The girl that plays Sara is a billionaire, and Wikipedia lists her occupation as heiress, so that's wild.
I loved this movie as a kid, and I always partnered it with The Secret Garden as sort of modern (at the time) live action fairy tales for kids in the 90s. It's not without its problems looking at it now. I still love it though.
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I saw this in the theater when it came out, and my friends and I were pretty into it. This was my first time watching it in probably twenty years. It really just didn't live up to my memories of it. I remember it being funnier and cooler. It's still a little funny, and I did get watery eyes for the father/son reunion, but I was mostly just along for the ride.
The first part, the future (2015), is WILD. Super weird. I was very happy when they left 2015, because I am not sure I would enjoy a whole movie of that.
Then it started layering with the original movie. It won me back over, locked me in, and I loved it.
I only wanted to see this because Elle Fanning is in it, and I thought maybe --- just MAYBE --- that could get me on board with the Predator franchise. AND IT DID.
This was probably my favorite action movie of the year. Sorry to Captain America 4, Thunderbolts, Mission Impossible 27, Jurassic Park 14, Fantastic Four, and Superman.
It’s been a graboids age since I watched this. Really fun monster film done when there was a definite lack of such a thing. Despite it doing poorly at the box office, there is not doubt that it started a rash of monster flicks through the 90s.
Sexy at times and just weird at others. Typical of the time and country. (As is the ending. LOL)
I'm not sure how I feel yet other than that I truly believe all of this shakes out differently if they get a cat like Grace suggests in the opening scene.
One or two really good Jackie Chan fight scenes, but otherwise just OK. Not the best.
James McAvoy is so good. Ben is THE WORST. Hoppy is ALSO THE WORST.
The story makes ZERO sense, but I remember having a great time watching it in the theater and I still have fun watching it now. It looks amazing, and maybe that’s all it really has going for it. Well, that and a slapping reimagined theme song at the end!
We don't question Mandella claiming to be involved with William Shakespeare as much as we should.
I think I could get really into this as a book, or it could be a perfectly adequate singular episode of tv. Two hours was the exact amount of time for every obstacle to feel resolved in the following scene with relative ease, other than how darn sleepy Al Pacino was. It held my attention, and I liked the bones of the story. Not enough Jonathan Jackson though.
