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Moves that are great... until they're not
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I liked the first 2/3rds of Donnie Darko but hated the ending. Pre-determinism is such a lame point of view. If everything is pre-determined, why do anything at all.
Million Dollar Baby put me off of Clint Eastwood films. I was really enjoying the movie until she fell and hit her head on the stool or whatever. I mean, the odds that she would fall at that particular angle and hit the stool to cause that particular injury, OH COME ON. Plus it was melodramatic as hell.
Million Dollar Baby put me off of Clint Eastwood films. I was really enjoying the movie until she fell and hit her head on the stool or whatever. I mean, the odds that she would fall at that particular angle and hit the stool to cause that particular injury, OH COME ON. Plus it was melodramatic as hell.
MeanJoePhaser
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I knew I'd get that wrong and someone would correct me, but I was too lazy to look it up.
This post disqualifies you from ever speaking of a Bond movie again.
Why, because I know which are the best ones?
Oooh, this is one of those moments, where I can't figure out any titles, what a crock of shit. I think in general, comedies can fit into this (and even action flicks to), in that the first thirty to forty minutes are hilarious, and they then decent into 'the guy gets the girl' romantic drama, which often is just a bore. I'm gonna throw it out there, I found movies like Zomieland and Paul Blart: Mall Cop (an ironic mention, I know) good because they were branded as comedies, and had consistent humor throughout. Certainly, not everyone is going to agree with me here, but that's just how i feel.
Oh, I have one...Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, started off great, but once it got into the whole clipshow thing, it kinda just went blah.
Oh, I have one...Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, started off great, but once it got into the whole clipshow thing, it kinda just went blah.
Rii
Rear Admiral
If we don't and can't know the future until we experience it in the present, what difference does it make that it's predetermined?
Rii
Rear Admiral
Yeah, I was speaking more generally to the philosophical issues involved.
To be honest, despite enjoying Donnie Darko I've never actually been able to follow it all that well.
Definitely agree on "Sunshine". I was loving that movie, then it went to crap.
Hancock I can see. I still enjoyed the second half, but the first was much better.
Die Another Day: I thought the first act was going to make the movie one of the best Bonds - Bond failing, getting tortured and disavowed, then all of it was tossed out the window.
Lost in Space was a pretty good scifi movie until they hit the spider creatures.
Hancock I can see. I still enjoyed the second half, but the first was much better.
Die Another Day: I thought the first act was going to make the movie one of the best Bonds - Bond failing, getting tortured and disavowed, then all of it was tossed out the window.
Lost in Space was a pretty good scifi movie until they hit the spider creatures.
MeanJoePhaser
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How about movies that turn sour within 15 minutes?
Blade 3...becomes an Ipod commercial or something, Kristofferson dies again...Darkstalkers or TEAM BLADE, and you can tell Snipes isn't just acting like Blade hates the idea, he hates the idea.
I still liked it more than most people seem to.
John Carpenter's Vampires, seems like it would be a cool film about a team of vamp hunters...then almost everyone is killed off. It's like a disappointing sequel to a movie that doesn't exist.
On the vampire angle, some might mention FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, when it becomes a vampire movie. I liked it more because of that, though.
Blade 3...becomes an Ipod commercial or something, Kristofferson dies again...Darkstalkers or TEAM BLADE, and you can tell Snipes isn't just acting like Blade hates the idea, he hates the idea.
I still liked it more than most people seem to.
John Carpenter's Vampires, seems like it would be a cool film about a team of vamp hunters...then almost everyone is killed off. It's like a disappointing sequel to a movie that doesn't exist.
On the vampire angle, some might mention FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, when it becomes a vampire movie. I liked it more because of that, though.
AI could have been a good movie, if they'd ended it a half-hour earlier. Same for Minority Report.
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My sentiments exactly. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch another Clint Eastwood film since, although I am curious about "Unforgiven". I always say I've never seen two movies shoot themselves in the foot with an awful twist after a strong beginning more than "Million Dollar Baby" and "Unfaithful"."Million Dollar Baby" was shaping up to be a solid boxing movie, sort of like a female Rocky story, and then it turned into an awful melodramatic mess of a euthanasia story. "Unfaithful" started off as a well-acted, insightful, realistic, and impressively suspenseful movie about adultery and then the stupid murder ruined it.
I thought "Wall-E" went to crap once the main character left earth. The stuff on earth at the beginning was wonderful, but the stuff in space with stupid wacky robots and the hideously designed humans was the lamest, most shrill and grating cartoony crap Pixar has ever done. I haven't enjoyed an entire Pixar movie from start to finish since "Monsters, Inc.". "Wall-E" was going to break the bad streak until it was ruined by the space nonsense. At least it had a decent ending once they got back to earth.
The Departed (thanks to another topic that reminded me), I was pretty well into it until about the time where whats her name decides that the secret package addressed to someone else, just cannot be, so she opened it and listened to the tape. The movie for me, went downhill from there, for many reasons, one of the most obvious of which that it was the cliche "OMG, we're fucking each other and theres secrets? No, that cannot be" but whatever. Its likely more then that, but I suck at putting things to words, the movie just went downhill from there for me.
^^ The Departed failed for me when Damon graduates as a cop... then walks across the street, and gets in the car with the city's top mob boss, without any tinted windows whatsoever! I'm all for suspending disbelief, but that scene practically ruined the whole piece for me, and all of five minutes or so in.
That, and the figure the Nicholson character was based on operated primarily in the 70s and 80s, with a bit of early 90s. So why not set it back then? I could be wrong, but I don't think gangs in major American cities are that complex anymore.
That, and the figure the Nicholson character was based on operated primarily in the 70s and 80s, with a bit of early 90s. So why not set it back then? I could be wrong, but I don't think gangs in major American cities are that complex anymore.
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