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"Both are broadly classifiable as science fiction, but Alien is basically a horror flick and Aliens has all the conventions of a war film. That’s a pretty slick transition from one type of movie to another, especially since the switch was so immediate within the series. Most movie franchises don’t play with genre in such a way until they’ve gone through a number of sequels, and even then the series usually just simply takes its characters into outer space, a la Moonraker, Jason X and Leprechaun 4. Genre jumping isn’t that easy, though, unless a franchise inhabits a whole universe in which to expand through. Like Star Wars, for example. Originally a film series, the Star Wars franchise spread out into novels, which has allowed "
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"It hasn’t been terribly uncommon since the late ’60s for musicians to get behind the camera, whether for a straight concert film, a tour documentary or some kind of silly narrative focused on themselves and their bands. Jerry Garcia co-directed The Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa co-directed 200 Motels, The Beatles collectively co-directed The Magical Mystery Tour and separately John, Paul and Ringo has each taken the helm on a film project, some more artsy (John and Yoko’s cinematic collaborations, like Up Your Legs Forever) or less self-focused (Ringo’s Marc Bolan doc, Born to Boogie) than others. Now it’s a little more common for musicians to become directors of fictional films that aren’t so reflexive. Many don’t even have anything to do with music at all. And many are so awful that it’s safe to say the filmmaker should stick to mus "
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"Though I had never seen the "original" OCEAN'S ELEVEN, I was well aware of it. Word on the street was that it was a bit of a lark and had the feeling of being a film that was made for fun by a bunch of big movie stars who wanted to hang out in Vegas. Watching it a couple weeks ago on Reel 13, I had no idea that it would be as sloppy or unsophisticated as it turned out to be.I knew I was in trouble from the very beginning with the obnoxiously slow and annoying title sequence. Animated title sequences, particularly for comedies, were in vogue in the sixties, so that wasn't the issue as much as it was that there was nothing interesting or imaginative about the sequence. Counting up to 11 took forever and the music chosen wasn't engaging enough to make it worthwhile.After that, the film is all over the place. It seems to me there were more inside jokes than there were actual jokes, which is pretty infuriating. The result is several scenes seem to ramble (Why do Sammy Davis Jr., Frank S ... "
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"Ocean’s Eleven (1960) is not a very good movie, but it sure is interesting as a glimpse of “Rat Pack” life in the late 1950s. As Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis, Jr. hung out at Las Vegas hotels, Frank said they should make a movie, a real movie, together. Peter came up with the book Ocean’s Eleven. Then it became sort of a Hollywood-gets-together-and-pl ays-Hollywood movie. This movie is also of interest to movie buffs because it is the original of the recent remake Ocean’s Eleven and the follow up, Ocean’s Twelve (and then . . . ). Although some folks like the Rat Pack dialogue, it is not usually very witty except for some of the race jokes regarding Sammy Davis Jr., jokes we could not make today. Many people object to the movie because it is sexist. But I think there are better reasons to find the movie lacking. Eleven guys, not to mention their women, is simply too much to keep track of, and no character gets devel ... "
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