Indiana Jones Fans logging into Disney+ may be dismayed by most of the franchise's disappearance from the platform, but there is a simple explanation for their sudden absence. It was a major sliding doors moment for the Indiana Jones movie franchise where the originally cast Tom Selleck was forced to drop out due to his commitment to Magnum PI's Pilot, with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg then turned to Harrison Ford. The rest is cinematic history. The star would play the role five times on the big screen, while Ford also came on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles TV series…
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Paris has fallen is taking the action franchise in a new direction, and it's a perfect cameo role for Gerard Butler's banning. The has fallen Movies cast Butler as Mike Banning, a veteran Secret Service agent tasked with saving the day against any number of terrorist threats. The original entry Olympus has fallen compete against White House down In 2013, with the former emerging as the winner at the box office. The resulting franchise has proven a reliable one for Butler, with 2019's Angel has fallen Even attracting some of the series' best reviews. The next installment Paris has fallen…
Warning: Major spoilers for Terminator Zero below!Over a decade on Netflix Terminator Zero succeeded in a key area where Terminator Salvation Not otherwise. The Terminator The movie franchise has never topped the critical or commercial success of James Cameron's first two entries. There are several reasons for this, although perhaps a key issue is that Cameron's Day of judgment It was the perfect ending. It rounded off the story of Sarah and John Connor and gave hope that the creation and rise of Skynet was avoided. Of course, the sequel was too successful to simply let the franchise die. Terminator…
Warning: Major spoilers for Alien: Romulus below! Summary Ripley's cryosleep detour in Alien: Romulus adds an extra wrinkle to her survival between films. The movie includes well-hidden Easter eggs connecting to the expanded universe of the Alien franchise. Ripley's miraculous survival and the recovery of her pod sets up potential future storylines. Alien: Romulus has a well-hidden Easter egg with Sigourney Weaver's Ripley - and one that makes her cryosleep journey between the first and second films even more impressive. Nobody is interested in the original Alien Movie expected it to become a franchise. Director Ridley Scott even wanted to…
Warning: Major spoilers for Alien: Romulus below!During the final of Alien: RomulusA xenomorph ends up saving Cailee Spaeny's life, but his motives aren't exactly heroic. The Alien Movie franchise is not in great shape after the critical and commercial loading of Bond In 2017. It was the work of Fede Alvarez Romulus To wipe the slate clean and get audiences excited about the property again. on this front, Alien: Romulus' box office success and positive critical response (it now sits at 80% on Rotten tomatoes) suggests that the latest sequel does just that. The big question is where will the…
Alien: Romulus was a big hit for the sci-fi saga, but it remained a character set that needed to be revisited. Ridley Scott Alien is a genre landmark, but its two prequel movies proved very divisive. Prometheus was a mix of high-minded science fiction tale and silly B-movie, while Bond Tried to merge a Prometheus Follow up with an Alien Sequel with messy results. Despite their flaws, they were both ambitious outings that attempted to evolve the franchise. Alien: Romulus was a box-office smash and received largely positive reviews, but it was less an evolution of the property than a…
Alien: Romulus was a big hit for the sci-fi saga, but it remained a character set that needed to be revisited. Ridley Scott Alien is a genre landmark, but its two prequel movies proved very divisive. Prometheus was a mix of high-minded science fiction tale and silly B-movie, while Bond Tried to merge a Prometheus Follow up with an Alien Sequel with messy results. Despite their flaws, they were both ambitious outings that attempted to evolve the franchise. Alien: Romulus was a box-office smash and received largely positive reviews, but it was less an evolution of the property than a…
Bad Boys: Ride or Die is now streaming on Netflix after shattering a major Rotten Tomatoes record for the action franchise. The last one bad boys The movie reunites Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as Miami cops Mike and Marcus, who are forced to go on the run when they are framed by corrupt forces in their department. The series has come a long way since 1995, with the original film being a modest budget operation that made Smith a movie star and boosted the career of a certain director named Michael Bay. Almost 30 years later, Bad Boys: Ride…
Mike von Will Smith experienced several panic attacks during Bad Boys: Ride or DieBut what's causing them? Smith was a huge TV star throughout the early 1990s thanks to The fresh prince of Bel-airBut it was the first bad boys Movie that turned him into a megastar. Smith's turn as cocky Miami cop Mike Leary changed audience perceptions of him, and he followed up with more hits than Independence Day And Men in Black. It was Smith's terrific chemistry with co-star Martin Lawrence that really made it bad boys Series a success, though. Bad Boys: Ride or Die Broke a…
Bad Boys: Ride or Die Makes the death of Joe Pantoliano's Captain Howard a major part of the story, but completely reframes the motive behind it. Many were surprised to see Pantoliano among the cast of Bad Boys: Ride or DieConsidering Howard's fairly unambiguous death during the third film. Along with leading men Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, Pantoliano is the only actor to appear in every entry in the bad boys Movie franchise. Although Howard's death was a shocking moment in the third entry, it served a narrative purpose. Howard filled the role of the evil captain typical of…