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Post by PG Cooper on Jun 4, 2020 13:53:32 GMT -5
And now the thrilling conclusion.... Breaking Dawn - Part 2There is a scene in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 wherein the now vampire Bella discovers Jacob has imprinted on her new born child. Bella, now with super strength, beats the shit out of Jacob while the film repeatedly cuts to Edward with a smug smile muttering "No, it's fine". Reader, you should know that during this scene and after I howled with laughter. This happens quite early too, so there was hope that the final entry in the Twilight saga might actually be kind of fun. Indeed, that was certainly the movie's reputation on release. While certainly not a Fast Five-esque reversal of fortune, I do remember critics noting that the film seemed to embrace its campy fun and ended up being a pretty enjoyable send off. That's probably most emphasized in the frankly kind of insane final battle. I don't know if it's a particularly well-done scene in its own right, but it's certainly the most ambitious large-scale sequence in this series and is also just fucking weird. Seriously, this thing has so many decapitations for a PG-13 movie. Bloodless or not, that's wild. As narrative this scene doesn't amount to match (no spoilers but wow is it pointless), but as spectacle it's one of the more memorable scenes in this saga. The problem is that's basically all this movie has to offer. Like basically every consecutively filmed sequels, Part 2 bears the burden of the split plot. The whole story here is just The Cullen family gathering allies for a meeting with the Volturi to defend Edward and Bella's child. Then that confrontation happens and the movie's over. The characters recruited are all essentially new to the series so we don't have anything invested in them and they don't have much in personality beyond their unique superpowers (why this series treats vampires like being in the X-Men I don't know). Consequently the film grinds to a screeching halt after the hilarity of Bella whopping Jacob's ass. Speaking of Jacob, mine that imprinting shit is weird. I like that the film acknowledges how gross it is in Bella's justified rage (Jacob insisting "it's not like that" stresses how much it be like that), but by the end it's treated as sweet and romantic. Jacob even jokes if he should start calling Edward "Dad". Bro, it's a fucking child. And how anyone could love the monstrosity that is the CGI baby used here is beyond me. I'd heard about this nightmare effect back in 2012 but I really was not ready. So overall, no, I don't think this film is campy fun. Frankly, I think it's like most of the Twilight sequels. Mostly boring but with some funny parts. That said, I did find the ending oddly sweet. After overtly referencing Stephanie Myers's books, the film does a mixture of the Return of the King and Endgame credits. Each actor throughout the saga is credited and the names are accompanied by images through the series. It's very sincere, and I appreciate that fans got such a sincere send off. It was also surreal to see flashbacks to the first movie and wistfully remember back to "the good one". D-Reflecting on this little marathon, was it worth it? The short answer is "Not really, but I don't regret it". I don't think any of the films were good (though some were better than others) and they're very emphatically not for me. I did get some insight into one of the most massive pop-culture icons in my lifetime, and that's always worthwhile, but I'm not sure I needed to watch all five movies myself to get these insights. I did have some laughs though and it was also neat go see this era of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's careers. Rather than viewing them as "those shitty actors from Twilight" (as they were unfairly dismissed for way too long), I'm more familiar with the two as great character actors and it was sort of fun to see them in something so commercial. And quite frankly I think both do pretty well here. The material they have to work with is certainly questionable but both get the heightened teen melodrama they're playing in and the performances reflect that. And they're pretty compelling too. So yeah, that's a wrap on The Twilight Saga. Happy to have done it, happy that I'm done.  |
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Day Twenty-Seven Film Year: 2012 Director: Bill Condon Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Michael Sheen, Dakota Fanning, Maggie Grace Riff Year: 2013 Riffers: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett Selected Short: Damaged Goods Surprisingly, not a biography of Björk, Damaged Goods is a cautionary tale about a couple of young men who go on a harmless adventure in search of beer and girls and end up finding exactly that! Unfortunately they are lured off that wholesome path by the seductive siren song of something called a "Coolie Cup". Inspired, apparently, by the jockstrap of an Asian worker, this evil rum drink causes our hero, Hercules-like (Kevin Sorbo Hercules, just to be clear), to be led astray. The result, a stern lecture by a silver-haired doctor—oh, and some horrible communicable disease affecting the genitals. We weren't really paying attention, as someone had just whipped up a pitcher of Coolie Cups.
Mike, Bill, and Kevin: damaged goods and your guides through Damaged Goods.Turns out syphilis is so hilarious that Rifftrax had to do another short tackling the subject! This one features a boy going out on the town meeting some sleazy women, having sinful sex, and getting the rightful STD he deserves. Luckily his teacher and doctor are there to steer him right. This short is only nine minutes long but in researching it I found out something quite astounding: it’s actually heavily edited down from a feature film! IMDB lists this film under the title “V.D.” and lists the run time as 91 minutes. I don’t know where this short came from or why it exists, but I wonder if the guys at Rifftrax know that they could have potentially done a VOD instead of a short. But what to make of the short itself? It does at times seem chopped to hell, though I’m not sure what could have been added to make this thing a full length feature. It almost feels to me that this was something created by a heavily religious organization, possibly Christian, trying to make a movie to scare people out of premarital sex. Everyone in this film looks like they’re trying to imitate what they think non-Christians do with a sort of naive attempt at sleaziness. The riffing keeps pace with the short, though I don’t think it hits the same highs as Know For Sure. The short is too choppy, too nonsensical, and too all over the place to really make heads or tails of, so the fact that they stay in tune with it is fairly impressive. “You see, son, sometimes, when a shirtless teenage werewolf and a newborn love each other, very, very much...” Baby girlfriends! International squads of vampires with a host of mutant superpowers that should be blood in the water to Marvel’s legal department! A final, epic showdown between the forces of vampire “evil” and vampire “meh, whatever”! All that sounds amazing, right! It’s what we’ve been building to for four movies, right??? Like, something’s finally gonna happen! RIGHT? ??
Ah ha ha haaaa, remarkable. Believing this series would pay off in any way... to paraphrase Twilight: New Moon songstress Lykke Li, “There’s no posssibilityyyyyy.” This movie is mostly about an extended vampire family gathering to show support for Bella, its newest, most insipid and simpering member. Because that’s why people love vampires -- to see them form coalitions of understanding, and talk out their differences.
But there’s hope, in the form of effete ancient men in red - that’s right, more Volturi than ever before! And the great Michael Sheen offering a cackle of delight so extraordinary that the petition to make it part of his eventual Oscar death reel should begin NOW.
Join Mike, Kevin, and Bill as they hide in the mustache of Mustache Dad for one last journey into the land of vampire sensitivity, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2!At long last it is over. And boyfriends across the land were dragged to The Hunger Games instead and somehow convinced themselves it was preferable because it had more action. We were wrong. At least Twilight was funnier. The final Twilight movie features Bella’s whining finally subsiding as she’s finally turned into a vampire, and raises a half-human/half-vampire daughter that is destined to screw Jacob doggie-style. The Volturi fear the existence of the child and march to destroy it, leading the Cullens to recruit a team of superhero vampires to protect the abomination. This all leads to a final confrontation that never happens, which is just as well because it’s one of the crappiest, most poorly choreographed action scenes in blockbuster history. Yes it’s Twilight. The greatest romance of all time.As much as I rag on this series, I’ve never actually disliked these movies so far. They’re boring at times, but they’re just too stupid and hilarious. How can I hate on the cinematic equivalent of Bart Simpson grabbing onto a electric cupcake?  Then there is this rancid wet dog fart of a movie. This is a whole new level of suck. I have trouble even classifying it as a movie at all, because it’s hardly about anything. Bella becomes a vampire, bringing about conflict of the life she has left behind...no wait, that’s pretty much all there is to it for her. After four movies of moping and thinking selfishly of herself she finally gets exactly what she wants, and it’s awesome. That’s the moral of Bella’s story, little girls, whine until you get your way because it’ll be worth it. The story of the child (I refuse to even type her godawful name) feels like something of an afterthought, as the film tries to build momentum behind her only to end in anticlimax. And Breaking Dawn had to be two movies for what reason? This is twenty minutes of story padded out to an insane length. Do you want to know how padded this movie is? It has twenty minutes of credits. Twenty goddamn minutes of a movie that doesn’t even break two hours. It’s an epilogue turned into a movie because people would pay to see it anyway. That right there is insulting. Fuck this movie. In many ways Breaking Dawn Part 2 was the most hotly anticipated Rifftrax of all time. The film was the finale of their hottest selling series, and this particular film had just won Worst Picture at the Razzies (other Worst Pictures riffed include Cocktail, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and The Last Airbender). Considering how high the bar was set for previous Twilight riffs, this one had a lot of hype to live up to. This is only the second time I’ve listened to this riff, and while I was somewhat underwhelmed the first time I find myself thinking more positive of it today. I was laughing just as steadily as the others and the guys readily embrace the stupidity of the film. One plus to this riff is that the movie has more Volturi than the previous films and they’re definitely a favorite of the boys, which leads to many fine Volturi riffs. But I think I get a feeling of why this riff is a bit of a step back for me. Much like New Moon overdoes the gay jokes I find Breaking Dawn Part 2 rides a bit too much on Jacob’s pedophiliac love story with Bella and Edward’s daughter. It’s funny for a little while, but it starts to drown the riff in places where the gag isn’t needed. Although it does give me one of my all-time favorite riffs: “Must...make it...to...Alaska...Age of consent...only...sixteen…” Ranking these Twilight riffs is somewhat difficult. I find my opinion changes in passing time, personally. For example I loved New Moon when it came out, but my response has been a bit more muted today. Personally after all these years the original is still the best one for me, with Breaking Dawn Part 1 a strong second. The other three might shift based on my mood. Eclipse has less monotonous running gags than the other two, but Breaking Dawn Part 2 might be the funniest of what remains. I’m going to say New Moon is probably the least, though ask me again in a few years and I’ll probably say something different in a few years. At long last the Twilight saga is at a close. While it’s always a pleasure to listen to these riffs, I find myself so tired of the films that I’m tempted to say I’ll never marathon them like this again. But who am I kidding? I’ll probably dig these out again in six months and laugh myself silly. But for now, let’s just close this book and look forward to the future... “Join us back here at Rifftrax.com for 50 Shades of Grey!” “Nooooooooooooooooo!” |
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And now the thrilling conclusion.... Breaking Dawn - Part 2There is a scene in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 wherein the now vampire Bella discovers Jacob has imprinted on her new born child. Bella, now with super strength, beats the shit out of Jacob while the film repeatedly cuts to Edward with a smug smile muttering "No, it's fine". Reader, you should know that during this scene and after I howled with laughter. This happens quite early too, so there was hope that the final entry in the Twilight saga might actually be kind of fun. Indeed, that was certainly the movie's reputation on release. While certainly not a Fast Five-esque reversal of fortune, I do remember critics noting that the film seemed to embrace its campy fun and ended up being a pretty enjoyable send off. That's probably most emphasized in the frankly kind of insane final battle. I don't know if it's a particularly well-done scene in its own right, but it's certainly the most ambitious large-scale sequence in this series and is also just fucking weird. Seriously, this thing has so many decapitations for a PG-13 movie. Bloodless or not, that's wild. As narrative this scene doesn't amount to match (no spoilers but wow is it pointless), but as spectacle it's one of the more memorable scenes in this saga. The problem is that's basically all this movie has to offer. Like basically every consecutively filmed sequels, Part 2 bears the burden of the split plot. The whole story here is just The Cullen family gathering allies for a meeting with the Volturi to defend Edward and Bella's child. Then that confrontation happens and the movie's over. The characters recruited are all essentially new to the series so we don't have anything invested in them and they don't have much in personality beyond their unique superpowers (why this series treats vampires like being in the X-Men I don't know). Consequently the film grinds to a screeching halt after the hilarity of Bella whopping Jacob's ass. Speaking of Jacob, mine that imprinting shit is weird. I like that the film acknowledges how gross it is in Bella's justified rage (Jacob insisting "it's not like that" stresses how much it be like that), but by the end it's treated as sweet and romantic. Jacob even jokes if he should start calling Edward "Dad". Bro, it's a fucking child. And how anyone could love the monstrosity that is the CGI baby used here is beyond me. I'd heard about this nightmare effect back in 2012 but I really was not ready. So overall, no, I don't think this film is campy fun. Frankly, I think it's like most of the Twilight sequels. Mostly boring but with some funny parts. That said, I did find the ending oddly sweet. After overtly referencing Stephanie Myers's books, the film does a mixture of the Return of the King and Endgame credits. Each actor throughout the saga is credited and the names are accompanied by images through the series. It's very sincere, and I appreciate that fans got such a sincere send off. It was also surreal to see flashbacks to the first movie and wistfully remember back to "the good one". D-Reflecting on this little marathon, was it worth it? The short answer is "Not really, but I don't regret it". I don't think any of the films were good (though some were better than others) and they're very emphatically not for me. I did get some insight into one of the most massive pop-culture icons in my lifetime, and that's always worthwhile, but I'm not sure I needed to watch all five movies myself to get these insights. I did have some laughs though and it was also neat go see this era of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's careers. Rather than viewing them as "those shitty actors from Twilight" (as they were unfairly dismissed for way too long), I'm more familiar with the two as great character actors and it was sort of fun to see them in something so commercial. And quite frankly I think both do pretty well here. The material they have to work with is certainly questionable but both get the heightened teen melodrama they're playing in and the performances reflect that. And they're pretty compelling too. So yeah, that's a wrap on The Twilight Saga. Happy to have done it, happy that I'm done. Why did you do this? |
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Post by PG Cooper on Jun 8, 2020 10:07:44 GMT -5
And now the thrilling conclusion.... Breaking Dawn - Part 2There is a scene in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 wherein the now vampire Bella discovers Jacob has imprinted on her new born child. Bella, now with super strength, beats the shit out of Jacob while the film repeatedly cuts to Edward with a smug smile muttering "No, it's fine". Reader, you should know that during this scene and after I howled with laughter. This happens quite early too, so there was hope that the final entry in the Twilight saga might actually be kind of fun. Indeed, that was certainly the movie's reputation on release. While certainly not a Fast Five-esque reversal of fortune, I do remember critics noting that the film seemed to embrace its campy fun and ended up being a pretty enjoyable send off. That's probably most emphasized in the frankly kind of insane final battle. I don't know if it's a particularly well-done scene in its own right, but it's certainly the most ambitious large-scale sequence in this series and is also just fucking weird. Seriously, this thing has so many decapitations for a PG-13 movie. Bloodless or not, that's wild. As narrative this scene doesn't amount to match (no spoilers but wow is it pointless), but as spectacle it's one of the more memorable scenes in this saga. The problem is that's basically all this movie has to offer. Like basically every consecutively filmed sequels, Part 2 bears the burden of the split plot. The whole story here is just The Cullen family gathering allies for a meeting with the Volturi to defend Edward and Bella's child. Then that confrontation happens and the movie's over. The characters recruited are all essentially new to the series so we don't have anything invested in them and they don't have much in personality beyond their unique superpowers (why this series treats vampires like being in the X-Men I don't know). Consequently the film grinds to a screeching halt after the hilarity of Bella whopping Jacob's ass. Speaking of Jacob, mine that imprinting shit is weird. I like that the film acknowledges how gross it is in Bella's justified rage (Jacob insisting "it's not like that" stresses how much it be like that), but by the end it's treated as sweet and romantic. Jacob even jokes if he should start calling Edward "Dad". Bro, it's a fucking child. And how anyone could love the monstrosity that is the CGI baby used here is beyond me. I'd heard about this nightmare effect back in 2012 but I really was not ready. So overall, no, I don't think this film is campy fun. Frankly, I think it's like most of the Twilight sequels. Mostly boring but with some funny parts. That said, I did find the ending oddly sweet. After overtly referencing Stephanie Myers's books, the film does a mixture of the Return of the King and Endgame credits. Each actor throughout the saga is credited and the names are accompanied by images through the series. It's very sincere, and I appreciate that fans got such a sincere send off. It was also surreal to see flashbacks to the first movie and wistfully remember back to "the good one". D-Reflecting on this little marathon, was it worth it? The short answer is "Not really, but I don't regret it". I don't think any of the films were good (though some were better than others) and they're very emphatically not for me. I did get some insight into one of the most massive pop-culture icons in my lifetime, and that's always worthwhile, but I'm not sure I needed to watch all five movies myself to get these insights. I did have some laughs though and it was also neat go see this era of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's careers. Rather than viewing them as "those shitty actors from Twilight" (as they were unfairly dismissed for way too long), I'm more familiar with the two as great character actors and it was sort of fun to see them in something so commercial. And quite frankly I think both do pretty well here. The material they have to work with is certainly questionable but both get the heightened teen melodrama they're playing in and the performances reflect that. And they're pretty compelling too. So yeah, that's a wrap on The Twilight Saga. Happy to have done it, happy that I'm done. Why did you do this? My partner was feeling nostalgic. If watching these movies is the price I have to pay for a girlfriend whose favourite movies are Aliens, The Exorcist, and Sunset Boulevard then so be it. |
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Post by Deexan on Jun 8, 2020 10:13:43 GMT -5
The Iron price.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Jun 15, 2020 19:26:33 GMT -5
It would seem that PG Cooper now has an ally in his pro-Matrix sequel crusade.
The Matrix Reloaded
So, I still like this quite a bit. To be honest, though, I can see the things about it that a lot of people have complained about over the years and while I do agree with some of those points to a degree, I think this movie still has a lot of positives and value to it that are hard to simply brush off. First, not only do I respect and admire Reloaded for doubling down on the mythology/universe and philosophy presented in the first film, I also like that we actually get to see Zion this time and spend a significant amount of time in it. Understandably, the first movie had to explain a lot of the essentials of this universe and the best way to do that was through The Matrix itself. Here, though, we get a fuller sense of the war being waged between man and machine, and by showing Zion and the lifestyle of its inhabitants, we feel the weight and consequences of the conflict more, which adds to the overall tone of this film. We consequently meet some interesting new characters such as Naobi, Commander Locke and Link.
Reloaded really doubles down on its sci-fi roots, not only through its worldbuilding but also in the Matrix-set scenes as well. We get a lot more of the philosophical musings and conversations between characters here. Some of them work, such as the scenes with The Oracle, Smith and other characters from the first, while ones involving new characters such as The Merovingian...don't. It's during scenes like these where the dialogue's pretentiousness sticks out like a sore thumb and becomes overbearing a little. Having such heady ideas at their core is one of the things I admire the most about these movies, but after a while of having nearly every character give some kind of intellectual speech or musing, it does get a bit too stilted. The biggest example of this is of course the scene between Neo and The Architect. I've seen this movie enough times to understand the gist of the conversation here, but by God, does it feel like The Wachowskis just kept using a thesaurus for every other word in this scene. I always roll my eyes not a couple lines into this scene every time.
Then of course, there's the action, aka one of the film's strongest suits. These scenes feel heightened from the first, obviously, but boy do they deliver. The Neo vs. Multiple Smiths scene still works and the highway chase sequence may just be one of the best modern action sequences in a film. It's SO good, in fact, that it kind of makes the remaining half hour after it feel sort of robbed-of-steam. I've felt that every time I've watched this movie.
But even with that taken into consideration, The Matrix Reloaded remains a strong and engaging sequel regardless and does what any good sequel worth their salt should: raises the stakes. This is some good stuff.
***1/2 /****
The Matrix Revolutions
If Reloaded was a safe movie to talk about, then I'm sure Revolutions will be no different, right? Right?
So, I'm gonna cut right to the point: I like Matrix Revolutions, too. Is it the weakest of the trilogy? Sure, but just like Reloaded, I think Revolutions does enough right to qualify it as a success overall. Much like with the second movie, Revolutions does a good job of making sure we feel the weight of everything going on. This movie boils down to a pretty straightforward war movie, yet there's still a firm grasp of stakes and consequences at play here. Even if we're following a group of characters whom we only just met one movie ago, there's a real conviction in the performances that help carry the large majority of these scenes. The movie also benefits from spending the first hour building up/counting down to the machines breaching Zion's defenses. There's a real sense of foreboding and dread that settles in during all of this so that when the action finally explodes, it has impact. As for the Battle of Zion itself, I quite like it. There's enough of a variety of different things happening during it to where its admittedly lengthy bit of screentime feels justified, but on top of that, it's just a really well-put together bit of action in and of itself. Same goes for the climatic Neo and Smith fight.
There's not a whole lot more depth to this one than the last two -- again, it's really just a war movie -- but there is still a certain satisfaction to seeing this overall story and various individual stories therein reach their conclusions. Now, obviously, the movie isn't without its share of problems -- the movie's simplicity feels a bit disappointing after the complexity of the first two and certain scenes present questions of logic that end up being more than a little distracting. But I'm judging this more on the grounds of what it's sold as, which is a glorified action spectacle and conclusion to a trilogy. As such, I personally think The Matrix Revolutions does enough right to allow me to walk away satisfied.
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Post by PG Cooper on Jun 15, 2020 19:42:14 GMT -5
Welcome aboard, brother.
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Post by Neverending on Jun 15, 2020 21:07:24 GMT -5
I like the Matrix sequels too
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Post by PhantomKnight on Jun 15, 2020 21:49:44 GMT -5
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Post by 1godzillafan on Jun 15, 2020 22:35:17 GMT -5
I like 'em.
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Post by Deexan on Jun 20, 2020 18:37:16 GMT -5
I consider Reloaded to be an equal to The Matrix.
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SnoBorderZero 1godzillafanVAN DAMME TRIPLE FEATURELIONHEART (1990) Lionheart, or the birth of UFC, is about Van Damme joining an underground fighting circuit in order to pay his brother's medical bills. I guess it's also a great commercial for Obamacare. Fans of the muscle from Brussels rank Lionheart as one of his classics. I grew up on Van Damme and I've never agreed with that. This is the 3rd movie where he plays a fighter. Or the 4th if you wanna count No Retreat No Surrender. It was getting old by this point. I do have to give the filmmakers credit for keeping the fight scenes fresh and for filling the story with entertaining characters. But it's not enough. The plot is too paper thin and Van Damme doesn't add anything new to his role. A for effort C for content HARD TARGET (1993) I would have loved to have been at the pitch meeting for Hard Target. "It's about rich people hunting homeless people for sport and it takes place in modern day New Orleans. John Woo is directing and Sam Raimi is producing. Write me a check for millions of dollars." And you know what? It was worth every penny. This movie stays true to what it is and doesn't apologize for it. Either you accept that or don't waste your time watching it. It's a really stupid movie and the action scenes are beyond ridiculous but I have to respect filmmakers who stick to their vision and don't worry about other people's opinions. A for balls B- for content SUDDEN DEATH (1995) This is Doomsday's favorite Die Hard rip-off and it features Franklyn's Pittsburgh Penguins. The owner of the team actually wrote and produced the movie. It's also Van Damme's second movie with Peter Hyams. They worked together on Timecop, Van Damme's highest grossing movie. Anyway... I don't know how all these Die Hard rip-offs got made without people being sued. They're so blatant it's ridiculous. Here, Van Damme plays the fire inspector for a sports arena and he's the only one who can stop the terrorists that kidnapped his daughter and are threatening to blow up the place. The movie is well-made. The action scenes are entertaining. And I do like that there's a hockey game being intercut with the main story. But it's still a Die Hard rip-off and one that doesn't hide the fact that it's a Die Hard rip-off. It's so shameless that I can't fully support it. A for technique C for content  My brain pulled a Mandela Effect and combined Double Team with Knock Off. I was very disappointed when Rob Schneider never showed up. It also meant this movie wasn’t nearly as campy as I had hoped. Van Damme stars as counter-terrorist agent Jack Quinn. He’s after Mickey Rourke whose face still looks human. After an assignment goes wrong, Van Damme goes rogue, and with the help of arms dealer Dennis Rodman, continues his mission to take down human-faced Mickey Rourke. The action scenes are good. Movie is directed by Hong Kong veteran Tsui Hark. But the cinematography ( SnoBorderZero ’s area of expertise) and the overall aesthetic bothered me. It’s part softcore porn (without the porn) and part skateboarding video (without the skateboarding). It’s like a 13-year-old trying to be cool, but doesn’t know what cool is. But there’s moments like these to make up for it: Almost forgot to mention that Doomsday favorite Ivan Ooze is in it. He’s the third guy running in that clip.
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Post by Neverending on Jul 11, 2020 12:55:10 GMT -5
Is The Flintstones movie actually great?? I'd be inclined to say no. I’d be inclined to say yes. |
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Post by 1godzillafan on Jul 11, 2020 13:32:31 GMT -5
Is The Flintstones movie actually great?? |
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Post by thebtskink on Jul 11, 2020 13:56:48 GMT -5
Viva Rock Vegas has Robert Baratheon as Fred, Stephen Baldwin as Barney, and Alan Cumming as the Great Gazoo.
I may have to watch it and report back here.
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Post by 1godzillafan on Jul 11, 2020 14:21:03 GMT -5
Viva Rock Vegas has Robert Baratheon as Fred, Stephen Baldwin as Barney, and Alan Cumming as the Great Gazoo. I may have to watch it and report back here. I've seen it. Alan Cumming also plays Mic Jagged, Wilma is played by Sally from 3rd Rock, and Rosie O'Donnell was demoted into playing an octopus. |
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Post by PhantomKnight on Jul 11, 2020 14:35:41 GMT -5
I'd be inclined to say no. I’d be inclined to say yes. Explain yourself. |
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Post by Neverending on Jul 11, 2020 14:39:21 GMT -5
I’d be inclined to say yes. Explain yourself. John Goodman as Fred Flintstone is a treat. |
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Post by 1godzillafan on Jul 11, 2020 14:41:57 GMT -5
John Goodman as Fred Flintstone is a treat. Halle Berry's cavewoman boobs are a treat. |
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Post by PhantomKnight on Jul 11, 2020 16:38:07 GMT -5
John Goodman as Fred Flintstone is a treat. Is that it? |
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Post by Neverending on Jul 11, 2020 16:40:52 GMT -5
John Goodman as Fred Flintstone is a treat. Is that it? |
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Post by 1godzillafan on Jul 11, 2020 16:51:19 GMT -5
BTW, this movie actually has a Sam Raimi cameo. He's one of the actors in the crime scene recreation on TV.
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