Popcorn Digest

44. Last Action Hero

Gareth and Andy escape to the movies to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger have a mid-life crisis in the meta-action adventure romp, LAST ACTION HERO. But will this love letter to the action genre (from wire-tapping enthusiast and genre legend John McTiernan) survive it's explosive reputation? Armed with nothing more than bad impressions, we jump into the bullet-storm to find out!

43. The Thing (2011)

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton inspect each other's fillings in THE THING. No not that THING...Matthijs van Heijningen Jr's THE THING Prequel from 2011 (oh that one). But does this imitation deserve to be a bridge for John Carpenter's classic film, or should it be incinerated and left out in the cold. Gareth and Andy investigate (each other's fillings)...

42. AvP: Alien v Predator

One is a slimy monster, the other a ruthless killer and the two don't get on at all! But enough about the presidential election, it's time for the latest episode of Best Forgotten Movies! In a series that brought us cinematic greats from the likes of Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and John McTiernan, comes AVP: ALIEN V PREDATOR, straight from the creative mind that brought us Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil.

But does Paul WS Anderson's shlock monster-mash put up a worthy fight or is this a dud that should have been sacrificed for the hunt? Gareth and Andy don their gloves to find out...

41. Futureworld

Peter Fonda is Chuck Seventies-Man, a reporter who cottons on to the fact the company who manufacture serial killer theme-park robots might be up to no good. That's right, we're taking on the genre-bending sci-fi sequel to Michael Crichton's cult-classic, FUTUREWORLD! Will we survive our stay or is this roller-coaster ride in need of decommissioning. Gareth and Andy are booking in to find out!

40. Wild Wild West

Will Smith is hired by President Kevin Kline in unconvincing make up to join forces with US Marshall Kevin Kline in unconvincing make-up as we venture back to a time of cowboys, gunslingers and... giant mechanical spiders?! That's right, we're drawing our guns on Barry Sonnenfeld's big budget train-wreck WILD WILD WEST. But has more been made of this genre-bending western or can not even Kevin Kline's make-up kit disguise this tone-deaf bomb? Gareth and Andy investigate...

39. Terminator Salvation

Christian Bale doesn't keep his cool and Captain of Charisma Sam "I was in Avatar guys" Worthington is meant to be the main character (before rewrites) in McG String's TERMINATOR SALVATION. Yet another redundant attempt to relaunch the franchise, does this film of metallic fart noises have what it takes to rise above the wreckage of the ailing series? Gareth and Andy try and get beneath the skin to find out...

38. Kingdom of Heaven (Both Cuts)

Orlando Bloom is the carved wooden statue of Balian of Ibelin in Ridley Scott's KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.  But is this sprawling religious epic an under-appreciated masterpiece, a butchered and unengaging bore or perhaps even both? Gareth and Andy investigate...

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37. The Bourne Legacy

Pug-faced action star Jeremy Renner is not Matt Damon in Tony Gilroy's THE BOURNE LEGACY, a film that trades in spine tingling tension for 'action' and talking...lots of serious talking. But does this spin-off escape the shadow of its predecessors or does it lack the chemical enhancements to get it through to the end? Gareth and Andy try their hardest to remember this strange oddity in the Bourne series.

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