Last Film You Watched


Nymzee said:
Funnily enough been reading a lot of stuff online this week about the original scripts etc. for this and Prometheus and it seems like the movies we got in the end should have been so much better without studio intervention.
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There hasn't been a good Alien movie since '86. The third one is a disaster with a couldn't-be-arsed lazy mess of a script, loads of British baldies running around badly lit sets and clear studio meddling throughout. Killing off three major characters from the second film in the first 90 seconds pretty much sets people against it from the beginning. A shame they never went with the Dark Horse comic continuation series of Aliens... they were boss.
 
rylojr said:
Looking forwards to this. It's something I believe has been crying out for DECADES for a movie/tv adaptation. It's got ultraviolence, wit, sarcasm and an epic-scale future-war adventure which hails from the "classic" 2000ad comic era of the early 80's. A shame the late sadly-missed Bill Paxton isn't around to provide one of the voices for Rogue's "dead" bio-chip comrades.... Always thought him, Arnie and Michael Ironside would have been perfect for the three voice roles of Helm, Gunnar and Bagman.

Still have high hopes though. It'd be a welcome switch from the US Marvel/Disney juggernaught and offer a fresh exciting new franchise that could be a brilliant movie in the right hands, with the right approach.... If it's as half as good as the Karl Urban "DREDD" picture from 2012...it'll be boss.

https://roguetrooper.com/#:~:text=The eagerly anticipated animated science,Films will complete in 2025.
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I’ve just got wood reading that !

As long as they don’t turn it into a Marvel clone and stay true to the original 2000 AD version.

Talking of Dredd, I’m really surprised they didn’t do more films with Karl Urban as Dredd, as there’s so much material there.

That’s without moving onto Vampires of the Eastern Front and Strontium Dog, there’s years worth of films there.
 
COYBL25 said:
I’ve just got wood reading that !

As long as they don’t turn it into a Marvel clone and stay true to the original 2000 AD version.

Talking of Dredd, I’m really surprised they didn’t do more films with Karl Urban as Dredd, as there’s so much material there.

That’s without moving onto Vampires of the Eastern Front and Strontium Dog, there’s years worth of films there.
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Yes - there's almost 50 years of untapped material in the 2000ad vaults that I always thought would make brilliant TV/Movies. I wish studios had more ambition and a willingness to try something different. All the older IP's are tired, finished, endlessly remade.... Give something leftfield and original a go instead. Hopefully the Rogue Trooper movie can open people's eyes.
 

rylojr said:
Yes - there's almost 50 years of untapped material in the 2000ad vaults that I always thought would make brilliant TV/Movies. I wish studios had more ambition and a willingness to try something different. All the older IP's are tired, finished, endlessly remade.... Give something leftfield and original a go instead. Hopefully the Rogue Trooper movie can open people's eyes.
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You`ve only got to look at what they did with the outstanding remake of Dune.

A book that originally came out in the mid 60`s, made into a film in the mid 80`s and then remade and introduced again to a whole new audience in 2021.

It doesn`t matter if a big part of your target audience haven`t initially heard of the character, on which the film is based.

If the film is good enough, as the remake of Dune was, you gain a whole new audience to launch a whole series of films from.

The problem is, as you know, that the major film studies have become massively risk averse since the pandemic, hence why they pump all the safe Marvel stuff out.
 
rylojr said:
There hasn't been a good Alien movie since '86. The third one is a disaster with a couldn't-be-arsed lazy mess of a script, loads of British baldies running around badly lit sets and clear studio meddling throughout. Killing off three major characters from the second film in the first 90 seconds pretty much sets people against it from the beginning. A shame they never went with the Dark Horse comic continuation series of Aliens... they were boss.
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Funnily enough, the original script for Alien 3 by William Gibson was published by Dark Horse a couple of years back and it's not bad.

The PDF of the script is floating about on Google too.
 
Lapeno77 said:
Funnily enough, the original script for Alien 3 by William Gibson was published by Dark Horse a couple of years back and it's not bad.

The PDF of the script is floating about on Google too.
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Yeah I read the Dark Horse adaptation of Gibson's original script a few years back. It sidelines Ripley (not by killing her off but having her return in a planned 4th film) and focuses on Hicks/Bishop. It hinted at a broader storyline and could have been epic.

I have never been more dissappointed in a sequel than the third film we were actually given - it was tired, dull, had no likeable characters and by negating the second film and wiping out every character who survived it - an insult.
 
Finally saw Zone of Interest and wow, it does not disappoint. What makes it great it what it doesn't show on screen, always there offscreen though.

Seen all the Best Picture noms - Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall and Oppenheimer all comfortably ahead of the rest of the pack for me
 


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