My friend says the Alien franchise ends after this movie, although he really liked the most
recent one so he might be revising that opinion. If the first movie was a slow
burn horror, this next movie is a horror action film. Once again Ripley must
battle the scary aliens that are trying to kill her crew when the crazy company
goes back to their territory. Such a great action horror scifi!
The second of the Monsterverse movies, Kong Skull Island
introduces Kong to the franchise. A period piece taking place in 1973, Kong
takes place shortly after the Vietnam War. A group of scientists approach a US
Army unit to approach Skull Island. When they start dropping bombs to map the
island’s interior, they anger Kong enough to retaliate. It is, I think, my
favorite Kong movie ever.
The original science fiction story written in 1818.
According to lore, Shelley was at a house party with her husband and Lord
Byron. Byron challenged everyone there to write a ghost story and Shelley came
up with this text. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein who creates a
monster that he then abandons to the world. As you can imagine this doesn’t end
well. I don’t really want to say more just in case you’ve never read the story,
but I think we all know what happens.
The original Alien movie first introduces us to Ripley and
the other members of the Company. The characters land on a planet to discover a
vicious alien species. What follows is a fight for survival on the Nostromo.
The movie is a great one and a classic case of science fiction horror.
When Anakin and Obi Wan catch a plague on a distant planet,
Anakin has to decide which one to save. Of course we all know who he’s going to
save, but it is one more nail in his coffin so to speak. Yesac is one of my
favorite Star Wars writers and this is a great indicator of their skill.
Way back in 1967, audiences were introduced to Khan Noonien
Singh in the episode “Space Seed.” This movie serves as a sequel to this
episode and is considered to be one of the best Star Trek movies of all time.
It certainly gives us all the makings of a good movie. A villain that is
actually sympathetic to some extent. A very emotional death scene of a favorite
character. Basically shortly after the events of Space Seed the planet where
Khan and his people were marooned got destroyed when a nearby planet blew up.
Khan wants revenge on Kirk for leaving them there to die.
Twelve years prior to the beginning of the book “Calamity”
appeared in the sky above earth and gave certain people superpowers.
Unfortunately, the people who gain superpowers, the Epics, become sort of evil.
A group of average people called The Recknoers set out to destroy the Epics
once and for all. The main protagonist of the first three and a half books is
David who is on a personal vendetta to kill the Epic Steelheart after
Steelheart killed his father. I really enjoyed this book and I realized what
kind of dystopia books I actually like. I call them superhero dystopia.
