Recent content by Etra488

This is becoming an off-topic, private discussion. I'll be PMing you to continue.

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If that's how you feel Prestige, then we ought to just legalize pot and be done with it. In my opinion, movie audiences are far too forgiving of mediocrity and compromises. This movie was both over-produced and under-worked. They tried so hard to be all things to everyone, and were half-assed...

So here we are. After Red Letter Media made it clear with their Star Trek review that almost all movies today are sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, reimaginings, or whathaveyou, is it any shock that video games are in the same state? Over the last two years, the most "original" film was...

At least the Russian they had has a track record of playing Russian characters. He was the Russian sniper in the Mark Wahlberg movie Shooter. No no Hammer, the THREE worst Russians ever are as follows: Harrison Ford in K-19: The Widowmaker Sean Connery in Hunt for Red October Paul Koslo...

From an uber fan who's hip to canon and cognizant of the retcons, even to the first X-Men movie in 2000, First Class was a disappointment. I'll talk about some retcons, and ignore others, such as: The really stupid and lame retard-version of Thirteen Days That the First Class isn't the real...

Paul Bettany is the angriest Christian in the world. First you saw him in The Da Vinci Code as that Opus Dei self-flagellation guy. Then he was Legion, the last Angel fighting on behalf of humanity. Now you can see him as Priest, one man, alone, abandoned by the country he loves. ***...

The triumphant music at the end where the reporter courageously tells the story of how Bush lied and kids died... Matt Damon shooting and killing other American soldiers because they tried to stop him, after he disobeyed orders. I mean wtf was that? Are the film makers not aware of the action...

I couldn't say. I don't know anything about the genuine Norse mythology or about the Marvel interpretation of it - this was just what I got from a first pass of the film.

I've seen a half dozen movies between this one and the previous one, but I'm observing how the bad movies just blur together in a horrific paste of blandness. It's like taking a big gooey bite of cold oatmeal and sprinting to the kitchen soap just to save what taste-buds you might have had...

Bioware has been demonstrating a downward trend in quality. Dragon Age 2 was a disaster. Mass Effect 2 wasn't as good - less content and more polish. A tumor's worth of cancerous polish. Mass Effect was an unrepentant orgy of cliches, but the polish was enough to distract you. Knights of the...

It's funny; I thought the opening of the movie, done in a stylized fashion with dramatic visuals and overpowering music, was Zack Snyder playing to his strengths. It was really very good. And then the whole film just slams on the brakes as a couple of characters fill out paperwork and...

Saying the critics panned this film because "weren't prepared" or "didn't get it" is silly. These are the people who do movies for a living. There's just nothing here for the critics to "get." Your explanation for the movie had more effort put into it than Zack Snyder did for the story. I can...