Yeah I thoroughly enjoyed it, and at the same time it gave me nostalgia vibes reminiscent of the 80s / 90s movies like ninja turtles, big trouble in little china, Batman.
Despite being a reboot and based on the same SK story, the two movies are vastly different and one isn’t necessarily better than the other. They also both stray far from the original story, while still getting many of the themes right. It’s on a few lists of King’s “worst” stories, but I always felt he understood the direction this country was headed and he more or less nailed it with that book.
Piers Anthony lightly touched on similar themes with the Proton side of his Apprentice Adept series, and I’ve read that there is finally a TV series being made out of that one (which blows my mind given how unfilmable the books always seemed when I read them as a child), but King managed to predict not only American Gladiator, but the current state of the world for the past five years and counting.
I don’t know why it flopped. It was a fun movie with good action and scenario. Better than the old one IMHO.
Yeah I thoroughly enjoyed it, and at the same time it gave me nostalgia vibes reminiscent of the 80s / 90s movies like ninja turtles, big trouble in little china, Batman.
This town needs an enema!!
If you gave LA an enema you’d have nothing left but some letters on a hill.
Nah, those are shit, too.
Now you know. /s
How DARE you!
It had fun moments but some of the dialogues were written by AI… literally no human talks like that
(I am referring to the initial movie setup with him talking with this wife)
Genuinely curious: was “AI” much of a thing when the script was in process? 🤓
sorry I meant “AI” as a generic derogatory term
Ohh, sorry! Pretty baked after a long work week. Also, you’re not wrong. 😆
Carry on!
Despite being a reboot and based on the same SK story, the two movies are vastly different and one isn’t necessarily better than the other. They also both stray far from the original story, while still getting many of the themes right. It’s on a few lists of King’s “worst” stories, but I always felt he understood the direction this country was headed and he more or less nailed it with that book.
Piers Anthony lightly touched on similar themes with the Proton side of his Apprentice Adept series, and I’ve read that there is finally a TV series being made out of that one (which blows my mind given how unfilmable the books always seemed when I read them as a child), but King managed to predict not only American Gladiator, but the current state of the world for the past five years and counting.