Don’t know if this has been mentioned but seriously the whole Nuclear arms Russia vs USA is ridiculously played out. MI:4 GP (trying to make it annoying)thought throwing in a random Swede would somehow make it better, so wrong.
Also, I am tired of people from TV series or movies where they are stuck in one role switch to another one. Jackie from that 70’s show does it and the worst is Kumar from Harold and Kumar, like how the shit can I take you seriously doctor Kumar?
Yeah…it seems like in spy movies almost ANYTHING will lead to Russia and the US needing to go to nuclear war.
I was thinking about those made for TV movies of the 80s and 90s that may have been based on some topical news item.
They would have interchangeable titles like Betrayal of Justice: The Jennifer Smith Story or maybe Shattered Innocence: The Melissa Martin Story
Or you could switch it to be Shattered Justice or Betrayal of Justice.
Akin to this are those direct to DVD action thrillers with titles that sound like some sort of government thingy like “Threat Option Delta” WHAT THE FUCK is a Threat Option?!?
Or Executive Impact,that’s such a shitty title (I just made it up) but would sound like something from a spoof of those kinds of movies.
I’ve noticed this in other movies, but most recently in ‘Tower Heist’: when a movie cuts back and forth between two events taking place that are clearly happening at different times. There’s a scene in said movie where Murphy and the walrus from ‘Precious’ (based on the book ‘Push’ by Saphire) are practicing breaking into safes at night and the other guys are off doing other stuff in the middle of the day, and director is cutting back and forth between the two as if they’re happening at the same time. It completely pulls me out of the movie and confuses the shit out of me.
The Good Guy lives OR The Good Guy turns out to be alive after a cool death scene.
Die…Just Die.
[quote]four60 wrote:
The Good Guy lives OR The Good Guy turns out to be alive after a cool death scene.
Die…Just Die.[/quote]
Its just a flesh wound
Volvos. Everywhere. Im sure there are more volvos in movies than there are in America.
[quote]americaninsweden wrote:
Also, I am tired of people from TV series or movies where they are stuck in one role switch to another one. Jackie from that 70’s show does it and the worst is Kumar from Harold and Kumar, like how the shit can I take you seriously doctor Kumar?[/quote]
I think it depends on the strength of the actor. Sean Connery was completely typecast as Bond, and said he was motivated to quit when people on the street started recognizing him as James Bond instead of Sean Connery. Tom Hanks made it big with Bosom Buddies, but he certainly went on to do a hell of a lot more. And maybe the best example is Doogie Houser, MD. That had to be one of the dumbest concepts ever and by all rights it should have killed Neil Patrick Harris’ career, but I think he redeemed himself with Barney.
What I’m sick of is ‘the new way’ of filming car chase scenes in action movies. They mount cameras on a car’s wheel well, or go with closeups of the grille or exhaust pipe. Yeah, it can be exciting, but half the time you can’t tell what the hell is going on.
I just watched the last Fast and Furious movie. Vin blocked a crow bar twice with his forearm while it was coming at him full force as if he was made of steal. I don’t care how bad ass you are, bone can still get broken.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I just watched the last Fast and Furious movie. Vin blocked a crow bar twice with his forearm while it was coming at him full force as if he was made of steal. I don’t care how bad ass you are, bone can still get broken.[/quote]
Even more so when its being swung by The Rock.
Could we possibly retread more comic book stories? I means seriously, how many X Men can you make. Or redo the story of spiderman, again. Or batman… Geez, there were so decent movies made from these stories but enough is enough.
I would be happy if they left the past well enough alone, I am so over retro. Does anybody have an origional idea anymore?
At $11:50 for a matinee, I don’t feel the urge to patronize my local theater. I went to see the Hunger Games, it wasn’t in 3D it wasn’t in IMAX it was $11.50. I almost told the poor ticket teen to go fuck himself, but my wife wouldn’t let me. So I walked from the ticket office like I just got prison raped.
It’s going to be a looooong time before I see another movie in the theater. I got a high def TV and a Hi-Fi, and a little patience.
[quote]Marzouk wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I just watched the last Fast and Furious movie. Vin blocked a crow bar twice with his forearm while it was coming at him full force as if he was made of steal. I don’t care how bad ass you are, bone can still get broken.[/quote]
Even more so when its being swung by The Rock. [/quote]
Yeah…don’t get me started on that whole Rock vs Vin fight. I know its Vins movie but come onnnnnnnn!
I didn’t see that latest Fast & Furious but if Vin beat The Rock I call that movie a goddamned liar.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Also in sci-fi is no one seems to eat chocolate or drink whiskey from earth anymore. It all has to be Aldebarran whiskey or Tarkalian chocolate.[/quote]
Once you’ve tasted Tarkalian chocolate there’s no going back to Hersheys.
[quote]four60 wrote:
[quote]Marzouk wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I just watched the last Fast and Furious movie. Vin blocked a crow bar twice with his forearm while it was coming at him full force as if he was made of steal. I don’t care how bad ass you are, bone can still get broken.[/quote]
Even more so when its being swung by The Rock. [/quote]
Yeah…don’t get me started on that whole Rock vs Vin fight. I know its Vins movie but come onnnnnnnn![/quote]
Tell me about it, vin is like 5’ 8’’ wearing Platform shoes to make him look bigger, The Rock a
6’4’’ Behemoth of a man. Getting thrown around by a short overweight Italian guy was a little
comical. But Vin’s character is a bad ass so it fits with the Story.
[quote]Nards wrote:
This is a sci-fi one…but when someone dies and there’s a funeral, it seems like only Earthlings mourn their dead. Every other alien race seems to think that the death of a loved one is just a new beginning and that the life of the one who’s dead should be celebrated.
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The Heaven’s Gate cult make David Icke look like a model of sanity:
[quote]GCF wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
Also in sci-fi is no one seems to eat chocolate or drink whiskey from earth anymore. It all has to be Aldebarran whiskey or Tarkalian chocolate.[/quote]
Once you’ve tasted Tarkalian chocolate there’s no going back to Hersheys.[/quote]
Exotic, yet familiar. Klingon ice cream is a dish best served cold. Made with real Klingons.
In James Bond movies when they act like this latest Bond girl is the first one that’s not a damsel in distress.
Y’know what? There’s never been a Bond girl that was a damsel in distress…from the very beginning they were always tough and never seemed to show much fear…yet every interview time or when they’re promoting the new movie they act like this “strong female lead” is a new thing.
[quote]Nards wrote:
In James Bond movies when they act like this latest Bond girl is the first one that’s not a damsel in distress.
Y’know what? There’s never been a Bond girl that was a damsel in distress…from the very beginning they were always tough and never seemed to show much fear…yet every interview time or when they’re promoting the new movie they act like this “strong female lead” is a new thing.[/quote]
Good point, Nards. The tough and non-helpless female characters are straight out of the original books. I always thought Ian Fleming was underrated as an novelist. In fact, one of his last Bond books, The Spy Who Loved Me, is written entirely from the viewpoint of a woman who meets Bond and recruits him to help get her out trouble with some criminals. (The book’s plot bears no resemblance at all to the Roger Moore movie.)
Actually that’s one thing that I’m sick of in movies: when a book gets adapted for the screen and they completely mess with the characters and plot for no apparent reason. Yea, you need to cut some things to keep a movie under two hours, but that rarely explains major changes.
Made an account to say I love this thread.