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10 Sci-Fi Movies With the Absolute Worst CGI, Ranked

Jan 3, 2025 | collider.com | Trent Berchtold

CGI, or Computer-Generated Imagery, is one of the most commonly used tools in the modern movie industry. Ever since the mid-1990s, CGI has regularly been used throughout all kinds of movies across all kinds of budgets and genres in order to bring to life things that would be too impossible or too costly to bring to life through practical means, such as the liquid form of the vicious T-1000 in Terminator 2 Judgment Day.
The 10 Best International Movies of the Last 25 Years, Ranked

Dec 29, 2024 | collider.com | Trent Berchtold

For the average American moviegoer, the American film industry will be the only one that they ever experience. Due to the prevalence of the Hollywood industry both domestically and abroad, most of these films can easily fill up the entirety of a cinephile's time. However, there is a whole other world for one to experience. This other world is international cinema. With the advent of the internet and streaming, international films have exploded in popularity in recent years.
All 9 Ridley Scott Historical Epics, Ranked by Rewatchability

Nov 30, 2024 | collider.com | Trent Berchtold

Ridley Scott Ridley Scott has consistently proven himself to be a highly effective and innovative director. From the atmospheric outer space horror of Alien to the tense realism of The Last Duel, Scott's movies tend to be filled with a healthy mix of compelling characters and grandiose set pieces. However, Scott also clearly has a deep fondness for the historical epic. A revered genre with its roots dating back to the earliest days of cinema, the historical epic is defined by a large scale of...
The 10 Worst Blockbuster Movies of the 2000s, Ranked

Nov 24, 2024 | collider.com | Trent Berchtold

Hollywood loves to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at some of the projects that they believe will do well. These are called blockbusters. Blockbusters tend to be either entries in established tent pole franchises such as X-Men or Star Wars, or vehicles for popular celebrities of their time, such as Eddie Murphy or Dwayne Johnson.
10 Best Animated Adventure Movies, Ranked

Nov 15, 2024 | collider.com | Byron Howard |Rich Moore |Trent Berchtold

Animation is one of the most imaginative and fluid genres in the film industry, not bound by the confines of the physical world that binds every other genre, such as science fiction and romantic comedy. As a result, many in the animation industry choose to craft fantastical adventure films with extraordinary heroes and dreamy visuals, taking full advantage of the medium's unique properties.
The 10 Worst Slasher Movies From Major Franchises, Ranked

Nov 2, 2024 | collider.com | Trent Berchtold

From the 70s to the 2000s, the slasher film was one of the most prominent subgenres of the horror genre. From Halloween to I Know What You Did Last Summer, there is no shortage of popular slashers that ended up spawning a lucrative franchise. However, despite the widespread critical and audience acclaim from the franchise's first entry, many of the later entries in these franchises end up falling victim to the gradual decay of quality that so many franchises enevitably suffer from.
10 Critically Panned Sci-Fi Movies That Are Actually Great

Nov 1, 2024 | collider.com | Trent Berchtold

Critics and reviewers have been an integral part of the film industry since the beginning. Having a group of people that view each new release and gauge its quality is an invaluable tool for the average moviegoer, as it allows one to get a taste of what a movie is like before spending money on a ticket or committing the time needed to watch it. Beyond that, critical reviews contribute to the overall conversation and eventual preservation of the film medium as a whole.
The 10 Most Poorly Directed Action Movies of All Time, Ranked

Oct 27, 2024 | collider.com | Trent Berchtold

The role of the director is one of the most important roles in the filmmaking process. From low budget directorial debuts such as Peter Jackson's Bad Taste to blockbuster extravaganzas such as Eli Roth's Borderlands, the director's ability to craft a compelling story can make or break a movie. This is true in every genre, including the action genre.
10 Movie Remakes That Were An Insult to the Original

Oct 12, 2024 | collider.com | Trent Berchtold

Remakes have consistently been a large part of the film industry almost since the beginning. From masterpieces that are generally acknowledged to be better than the original, such as David Cronenberg's The Fly, to absolute disasters that make one wonder why anyone thought that a remake was even necessary in the first place, such as Jon Favreau's The Lion King, it appears that Hollywood will never run out of old ideas to revisit and reimagine.
10 Underrated Sci-Fi Movies With a Cult Following

Oct 4, 2024 | collider.com | Trent Berchtold

The science fiction genre has been prevalent for decades, if not a century. Once a film in this genre is released, it often either becomes a part of the cultural zeitgeist and becomes a huge franchise, such as Star Wars, or flops incredibly hard and falls into absolute obscurity, such as Yesterday’s Target. However, there are some that gain a cult following, such as Event Horizon.