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Crunchtime wrote:Kick Ass 2 - 7/10
If you like the first one, you will like this one. I liked 2 even more.
ovid9 wrote:White House Down- 4/10
An otherwise enjoyable action movie ruined by far too much shitty attempt at plot. Holy cow is it bad.
I mean, the movie is basically a ripoff of the Die Hard franchise only with far worse writing and bad modern CGI.
Good points- The action and one liners early on. Some fun cheesy shoot em up with good quips. However, that's all done with in the first half of the movie.
The bad- Almost everything else. From the non-sense logic (hey, lets use conventional missiles to blow up a command station hardened to withstand nuclear strikes!) to the complete disregard for what weapons systems do (did you know ICBMs can be used as SAMs? Neither did I!) it gets painful as it lurches on. (Its 131 minutes. There's 90 minutes worth of plot here tops, but this is par for the course with "action" movies anymore.)
Everyone in the US command structure is an idiot, every highly trained Marine/Secret Service Agent/Soldier is taken out by the bad guys who somehow never miss except when shooting at the main protagonists.
I....the movie is a giant pile of fail. It borders are being a decent brainless action movie but keeps getting bogged down in terribly written plot. If it had been 90-100 minutes and cut out all the extraneous attempts to build suspense or develop the plot, it would be MUCH better.
Also, I'm amazed at how bad the CGI is for a "blockbuster" budget film. I mean, its not SYFY channel bad, but its not very good IMO.
I don't feel ripped off by the $1.20 we spent to rent it from Red Box, but neither would I suggest anyone spend $1.20 to watch it unless they are way more forgiving of facepalming stupidity and "holy crap is this going to actually go somewhere soon?" than I am.
Either of the GI Joe films ranks far above this is my book.
Youngblood might enjoy it for getting a laugh out of how things work in WHD world though.
Y0UNGBL00D wrote:nope. not getting near that one. well......maybe
ovid9 wrote:White House Down- 4/10
An otherwise enjoyable action movie ruined by far too much shitty attempt at plot. Holy cow is it bad.
I mean, the movie is basically a ripoff of the Die Hard franchise only with far worse writing and bad modern CGI.
Good points- The action and one liners early on. Some fun cheesy shoot em up with good quips. However, that's all done with in the first half of the movie.
The bad- Almost everything else. From the non-sense logic (hey, lets use conventional missiles to blow up a command station hardened to withstand nuclear strikes!) to the complete disregard for what weapons systems do (did you know ICBMs can be used as SAMs? Neither did I!) it gets painful as it lurches on. (Its 131 minutes. There's 90 minutes worth of plot here tops, but this is par for the course with "action" movies anymore.)
Everyone in the US command structure is an idiot, every highly trained Marine/Secret Service Agent/Soldier is taken out by the bad guys who somehow never miss except when shooting at the main protagonists.
I....the movie is a giant pile of fail. It borders are being a decent brainless action movie but keeps getting bogged down in terribly written plot. If it had been 90-100 minutes and cut out all the extraneous attempts to build suspense or develop the plot, it would be MUCH better.
Also, I'm amazed at how bad the CGI is for a "blockbuster" budget film. I mean, its not SYFY channel bad, but its not very good IMO.
I don't feel ripped off by the $1.20 we spent to rent it from Red Box, but neither would I suggest anyone spend $1.20 to watch it unless they are way more forgiving of facepalming stupidity and "holy crap is this going to actually go somewhere soon?" than I am.
Either of the GI Joe films ranks far above this is my book.
Youngblood might enjoy it for getting a laugh out of how things work in WHD world though.
Yarbicus wrote:I have heard that it is dumber than Olympus Has Fallen which is a pretty major accomplishment.
ovid9 wrote:Yarbicus wrote:I have heard that it is dumber than Olympus Has Fallen which is a pretty major accomplishment.
I'll have to watch OhF to compare now. I've been avoiding it because it looked awful. But honestly, I think it has to be better than this.
I now know White House Down was directed by the "great" Roland Emmerich who brought us such wonders as "Independence Day," "2012," "The Day After Tomorrow," and "10,000 BC."
When your track record makes Michael Bay look talented you might want to jump off a tall building.
Yarbicus wrote:ovid9 wrote:Yarbicus wrote:I have heard that it is dumber than Olympus Has Fallen which is a pretty major accomplishment.
I'll have to watch OhF to compare now. I've been avoiding it because it looked awful. But honestly, I think it has to be better than this.
I now know White House Down was directed by the "great" Roland Emmerich who brought us such wonders as "Independence Day," "2012," "The Day After Tomorrow," and "10,000 BC."
When your track record makes Michael Bay look talented you might want to jump off a tall building.
Right into the huge pile of money all of your movies earn. Sad, but true.
hvymtl939 wrote:Wolf of Wall Street: 10/10. I've probably seen it 7-8 times now. For sure one of my all time favorites. The fact that it's all a true story makes it even more absurd. You want to hate Leo's character, but I just cant. I don't know if I would have done things any differently if I was in position. It's probably a good thing I'll never have anywhere close to that level of wealth.
I love Scorsece(sp?) and DiCaprio does an excellent job as per usual. I am very interested to see what happens in my next viewing hahahvymtl939 wrote:JiveTurkey wrote:hvymtl939 wrote:Wolf of Wall Street: 10/10. I've probably seen it 7-8 times now. For sure one of my all time favorites. The fact that it's all a true story makes it even more absurd. You want to hate Leo's character, but I just cant. I don't know if I would have done things any differently if I was in position. It's probably a good thing I'll never have anywhere close to that level of wealth.
I started watching that last night. I will be watching it in installments as I sure as hell am not watching it when kids are around
I am about an hour in and I have to say; it is definitely something else
It's absolutely absurd, and I think that's why I found it so fascinating. I wish I was doing mountains of blow with supermodels on my 170 ft yacht
hvymtl939 wrote:JiveTurkey wrote:Last night's installment=quaalude fight. Probably one of the funniest things I have ever seen
I was literally in tears watching him try to get into that Countach the first time I watched it.
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fretless wrote:Old Boy
-1 , worst movie ever made , maybe
