Miguel Sanchez Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Armageddon is great. The Rock is a Nicolas Cage film were Nicolas Cage isn't the most ridiculous person in it despite playing a guy called Stanley Goodspeed. The Island I saw when I was 14 and features Scarlett Johansson in a skintight white onepiece in varying states of distress, so I'll not hear a word against it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 The Rock is an absolutely magnificent film. I agree he should have stopped after that though 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 The Island was a remake, so Bay gets no credit for the premise there. Supposedly his instructors at film school considered him one of the most talented students they'd ever had, but his real talent seems to be tapping into what the mass markets wants. Which is massive amounts of explosions, editing that causes confusion and panic, expensive CG that somehow looks impressive and painful simultaneously, depressing racial/gender stereotypes from yesteryear, and no thought required whatsoever from what little story exists. He's one of the most successful filmmakers ever, up there with Spielberg and James Cameron. He was also behind all those Aughts remakes of classic horror films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, so there's that. Thankfully someone seemed to persuade him that hot sexy shots of young women might be a bit inappropriate for the latter; a film about teens discovering they were abused by a maniac at nursery school. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 The Island was a ripoff, not a remake. They settled out of court. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) I can't do the brief, glib reviews any more. This was stupefying. I've seen bad films before. I've seen films I couldn't follow before. I've seen films where I didn't care about what was happening before. The second film was apparently panned much more than this and the first, and I'm not sure how. There's an irony that in a film about warring robotic aliens coming to Earth that absolutely nothing that happens bears any resemblance to any sort of reality ever experienced by anyone in the history of humanity. No one in this is real, and look who's in it. John Turturro! John Malkovich! Patrick Dempsey! Alan Tudyk! Frances McDormand! She has three Oscars! She didn't when she did this and she seems to be doing a bad Jane Lynch impression, but look at the names! People you've heard of who can actually act! Maybe it's a joke. An elaborate ruse. They all treat what's going on with the contempt it deserves. Kelsey Grammer is in the next one. Sideshow Bob, that'll improve things. You might have noticed if you've seen a Michael Bay film, but do me a favour if any of my reviews have intrigued you enough to give these a try. Count how many shots you see where the camera doesn't move. I don't know how people can watch these and not suffer from motion sickness. I checked the time as I was watching this and I was 1 hour 50 in. It felt like I'd been there for years. It felt like I'd been getting battered round the head by the robots too. Endless. Horrible. Ugly. Stupid. Insulting. Perverted. At least it wasn't racist. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 See also: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Miguel, take a look at the roster of actors who appeared in Uwe Boll's films I don't get the impression that many actors are terribly picky about the quality of films they appear in, and the ones who are seem to get into production so they have some level of control. Bad memories of working in the service industry during "rest" periods, I guess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 4 hours ago, BTFD said: Miguel, take a look at the roster of actors who appeared in Uwe Boll's films I don't get the impression that many actors are terribly picky about the quality of films they appear in, and the ones who are seem to get into production so they have some level of control. Bad memories of working in the service industry during "rest" periods, I guess. Me, watching the fourth one right now: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Why would you hurt yourself like this, Miguel? Whatever you did, it can't deserve this level of punishment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) This one hasn't finished yet. I fancy a holiday in Hong Kong. Hopefully the robotic dinosaurs and Stanley Tucci are gone by the time I get there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Kneelcaster Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 “All Quiet On The Western Front” (German remake) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 On 15/06/2023 at 18:16, Mark Connolly said: The Rock is an absolutely magnificent film. I agree he should have stopped after that though What a fucking cast The Rock had as well, absolutely loaded with big and decent names, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Took the kids to see Across the Spiderverse tonight. It's absolutely magnificent. Might even be better than the first one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 The Flash. Very, very enjoyable movie. Plenty of laughs and action. Spoiler The Flashpoint storyline has been done in comics and the TV show, so this is old ground, a little. Add to that, Marvel have ripped the arse out of the multiverse idea a lot lately, especially with the Spiderman movies, so what would have been really innovative had it come out 5 years ago is now a well worn path. But it is excellent. Moving dimensions to find that Batman has gone from Affleck to Keaton, and Keaton was just wonderful in it. He looked like he was just enjoying the hell out of it. Quote And then Clooney... Loads of cameos, and loads of CGI cameos of various Batmen and Supermen towards the end. Christopher Reeve showing up was actually a touch emotional Spoiler Nicolas Cage as Superman? Why not? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O_Kahn Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 The Long Good Friday: 8/10 Felt a bit foolish that I'd never got round to watching it - very enjoyable. Bob Hoskins is a force of nature, he just takes over the film. Lots of additional fun spotting random 80/90s British actors like P. H. Moriarty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) Exactly the same as all the others yet somehow less offensive. I'm just glad I'm done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 Night at the Museum (1-3) Diminishing returns on light family entertainment CGI. Lowlight was the replacement son in 3. What an irritating c**t. Fun. 6/10 for the trilogy. I can never understand why The Rock gets such good press on here. I can watch some awful pish but haven't made it past half an hour of that dreck. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 On 20/06/2023 at 12:30, O_Kahn said: The Long Good Friday: 8/10 Felt a bit foolish that I'd never got round to watching it - very enjoyable. Bob Hoskins is a force of nature, he just takes over the film. Lots of additional fun spotting random 80/90s British actors like P. H. Moriarty. The final scene, where he utters not a single word of dialogue, merely using his facial expressions to utilise his plight is absolutely magnificent, one of the finest pieces of acting you will ever see. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingRocketman II Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 On 20/06/2023 at 12:38, scottsdad said: The Flash. Very, very enjoyable movie. Plenty of laughs and action. but no Routh I hear which is unforgivable as Superman Returns along with Nolan's Batman movies are about the only real stand up DC movies of the last 20 years or so.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 1 hour ago, KingRocketman II said: but no Routh I hear which is unforgivable as Superman Returns along with Nolan's Batman movies are about the only real stand up DC movies of the last 20 years or so.... Routh did get to play Superman again in one of the Arrowverse crossovers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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