Pulsar_t wrote:
I'd still say that this flick suffers from the sappy ending syndrome that has afflicted Hollywood for generations.
Did they change the (somewhat illogical) book ending then?
Which is to say, Tom Cruise's character didn't have to kill Emily Blunt's in order to win?
The nature of why they're in a Groundhog Day loop changes and is simplified from the book's version. The change, though, isn't why there's a sappy ending.
Re: the sappy ending Pulsar is talking about
is that they had a point to end it which would have been bittersweet, but then they did Hollywood magic hand waving and now it's a happy ending.
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How in the fuck did I forget how fine and beautiful Appolonia's tits were? Even more so, how in the fuck did I forget Appolonia showed them? That should be a permanent memory. I watch this movie at least once a year, so that stuff should be imbedded in my brain by now.
Purple Rain is a really long music video, and not much else. But I love it. Film school students would call it "crap", but the movie does have some great moments, and if you like Prince, of course you have to like the movie too (even though Prince is a huge jerk in this film).
Something that needs to be brought to attention:
If Drake wore a wig, he would look like a young Prince. Big time.
I recently watched a Woody Allen movie I hadn't before seen called "Scoop". Fun little mystery-comedy, elements of fantasy, like most WA films.
Also, Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman as two of the main characters. Can't go wrong with two of the hottest people leading your movie, man. ScarJo could be in anything and I'd watch it.
catnip wrote:I recently watched a Woody Allen movie I hadn't before seen called "Scoop". Fun little mystery-comedy, elements of fantasy, like most WA films.
Also, Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman as two of the main characters. Can't go wrong with two of the hottest people leading your movie, man. ScarJo could be in anything and I'd watch it.
I was gonna say, Scoop is definitely one of Woody Allen's more accessible films and was just a fun little romp. I enjoyed it a lot as well.
Ack wrote:I don't know, chief, the haunting feeling of lust I feel whenever I look at your avatar makes me think it's real.
-I am the idiot that likes to have fun and be happy.
Overall I really liked it. Great action, cool semi mech suits, and a nice sense of progression. Plus a decent amount of somewhat comical moments. I do agree with everyone who says the Last 10 minutes or so of the movie wasn't necessary. Sure I like a happy ending and all but it really took all the impact out of the ending.
Favorite part of the movie was the first time he tried to escape from the training run during push ups. Best death of the whole film .
I watched Mantera, a Malaysian Transformers rip-off. I was hoping for some goofy so-bad-it's-good fun but unfortunately it's too dour to be consistently amusing, intentionally or otherwise.
There was one hilarious line near the end that had me rolling though. The protagonists mentor figure gets a mecha sword through the back and completely apropos of nothing his dying words are "Remember, Azman, nothing truly dies". No lead in just bam! cheesy dialogue. This is after he seems to be killed by a phone bomb.Nothing makes sense. I don't even know why the hero was given the power to become Mantera.
I don't know anything that happened. It's just stuff. Real one draft stuff. And while I find it can often be hard to detect bad acting when watching a foreign film, there was no mistaking how much these guys sucked. Maybe seek it out as a curio. It's on Netflix and it's fairly short so...maybe. I need to watch a couple of Kurosawa's to get my filmic karma back in balance.
I hate it when Hollywood releases long list of sequels (Saw 7?) when it actually is just milking the cow, but in other instances it works like Harry Potter for example.
But I can't blame them, numbers show that people keep watching the movies and they profit from them so it is only logical to do more. What confuses me is the straight to DVD sequels. Do they actually make enough profit out of these to cover the production costs and time invested to make the sequel?
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