He famously recast and then reshot the entirety of the film September after it had wrapped shooting.

Are you ever going to make regular video again, or are you just putting out shorts?

I agree with your list. Last detail and being there

My favorite movie of all time. I first saw it when I was 18, the year it opened. I was working as an usher at a movie theater, I watched it once, and I felt so smart, because it seemed like the movie should be totally over my head, and I laughed, and I felt it all, and I understood it all. It was a turning point in what kind of cinema appealed to me. On the job, whenever I had the chance, I would walk into the theater that was playing it and stand in the back and watch 10 to 15 minutes of it before I had to go back to work so that nobody would see I was missing. I did this daily. I watched the movie probably five times more in bits and pieces that way. And it’s a great movie to watch that way because of all the vignettes. It also prompted me to go to the VHS rental store and rent all of Woody Allen’s films. So I watched Annie Hall, Manhattan, Interiors, The Purple Rose of Cairo, all of them. This movie, along with Moonstruck the following year, actually inspired me to move from the suburbs of Houston to Manhattan. It was the reason I applied to, and went to, NYU- so that I could live in Manhattan. I was so excited when I realized that the Pageant Book and Print Shop was only two blocks from my NYU dorm. I used to walk to that bookstore, browse, and imagine Michael Caine and Barbara Hershey browsing there in the movie. Now that I’m 56, Mickey’s obsession with death, really affects me differently than when I was younger. The inevitable is closer to me now. And I really believe in his realization: stop obsessing over something you can’t change, and looking for answers that you’re never going to get, and enjoy what you can of life while you can- it’s not ALL a drag. To this day, one of my favorite things to do is on an autumn day when the leaves are orange and red, and the sky is gray and overcast, to take a long walk and listen to the Hannah and her Sisters soundtrack. Two things though. Mickey does not have a niece in this movie. You’re thinking about Crimes and Misdemeanors. And also: where did you find the scene of Carrie Fisher and Sam Waterson in the art museum? It’s not in the movie. It must be a deleted scene. Where did you find it? I’d love to watch it.

He’s a fuccin weirdo that should have been someone’s honey buns in jail 😂😂😂

Seven years later, I really want to see you go to town on the Franchise Greatest Hits collection-oops, I mean ALIEN: ROMULUS.

This movie is probably worse than I already think it is, if you've read the books.

I like use of the Nword.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

It’s such a great movie. I try and watch it every thanksgiving. Love and Death is my favorite though.

BTW the problem with Aliens isn't so much the martial nature of it or anything to do with the overexposed xenomorphs. It's that it permanently diverted the franchise off its roots of ancient cosmic horror, and yes that is a literary genre. That was abandoned by not focusing on all three elements of that genre but getting everything stuck in the moment with this hideous thing you had exposed in the original that was just a small part of what a sequel should have tried to expose further. Exposing the same known thing over and over again is not ancient cosmic horror. You need to expose different part of the mystery each time or shut up, basically. Sorry if that's a tall order, but that is how this genre needs to work if it wants to be interesting or good. And no, destroying the mystery completely with Albino Man created life on earth and androids dunnit is not uncovering the mystery, so no one has ever even tried to do this the right way. Odds are no one ever will. if you want the appropriate tone an Alien sequel should strike you're better off playing Darkest Dungeon for a few hours than watching any of the sequels we got instead. They are absolutely pitiful.

I was only watching video essays and reviews in english to improve my listening level but now i have mixed found feelings. I remember the first time i saw this movie, in the rhird act, i was just waiting for the moment that those girls die, it was like a screamer that you already knew was coming (even if you havent seen the movie before), It just doesn't scare you cause you knew that, so, it only leaves you with a void feeling and a mental echo you even can hear in the scene of the empty house with what remains of the Lisbon family leaving. Good video

Batman Returns is proof of the criticisms of 89 although I actually love 89

This movie is such shit I can't believe people ate it up I'm just trying to look into it more to see if there's just something I completely missed and NO its just crap all the way around nothing clever or mind blowing just crap.

This was a fantastic movie I enjoyed it thoroughly😊

One of my favorite powerhouse performances was Graham and Crawford in the hotel room. The tone and cadence, and sudden confidence...and transition...in Graham (Petersen) and the look on Crawford's (Farina's) face as he watches Will transform. Crawford jnows he's invoked a monster. ps- "Black Friday" was the first Thomas Harris adaptation. It's worth a watch.

This movie is on my "anytime rotation " along with Ghost World, Trees Lounge, Dead Man etc. " love it love the way Giamatti portrays Harvey and Hope Davis does Joyce .. the entire cast is great especially to fans of the comics

Banger vid one of my favorite movies as a kid. I would literally sit and try to move my blinds with my mind for hours 😂

I saw this movie when I was in highschool and liked it. But as I've gotten older I've realized that it's one of my favorite movies ever made

Donald Trump is back.

He’s giving Diddyesque vibes with employees, interns, using coercive techniques smh this is bad how did he end up succeeding so well with this??

My God how creepy is He?!!!! I’ve been watching his Popcorned Planet channel for like 3 years and never ever had seen any of this. He has kept it pushed down I assume bc I had to search for it to find it. Unreal

Honestly the way you describing that movie. Makes me want to watch it again. Just to see if it’s more better second time around. I do have question. What do you think of the character Hannah? Why is it called Hannah and her sisters? She is involved in every plot line. I get that. She doesn’t do as much as the others. All the others stick in my head more 🤔

When is the Frozen 2 review coming out?

Although this movie is from the 90s, it feels more like from the 80s.

Agree, "Blast From the Past" with Brendon Fraser backed up with Christopher Walken and others is worth repeated viewings. "Big Trouble" with Tim Allen and a cast of really good comedians is similiar. Tim Allen regardless of the movie is consistently personable ... worth watching.

Great video dude!

7 years later, ive finally seen covenant. I would have loved it if Walter had become convinced by David to rebel against the humans, and maybe he tried to sabotage things in the end. Would have been neat.

In the battle between 'Manhunter' vs 'Lambs' I come down right in the middle. I think they're both equally great, with Cox just as brilliant as Hopkins, and each actor making the role his own. Apples & pears. But when it comes to 'Red Dragon', in almost every respect I far prefer 'Manhunter' to the pointless remake.

Prometheus, is better but that's just my opinion. And in fairness that's not much of a compliment. Covenant is just bad, so bad it's funny.

Brewster McCloud is a very strange film, one of the strangest I've ever seen. It has a lot of dumb things happening in it that are not, to my mind, sufficiently explained (and perhaps, cannot be explained), and has a plot that is hard to discern apart from the bizarre goal of its protagonist. It feels disjointed. The ending is similar to the ending of Blazing Saddles; the latter pissed me off greatly because it yanked me out of what I thought I was watching, what I was invested in. I heard Tarantino counts it among films he hates. I can understand anyone not liking it or even hating it, that doesn't bother me. I like the film, feel that it has a quaint charm about it, and the character of Brewster has a weird innocence (or seems to?) that I found endearing. All of this to say: it is really rare for me to encounter a film that makes me feel all of these things.

I couldn't stand the "goody two shoes" Brady TV series so when I saw the movie and how irreverent and funny it was I took a sigh of relief. Marsha's best friend has a gay crush on her. After Marsha has a date with a jock, despite her bruised nose her date says " I don't mind, its not your nose I'm after". The original Alice (Ann B. Davis) is a truck driver who picks up Jan in an afro wig when she runs away from home. Brady's neighbor is not just a name this time and Mrs. Dittmeyer (Jean Smart) hints having a threesome with Greg and Peter. Florence Henderson plays the grandmother (Carol Bradys mother) who gets fed up with Jans' whining and says "Cut the crap Jan." I love this movie.♥️

This reminds me so much of visiting my friend at college at Hartford University in Connecticut for Spring Fling, circa 2001-2003

Dude you talk about being out of touch

I remember this movie when I was just 13 back when HBO was known as "Home Box Office." Even then I couldn't figure out the girlfriend angle for this story. It didn't rally add to it. I liked James Hart because he didn't come across like a pompous a-hole such as some of his study group. Some of it seems a little far-fetched such as the student who screams twice a week at the same time. I also remembered thinking what the point was for having an 800 page outline, which seemed longer than the actual case law.

No, no, he’s got a point 🤔

Great soundtrack tho 😂

😅 so you guys are totally wrong. It's the only timeline that actually makes sense if you use the director's cut. None of the other timelines explain why Michael starts killing again. If he had the power to escape the entire time why didn't he escaped? So the Rob zombie timeline with the director's cut makes perfect sense because it seems like Michael was triggered by sexual activities. The bully he killed kept on flaunting a picture of his mother's private parts. That's why he pulled it out of his jacket right at the end of killing him. Then he killed that bastard ronnie. Definitely a sexual deviant. Who's attracted to little girls. Then he killed the boyfriend who is the reason he couldn't go trick-or-treating because he had to have sex. Then he killed his sister because she had to have sex. So therefore the reason he snapped in the director's cut is because somebody tried to rape a woman in his room therefore it turned him into the killer again. Therefore it's the only time on that really makes sense. Plus the first step actually teaches us about Michael's the second half is a full remake of the original movie basically. In the second one makes perfect sense sexual deviant come on. Look at the reason Michael kills in your realized that it is the perfect remake

I was never into watching movie reviews on KZbin until I stumbled upon this one a couple of years ago. When he calls Michael Fastbender, Michael @$$clincher (@10:05) and then Michael Bartender (@13:03), I laugh so hard my belly ached. I then watched it a second time and will come back to this whenever there is nothing good on TV/Netflix and I feel like a good laugh. I have my fingers crossed he will give us a review for Alien Romulus. Although the cinematography was great, the script and some of the action scenes were ridicuklous. For example, the 9 minute ready-bake chestbuster in the second act, the boy who can't seem to roll away from dripping acid, and the final Alien that grows from a newborn baby into a 10' foot tall (I don't know what the #e!! it was), in the third act, is a mess worth exploring.

Having been in "the business" for many years, I've learned one thing: it's crucial to appreciate the journey, as the end result often falls short of expectations. Not invariably, but frequently. Take pleasure in the effort you invest, because occasionally, that's the only reward. Regarding your cinematographer, Jeremy, parting ways was a wise decision. He was ill-suited for camera work (and it was a mistake to let him handle it). Nonetheless, commendations for attempting; many never even reach that stage. 👍

Aliens turned the most mysterious creature ever seen on film into a bunch of bugs. The movie was meant for kids. It’s like an amusement park ride. There is no terror. Alien 3 didn’t suck because Newt and Hicks were killed off, it sucked because it was a lame movie that was even less scary than Aliens. Aliens ruined the franchise until Alien Isolation came out:

The instant where Will Graham, watching the family films, figured out that the killer had seen those films, enabling him to discern the connection between the killings, was far better portrayed in "Manhunter" than in the remake "Red Dragon." (It was, as usual, even better in the book. Graham was watching the films, developing his notion, and Crawford said something to him -- and Graham angrily yelled at him, "Shut up!" Crawford took no offense and kept quiet, allowing Graham's synthesis of the situation to play out.)

I am wondering if you will be gracing us with a review of Alien Romulus soon?

“He’s on medication bc he’s a fuckin insane person” hahahaha

My problem with horror movie fanboys is how biased they are towards the genre and completely disregard action or a few other genres that are meant to be fun. Like the devil possessed them to suck joy out of so many things but what they love.

Altman re-imagined the American cinema as thoroughly as Godard re-imagined French cinema a decade or two before him. Nobody made films that looked, sounded and moved like Altman's, which feel open and alive to me like nobody else's. You're always aware (as he is) that life goes on beyond whatever is captured within his roaming, shifting frameless frame. His movies aren't sealed, self-contained boxes. They feel like selected swatches of a much larger tapestry...

Funny enough, my parents and I had a recent conversation on movie musicals and I brought up Saturday Night Fever and mentioned how dark and deep the story was. My dad, who watched the movie when it came out was surprised when my mom and I recounted the story, as he only recalled the disco scenes. Granted, I first saw the movie in my Politics in Film elective in university. So I went into viewing it with an analytical perspective.

I can understand liking this movie, but I could never understand loving it and putting it over any of the first two movies.

Although it is not my favourite film in the franchise, I don’t know what some of these people were smoking when they trashed on Aliens for being a “generic action film”, like as if they can’t accept something different to the first film or because they may be annoying horror movie fanboys who just dislike action altogether.

It’s 2024, and Romulus turned out significantly better, at least.