[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I haven’t seen it but the reviews for Taken 3 were not that good. I know most movies are usually shit by their 3rd installment but I figured this one might still be worth watching.[/quote]
Wasn’t Taken 2 pretty bad also? Haven’t been able to convince myself to watch it yet. The first one was a damn-near perfect revenge flick though.[/quote]
Taken 2 was pretty bad. [/quote]
It lost me during the trailer when his daughter was hurling grenades at bad guys. Couldn’t pay me to watch the sequels. The first one is pretty badass though.
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Dude, its even better than that. She’s hurling grenades so her dad, who is tied up, can figure out where she is in relation to him based off the sound.
It’s watchable, but nothing like Taken. [/quote]
Hahaha. That’s almost as ridiculous as Arnold telling the random soldier in Commando to make sure he’s not downwind of Bennet’s incoming invaders. When the soldier looks at him all puzzled and asks, “you think they can smell me coming” Matrix replies “I did”. God damn I love Arnold.
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Lucy - Cool premise, incredibly hot leading lady, terrible movie. I can’t believe I sat through the whole thing. They basically took the plot from Limitless (which I liked a lot), quadrupled down on the whole “the human brain can do amazing things if it can be fully utilized” concept to the point of complete fucking absurdity, added a Yakuza element, and traded Bradley Cooper for Scarlett Johansson. That is this movie in a nutshell. It fucking sucks.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I haven’t seen it but the reviews for Taken 3 were not that good. I know most movies are usually shit by their 3rd installment but I figured this one might still be worth watching.[/quote]
Wasn’t Taken 2 pretty bad also? Haven’t been able to convince myself to watch it yet. The first one was a damn-near perfect revenge flick though.[/quote]
To call it a steaming turd is a compliment. It’s a shameless cash-in on the original.
Guardians of the Galaxy - fun, entertaining movie. Whoever hit on the concept of featuring the music should be given a medal.
The Giver - watched it with kids. They enjoyed it, but remarked there’s very little action in it. Some pushing and a motorcycle chase. Good movie for kids too young for PG-13 but who want to feel like they’re watching a “big kids” movie.
American Sniper–damn. The entire theater sat in silence for a couple of minutes after the screen went black and just credits were on the screen. Everyone walked out in silence (no song over the credits). Moving. Makes me question my manhood. Cooper is great in it.
Just saw American Sniper, outstanding movie overall.
I was a little skeptical with Bradley Cooper playing the role of Chris Kyle, but he nailed it perfectly. His physical transformation only shows his respect for Chris Kyle, the resemblance is striking. He should be among those in the runnings for an Academy Award. This movie brings you in, from start to finish. The ending will leave you scratching your head, as in a WTF happened kinda way.
Clint Eastwood also stepped up his game as a director, raw and gritty yet not so much as to dehumanize Chris Kyle or his story.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
The Equalizer - This is your typical “retired super-agent/soldier” revenge flick, in the same vein as Taken and Man on Fire, but with a much less-compelling motive than the others. I thought the action sequences were very well done though, and Denzel is great in these roles (still, somehow, at 60 years old). The action does get a little too over-the-top towards the end, even bordering on campy, with more action movie tropes than you can shake a slow-motion-walk-away-from-an-explosion at.
Despite that, it’s still an entertaining movie, so it’s worth a rent from Xbox video or Amazon or whatever rental service you use.[/quote]
Agree on all accounts, although the scene in the big box hardware store had me thinking of TN. I think the relationship between Denzel and the girl was derivative of Jean Reno and Natalie Portman in The Professional.
Glad to hear you say this, Max. Although I haven’t yet seen the film, I had some reservations due in part to the fact that Eastwood often hypes a character to the point of caricature.
I loved the first one and would give it 4/5 stars.
The violence was more stylized in the second one and the actors were less believable/compelling. On the plus side, I loved the battles at sea and Eva Greens tits.
I actually found American Sniper poorly directed. The film doesn’t flow very well.
That being said, I wouldn’t have known that is Bradley Cooper unless you told me, and that pretty much is the epitome of great acting imo. Most everyone gives solid acting, the film raises true and great tension, and you do get to know what it means to fight in the Iraq War. It’s not pretty, and the film never bothers to hide the fact.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
The Equalizer - This is your typical “retired super-agent/soldier” revenge flick, in the same vein as Taken and Man on Fire, but with a much less-compelling motive than the others. I thought the action sequences were very well done though, and Denzel is great in these roles (still, somehow, at 60 years old). The action does get a little too over-the-top towards the end, even bordering on campy, with more action movie tropes than you can shake a slow-motion-walk-away-from-an-explosion at.
Despite that, it’s still an entertaining movie, so it’s worth a rent from Xbox video or Amazon or whatever rental service you use.[/quote]
Agree on all accounts, although the scene in the big box hardware store had me thinking of TN. I think the relationship between Denzel and the girl was derivative of Jean Reno and Natalie Portman in The Professional.
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lol I had the exact same thought about the home depot thing hahhaahahhaha
[quote]doogie wrote:
American Sniper–damn. The entire theater sat in silence for a couple of minutes after the screen went black and just credits were on the screen. Everyone walked out in silence (no song over the credits). Moving. Makes me question my manhood. Cooper is great in it.[/quote]
Exactly my experience and assessment.[/quote]
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There was a group of dickheads two rows behind me that were talking throughout the previews, and through the entire first scene of the film. They settled down quickly after that, and didn’t make a peep the rest of the way. The entire audience was completely silent all the way to the parking lot after the ending.
The ending felt a lot like Lone Survivor…it really made the tragedy of the story sink in and took a while to process.
I did laugh my ass off when Chris and his wife were about to fuck for the first time during her first pregnancy: “You’re nervous? I’m scared some little alien’s gonna reach outta there and grab me!”
Haven’t seen American Sniper yet, and the acting in Gran Torino was so bad I couldn’t finish it, but other’n that I really enjoy Eastwood’s directing. Feel like he’s a way better director than actor, even though all of his movies are incredibly depressing.
I watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters last night. It was okay but I was a bit disappointed. I didn’t like the actor who played Mishima and the fragments from different stories interwoven with the day of his suicide is very disorientating and doesn’t serve as any kind of plot device. It’s more like a pastiche of a few different stories; none of them with background plot or character development and without any meaningful resolution. It suffers from the same flaws as many “art house”, avant-garde and experimental films. They have no plot development, no cohesion. They’re trying to create a certain aesthetic look and a “theme” in place of plot and character development.
