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All I can tell you about this movie is that it put me to sleep. I remember a fight in some sort of Rubiks-cube elevator, then two guys fighting on top of a sinking high-rise, then its over and something in the middle must have happened that I missed. As far as ratings points go, I think that puts it somewhere in negative territory. Colin Farrell tries, but he's just boring.
Really?
I actually liked it quite a bit. They were true to the original but changed it up enough so it wasn't just a fancy clone. As far as Sci-Fi action thrillers go, it was pretty good.
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So your going to judge a movie, that you yourself admit to missing most of it? How does that work? Im trying to defend the movie or anything, but how can one miss the key parts of a film and then criticize it?
To be clear has that Collins guy ever been in a good movie...ever?
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
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I was thinking about this yesterday after watching this movie.
What is the better option:
1) Take an old movie and re-edit and release it again over and over again because "we now have the technology to make the movie we imagined" aka The George Lucas Style.
2) Take an old movie and remake it completely because "we now have the technology to make the movie it should have been" aka Remakes, Remakes Everywhere.
No third option because we know Hollywood has no imagination for making original movies
Personal review of the movie: It was okay. Not great, not crappy, just okay. Probably the lowest bullet to kill ratio of any movie I have seen so far though. And I have seen the storm troopers shooting at rebels.
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Save your money. WE have the new Bourne flick and of The Campaign coming out this weekend.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I thought the movie was pretty decent and a lot more like the original book and not the Arnold version. This was also like the first movie ever that Colin Farrell didn't irritate me. He is usually such an ass in his movies and he wasn't in this one.
Colin has the personality of a sack of cabbages, Arnold is all kinds of fething awesome. The bloke makes bad films great!
If Commando (fething ace film) had anyone else in, it would suck.. the blokes a God of cinema.
Doesn't take a genius to know that this wasn't worth watching.
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mattyrm wrote: Colin has the personality of a sack of cabbages, Arnold is all kinds of fething awesome. The bloke makes bad films great!
If Commando (fething ace film) had anyone else in, it would suck.. the blokes a God of cinema.
Doesn't take a genius to know that this wasn't worth watching.
Expendables II Arnies back!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
mattyrm wrote: Colin has the personality of a sack of cabbages, Arnold is all kinds of fething awesome. The bloke makes bad films great!
If Commando (fething ace film) had anyone else in, it would suck.. the blokes a God of cinema.
Doesn't take a genius to know that this wasn't worth watching.
Expendables II Arnies back!
Id watch anything with Arnold in..
My missus hates him cos he was the Guvnor.
Women are weird....
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Frazzled wrote:To be clear has that Collins guy ever been in a good movie...ever?
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The first is a bit of a cheat, because he only plays a minor part, though he's pretty good in it. The latter two films, though, he plays major roles and is absolutely fantastic in each of them. Thing is, Colin Farrel is actually pretty talented, but he picks his films pretty badly, and basically has a 0% success rate with mainstream Hollywood movies.
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d-usa wrote:I was thinking about this yesterday after watching this movie.
What is the better option:
1) Take an old movie and re-edit and release it again over and over again because "we now have the technology to make the movie we imagined" aka The George Lucas Style.
2) Take an old movie and remake it completely because "we now have the technology to make the movie it should have been" aka Remakes, Remakes Everywhere.
No third option because we know Hollywood has no imagination for making original movies
The third option is basically Hollywood scrounging around for a property with name recognition, because a film that's got a name we recognise is easier to build buzz for than a new property. The actual property itself doesn't matter, how well it was done the first time around, or what the tech lets them do differently this time. All they actually care about is that it gets people to pay a bit more attention that they otherwise would.
And hey, we're here talking about the remake, but if it was "Colin Farrell in a generic sci-fi action film that has nothing to do with an old movie" I doubt that'd be the case.
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Frazzled wrote:Save your money. WE have the new Bourne flick and of The Campaign coming out this weekend.
I predict the new Bourne movie will be lots more scenes of a guy running around, and loads of people talking into little microphones saying they've lost the target. A series of assassins will end being defeated in martial arts by the new Bourne guy. All of this will happen in wobbly cam.
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mattyrm wrote: Colin has the personality of a sack of cabbages, Arnold is all kinds of fething awesome. The bloke makes bad films great!
If Commando (fething ace film) had anyone else in, it would suck.. the blokes a God of cinema.
Wow. Nostalgia has taken us to a point where we're pretending Arnold made good movies.
I mean, yeah, Commando is campy fun, Kindergarten Cop is great in that everyone has seen it and knows all the funny bits way, and the original Total Recall is okay once you accept you're basically watching both the zenith and nadir of meat headed action movies at the same time, but does that mean we just stop pretending all the rest of Arnold's gakky, gakky movies didn't exist. I mean, Eraser? End of Days? Raw Deal? Last Action Hero?
To be fair, Predator is actually a really good movie, and Conan was pretty awesome. So he's got two actual good movies, three movies that are fun but not actually any good at all, and a whole bunch of boring crap. But he's retired so we pretend he used to be good.
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KingCracker wrote:So your going to judge a movie, that you yourself admit to missing most of it? How does that work? Im trying to defend the movie or anything, but how can one miss the key parts of a film and then criticize it?
The fact that it was so boring that it put me, a hardened caffeine addict to sleep is pretty significant.
Hey, LoTR had that effect on me - an I had an espresso whilst waiting to go into the cinema (each time). You know what they say - Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?
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Frazzled wrote:To be clear has that Collins guy ever been in a good movie...ever?
In Bruges
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Yes, excellent film, although I thought the other characters made that one.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
sebster wrote:I mean, yeah, Commando is campy fun, Kindergarten Cop is great in that everyone has seen it and knows all the funny bits way, and the original Total Recall is okay once you accept you're basically watching both the zenith and nadir of meat headed action movies at the same time, but does that mean we just stop pretending all the rest of Arnold's gakky, gakky movies didn't exist. I mean, Eraser? End of Days? Raw Deal? Last Action Hero?
My wife and I saw a trailer for the new Total Recall about a month ago; and it turned out she had never seen the original, so we watched it. Man, my memory really deceived me on this one; it's actually kind of an awful movie. Even giving them a pass on the special effects, the dialogue was absolutely terrible.
It's like Voltron or anything else you enjoyed as a kid, you really can't revisit that kind of stuff an an adult. Predator still holds up pretty well though.
So far as Colin Farrell, isn't part of talent being able to select good roles for yourself? In my opinion, it's the only thing Marky Mark has going for him - an unerring nose for roles that he can pull off ably despite being only a middling actor at best.
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sebster wrote:To be fair, Predator is actually a really good movie, and Conan was pretty awesome. So he's got two actual good movies, three movies that are fun but not actually any good at all, and a whole bunch of boring crap. But he's retired so we pretend he used to be good.
The first two Terminators are pretty awesome as well.
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sebster wrote:To be fair, Predator is actually a really good movie, and Conan was pretty awesome. So he's got two actual good movies, three movies that are fun but not actually any good at all, and a whole bunch of boring crap. But he's retired so we pretend he used to be good.
The first two Terminators are pretty awesome as well.
And he gave us awesome quotes, even from bad movies!
Frazzled wrote:To be clear has that Collins guy ever been in a good movie...ever?
In Bruges
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Yes, excellent film, although I thought the other characters made that one.
Also, I thought 'The Recruit' with Al Pacino was pretty good.
Would probably say Terminator 2 is my favourite Arnie film - just everything about it is epic, and it came out at probably the right age for me to really appreciate it.
Favourite one-liner was after he killed the guy with the chainsaw in The Running Man ("What happened to that guy?" "He had to split")
You lot are nuts... Arnold DID make good movies! I watch them all the time, commando was quality, as was Total Recall, Predator, both terminators, End of days, Eraser, that one with the clones, was it the sixth day? The point is, they arent Godfather part two good, they are corny action movies with some genius one liners that you piss yourself laughing at, but you genuinely enjoy them. Even true lies was alright!
I turned John Carter off after 45 minutes, I've never turned an Arnold film off halfway, even Kindergarten Cop. Although, I did pass on Jingle all the way.
The blokes fething great. Put Stallone in Commando or Predator or True Lies and I would rather watch my Granny's house burn down with her asleep in the spare room.
Arnold isnt great because of nostalgia, I watched all the action movies in the 80s! Stallone, Van-damme et al, they arent fit to lace the big mans boots. Arnold is great because somehow, be it his look or his bad English, he worked were almost everyone else didn't! Timecop and AWOL and Red Scorpion were all gak in comparison to most of Arnies films, but they were pretty much the exact same thing. So why?
Arnold!
He makes Jean Claude Van-Damme and Dolph Lundgren look like meter maids!
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Matty has a point. Arnie has the pizzazz. There whole genre of muscle bound testerone epics would have been for nought without him. Plus some of them were genuinely good (Predator) or EPIC (Terminator / Terminator II).
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Always loved arnold.. I've seen just about all of his films, and I even enjoy the bad ones. I wouldn't buy em all on DVD, but I'll watch em on cable any time it's on. Can't say the same for any other actor out there really.
True lies is probably one of my favorites.. I even liked Terminator 3. And my favorite part in terminator 4 was his cameo.
Necros wrote:Always loved arnold.. I've seen just about all of his films, and I even enjoy the bad ones. I wouldn't buy em all on DVD, but I'll watch em on cable any time it's on. Can't say the same for any other actor out there really.
True lies is probably one of my favorites.. I even liked Terminator 3. And my favorite part in terminator 4 was his cameo.
See this man knows the score.
Me and my mate Rob both love all Arnies films and we discuss their merits at length whilst both our birds slate him and say we are strange.
Women just don't get it.
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