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I just want to throw in a (dis)honorable mention of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. It was openly marketed to right-wing creeps by Paramount, who were hoping to get more of that sweet American Sniper money, but the actual movie is mostly notable for being the most boring Black Hawk Down retread you can possibly imagine. Other than some halfhearted  ARE TROOPS patriotism it doesn't really engage with the stupid conspiracy theories about the 2012 Benghazi attacks, which is almost disappointing because what we're left with is just unbelievably dull. Seriously, I cannot emphasize enough how completely uninteresting this thing is in spite of being a war movie made by Michael Bay.
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Prometheus looks loving fantastic to the point where IDGAF about any of its supposed flaws. Just look at that loving movie! Pacific Rim comes across as a lesson to 12 year old boys on how to treat people who are unfairly being held back. It's also a movie that hates the poo poo out of rich people to the point where its main human villain is just Mitt Romney, it explicitly says the 1% will gently caress off and hide under a mountain while lying to everybody so they can be eaten by The lead is the most boring whitebread gently caress imaginable though, and then they went and made him stand next to Idris loving Elba to make the deficiency as glaring as possible.
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Taintrunner posted:No idea why, but this reminded me of the Hellboy reboot. Goddamn that was bad. Yikes, that's a good example of a bad movie.
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Gavok posted:I'm kind of shocked that after 11 pages, nobody mentioned Holmes and Watson once considering how much hate it got when it came out. My guess is almost nobody saw it at all.
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Clint has been out of the complexity business and in the  business for a while now.
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nonathlon posted:A lot of movies have these weird vestigial scenes and motifs, that I've always assumed were left over from earlier screenplays, edits and ambitions. My Name is Legend is full of them. The new Midway movie really feels like this happened a lot, too. On topic: the new Midway movie is pretty bad, just watch the 1976 one instead if you're into that sort of thing.
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Dec 18, 2019 19:28
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Julius CSAR posted:Midway (have only seen the old one) is awful, but Tora, Tora, Tora is great. The way they did it as two productions with American film makers doing the American side of things and Japanese film makers doing their side of things is really cool and unique. Generally the old Midway was more highly regarded than Tora Tora Tora, oddly enough. For me they both tend to run together in my head though. The new Midway is poo poo but not outrageously egregious or anything.
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Dec 26, 2019 14:03
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In the original Dirty Harry film, Harry constantly faces the logical consequences of his RENEGADE COP WHO PLAYS BY HIS OWN RULES actions. Also he breaks out a hilariously overpowered .458 Magnum elephant rifle and then never hits anything with it. It's Chekhov'
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Jan 3, 2020 17:34
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X-Ray Pecs posted:He probably had to do it because Tomorrowland flopped. The director of Finding Nemo did the slapdash Finding Dory a few years after his live-action Disney film John Carter flopped. Not saying Disney forces you to make an underwhelming sequel as penance if your movie flops BUT I’m not not saying it either. You're just describing Hollywood in general since forever. If you make an ambitious flop you have to make a safe money maker if you want back in quickly, or you're just poo poo out of luck.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That would also be tight. Those are actually two great/hilarious ideas.
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