I'm not sure if that film is meant to be a satire of actual gangster movies, or is just taking all the decent parts of gangster films and selling them off to the highest bidder to try and sell more tickets.
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Saw it yesterday and I thought it was ok but yeah...I thought I had seen it all before in The Untouchables (which is better and far more memorable than this one).
I didn't actually defend Scott Pilgrim(or shit over the expendables, which is still a terrible movie), pretty much the only thing i liked were the video game and anime aesthetics. I still think the expendables is a bad action movie that will be forgotten while Scott Pilgrim will be remembered as a massive commercial failure that people still really liked and killed a lot of cloud smaller, very "geeky" projects had because studios assumed they would make shitloads of money. And the main reason why it failed is that the people who were "supposed" to go see it went to see the expendables instead.MacNille said:
the Expendables to me is very much like transformers, only transformers never killed a del Toro movie.
and bringing up the "they don't grow up argument" on a forum about video games while at the same time mentioning the expendables is hilarious. i mean, if you are so grow up why are you not off posting about your visit to the opera and go watch Melancholia afterwards?
Post World War 2? Is that a slip? Or is this movie set in a period much later than I would expect a mafia movie to be set?
he really should have mentioned this film in the review as an example of doing it right.The untouchables, really? not even half as good as LA ConfidentialSpaec said:
hmm, thought it might be good. maybe i rent it on dvd.
but stallones new movie, that looks like a fun action movie to watch.
but stallones new movie, that looks like a fun action movie to watch.
Hey, I don't give a shit about Bob, or his opinions. I was merely pointing out that he brought it up, so...daibakuha said:
Nope, Mickey Cohen took over Bugsy Siegel's organization in LA in 1947; this organization is shown in all the noir stories I know of that take place in LA:Draconalis said:
-LA Confidential
-The Black Dahlia
-LA Noire
And now this.
I take it as a personal insult when Bob levels personal insults at me because of my taste in movies. I don't bring it up; Bob keeps bringing up his perception we yelled at him for not liking the movie, which is completely false.daibakuha said:
Well it is an insult when he insists that the only people who like these movies are the bane of movies today. Bob is enjoyable to listen to at most times but he has a nasty of habit of letting personal opinion run in his videos and basically comes over as unprofessional.
So Will Beall, the guy who wrote this movie and supposedly also the guy WB hired to write the script of the JL movie.
If this is the result, how can I have some confidence that the Justice League movie will be any good?
Assuming of course that they eventually go with his script in the first place.
Your thoughts on this matter?
If this is the result, how can I have some confidence that the Justice League movie will be any good?
Assuming of course that they eventually go with his script in the first place.
Your thoughts on this matter?
I know you've only ever done this once or twice before but I would really like to see a revisitation of this movie in a couple of months once the DVD is out to see if the director's cut fills in those blanks and, adds to the missing elements. I think that was the case with...not Robin Hood but one of the movies you reviewed way back in 2011 or so.
I was looking forward to this one and while I realize the release was postponed because of the shooting I didn't realize the now controversial scene (and the scenes leading up to it I suppose) were being striped out entirely. I think I'm just going to wait until this is on disc before I give it a look.
I was looking forward to this one and while I realize the release was postponed because of the shooting I didn't realize the now controversial scene (and the scenes leading up to it I suppose) were being striped out entirely. I think I'm just going to wait until this is on disc before I give it a look.
lolMarkunator said:
1: General tip, if any part of your post/thought/sentence has some combination of "People are sheep!", or "Modern Audiences only like generic bland stuff!" or god forbid "Sheeple"; you probably don't have any clue what you're talking about
2: I really shouldn't have to explain this....but whether a movie is "good" or "bad" is entirely subjective. I liked Scott Pilgrim, does that make me a supergeek who only enjoys that stuff? No. On the flip side, a friend of mine who is way more into geeky stuff than I am absolutely hated that movie. Does that mean that he's a mindless weight lifting douchy moron? No.
Quit judging people because they don't like the same things you do
He may not have gone into a rant about Expendables, but Bob is still the one who brought it up for no real reason, and referenced "getting hate for not liking the movies", when that's not even close to being true. That's what's irking people, not his opinion of the filmsdaibakuha said:
The credits were made all the more surreal after I started thinking: "at least there's still Pacific Rim to look forward to," at the start of the credits. Bob, how psychic are you, or are you just good?