Escape to the Movies: Alex Cross

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Oh and another thing: Speed Racer was actually a really fun movie. Just something i wanted to mention.

Agreed. I wonder if MovieBob liked that film or not. I have a feeling he wouldn't have given it the scathing review other critics have. Granted, I probably loved the film due to sheer nostalgia-blindness.

That didn't matter for me. I wasn't familiar with the cartoon it's based on... i'm a bit too young for that, i guess. But i love the movie. While there were some parts that were obviously more targeted to kids than to adults some other stuff worked pretty well for both. And i have a feeling Bob rather likes it... i mean, it's almost like an adaption of Mario Kart.

 

[BrotherRool]

He was really not good in Lost. Maybe he had the misfortune of being written as the most awful generic male lead ever, but he didn't do one thing to elevate it an iota. Kate should have been the lead and his presence should have been obliterated entirely

God no, Kate was dull as fuck. The only character I felt total apathy for. (Desmond FTW.) I've always thought Fox was great on Lost.

I heard he gets less terribly generic on later seasons, I don't know I didn't like Lost really so didn't stick around but at the start Jack was the most bland piece of rubbish in the industry. He representing everything that is bad about TV, literally in this case. It's not just that his character was the boring safe straight white male of the appropriate age with the love interest and the heroic qualities for the audience to sympathise with, but he was actually factually manufactured to be like that. Apparently the original plan didn't have him in at all and had Kate as lead but the execs were worried that having a female lead wouldn't cut it and asked for a more traditional lead to be written in as audience protagonist.

There were signs of him getting better by the time I left, when they stopped playing him as the the Heroic American Everyman and started twisting those qualities to stop being points we were meant to admire and praise him for, but a sign of his dangerous need to be in control of every situation, it got better. And to be fair, it's not really right of me to base Fox's acting abilities off it. When he was being directed to be as generic and blank as possible, well he achieved what he was asked to do, he was just asked to do rubbish.

To be fair I wasn't a huge Kate fan. The cast were good in inverse proportion to how close to the lead they were. Even Sawyer, 3rd from lead and => most interesting of all the 3 mains had his good character stuff spoiled by his proximity to the bog standard paint by numbers love triangle

 

[Mark B]

Wasn't the main character in the most recent Bourne called "Alex Cross" ?

 

[burymagnets]

Eh as far as Iron Man goes, changing colors around and the suits design is kinda par for the course. To be sure the suit always keeps its same basic idea of high-tech knight armor and the colors are always red and yellow(or gold in the case of the movies). This does allow for each artist who comes along to have their own interpretation of it without breaking it in any meaningful way. This also means that if a certain design doesn't work it can just get trashed in a fight and replaced in moment of a building montage. Tony has already gone through what? six suits in 3 movies? Not a problem if more yellow ends up being a little ugly.

Isn't that Iron Patriot (or rather Coldblood as Iron Patriot)? He's gotta be in red, white and blue, maybe that yellow is the explosions reflecting off the white?

 

[Ashoten]

Eh as far as Iron Man goes, changing colors around and the suits design is kinda par for the course. To be sure the suit always keeps its same basic idea of high-tech knight armor and the colors are always red and yellow(or gold in the case of the movies). This does allow for each artist who comes along to have their own interpretation of it without breaking it in any meaningful way. This also means that if a certain design doesn't work it can just get trashed in a fight and replaced in moment of a building montage. Tony has already gone through what? six suits in 3 movies? Not a problem if more yellow ends up being a little ugly.

Isn't that Iron Patriot (or rather Coldblood as Iron Patriot)? He's gotta be in red, white and blue, maybe that yellow is the explosions reflecting off the white?

O I didn't get that good a look at the picture Bob used. Just the comment about it being more yellow. Yeah it could just be white that looks yellow in the explosion. I forgot Iron Patriot was gonna be in the next movie.

 

[lacktheknack]

To be fair, I'd totally watch a cop show featuring a large teddy bear.

That aside, I inexplicably like Tyler Perry myself, but this doesn't look like a great idea. Sad to see it didn't pan out better.

 

[Mr_Terrific]

Wasn't the main character in the most recent Bourne called "Alex Cross" ?

Aaron Cross...thought the same thing though. Both are generic "cool" names..

 

[Aureliano]

Yeah...I'm just gonna go ahead and see Seven Psychopaths. If nothing else, it's a rated R comedy with Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken and boobs. Even if it's kinda bad, there's no way that is a waste of time.

Edit: Wow. I was wrong, there actually is a way to make that premise a waste of time. It wants to be all things to all people, but most importantly it's a genre deconstruction about writer's block. The problem with movies about writer's block is that they're all the same: the main character is a writer (playing the actual screenwriter) runs into the characters he or she is trying to write about, they take over the writer's life and eventually they make the most genre-appropriate version of whatever movie/book/poem they're trying to make. And the climax of the movie is ultimately not whatever happens onscreen, but the real life screenwriter successfully selling yet another iteration of this movie to the studio.

The Muse is a similar example of this problem, but for the love of God don't see it because that movie is terrible.

 

[Vausch]

Eh as far as Iron Man goes, changing colors around and the suits design is kinda par for the course. To be sure the suit always keeps its same basic idea of high-tech knight armor and the colors are always red and yellow(or gold in the case of the movies). This does allow for each artist who comes along to have their own interpretation of it without breaking it in any meaningful way. This also means that if a certain design doesn't work it can just get trashed in a fight and replaced in moment of a building montage. Tony has already gone through what? six suits in 3 movies? Not a problem if more yellow ends up being a little ugly.

They're changing it because of the plot. He's using the Extremis Virus now, which in the comics caused a gold exoskeleton of sorts to coat his body and the suit to become fused with him. He blurred the line between Tony Stark and Iron Man and essentially both became the same.

The suit the extremis virus worked best with just happened to use more gold plating. Odds are he'll use another one in the process too.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Alex Cross

MovieBob takes us into the mind of a poorly cast detective and the poorly acted serial killer he's hunting.

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If you really want that game, just get an Android. Sooner or later, they will port it unless they have a iron clad Apple exclusivity contract (and I highly doubt they do). Don't buy into the Apple machine, it is just terrible.

 

[Eppy (Bored)]

Has this guy BEEN to the D? All of our psychotic serial killers left for greener pastures or got knocked off by the drug dealers.

 

[Darth_Payn]

Wasn't the main character in the most recent Bourne called "Alex Cross" ?

Aaron Cross...thought the same thing though. Both are generic "cool" names..

It sounds like one of those generic Anglo-Saxon manly names, like Alec Mason, Dirk Action, or John Fist.

 

[DaxStrife]

Is it sad that I was kind of rooting for this movie just so they could film more movies in Detroit?

 

[MB202]

At first, I was wondering why Bob reviewed this movie. Then I heard it was a Tyler Perry movie... Oh my... And here I thought Bob would be more pissed this this, considering what he thinks of Tyler Perry...

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

Okay, is Tyler Perry success some specifically amerian thing? Because i'm european and i don't think his movies are even shown here, where i live. I wouldn't even have heard of him, if some critics didn't mention him now and then.

Oh and another thing: Speed Racer was actually a really fun movie. Just something i wanted to mention.

He caters to a niche audience, Black American women. Better yet, let a better Black artist(Aaron Mcgruder) summarize the whole appeal to Tyler Perry movies....

Basically, the guy makes chick flicks for Black women and they love it(I assume, otherwise who is watching his movies?).

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Is it bad that I don't know who either of those two actors are? ...or rather didn't know who they were?

Also, was that a giant sized Skeletor?

 

[Endocrom]

I always seem to get stuck on just one thing in these videos. This time it was the guy with a balistic vest with huge letters that say "CHIEF OF POLICE". Is that wise to advertise that you are high up in the chain of command in a dangerous situation? Just wondering.

Also, was that a giant sized Skeletor?

Yes, yes it was.

 

[kburns10]

Can this movie be re-shot with that teddy bear in the lead role? I would pay money to see that!

 

[Whytewulf]

Tyler Perry Movies are pretty big in the US, and in some regards they do well with certain segments of society, so they may not be for everyone, like many other movies do.

First thought.. Mr. Fox worked out a bit for this movie it seems.. GEEZ!

I could see Perry as a lead star in something serious, but ya not an action Star.. yet..

I have seen most reviews say it was decent, but nothing WOW, and I even get that from Bob's review. He said it was Terrible, but it seem more like it was generic.

I was suprised at Bob's last comment.. Why are you ok with this not working?