I actually liked "Soldier"

[byron lomax]

Harry Knowles declared this the worst (or second-worst, my memory's a bit foggy) film of all time in one of his books. That was pretty ridiculous - this is no masterpiece but it's enjoyable.

 

[FPAlpha]

To be honest.. i've long since given up on taking AICN as serious when it comes to grading movies.. they are just so erratic (especially Harry) so him putting down a movie is nothing i really notice.

Soldier was ok.. a nice action movie with a good concept. I like the opening and establishing the background and the competition between the veteran and the untested genetically enhanced supersoldier (especially the scene after they had run and the Vet loses out but is still fit whole the supersoldier is exhausted to which the instructor replies that his veteran is fit to fight while golden boy isn't ).

I tune out when he gets dumped on the planet and watch again they show up for the end fight.

 

[cylkoth]

I don't have to buy it, because it seems to run like every 3 months on cable. ION (formerly know as Pax) had in on a couple of weeks ago.
It's a serviceable action yarn..but I just can't wrap my head around the concept of a junk plant... Why would you invest the resources of transport ships to travel across space to dump...garbage? Why not recycle-there was too much stuff (metals, etc) being dumped that should have been. Starships don't grow on trees. Why dump it on a planet with an atmosphere? Why not fling it towards the nearest star...incinerates as it approaches. Was Earth so wealthy that it could afford to be that decadent?

Yeah, sci fi fans think too darn much, don't we?

 

[Lookingglassman]

It was a pretty good movie. I liked it also.

 

[God Magnus]

David Peoples, who wrote the script for Blade Runner, also wrote the script for Soldier, and he considers them part of the same universe.

Apparently there are a ton of references to other scifi films. Here's a list: http://bladerunner.wikia.com/wiki/Soldier

This site has a small screenshot of the Spinner: http://media.bladezone.com/contents/film/tie-ins/soldier/

I enjoyed this movie, even before I knew of its BR connections. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it was lots of fun.

 

[the Dagman]

"I'm going to kill them all Sir."

Loved this film. It's not perfect, but it's fun. Never knew about the Blade Runner connection until reading this thread. That makes it even better.

 

[Samurai8472]

I am still hoping for a prequel showing the fight between Todd and Roy Batty at Tannhauser Gate.

And then the Replicant's rebeled. They later created a android in the form of Winona Ryder(Alien Resurection)

Annalee Call (Winona Ryder) is the newest member of the Betty crew, and has a secret mission to destroy Ripley before the Scientists can remove the queen embryo from her. Unbeknown to everyone, Call is actually a "second generation" android; a robot designed and built by other robots. Although no one else knew this, Ripley probably sensed it, saying "no human being is that humane." The humans who created the first generation androids panicked when they discovered that their creations had built new android designs of their own, and initiated a "recall", which was in truth a massacre which wiped out almost all of the second generation androids, although a handful of second generation androids, such as Call, managed to escape.

 

[Lt. Trull]

you left out the best part... now he gets to raise a son just like him....
He's already silent... I dont see russel not training the boy to be deadly also....
and he gets a woman thrown in.... I'm sure she'll teach him appropriately.

 

[Chaos Descending]

I enjoyed this flick too.

Frankly though, I think people are far too picky and critical about movies these days anyway. Stuff like this isn't trying to be Shakespeare, and shouldn't be looked down upon because it's not Shakespeare.

 

[Sephiroth]

it's not a bad movie, but I'm glad that I went to see Deep Rising in the theatres instead

 

[barnaclelapse]

I can actually think of a few movies that were saved by Russell's performance.

Death Proof, for example.

 

[the Dagman]

I can actually think of a few movies that were saved by Russell's performance.

Death Proof, for example.

Oh lord, I just saw Death Proof for the first time this last Saturday on Netflix' online streaming. There were so many chatty female conversations going on in that film that my friend and I were praying for them to get a visit from our pal Snake Plissken (we always call Kurt Russell "Snake" no matter what role he plays). They may have had real sexy bodies, but those ladies jaws just wouldn't stop flappin'! That movie needed more action and a whole lot of dialogue cut from it.

 

[barnaclelapse]

It was interesting to watch and compare Rodriguez's and Tarantino's ideas of what a grindhouse film is supposed to be. Tarantino basically did a Tarantino version of a grindhouse film. Rodriguez's was much closer to what that kind of movie entails, while at the same time putting something together that was very much a Robert Rodriguez movie.

I liked Zoe Bell. Otherwise, Kurt Rusell was the only thing about Death Proof that I particularly enjoyed.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

I liked the movie as well.

My speculation is that this *is* the Blade Runner universe, but before replicant production began in earnest.

Perhaps Todd and his cohorts were being replaced by Nexus-1 prototypes?

 

[KB24]

Me, too, V! I think it has plenty of internal and external conflict on several levels-man vs man, nature, and himself like all the classic sociological sf of old. There's plenty of action, suspense, and dystopian colony looks, too. Fine cast as well. I didn't realize people did knock Soldier.

 

[Deckerd]

Me, too, V! I think it has plenty of internal and external conflict on several levels-man vs man, nature, and himself like all the classic sociological sf of old. There's plenty of action, suspense, and dystopian colony looks, too. Fine cast as well. I didn't realize people did knock Soldier.

Well there's plenty to knock if you take it as anything more than a bit of fun. The baddie was a moustache twirling nincompoop. The excuse for shooting at defenceless civilians was ridiculous and the execution of said offensive could have been done better by a group of girlies on a paintballing weekend. None of this is as daft as the ending I already mentioned. Still it's great fun, no doubt.

 

[Grant]

I liked it too..

Sad, it did so poorly. Does every sci-fi movie have to be a huge franchise blockbuster?

 

[KB24]

Have you seen those old Flash Gordon serials with the ridiculous Merciless Ming? There's nothing wrong with a twitching villain if substance comes elsewhere.