Film Fanatics - Chat Thread II

The highlight was the two of us guys picking holes in it and laughing at its ridiculousness in a near-enough running commentary, much to the annoyance of the girl we watched it with.

And the holes you picked were?

I think this considered review explains it best.

This movie is horrendous. I created an IMDB account for the sole purpose of stating how much I hated this movie. I don't care if you think they are aliens, angels, albinos, or whatever....this movie is dumb.

SPOILERS i completely agree!! some scenes were done well, i especially enjoyed the first major disaster when he realizes the missing numbers are locations, and the plane crashes..that was chilling and entertaining.

as the movie dragged on, and i mean really dragged on, i became more and more disappointed.

His manager should sue him. Cage is quite possibly the most talentless hack working in Hollyweird. If he weren't connected he would be a sales manager in Utah.

First three.


IMDB diatribes- when you don't understand the concept of a plot hole.

Why do so many people think its weird to go to the cinema alone?

There's been a couple of arguments in the SB today about it.

I'm not too sure what to say about Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. For the first half of the film it was utter crap with Shia running around and acting like a whingy teenager. There were so many unnecessary characters and plot threads. The dialogue retains the same cringe factor, null humour and sub-par acting. The action that happens in the last hour (which everyone said makes the film somewhat better) was also a muddle and ultimately felt like a good 10 minute action scene dragged out for an hour with soldiers randomly wandering around and robots blowing up everything in sight. I actually got deja vu with the plot of the first two films tbh. It's always the same with some CIA or high ranking official and Transformer technology that both sides are after. It's been used 3 times now.

There were one or two 'emotional' scenes (I know right?) in the film which I thought were done quite well but apart from that, I would agree with the consensus of it being a sexist, racist and glamorised car porno.

I'm not too sure what to say about Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. For the first half of the film it was utter crap with Shia running around and acting like a whingy teenager. There were so many unnecessary characters and plot threads. The dialogue retains the same cringe factor, null humour and sub-par acting. The action that happens in the last hour (which everyone said makes the film somewhat better) was also a muddle and ultimately felt like a good 10 minute action scene dragged out for an hour with soldiers randomly wandering around and robots blowing up everything in sight. I actually got deja vu with the plot of the first two films tbh. It's always the same with some CIA or high ranking official and Transformer technology that both sides are after. It's been used 3 times now.

There were one or two 'emotional' scenes (I know right?) in the film which I thought were done quite well but apart from that, I would agree with the consensus of it being a sexist, racist and glamorised car porno.

Apropo of nothing:
Superhero film wise I really enjoyed First Class (For a number of reasons: it felt more like a spy movie, which to me makes it much better than your average superhero one and MacAvoy and Fassbender are fantastic)

I say good on Harrison for that - admittedly I'm one of the few who don't thoroughly hate Crystal Skull but Shia was very obviously trying to score some easy credibility with his detractors by agreeing with them. Even if he did think it was terrible, as Ford said it's an actors duty to sell the film they're in, whatever their personal feelings. To be honest, that's one thing I respect Nic Cage for - he's been in (more often than not) some pretty bad films, but he will never outright state that they were terrible.

Any fans of Knowing? I hear a lot of criticism against Cage (in general) and Knowing, but I thought it was a good film, if a tad depressing.

Called it.

I agree apart from scenes being done well lol

Riverside are showih Once Upon a Time in the west today, has anyone here
seen it ?

Cage is a talentless hack? That's not true at all, I mean, he's been in some awful movies, but then again he was brilliant in Face Off, Raising Arizona, Wild at Heart and Bad Lieutenant. I'm sure he's also been brilliant in other films.

Cage is a talentless hack? That's not true at all, I mean, he's been in some awful movies, but then again he was brilliant in Face Off, Raising Arizona, Wild at Heart and Bad Lieutenant. I'm sure he's also been brilliant in other films.

The thing about Shia LaBeouf is that while it's true that "he can't promote a film without making a dick out of himself", he still does a damn good job of promoting films. Just think about how many column inches were filled by him telling the world that he managed to cop off with Megan Fox while she still had a boyfriend that then inevitably mentioned the fact that the new Transformers film was coming out.

It's not pretty and it's certainly not professional but I can't imagine the studios are too disappointed with him.

I don't think you actually need to see a film like Transformers to rubbish it. You've seen the first film and you've seen them all. A quick read up on whatever direction they've decided to take the 'plot' to make it entirely nonsensical and as jampacked with explosion porn as possible is sufficient to knock shades out of the film, rather than enduring the generic, boring, CGI fest and paying for the dubious privilege.

If you're looking at pure action films, don't choose a festering turd like Transformers. Mates liking and talking about it isn't really a good reason to try and 'get into' a film like Transformers. Go for classic action: Rambo, Die Hard, Bruce Lee films, Ong-Bak etc. Statham films if you have to, but I've definitely forgotten a whole host of good action films (or, at least, action films with a point beyond "CGIexplosionCGIexplosionTITS").

Did you take that quote from the article on Cracked?

Sadly, though, it might be indicative of a new standard of 'professionalism'; i.e. a total lack of it.

No, it was something that Harrison Ford said a while ago. I don't read Cracked.

I don't think it is particularly indicative, there have been idiots throughout history and they still remain a minority (albeit a very vocal one).