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The other character (I forget his name..Charles?) was still around, unless we're to believe he has been taken over already? In fact if we are to go with what you say about the Thing going large and intimidating because Mac is the last one, then it helps to answer the question of Charles being the Thing or not and the answer would be that he isn't.
Seemed like its chances of winning that particular battle though would have been improved if it had taken the quiet route of imitation of a colleague, rather than the "here I am!" final boss move.
It's uncertain what the motives were or how long the T1000 had been John's foster mother for but considering it transformed into her and took over doing the cooking duties I guess it was keeping up appearances for the sake of the dad, so everything looked normal in case John came back out of the blue. Otherwise there would like you say, be no reason to play the housewife. Once John got in touch on the phone, the possibility of him coming back out of the blue was extinguished, so no more need for Todd. At least that's my take on it.
They really want to fast track another Jurassic World film from a franchise that looks like it's on its last legs and has been a critical failure ever since the first one? Good luck with this being good. You already know it's a bad sign when directors are being replaced.
I can only imagine that watching this for the first time, if you have been exposed to most modern horror movies, then it will not have aged so well. For the time it came up with a pretty fresh idea and I have to admit parts of it gave me a chilling feeling (the end mainly), but not the sort of film I'd care to watch again because all you are literally watching is just people filming themselves getting lost and scared in a forest.
I'm surprised it garnered an Oscar nomination. Her performance wasn't anything special and nor was the writing for her character. Murphy and RDJ were the only ones who warranted nominations from this film.
Just put it down to an anomaly. Sometimes little guys can put up better fights than big guys after all.
This is to be expected in a show like this, to keep the good guys around for long enough. If they made bad guys smart enough to use other methods when it called for it, the good guys would be dead quite early on.
I didn't expect the little weedy guy to give Reacher so many problems though. I suppose because he was one of the main bad guys they thought that justified him posing more threat to Reacher. Silly really, it would be like if the Robert Patrick character suddenly started getting a beating on Reacher while on the helicopter, just because he too is one of the main bad guys, when really he is old and would be no match. They depicted that situation aptly.
I think the real reason is he fights a lot more bad guys in this one compared to the first series, so felt it'd be appropriate for him to be as bulky as possible to make it look as believable as possible. Notice how all his other army male buddies aren't particular tall or big either just to re-emphasis the size of him. I agree though they need to tone it down and make him look more vulnerable.
I did wonder if his lady friend was going to be killed while watching the series until that point and it did cross my mind he might not be able to hold on. I guess that would have been too traumatising for him. If she'd died another way it might have served the finale better? But yes, him being able to deal with all that was a stretch even compared to everything else. Just like the small and skinny brother almost killing Reacher was in the first series.
He did look big in this one, almost grotesquely at times. In some scenes he is noticeably not the 6'5 they claim his character to be so perhaps they're just trying to compensate by giving him a bigger build.
In a third series perhaps they need to raise the stakes. Have a real strong villain, have Reacher get hurt badly, have one of his buddies die...something like that. I don't know if Childs has a book with that but at the moment he and his gang are a little too unstoppable.
Well yes, when you phrase it as 'role model' he wasn't exactly one, although he was adeptly getting the better of the Tillman lot. Not Dorothy of course, the slim little lady who managed to outdo all her male counterparts in the show.
I wouldn't have high hopes for an Alien TV series whoever was making it.
I had absolutely no problem with Hanks in the role, I thought he was fine. But if I had to replace him around that time (2002), I could see Russell Crowe working, possibly even Bruce Willis, based mainly on seeing him in The Sixth Sense.
They even had the only white male character in the show not depicted as being weak, stupid, particularly evil, or the subservient of a woman, Ole Munch, wear a dress, as if to detract from his masculinity.
I agree he was a completely lame character that served no purpose I can think of, other than to prop up the anti-male/pro-female angle this series was going for. Seriously, that female cop could have just as easily been single. It wouldn't have changed a great deal.
Yes that scene of the geologist and biologist getting into trouble may as well have been Laurel and Hardy. It was supposed to come across as tense and scary and instead backfires becoming laughable due to their stupidity. It's so far removed from the horror of Alien, which does everything subtly and realistically, that it makes it hard to believe it's the same director.
I agree. At least in Alien the recklessness felt more believable. Ripley pushed back on letting them on the ship with Kane in his condition and wasn't willing to break protocol until Ash overruled Ripley and did. We later learn why he did. She then questions Ash about it later too.
The behaviour and motivations of the characters in these later films feels much less believable to me. The writers just want to get to the death and gore so engineer stupider ways for the characters to act to arrive at it quickly, at the expense of a smarter script. This brings it closer to a Final Destination movie than the original Alien.
I think it's the best since the first 2. I haven't seen 4 and from all the feedback probably never will, and 3 didn't stand out too much for its story and characters. I do think 3 is a tier below the standards of 1 and 2 though. In 1 and 2 the villains were cooler and more memorable and because they were presented as these cold-hearted almost unstoppable forces of nature, it added to the tension in scenes they were in. Characters like that really can elevate a show. This season I guess tried in doing that but not to the same extent. Plus it did come off a bit woke with the pro-female angle.
I agree it did feel like a movie that was somehow less than the sum of its parts. It had some very good scenes and the idea was great but it was bogged down by the Duvall parts and the ending was unsatisfactory. Like others have said it felt like we were cheated out of what should have been a normal guy having reached his boiling point who then then takes out his (often justified) frustrations with the world, as depicted, rather than the guy being some psychopath all along. I felt similarly cheated by the film Nobody, hoping this was going to be another normal guy going about kicking ass, but instead it was a guy who we found out had a background for being some assassin.
Most of the characters are badly written, not just in this one but the previous. They come across as stupid, unnecessarily antagonistic, unprofessional and not the sort of people you'd expect to undertake exploration or colonising missions. Presumably they would have some level or training for when things don't go according to plan (or so they should) but characters are seen shitting the bed as soon as they see blood or dead bodies. You just can't take them seriously.
As far as examples of characters quickly moving on and getting on with life after deceased crew members, what about the woman and her partner who get all horny and have sex in the shower after the majority of their crew just got killed off by some dangerous alien life form? I mean it's ridiculous and the writing sucks. It's like something you'd get from a B grade slasher flick.
I remember seeing this film at the cinema. The hype around it was huge and part of the enjoyment seeing it on the big screen, aside from the visual effects, was the build up towards the first attack. It did a pretty good job in that regard. For the time it was a great cinematic experience, especially as these big CGI blockbuster films were still relatively fresh. Unfortunately it hasn't dated well and most of the great I recognised in it as a kid has been replaced by cringe and cheese. I'll always have those memories of when it first came out though.