Madmind

Let me get one thing straight from the beginning:

I love Aliens.

I think it is one of the best Sci-Fi Action movies ever made and one of the best movies of James Cameron before he started getting bad with scripts but even better with effects.

Aliens has great pacing, great suspense and hell a lot of great action. The sound effects for those awesome machine guns alone is fantastic. And on top it all Aliens is on par with Alien although they couldn’t be more different in terms of their respective feeling.

The Director’s Cut of Aliens is whole different story here.

After dwelling a little bit for too long in the mainstream world recently with my reviews of Clash of the Titans (kinda hate it) and Kick-Ass (love to death) I think it’s now time again for some much needed deep dive into the obscure.

Do you know Mirai Nikki? You see, that is some deep dive here Mirai Nikki not only is a manga but also Japanese and translates to something like Future Diary.

The title itself sounds interesting at first but then again as thrilling as Matrix 4 after all characters rusted to Neverland and Mr. Smith starts to argue with himself. Too often I got lied to by good titles accompanied by crap. I nevertheless gave the manga by Sakae Esuno a chance. Simply to check whether the full story can hold up to its title and the plot premise I read.

Well, what can I say: WOW. Holy sh*t and f**king wow. This thing for sure melted my brain in good ways.

When you’re doing a live-action take of a well known franchise you fight against the hardcore fans as if they’re a bunch of Apple fanbois.

When you’re doing a movie not stemming from a well-known franchise while trying to do something new, you fight against reviewers from newspapers and magazines as if they’re the only ones out there who know what you can and cannot do in a movie.

„And I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation”

Go watch Kick Ass! This movie kicks some serious ass. And sorry for the bad pun we all read thousand times already. (And be warned from heavy spoilers (see red flag besides the title if you’re reading this on my site)).

I knew it: They knew it and worked on it for decades. My spider paranoia sense was always tingling and it turns out my crazy paranoia was spot on all the time…