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Post by Neverending on Jul 27, 2015 18:20:25 GMT -5
they were trying to make something with that piece of shit. Kellan Lutz? He wasn't the trainwreck I was expecting. |
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Post by RedVader on Jul 27, 2015 18:59:08 GMT -5
The Rock Hercules wasnt bad for a Ratner film. But I expected more and could have been longer. It was an appropriate length. I'm not sure what one I've seen, but I'm pretty sure it's not the dubbed version which I found more hilarious. Loved the Arnold Hercules BTW but back too Ratners Hercules problems. Might have been better if they focused on Hercules Laybors and maybe even show his wife and children being killed or opened with it happening. I think there could have been time to deal with these bad guys but have him forcused more on his deeds instead of flash back stories. John Hurt should have always been a villain cause nobody believed he was a good guy. I liked the Rock as Hercules he and the cast was just given a bad script and movie and yet somehow i liked the movie enough its just could have been awesomely better. |
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Post by Neverending on Jul 28, 2015 19:15:34 GMT -5
WILD BILL (1995) Wild Bill is one of the biggest legends of the old west. He should have been at the center of a great western. Instead, Jeff Bridges plays an off-beat version of him in a film as bad as Wild Bill's acting career. Directed by Walter Hill, of The Warriors and 48 Hrs. fame, Will Bill isn't a movie interested in a cohesive story with a clear beginning, middle and end. It's a series of anecdotes edited together and combined with the story of Wild Bill's death at the infamous Deadwood. You're better off watching a documentary about Wild Bill than this waste of time and talent. D says Doomsday
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Post by Neverending on Jul 29, 2015 14:45:39 GMT -5
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II (1980) Smokey and the Bandit is very amusing but also very mediocre. It's just a 90 minute car chase with little to no plot. The sequel, on the other hand, does attempt to tell a story with character development. That's why it's puzzling that most people consider it inferior to its predecessor. The appeal of the first Smokey and the Bandit is very understandable. The heroes are charming and the villains are entertaining. The second Smokey and the Bandit isn't that simple. The Bandit, played once again by Burt Reynolds, has to overcome a lot of personal struggles and doesn't always come across as very likable. Audiences obviously didn't want a Bandit with problems, and that's fine, but to dismiss the humanization of the career is wrong. Preference doesn't make the alternative invalid. The other issue is that Smokey and the Band II choosing storytelling over chases meant it doesn't have the adrenaline and humor of the original. That's a more valid criticism, but again, you'd be arguing that action and comedy are better than no action and comedy. That's a slippery slope. It's best to just agree that both movies have their pro's and con's and that they're equals instead of rivals. C says @dukeleto
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 16:32:35 GMT -5
Never bothered to watch it. Not a fan of Burt Reynolds.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 17, 2015 17:07:36 GMT -5
Doomsday SnoBorderZero @dukeleto PCU (1994) Isn't it sad when a mediocre movie becomes relevant and... good... because society has turned into shit? PCU is one of those movies that always airs on television in odd hours and people only watch it because it features a balding Jeremy Piven, an SNL era David Spade, a post-Rudy Jon Favreau, Jake Busey as a drug user and Jessica Walter of Arrested Development and Archer fame. Today, however, it means more than that because it's about a politically correct university. The heroes of the story are a group of outsiders who just wanna party, drink alcohol and have sex. It's an interesting premise, but the characters are generic and that ruins the satire. That's why it was under the radar for 20 years. But since we're now living in a society of intense political correctness, PCU is suddenly relevant and mildly amusing. This is the sign of the apocalypse. C-By the way, PCU was made in the University of Toronto. IanTheCool . PG Cooper . Thoughts? Comments?
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Aug 17, 2015 17:13:07 GMT -5
Never heard of it.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 17, 2015 17:26:50 GMT -5
The trailer is better than the actual movie. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2015 18:47:42 GMT -5
I haven't watched it since it hit VHS but I remember enjoying it. Probably won't ever watch it again though.
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Post by Wyldstaar on Aug 17, 2015 19:36:32 GMT -5
The trailer is better than the actual movie. The trailer doesn't have George Clinton, though. It's the best part of this generic college/teen movie. Was there any problem in one of these movies from the 90's that a party to raise money couldn't solve? |
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Post by IanTheCool on Aug 17, 2015 23:10:44 GMT -5
I don;'t live anywhere near Toronto, fyi. I've only ever been to the airport.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 17, 2015 23:19:04 GMT -5
I don't live anywhere near Toronto.  |
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Post by PG Cooper on Aug 18, 2015 6:18:48 GMT -5
I live in Ontario, but not Toronto. I've visited before though and it's a pretty nice city.
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Post by Deexan on Aug 18, 2015 12:30:43 GMT -5
Has Piven ever not looked mid-40s?
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Post by Neverending on Aug 18, 2015 14:28:11 GMT -5
Has Piven ever not looked mid-40s? You should go back and watch the Corey Haim movie, Lucas. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2015 16:27:17 GMT -5
Has Piven ever not looked mid-40s? You should go back and watch the Corey Haim movie, Lucas. Yea he looked 38 in that one. |
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Post by Neverending on Aug 18, 2015 16:43:56 GMT -5
You should go back and watch the Corey Haim movie, Lucas. Yea he looked 38 in that one. I can't tell if he looks older or younger than Jason Alexander in Seinfeld. |
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Post by PhantomKnight on Aug 22, 2015 10:03:19 GMT -5
FANTASTIC FOUR (2005)
What can you say about Tim Story's Fantastic Four that hasn't already been said? Not much. This movie ... I understand its intentions to go for a much lighter, breezier tone in comparison to most other superhero movies of the past decade, but those intentions are completely undermined by a cast that has very little chemistry and a shoddily-written screenplay with virtually no plot, not to mention a lack of real passion for the project from anybody involved. Now, I haven't read any of the Fantastic Four comics, but I feel pretty safe in saying that their name comes from the fact that they go out and do some pretty fantastic stuff ... something that's curiously lacking here. Instead, much of the running time is spent with the four lazing around, using their powers in a domestic home setting while any action they DO take part in being caused by themselves in the first place. (This, interestingly enough, is kind of a similar problem with the reboot.) As for the acting, the only cast member here who's enjoyable in any sense is Chris Evans as The Human Torch, who also has some admittedly decent chemistry with Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm/The Thing. But Ioan Gruffud and Jessica Alba have NO chemistry and Julian McMahon is as stale a villain as they come.
Anything but fantastic.
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FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER (2007)
Tim Story's first Fantastic Four movie, to put it mildly, is NOT good. But, man, Rise of the Silver Surfer (or, as it was originally sub-titled, Reed and Sue's Marriage Misadventures), to put it mildly, really fucking sucks. As little effort as there was in the first film, it's liked nobody cared at all during this sequel. Even Chris Evans's attempts at comedy this time around feel extremely half-hearted and Jessica Alba seems to have completed her transformation into a cardboard stand-up of The Invisible Woman that you'd keep somewhere in your house if you were a fan. You know how the first movie didn't have a plot most of the time? Well, for the first half hour of a movie that's only 84 minutes without counting the end credits -- some of the slowest 84 minutes you're ever likely to experience -- it's the same problem. This movie fools you into thinking it's a wedding comedy masquerading as a superhero film, but then it remembers it has to be a superhero film -- only, it's a terrible one. Even if the script were good, did they really think that 84 minutes was enough time to adequately cover what they came up with? Good actors like Andre Braugher and Lawrence Fishburne are utterly wasted, even if Fishburne is here for just a voice-over of The Silver Surfer, who I'll admit is pretty cool in this movie. But that's only one of the very, very, VERY few positives. No wonder this was the end of this iteration of the Fantastic Four.
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Post by Deexan on Aug 22, 2015 11:04:35 GMT -5
I thought it was pretty much universally agreed that the second movie was superior to the first? By the slimmest of margins, obvs.
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Post by PG Cooper on Aug 22, 2015 11:12:06 GMT -5
The second one is better. The scene where Johnny chases the Silver Surfer through New York is actually pretty decent. There's also an actual threat, despite how poorly realized it is. The first one just has the characters hang around for about an hour and a half, than they have a half-assed fight with Dr. Doom, and then it's over.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 22, 2015 14:48:43 GMT -5
The first one just has the characters hang around for about an hour and a half, than they have a half-assed fight with Dr. Doom, and then it's over. That's what's awesome about it. It's a comedy with superheroes. I'd rather watch that than the dark and serious Fantastic Four where they do nothing for an hour and a half and then have an half-assed fight with Dr. Doom. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2015 16:02:35 GMT -5
I just wanted a cameo from Jason Lee, as a reporter who asks The Thing about his junk.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Aug 22, 2015 16:29:57 GMT -5
The second one is better. The scene where Johnny chases the Silver Surfer through New York is actually pretty decent. There's also an actual threat, despite how poorly realized it is. The first one just has the characters hang around for about an hour and a half, than they have a half-assed fight with Dr. Doom, and then it's over. The second one may have more of a threat to it, but that doesn't change the fact that most of the time, it's a boring-ass movie, so the threat level never seems intense in any way. And, ironically, the first movie held my attention more by a slim margin, even though it was still terrible, and had a better sense of pacing, even though it was slightly longer. Take that for what it's worth. |
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Post by Neverending on Aug 22, 2015 18:57:20 GMT -5
The second one is better. The scene where Johnny chases the Silver Surfer through New York is actually pretty decent. There's also an actual threat, despite how poorly realized it is. The first one just has the characters hang around for about an hour and a half, than they have a half-assed fight with Dr. Doom, and then it's over. The second one may have more of a threat to it, but that doesn't change the fact that most of the time, it's a boring-ass movie, so the threat level never seems intense in any way. And, ironically, the first movie held my attention more by a slim margin, even though it was still terrible, and had a better sense of pacing, even though it was slightly longer. Take that for what it's worth. Because the first one was a comedy so it kept your attention. While the second one tried to be serious and it just made you realize it was stupid. |
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Post by PG Cooper on Aug 23, 2015 23:11:47 GMT -5
The first one just has the characters hang around for about an hour and a half, than they have a half-assed fight with Dr. Doom, and then it's over. That's what's awesome about it. It's a comedy with superheroes. I'd rather watch that than the dark and serious Fantastic Four where they do nothing for an hour and a half and then have an half-assed fight with Dr. Doom. I'd rather watch an exciting and light hearted hour and a half of superhero action and adventure which culminates in a fun showdown with Doom. That's not impossible. |
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