Movie Reviews 2.0

What's wrong being white, male and even republican ?

 

I think it's more the fact that he's a raving racist homophobe that's the issue. I'm sure there are one or two reasonable white, male republicans around.

I read the first few Ender Wiggins books and really did enjoy them, it must be said. It was a good few years ago now though and I don't really have the urge to read them again (though I re-read little these days).

 

*Woosh!*


...That said, I could mention a few things wrong with being republican, but wrong thread, forum for that!

Btw, finished watching Transformers Dark Moon just now, and just to re-confirm: it was exceedingly dumb. They also hired a parkour double for Shia there at the end, which was just ridiculous, because...wow, shit, our hero knows how to parkour now too? Lol! Dumb!

I'd say hiring Spock as the voice actor for one of the Autobots was pretty cool, but Michael Bay can't make a movie without stealing every god damn scene and moment from other movies, so I'm just gonna notch this one up as another steal. "The needs of the many" indeed! HMPF!

 

Just wait until you've watched the 4th one. Mind-numbingly banal and incoherent with Mark Wahlberg putting in an even more mechanical performance than the various bots themselves!

 

I think his name is Rex!

 

Despite suffering from a broken wisdom tooth with entirely exposed nerves over the weekend, I had a blast with Jurassic World on Saturday. Sure, it's not the smartest kid on the block. It more than makes up for it with grandiose spectacle and an utterly infectious sense of enthusiam, however. It's the Pacific Rim of 2015.

 

Damn dude, that had to totally suck. There is no pain like tooth pain.

 

It was absolutely grueling. I guess I'll never be able to watch Marathon Man again.

 

Watched Transformers 4 yesterday with a mate and his two kids (8 and 10) while away visiting my parents, it was better than 3 (would be hard to do any worse); Wahlberg isn't amazing as an actor, but then again the script is so banal even Sir Anthony Hopkins would have struggled to produce any meaningful acting. That's not the point of this movie though; shit that blows up and big robots blowing shit up is, however.

This bit looked quite good. There were a few scenes with slightly dodgy effects work, but it wasn't that many, considering how much of the movie is special effects. Of course, there were several instances when normal people were in frame as shit was blowing up which should have liquefied them and they didn't, but hey... It's a movie, okay?

This movie suffered from badguyitis however, which is when there's more than one major villain in the same movie, which generally is a really bad thing in an action movie, as you both don't know which villain is the really big big bad, while simultaneously both baddies failing to really distinguish themselves.

What really grates me is all the patriarchal bullshit with Daddy Wahlberg claiming ownership of his daughter and her sexuality, mixed with an (un)healthy dose of sexist objectification of said daughter. This shit really shows how far Hollywood still has to go in the big scheme of things.

So, not really a super great movie perhaps, but if you send your brain off on vacation before putting it on it can be enjoyable. I'd say maybe 6.5/10 or so.

Will try to catch Terminator Genisys when I get back home. I'm very stoked for this one, more so than Jurassic World.

 

I actually liked the badguyitis.

 

And here I was looking forward to you trashing the film completely, I can't remember hearing anyone say they liked nr 4 more then nr 3. Both bad movies, but nr 4 was so stupidly bad, action scenes had almost no connection to each other, almost like a bunch of short films played in a row. But I guess you could argue the nr 4 is so far over on the bad side of the good/bad scale, that it's actually gone full circle and is somehow now a good movie (IMO of course)
And I have enjoyed all 4 transformers movies for what they are, so I guess it can't be all bad
(The first one is actually quite good, atleast it has something that's resembling a storyline)

Anyway, this year has been a rather good "going to the movie theatre" year for me, nice mix of sequels to franchises I love, some good reboots and some nice new films (possibly new film franchises, but have not kept a very close eye on how much money they made, so just me doing some musing)

This may come off as something that maybe is not a nice thing to say, but it's really not intended to offend anyone.

But how on gods green earth can that red headed kid from the Happy Days TV Show make/produce? something so ridiculously beautiful as the Jurassic World CEO? It boggles the mind
(Ron Howard, happy days actor and Oscar winning director is Bryce Dallas Howard's father, she plays the redheaded CEO in Jurassic World, but I guess everyone knows that's?)

 

Say whaaaaaat? I had no idea. She really is stunning.

 

And I liked the hot chick

 

I was made to go and watch Pitch Perfect 2 at the weekend; it was kind of okay, mildly amusing in parts. I have to say that the best sections were those that had Das Sound Machine and especially Flula in them. I'm now I'm totally obsessed by a YouTube personality - which is quite unlike me. I just think the guy is hilarious.

 

I thought she was Jessica Chastain...

 

My 8yo son talked me into the Terminator movie. Its script had to have been written by Republicans, because it brings the stupid like no one's business. But there is a small kernel of enjoyability hidden in it somewhere, and Emilia Clarke is f'n hot without that white wig on her head.

 

I didn't even know there was a new Terminator movie. It's kind of funny to have Emilia Clarke playing Sarah Connor when Lena Headey (Queen Cersei) played her in The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

 

With the possible exception of the first one, have any of the Terminator series made sense? Problem with time travel in movies is that things can quickly get out of hand. Plus the Terminator plots seem to be generated by writing all the characters names on a big wheel, then <spin_the_wheel> is sent back in time to stop a killer robot <spin_the_wheel> from killing <spin_the_wheel>.

You can't beat a bit of English posh.

 

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Watched the new Terminator last night and thought it was awesome, sure there were some glaring plot holes in there, for example...

Spoiler

in the helecopter chase, why the hell did she use that giant gun to shoot the teminator to 'slow him down' instead of just shotting the friggin rotor engine??

But for the most part is was great action with some absolutely spectacular special effects (Arnie in particular). And I really enjoyed the many nods to the first (and to a lesser extent second) films.