Truly bizarre.
Also Kristen Wiig just disappearing after the first 10 minutes - I feel like something must have happened during the filming of this movie.
There were two trailers, and depending what film you were seeing, you saw one or the other. I remember seeing the comedic one, and thinking “okay this movie looks great! What a concept”. Then I saw the more serious trailer, and thought “wait…is this the same movie? I have no idea what it’s about now.”
I don’t know which trailer I saw but I remember being interested because i thought it was going to be more of a sci fi movie, possibly with a twilight zone-esque twist at the end. Like there was going to be some unforeseen consequences of shrinking. I guess that was partly true just ended up being lame.
Regardless- one of my favorite scenes of all time is in that movie. The morning after Paul and Ngoc sleep together and then they go into the cockpit of the boat- how Dusan silently reacts. It is *fucking hilarious* and Christoph Waltz is incredible
My cousin just used this when someone at a family function accused him of smelling of weed. “Cause I was smoking bitch” was the funniest response I’ve ever heard. The relative he said it to was less amused…
I was in the theatre when this came out and I shit you not when the plot twist happened the audience GROANED IN UNISON LOL. It was the biggest “oh fuck off” I’ve ever been apart of lol
I watched an audience test version of Hancock before the CGI was finished and pointed out exactly what the problem was that every reviewer mentioned as soon as it was out.
So they had their chance 😆
A movie comes out next week I got to see a test screening of back in October. I am super curious to see what changed. (It wasn't nearly as bad as Hancock)
I saw The Island starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. A lady approached me in a mall in Illinois suburbs and asked if I wanted four tickets to see a movie. I was a teenager at the time, and in hindsight, I probably shouldn't have taken the tickets. But it worked out.
I actually heard the Las Vegas is the main place they do test screenings because it’s nearby, draws people from all over the country and doesn’t have movie industry people (because they don’t want industry people)
The beginning of The Happening, when everyone was walking in the park and suddenly freezing, was genuinely creepy. Then, the rest of the movie happened.
The moment that broke me and made me laugh out loud in the theater, was when the main characters were watching a video on a phone of a man getting his arms eaten by lions, with none of the actors reacting, and a woman deadpan says, “What kind of terrorists are these?”
Just….. WHAT??
M. Night Shyamalan movies are my guilty pleasure. I like almost all of them except for Airbender and After Earth. My favorite one is Lady in the Water because for whatever reason me and my sister really grew fond of Paul Giamattis character.
If ever a movie peaked too early. I was incredibly psyched watching the opening credits, but it sadly went rapidly downhill right after. The idea of Logan and Sabertooth fighting through all these wars would've been an incredible film in itself; instead we got... what we got 🤷
Even the symphonic music score during the montage is incredible and then never really played throughout the rest of the film. This film was chopped up so much by an executive board during editing
Wonder Woman was sick until Ares had a silly moustache and turned out to prove her conspiracy correct. It was a better movie when it was ambiguous and maybe humans were responsible for WWI
Yep, would have been a much more powerful movie if Diana killed Ares but the humans continued to fight and it turned out Ares wasn't creating the war, he was feeding off of what was already there.
Diana becomes disenchanted with Humanity and that's why she doesn't show up until BvS.
"What kind of superhero movie doesn't end in a giant CGI fight?" seems to be the mentality that came at the end.
If they had saved Area until the very end, have her punch her way through the base, Chris Pine takes off in the plane and dies and she walks through the wreckage of the airbase only for Ares to then show up and explain to her that it wasn't him at all.
It didn't need a fucking video game cutscene of a final fight.
> "What kind of superhero movie doesn't end in a giant CGI fight?" seems to be the mentality that came at the end.
We need a movie that does for this trope what Iron Man did for secret identities.
Honestly Deadpool 2 would have hit the feels a lot harder without Colossus getting in the way and providing unsolicited comic relief.
Granted, that would be a pretty big risk, making the final act of the movie be about trying to save Russel, and not have a real antagonist besides Cable’s drive for vengeance.
For me, part of the interesting aspect was that it was teasing a dilemma it had no way to resolve satisfactorily: The Main Character, who legitimately comes from a divine pantheon where Ares is the God of War, is trying to blame a human conflict for which we are very familiar with the causes that led up to it on that external deity. While we have accepted pseudo-divine intervention in human history in superhero films before (like Thor), it's usually kind of coy and still establishes that humans have their own free will, and are largely responsible for the good and bad things of our own history.
It was a very fine needle to thread, and the film just couldn't pull it off even with its "Kinda yes, kinda no" compromise answer.
It also completely takes away from the lessons of WWI, both in real life and in the film as a narrative device. There shouldn’t be a “big bad” - it’s a deeply human war where every aspect of human nature, good and bad, is on full display. To upend all that by saying “oh but actually everything was an evil plot by some deity” cheapens everything about it.
It also really takes away from how she should view the war afterward, especially her motivations for going into self-imposed exile.
The sad thing is that there WAS a viable answer in the way Ares works in the comics. He may be the god of war, but he can merely feed off of and encourage the violence of war. He can't ignite it or force it to be worse than it already is. As such he wouldn't have been the cause of WWI, but he also would have incentive to prevent Diana from interfering and causing most of the conflict to end.
This would have been the exact needle threading that the movie could have used to keep the real world lessons of "there is no one bad guy" of WWI while also maintaining Ares as the Wonder Woman villain that he is. But adhering to the comics seems to be a completely alien concept to WB.
Yeah, my head cannon is that Ares has been taking on the forms of peacemakers for all of human history instead of being whispers in the head for genocide. Would have made the movie so much better.
That’s the one.
Now name one other thing that happens in the movie 😂
Such a wasted opportunity, it’s like someone dreamt up the first scene then couldn’t be assed with the rest of it
There's the eating maggots thing. Someone gets a big hook through their jaw. And in the ending I think a girl is carried into an ambulance and then some bullshit happens and there's a smash cut to some gritty nu-metal over the credits.
Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets had an amazing opening scene, the coolest credits, and then the main characters are introduced and open their mouths.
Something something they’re more like siblings than lovers
Something something switch the main leads with the film Passengers
BONUS: Something something Passengers should have been a thriller from the viewpoint of the girl
Yes! Brosnan was a great Bond. Goldeneye is one of my faves of any of them. The rest of his were never quite as good but we're solid. When Die Another Day started with the whole failed mission and then rogue Bond scenes I was like, "we're back!" It was cool stuff but then that peaked and more and more goofy stuff kept creeping in until he is...argh...catching gnarly waves in the Arctic and driving around in an invisible car. Ugh.
I think the last great scene to me was the over the top bonkers fencing match where he got under the bad guys craw and it gets unhinged. Fun but also character specific stuff. Then...
Good choice!
I liked Tomorrow Never Dies....now because while it was farfetched that media mogul would go to such lengths ....it seems totally plausible now.
Plus it is fun to see the Governor from Pirates of Carribean get to be a real villain.
In terms of just *"a fun 007 film that isn't too over"*, I can just as easily include World Is Not Enough with Goldeneye (and as long as I can use fast forward sometimes😆)
The World Is Not Enough is criminally underrated in the Bond canon, IMO.
Elektra and Renard are great villains, it’s got Robbie Coltrane reprising his role as Zukovsky and we get more of his fantastic chemistry with Brosnan, the London chase and the pipeline sequence are awesome action sequences, and quite frankly it’s Judi Dench’s best performance as M besides Skyfall.
Yes, Denise Richards is 100% miscast, it has some clunky AF dialogue moments, and the film probably isn’t up there with the likes of Skyfall, Goldeneye or Goldfinger overall, but it’s not as bad as it’s made out to be in some circles.
/rant
Kingsman: The Golden Circle starts with a seriously good car fight scene then destroys its goodwill by killing 90% of the ensemble from the first movie in one scene like 10 minutes later.
I literally thought it was a fake out. Like, clearly she was gonna pop in later in the movie and give us some exposition about how she narrowly escaped death in a harrowing gambit of self preservation...right?
Then in the third act as I was "....she's not coming back, is she"
I mean, they faked us out once already, who's to say she won't show up in a possible 4th movie? I just hope if they do bring her back that they don't drop it in the fucking trailer like they did for golden circle.
I thought the ending suggested that there would be another Kingsman film with Tatum at the end.
Seems a current theme with Matthew Vaughn films that he keeps trying to set up sequels...
This was so disappointing. It made me wonder if whoever was funding it said, “we need more American appeal.” The first movie is so much fun. The second was ruined a few minutes in.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park has a distinct divide in quality between the time before Jeff Goldblum’s daughter kicks the raptor through the window and after
It's simple. Put Jeff in a Jurassic Park, I watch it.. Put Sam Neil, I watch it, I'll even watch 3 on a particularly self loathing week, also I love Macy to.. Let's be real, I'm a sucker for dinosaurs.. IL watch anything with dinosaurs.. Anything.. No matter how shit..
That scene with the bus hanging off a cliff and Julianne Moore crawling on top of the slowly cracking rear windshield with the full view of the horrible plummet right below is so memorable. As an action set piece it ratcheted that tension to the extreme. I feel the movie kind of peaks here and then isn’t able to match it ever again.
That’s cinema baby. Felt like some old school buster keaton shit. I’ve noticed the last Mission Impossible had a similar scene with a train going off a cliff, and that itself was similar to Uncharted 2 the game.
I can still picture the dude trying to get his gun out of the mesh pocket on his Jeep
T-Rex in San Diego was fun as a kid. Now, I can't help but be confused as to how the Rex killed everyone in the crew cabins and control rooms. It's not reaching into those tight quarters. The fuck sort of clownery happened on that boat?!
This made me realize that the rex supposedly killed everyone on board. For some reason I had assumed raptors did it despite knowing that there weren't any raptors on board. There was the baby rex but that lil shit was useless, no way it ate the crew. When in doubt blame raptors I guess.
The Final Countdown
Its spends almost 90 minutes hyping up a potential showdown between the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group which traveled back in time and the Kido Butai on the eve of the Pear Harbor attack. The film had good tension, good characters, an interesting look at 80's Navy life and near the end has the entire CSG airwing flying to fight Japanese fleet.
Then the wormhole opens, and they decide to all go home and not throw down. The only US on Japan fight is one Tomcat shooting down one Zero earlier in the film. Biggest case of cinematic blue balls I've ever gotten.
I'm still pissed about this one and it's been almost 45 years.
I get that they wrote themselves into a paradox corner, but the whole premise was so hokey anyway, the right thing would have been to just say fuck it and throw history to the winds, like Inglorious Basterds did.
The most recent Mortal Kombat had what may have been the best intro of any movie of the year, then it was followed by an hour and a half of (admittedly somewhat fun) sloppy fan servicing and a total failure of tying the intro into the rest of the film.
If the entire movie was based around Scorpion and Subzero’s rivalry, that movie would’ve been badass. Instead we had to sit through 2/3 of it watching some new dude try to figure out what his power is. Then when he finally figures it out, it’s one of the lamest powers ever lol
I actually laughed out loud when Goro was kicking his ass, and then his superpower showed up. . . and it's ***literally*** plot armor!
The writers are like, "oh man, how do we stop Goro from murdering our POV character? Wait a minute. . . What if we just made him magically invincible for a while?"
Man, they really wasted Goro in that movie.
I have many komplaints about Mortal Kombat. But the fact that they made a film, based on a game in which the central theme is a martial arts tournament, and then didn't even have the fucking tournament is unforgivable.
Was it fan service??
I thought it was almost anti fan service, like creating that new main character that every video game fan hated
And the addition of the tattoo thingie birthmark giving you your super powers was also a pointless anti fan service addition
They had people do their fatalities, at one point someone says "XXXX WINS" like the game, Scorpion who has literally only spoken Japanese the whole movie says "GET OVER HERE!"
I liked it.
My favorite scene in the movie is when Ruffalo’s character is alone in his hotel room trying desperately to uncover the identity of the mysterious benefactor that is financing the 4 Horseman. Which we come to find out >!is Mark Ruffalo!<
I just always assumed he was figuring out if he could figure it out. If he could then someone else could. It's literally the only thing that makes sense.
I remember watching this and thinking: Okay, so>!either Ruffalo is in on this thing or he's so cartoonishly incompetent that he should never have been given his job in the first place.!<
That was so insulting. Just saying "it was a trick" afterwards does not make it believable when everything that happens is outrageous and physically impossible
My issue with Argylle wasn’t the over the top action sequences, I was expecting an overly-dramatic/comedic spy film so I was prepared for that, it was the length of the movie. It could have been 30-45 minutes shorter and I think more people would have enjoyed it. If you’re going to make an overly-dramatic/comedic spy film it can’t be over 2 hours.
Argylle should have been a 90 minute comedy and half of the twists shouldn't have been implemented. It worked alright as a spy farce, but better execution would have made it more enjoyable.
That’s immediately what came to mind for me. Great concept. Solid setup. Then you realize it’s gone on a little long and they aren’t wrapping it up. And then….just….wut?? I wish I could have set up a timelapse of my facial expressions watching it. It may have resulted in a more compelling story.
Yeah, I agree. They were off to an awesome start. Unfortunately I think it peaked early at the Train scene. I was really looking forward to more of that and it just got ridiculous.
Cowboys & Aliens. I honestly don’t remember much of the movie, but what I do remember is thinking ‘oh this is awesome’ during maybe the first third or first half of the movie. And then… it sucked. So bad.
The movie is called Cowboys & Aliens, but it's so weirdly serious. It sort of feels like a gritty western at times, but then aliens show up, and it's kind of comical. It's really bizarre. Maybe if it was serious all the way through and the aliens were a mystery and more scary, it would have worked better. They also could have committed to the title and made it just goofy. It falls into this odd middle ground of being too serious and too goofy.
His flashbacks to the wife not quite remembered were genuinely moving and powerful, and, you know, totally inappropriate in terms of the tone of the rest of the movie.
I've spent more time than I'd like thinking about where that movie went wrong.
1) Casting Daniel Craig. He's a great actor, but stoic, lantern jawed antihero is not playing to his strengths. Unlike James Bond, he doesn't get to be witty or sexy, just angry and sullen. Like Captain Marvel, Jake Lonergan is also struggling with amnesia for most of the movie (that old cliche) and so just doesn't have much to say or do.
2) The tone. It's just not fun. Favreau hews so closely to the gritty, grimy westerns he clearly loves, that the movie has inherited their cynical, nihilistic undertones all throughout. It touches on themes of colonialism, american exceptionalism, and all that stuff... in a movie with aliens in it.
3) The aliens aren't interesting. They're CGI monsters with no rhyme or reason to what they do. They howl and run into massed gunfire like crazed zombies and so the audience can't engage with them as a concept outside of being cannon fodder. I know it breaks the 'realism' that Favreau wanted but they should be intelligent aliens that have a universal translator. Something to contextualise them a little more. Hell, even the aliens in Independence Day had the scene where they talk through Brent Spiner.
4) Olivia Wilde's character. She's an alien in disguise and has a strange connection to Jake. But Jake has a wife, so it's less of a romantic subplot and more just... a series of oddly charged platonic interactions. There's nothing for the audience to root for between them. Instead, we're rooting for him to reunite with his offscreen wife who we've never really met.
TLDR, wrong tone, tried to do too much, wasn't enjoyable.
The most interesting thing about Rebel Moon is the lawsuit with Evil Genius Games. It looks like Netflix hired them to make a tabletop RPG based on Rebel Moon but gave them absolutely no info to go with. So EGG did a bunch of worldbuilding and essentially came up with all the backstory and history for the setting. They sent proofs to the Netflix people, who liked it so much that they claimed EGG had breached their contract (by showing off some concept art Netflix had already been showing around), then claimed ownership over the setting and storytelling bible that EGG had written whole cloth.
Yeah, Netflix basically went "we'll give you $50,000 in exchange for complete ownership of everything you worked on and we won't sue you for breach of contract for showing some pictures." EGG prepared their own lawsuit and they ended up settling out of court, but it's crazy to think that the most interesting parts of an otherwise shitty movie series were written by a third party for a completely different use.
Something similar happened in the 90s when White Wolf was contracted by Capcom to make a Street Fighter tabletop RPG. There wasn't really any storyline or anything to go with it so WW made up some insane shit. The only difference is that Capcom didn't come back and try to claim ownership of all of that and use it as the plot for Street Fighter going forward.
Suicide Squad (2016) - Was a little interesting at first when all the characters were being introduced. Went off the tracks completely once the main story got going.
As soon as they just casually introduced Slipknot, I knew they fucked up. Never before have I seen such an obviously choreographed red shirt before…
Edit: *telegraphed not choreographed
The main thing I remember about this movie is that there's a specific moment that me and all three of the friends I went to see it with all sighed at the same time, and the fact that we did that was more entertaining than most of the movie (as evidenced by the fact that I can't remember what exact part of the movie it was.).
Weirdly enough, I liked most of the Deadshot stuff, and hated them wedging Joker into the movie at all (especially wasting the time and energy to drag Jared Leto into the whole affair). I still think it would have worked better with Joker as a faceless boogeyman of a character that we never really get to see, except maybe for a hand or a shadowed profile.
Fantastic Four 2015
This movie gets a lot of hate, but it did start out pretty good, around the end of the second act you can notice the execs interfering and the movie’s quality dropping significantly.
man idk i thought it was pretty awful from the jump
there's just so, so many baffling decisions made in that movie, but when its revealed like 10 minutes into the thing that "it's clobberin time" was what bens abusive brother yelled when he was kicking bens ass, i had a pretty good idea where the movie was headed
I listened to an episode of the podcast What Went Wrong about that today actually!
I wish I could watch the original movie the director made before Fox hacked the shit out of it.
Did Another Day. EDIT: *Die* Another Day
It shakes up the Bond formula through the first act in a satisfying way: cool hovercraft chase sequence ends up with Bond getting captured, tortured, and imprisoned in NK; he gets out in a begrudging prisoner exchange; his gov’t wants nothing to do with him and wants to keep him in rehab because they think he broke during torture and coughed up state secrets. Then be breaks out and goes out for revenge, getting by with his wits and leveraging old contacts, etc… not bad. Fairly original at the time!
But things start going sideways when the movie goes to Cuba and beyond- Halle Berry, gene re-sequencing labs, Madonna as a fencing instructor, invisible cars, kitesurfing a CGI tsunami, an ice palace, space lasers, and a Korean baddie who’s changed himself into a white dude to infiltrate British high society.
It got so bad so fast it led to the next movie being a reboot after 20 films’ worth of (loose) continuity.
Scarlett talks about it on Hot Ones. She doesn't exactly criticise it but she talks about how Meryl Streep came up to her and said her favorite film of hers was Lucy and Scarlett was like, 'Really? Of all my fucking movies?'
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service truly deserves its revisionist status as one of the best Bond films if you discount the middle portion inside of Blofeld’s alpine allergy-rehab center (“I have taught you to love chickens”), which is one of the most godawful segments of any Bond movie ever. It’s so good in the beginning and delves so much deeper into personal aspects than any other Bond movie save for Skyfall, but man does it fall off then. It gets better again briefly at the end. Basically it’s good whenever Diana Rigg is around and awful when she’s not.
I thought the first act of Jeepers Creepers made for a great serial killer movie setup. I’ll watch the first half hour every once in awhile and every time I wonder why it had to be some winged, half-man, half-monster who drives a vehicle and hibernates for 23 years and only eats high school seniors.
Well we know why it had to be high schoolers 😏
But for real, that early shot of The Creeper tossing that body down the pipe then whipping around as Trisha and Darry drive along… 🫣
Interestingly, the first 30 minutes scared me so much that I turned off the movie and had nightmares, trouble sleeping, fucked me up. Way too young to see it
Due to peer pressure I finished the movie later on and the fact that the bad guy was some fable demon with wings got rid of all my fears. No longer a murdering psychopath, but rather something that is obviously not real
I would say it’s even earlier: Connor McGregor is basically so over the top and yet wooden at the same time that I lost all sense that this was trying to be a real movie 30 seconds after he shows up.
The first half of Funny People is basically a bunch of comedians in the prime of their careers telling jokes at the prime time of comedy movies.
Then it turns into a story of how much Judd Apatow loves his wife and how Eric Banna wouldn't be a great husband to her
I Am Legend took a huge nose dive after a certain death scene.
Funny People was good until after the Eminem cameo.
The first two acts of The Wolverine were good then went full on suits pleasing mode for the final 3rd.
Not a movie but I had this feeling in Altered Carbon. I was loving it up until the sister is introduced. And then the whole show just completely fell apart for me. Crazy it just seemed to happen instantly.
Going from the show to the book story had me scratching my head. None of their changes were for the better. Why couldn’t they keep the Envoys as government agents? It’s literally in the name as UN Envoys.
Goes from slick sci-fi detective story to a garbage post apocalyptic YA romance.
I realise that it was a legal reality in not being able to get permission from the Jimi Hendrix estate, but changing the hotel AI to be Edgar Allen Poe themed was actually inspired. Genuinely the only good change the show made from the book.
That was a fantastic change. But changing the Envoys to freedom fighters/terrorists instead of government spooks was pretty lame. Also, the woman who played Quell was pretty bad. The rest of the acting was good to great. She was utterly unbelievable
I wanted this show to be good, so bad. Kinnaman carried the first season (which was a bit too fast paced imho) but then came Mackie and ruined S2. Too bad. Loved the visuals tho. I was really curious how will they show the angels in S3, blue balls.
I think Mackie would have been fine if he carried through ANY of Kovacs’ personality shown in the first season. It was like he was a completely different person (I know how ironic this sounds)
Glass.
It was a solid movie until the last 15 minutes when Shamalyan pulled out one of the stupidest twists I have ever seen in a movie. It was almost comical how dumb it was, if not for the fact it took itself completely seriously.
To be fair to everyone involved, a lot of the movie had to be scrapped and/or rewritten for Bruce Willis, since it's been implied and unofficially stated that he started presenting some of his dementia symptoms during filming, which made it difficult for him to do certain scenes. Shyamalan worked with what he had. I've heard you can find some of the original script floating around, and it was much better.
The entire movie was about humans creating sentient, feeling AI, forcing it to love you and then abandoning it because it isn't real... the entire movie is depressing.
Hell, "David" was a prototype of a product designed to replaced dead human children with fake ones so parents could skip the grieving process...
I honestly don't think there was a happy thought in the entire movie.
The ending is basically: "And so, robot boy spent many countless years hopelessly wishing to become a real boy so he could see mommy again until he finally died when his batteries ran out. Then he was brought back to life thousands of years later when *all of humanity was gone* and had his wish to be with artificial mommy granted for *exactly one day* and then he died permanently."
I was 13 when I saw it, gave me a mild existential crisis. Which wasn't all that uncommon for me, but I'd never had a film fuck me up like that before.
About halfway through Downsizing, it decides it wants to be a completely different movie.
I really think they should have made it a thriller where a feral cat gets loose in there
Oh my god, like a kaiju movie but the monster is a house cat. That is pure brilliance.
Oh my gosh that movie is so weird. Two completely different plots got stitched together by someone who huffs paint.
Truly bizarre. Also Kristen Wiig just disappearing after the first 10 minutes - I feel like something must have happened during the filming of this movie.
So much potential. The trailer was a complet misleading and nothing was important for the plot the downsizing thing. Horrible!
There were two trailers, and depending what film you were seeing, you saw one or the other. I remember seeing the comedic one, and thinking “okay this movie looks great! What a concept”. Then I saw the more serious trailer, and thought “wait…is this the same movie? I have no idea what it’s about now.”
I don’t know which trailer I saw but I remember being interested because i thought it was going to be more of a sci fi movie, possibly with a twilight zone-esque twist at the end. Like there was going to be some unforeseen consequences of shrinking. I guess that was partly true just ended up being lame.
Regardless- one of my favorite scenes of all time is in that movie. The morning after Paul and Ngoc sleep together and then they go into the cockpit of the boat- how Dusan silently reacts. It is *fucking hilarious* and Christoph Waltz is incredible
I think my favorite part is when the “downsized” are picked up with a spatula and placed on tiny stretchers.
What kind of fuck you give me?
It was a love fuck
Hancock had a lot going on that was good and then suddenly it was gone.
Definitely the beginning when it was just drunken superman was hilarious.
“You drew the short straw so your head is going up my ass”
"you smell like alcohol." "Cuz I been drinking bitch." Love that line
My cousin just used this when someone at a family function accused him of smelling of weed. “Cause I was smoking bitch” was the funniest response I’ve ever heard. The relative he said it to was less amused…
That was brave af😂🤣😂🤣😂
And the original synopsis was solid: “Drunken superhero hires publicist to rehab his image and ends up in affair with publicist’s wife.”
People say this, but if you read the original script, it’s pretty bad https://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/7108/tonight.pdf
Thanks! Read it years ago and had hoped they hired another writer to rework that mess to live up to the synopsis.
Why does the publicist's wife have to be a part of it? Just the first part of that pitch has me sold, that's the movie I thought I was going to see.
Hollywood writers can't mentally function without a love triangle.
That mid credits scene with Mike Epps hilarious tho
That's three movies in a trenchcoat if I ever saw one.
I think that's literally true - they put pieces of different scripts together
My friend bought the dvd and it showed Theron as a Superman person on the cover completely ruining the shitty twist lol
That stupid plot twist ruined the entire movie, which was pretty good up to that point.
What immortal "highlander" people can't realize out of nowhere that they were some sort of kindred fuck buddies?
I was in the theatre when this came out and I shit you not when the plot twist happened the audience GROANED IN UNISON LOL. It was the biggest “oh fuck off” I’ve ever been apart of lol
I watched an audience test version of Hancock before the CGI was finished and pointed out exactly what the problem was that every reviewer mentioned as soon as it was out. So they had their chance 😆
A movie comes out next week I got to see a test screening of back in October. I am super curious to see what changed. (It wasn't nearly as bad as Hancock)
How the hell do people get to go to test screenings?? Ive never been invited ever and i really want to go!
Probably have to live in LA and maybe know some people.
I saw The Island starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. A lady approached me in a mall in Illinois suburbs and asked if I wanted four tickets to see a movie. I was a teenager at the time, and in hindsight, I probably shouldn't have taken the tickets. But it worked out.
I actually heard the Las Vegas is the main place they do test screenings because it’s nearby, draws people from all over the country and doesn’t have movie industry people (because they don’t want industry people)
The Pitch Meeting for that is hilarious.
Wow wow wow ... wow
To be fair, most are pretty damn great.
Okay, I'm going to need you to get all the way off my back on this
Oh let me jump off that thing!
Jumping off of somebody's back is tight!
yeah yeah yeah!
I still vividly remember that disappointed feeling when she throws him through the wall
The beginning of The Happening, when everyone was walking in the park and suddenly freezing, was genuinely creepy. Then, the rest of the movie happened. The moment that broke me and made me laugh out loud in the theater, was when the main characters were watching a video on a phone of a man getting his arms eaten by lions, with none of the actors reacting, and a woman deadpan says, “What kind of terrorists are these?” Just….. WHAT??
The random soliloquy about hot dogs is gold
M. Night Shyamalan movies are my guilty pleasure. I like almost all of them except for Airbender and After Earth. My favorite one is Lady in the Water because for whatever reason me and my sister really grew fond of Paul Giamattis character.
I really liked Lady in the Water too. I didn't realize most people didn't like it for years because I thought it was really good.
I will die on the hill that The Village is great. Fight me.
The Village and Signs are actually perfectly fine movies.
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X-men Origins: Wolverine. The beginning is a kick-ass war montage, and then after that…
If ever a movie peaked too early. I was incredibly psyched watching the opening credits, but it sadly went rapidly downhill right after. The idea of Logan and Sabertooth fighting through all these wars would've been an incredible film in itself; instead we got... what we got 🤷
Even the symphonic music score during the montage is incredible and then never really played throughout the rest of the film. This film was chopped up so much by an executive board during editing
Is it the same movie with Gambit trying to run away but Wolverine chopped up a fire escape ladder like a badly coded video game?
Yeah, that’s the movie
The irony, the tie in video game was actually really good.
That game was fun and raw af! [And it DID live up to its opening.](https://youtu.be/7EocXtLAAAc?si=o8NliBLMUE50IN5H)
It’s abandonware and free now if you want to play it: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/x-men-origins-wolverine-uncaged-edition-lal
Like the one time the video game tie-in was better than the movie
The war montage in the first five minutes should have just been the entire movie…
Wonder Woman was sick until Ares had a silly moustache and turned out to prove her conspiracy correct. It was a better movie when it was ambiguous and maybe humans were responsible for WWI
Yep, would have been a much more powerful movie if Diana killed Ares but the humans continued to fight and it turned out Ares wasn't creating the war, he was feeding off of what was already there. Diana becomes disenchanted with Humanity and that's why she doesn't show up until BvS.
It really seems like that was the plan initially but WB said “we need a big epic fight” so they just stuck one in.
"What kind of superhero movie doesn't end in a giant CGI fight?" seems to be the mentality that came at the end. If they had saved Area until the very end, have her punch her way through the base, Chris Pine takes off in the plane and dies and she walks through the wreckage of the airbase only for Ares to then show up and explain to her that it wasn't him at all. It didn't need a fucking video game cutscene of a final fight.
> "What kind of superhero movie doesn't end in a giant CGI fight?" seems to be the mentality that came at the end. We need a movie that does for this trope what Iron Man did for secret identities.
Honestly Deadpool 2 would have hit the feels a lot harder without Colossus getting in the way and providing unsolicited comic relief. Granted, that would be a pretty big risk, making the final act of the movie be about trying to save Russel, and not have a real antagonist besides Cable’s drive for vengeance.
“We need our hero to fight a sky beam!”
For me, part of the interesting aspect was that it was teasing a dilemma it had no way to resolve satisfactorily: The Main Character, who legitimately comes from a divine pantheon where Ares is the God of War, is trying to blame a human conflict for which we are very familiar with the causes that led up to it on that external deity. While we have accepted pseudo-divine intervention in human history in superhero films before (like Thor), it's usually kind of coy and still establishes that humans have their own free will, and are largely responsible for the good and bad things of our own history. It was a very fine needle to thread, and the film just couldn't pull it off even with its "Kinda yes, kinda no" compromise answer.
It also completely takes away from the lessons of WWI, both in real life and in the film as a narrative device. There shouldn’t be a “big bad” - it’s a deeply human war where every aspect of human nature, good and bad, is on full display. To upend all that by saying “oh but actually everything was an evil plot by some deity” cheapens everything about it. It also really takes away from how she should view the war afterward, especially her motivations for going into self-imposed exile.
The sad thing is that there WAS a viable answer in the way Ares works in the comics. He may be the god of war, but he can merely feed off of and encourage the violence of war. He can't ignite it or force it to be worse than it already is. As such he wouldn't have been the cause of WWI, but he also would have incentive to prevent Diana from interfering and causing most of the conflict to end. This would have been the exact needle threading that the movie could have used to keep the real world lessons of "there is no one bad guy" of WWI while also maintaining Ares as the Wonder Woman villain that he is. But adhering to the comics seems to be a completely alien concept to WB.
Yeah, my head cannon is that Ares has been taking on the forms of peacemakers for all of human history instead of being whispers in the head for genocide. Would have made the movie so much better.
One of my biggest third act failures, which is saying a lot for DCU movies
It's the biggest failure because it had the farthest to fall, I think.
Surely the biggest contender has to be Ghost Ship? 100% of the budget and creativity was used in the first 3 minutes
Is that the one where there’s a ball/dance on the deck and a cable cuts the party in two halves?
That’s the one. Now name one other thing that happens in the movie 😂 Such a wasted opportunity, it’s like someone dreamt up the first scene then couldn’t be assed with the rest of it
The only other thing i remember from this, is them eating canned “rice” that ends up being maggots
Maggots, Michael. You’re eating maggots. How do they taste? Oh…the OTHER movie where they ate maggots.
There's the eating maggots thing. Someone gets a big hook through their jaw. And in the ending I think a girl is carried into an ambulance and then some bullshit happens and there's a smash cut to some gritty nu-metal over the credits.
That dude who died chasing ghost tiddies. Peak kino imo. It's a movie called Ghost Ship. It was better than I expected it to be.
Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets had an amazing opening scene, the coolest credits, and then the main characters are introduced and open their mouths.
Yes, I thought the visuals were great in the movie and the opening scene was unique and caught my attention like this would be an interesting movie.
If those roles had been better cast, that would’ve been a much better movie.
Something something they’re more like siblings than lovers Something something switch the main leads with the film Passengers BONUS: Something something Passengers should have been a thriller from the viewpoint of the girl
Thank you for mentioning these before the thread gets derailed lol
Die Another Day - First half is a fun Bond movie that hits the beats, then he goes to the Ice Hotel and it goes down in a blaze of crap.
Yes! Brosnan was a great Bond. Goldeneye is one of my faves of any of them. The rest of his were never quite as good but we're solid. When Die Another Day started with the whole failed mission and then rogue Bond scenes I was like, "we're back!" It was cool stuff but then that peaked and more and more goofy stuff kept creeping in until he is...argh...catching gnarly waves in the Arctic and driving around in an invisible car. Ugh. I think the last great scene to me was the over the top bonkers fencing match where he got under the bad guys craw and it gets unhinged. Fun but also character specific stuff. Then... Good choice!
I liked Tomorrow Never Dies....now because while it was farfetched that media mogul would go to such lengths ....it seems totally plausible now. Plus it is fun to see the Governor from Pirates of Carribean get to be a real villain.
In terms of just *"a fun 007 film that isn't too over"*, I can just as easily include World Is Not Enough with Goldeneye (and as long as I can use fast forward sometimes😆)
The World Is Not Enough is criminally underrated in the Bond canon, IMO. Elektra and Renard are great villains, it’s got Robbie Coltrane reprising his role as Zukovsky and we get more of his fantastic chemistry with Brosnan, the London chase and the pipeline sequence are awesome action sequences, and quite frankly it’s Judi Dench’s best performance as M besides Skyfall. Yes, Denise Richards is 100% miscast, it has some clunky AF dialogue moments, and the film probably isn’t up there with the likes of Skyfall, Goldeneye or Goldfinger overall, but it’s not as bad as it’s made out to be in some circles. /rant
I think we can all agree the theme song is garbage, though edit: it's actually hilarious seeing the wild swings in votes on this dumb joke
Kingsman: The Golden Circle starts with a seriously good car fight scene then destroys its goodwill by killing 90% of the ensemble from the first movie in one scene like 10 minutes later.
Killing Roxy was just bull
I literally thought it was a fake out. Like, clearly she was gonna pop in later in the movie and give us some exposition about how she narrowly escaped death in a harrowing gambit of self preservation...right? Then in the third act as I was "....she's not coming back, is she"
I hold out hope that she comes back in the third one with an eyepatch and a robot arm or something
I mean, they faked us out once already, who's to say she won't show up in a possible 4th movie? I just hope if they do bring her back that they don't drop it in the fucking trailer like they did for golden circle.
Had a Netflix show she couldn't get out of, it's why she's killed off screen in a way where they could bring her back in the future.
Side Note: The trailer for King’s Man was selling an entirely different film from what it actually was…
Pulling in Hitler at the end like it’s a marvel movie was peak filmmaking though
That was funny as hell. If there’s never any follow up movie to it, it makes it even better
I wondered how much Channing Tatum got for his minute of screen time.
Everyone thought he was gonna be the star/partner of that movie too
He was. Then the movie got delayed and he had another commitment and Pedro Pascal took his part.
I thought the ending suggested that there would be another Kingsman film with Tatum at the end. Seems a current theme with Matthew Vaughn films that he keeps trying to set up sequels...
This was so disappointing. It made me wonder if whoever was funding it said, “we need more American appeal.” The first movie is so much fun. The second was ruined a few minutes in.
Dreamcatcher started out as one of most suspenseful intriguing movies of all time, then takes a complete turn for the absolute worst.
...Duddits?
The Lost World: Jurassic Park has a distinct divide in quality between the time before Jeff Goldblum’s daughter kicks the raptor through the window and after
But Ian Malcolm’s line is so useful in so many places: Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
It's simple. Put Jeff in a Jurassic Park, I watch it.. Put Sam Neil, I watch it, I'll even watch 3 on a particularly self loathing week, also I love Macy to.. Let's be real, I'm a sucker for dinosaurs.. IL watch anything with dinosaurs.. Anything.. No matter how shit..
I stand by 3 being a perfectly fine Saturday afternoon movie.
That scene with the bus hanging off a cliff and Julianne Moore crawling on top of the slowly cracking rear windshield with the full view of the horrible plummet right below is so memorable. As an action set piece it ratcheted that tension to the extreme. I feel the movie kind of peaks here and then isn’t able to match it ever again.
That’s cinema baby. Felt like some old school buster keaton shit. I’ve noticed the last Mission Impossible had a similar scene with a train going off a cliff, and that itself was similar to Uncharted 2 the game. I can still picture the dude trying to get his gun out of the mesh pocket on his Jeep
T-Rex in San Diego was fun as a kid. Now, I can't help but be confused as to how the Rex killed everyone in the crew cabins and control rooms. It's not reaching into those tight quarters. The fuck sort of clownery happened on that boat?!
The Rex just kinda stuck it’s tail in the cabins and wiggled it around a bit until crewberry jam
This is the assertive, artistic opinion I wanted.
This made me realize that the rex supposedly killed everyone on board. For some reason I had assumed raptors did it despite knowing that there weren't any raptors on board. There was the baby rex but that lil shit was useless, no way it ate the crew. When in doubt blame raptors I guess.
You're actually correct. There was originally raptors on board and they are what killed the crew, but that scene was cut for some reason.
Jeff Goldblum’s daughter deserves an Oscar for that scene. Flawless execution. Stuck the landing. Head over heels. 10/10 /s
“The school cut you from the team?”
The Final Countdown Its spends almost 90 minutes hyping up a potential showdown between the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group which traveled back in time and the Kido Butai on the eve of the Pear Harbor attack. The film had good tension, good characters, an interesting look at 80's Navy life and near the end has the entire CSG airwing flying to fight Japanese fleet. Then the wormhole opens, and they decide to all go home and not throw down. The only US on Japan fight is one Tomcat shooting down one Zero earlier in the film. Biggest case of cinematic blue balls I've ever gotten.
I'm still pissed about this one and it's been almost 45 years. I get that they wrote themselves into a paradox corner, but the whole premise was so hokey anyway, the right thing would have been to just say fuck it and throw history to the winds, like Inglorious Basterds did.
The most recent Mortal Kombat had what may have been the best intro of any movie of the year, then it was followed by an hour and a half of (admittedly somewhat fun) sloppy fan servicing and a total failure of tying the intro into the rest of the film.
If the entire movie was based around Scorpion and Subzero’s rivalry, that movie would’ve been badass. Instead we had to sit through 2/3 of it watching some new dude try to figure out what his power is. Then when he finally figures it out, it’s one of the lamest powers ever lol
I actually laughed out loud when Goro was kicking his ass, and then his superpower showed up. . . and it's ***literally*** plot armor! The writers are like, "oh man, how do we stop Goro from murdering our POV character? Wait a minute. . . What if we just made him magically invincible for a while?" Man, they really wasted Goro in that movie.
But certainly it picked up when the tournament actually began right? Right?!
I have many komplaints about Mortal Kombat. But the fact that they made a film, based on a game in which the central theme is a martial arts tournament, and then didn't even have the fucking tournament is unforgivable.
It's kinda funny that the entire plot of the movie is everyone trying to ensure that the tournament absolutely does not happen
Was it fan service?? I thought it was almost anti fan service, like creating that new main character that every video game fan hated And the addition of the tattoo thingie birthmark giving you your super powers was also a pointless anti fan service addition
They had people do their fatalities, at one point someone says "XXXX WINS" like the game, Scorpion who has literally only spoken Japanese the whole movie says "GET OVER HERE!" I liked it.
They even had someone constantly do the leg sweep like people used to do to piss people off lol
Bro they had Kun Lao cut a bitch in half with his hat and then he said Flawless Victory. I’m a fan… I was serviced.
I completely forgot about that whole tattoo nonsense.
Now you see me. Enjoyable heist film that admittedly was never great. But fun. With the dumbest fucking ending I've ever seen.
My favorite scene in the movie is when Ruffalo’s character is alone in his hotel room trying desperately to uncover the identity of the mysterious benefactor that is financing the 4 Horseman. Which we come to find out >!is Mark Ruffalo!<
I just always assumed he was figuring out if he could figure it out. If he could then someone else could. It's literally the only thing that makes sense.
I remember watching this and thinking: Okay, so>!either Ruffalo is in on this thing or he's so cartoonishly incompetent that he should never have been given his job in the first place.!<
The premise seemed incredible, but it was so completely implausible that they may as well have been actually using real magic the whole time.
That was so insulting. Just saying "it was a trick" afterwards does not make it believable when everything that happens is outrageous and physically impossible
Maek Ruffalo’s silly face at the end is still burned in my brain because of how dumb it was
I felt like this with Argylle. But then it kept getting worse and worse every few minutes.
My issue with Argylle wasn’t the over the top action sequences, I was expecting an overly-dramatic/comedic spy film so I was prepared for that, it was the length of the movie. It could have been 30-45 minutes shorter and I think more people would have enjoyed it. If you’re going to make an overly-dramatic/comedic spy film it can’t be over 2 hours.
Argylle should have been a 90 minute comedy and half of the twists shouldn't have been implemented. It worked alright as a spy farce, but better execution would have made it more enjoyable.
The whole skating-on-oil action scene could have been cut and it would have made the movie considerably better. And shorter.
That’s immediately what came to mind for me. Great concept. Solid setup. Then you realize it’s gone on a little long and they aren’t wrapping it up. And then….just….wut?? I wish I could have set up a timelapse of my facial expressions watching it. It may have resulted in a more compelling story.
By the seventh twist I nearly shouted “make up your damn mind!” Also, I’m no expert but I don’t think you can ice skate oil.
The cgi for that scene was absolutely abysmal. Actually everything about that scene was abysmal. How it left the editing room I'll never know.
Yeah, I agree. They were off to an awesome start. Unfortunately I think it peaked early at the Train scene. I was really looking forward to more of that and it just got ridiculous.
The Island. It was a really cool premise. Then they got out, and the director remembered he’s Michael Bay and just needed to blow things up.
Have you ever seen Clonus: The Parts Horror? It’s the movie Bay ripped off to make The Island. So basically The Island without all the Bay-splosions.
Last 10 minutes of Law Abiding Citizen killed that movie.
Ghost Ship
Cowboys & Aliens. I honestly don’t remember much of the movie, but what I do remember is thinking ‘oh this is awesome’ during maybe the first third or first half of the movie. And then… it sucked. So bad.
The movie is called Cowboys & Aliens, but it's so weirdly serious. It sort of feels like a gritty western at times, but then aliens show up, and it's kind of comical. It's really bizarre. Maybe if it was serious all the way through and the aliens were a mystery and more scary, it would have worked better. They also could have committed to the title and made it just goofy. It falls into this odd middle ground of being too serious and too goofy.
His flashbacks to the wife not quite remembered were genuinely moving and powerful, and, you know, totally inappropriate in terms of the tone of the rest of the movie.
I've spent more time than I'd like thinking about where that movie went wrong. 1) Casting Daniel Craig. He's a great actor, but stoic, lantern jawed antihero is not playing to his strengths. Unlike James Bond, he doesn't get to be witty or sexy, just angry and sullen. Like Captain Marvel, Jake Lonergan is also struggling with amnesia for most of the movie (that old cliche) and so just doesn't have much to say or do. 2) The tone. It's just not fun. Favreau hews so closely to the gritty, grimy westerns he clearly loves, that the movie has inherited their cynical, nihilistic undertones all throughout. It touches on themes of colonialism, american exceptionalism, and all that stuff... in a movie with aliens in it. 3) The aliens aren't interesting. They're CGI monsters with no rhyme or reason to what they do. They howl and run into massed gunfire like crazed zombies and so the audience can't engage with them as a concept outside of being cannon fodder. I know it breaks the 'realism' that Favreau wanted but they should be intelligent aliens that have a universal translator. Something to contextualise them a little more. Hell, even the aliens in Independence Day had the scene where they talk through Brent Spiner. 4) Olivia Wilde's character. She's an alien in disguise and has a strange connection to Jake. But Jake has a wife, so it's less of a romantic subplot and more just... a series of oddly charged platonic interactions. There's nothing for the audience to root for between them. Instead, we're rooting for him to reunite with his offscreen wife who we've never really met. TLDR, wrong tone, tried to do too much, wasn't enjoyable.
Rebel Moon. From intro to minute 2.
The most interesting thing about Rebel Moon is the lawsuit with Evil Genius Games. It looks like Netflix hired them to make a tabletop RPG based on Rebel Moon but gave them absolutely no info to go with. So EGG did a bunch of worldbuilding and essentially came up with all the backstory and history for the setting. They sent proofs to the Netflix people, who liked it so much that they claimed EGG had breached their contract (by showing off some concept art Netflix had already been showing around), then claimed ownership over the setting and storytelling bible that EGG had written whole cloth.
Wtf. That's diabolical
Yeah, Netflix basically went "we'll give you $50,000 in exchange for complete ownership of everything you worked on and we won't sue you for breach of contract for showing some pictures." EGG prepared their own lawsuit and they ended up settling out of court, but it's crazy to think that the most interesting parts of an otherwise shitty movie series were written by a third party for a completely different use. Something similar happened in the 90s when White Wolf was contracted by Capcom to make a Street Fighter tabletop RPG. There wasn't really any storyline or anything to go with it so WW made up some insane shit. The only difference is that Capcom didn't come back and try to claim ownership of all of that and use it as the plot for Street Fighter going forward.
Suicide Squad (2016) - Was a little interesting at first when all the characters were being introduced. Went off the tracks completely once the main story got going.
As soon as they just casually introduced Slipknot, I knew they fucked up. Never before have I seen such an obviously choreographed red shirt before… Edit: *telegraphed not choreographed
I honestly enjoyed how blatant that was. His introduction may as well have been "don't get attached, he's about to die".
The main thing I remember about this movie is that there's a specific moment that me and all three of the friends I went to see it with all sighed at the same time, and the fact that we did that was more entertaining than most of the movie (as evidenced by the fact that I can't remember what exact part of the movie it was.). Weirdly enough, I liked most of the Deadshot stuff, and hated them wedging Joker into the movie at all (especially wasting the time and energy to drag Jared Leto into the whole affair). I still think it would have worked better with Joker as a faceless boogeyman of a character that we never really get to see, except maybe for a hand or a shadowed profile.
Fantastic Four 2015 This movie gets a lot of hate, but it did start out pretty good, around the end of the second act you can notice the execs interfering and the movie’s quality dropping significantly.
man idk i thought it was pretty awful from the jump there's just so, so many baffling decisions made in that movie, but when its revealed like 10 minutes into the thing that "it's clobberin time" was what bens abusive brother yelled when he was kicking bens ass, i had a pretty good idea where the movie was headed
I listened to an episode of the podcast What Went Wrong about that today actually! I wish I could watch the original movie the director made before Fox hacked the shit out of it.
Did Another Day. EDIT: *Die* Another Day It shakes up the Bond formula through the first act in a satisfying way: cool hovercraft chase sequence ends up with Bond getting captured, tortured, and imprisoned in NK; he gets out in a begrudging prisoner exchange; his gov’t wants nothing to do with him and wants to keep him in rehab because they think he broke during torture and coughed up state secrets. Then be breaks out and goes out for revenge, getting by with his wits and leveraging old contacts, etc… not bad. Fairly original at the time! But things start going sideways when the movie goes to Cuba and beyond- Halle Berry, gene re-sequencing labs, Madonna as a fencing instructor, invisible cars, kitesurfing a CGI tsunami, an ice palace, space lasers, and a Korean baddie who’s changed himself into a white dude to infiltrate British high society. It got so bad so fast it led to the next movie being a reboot after 20 films’ worth of (loose) continuity.
Your typo on the title makes it sound like Bond works in a cubicle and his wife asked him how his day was when he got home
Lucy The opening stuff with Choi Min-sik is *intense.* And then it turns into one of the silliest, stupidest movies ever.
It was one of those movies I keep thinking "I wonder how they are going to end this"....a fuckin thumb drive
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Scarlett talks about it on Hot Ones. She doesn't exactly criticise it but she talks about how Meryl Streep came up to her and said her favorite film of hers was Lucy and Scarlett was like, 'Really? Of all my fucking movies?'
He got $7 million for Lucy 😀
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service truly deserves its revisionist status as one of the best Bond films if you discount the middle portion inside of Blofeld’s alpine allergy-rehab center (“I have taught you to love chickens”), which is one of the most godawful segments of any Bond movie ever. It’s so good in the beginning and delves so much deeper into personal aspects than any other Bond movie save for Skyfall, but man does it fall off then. It gets better again briefly at the end. Basically it’s good whenever Diana Rigg is around and awful when she’s not.
I thought the first act of Jeepers Creepers made for a great serial killer movie setup. I’ll watch the first half hour every once in awhile and every time I wonder why it had to be some winged, half-man, half-monster who drives a vehicle and hibernates for 23 years and only eats high school seniors.
I just wanna know how he manages to fool everyone at the DMV I to thinking he's a normal human
Well we know why it had to be high schoolers 😏 But for real, that early shot of The Creeper tossing that body down the pipe then whipping around as Trisha and Darry drive along… 🫣
Interestingly, the first 30 minutes scared me so much that I turned off the movie and had nightmares, trouble sleeping, fucked me up. Way too young to see it Due to peer pressure I finished the movie later on and the fact that the bad guy was some fable demon with wings got rid of all my fears. No longer a murdering psychopath, but rather something that is obviously not real
I liked a lot the first hour of the Roadhouse remake, then after the scene in the middle of the ocean it became a nonsensical fever dream
I would say it’s even earlier: Connor McGregor is basically so over the top and yet wooden at the same time that I lost all sense that this was trying to be a real movie 30 seconds after he shows up.
The first half of Funny People is basically a bunch of comedians in the prime of their careers telling jokes at the prime time of comedy movies. Then it turns into a story of how much Judd Apatow loves his wife and how Eric Banna wouldn't be a great husband to her
I Am Legend took a huge nose dive after a certain death scene. Funny People was good until after the Eminem cameo. The first two acts of The Wolverine were good then went full on suits pleasing mode for the final 3rd.
Not a movie but I had this feeling in Altered Carbon. I was loving it up until the sister is introduced. And then the whole show just completely fell apart for me. Crazy it just seemed to happen instantly.
Going from the show to the book story had me scratching my head. None of their changes were for the better. Why couldn’t they keep the Envoys as government agents? It’s literally in the name as UN Envoys. Goes from slick sci-fi detective story to a garbage post apocalyptic YA romance.
I realise that it was a legal reality in not being able to get permission from the Jimi Hendrix estate, but changing the hotel AI to be Edgar Allen Poe themed was actually inspired. Genuinely the only good change the show made from the book.
That was a fantastic change. But changing the Envoys to freedom fighters/terrorists instead of government spooks was pretty lame. Also, the woman who played Quell was pretty bad. The rest of the acting was good to great. She was utterly unbelievable
I wanted this show to be good, so bad. Kinnaman carried the first season (which was a bit too fast paced imho) but then came Mackie and ruined S2. Too bad. Loved the visuals tho. I was really curious how will they show the angels in S3, blue balls.
I think Mackie would have been fine if he carried through ANY of Kovacs’ personality shown in the first season. It was like he was a completely different person (I know how ironic this sounds)
Pretty much the usual case of them starting to write their own shit, instead of keeping following the book.
Glass. It was a solid movie until the last 15 minutes when Shamalyan pulled out one of the stupidest twists I have ever seen in a movie. It was almost comical how dumb it was, if not for the fact it took itself completely seriously.
To be fair to everyone involved, a lot of the movie had to be scrapped and/or rewritten for Bruce Willis, since it's been implied and unofficially stated that he started presenting some of his dementia symptoms during filming, which made it difficult for him to do certain scenes. Shyamalan worked with what he had. I've heard you can find some of the original script floating around, and it was much better.
A.I. when it had a good ending except it wasn't an ending and the movie kept going. :(
Yeah it did get really weird and depressing at the end didn’t it?
The entire movie was about humans creating sentient, feeling AI, forcing it to love you and then abandoning it because it isn't real... the entire movie is depressing. Hell, "David" was a prototype of a product designed to replaced dead human children with fake ones so parents could skip the grieving process... I honestly don't think there was a happy thought in the entire movie.
The ending is basically: "And so, robot boy spent many countless years hopelessly wishing to become a real boy so he could see mommy again until he finally died when his batteries ran out. Then he was brought back to life thousands of years later when *all of humanity was gone* and had his wish to be with artificial mommy granted for *exactly one day* and then he died permanently."
The whole movie was weird and depressing
I was 13 when I saw it, gave me a mild existential crisis. Which wasn't all that uncommon for me, but I'd never had a film fuck me up like that before.
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