IGN:
In ten years, which of 2012’s films will you be defending? Some might argue for Prometheus, claiming Ridley Scott's epic ambition overrules his lapses in logic. Others will sing the merits of The Dark Knight Rises, in the face of those calling it the blight on a near-perfect trilogy. Some might say that 48 frames per second was the best thing to happen to modern cinema - but then, in 2022, maybe it will be, so best not to speculate.
Here’s a set of movies that are generally considered failures in one way or another. Some of them famously suffered from production problems, some were over-hyped, some flopped at the box office, some did OK with the critics yet were maligned by fans. All have been unfairly judged.
Still, I'll take 'Alien 3' any day over the putrid POS 'Alien Resurrection'.. now there's a movie that did kill off the 'Alien' franchise.
It's still flawed & the maze sequence at the end is jarring, but the overall sense of grim reality & the lose of hope is in brilliant contrast to the clean-cut & upbeat ending of Aliens. Fincher had a pair of balls & didn't conform to a bunch of Cameron-esque cliches.
Alien 3 deserves to be rewatched, but leave your pre-conceived prejudices, (such as thinking that Newt should impervious to harm just because she's a kid or that Ripley should have spent the entire film in a mech-suit massacring swarms of Xenomorphs), at the door before viewing.
Quantum of Solace is still one of the best James bond movies ever done. 23 bond movies. Well, at least better than 19 james bond movies.
I think Alien 3 is good movie. I mean, Alien kills them, and they have no weapons. Ending was perfect, he died, but Alien 4 ruined it :(
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull I REALLY wanted to like it, but i just cant. Too much CGI, and too much boring talking.
I still think Returns was awful . The hero wasnt truly his heroic self at all , pretty much albeit mostly indirectly wrecking a couple.
And he wasnt doing much worth a movie till his sacrifice toward the end . I never asked for some silly micheal explosion hoopalooza , but the meat of the story was weak , and the actio mostly absent .
Supes's biggest opponent of the movie was pretty much some kriptonite land .
At last for a movie hiding so much behind the "tale of a romance" excuse , it lacked chemistry between every party involved . None between routh's clark/superman and Kate Bosworth's Lois . And too much missing from Lois and Richard... even if obviously he wasnt the love of her life .
I dont even know or think the blame lies on Brandon Routh , he was most likely instructed to channel some Christopher Reeves , and tried he did , with some degree of success . He was just very badly used but still playing Reeves playing Superman.
I'll add a movie to the list that peopled hated, but was not really that bad. The Godzilla movie with Matthew Broderic. That one got flack for reasons I don't understand. I say it in the theater when it came out, and have been a fan of it since.
Waterworld wasn't great, but I did like it. Superman Returns is another I liked. No it wasn't as fantastical and thrilling as it could have been (it really was a love story), but I enjoyed it well enough. I thought Routh was a great Kent/Superman. I also thought Quantum was a fun movie. While AI really was an ambitious venture and Haley Joel did do a really good job in it I thought.
The two I definitely disagree with here is: The Hulk. Yeah, it had it's moments, but it was fairly bad overall. And The Village. Crap. Yes, there was some good cinematography and some decent acting as well as suspense. But M. Night quickly ruined that and completely blew it all to hell with that highly convoluted third act. The ending completely destroyed anything that had come before that, whatever good traits were present were instantly made null and void by a lazy and convoluted script.
Alien 3 is a fantastic film, it just doesn't stand up to it's predecessors.
the problem is, when you wait nearly 20years, your expectation rise to an unreasonable level. imagine you had a hot girlfriend 20 years ago and you haven,t seen her during that time and suddenly, after all that time she calls you and wanna meet. I guess your expectations would be pretty much crushed, once you lay down your eyes on her and realize she s not the same girl you Thought about for the past 2 decade.