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Post by WullieFort on Dec 16, 2019 15:50:30 GMT
This latest offering from the King of the "Flash Bang Wallop" action movies, Michael Bay is well up to his previous offerings. It's highly improbable, glossy, with multiple glamorous locations worldwide. a light-hearted leading man, Ryan Reynolds, who ought to consider remaking some of Cary Grant's old stuff, a good-looking, athletic support cast and Lior Raz, the Israeli actor, who starred in Fauda, as the bad guy.
The 6 are on a revenge mission to unseat the despotic leader of as Asian country. "One of those 'stan places", one of the 6 explains. The resulting mayhem is spectacular, lightning-fast and plentiful and includes a fantasy of mine that features one of those amazing rooftop glass-enclosed swimming pools on top of a Hong Kong skyscraper. Lior Raz just about steals the picture, turning in a bravura performance with tongue-in-cheek menace. In my mind's eye, I can visualise him, sometime in the future, introducing himself with "Well then, Mr Bond, I am the man who is going to ensure that your Martini is well shaken".
IMDb ranks it as 6.2 from approx 30000 viewers. WTF do they know? I give it an 8. It's great fun.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 16, 2019 16:00:23 GMT
Great song.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 16, 2019 16:12:16 GMT
It sounds like it's VERY Michael Bay. Which means that it will certainly appeal to a good number of people and that I will find it insufferably obnoxious and difficult to watch.
My only question is which movie titled with 'under' looks worse; 6 Underground or Underwater?
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Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 16, 2019 16:14:04 GMT
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Dec 16, 2019 16:20:06 GMT
13 Hours is underrated.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 16, 2019 16:22:35 GMT
It sounds like it's VERY Michael Bay. Which means that it will certainly appeal to a good number of people and that I will find it insufferably obnoxious and difficult to watch. My only question is which movie titled with 'under' looks worse; 6 Underground or Underwater? Underwater looks epic and fan-friggin'-tastic! I thought it was an Alien at the end of the clip at first! I'm hyped and can't wait!
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 16, 2019 16:37:57 GMT
It sounds like it's VERY Michael Bay. Which means that it will certainly appeal to a good number of people and that I will find it insufferably obnoxious and difficult to watch. My only question is which movie titled with 'under' looks worse; 6 Underground or Underwater? Underwater looks epic and fan-friggin'-tastic! I thought it was an Alien at the end of the clip at first! I'm hyped and can't wait! I thought it looked awful, and I wasn't surprised to hear that it sat on the shelf for over year and is being dumped in January (though some of that may have more to nobody's favorite comic actor TJ Miller, or the Fox/Disney thing than with the movie otherwise.)... '7 miles of water pressure is no match for our scuba suits!' I heard laughter at the trailer in the theater... But, hey, I liked Freddy vs Jason, so what do I know?
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Post by MrFurious on Dec 16, 2019 16:48:58 GMT
Will watch it in February when I finally try my free month of Netflix, along with The Irishman, that pope movie and Marriage Story etc
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Dec 16, 2019 16:49:01 GMT
That is the exact thing I thought of when I saw this thread title. |
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Dec 16, 2019 16:57:19 GMT
Michael Bay....The only movie Michael Bay has ever made that hasn’t sucked total goat balls is The Island. Literally every other movie that he has directed or is otherwise responsible for are steaming piles of hot dogshit. Every single one. If Michael Bay’s movies were a person they’d be Donald Trump - loud, obnoxious, stupid as all fuck, and totally without any kind of merit whatsoever. If Michael Bay’s movies were a dog it’d be taken out back and shot.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 16, 2019 16:58:56 GMT
Michael Bay....The only movie Michael Bay has ever made that hasn’t sucked total goat balls is The Island. Literally every other movie that he has directed or is otherwise responsible for are steaming piles of hot dogshit. Every single one. If Michael Bay’s movies were a person they’d be Donald Trump - loud, obnoxious, stupid as all fuck, and totally without any kind of merit whatsoever. If Michael Bay’s movies were a dog it’d be taken out back and shot. The Island also sucks total goat balls.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 16, 2019 16:59:03 GMT
Michael Bay....The only movie Michael Bay has ever made that hasn’t sucked total goat balls is The Island. Literally every other movie that he has directed or is otherwise responsible for are steaming piles of hot dogshit. Every single one. If Michael Bay’s movies were a person they’d be Donald Trump - loud, obnoxious, stupid as all fuck, and totally without any kind of merit whatsoever. If Michael Bay’s movies were a dog it’d be taken out back and shot. The Rock pees all over The Island. McGregor stinks up the place (in both roles!)
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Dec 16, 2019 17:03:05 GMT
Michael Bay....The only movie Michael Bay has ever made that hasn’t sucked total goat balls is The Island. Literally every other movie that he has directed or is otherwise responsible for are steaming piles of hot dogshit. Every single one. If Michael Bay’s movies were a person they’d be Donald Trump - loud, obnoxious, stupid as all fuck, and totally without any kind of merit whatsoever. If Michael Bay’s movies were a dog it’d be taken out back and shot. The Island also sucks total goat balls. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like the Island is Godfather II, it just sucks less than his other “films.” |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 16, 2019 17:03:06 GMT
I was in the mood for some brainless entertainment last night so I watched this one. It started well enough with that pretty spectacular sequence in Florence (it's refreshing to see a high-speed car chase with shootouts where bystanders don't miraculously go unscathed), but I can't say I agree with your overall assessment. It wasn't a complete waste of time but I expect my brainless entertainment to be a little less brainless.
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Post by DSDSquared on Dec 16, 2019 17:42:59 GMT
The Island also sucks total goat balls. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like the Island is Godfather II, it just sucks less than his other “films.” Movies WAY better than The Island:
The Rock Pain and Gain 13 Hours
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 16, 2019 18:07:57 GMT
I like Bay's Texas Chainsaw Massacre with Jessica Biel - doesn't compare to the original - but it's decent in it's own right  I also thought his take on F13th was decent - and who didn't like the original Transformers |
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