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Post by moviemouth on Aug 7, 2020 19:01:05 GMT
There is no X-Men movie he gave a terrible review. I think you are talking about either X-Men (2000) or First Class. He rated both 2.5/4 stars. He might have wrote what you say he wrote about genre films, but he seemed to like comic book movies a lot. You are picking out the exceptions. I will admit that there are many examples of him either not paying close enough attention to certain movies or he just didn't "get" them. When you are watching the amount of movies he watched that is going to happen. He would often rate up to 7 movies a week and those reviews are based on just one viewing. He wrote about a specific scene in X2 which he completely misunderstood. Unfortunately for me the comment I remember are not in the review on rogerebert.com, and he gave the movie 3 stars which surprises me so perhaps I am misremembering how he reviewed sci-fi. I am fairly certain about my memory of his comments on a certain scene and I wonder if he rewrote the review after someone told him he misunderstood it. Ebert is the only reviewer I ever bothered to read because he's the only one that seemed to understand his job was not to tell me if he liked the movie but to give me enough information for me to decide if I would like the movie. He did both and he was often very good at it. As I have stated before, the job of a good critic is to be a useful guide on what to watch and what to avoid watching or to put off. It is more so in reading their reviews though. Just knowing what a critic rates a movie tells you very little about whether you will like it or not.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 10, 2020 5:45:45 GMT
I actually really liked Dr Grant and Ian Malcolm. I liked Muldoon's character, but he was used poorly in the film. He was built up as this badass dinosaur hunter, only to be quickly killed off. In Lost World they had a similar character (forget his name, he was the bald guy that wanted to hunt a t. rex) that was closer to what I wanted Muldoon to be. Muldoon was wasted. But I think the concept of JP was flawed--it should have been like the Poseidon Adventure with dinosaurs--so they have more tourists and have to get out of there with Grant as the guide. That idea was used in JP 3.
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Post by avocadojoe on Aug 19, 2020 17:49:32 GMT
I like part 3 a lot. It has some of my favorite characters, like Chuck and Chili and Shelly and Rick is sexy and Andy is a cutie pie and I love Vera. But the final girl, Chris, I don't like at all. Dana Kimmel has always come across as a snob. I always wanted Chris and Vera to switch places. The boyfriend in part 7 is HOT. Also gay irl. Nice! Part five is pretty fun, and Ethel is hilarious. "YOU BIG DILDO!"Part six has Dudley from "Diffrent Strokes". I am watching part 3 right now. Been yonks and forgot how cool the characterisations are and the film has some amusing moments with them. Yes, Chris is whiney and insipid. Vera would have made for a tougher final girl and she is pretty and likeable.
avocadojoe , had a bit of a FT13th binge over the past 10 days in this order, Part 3, Part 6, Freddy vs Jason, Part 4, the horrid, horrid reboot Friday The 13th - 09' and Part 5. What an awful experience the remake was. An extended opening with a flatly directed credit sequence that was a re-imagining of Mrs. Voorhees death, choppy editing and epileptic camera work, an introduction of pot smoking, sex-crazed young people that were unappealing in every sense of the word and a Jason that moves too fast, bland and insipid looking title card appearance after 20mins into film and then the worst bunch of 20 somethings you could imagine ready for the slaughter.
The film has no sense of style, a muted color scheme and no parody or even suggested irony in the performances. Just bad millennial actors given no direction, other than what appears to be basic instruction and reading their lines as memorized and doing what they wanted. Marcus Nispel is an awful director, as he proved with his millennial Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Conan reboots and that he was even allowed to do Conan after the mess he made of TCM and FT13th is bamboozling in the extreme. It's like he didn't even know what made these films popular and fun. By the numbers and routine film-making.
After watching the majority of the originals, I still hold my gravitation towards Part 5, which took over from Part 6. I just love the characters and setting and atmosphere. Part 3 has always delivered the goods with cool characters and kills and Part 4: The Final Chapter appears to take a more darker, grittier approach, though I don't find it as fun as 3, 5 or 6. I'd say it attempts very hard to get some creepiness into it.
I have not seen the reboot, Toasty. But your description of it, especially the "epileptic camera work" and unappealing 20 somethings is pretty much exactly what I would have expected from it. The onslaught of slasher remakes was dreadful, imo, and pretty much interchangeable. And I hated the TCM remake thing. Part 4 was relatively gruesome. I liked it, though. It had the most recognizable cast members. The final girl, whom I don't mind, was on "The Brady Bunch" tv show (which is kind of a big deal for this generation x-er!), Lawrence Monoson, Peter Barton, Corey Feldman, etc. The movie came out on 1984 and me and a friend would have been 14 years old and we snuck in the side entrance to the theater so we could see it! Ha! As I recall, we did the same thing the following year with "The Breakfast Club". You never do find out if the nice mom gets killed or not. |
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Aug 20, 2020 9:12:03 GMT
I am watching part 3 right now. Been yonks and forgot how cool the characterisations are and the film has some amusing moments with them. Yes, Chris is whiney and insipid. Vera would have made for a tougher final girl and she is pretty and likeable.
avocadojoe , had a bit of a FT13th binge over the past 10 days in this order, Part 3, Part 6, Freddy vs Jason, Part 4, the horrid, horrid reboot Friday The 13th - 09' and Part 5. What an awful experience the remake was. An extended opening with a flatly directed credit sequence that was a re-imagining of Mrs. Voorhees death, choppy editing and epileptic camera work, an introduction of pot smoking, sex-crazed young people that were unappealing in every sense of the word and a Jason that moves too fast, bland and insipid looking title card appearance after 20mins into film and then the worst bunch of 20 somethings you could imagine ready for the slaughter.
The film has no sense of style, a muted color scheme and no parody or even suggested irony in the performances. Just bad millennial actors given no direction, other than what appears to be basic instruction and reading their lines as memorized and doing what they wanted. Marcus Nispel is an awful director, as he proved with his millennial Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Conan reboots and that he was even allowed to do Conan after the mess he made of TCM and FT13th is bamboozling in the extreme. It's like he didn't even know what made these films popular and fun. By the numbers and routine film-making.
After watching the majority of the originals, I still hold my gravitation towards Part 5, which took over from Part 6. I just love the characters and setting and atmosphere. Part 3 has always delivered the goods with cool characters and kills and Part 4: The Final Chapter appears to take a more darker, grittier approach, though I don't find it as fun as 3, 5 or 6. I'd say it attempts very hard to get some creepiness into it. The onslaught of slasher remakes was dreadful, imo, and pretty much interchangeable. And I hated the TCM remake thing. Part 4 was relatively gruesome. I liked it, though. It had the most recognizable cast members. The final girl, whom I don't mind, was on "The Brady Bunch" tv show (which is kind of a big deal for this generation x-er!), Lawrence Monoson, Peter Barton, Corey Feldman, etc. The movie came out on 1984 and me and a friend would have been 14 years old and we snuck in the side entrance to the theater so we could see it! Ha! As I recall, we did the same thing the following year with "The Breakfast Club". You never do find out if the nice mom gets killed or not. I wouldn't waste your time with it. I never want to see it again. I might give my blu ray away, I don't want it contaminating my collection....  Another terrible one and may perhaps be even worse, is the reboot of My Bloody Valentine - 09'FT13th part 3 was pretty much an event movie for its time due to the 3D process. Even in 2D it is a fine entry and the characters are enjoyable and the horror set pieces are well presented. Part 4, most of the characters are just jerks, but they are balanced out by Tommy, Trish and Rob The Jason Hunter and it does have a terrific climax. I was quite devastated by hunky Rob's death scene and a good case scenario where sometimes less is more..."He's killing me....he's killing me!" In a scene cut from the film, I read that Mom was found drowned in a bathtub. You also don't know what happened to the dog who flew out the window. I can't recall, was that the last we saw of the dog? Part 4 was heavily censored by the MPAA but still got by with enough blood and sometimes lingering on the death can also take some of the impact away by revealing how fake looking the make-up effects can be. Most of the deaths were cut even more from the theatrical version in the UK and Oz. I was lucky in NZ at the time, we had the US R rated print, although I wasn't aware of the even more censored version until it came out on VHS which was taken from a UK master. I was livid! I wrote a letter to Rigby CIC the distributor in NZ expressing my outrage.  I was pretty excited to see The Final Chapter after thoroughly enjoying Part 3. I still hadn't seen Part 2. It was rated R16 in NZ, no one under 16 will be admitted, with a censors note: Graphic Violence May Disturb. I would say this would be more attributed to the graphic scenes of Jason being attacked by Trish and Tommy in the climax chase. A final girl and a final kid made a nice spin on the slasher formula.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Aug 20, 2020 9:30:35 GMT
Is that what they are doing in your avatar? Approving slasher movies? "Friday on Elm gives it 5 sharp fingers and three machetes. He likes it!"
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