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Post by selfworth10 on Jun 13, 2020 21:52:18 GMT
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Post by Catman on Jun 13, 2020 21:58:58 GMT
How could they have gone wrong with another Judi Dench picture?  |
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Post by politicidal on Jun 13, 2020 22:36:31 GMT
It seems like something twenty years too late;not that it'd qualify as good back in the 2000s. Maybe they should have made it a tv series. Kind of like A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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Post by darkpast on Jun 14, 2020 4:26:51 GMT
Razzies avoided , or do they make a streaming exception this year for intended for theater films  |
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Post by politicidal on Jun 14, 2020 15:56:22 GMT
Dame Judy Dench is a jinx. She should retire. That way she can hang with her biker friends more often.  |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 15, 2020 10:13:27 GMT
Dame Judy Dench is a jinx. She should retire. That way she can hang with her biker friends more often. I'm still waiting for her to play Dante Hicks. Couldn't be worse than her last few roles. |
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Post by selfworth10 on Jun 16, 2020 18:51:48 GMT
Disney was right to not release this in theaters
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Post by selfworth10 on Jun 16, 2020 18:53:18 GMT
Battlefield Earth meets Harry potter. OUCH!
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Post by amyghost on Jun 16, 2020 19:48:26 GMT
She should retire. That way she can hang with her biker friends more often. I'm still waiting for her to play Dante Hicks. Couldn't be worse than her last few roles. There's life in her yet. I'm betting she'll come back with a wowser that'll wipe out the bad flavor of those last couple of stinkers. |
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Post by Vits on Jul 1, 2020 16:42:12 GMT
Since the beginning of ARTEMIS FOWL resembles a lot of fantasy movies (a boy discovers something magical/supernatural after the death/kidnapping of their parent/legal guardian), it's only natural to assume that the rest of the movie will follow the formula. Does the title character go on a long journey to defeat the villain? Nope. He stays at home for most of the running time while certain creatures visit him. It's honestly hard to tell if this is a deconstruction of the tropes or a sincere and failed attempt at following the genre conventions. Either way, the plot that we get is quite uneventful. I understand replacing the cliché of the young protagonist who gazes in awe at every new experience with someone who's always confident about being in control of the situation, but Artemis just isn't very interesting. And his friendship with Holly Short (an elf) is very rushed. Without getting into spoilers, there's a scene where a character is briefly believed to be dead. The exact same thing happens for a second time! 10 minutes later! Most of the shot compositions don't really make sense. There are a couple of times where the camera movements enliven an otherwise standard scene, but they're the minority. For the most part, they make the action sequences hard to follow. So does Matthew Tucker's editing. Due to all these problems with Kenneth Branagh's directing and with Hamish McColl and Conor McPherson's script, the actors can't do much. Judi Dench's performance is terrible, but Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Josh Gad and Nonso Anozie manage to shine once or twice. 3/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog.Razzies avoided , or do they make a streaming exception this year for intended for theater films It's being discussed. |
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