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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevelabny" data-source="post: 729401" data-attributes="member: 9298">yes, I'm actually saying I didn't like all three. and now i will talk about them, so if youre in a 20 year movie black hole like me, dont read.They all move sooooo slow. Alien took forever to get started and did NOT do a good job of setting the mood at all. I didnt listen to the whole director commentary, but the delete scene with the cocoons had its own commentary that i did listen too. which was the director saying that NOTHING happens in the first 45 minutes, and that test audiences were getting restless...but he thought the score was so good that it set the mood for the movie and so he left it the way it is. yikes. if the mood he was trying to set was boredom, or apathy i guess he suceeded. the only good bit was the robot bilbo. Tombstone's quotes aren't half as cool as people make them out to be. A friend of mine is in a fantasy sports league where all the teams are named after characters and quotes from this movie. Apparently their drug use as bad as Kurt Russel's wife in the movie. What was the point of her? I felt like I was reading a Grant Morrison or Alan Moore comic book. Let's invent peripheral characters with weak ties to the main plot who do massive quantities of "cool" drugs. At least in From Hell they had the decency to give the addiction to the main character so it didn't seem as annoying when they rammed it down our throats.As for Conan, it wasn't as bad as the D&D movie because at least it had some sort of coherent story,but could it have moved any slower? the first half of the movie coulda been done in 20 minutes. And they didnt even try to make any of the characters fun in any way. I was just supposed to oooh and aaaah at the fight-scenes which were even awful for 20 years ago.I have seen some older movies I like, I have definitely seen slow movies that I like (all the M Night movies, especially Unbreakable) so its not the i need all my movies at breakneck speed.  But these movies are boring while theyre being slow. Nothing funny, nothing emotional, nothing visually exciting. steve</blockquote>

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