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sebster wrote:

Wrexasaur wrote:Tell us how it is after you see it.

There'll be a load of reviews available before then, so it isn't as if that trailer is all we'll have to go on.

Personally I am interested in whether it lives up to your expectations. I lost faith in reviews a long time ago, and the last few movies I saw in the theater were a waste of my money and time.

For ensemble acting I'll just pop 'The Departed' into the TV.

Arnold; aaauuuaaaugh

stolone; waauauua

arnold; aaaauuuaaaagh


the two disusing the finer points of geopolitics

If it has good user reviews on Yahoo, I'll go see it. Otherwise, I'll wait for it to be on FX in a year or two. Stratham is the only one that would pull me into a movie.

It will be worth it just to see Terry Crews in a movie that isn't a screwball comedy. Granted, he's really funny (Re: Idiocracy) but I also believe he could play an excellent badass.

Wrexasaur wrote:Personally I am interested in whether it lives up to your expectations. I lost faith in reviews a long time ago, and the last few movies I saw in the theater were a waste of my money and time.

Thing is, most people just look to see if a review said a film was good or wasn’t, then act surprised when their opinion differs. And to be fair, there’s lots of crappy reviewers out there who don’t tell you any more than that. But there are plenty of decent reviewers who will tell you about a film, what it focuses on, what its weaknesses and its strengths are. People approach movies from different angles and so you have to find reviewers that’ll talk about the elements of a film that matter to you, but they’ll certainly be out there.

I’ve seen plenty of films that I thought would be bad (other people were really keen on seeing it, or I didn’t mind if it was bad as it would be a guilty pleasure anyway) but the last film I walked into that I thought would be really good and turned out really mediocre was Kingdom of Heaven. And that’s because I didn’t read any reviews.

Oh, and at this point I don't really have expectations. At this point we've got a great hook and a reasonable if unremarkable trailer, I'm going to wait until closer to the release date before I actually start thinking it'll be good or not.

The film I'm buzzed for is Inception - that looks crazy good.

For ensemble acting I'll just pop 'The Departed' into the TV.

That was a terrific movie.

Jason Statham. He of the Transporter fame.
Mickey Rourke. he of The Wrestler fame.

Yep. I'm sold on this already.

Anung Un Rama wrote:How can Fraz say no to this movie? It has all the great action stars from a time when... well, he was still old, but not als old as he is now. I was going to say, "back when he was young", but they don't make Jurassic Park movies anymore.

Those moving pictures are just a fad made up for lazy kids. Back in my day all we had were dino bones and we were glad we had 'em!

Frazzled wrote:Those moving pictures are just a fad made up for lazy kids. Back in my day all we had were dino bones and we were glad we had 'em!

And anyone who actually found dino bones also got the official dinosaur hunter tattoo, done by Joe from Joe's Tattoo Parlor at age six:

LunaHound wrote:
Cast:

Jason Statham ... Lee Christmas

Jet Li ... Yin Yang

If only it didn't have these two... Especially Statham. He sucks harder than a broke coke addict.

Anung Un Rama wrote:How can Fraz say no to this movie? It has all the great action stars from a time when... well, he was still old, but not als old as he is now. I was going to say, "back when he was young", but they don't make Jurassic Park movies anymore.

wikipedia wrote:Johnston says once he finishes Captain America, he hopefully will develop Jurassic Park IV with Steven Spielberg.

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It needs Vin Diesel, Chuck Norris, and B.A Baracus. If Bruce Lee was still alive he should be in there too.

Wraithlordmechanic wrote:

LunaHound wrote:
Cast:

Jason Statham ... Lee Christmas

Jet Li ... Yin Yang

If only it didn't have these two... Especially Statham. He sucks harder than a broke coke addict.

So, let me get this straight, Jet Li sucks, but Slyvester Stallone is awesome?

Wraithlordmechanic wrote:

LunaHound wrote:
Cast:

Jason Statham ... Lee Christmas

Jet Li ... Yin Yang

If only it didn't have these two... Especially Statham. He sucks harder than a broke coke addict.

Are you kidding? Statham is the best thing that happened to action movies in the last decade.

Although I don't mind the other actors (Jet Li has been good in some roles) I think Statham is great in action films. he is one of the reasons I have high hopes for this film.

Personally i love Jason Statham , hes not good looking or anything , but imho , hes the first actor to bring in Hongkong action staunts and choreography to Holywood.

Which would otherwise been done by Jacky Chan in the previous decades.

Anung Un Rama wrote:
Are you kidding? Statham is the best thing that happened to action movies in the last decade.

No, definitely not kidding. The only movie of his I cold tolerate was The Italian Job and he was a supporting character in that one. The transporter movies were garbage and Crank: High Voltage is one of the worst movies of all time. Need I mention In the Name of the King?
If forced to choose to watch a movie with him or a movie with steven seagal, I would probably just flip a coin and try to get a nap.

What about Snatch Turkish was great!

Wraithlordmechanic wrote:

Anung Un Rama wrote:
Are you kidding? Statham is the best thing that happened to action movies in the last decade.

No, definitely not kidding. The only movie of his I cold tolerate was The Italian Job and he was a supporting character in that one. The transporter movies were garbage and Crank: High Voltage is one of the worst movies of all time. Need I mention In the Name of the King?
If forced to choose to watch a movie with him or a movie with steven seagal, I would probably just flip a coin and try to get a nap.

What about "The Bank Job"?

Cheesecat wrote:
What about "The Bank Job"?

I haven't seen that one.

Not sure if I will be able to see this and be serious. I mean, I will be amazed at how many A-list stars they managed to cram into one movie.....

Cheesecat wrote:What about "The Bank Job"?

I haven’t liked any of Jason Statham’s action movies, but he was terrific in The Bank Job. That was a ridiculously underrated movie.

Dreadwinter wrote:Not sure if I will be able to see this and be serious. I mean, I will be amazed at how many A-list stars they managed to cram into one movie.....

That wouold be accurate if they were A list stars.

Bank Job was great and while the Transporter movies are not that great, his moves are just awesome.

Also, I recently rewatched Crank 2 and I really don't get what's supposed to be so bad about this movie. I love it!

I do like Statham, I think he just needs to broaden his horizons a bit though. This mercenary role should help do the trick because whenever I hear his voice I think "commando" or some kind of special ops guy.

Anung Un Rama wrote:Bank Job was great and while the Transporter movies are not that great, his moves are just awesome.

Also, I recently rewatched Crank 2 and I really don't get what's supposed to be so bad about this movie. I love it!

So you were cool with the part where he's humping his girlfriend on the horse race track- during a race? That was the point I could no longer justify watching that movie (in retrospect it was sad it took me that long to turn it off). That movie had no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Frazzled wrote:

Dreadwinter wrote:Not sure if I will be able to see this and be serious. I mean, I will be amazed at how many A-list stars they managed to cram into one movie.....

That wouold be accurate if they were A list stars.

But generally, A-list stars can't pull off action hero stuff very well. It could be worse, at least they spent some money on casting this one. They could have gone with the likes of Michael Dudikoff, Gary Daniels, Olivier Gruner and Marc Dacascos. I shudder at the thought of the quantum suckitude that cast would whip up.