, indoctrination in tertiary education has reached a new level: radical professors lecturing in public universities started to openly express their political views, participate in strikes and occupy campi buildings, preventing students that wanted to learn and not to be brainwashed from attending classes.
These days it seems some college professors spend more time indoctrinating students than actually teaching them. And I thought this only happened in my country, silly me. Nothing wrong in educators defending a political position, but just don't propagate your ideology in classrooms, they were not meant for that.
Chappelle is right, it has become a dead horse. I hope comedians will make fun of Biden now to balance things, but that won't happen because of double standards.
I wonder if celebrities will finally shut the f*** up and stop repeating Trump bad in their empty speeches on awards cerimonies, but I'm afraid Hollywood will pick another conservative target to help filling its political and cultural agenda.
You're a smart man.
My 2¢: while I despise Trump and reprove a lot of things he said and did, even though I consider myself mostly conservative, I think repeating "Trump bad" has become a dead horse.
I believe the situation in the US is pretty similar to my country, where the entertainment industry and media outlets are mostly biased to the left, accusing everyone who doesn't agree with their political and cultural ideology of the same old clichés of fascist, far right, hate speech, racist, sexist bla, bla, bla. Apparently, only their opinion is valid, so much for being open and tolerant.
Our president, which is more conservative than the former, ain't no saint, he says a lot of dumb things, but he's far from the devil the hypocritical media paints him, the same which turns a blind eye for a lot of shady things liberals do and say. In short, two weights and two measures.
You got me lol
LMAO
I thought the same. I also praise them for making the racing sequences in the movie version of Circuit de la Sarthe almost seamless, as IIRC from the making of documentary, they used like 5 different circuits, thus I'n not surprised the producers had to employ three editors.
Movie editors are the unsung heroes of filmmaking, you don't usually notice when they do their job properly.
I miss the good ol' times when movies and entertainment works in general didn't need too fullfil social or political agendas. Plenty of people didn't vote for Trump and still liked the movie, that should be inconceivable according to you. I have friends who are leftists/liberals and loved this flick, and I don't remember any of them batting an eye for a lack of racial diversity.
Well, I assume "bad guy" as an antihero, so it works for me. In the end, it makes one hell of a cool tagline.