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Old 07-26-2014, 10:33 PM   #14319 (permalink)
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Agree for the most part. Yet it all doesn't culminate into a great film for this viewer. It's never really riveting. It's well directed but very predictable. When the character are(considering the circumstances)fairly go lucky, even keeping hollywood machismo in mind, it's hard to ever feel the tension and uncertainty the premise of this movie would have you expect. Bud sacrifices himself so often by the end of the film your desensitized to it. I could list quite a few just obscene instances that take you out of the film as well.
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For example, on Bud's way to disarm the bomb he is already introduced to the aliens-or what have you's-light. No mention of it is made during the scene. So for this seemingly emotional gripping scene we are constantly aware that even if Bud dies the aliens are literally right around the corner. It's hard to to have much desire for Bud to succeed because you know the aliens are going to save him sooner or later
Not sure I really follow what you're getting at. He does a few heroic things in the movie—not unusual for the main character in a James Cameron film—and none of that desensitizes me to any later heroic acts.

As far as your spoiler comment goes...

Spoiler for spoiler:
Why would I assume they'd save him? You don't know if they're friend or foe until pretty much the end of the movie. The first time I saw it I certainly hoped they would, but that's most movies—you hope that things work out in the end but you don't really know where its going for sure.


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Fair enough. You can't assert they aren't aliens either. Still an alien species regardless of how you look at it.
Sure I can, based on the fact that they live on Earth.
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