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Adrock:
The Flash
Nice write up, nickmitch. “Hats on hats” is like the most apt way to describe this movie. And “then get stuck with an even more insufferable version of his character” is almost verbatim when I described this movie to a friend.
Nightmare fuel uncanny valley CGI especially the babies and Superman. I don’t even get the latter. Did they not have any reference materials of Henry Cavill? He even filmed a cameo that was cut. It’s as if the artist who was assigned Superman just rendered Cavill from memory.
Supergirl was kind of bland. And if they planned on bringing her back, way to let her job to Zod repeatedly. I get that it isn’t her movie. Just made her look weak especially since she had help and Superman didn’t in Man of Steel.
Getting tired of multiverse stories.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
It’s fine. I recently rewatched all of them and only Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is actively bad. I’d be here all day if I compiled a list of gripes about that movie. Even Temple of Doom is pretty good; it’s just really mean-spirited.
Anyway, Dial of Destiny is too long. Maybe I’m just old, but I often have trouble watching movies longer than two hours in one sitting. I found myself constantly saying, “That could have been cut.” For example, most of the opening scene. Sure, CGI Young Harrison Ford was coolio and all, but that entire set piece felt like an eternity.
I’m too lazy to write a whole big thing. Some quick thoughts:
1. Indiana Jones wanting to remain in the past would have hit harder had the movie spent more than 12 seconds on his son’s death and how it destroyed his marriage.
2. Didn’t need to bring back Sallah.
3. The movie never addressed how Jones was wanted for murder then just isn’t when he returns to America.
4. People were dunking on Phoebe Waller-Bridge. She was fine, not amazing or anything.
5. I liked the ending, but it would have been better had this movie released in the 2000s and Indiana Jones 4 release in the 1990s.
nickmitch:
--- Quote from: Adrock on September 22, 2023, 07:22:05 PM ---The Flash
Nice write up, nickmitch. “Hats on hats” is like the most apt way to describe this movie. And “then get stuck with an even more insufferable version of his character” is almost verbatim when I described this movie to a friend.
Nightmare fuel uncanny valley CGI especially the babies and Superman. I don’t even get the latter. Did they not have any reference materials of Henry Cavill? He even filmed a cameo that was cut. It’s as if the artist who was assigned Superman just rendered Cavill from memory.
Supergirl was kind of bland. And if they planned on bringing her back, way to let her job to Zod repeatedly. I get that it isn’t her movie. Just made her look weak especially since she had help and Superman didn’t in Man of Steel.
Getting tired of multiverse stories.
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Thank you! I was actually only able to summarize that down after explaining everything wrong with that scene to my wife in more words than I used here to describe the entire movie. Everything wrong with that scene is exactly what's wrong with the movie.
Supergirl really should've been given more time and characterization. I get that they were going for the Flashpoint version of Superman with her being trapped away from the sun, but they could've given her something. At least a death where she looks like Zod's equal.
Stratos:
--- Quote from: Adrock on June 01, 2023, 12:58:14 AM ---7. Ant-Man and the Wasp (and Stature for that matter) all keep taking their helmets off when they talk. Did they do that in the first two?
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I notice this in Star Wars too. Maybe its an actor thing, maybe a director thing. Everyone with a helmet takes it off for any conversations longer then three words. I wonder if there is a belief that viewers need to see faces to better understand and enjoy a scene. Or studios are dicks and try to pay actors lower rates like they tried to pull on Pedro Pascal in Mandalorian, so actors guilds could be requiring a certain amount of face-time for actors with helmets.
ThePerm:
Furiosa - 10/10
I love the series, it's amazing how each movie manages to be cool in its own way while being different than the last.
Scream (1981) - 2/10 One of the worst movies I have ever seen. So, badly made. I was curious what this eclipsed titled movie was going to be like, it had a cool cover, and that is the only reason it gets a 2. The movie is abysmal.
BlackNMild2k1:
Trap 2.5/10 4/10
The new M. Night Shyalaman movie... the one where a serial killer takes his daughter to a Pop Star concert, only to find out the Feds have set a trap for him there.
How bad is this movie? It's so bad, I'm just gonna tell yo what the TWIST is.
But before that, let me tell you why it's bad, as the premise and the trailer wasn't actually bad.
You have to turn your brain off for this one. The leaps of logic and probability of **** happening was beyong my ability, as I expected more from M. Night.
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
In context of the movie (not the trailer) it makes no sense for random concession stand worker 1 to spill the beans about a secret Fed Sting about a serial killer in the venue to a random dad, when they KNOW they looking for a man at the concert. He shouldn't have said **** to anyone, and that would have been expressly impressioned upon ALL venue employees who would have already been thoroughly vetted and threated with legal action should they break trust, and probably signed some NDA/agreement, assuming they were really breifed on it at all.
Then on top of that, to take the random man into the Employees only section to help him get more merch for the stand, makes absolutely ZERO sense, and that was just an opportunity to steal his badge. Which was then used to enter the police staging area in another employee only section, where they didn't usher him away, but allowed him to just hang out and listen to what's going on. But this allowed him to steal a police radio.... that somehow had a earpiece later on so he could hear everything about the plan in real time from the Feds.
This doesn't go into every improbability, as it's literally just ONE AFTER THE OTHER for the rest of the movie. Like how he was told the Feds are checking EVERY MAN, except for backstage... but it's impossible to get backstage. So he gets his daughter invited to go backstage, where the Feds just don't check this random man out, even thought that their ENTIRE DIRECTIVE FOR BEING THERE.
as for the TWIST (capitalize, so it's easy to skip to) the TWIST is that this movie is played straight, there is no real twist as far a plot goes. It was all revealed in the trailer.
the real TWIST is that M. Nights daughter is the Pop Star and this WHOLE MOVIE was a vehicle to showcase how "talented" she is as a singer, and how good she is at playing a pop star turned actor who can't actually act and should stick to singing. Seriously, the singing wasn't bad, but it wasn't Pop Star worthy. No hate on the actual singing, but the acting was.... honestly not the worst thing about this movie, but just the icing on top of a bad movie cake.
Even Jerry O'Connel had to ham it up... I just assume it was intentionally bad acted so that the Singer didn't sound so out of place.
But for as bad as the move was at the Event Venue, the movie really fell off the rails once it moved off site. How bad was it... not worth typing out another whole wall of text at this moment.
It was full of WTF and more even more absurd improbabilities leading right up to the final moment. (i can break it down if you want me too... chock full of stupid)
Nothing in this movie made sense. NOTHING.
but if you gonna watch, be a lil liquored up, and not shy to CLOWN OUT LOUD, because then it just might be fun to watch with friends.
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