Matthew Johnson30 said:Can someone please explain what the hell the point of this movie even was?
It’s basically one of those movies you watch just to forget it immediately. Honestly, I can't remember a single thing about it except for the fact that Edward Norton plays some prisoner with braids, and that I am never, ever wasting my time on it again.
This movie was actually killing it until about halfway through—then this whole messy romance subplot starts dragging everything down and, honestly, just completely trashes the entire film. There was so much potential here, too! You had the solid premise, the vibe, the cast... all of it, but instead of sticking the landing, they just served up some tired, greasy cliché at the end. It sucked. Such a waste.
As for Radcliffe, he’s kind of moving from my "I can't stand looking at him" list into the "okay, I can watch him if I just pretend he's his character" category. But man, that whole attempt at a bad boy transformation after Harry Potter was just way too greasy for me.
I’m honestly dying to see this, I just have zero clue where or how to find it. Everything on my end totally stopped working back in May.
I am seriously relieved that that blank stare Marion Cotillard calls a face won't be cluttering up the screen and ruining the whole movie for everyone else.
That being said, the concept actually sounds pretty promising; I’ve always had a soft spot for those low-key, "boring" types of stories, and honestly, the reviews I’ve been digging up look solid—like, actually amazing.
goldenhound32 said:So, has anyone actually sat down to watch this movie yet?
I see there's a screening scheduled for this Friday over in Chicago.
Nicholas Hoult is such a total snack.
The beginning is awesome, even if it drags a bit later on. It’s a sladunjav movie, but honestly, that's just how those types of films work. This one was sladunjav in a really cute way, and I had a blast watching it at the theater. Did I mention Nicholas Hoult?
Hands down the biggest pile of garbage I have ever sat through in a movie theater. Seriously, I couldn't even wrap my head around the fact that this was actually filmed and somehow made it to a wide theatrical release instead of being tossed straight into a landfill or onto a dusty VHS tape right after production.
I honestly don't even know where to start spitting bile because everything about this thing is broken. It’s so unbelievably, catastrophically bad that I’m not even sure if there are enough words in the English language to truly capture how pathetic this mess is.
The characters? Total two-dimensional cardboard cutouts. A complete disaster. You’ve got Cuba Gooding Jr. constantly sucking on that damn straw and Terrence Howard sounding like a hysterical woman in every single freaking scene while preaching. I won't even dignify the rest of the cast with a mention; it’s too embarrassing.
Everything, and I mean absolutely everything, is wrong.
And oh boy, let's talk about that "evil" Nazi villain—wow, he’s just *so* wicked, you know? He’s about as menacing as a cartoon villain designed for infants under two months old. Yeah, that's how "greatly" he was written. Just purely ridiculous.
The level of pure, unadulterated pathos is endless; you could practically export it by the ton.
The dialogue and the acting are so bottom-tier it feels like the screenwriter was some random amateur and the actors were all just picked up off a street corner.
The fight scenes, the plane flyovers, and all that stuff... totally pointless and boring, ruined by dialogue that kills any shred of momentum and zero actual sense of action.
The plot is painfully predictable, and my disbelief that things could possibly get worse from one scene to the next just kept building until the very end of the movie.
I don't know how many of you actually sat through this, but I'm torn between recommending it just to witness this unprecedented level of suck or telling you to steer clear of it in the widest possible arc.
Rating: a big fat 0 on a scale of 1 to 10. It didn't just miss the mark; it broke through the floor. This movie *is* the bottom of the barrel.
First off, huge shoutout to Dennis Brown20 for pointing me toward this flick. Seriously, thank you, because this is exactly the kind of thing I’ve been hunting for.
WARNING: Spoilers ahead.
Secondly, I am absolutely obsessed with this woman, though I really hope she actually learns how to act—or at least drops that weird half-smile she wears in every single scene, which combined with her calm voice, makes her sound like some preschool teacher who just finished nursing a little angel.
That scene where she absolutely wrecks Fassbender was incredibly well done, IMO. They ditched that atrocious music and the scene itself is killer; the choreography is solid, and contrary to what everyone else was whining about, the steady camera work actually worked for me—it didn't try too hard with shaky movements, so it felt legit and real.
All the fight scenes are great; the woman looks convincing (as far as anything can in a movie), she clearly knows how to throw hands (not even worth mentioning), and I am just totally floored by it.
Unfortunately, the movie is plagued by the worst soundtrack since... I can't even remember, but it's so bad it feels like they ran out of budget halfway through. The music is a total disaster—some kind of post-rock minimalism or whatever—and it just does not belong in this movie, regardless of what they were aiming for.
I wasn't feeling that ambush on the beach at all; considering the whole movie tries to maintain this sense of realism, that part felt super forced, like, how did she even track him down there?
The first thirty minutes are way weaker than the rest of the film, starting from when she picks up the kid in the car and moving through those awful scenes in Los Angeles, where the director decided to turn the action into a series of random vignettes backed by some xylophone nonsense.
I think the main reason people aren't vibing with this movie is that it was trying to be a serious drama rather than just a standard action flick, but the lead character is so shallow that nobody can actually connect with her. Even if the dialogue had been better, there just weren't any moments that made us care about her or want to root for her throughout the story. Aside from the fact that she’s a powerhouse who makes me want to scream, her character just lacks depth, and I bet everyone else felt the same way.
The music and the underdeveloped lead are the biggest issues, but that doesn't mean the movie is garbage. Maybe she’d be better suited for simpler movies, because this one tried to reach beyond the typical action genre, but it had a lead character that was way too weak to carry that weight.
That's probably why it hasn't found its audience; it fails to satisfy both the serious drama crowd and the action junkies, even though it has a cool perspective and the fights are realistic and executed perfectly.
I'm honestly going back to rewatch that scene with Fassbender; I feel so bad for all those girls who watched this just for him and missed seeing their precious little pet get his ass kicked.
Is this whole thing seriously turning into some massive 'Snakes on a Plane' level disaster?
Watching Liam Neeson try to play this agile action hero is honestly like getting punched in the face, it's just that bad. I haven't even seen his first movie, but I've caught some of his other thrillers, you know, like that unknown one and stuff. He just feels so fake and unconvincing to me, it's painful. I'd say I'm skipping it, but man... it's such a struggle to look away.
Grace Jones86 said:Where does this dissatisfaction come from for you people?
What's the point of having a "good life" if it leaves you feeling unsatisfied? How can a life be considered good if you personally hate it? Why don't you like it? 🤷
No, never. Not even a tiny little hiccup.
Hold on just a second, do you honestly believe that once you finally land that job—which, let's be real, is the actual hurdle I've been figuring out lately—you're just going to be totally satisfied? Like, you think the rest of the world is just standing there actively trying to stop you from being blissfully happy in this amazing life you'll supposedly enjoy the moment you solve this massive unemployment headache?
If you ask me, we're all just fundamentally dissatisfied and ungrateful people to some degree. Maybe it's just my permanent rose-colored glasses being broken.
casualeagle82 said:Reading this thread, I see myself in way too many parts. I’m 29, got a solid career, my own house, good friends, and an amazing girlfriend of five years—we're headed toward marriage eventually.
I honestly don't know what I want from life. All my friends are getting married and starting families under the assumption that it's just the natural order of things, the whole point of existence, the only way to be. I don't know if that's actually the point. Work, live, kids, settle down, routine, industrial automation, 1 2 1 2 1 2, summer vacation at the beach, winter trips to the mountains—it’s all fine. We do it so we look successful to everyone else, so we follow the rules and get respected.
Like someone mentioned at the start of this thread, part of me just wants to take out a loan and vanish. Just disappear. It's a radical thought, but it hits me constantly. What is life if we're just living up to everyone else's expectations? Where does the mainstream end and the alternative begin? Part of me wants to head up to Alaska and sign onto a fishing boat. I want to feel the adrenaline when a five-meter wave crashes toward you in 40-degree water. I want to live in a cabin without electricity, internet, or anything else with "LCD" in its description.
Maybe I'm wrong. There are plenty of people wealthier than me, but there are also tons of people much poorer who would kill for the life I have. Yet here I am, dreaming about sunsets over the Appalachian Mountains, the Canadian North, Alaska, or the Midwest. No computers, no phones, no cable news, no reality TV, no Champions League, no pop stars, no interest rates, no celebrating new gadgets, TVs, or phones. Just a pile of tech junk I'll eventually gather up and toss to some poor soul who hasn't yet felt the suffocating grip of this high-tech society.
You guys probably saw that movie about the guy—*Into the Wild*, I think—who just "left." He said his piece, ended everything he knew to start something new. It didn't end well for him, but you get the point.
Then just go, man! Seriously, just head straight for the Appalachian Mountains. Why on earth would you need to trek all the way to Alaska just to live without electricity and all the "perks" of modern civilization? Go down to the Midwest, work the land, and live that grueling life from sunrise to sunset. Get up at 4:30 AM to feed the livestock and hit the sack at night knowing that your entire day of backbreaking labor barely produced enough food to put on the table.
When you're actually working to survive, you don't have time for this deep philosophical whining or playing the martyr because life feels a little too easy. At the end of the day, that whole fantasy sounds great in theory, but you'd get bored of basic survival in a heartbeat. Producing food from scratch and wasting hours on stuff you could normally knock out in ten minutes? Yeah, no thanks.
And what exactly would you do with all that solitude? You think you'll rediscover the laws of nature or find some sudden burst of creativity? Please. It's just this world holding you back. Wake up, pal, reality isn't some romantic movie.
As for that restless dissatisfaction you're feeling—even though you know your life is actually pretty good—how to deal with it and if there's even a cure... honestly, I'm still trying to figure that one out myself.
wearyviper25 said:Yeah, exactly. There aren't any hilarious scenes to speak of—the humor is just pretty lukewarm. Honestly, this whole forced attempt at making a "cool alien" really rubs me the wrong way, especially since I know who's providing the voice—Seth Rogen, who is just a mediocre actor and an even more mediocre producer. 🙄
Big facts. I wouldn't go as far as saying it's a total disaster, but it definitely didn't do anything for me.
Especially that whole segment with the woman and the guy—look, I know I sound like a broken record with this, but we seriously need to start calling out these garbage romance subplots in every single damn movie because they just completely ruin the entire film.
swiftcrane96 said:I seriously lost it when that cop tripped all over those tiny little pants and was stumbling back to his cruiser while Tucker just goes, "Maybe he'll walk it off."
😂😂 That’s hands down my favorite part too. XD
Overall, the movie is awesome—way better than most of those forced, try-hard parodies out there. I gotta admit, this was actually my first time watching a horror-comedy combo.
If I had to pick some standout moments, I'd definitely go with the scene where that guy gets tossed into the meat grinder and they have to pull him out! XD
Honestly, Hangover 100 is absolutely zero percent funny—I didn't crack a smile once—and even the sequel is about 90% unfunny. Since the first Unit is such a disaster, I guess the second one is technically better by default, but let's be real, neither of them is actually good. I genuinely don't get what people find hilarious about this stuff. At all.
I honestly think everything has already been said; this movie is absolute garbage.
No, seriously, the whole thing is just plain bad and at times straight-up ridiculous.
There is zero chemistry between Marian and Russell Crowe, just a bunch of facepalm moments that were supposed to be funny, plus that cringey "I Love You" line that came out of nowhere with absolutely no buildup.
And then in the final battle, you’ve got these kids—total degenerates, really—riding on PONIES without even any gear 😂 I mean, for real, I don't even know 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Then there's that part where Cate Blanchett gets knocked down during the fight and Russell shows up and starts kissing her like some kind of freaking BEAR while she's basically unconscious, like WTFFFFFFF 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
But seriously, I have no clue what kind of vibe they were going for with this flick, but whatever they were trying to pull off, it totally failed. It’s basically just a prequel to Robin Hood from Sherwood Forest, but it has zero connection to the Robin I actually know. It tries to be this historical epic (who knows if it's even accurate?) that vacillates between wanting to be funny and wanting to be dramatic, but overall, it's just nothing.
Oh, and I have to mention the scene where Godfrey and his crew are running wild through England, featuring those scenes with the burning cards and other "creative" nonsense—that was easily one of the lowest points in the entire movie, like total five-dollar production value stuff. How much did this movie even cost?
Richard Hill10 said:Great movie... and Mickey was definitely the best one for me... 😁 with that weird mix of Russian and English accents he pulls off.... I want my board back.... 😂 🤣 😂
I want my BURD! >_< I want my BURD! 😂
My personal favorite part has gotta be when Sam starts comparing his "ex-wife" to Piet, Ulick, and the rest of them. 🤣🤣 And obviously, the parts where they actually pull out the guns. 🤣
Look, I wasn't exactly feeling the first part—the humor felt way too forced and just missed the mark entirely—and honestly, I’ve never been a fan of Robert Downey Jr., but I have to admit, these two hours were a total blast.
There was just so much genuinely funny stuff and the pacing was electric, plus the acting was top-tier, especially RDJr, Sam Rockwell (who was an awesome follow-up to his role in Moon), and Mickey Rourke, who you can simply never go wrong with.
It wasn't perfect, though. Take Scarlett Johansson, for example. She’s definitely not my cup of tea, so as a guy, her character just felt... useless? Like, boring, redundant, and totally pointless, just sucking up screen time that should've gone toward beefing up the final fight or giving Mickey Rourke more to do. He definitely needed more time on screen.
Also, this felt like one of those rare movies that actually could’ve been longer. They could’ve easily fleshed out more material without it feeling like a drag. Nowadays, most big Hollywood productions try to cram everything into a tight two-hour window, but they really could have expanded this one.
As for people complaining about how the "new element" integration didn't make sense, I thought that bit was pretty silly because it hits close to home with my actual profession, so I can spot nonsense from a mile away, but hey, it's a superhero movie—I'm not looking for a peer-reviewed scientific paper here.
All in all, it was a hell of a good time. If they had just cut Scarlett, stretched out the finale, and leaned harder into Mickey, it would've been perfection! But even as it is, it's great!
Go see it. Seriously, go grab some popcorn and enjoy yourselves.
(Oh yeah, I don't read comics, so take this strictly from the perspective of a die-hard moviegoer 😉 )
These >s look absolutely terrible, and honestly, I have no clue why they even bothered making a > when all they're doing is spitting on the legacy of a total classic. I’ll probably end up seeing it anyway (because let's face it, I see everything), but I really don't get the point of this whole mess. 🤷
This movie is a total snooze fest, and honestly, I don't think Nelson Mandela says a single normal sentence in the whole thing. It’s just constant, over-the-top philosophical preaching that feels totally fake to me.
On a different note, I’m definitely not complaining that 😍Matt Damon😍 flashed his torso for a few seconds here and there—it’s always a treat to see him looking like that. But yeah, obviously, he’s also trying to tackle the heavy stuff like fighting racism and systemic segregation through his acting.
But if we’re being real, the entire movie is basically just one giant rugby match. They completely missed the mark on showing the actual struggle of segregation or why this moment actually mattered for change; instead, it’s just a game of rugby, and then suddenly everyone is happy because the USA wins the championship. Like, people would have been a lot happier if they actually liked each other before the game even started! At the end of the day, the movie is just lukewarm, and no matter how much they lean on > or pile on those cheesy inspirational quotes, it just fails to hit the mark.
Dennis Cooper3 said:I caught a screening of World of Books at Kaptol yesterday, and I honestly can't wrap my head around why they chose this specific documentary to feature in the lineup here in the States. If this is really the standard for the rest of the selection, then goodness gracious. I mean, don't get me wrong—it’s fine if you just want to see something unfamiliar, like the general situation over in Turkmenistan—but I’ve sat through amateur documentaries that were easily a hundred times better. Instead of leaning into the absurdly funny reality of massive corporations translating total garbage just to wedge themselves into a new market, the filmmaker mostly just highlights his own inability to get any real answers from these companies. What was he even thinking? These corporations pull stunts like this everywhere, usually involving much larger bribes; in this case, they actually got off incredibly cheap. 😁 Then there’s the way he tries to weave in bits of political repression, but it feels so half-hearted and detached. It felt like he was trying to cram too many different ideas into one film instead of just sticking to one strong, central theme.
Look, Arto Halonen clearly knows how to pick out solid films from other directors, but when it comes to making something herself... 😁
You seriously should have seen Pavlov's Dogs, I was just standing there in the theater watching that *beep* shot entirely on a handheld camera. It's a great concept, but the execution was just ABSOLUTELY terrible. X_x
The movie looks great on screen and throws in a few decent concepts—like those characters who just won't stop screaming—and honestly, I think Dakota pulls off that whole look with the combat boots and blazer pretty well, but at the end of the day, the whole thing is just nothing special.
