Definitely enjoyed the first one more. It probably doesn’t help that action is arguably my least favorite genre. A lot of the supporting cast annoyed me and felt very over the top. I did appreciate how actually insane the final act was and that Sigourney Weaver outclassed pretty much everyone else in this cast. I wasn’t really familiar with her game but she was incredible in this and the first one as well.
All reviews tagged ‘1986’
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¡Three Amigos! 1986
If you don’t know the entire dance routine to “My Little Buttercup”, you’re a dirty, filthy liar.
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The Assault 1986
At the tail end of World War II, the young Anton's family is unjustly murdered by Nazi occupiers, an event which haunts him over the years as he attempts to understand its cause.
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Blue Velvet 1986
With every Lynch movie, I always ask myself: Is any of it real?
Lynch is a master at this dream-like vibe and here is no different. I think I understood its themes different than everyone else seems to have but that's the beauty of these movies in my opinion.
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Labyrinth 1986
A special movie, especially for anyone who grew up watching it as a kid. Masterclass in production design and creature design and all of it is elevated by David Bowie being weird and Jennifer Connelly being a believably dramatic teenage everygirl. The 80s fantasy aesthetic in general will forever be one of the best in film history.
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Aliens 1986
Sigourney Weaver remains one of the best action hero (regardless of gender) of all time.
James Cameron gets a lot of flack for his writing but with "Aliens" he's given us some excellent one-liners. Bill Paxton's Hudson is given most of them. One that always makes me laugh is when he, in sarcastic bewilderment, tells Ripley about the little girl Newt, Why don't you put her in charge?
I'm not going to type out the many quotes but I'll leave…
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Terrorizers 1986
"a double-bill review with RED DUST (1990)"
Two pan-Chinese films, THE TERRORIZERS is the third feature of Edward Yang, the prominent figure from the pantheon of New Taiwanese Cinema, and 34 years later, RED DUST still endures as a high point of Hong Kong New Wave director Yim Ho’s track record.
At that stage of his career, Yang’s scripts begin to eschew linearity and at first blush, the interconnections among the characters in THE TERRORIZERS are not clear. Audience is…
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Castle in the Sky 1986
The future is a place that's already been abandoned. World breaking technology but the people who lived there either destroyed themselves or outright ran from it. Utopia is a place without humans, a bunch of idealised magic with no one to experience it, only the maintenance bots and plants that have come to reclaim it.
Film number 3 in our Miyazaki marathon and again Miyazaki doesn't fail to entertain nor to make the viewer think. His messaging here subtler than…