Serenity vs. Chronicles of Riddick
POSTED BY: harshcritic
UPDATED: Friday, December 23, 2005 22:49
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Great Lost, or lost their way, sci-fi films / franchises.
Terminator. Proper violence as befits the job description. Later ones - Don't kill anybody / sickly sentimentality. Hmmph.
Buckaroo Banzai. But then the heavily mutated sequel, Big Trouble in Little China earns its own place in this list (or it would if it was science fiction).
Mad Max. Newer ones may be faster, but Toecutter's gang's eight-valve bikes were way harder. Sequels a bit camp and falling foul of cute urchin / sensitivity syndrome, and the genius who thought it was a great idea to put Tina Turner on that side of the camera. Future Fox executive material. On the plus side, Virginia Hey was cool even before she went blue.
Escape From New York. Classic case of should-have-done-it-then-left-it-well-alone.
The Matrix. Ditto, although that is a bit big-budget to be legitimately included.
The Last Starfighter. Mrs Furillo and her funny teeth.
Dunk-dunk-dunk-dunk. Dunk-dunk-dunk-dunk. Flash! Ah-Ahhhh... More of that could have been great, and it had that weird Italian look to it. You normally only see that sort of thing in shops that sell those big ornate beds with mind-boggling headboard design ideas, usually in white plastic. With built in lights, chrome and Palm trees.
Dune. Another big-budget interloper and sporting the Italian look. Everybody so busy panning it they miss the point that it's really quite good. Big stuff like that, you'd really only want to trust to Peter Jackson.
Robocop. Original was fab, the rest sort of ran out of steam. Then they do the insulting "stick any old actor in the sequel as the main character, no one'll care" thing.
Predator. The Predator 2, then ...v Alien. Going to hell in a handbasket seems an appropriate phrase. If they weren't dead, surely the next would have been ...meets Abbot and Costello.
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