A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night: Vampire girl stalks the streets of a one-horse town in Iran, devouring the wicked and making moon eyes at a boy. A style over substance film. Moody, cool, a bit empty in the end. 7/10
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White House Down - Miles better than Olympus Has Fallen... and a better Die Hard film than Die Hard 4 or 5. I mean, it's not setting the world on fire, but it's a fun 2 hour action film, with good leads, that doesn't take itself seriously.
Is that the one where Jamie Foxx is the president and he has a pair of Air Jordans?
To the people who watched The Avengers, I'm going today to the Cinema to watch it, should I watch it in 3D or normal?
The best way to enjoy Avengers is to arrive in front of the theater room where it's being screened and to go watch the film that's being shown in the theater next door.
No, it's the one where Jamie Foxx is the president and he fires a rocket launcher whilst hanging outside a bulletproof Hummer....
AKA the best film of all time just behind The Room. I see which one you're speaking of.
I watched a film called Project Almanac which was alright for what it was...
Basically, some bloke invents a time machine, and uses it to get his dick sucked, and fecks up the future...
Basically, some bloke invents a time machine, and uses it to get his dick sucked, and fecks up the future...
3D didn't add anything for me and occasionally I had to take off the glasses to get a better look at the what was going on. You'd be better saving the extra that 3D cost and seeing it in 2D, you won't be missing anything to be honest.
better than my review and sums the film up prefect.
To be fair, if I had a time machine, I'd do what they did...lottery wins, getting shagged left right and centre...
feck the future...
It was basically Back to the Future though...but without a DeLorean...
Mad Max, quite an achievement to make a blockbuster full of action sequences. Let's forget the cheesy acting and dialogue for a second, and the lack of suspense in the actual action sequences, oh and the fact that Max may as well been a sidekick rather than the protagonist. Hi octane? More like poorly paced, lacking build up and...devoid of a crescendo, but heck... Cracking explosions. I dunno, but how about a less is more approach in future blockbusters? It could be a positive thing.
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Isn't that an oxymoron? Blockbusters are blockbusters because they cost a lot to make. The most expensive movies to make are ones with a lot of elaborate stunts and special effects. Take those away and you've got a much cheaper movie to make. Which wouldn't be a blockbuster.
Batman Begins, Dark Knight and plethora of other blockbusters did action sequences and hi octane action with a fantastic build up. I'm not expecting Godfather that would be silly.
Oh right. The batman movies were annoying though. Blockbusters with delusions of grandeur. Po-faced and pretentious when the subject matter is far too absurd to take that seriously (like most of Christopher Nolan's recent movies). It's a man wearing a bat costume ffs. I like my blockbusters to know their place. Don't pretend to be something they're not.
That's a silly way of looking at it, imo. If you go down that route, you just have an army of Marvel films with superhuman characters being clever to one another in their badassery and no real challenge, no sense of danger and no real stakes. The Nolan films managed to set an air of seriousness (for a guy wearing a bat costume, which makes the achievement even better!) while remaining entertaining.
I'm no fan of the Batmans but at least they weren't pointless car chases without a story line. I just mentioned them off the top of my head, by the way. Blockbusters ought to entertain not literally send me to sleep half the way through. Batman entertained. Mad Max - Great effects and explosions though, but that's it.
You can have a sense of danger and feel invested in the characters without all the overblown melodrama Nolan seems so fond of these days.
To be fair, they're still decent movies. Shit all over most of their peers. The Marvel movies are all fairly crap and don't get me started on Transformers. I just think the perfect blockbuster should be completely over the top. A full on, balls out roller-coaster ride. Mad Max nails this. The batman movies don't.
Fair enough. I have similar expectations to you but was definitely entertained.
What's your favourite action movie? I'd put Mad Max as the most enjoyable big, dumb popcorn movies I've watched since the Matrix.
That's just it, it wasn't fun. Not sure watching sequence after sequence of action constitutes as fun.
I'll have to come back and disagree with you once I've seen Mad Max! I will leave no stone unturned in my quest. And that quest will be relentless.
As far as blockbusters go, and they're obviously never the best movies, the batman series was great. The 3rd went a bit too bollywoodish at the end, but generally the trio was very well done.
Terminator 2 is probably my favourite of the blockbusters. Frickin' love that movie.
Terminator 2 is probably my favourite of the blockbusters. Frickin' love that movie.
Er.. Die Hard 1 and 2, Rocky 4, Aliens, T2, Jaws, Back to the Future(counted?) . @Pogue Mahone there are loads of action packed blockbusters that I've found entertaining. We all love to switch off and enjoy brainless fun.
Yeah that was great, Star Wars trilogy was great fun. too. But i'm not sure whether Pogue would count those.
Shoot em up is one of the best action films ever made.
They're all great. I'd put Mad Max up with most of them. The main thing to me is that its a breath of fresh air. The last decade has had so few movies that would compete with those, in terms of sheer entertainment value.
I saw Star Wars as a kid but those movies are clearly entertainers. There's nothing realistic about them. Mockney said they were like the previous generation's Jurassic Park or Terminator which is apt IMO.
Well we'll have to agree to disagree regarding MM.
Nowt wrong with that. Oh I loved Blade and the original Spiderman 2 and all. Anyway, Rocky 4 is so bloody awful but inheritantly watchable at the same time. I just don't get it, but I have to watch it everytime it's on.
And the original Terminator deserves more credit. It was a great film and not a brainless entertaining blockbuster.
Yeah I think I would do the same , I thought it was more like The Butterfly Effect.
I find myself less and less interested in entertainers to be honest. Either that or their quality has been a bit poor over the last decade. I liked guardians of the Galaxy funnily enough. Nothing amazing. Just some light fun.
Interstellar, inception, avengers, transformers. Big blockbusters have been a bit shit of late IMO.
I didn't think much of GotG. Can't think of the last blockbuster that I enjoyed.
Yeah. It was surprisingly good. Enjoyed it more than the recent batman movies, for example.
Before Mad Max, it was Edge of Tomorrow for me... a fun, fairly inventive Sci-Fi film that wasn't taking itself too seriously. Unless GotG came out after that, in which case it was GotG
It's all about context. Mad Max was, as Pogue says, a breath of fresh air because it was the right time for it...but if every film of its ilk does the same thing for the next 10 years it'll become incredibly boring, and the rubbish dialogue and story will become more evident..... Even Jurassic Park failed to sustain the same level of interest in the sequels once the novelty of seeing realistic dinosaurs wore off.
Same goes for Nolan. His super serious silly subject matter was amazing when it was fresh, now everyone's copying it the taste du jour is the Marvel approach...which itself if wearing itself thin
Same goes for Nolan. His super serious silly subject matter was amazing when it was fresh, now everyone's copying it the taste du jour is the Marvel approach...which itself if wearing itself thin
Yeah Edge of Tomorrow was seriously undervalued....changing its name for the DVD release didn't help.
Ooh. Good call!