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Oh wow! I would have never imagined there would be a sequel to the Deathstalker series.

It's one of the top "sword and sandles" b-movies from the 80s and early 90s.

I am not sure how well a modern sequel will hold up (the originals never took themselves too seriously), but if I get a chance, I will even go watch this in the cinema in English.

I watched it for the first time a few months ago, without knowing much about it or how it was viewed.

I thought it was a decent experience. Not unbelievably good, somewhat better than OK.

That being said, I love isolated island settings, so maybe that tipped the scale a little bit for me.

It's been a while since I've listened to Squarepusher.

Cool stuff.

Lemmy is fine, but the tankie devs and fake-communists are extremely annoying.

Some of the Batman ones are OK. Watchmen and Antman were fine.

I still remember going to see Ironman 1 or 2 in the cinema what seems like 15+ years ago.

There was a scene where the oligarch is captured by the Taliban and he is held hostage in a cave. He then builds an ironman costume (from scrap?) in the cave and kicks the Taliban's ass. I was laughing at the stupidity of the scene.

It's at that moment I realized this stuff is not for me.

Leon clearly has controversial themes, but I don't see any explicit pedophilia. Yes, some scenes (I am refering to the international version) push boundaries somewhat, but Leon explicitly rejects her advances and is almost pressured by Mathilda to let her take part in the assassinations.

Never thought about The 5th Element as pedophilic in any way, but I guess I can see some vague movements in that direction.

I don't mind new takes on a series and even occasional inconsistencies and unbelievable moments. For example, I really enjoyed the Aliens: Phalanx novel even though it suffers from many of the same issues I noticed in the first three episodes of Alien: Earth (distracting YA themes, unbelievable plot devices, plot pacing), but it offered it's own experience. While reading the novel, I was curious about the world, I wanted to find out what happens next.

I just didn't feel anything while watching the first three episodes, it felt like some random scenes without much point other than to make a somewhat generic Alien themed streaming mass market action-scifi show.

I might check out E05 at a later date. But for now, the series is on hold for me.

I will note that I didn't watch Foundation (not interested in watching a random show with a Foundation setting, it's like reading a fanfic) and I immediately dropped The Man in the High Castle after 1-2 episodes once I realized they merely took the setting and completely ignored the main point of the book.

Is this remake or a story continuation (unrelated to the book)?

I gave up after the third episode. And it took a lot of effort to watch E02 and E03.

This is the first Alien production where I didn't really care what was going on.

I don't mind a novel take on a series, but this was merely a "mainstream adaption for a streaming service" production. I am good.

I thought it was pretty good. It was also a somewhat realistic depiction of F1 (as much as a mainstream racing movie can be realistic) and they integrated some well known moments from F1 history.

Isn't that true of most movies that Apatow directed?

Comedies produced by Apatow are IMO way better (for the most part).

This is a classic.

I first heard it in Layer Cake.