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Post by ck100 on Jun 7, 2021 3:15:58 GMT
Any fans of "The Rock" starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage and directed by Michael Bay? How has it held up after 25 years? For a lot of people, it's considered Michael Bay's best film although it's certainly not without flaws. I remember it having a really fancy two-disc DVD set. Now the movie has action figures for it. Leonard Maltin Movie Guide Review: The Rock (1996) - 2 out of 4 stars"Big, loud, often dumb action/suspense yarn about a disgruntled marine general who takes over Alcatraz, threatening to obliterate San Francisco with high-tech poison gas. Enter FBI biochemist Cage and long-imprisoned British agent Connery--the only man who ever escaped from The Rock--to lead a rescue team onto the island. Plenty of kinetic action and destruction, as well as contrivances and story holes. David Marshall Grant appears unbilled. Super 35."    |
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 7, 2021 3:36:06 GMT
Best Bay film.
The only thing that makes me laugh is when the government guy says the microfilm has the secrets of everything--the alien crash at Roswell--he makes it sound like aliens are real-which should be a bigger deal to the other guy--what?? Aliens are real?
Action figures eh?
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 7, 2021 3:38:30 GMT
I still find it hard to believe that Michael Bay is apparently capable of directing a movie that good, but he is.
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Post by ck100 on Jun 7, 2021 4:41:16 GMT
I still find it hard to believe that Michael Bay is apparently capable of directing a movie that good, but he is. What's that old saying? "Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while."
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Post by politicidal on Jun 7, 2021 14:03:54 GMT
Awesome movie. 8/10. Makes a great Nic Cage trilogy with Con Air and Face/Off.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 7, 2021 14:12:20 GMT
Awesome movie. 8/10. Makes a great Nic Cage trilogy with Con Air and Face/Off. I always think Bay also directed Con Air, but he did not.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 7, 2021 14:19:52 GMT
Awesome movie. 8/10. Makes a great Nic Cage trilogy with Con Air and Face/Off. I always think Bay also directed Con Air, but he did not. I think that's a common misconception, but it was instead Simon West ( Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; The Mechanic; The Expendables 2).
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Jun 7, 2021 14:22:42 GMT
Bay's best movie but I think he makes decent action movies when they are R rated.
His non R-rated stuff is mostly awful.
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Post by brandomarlon2003 on Jun 7, 2021 14:24:29 GMT
Con Air and The Rock are both from Jerry Bruckheimer films. They almost both feel like they are from the same director.
My favorite line from the movie -- "Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and f--- the prom queen."
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Post by brandomarlon2003 on Jun 7, 2021 14:32:14 GMT
The only PG-13 movie of Bay's I enjoy is "Armageddon". Each Transformers movie gets progressively worse. You know a movie is bad if Shia LaBeouf won't appear in it after three installments.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 7, 2021 14:41:17 GMT
I always think Bay also directed Con Air, but he did not. I think that's a common misconception, but it was instead Simon West ( Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; The Mechanic; The Expendables 2). I actually once listed Con Air on here as my favorite Michael Bay film, much to my later embarrassment.
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Post by janntosh on Jun 7, 2021 16:17:34 GMT
awesome movie. Credit should also be given to the villain General Hummel and Ed Harris' performance. A more complex, and sympathetic villain that you usually see in a typical action movie
fun fact the movie had uncredited script contributions from Jonathan Hensleigh (Die Hard With a Vengeance), Quentin Tarantino, and Aaron Sorkin
the shower scene is one of the most intense scenes I have ever scene with some great acting from Harris and Michael Biehn in a small role
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Jun 7, 2021 16:20:41 GMT
The Rock sucks ass. The only semi-watchable Bay film is The Island and even that is at best a 6 out of 10.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 7, 2021 16:29:10 GMT
Kid On Motorcycle: Hey man, you just fucked up your Ferrari.
Stanley Goodspeed: It's not mine.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jun 7, 2021 16:40:31 GMT
I'm very much anti-Michael Bay, but The Rock is a damn fine action movie.
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Post by jcush on Jun 7, 2021 18:32:36 GMT
Fun movie. Cage and Connery are awesome together and the Hans Zimmer score is very good.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 7, 2021 18:33:58 GMT
Still kicks ass.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Jun 8, 2021 22:02:13 GMT
I will try to make The Rock my next Criterion Collection purchase. On Blu-ray, when the next half off sale at Barnes and Noble commences.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 8, 2021 22:59:42 GMT
I will try to make The Rock my next Criterion Collection purchase. On Blu-ray, when the next half off sale at Barnes and Noble commences. No Criterion Blu-ray exists but the Disney release includes the same extras.
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Post by millar70 on Jun 8, 2021 23:44:18 GMT
Real good, real fun film.
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