HeyJaredIs It Cool or Just Nostalgia?
We all remember the most awesome things from our childhood as we grew up over the years. But are all those cool things still as great as you remember? Or does it all just seem that way due to the rose-colored lenses of nostalgia?
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036 - 12 Monkeys Hits Completely Different After 2020 (opens the original)
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Is 12 Monkeys (1995) still one of the smartest sci-fi movies ever made, or does it only feel that way because we all lived through the plot? Terry Gilliam had $29 million, a script by David and Janet Peoples built on Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetee, and Universal watching every dollar. What he handed back was a 129 minute studio thriller that behaves like a panic attack. Bruce Willis spends most of it soaked, shackled, and insisting he is not crazy. Nobody believes him. Neither do you, a
035 - Sunshine Is a Masterpiece for 80 Minutes. Then What? (opens the original)
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☀️ Is Sunshine (2007) still one of the best sci-fi movies of the century, or does it collapse the second Danny Boyle stops making a space drama? For roughly eighty minutes, Sunshine is close to perfect. Eight astronauts ride a stellar bomb the size of Manhattan into a dying sun, and Boyle sells every second of it. He made the cast live together for weeks, marched them through a nuclear submarine, and hired particle physicist Brian Cox to teach them solar science. Cox is the reason that bomb is M
034 - Predator: Action Classic or Macho 80s Time Capsule? (opens the original)
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Does Predator (1987) remain the ultimate sci-fi action hunt, or are we camouflaging an aging macho movie with pure nostalgia? John McTiernan's jungle classic sends Arnold Schwarzenegger and a squad stacked with Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, and Bill Duke into what looks like a routine rescue mission. Then the movie changes shape. The commandos become trophies, and Kevin Peter Hall's alien hunter turns 1980s muscle into survival horror. Nearly 40 years later, Stan Winston's creature design, Alan
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