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Post by famvir on Dec 22, 2013 13:45:03 GMT -4
I just finished watching Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, and it's not a bad Saturday Night date movie. If you remove the "It's Indiana Jones, M*****f*****!" It 's pretty darn good! Definitely a jump the shark movie that killed the franchise, though. Harrison Ford is too old and curmudgeonly, Karen Allen is too aggressively and annoyingly cutesy-pie, Shia LaBeouf is not an acceptable son of Indy; too short, whiney, wannabe and just not heroic. In his prime Harrison was like Clark Kent. Even in his teacher clothing, he was a stud. Shia will only ever be a cute boy, at best, and an annoying douchebag at worst. And the action itself is more road runner than action movie.
But if you strip away all the Indiana Jones myth, and just watch it as an over the top adventure movie (I love me some Wanted, which is the epitome of over the top Adventure Movie, so I'm not adverse to genre at all), it is pretty damn good!
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Post by alpierce on Dec 22, 2013 19:18:28 GMT -4
Not liking The Hobbit is not really unpopular on this board, so my unpopular movie opinion is that I LOVE the Hobbit movies. Not as much as I loved the LOTR movies, but I'm so happy to be back in the universe that I don't care how much Peter Jackson drags out the movies. I haven't had a movie experience like these since LOTR. Same here. Though I could've done without all of the Tauriel/Legolas stuff. My unpopular opinion is that I don't think Star Trek: Into Darkness was bad. There were problems, yes, but I think calling it " the worst Star Trek movie ever" is going a bit overboard. I usually reserve that special title for Star trek 5 with the original cast. My problem with Into darkness is that they seemed to have 2 entirely different shorter scripts that they mashed together. Kahn is probably one of the most popular all time Star Trek villains of all time and he was barely in the film. |
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Post by Smilla on Dec 24, 2013 4:21:54 GMT -4
Star Trek V will always be the worst for me, too. There's an hysterical moment when DeForest Kelly screams, "Don't make me do this!" I used to joke that this wasn't dialogue, it was a plea to an off-camera William Shatner to just make the pain of the film stop.
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Post by Mutagen on Dec 24, 2013 7:57:54 GMT -4
My problem with Into darkness is that they seemed to have 2 entirely different shorter scripts that they mashed together. Kahn is probably one of the most popular all time Star Trek villains of all time and he was barely in the film. Yeah - it was the equivalent of having a Batman movie with some generic antagonist who halfway through was like "Oh, I'm The Joker by the way." Star Trek V was still bad. So was Nemesis. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 10:43:54 GMT -4
Nemesis sucked balls. I was so mad when I left the theater after I saw it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2013 1:34:50 GMT -4
Nemesis was TERRIBLE. I was so disappointed.
I liked Wrath of Khan Redo. But it did not hold a candle to the original, which is one of my all-time favorite movies.
Worst Star Trek ever? The Motion Picture. The bald gal and Seventh Heaven Dad? BORING. /Homer
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Post by Karrit on Dec 25, 2013 15:42:01 GMT -4
A very nice friend on my Facebook page is going on in raptures about how wonderful "Love Actually" so I don't feel comfortable ripping into something a friend likes, but blegggh, that movie sets me off in a rage. Which is pretty amazing as there aren't too many romcoms that I don't like or can't find something enjoyable in them. I love so many of the actors in this movie, but that is about all I can say that is positive.
Whew, I feel better now, and I haven't hurt my friends feelings.
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Post by Ninja Bunny on Dec 25, 2013 19:51:46 GMT -4
Number 6 was the one that annoyed me the worst. Star Trek quotes lots of Shakespeare, I get it, but they were dropping quotes like anvils in #6 in a try-hard sort of way and that got on my nerves.
I've never seen It's a Wonderful Life and I've made it a life's goal never to watch it. It just sounds treacly and stupid. Unless they have a remake with zombies that eat that stupid girl and her stupid bells and stupid angels, I'm not the least bit interested.
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Post by chonies on Dec 26, 2013 11:52:37 GMT -4
A very nice friend on my Facebook page is going on in raptures about how wonderful "Love Actually" so I don't feel comfortable ripping into something a friend likes, but blegggh, that movie sets me off in a rage. Which is pretty amazing as there aren't too many romcoms that I don't like or can't find something enjoyable in them. I love so many of the actors in this movie, but that is about all I can say that is positive. Whew, I feel better now, and I haven't hurt my friends feelings. I hadn't seen it since it was in the theater, and had nearly forgotten its existence, so I was kind of taken by surprise by how it's been revived as a Christmas classic. I saw part of it the other day, and remembered that I thought it was awful. Baffling, unbelievable, and just ugh. I also remember getting the distinct feeling it was made for American anglophiles by snickering Brits, but cannot be certain. If you want to stoke your rage, this Jezebel article might do the trick.  I did really like the premise of Bill Nighy's character and would enjoy an expanded look at that, but I am a sucker for stories about washed up pop stars. My opinion on Christmas movies is that my feelings about It's a Wonderful Life are mixed. Some years I enjoy it, some I make rude gagging gestures. What I appreciate about it now is that it's old and shows a different perspective on life. Christmas is modest, expectations are modest, the scale of things is different, and aesthetically, I love that postwar look. It's a nice visual respite from the blinking, saturated Christmas movies, which stand on their own merit, but just aren't black and white. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2013 16:37:03 GMT -4
I suspected I didn't like Christmas Vacation based on what I had seen of it here and there over the years and now that I've watched it from beginning to end it's official. I don't even find it mildly funny and can't understand why anyone does. I'm not a Chevy Chase fan, so I'm sure that doesn't help matters. I'm also not a fan of movies that try to make me relate to the sort of financial strain that upper middle class families suffer when something horrible happens and they can't afford a vacation or to buy a luxury item they had their heart set on (in this case, a backyard pool). Beyond all that, the entire movie seemed to be reaching too hard for cheap laughs IMO. Oh, well. This movie is a great way to determine if someone shares my sense of humor or not, so I appreciate its existence.
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