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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1600883" data-attributes="member: 812">No, you don't. You just need to acknowledge the existence of Alien: Resurrection. Come on. A film that features frickin' WINONA RYDER as an action hero ISN'T high camp? Remember that idiotic shot craning up from her boots, along her skinny legs and up to her full imposing height of four and a half feet or whatever, to where she tries to stare resolutely into the camera as though intimidating something? Tell me you can appreciate that moment in anything other than pure campiness. It's Winona Ryder with a machine gun, for crying out loud. It makes The Rocky Horror Picture Show look straight-faced.And frankly, I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that ANY Schwarzenegger movie, with its male homoeroticism so patently on its sleeve, with its thunderously telegraphed one-liners, with its cheerful empty-headed violence, isn't campy. Predator is just one more goofy action movie by a goofy Austrian weight-lifter who can't act. To complain that its successor isn't "serious science fiction" is, well, not a complaint I can find much to agree with. I mean, point out the "science" in Predator. I must have missed it.I'm not arguing that this is going to be a good movie. Paul Anderson has a track record of ZERO PERCENT with me. I have hated every movie he's made so far, and I suspect I'll hate this one. He doesn't understand tension, cinematic geography or how to get good performances out of his actors. All those concerns about this picture are perfectly valid.But to say it doesn't respect the serious standards of its forebears implies its forebears had serious standards. And out of the six films that precede this one, only two can have much claim to being "serious". So it seems a little late to complain about the lack of seriousness.Frankly, there's enough reasons to be skeptical of this film without dragging in the music or the lack of respect shown to its predecessors.</blockquote>

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