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ThePerm:
You foiled my dark sense of humor.
ThePerm:
Alien Covenant: They Should have made Neil Blomkamp's movie/10
This movies is a fat meandering mess of a movie. There are good stuff in this movie, but you have to sit through a bunch of boring garbage to get to it. It seems Ridley Scott was confused which movie he was working on. This has some excellent blade runner elements, but it tries to go Kubrik and forgets it's an Alien movie. It's also kind of a not as good Forbidden planet.
Creature of the Black Lagoon 8/10 Excellent. It gets to go the point, it gives you what you want.
Plugabugz:
The Hitman's Bodyguard: Whoever made the trailer had a far better feel of the tone of this movie than the actual director. SLJ and Ryan Reynolds was fantastic together, but the tone kept jumping back and forth between their high-energy banter, Gary Oldman's mass genocide / war crimes trial and several horribly edited action scenes. When you let Gary Oldman chew the scenery you get The Fifth Element. When you let him *act* you get Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Lack of talent is not an issue.
The directors of John Wick 1 and 2 (one of which went to Atomic Blonde, where the same skillset is shown) are very good at long take action shots it's all done in one go. In THB some of the sequences go on for too long, some action shots quick-cut to another shot within 3 seconds (i counted) repeatedly and the music choices simply cancel out the sheer lunacy that the trailer suggested.
There is many good parts in this movie, Selma Hayek's scenes chief among them, but it needed a better director to make it all come completely together.
Oh, and the CGI work (especially when things blow up and right at the end) is really poor.
oohhboy:
A lot of directors waste master class/charismatic actors. See SPECTOR, Expendables series, NuTreks, Batman with Cloony. Not only were they bad movies they just didn't know what to do with them, were stunt castings or were too star struck afraid to tell them to do their jobs or give them materials about their characters.
RED is not remotely high level cinema but they knew how to use Hopkins who stole the show whenever he showed up.
If you really want to see direction go off the rails watch Man of Tai Chi where Keanu Reeves directs himself resulting in a so bad it's bad. It's like an alien directed this movie. Thankfully he realised he is rubbish at directing and hasn't don't it since.
ThePerm:
I was at a friend's house and the fight scenes of the man of Tai Chi laughable. So slow.
Revenge of the creature 8/10 The Creature from the Black Lagoon is back. He's been kidnapped and hauled to Florida. Mayhem ensues.
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