Shattered Glass is a great movie. I always point it out when people say Hayden Christensen can't act.
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Shattered Glass is a great movie. I always point it out when people say Hayden Christensen can't act.
Yeah, I was very impressed with his performance. Little things like body language and having a slight stammer when he was nervous just added so much more to the role he was playing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mattrick
I really applaud Fatman for trying to do something different, but the film never fully commits. It doen't fully lean into the cheese factor, not does it fully try to be a serious film. My other issue with the film is that the trailer made it seem like we were getting Santa Wick, with tons of action. That's hardly the film we got. There's really only one action scene at the end. The rest of the film either follows Walton Googins as an eclectic hitman or Gibson being all emo.
I think there's a lot of wasted potential here, a common refrain with many of the films I've seen during the pandemic.
My wife and I watched Last Christmas with Emilia Clarke and Emma Thompson over the weekend. I picked it based on the trailer. I figured it would be a lot like the typical Hallmark movies my wife likes to watch. A girl works in a Christmas shop, her life is a mess, she meets this guy on accident, they fall in love and live happily ever after. The end.
That's not really what this movie was. Honestly the first half was kinda slow. We watched it, then stopped and went to bed so we could finish it the next day. Didn't have a lot of expectations for it. The second half was definitely better and my wife and I picked up on the big "twist" pretty early. I couldn't figure out why the entire soundtrack was nothing but George Micheal songs but after the twist was relieved the song and the title of the movie made more sense.
I'll give it 2.5 stars out of 5. Not bad but nothing I'd want to watch a second time. It won't be in my regular rotation of favorite holiday movies.
My sister guessed the twist after watching the trailer. I still would like to watch it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iwritecode
My wife and I enjoyed it last Christmas :tongue:
Just saw, "TENET" (purchase) and WOW is all I'm going to say!!! As usual, Nolan delivers. You just have to see it.
Check out "MORTAL" on Amazon (rental) it's a foriegn film done rather well with a frsh take on an old story. I was genuinely surprised at how good it was for aforeign film. Pretty good stuff. I'd give it a 5 out of 6 beers.
Also viewed, "THE CONTRACT" a freebie on Amazon (yeah, I was binging!! lol) pretty solid spy thriller with, Morgan Freeman and John Cusack (were'nt they in "Cell" together?). Typical government/CIA/Cop thriller in the woods where the innocent average guy becomes the hero, but fairly well done and worth the 2 hrs. I give it 4 1/2 beers out of 6 on the Randall Flagg scale.
Pretty sure Cell was John and Sam Jackson reuniting after 1408.
Ah, yes you are correct. My bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mattrick
I never bothered with Cell, is it worth the watch?
I enjoyed it a bit, but even I would say it was no great movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by fernandito
Not really. It wasn't a very good adaption of the book and they changed the ending and somehow made it worse than the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by fernandito
Even if you had never read the book, I don't think it would be a great movie.
...to which I would add: if the novel's ending frustrated the shit out of you (as it did me), the movie's ending isn't likely to piss you off much (I can take it or leave it).Quote:
Originally Posted by Iwritecode...they changed the ending and somehow made it worse than the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by fernandito
I didn't expect "great," I didn't get "great," I modestly enjoyed the movie; I'll give it as positive a "meh" as you can give something.
Yeah, Cell's not in the top-tier King adaptations in the way that The Mist or Misery are, but I did enjoy it a lot more than I thought I would. I'd say it's worth a watch.
So ... I saw Tenet last night. As someone that not only thinks The Prestige, Memento, Inception, Interstellar, and the Dark Knight are near perfect movies, but also a fan of time travel, parallel universes, weird shit, etc, I have to say I'm a little disappointed in the movie. This is a movie that's asking you to "just go with it" and has faith that you won't be frustrated that one plus one equals three. And three is a purple banana underwater on Pluto twelve and a half years ago.
The "why are they doing this?" and "How are they doing this?" needed to be better explained, in my opinion.
Cell is one of the few King adaptations I have yet to watch. I should probably give it a go at some point. I really enjoyed the book, and heard the movie sucked so never cared to watch it. But maybe I should, and just go in with really low expectations :lol: The Dark Tower is another one I haven't seen, which maybe I'll also get to at some point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricky
Yeah, I've heard tell of the physics behind it before and that wa kind of mind boggling. How they could do what thyey could would likely still be a "What if....." proposition. To me it's damn near impossible to apply in reality as they did in the film. As for the "why" they did state through 2 lines of dialogue that the future had fucked up the planet and its resources beyond repair and it "was their only option". Not much other than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shannon
Still, as usual with, Nolan it was a slickly done exercise in film making. Great action, cinematography and pace. The editing seemed a little chopped at times though.
I rewatched The Dark Tower a few months ago. First time since the theatres. It's just all wrong. It has some pretty alright stuff in it, but they stuffed way too much into it and also managed to feel to have not done enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heather19Cell is one of the few King adaptations I have yet to watch. I should probably give it a go at some point. I really enjoyed the book, and heard the movie sucked so never cared to watch it. But maybe I should, and just go in with really low expectations :lol: The Dark Tower is another one I haven't seen, which maybe I'll also get to at some point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricky
It really needs to be a TV series. A streaming service that is willing to invest and let WOM carry it is necessary. They could easily do a miniseries of The Gunslinger. 4 episodes. End it with Roland stumbling across Eddie's Door. Westerns aren't likely to entice a large audience, but Drawing of the Three definitely would. They could also find some creative ways to do Roland's backstory...a separate miniseries, LOST style flashbacks, it would also give them room to expand...I want more Wastelands.
I can see why the movies tried to game The Gunslinger because that's not an easy sell to general audiences. I really did like the gimmick of the film's being Roland's last time, but it was waaaaay too different for it to be effective. I always assumed Roland only changed his course slightly each time. I always imagined Roland could only save himself by not dropping Jake and the movie didn't even contain that pivotal choice.
Really The Dark Tower was just misguided and overly ambitious, which is an awful combination.
Wonder Woman 1984: Two out of Five.
I didn't HATE it, but I thought it was bland all the way through, with some very strange writing choices. And this is coming from someone that really likes all the other DC movies.
I just finished WW84. It is a pretty shocking regression from WW1, which was probably the best DC film not named Batman. Bland, contrived, messy, and what's up with SNL style acting from some of the extras? That mall sequence in particular was cringe worthy. Gal Gadot might be the only saving grace, she embodies Diana to perfection.
The first hour is probably the worst first hour of any CBM I've ever seen. The last 30 minutes are decent but by then its already too late. Hope this isn't an ominous sign for the future of DC.
2/5
I agree. It was pretty boring, slow, poor villains, poor acting, and not a good story at all. It was from the same director so I'm wondering why it fell down hill.Quote:
Originally Posted by fernandito
Oof. I haven't see WW1984 yet but I'm not seeing a lot of good reviews.
I loved it, but I posted about it in the DC films thread. Not as good as the first, but what can be?
MANY movies have bested their sequels... just look to their main competition.... MarvelQuote:
Originally Posted by mae
I don’t mean sequels in general, the first WW was a masterpiece, my #1 overall movie of that year. I didn’t expect this to be better than that but it was still a whole lot of fun and emotions.