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Brandon Patterson

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I go back and forth on Alien/s and Terminator/2


It's because, despite being in the same franchise, the sequels are so different from the original. For me, it's almost like comparing short fiction to a novel, where the apple/oranges aspect prevents me from saying one is "better," but my advance preference for one form or the other will dictate which one I happen to like more at a given time. Alien and Terminator are just perfect examples of what they want to be...concise, propulsive, and in perfect control of the tension they want to create. Every time I rewatch them, I'm amazed they were released 20/30/40 years ago. Cameron's sequels are bigger in every aspect--concept, setting, characters, themes, effects shots, run time--and despite all the elements, they work beautifully as films Hardly anyone out there can handle scripts like these the way he does without them becoming turgid messes or devolving into bad fan-fiction, e.g., Predators, SW: Rise of Skywalker, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, if I think of a few recent examples.

(In response to this post by HokieNoVA)

Posted: 07/02/2021 at 4:13PM



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