Anya ,'Showtime'
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Is there a pull for the movie besides the cast and being a special effects extravaganza?
More often than not, SFX movies suck ass, but every once and a while, they don't. Look at the original Star Wars for example. (And on the whole, SW didn't really have the cast thing going for it).
Potentially, I see a lot of similarities between Sky Captain and Star Wars; specifically, a young director who sees the full potential of making movies with new technology and runs with it.
Hey, I loved that Miguel Ferrer plays a character named Garrett. So funny. Not exactly the Tony Danza syndrome -- but similar.
I just saw a commercial for it, and i had no idea...Alien vs Predator is a real thing? I thought it was a video game. It's really a movie? Is it supposed to be funny?
Alien v. Predator is many things, including, I think, a video game. Most recently, a movie upon which I heaped disdain.
Then I noticed it starred Sanaa Lathaam, Colin Salmon, and Raoul Bova.
Huh.
Oh. So it's good then.
It has the makings of a classic.
It's set in Antarctica, how naked can Bova get? Without being humiliated, I mean.
Maybe they'll have to decontaminate on re-entering the base. He looks full of hard-to-reach places.
I'm so glad I don't have to see Alien vs. Predator.
I can only get the appeal of Alien vs Predator in a theoretical way, if I think of it as an update of the old Godzilla vs Mothra genre. But when I think about the probably execution, CGI on top of CGI, I think "eh."