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Post by damngumby on Nov 30, 2021 22:52:30 GMT
Saw it.
Barely passable. (And I’m being generous)
Just more of the same stuff we’ve seen endless times.
Yes, Ben Affleck vs. Matt Damon was distracting. Looked like two high school drama students trying to one up each other without bursting out laughing.
Oh yay, another movie with a washed out color palette and a ton of CGI.
What the eff was with those helmets? We need to see the actors face! So let’s design really dumb helmets to achieve that … authenticity and/or practicality be damned!
Spoilers below.
2.5 hours long … because they told the same story three freakin times. I mean, it might have been interesting if there had been significant differences between the points of view, but there really wasn’t. I also don’t need to see a woman get raped multiple times (same rape, different facial expressions). Looks like she didn’t like that! Oh, wow, looks like she really didn’t like it this time!
Isn’t it convenient that unwashed Kylo Ren showed up at the exact moment when he could get away with attacking miss home alone? Someone must have texted him that the coast was clear.
No heroes or villains to cheer or jeer for … unless you count men in general as the villains. Seems like the order of the day was to see who could be the biggest asshole.
The only “satisfying” part of the movie was in the postscript at the end when you learn her dick-head husband died a few years later and she lived happily ever after as a strong independent single mother ... in the 1300s. W.T.F. Was this thing directed by Ridley Scott or Allen Smithie?
Flaming arrows. Why is there always flaming arrows? Shhh, here they come, wait, wait, where’s my fire stick? Who’s got the freakin lighter? Argyle, can I borrow some fire? Good thing those approaching idiots don’t see or smell all those little fires everywhere as we wait to ambush them. Hey, why are we even in this movie? Oh, I see. Time for another battle scene that has nothing to do with the plot.
No CGI horses were harmed in the making of this film.
Kevin Costner school of foreign accents.
Yes, I was too generous.
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Post by damngumby on Nov 14, 2021 23:41:02 GMT
Did they really spend $200 million on this 2nd rate knock-off of National Treasure? (A 2nd rate movie in its own right)
I mean, the first 2/3 of the movie wasn’t bad. Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds were kinda hilarious. Good chemistry. Gal Gadot was fine (god, she can’t act her way out of a shoe box, but schwing!)
A little over half way through the movie, it was as if they replaced a relatively competent writer with a drooling moron. It got painfully idiotic.
At the end, it was obvious they expected a sequel. I wouldn’t count on it.
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Post by damngumby on Nov 6, 2021 3:30:10 GMT
1. Lawrence of Arabia … Arguably, the greatest movie ever made.
2. Patton … Can’t say enough about George C. Scott’s performance. Mesmerizing.
3. The Great Escape … Pure entertainment.
4. Apocalypse Now … Pure insanity.
5. Bridge over the River Kwai … Alex Guinness … old fashion movie making at it’s best.
6. Band of Brothers … Not a movie? Screw it. Arguably the best depiction of WW2 combat, ever.
7. Mr Limpet … what?!
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Post by damngumby on Nov 6, 2021 3:09:22 GMT
Aliens 3 and Star Trek 5 are the quintessential movies that ruined the childhood of many science fiction fans … until the Star Wars prequels said, hold my beer.
Aliens 4 was not bad, comparatively speaking. A slight up-blip before AvP and Prometheus curb-stomped the franchise into oblivion.
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Post by damngumby on Nov 6, 2021 2:46:55 GMT
Aliens
Aliens
Aliens
Aliens
Aliens
… wait, 10?
… uh, too much work … ok, fine.
… Predator is up there.
… Raiders of the Lost Ark is a no brainer.
… T2, the ultimate classic.
… The Road Warrior.
… The Warriors.
The 80’s rocked! Everything since has been a pale imitation.
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Post by damngumby on Oct 31, 2021 16:46:15 GMT
I just watched Dune 1984 up to the point where Dune 2021 ends.
Some random thoughts …
1. Dune 1984 casting is surprisingly solid. I prefer Jurgen Promchow over Oscar Isaac, Francisca Annis over Rebecca Ferguson, Richard Jordan over Jason Momoa, Dean Stockwell over Chang Chen, Brad Dourif over David Dastmalchian.
2. Dune 1984 set designs are also pretty good.
3. Dune 1984 spaceship design and FX are pretty bad, even for the early ‘80s.
4. Dune 1984 personal shield animation is comically horrible. Who the hell signed off on that!?
5. Dune 1984 sadomasochistic depiction of the Harkonanns is just weird. Off putting.
6. Not sure why Dune 2021 took twice as long to get to the same point in the story. It didn’t seem to add much, other than a few overlong fight sequences.
7. Dune 2021 ornithopter is the coolest sci-fi machine I’ve seen in a long time. Dune 1984 ornithopter is just awful.
8. I’m getting real tired of desaturated color correction, like in Dune 2021. Dune 1984 was certainly more vibrant in that regard.
9. I don’t think Dune 1984 was all that incomprehensible. It told the same story, the same sequence of events, as 2021.
10. The was no Paul vs disgruntled Freman fight to the death in Dune 1984. Though Stilgar made a comment about Paul that didn’t make much sense and I noticed the Freman carrying a body after the point in which the fight would have taken place … so I wonder if the fight was filmed, then cut. Seems like an odd thing to cut, since it was an important event in Paul’s acceptance by the Freman.
11. If one were to fix the dodgy 1984 FX, jettison the overwrought grotesqueness of the Harkonanns, add maybe 10 minutes of actual dialog to explain things instead of the voiceovers, then Dune 1984 would have been much closer to Dune 2021.
12. Despite the high quality of Dune 2021, it seemed rather sterile, predictable, almost boring. Like a fine filet mignon with minimal seasoning. Dune 1984 was like eating loaded nachos, prepared by a demented cook.
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Post by damngumby on Oct 31, 2021 13:27:50 GMT
More importantly these days - what is the acceptable pronoun when referring to the monster?
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Post by damngumby on Oct 23, 2021 23:27:21 GMT
The cop INTENDED to kill that person. It was done deliberately and with malice. Baldwin's action was accidental and he is devastated by it. The cop, no doubt, shrugged it off knowing that cops are always cleared by the internal "investigation." Are you fucking retarded?
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Post by damngumby on Oct 23, 2021 16:06:20 GMT
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Post by damngumby on Aug 9, 2021 21:33:30 GMT
WW84 didn’t Spider-Man 3 the Wonder Woman franchise?
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Post by damngumby on Aug 9, 2021 21:30:51 GMT
Margot Robbie is passable as Harley Quinn, but after watching Emma Stone knock it out of the park in Cruella, I think they missed a real opportunity to have a Heath Ledger quality super villain.
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Post by damngumby on Aug 9, 2021 21:21:26 GMT
Objective: Destroy Jötunheim. Simple solution: Stealth bomber. A couple laser guided bombs. Dumb solution: Send in a bunch of unpredictable, unreliable, super criminals. The objective was to make sure the project info didn't leak. Once informed the drive was secured, Waller was going to blow the team's heads off for trying to stop Starro. I dunno, blowing up and/or incinerating a hard drive is a pretty good way to make sure no one reads it. It’s certainly a better plan than secretly entrusting the true goal to a solitary dude. Also, I think I might have dozed off during the part where it was explained why Waller was intent on letting a giant zombie creating machine go free to take over the world once she made sure the USA would remain blameless … ‘cause without a damn good explanation, that made no sense.
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Post by damngumby on Aug 8, 2021 15:39:51 GMT
I think we need to retire The Rolling Stones and Harrison Ford before setting our sights on Paul Rudd.
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Post by damngumby on Aug 8, 2021 15:32:10 GMT
Which is the better James Gunn movie? GOTG was a delight. Original. I left the theater smiling. TSS had many of the same ingredients, but somehow it fell flat. It was as if Gunn was simply checking off items on a list of things that had worked previously. I think I completely checked out when the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man giant starfish throw-pillow started ransacking the city.
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Post by damngumby on Aug 8, 2021 13:55:42 GMT
Objective: Destroy Jötunheim.
Simple solution: Stealth bomber. A couple laser guided bombs.
Dumb solution: Send in a bunch of unpredictable, unreliable, super criminals.
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Post by damngumby on Aug 8, 2021 13:21:06 GMT
I'd love to see an R-rated Wonder Woman. Due to language, violence, or nudity?
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Post by damngumby on May 4, 2021 0:51:15 GMT
As a trilogy, TDKR movie really dragged it all down.
Similar trajectory to the Sam Rami Spider-Man movies.
Very good first movie, great second movie ... should have stopped there.
It took Marvel to offer up a satisfying series of movies, from beginning to end.
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Post by damngumby on Mar 4, 2021 22:47:39 GMT
Why are UFO sighting considered nutty these days? Don’t you guys read the news?
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Post by damngumby on Mar 4, 2021 0:53:30 GMT
Now apologize for suggesting that Aquaman was a really good movie and Joker has any place in a discussion about Marvel vs DC superhero movies. I think that will cover it. NEVER!!!
Ok. That made me laugh. 😁
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Post by damngumby on Mar 2, 2021 22:48:59 GMT
OK FOLKS WONDER WOMAN DID NOT BREAK A BILLION!!! I WAS WRONG!!! I'M SORRY FOR BEING WRONG!!! I SHOULD HAVE FOLLOWED MY OWN DOGMA AND DONE THE RESEARCH BEFORE I POSTED!!! I'M SORRY!!! I'M SORRY!!! I'M SORRRRRRYYYYYY!!!We good now?  Now apologize for suggesting that Aquaman was a really good movie and Joker has any place in a discussion about Marvel vs DC superhero movies. I think that will cover it.
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