Bad Boys III

[-JKR-]

Yeah, Vanessa Hudgens was among the best elements in this one.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Hope her and the rest of AMMO come back for the 4th movie.

 

[-JKR-]

And I hope the post credit dude gets murdered in the first 15 seconds.

"You never really knew him anyway"
"Eh, you're right. Look, heavily armed mother****ers, let's get 'em"
"We ride tog..."
"Why has this become a thing? Cut the Fast and Furious bull**** and shoot at those ****ers!!!!"

 

[MadVillainy]

The only AMMO member that made an impression was Alexander Ludwig. Everyone else was forgettable. Like yeah Vanessa Hudgens is hot and so was the leader lady, but that's a dime a dozen. They didn't have any memorable lines or action beats. And they really get into their characters

I think y'all just horned up

 

[-JKR-]

The only AMMO member that made an impression was Alexander Ludwig. Everyone else was forgettable. Like yeah Vanessa Hudgens is hot and so was the leader lady, but that's a dime a dozen. They didn't have any memorable lines or action beats. And they really get into their characters

I think y'all just horned up

Yeah, I am. I totally am.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

The only AMMO member that made an impression was Alexander Ludwig. Everyone else was forgettable. Like yeah Vanessa Hudgens is hot and so was the leader lady, but that's a dime a dozen. They didn't have any memorable lines or action beats. And they really get into their characters

I think y'all just horned up

I actually liked all of the characters in AMMO personally, they each got at least one memorable moment for me, even if it was often cliche.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

This was a lame, sterilized, sanitized version of Bay's Bad Boys

The action scenes are absolutely lackluster compared to Bad Boys II.

It's a high bar since BB2 is my favorite action comedy of all time but still it's a bummer. The second one is a dream for action junkies and they totally dropped the ball here. Where the f**k is the kkkrazzzy bayhem?? I know Bay is not the director but the new guys didn't even try. F**k this s**t.

 

[terry78]

It's a new age.

 

[-JKR-]

This was a lame, sterilized, sanitized version of Bay's Bad Boys

The action scenes are absolutely lackluster compared to Bad Boys II.

It's a high bar since BB2 is my favorite action comedy of all time but still it's a bummer. Where the f**k is the kkkrazzzy bayhem?? I know Bay is not the director but the new guys didn't even try. F**k this s**t.

I wasn't as harsh as you, but I wasn't a fan, either. And it's sterilized and sanitized even compared to Bay's original "Bad Boys," and tried waaaay too hard to copy the "Fast and Furious" formula, which I hated. Especially the outcome of one specific character and the post credits scene. That was just dumb. Way too dumb. Even for a dumb action movie.

It's definitely the worst of the franchise. And even taking the new age into account, it should have been much better.

 

[killface]

I was hoping they'd do a Jump Street reboot sort of deal where the kids from AMMO became the new bad boys and Marcus named as the new captain with Mike as consultant

 

[-JKR-]

P.S.: For all the praise I had heard about Adil & Bilal's work in this, I thought it felt like television most of the time... very bland. They definitely are no Chad Stahelski or David Leitch, and there are plenty of other modern directors who I think have done a better job directing modern action(-y) movies (Tim Miller's work on "Deadpool", Adam Wingard's "The Guest" and Leigh Wannell's "Upgrade" put this movie to shame, and with lower budgets).

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Bay's action scenes are cinematic. Just think about the Miami freeway chase sequence or the Cuban shantytown chase scene. I really wouldn't be so harsh on this movie but Bay just set an impossibly high standard with the second one. BB2 has kkrazzier action than some of his Transformers stuff even. I miss that.

 

[-JKR-]

I went in prepared and wasn't expecting anything like "Bad Boys 2" at all, which is why I compared it to the first "Bad Boys". Going in I was fine with the idea of the action scenes being more traditional, and not as crazy and frenetic. But quite frankly, this didn't even meet THOSE expectations. It's literally average work they have put together, and that doesn't just apply to the action scenes (which lacked any sort of energy and vision), but the overall movie.

The villain was laughable in this, and the actress was disadvantaged by ridiculous stage direction and dialogue, which made her (and her offspring - the same applies to him ) seem even dumber.

It was all quite... clumsy.

 

[Stringer]

Miller's Deadpool was about as gray and bland as the majority of MCU films. Bad Boys 3, if nothing else, was colorful and vibrant.

 

[-JKR-]

Miller's Deadpool was about as gray and bland as the majority of MCU films. Bad Boys 3, if nothing else, was colorful and vibrant.

It was more silver-y (with a hint of blue) than it was gray, and that doesn't automatically make it bland. But that's a matter of taste. It also didn't really look like a Marvel Studios movies (and even among the Marvel Studios movies, there luckily are a couple of exceptions and movies that stand out and look different), and the color palette changed according to the environment and the sets. I personally thought that it was an interesting touch, and that the steely backgrounds (you're refering to) set a nice contrast to Deadpool's red suit.

But your comment specifically refers to the cinematography and color timing rather than it does of Tim Miller's overall staging, direction and editing, which was much more kinetic and overall superior to anything Adil & Bilal have accomplished here.

And also, throwing in colorful neon lights doesn't make the cinematography or directing automatically better. And I do like colorful movies, as well, but here they weren't really used in a way that impressed me (as opposed to the "John Wick" movies, the more colorful "Deadpool 2" and plenty of others).

Much like an Instagram filter, as nice as it may look, it doesn't automatically make a picture more than average. And that's the case with the direction (and cinematography) in "Bad Boys For Life," IMO.

 

[Stringer]

"Silver-y" is just semantics to me. As with Terminator, the overall movie looked bland and his overall style is journeyman-ish. It's a movie almost completely powered by Reynolds' energy and wasn't matched until the sequel. Miller is the exact type of director that the Marvel is going to go for when it's time for a director to shoot one of their more forgettable, by the numbers films that are carried by the formula and not the vision of a higher tier leader.

For all the criticisms you're placing at Adil and Bilal they still managed to make an entry in the series that actually has emotional stakes and a level maturity that Bay (who on the technical side is a fine director) couldn't or didn't bother with while still maintaining the flair and carnage the franchise is known for.

 

[-JKR-]

The emotional stakes never really felt real to be, to be honest. And the only real emotional plot point was completely disregarded by the end.

I also disagree on Tim Miller's work on Deadpool. He's responsible for why the movie works the way it does just as much as Ryan Reynolds and Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

Miller's work on Terminator was a bit more unfocused, but not the weak point of the movie, which was the screenplay and dialogue.

P.S.: calling "semantics" is an easy way out, and I could use it just as easily to disregard any one of your argumentations. Let's just agree to disagree. I didn't like Adil & Bilal's work on Bad Boys For Life, you didn't like Tim Miller's because it's ... "gray."

 

[Albright]

This gonna win best picture, best director, best actor in a leading role, best actor in a supporting role, best original script,...

because: no competition

 

[StarLord]

I liked this for the most part. Although the story is lazy and the whilst the action wasn't exactly spectacular or terrible, it was competent.

Sadly can't say the same for Bay's 6 Underground. I had a blast watching it, sure it was nuts, but the amount of goofs throughout were quite shocking by his standards. Camera rigs in shots, boom mic shadows and camera ops in reflections. It was all very slapdash.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I won’t lie I did miss Bay at points in this, but I thought new guys did really well and thoroughly enjoyed what they brought to the table.

With Bay signing a deal with Sony just recently, maybe he will come back for the 4th movie?

 

[Stringer]

The emotional stakes never really felt real to be, to be honest. And the only real emotional plot point was completely disregarded by the end.

I also disagree on Tim Miller's work on Deadpool. He's responsible for why the movie works the way it does just as much as Ryan Reynolds and Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

Miller's work on Terminator was a bit more unfocused, but not the weak point of the movie, which was the screenplay and dialogue.

P.S.: calling "semantics" is an easy way out, and I could use it just as easily to disregard any one of your argumentations. Let's just agree to disagree. I didn't like Adil & Bilal's work on Bad Boys For Life, you didn't like Tim Miller's because it's ... "gray."

I wasn't trying to be dismissive. What other films do you consider good looking that share the same silver-y aesthetic Deadpool has?

 

[-JKR-]

The original RoboCop, like Deadpool, isn't an overly colorful movie (aside from a few neon lights and a nightclub scene, which Deadpool has, as well) but it features incredible cinematography by Jost Vacano, and of course great direction by Paul Verhoeven:

And I find the look Tim Miller and his DP Ken Seng created to be gorgeous, as well:

 

[Stringer]

Really good comparison. You could throw Starship Troopers in there was well. For me, the look of Verhoeven films merge a plain looking, industrialized, steely setting with the fantastical elements of the story to create an accessible world to any viewer that may be scared off by his brand of sex, sensuality, violence, and commentary. While Miller may be capturing a similar look in his films, they almost certainly don't have that level of depth and intricacy that I've been able to see. The result of that is that his films just look bland to me.

 

[Batman jr.]

I haven't seen it yet, but all my respect for the two directors, Bilall & Adil, who are, like me, from Belgium.

Haven't heard anything about them returning for IV. They should've started working on Beverly Hills Cop IV a while ago.

Funny how BBIII is the most succesful movie of the year so far...

 

[Hunter Rider]

I never thought I'd see the day that Bay was getting love! I've always been a Bayhem fan but I also liked the action in this movie and you have to keep in nmind that the directors weren't playing with the budget Bay was on Bad Boys II.

My review seems to have been wiped in the server move but this was my favourite of the 3 films in the series, I felt it did a great job of doing a long belated sequel with much older actors and translating that in a way that was relateable and humorous without it being distracting from the central action movie it was.

I do agree that the

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twist was a bad idea, but overall I found it both funny and exciting on the action front, with the bike/sidecar chase and the finale being the standout sequences for me.