Category: Sci-fi
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
4 outta 5 With the third Avatar movie, director James Cameron once again delivers a spectacular visual journey into the world of humans and Na’vi. The films have gotten a little less awe inspiring as they’ve gone on and the simplicity of the first film’s story makes it the best. There’s a lot more characters…
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022 review)
4 outta 5 After more than a decade, the sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time arrives with Avatar: The Way of Water. The length of time in between installments basically makes this a legacy sequel, focusing on the next generation. Director James Cameron (Terminator 2, Aliens, Titanic) is very much in love…
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Avatar (2009 review)
4 out of 5 After a more than a decade, James Cameron returns to fiction filmmaking with Avatar. There is the inevitable comparison to Aliens because it’s a Cameron film about marines vs. aliens, but that’s unfair because Aliens is one of the greatest goddamn movies of all time and Avatar . . . isn’t. …
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The Running Man
4 outta 5 The Running Man is the 2nd adaptation of a Stephen King novel about a dystopian game released in the last few months, the first being The Long Walk, and both novels were published under King’s Richard Bachman pseudonym. Running Man was famously adapted as an ‘80s action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger that…
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Predator: Badlands
4 outta 5 Predator films have been going through many installments, with the latest Predator: Badlands taking the series into the future and featuring some light crossover with the Alien franchise. It actually takes one of the meanest villains in sci-fi and makes him a likeable protagonist, which is probably helped by giving him a…
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Tron: Ares
4 outta 5 Every decade or two, Disney diligently tries to make Tron a thing. The 1982 original tried to capture the Star Wars audience, then 2010’s Tron: Legacy expanded the visuals and lore of Tron. Now there’s Tron: Ares which doesn’t really build off what happened in Legacy, but this is more about moving…
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Tron: Legacy (2010 review)
4 out of 5 Generally, movies that are considered failures don’t get sequels almost 30 years afterwards. Yet such is the legacy of Tron, which came out in 1982, gained a fanatical cult following, and now there’s the 200 million dollar Tron: Legacy. Like the original, it has stunning FX for its time. Probably also…
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The Long Walk
4 outta 5 The Long Walk is a gritty grind of a movie. Directed by Francis Lawrence, who specializes in dystopian grind having directed multiple Hunger Games movies and I Am Legend, this is one of his better entries in that genre due to extreme violence giving it bite. This isn’t exactly hopeful; it’s of…
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Predator: Killer of Killers
4 outta 5 Predator: Killer of Killers is an awesomely gnarly addition to the Predator franchise. As an animated film, it allows for extreme camera angles and action that wouldn’t necessarily work in live action but looks dang cool in animation. As an anthology film, each story skips across the centuries of Predators enacting carnage…
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Mickey 17
5 outta 5 Writer and director Bong Joon Ho, who won Best Director and Best Picture for Parasite, has a very diverse set of films. He is interested in themes like class struggle, environmental challenges, and settings like sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, action and monsters like his movies The Host, Snowpiercer and Okja. So as wild and…
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