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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2018 11:43:57 GMT -5
The Fugitive is a great movie, but let's be honest. If it starred Tommy Lee Jones and a sack of potatoes, it would still be a great movie. Zis iz true.
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Post by songstarliner on Jun 27, 2018 21:00:55 GMT -5
The only really good movie starring Harrison Ford is the original Bladerunner. Aw, I like Witness. My god, he was so handsome back then oh! and the film was good too. IT'S 4:30 TIME FOR MILKING
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2018 21:25:02 GMT -5
The only really good movie starring Harrison Ford is the original Bladerunner. Aw, I like Witness. My god, he was so handsome back then oh! and the film was good too. IT'S 4:30 TIME FOR MILKING
Sure, tis a good film but tis no really good film, English
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Post by ganews on Jun 27, 2018 22:27:33 GMT -5
The only really good movie starring Harrison Ford is the original Bladerunner. Aw, I like Witness. My god, he was so handsome back then oh! and the film was good too. IT'S 4:30 TIME FOR MILKING
You never had your hands on a teat before? Not one this big.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 27, 2018 22:56:15 GMT -5
The Truman Show is a better film than Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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Post by kitchin on Jun 28, 2018 12:48:07 GMT -5
The only really good movie starring Harrison Ford is the original Bladerunner. Aw, I like Witness. My god, he was so handsome back then oh! and the film was good too. IT'S 4:30 TIME FOR MILKING
Agree, I have a fondness for Witness despite its hokeyness. But the Fugitive is crap compared to the soulful TV show.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 29, 2018 17:53:12 GMT -5
Hellboy is so very meh. Sure, Ron Perlman is cool, and Doug Jones is always amazing, but Selma Blair is well-nigh unwatchable, and it’s just...boring. Hellboy 2 is even worse. Haven’t seen Hellboy 2, but on watching Hellboy a few weeks ago my main thought was…“Oh, so this is what it means for something to be so early 2000s.” Because that was basically my sum reaction to it, a sort of quasi-nostalgic recognition.
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Post by ganews on Jun 30, 2018 9:08:25 GMT -5
"Dude, Where's My Car?" is as entertaining as "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", and I'd rather watch either of them over "Dumb and Dumber".
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Post by Angry Raisins on Jun 30, 2018 10:39:21 GMT -5
"Sicario" (the first one) was overrated style-over-substance. Some nice tense scenes, but the plot was a belaboured series of glaring hints that these characters were up to something shady, with an eventual, consequently uninteresting payoff that yep, they were.
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Jun 30, 2018 11:51:08 GMT -5
Hellboy is so very meh. Sure, Ron Perlman is cool, and Doug Jones is always amazing, but Selma Blair is well-nigh unwatchable, and it’s just...boring. Hellboy 2 is even worse. Haven’t seen Hellboy 2, but on watching Hellboy a few weeks ago my main thought was…“Oh, so this is what it means for something to be so early 2000s.” Because that was basically my sum reaction to it, a sort of quasi-nostalgic recognition. Hellboy 2 is pretty solid art direction in search of an actual movie.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Jun 30, 2018 16:03:58 GMT -5
Part 2 of my 'Cronenberg unpopular opinions' series :
His latest, Maps to the Stars, is one of his best.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 30, 2018 18:51:09 GMT -5
"Dude, Where's My Car?" is as entertaining as "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", and I'd rather watch either of them over "Dumb and Dumber". I don't care about spoilers for this movie, where was his car?
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Post by Sanziana on Jul 4, 2018 5:42:18 GMT -5
"Dude, Where's My Car?" is as entertaining as "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", and I'd rather watch either of them over "Dumb and Dumber". I don't care about spoilers for this movie, where was his car? A bunch of aliens stole it if I recall correctly. I may be wrong.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jul 6, 2018 14:15:12 GMT -5
There is no arguing that Ian McKellan has a wonderful voice, but he was a bad choice for Iorek Byrninson in The Golden Compass (yes the movie was crap but the casting was overall pretty amazing). His voice is not nearly deep enough for a bear. I was all excited when I heard McShane was doing a bear voice, because I thought HE was going to be Iorek. And I still say he should have done.
Continue to tune in for more of my thoughts on His Dark Materials in moving media as the BBC releases more information on the upcoming series.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Jul 6, 2018 15:37:05 GMT -5
There is no arguing that Ian McKellan has a wonderful voice, but he was a bad choice for Iorek Byrninson in The Golden Compass (yes the movie was crap but the casting was overall pretty amazing). His voice is not nearly deep enough for a bear. I was all excited when I heard McShane was doing a bear voice, because I thought HE was going to be Iorek. And I still say he should have done. Continue to tune in for more of my thoughts on His Dark Materials in moving media as the BBC releases more information on the upcoming series. I was SO mad at the ending when the screenwriters chickened out...
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Post by Hachiman on Jul 6, 2018 23:32:17 GMT -5
Jumper wasn't a terrible movie. Considering the surplus of superhero movies we have, I think there could stand to be more exploration of how someone might use their powers for fun and profit on the small scale. Maybe give them an adversary who isn't necessarily an outright villain but simply working at cross purposes? The closest things i can think of in the current landscape are Rick Sanchez (he doesn't have super powers, but close enough) and the villains of Jessica Jones, but it would be nice to observe how someone slightly less of a jerk would live their life without the burden of having to save everyone around them all the time.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 11, 2018 14:55:25 GMT -5
BRIAN BLESSED SHOULD HAVE BEEN ODIN IN THE THOR MOVIES
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Post by songstarliner on Jul 11, 2018 16:28:46 GMT -5
BRIAN BLESSED SHOULD HAVE BEEN ODIN IN THE THOR MOVIES Is this an Unpopular Opinion? I haven't seen the Thor movies ... *googles* oh! Anthony Hopkins! He is also good at overacting in a delightful way, but Brian Blessed should always be Odin.
He would have made a damn fine Robert Baratheon too.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 11, 2018 21:05:18 GMT -5
BRIAN BLESSED SHOULD HAVE BEEN ODIN IN THE THOR MOVIES That's simply objective fact.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Jul 12, 2018 12:10:58 GMT -5
BRIAN BLESSED SHOULD HAVE BEEN ODIN IN THE THOR MOVIES Is this an Unpopular Opinion? I haven't seen the Thor movies ... *googles* oh! Anthony Hopkins! He is also good at overacting in a delightful way, but Brian Blessed should always be Odin.
He would have made a damn fine Robert Baratheon too.
I think he'd have been too old to still play Baratheon, but he absolutely should have been cast as the Blackfish
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Post by Prole Hole on Jul 13, 2018 11:08:45 GMT -5
BRIAN BLESSED SHOULD HAVE BEEN ODIN IN THE THOR MOVIES That's simply objective fact. He was meant to play a Norse god in Season Nine of Doctor Who (The Girl Who Died) but was ill and couldn't make the recording. But there's still time for him to play the same role he's always played a thundering Norse god!
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Post by Sanziana on Jul 14, 2018 1:13:15 GMT -5
Clark Gregg is an extremely bland actor and I was glad when they killed his equally bland character in Avengers or whatever Marvel movie that was.
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Post by haysoos on Jul 16, 2018 8:58:32 GMT -5
Jumper wasn't a terrible movie. Considering the surplus of superhero movies we have, I think there could stand to be more exploration of how someone might use their powers for fun and profit on the small scale. Maybe give them an adversary who isn't necessarily an outright villain but simply working at cross purposes? The closest things i can think of in the current landscape are Rick Sanchez (he doesn't have super powers, but close enough) and the villains of Jessica Jones, but it would be nice to observe how someone slightly less of a jerk would live their life without the burden of having to save everyone around them all the time. What you're describing is basically the book "Jumper". There was no cryptic organization of bad guy Jumpers, or any of the other hokey shit from the movie. It was basically the dude figuring out how his power works, and setting up safehouses and figuring out how to safely profit from his abilities and re-connecting with his mother, who fled from his abusive father years earlier. Later, he gets involved with trying to thwart terrorists, which brings him to the attention of the NSA who want to use his abilities for their benefit. Much better than the crappy movie.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 17, 2018 23:03:33 GMT -5
Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are terrible films and it's absolutely absurd that anyone thinks that these 2.5 hour children's films are "classics". And Richard Van Dyke is a very bad actor.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 18, 2018 7:54:29 GMT -5
Annihilation isn't an adaptation of the book in any meaningful sense, as it doesn't really carry over anything from the book except aspects of the setting. It doesn't have the same characters, the same events, the same themes, and many of the changed it made serve to the detriment of the story, especially the ending, which almost comes off as a parody of what Hollywood would do to the book.
I liked it as a movie, but I'd still like to see the trilogy actually adapted some time.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 18, 2018 12:46:03 GMT -5
The Purge movies are kind of like the Saw movies to me: somewhat interesting in concept, maybe I would read a little about the premise, but I have no desire whatsoever to watch them.
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Post by Hachiman on Jul 26, 2018 0:48:38 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 30, 2018 19:24:39 GMT -5
I watched the new Mission : Impossible movie, and enjoyed it. It had fantastic stunt work, and loads of suspense. Tom Cruse is really amazing doing his own stunts, and dubious "religious" affiliation aside, he seems like a mostly personable dude. I have a big problem with the MI series of movies, however. Deep down inside, I can never forgive them for shitting all over the Jim Phelps character. I grew up watching the MI TV series and while it never had the big set pieces or thrilling stunts of the movies, it had its charms in a low key, modestly grim, very cold war fashion. The series never went onto the characters much, but a few episodes through the years gave glimpses of their lives, and the deep bond among them. If they were anything, they were loyal. That was their whole thing. For the first movie to re-imagine Jim Phelps as a traitor was just about as big a "fuck you" to the fans of the series as it would be possible to imagine. I don't know who had that idea, or why, but running with it, to me, smacks of the laziest, most cliched writing possible. There are a million other, more interesting directions they could have gone, and they chose not to, so fuck those guys.
I think I've seen all of the movies, so they got my money, but I never can enjoy them unreservedly. I always get a bitter taste on my mouth.
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Post by LazBro on Jul 30, 2018 20:46:23 GMT -5
The Mission Impossible movies have had bunches of brilliant stunts and action sequences, but I don't know if there's been a single scene I've liked as much as this one from the 1996 movie. So intense, so dramatic, so much fun. Henry Czerny as Kittridge is fantastic here.
(Also, remember how Emilio Esteves got stabbed in the fucking eyes by an elevator? How fucked up was that?)
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Post by Prole Hole on Jul 31, 2018 5:18:21 GMT -5
I watched the new Mission : Impossible movie, and enjoyed it. It had fantastic stunt work, and loads of suspense. Tom Cruse is really amazing doing his own stunts, and dubious "religious" affiliation aside, he seems like a mostly personable dude. I have a big problem with the MI series of movies, however. Deep down inside, I can never forgive them for shitting all over the Jim Phelps character. I grew up watching the MI TV series and while it never had the big set pieces or thrilling stunts of the movies, it had its charms in a low key, modestly grim, very cold war fashion. The series never went onto the characters much, but a few episodes through the years gave glimpses of their lives, and the deep bond among them. If they were anything, they were loyal. That was their whole thing. For the first movie to re-imagine Jim Phelps as a traitor was just about as big a "fuck you" to the fans of the series as it would be possible to imagine. I don't know who had that idea, or why, but running with it, to me, smacks of the laziest, most cliched writing possible. There are a million other, more interesting directions they could have gone, and they chose not to, so fuck those guys.
I think I've seen all of the movies, so they got my money, but I never can enjoy them unreservedly. I always get a bitter taste on my mouth.
This 100%. There's something incredibly mean-spirited and unpleasant about the way Phelps is written out. I mean, there's any number of ways he could have gone - failed mission, hardships of "the life" catching up with him, retirement, promotion - but they went with one that made him a mole and a traitor. It all comes across as rather... spiteful, somehow - "you thought this was your show and you were special? Now it's mine and I'm the special one!" There's no question it's a fuck you to the TV show, but (except having Phelps in the first one) the movies don't really have any connection to the TV show at all, other than the name and the theme tune. The whole raison d'être of the TV show was that missions were carried out with thought, care and precision - it was about using actual intelligence to resolve This Week's Problem rather than action. Not that there wasn't any action, of course, but that wasn't what the show primarily did and even when it did do action it was mostly a bit of fisticuffs. Whereas the movies are mostly about watching Tom Cruise do increasingly insane ego-stroking stunts with some boiler-plate spy stuff to string the effects sequences together. It's not that there isn't any pleasure in that - there absolutely is - but it's also why I tend to refer to the M:I movies as "Generic Action - The Movie". There's absolutely none of the personality of the TV show in them at all, and that's a real shame.
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