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Tickle Me
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Oct 11, 2005
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No. Not even close.

Endlessly derivative - a poor attempt to ape the style of The Matrix, a plot which is nothing more than a tired rehash of countless dystopian authors (though the genre is more poorly served in film) - it's ultimately vacuous. It takes itself so seriously that it's difficult to treat it as simply a clichéd action film - everything from "gun kata" to that hilarious scene with the puppy in the boot (trunk, for you Yankee English speakers) to the fact that the supposedly emotion-free setting hasn't been conveyed to the actors undermines the narrative. A pathetic soundtrack which sounds like something ripped from a videogame doesn't help.
It didn't help that Bale rolling through a futuristic office building of bad guys to make it to the final fight scene was eerily similar to what happened in the Matrix three years before.:D
 

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May 27, 2007
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I have Equilibrium on CD for like 2 years now and I haven't watched it yet. I don't like movies like that one *(aka Martix, I just don't like it).

The only possitive thing about The Martrix is the soundtrack IMO. I'd rate it 6/10.

I can recommend Seven Pounds, though.
 

Ford Prefect

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May 28, 2009
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a poor attempt to ape the style of The Matrix,
Explain

I can recommend Seven Pounds, though.

Iv heard its v good, but im not too keen on where will smith is taking his career. I read the premise and it seemed fairly clever, i may watch it when the bbc decide to spend my licence fee on it. What maked me lol was as part of the promotion for the dvd most places sold it for £7 lol.
 

Elvin

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Nov 25, 2005
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No. Not even close.

Endlessly derivative - a poor attempt to ape the style of The Matrix, a plot which is nothing more than a tired rehash of countless dystopian authors (though the genre is more poorly served in film) - it's ultimately vacuous. It takes itself so seriously that it's difficult to treat it as simply a clichéd action film - everything from "gun kata" to that hilarious scene with the puppy in the boot (trunk, for you Yankee English speakers) to the fact that the supposedly emotion-free setting hasn't been conveyed to the actors undermines the narrative. A pathetic soundtrack which sounds like something ripped from a videogame doesn't help.
There were some good lines tho.
 

HelterSkelter

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Apr 15, 2005
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25th hour.Excellent movie.Barry Pepper is better than what he gets credit for.I still think Norton lacks the edge needed to play a true psychotic badass(not talking about his character in this movie)..something like Bale in American Psycho..but he's brilliant nevertheless.
Hoffman's character cracked me up.

Oh and for the record,this just has to be,one of the greatest movie rants of all time :

Fuck me? Fuck you! Fuck you and this whole city and everyone in it.
Fuck the panhandlers, grubbing for money, and smiling at me behind my back.
Fuck squeegee men dirtying up the clean windshield of my car. Get a fucking job!
Fuck the Sikhs and the Pakistanis bombing down the avenues in decrepit cabs, curry steaming out their pores and stinking up my day. Terrorists in fucking training. Slow the fuck down!
Fuck the Chelsea boys with their waxed chests and pumped up biceps. Going down on each other in my parks and on my piers, jingling their dicks on my Channel 35.
Fuck the Korean grocers with their pyramids of overpriced fruit and their tulips and roses wrapped in plastic. Ten years in the country, still no speaky English?
Fuck the Russians in Brighton Beach. Mobster thugs sitting in cafés, sipping tea in little glasses, sugar cubes between their teeth. Wheelin' and dealin' and schemin'. Go back where you fucking came from!
Fuck the black-hatted Chassidim, strolling up and down 47th street in their dirty gabardine with their dandruff. Selling South African apartheid diamonds!
Fuck the Wall Street brokers. Self-styled masters of the universe. Michael Douglas, Gordon Gecko wannabe mother fuckers, figuring out new ways to rob hard working people blind. Send those Enron assholes to jail for fucking life! You think Bush and Cheney didn't know about that shit? Give me a fucking break! Tyco! Imclone! Adelphia! Worldcom!
Fuck the Puerto Ricans. 20 to a car, swelling up the welfare rolls, worst fuckin' parade in the city. And don't even get me started on the Dom-in-i-cans, because they make the Puerto Ricans look good.
Fuck the Bensonhurst Italians with their pomaded hair, their nylon warm-up suits, and their St. Anthony medallions. Swinging their, Jason Giambi, Louisville slugger, baseball bats, trying to audition for the Sopranos.
Fuck the Upper East Side wives with their Hermés scarves and their fifty-dollar Balducci artichokes. Overfed faces getting pulled and lifted and stretched, all taut and shiny. You're not fooling anybody, sweetheart!
Fuck the uptown brothers. They never pass the ball, they don't want to play defense, they take fives steps on every lay-up to the hoop. And then they want to turn around and blame everything on the white man. Slavery ended one hundred and thirty seven years ago. Move the fuck on!
Fuck the corrupt cops with their anus violating plungers and their 41 shots, standing behind a blue wall of silence. You betray our trust!
Fuck the priests who put their hands down some innocent child's pants. Fuck the church that protects them, delivering us into evil. And while you're at it, fuck JC! He got off easy! A day on the cross, a weekend in hell, and all the hallelujahs of the legioned angels for eternity! Try seven years in fuckin Otisville, Jay!
Fuck Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and backward-ass, cave-dwelling, fundamentalist assholes everywhere. On the names of innocent thousands murdered, I pray you spend the rest of eternity with your seventy-two whores roasting in a jet-fueled fire in hell. You towel headed camel jockeys can kiss my royal, Irish ass!
Fuck Jacob Elinski, whining malcontent.
Fuck Francis Xavier Slaughtery, my best friend, judging me while he stares at my girlfriend's ass.
Fuck Naturel Rivera. I gave her my trust and she stabbed me in the back. Sold me up the river. Fucking bitch.
Fuck my father with his endless grief, standing behind that bar. Sipping on club soda, selling whiskey to firemen and cheering the Bronx Bombers.
Fuck this whole city and everyone in it. From the row houses of Astoria to the penthouses on Park Avenue. From the projects in the Bronx to the lofts in Soho. From the tenements in Alphabet City to the brownstones in Park slope to the split levels in Staten Island. Let an earthquake crumble it. Let the fires rage. Let it burn to fuckin ash then let the waters rise and submerge this whole, rat-infested place
 

Bozi

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Oct 18, 2005
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watched Choke last night, i actually really enjoyed it. the commentary running through it was a throwback to fight club and was an obvious pointer to the novel and the writers style,obviously it was not anywhere near as brilliant as fight club but a very good performance by Rockwell and some excellent black humour running through the film
 

Eddy

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Aug 20, 2005
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I wouldn't expect a life changing allegory, but it looks like it could be fun. I expected Tropic Thunder to suck, but it was pretty fun.
Dude, when I first came to CT, I went to the cinemas to watch it and man oh man was it horrible, I just walked out of the cinema halfway through...I just can't stand American comedies anymore, it's just so bad...
 

Ford Prefect

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May 28, 2009
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Just watched '21' all i can say for it is...meh. I got extremely bored during the first half. the twist didnt have any impact, they used clearly cheap sets. The lead looked like a sweaty autistic Zac Efron (admitabley better than watching Zac Efron). Iv seen Spacey do so much better, and its one of these vegas films that cant decide whether vegas is good or bad which really annoys me. 'The Hangover' had that view, Oceans Eleven did unlike 'Casino which just said Vegas is bad, its very bad and Fear and Loathing just says take a fuck load of drugs and its awesome lol.
 

Ford Prefect

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May 28, 2009
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a really good comedy and very originel.
Dude that film is not original, its plagerised the vast majority of its jokes either from Todds previous films or other common jokes, its one of the main reasons i didnt find it funny. One of the jokes that put the half wits in the cinema into histerics was the one about "the one that doesnt stay in vegas is herpes" that jokes been around for fucking years, cyanide and happiness used it a few years back.


 

Buck Fuddy

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May 22, 2009
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Just watched '21' all i can say for it is...meh. I got extremely bored during the first half. the twist didnt have any impact, they used clearly cheap sets. The lead looked like a sweaty autistic Zac Efron (admitabley better than watching Zac Efron). Iv seen Spacey do so much better, and its one of these vegas films that cant decide whether vegas is good or bad which really annoys me. 'The Hangover' had that view, Oceans Eleven did unlike 'Casino which just said Vegas is bad, its very bad and Fear and Loathing just says take a fuck load of drugs and its awesome lol.
:agree:, 21 was rather boring. Luckily, Spacey is always watchable & the same goes for Bosworth ;)

I tried to watch Fear and Loathing yesterday, but fell asleep 20 mins into it
Probably one of the funniest movies ever and a personnal favourite of mine!

"One of the things you learn from years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye."


Watched Max Payne yesterday. Better than I expected I must admit, but my expectations were very, very low. The general look of the film was really good imo, remained true to the game quite well. The plot was a bit iffy though, so after about an hour (when the setting alone wasn't enough anymore) things became somewhat boring.
 

mikhail

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Jan 24, 2003
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Style is tough to explain; at least, I haven't the vocabulary, but stylish martial arts combat between men dressed austerely in black? It's hard not to find a review (or any substantial discussion) of Equilibrium that doesn't mention The Matrix, purely for stylistic reasons.

 
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