Spider-Aziz
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The only Rambo movie I have seen is First Blood.
Yeah, Ocean's 12 was terrible. I loved the first one, but they should have just stopped there if they couldn't think up a good idea for a sequel. Never bothered to see 13, though 8 was okay.
The only Rambo movie I have seen is First Blood.
I find it ironic the first one is actually trying to say something serious about how damaged veterans are treated after they come home, and then the rest totally abandon that to be a gung-ho shoot-em-up where said damaged veteran mows down thousands of enemy soldiers.
I never saw Ocean's Twelve in it's entirety but Ocean's Thirteen is pretty good. You should check it out. Although if you were a fan of the Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta Jones characters you might get pissed.
Watching The Irishman I felt trapped inside a retirement home for great actors where they were pointlessly rehashing similar roles from their past without a coherent whole to support them.
And all those names and places! It reminded me of that scene in The Naked Gun:
-Hector Savage. From Detroit. Ex-boxer. His real name was Joey Chicago.
-Oh, yeah. He fought under the name of Kid Minneapolis.
-I saw Kid Minneapolis fight once. In Cincinnati.
-No, you're thinking of Kid New York. He fought out of Philly.
-He was killed in the ring in Houston. By Tex Colorado. You know, the Arizona Assassin.
-Yeah, from Dakota. I don't remember it was North or South.
-North. South Dakota was his brother. From West Virginia.
The Naked Gun was the total opposite f@$!ing hilarious from the first minute.
It is weird indeed.I find it ironic the first one is actually trying to say something serious about how damaged veterans are treated after they come home, and then the rest totally abandon that to be a gung-ho shoot-em-up where said damaged veteran mows down thousands of enemy soldiers.
I should take this into heart, but I'm not one who listens to advice.It’s the only one worth watching, IMO.
The Naked Gun is hilarious.
Here's an unpopular opinion about Leslie Nielsen: Wrongfully Accused is one of his best spoof films alongside The Naked Gun and Airplane!.
That's the one. Mainly a parody of The Fugitive. There are tons of great jokes in that one.If I'm thinking of the right one, I just remember the part where he's running from the crashing train through the woods.....and then runs back the other way with the train still behind him.
Several acclaimed films have just been duds for me. I can't sit through a lot of them because of how dramatic they are and how serious everything is and how self important so many of them are.You ever watch an acclaimed film and you’re sad that you just don’t get it? I can add Au Hasard Balthazar to my list of European films I just don’t get.
Return of the Jedi is my favourite Star Wars movie.
I agree. It may have been an unnecessary movie but it still wasn't a bad one. I think the bigger problem it suffered was two-fold. It came out too soon and the behind the scenes drama with the directors resulting in a lot of bad press.Solo is incredibly underrated.
Solo is incredibly underrated.
I agree about Solo being underrated.I agree. It may have been an unnecessary movie but it still wasn't a bad one. I think the bigger problem it suffered was two-fold. It came out too soon and the behind the scenes drama with the directors resulting in a lot of bad press.
I wouldn't call it the best cause Rogue One hits me harder there as the better movie.Solo is the best Disney SW film.
That is true.Majority of movie book adaptation fall short of the charms of the book and don't do it justice.
That's probably true. It can be really difficult to capture the appeal of a good, let alone great, book. But then again, great movies have been made from lackluster novels. For example Godfather is not, IMHO, a particularly good book. Neither is Jaws. As I recall, the book Die Hard is based on was surprisingly dark and interesting but no one would remember it if it wasn't for the film.Majority of movie book adaptation fall short of the charms of the book and don't do it justice.
Reboot just for the sake of reboot annoys me. If you have a fresh point of view or feel you can somehow improve on the original, sure, go ahead. Same goes for swapping the gender of the character. If you think the story works better with a different gender, then by all means change it. But it is not compelling in and of itself. (Not that it wouldn't be interesting to see a gender-swapped version of 40 Days and 40 Nights.)Rebooting a male lead movie into a female lead movie is a bad choice for many reasons, and they are always forgettable. Just like with reboots in general.