If you dig Bond, you might as well see it, but I found it inessential. Man From Uncle >

If it hinges on that contrast as its big idea, it's not enough for me. So I still stand by that it's obsolete due to the tired trend of going bigger for sequels continuing thereafter. He tries it again for T2, but at that point, I think Cameron became a better director of action cinema and a real SFX-phile to make up for any shortcomings of repeating himself. It also doesn't hurt when you have good guy Arnie there to charm the entire planet. Aliens is fine as a popcorn watch, but I don't see anything more after that.

I fucking love Aliens, it's not as good as Alien, but I agree with Peege, it's one of the best sci fi action films ever made.

But Sigourney Weaver is literally the sexiest woman of all-time in that movie.

So I watched a lot of movies for Halloween, a lot of them I only watched pieces of but here's the ones I actually watched all the way through.

The Dead Zone

One of the least gruesome Cronenberg movies I've seen with only one particularly gory moment, but it manages to be one disturbing movie regardless, and definitely one of the best King adaptations, Walken is great, his mannerisms may come off as unintentionally funny to some people but at the same time the way he delivers certain lines is really chilling, I also love how much Martin Sheen hams it up in his role, it's funny to see a guy who would later portray such an idealized president play such a horrifying lunatic president here. Some would complain that the plot is unfocused but I love the way how it feels like an anthology of different stories, I think it's the best way to approach adapting a book that had way too much stuff going on to wrap together into one foward moving plot and I wish more movies nowadays were like that, that kind of Altman approach you don't see much of anymore. The Michael Kamen score is also pretty memorable.

Shaun of The Dead

I missed a little bit of the beginning but I stayed up all night watching this even though I was tired as fuck, but I'm glad I did, anything that's so overwelmingly popular on the internet is something I'm more than ready to shit on but overall I thought it was great, all the jokes hit, the cast is great and holy shit it's nice to see a comedy director with an actual style to his direction for a change. Also cornetto ice cream looks fucking delicious, think you can send me some Iain?

Batman Returns

So yeah it doesn't hold together as well as the first Batman, which I now consider the best Batman movie unequivocally, but dammit I still enjoy the shit out of this one, yeah structurally it is a bit of a mess, but I love so many of the individual aspects of it and honestly I love how batshit crazy it all is, circus freaks, giant rubber duckies, penguins with rockets strapped to their backs, Burton really indulged himself here and I wouldn't have it any other way, fans who complain about it being too campy can get fucked, none of that stuff is any more ridiculous than the premise of Batman himself and if anything it's a lot more fitting for Batman than fucking war on terror and occupy wall street parallels, the film's biggest flaw is that it is a little too busy because you have 3 villians to keep up with, and the 2 main ones don't really have anything to do with each other at all and their plot to sabotage Batman does feel pretty contrived, it actually feels like the writers really wanted to make 2 Batman movies but were forced to make one, but dammit the villians are so fucking fun in this movie I don't even care, Devito and Walken are great, but it's Pfeiffer who really owns the movie and I only wish she had more scenes because GODDAMN, every scene with her is just fucking perfect.

Meanwhile people also complain about Wayne being pushed aside even more than he was in the first movie which I honestly don't mind because Bruce Wayne is always the least interesting thing part of the Batman movies, and if anything I think the fact he isn't the center of attention in Burton's Batman movies is one of their greatest strengths, lets be fucking honest, the more you try to delve into the psyche of Wayne the less interesting he gets, he's made much more interesting when there is a mystery to him, which I think is one of the brilliant things about the Burton Batmans that people don't get. People criticize Burton for not being that great at tying a whole coherent narrative together and that's one thing I do agree is one of his flaws, but he's so fucking good at filming individual scenes, the scene where Selina Kyle "becomes" Catwoman is the kind of bizarre sequence that only Burton could do, and personally I'd rather have something with really memorable components held together by duct tape than perfectly executed mediocrity that I will easily forget. Burton may struggle as a storyteller but dammit I miss when superhero movies were handed over to directors who could actually frame a fucking shot, as opposed to someone like Nolan whose films have the shittiest OCD editing not to come from a Baz Luhrmann movie. I know I'm coming off as a Burton fangirl here, I won't deny that he has made some pretty lousy movies, he should stop doing remakes because those always end up failing, but Batman Returns is one Burton movie I think gets way too much of a bum rap, warts and all it's a movie I really enjoy watching, which I can never say about the Nolan Batmans.

Halloween

I think John Carpenter has earned himself a place among my favorite directors, even if his best film (The Thing) is the one with the best production values, the fact his low budget outings can put so many big budget films to shame says a lot about his talent and how much good direction can really make a movie work no matter how cheap, simplistic and trashy it is. One thing I really admire about older horror movies is how much they achieve what they do without relying on blood and gore like modern horror movies do, granted many of my favorite horror movies are pretty gory, but good suspense and atmosphere are important components of them as well. Nowadays every horror movie has to have insanely over the top gore, even ones that are supposed to be about ordinary serial killers, people can become desensitized pretty easily to how unspectacular real life violence is, and the mundanity of the violence in this movie serves to make it that much more disturbing, because Myers's kills are so much more realistic than what you usually see in horror movies, not so much his slow movement and invincibility though, obviously. Oh and no matter how minimalistic and repetitive the score is, it's so amazingly effective, Carpenter is one of the most underrated film composers of all time.

Halloween III: The Season Of The Witch

No comment, other than WHAT THE FUCK?

Poltergeist

This is a horror movie that could have only been made in the 80s and could have only come from Spielberg, the look, tone and feel of this movie really isn't that different from E.T. which makes it a pretty unique kind of horror movie, it's a horror movie with Spielberg's trademark sense of childlike awe, which is brilliantly punctuated by Jerry Goldsmith's surprisingly warm score, the first time I saw this movie I felt a little underwelmed because I didn't think it was that scary but I was so used to expecting jump scares and kill counts in my horror movies back then and I don't think I looked at it from the right frame of mind, most of us were scared of ghosts when we were kids and this movie taps right into those memories and the fears we felt back then, most beautifully realized in that fucking clown scene. I now appreciate this film much more than I did the first time I saw it, I find it a lot more scary now because the childlike feel of the film puts me in that frame of mind, and I remember those nights where I'd scan my room for monsters before going to bed. I wish more horror movies tapped into those memories.

EDIT: Ratings are for chumps.

These are the boo boo posts we need

Yes great posts! Damn, it was Halloween and I didn't even watch Halloween (never seen it).

Unbreakable
8.3/10

The Village
8.3/10

Regarding some posts on the previous page about Aliens: it's not that good and Alien 3 is the only sequel that is also a great movie in its own right. The bluray of the Assembly Cut or whatever proved this to me. Fucked up that Fincher wanted CGI for this - a little too early in the game if you ask me - but other than that I think Alien Cubed is fucking awesome.

The problem with Alien³ is the story. Hicks and Newt survive Aliens only to die in the first five minutes of the sequel? And then they even kill off Ripley, one of the greatest heroines in the history of film.

So..... 6/10?

Your tastes need more bleak existentialism if you dislike a film for killing of popular characters.

Wait I forgot a 6/10 means it's really bad, so not that good is like a 9/10 right?

Mask of the Phantasm. I refuse to accept any other answer.