George Cook27 said:Can we get back to the actual movie for a second? Some of us haven't even seen it yet—give us some actual impressions, please. Save the playground bickering for a different thread...
Watching just to see Arnold, he totally steals every scene! Fun flick
Sean Johnson40 said:That bolded part pretty much sums you up. Good grief... your taste is bottom-of-the-barrel. Just stop talking; you'll save that rating of yours which is basically a one anyway.
btw, when I say a movie is garbage, it's garbage. If I can tell that in five minutes while you need an hour and a half of misery to figure it out, that's on you. You aren't some genius, so quit acting like a film critic and trying to sound smart.
Stallone is trash. He hasn't created anything worthwhile besides Rocky, and he didn't even direct that. When he tries his hand at directing, you see the results in those other sequels that are absolute junk.
You're the only one here playing the "film expert" card to feel superior on this forum, but let's be real—you're just a frustrated kid. You couldn't give two solid arguments about a recent flop because you probably haven't even watched more than 10 minutes of them. I bet you just pull all your "knowledge" straight from Google, huh?
Have you even seen First Blood? Read the book? You clearly have no clue what you're talking about. I'm talking about Stallone as an actor. He made fun movies, sure, but he knew how to deliver a great performance when the material was actually good, like in Cop Land.
01 The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese 02 Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón 03 Blue Is the Warmest Color, Abdellatif Kechiche 04 Before Midnight, Richard Linklater 05 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller 06 Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach 07 Rush, Ron Howard 08 Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro 09 The Best Offer, Giuseppe Tornatore 10 New World, Park Hoon-jung 11 Mud, Jeff Nichols 12 The Past, Asghar Farhadi 13 The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino 14 The World's End, Edgar Wright 15 Saving Mr. Banks, John Lee Hancock 16 The Place Beyond the Pines, Derek Cianfrance 17 Blackfish, Gabriel Kowperthwaite 18 Disconnect, Henry Alex Rubin 19 Charlie Countryman, Charlie Countryman 20 The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg
The absolute worst ones? Probably Only God Forgives, the latest Die Hard, that total trash Passion, and then The Bling Ring along with Spring Breakers. I won't even count those dumb comedies as "the worst" since nobody actually expected anything from them—you know, stuff like Movie 43, Scary Movie, Haunted House, and whatever.
Sure, they might be legends, but that doesn't change the fact that the movie just flops. As a comedy, it’s not even funny, and the drama? Total snooze fest. You just don't care about any of the characters at all. I wouldn't call it an entertaining watch, honestly. Most of the time I was just bored out of my mind. The ending tries to save it a little, but De Niro looks ridiculous playing a boxer compared to how Stallone pulls it off...
Stallone’s made some killer movies besides just Rocky—look at First Blood, for instance. But you’re still just skimming through everything in five minutes, which is what you do with every single flick... honestly, you lose all credibility by even admitting that
Since most screeners have dropped and we’ve pretty much seen all the big hitters from 2013, I figured it’s time for a special thread. Let’s do some lists—share your absolute favorites or even the ones you totally hated.
I know making top lists can be a bit tricky because tastes shift after six months or a year, and sometimes a movie just hits differently on a second viewing, but since not everyone can keep up with "recently watched" threads, this could be a great spot for recommendations...
So yeah, go ahead and jump in, I don't want to be the only one talking...
He always ends up back in some closet or something, it’s basically like teleporting It’d be way better if he could just close his eyes in the closet and pop out exactly where he was picturing, instead of just ending up stuck in another closet and having to trek all the way out again.
So, when he jumps from the present back into the past, and right now he’s just chilling alone in a closet—that's fine, but where does he end up in the past? Like, if he was mid-conversation with someone the exact second his future self decided to travel back, does the past version of him just instantly teleport into that closet? And what about everyone else around him, would they even notice anything weird happening? How does that whole mechanic actually work?
Gerald Wright8 said:Maybe it’s because he doesn't care about the biological specifics since he hasn't even met the kid yet.🤷
What are you even talking about? It’s wild how just one single sperm out of a million basically decides everything about who that kid becomes. That’s basically what goes down when you're hooking up. Man, you clearly aren't getting it. I really don't have the energy to break it all down for you...
So, if I’m reading this right, the old guy basically said even one tiny tweak can flip everything upside down. But they just went back to that beach and did the exact same thing—they were happy, holding hands, just vibing. It’s like they just wanted to relive that one perfect, carefree moment since they remembered it being so good. I know, I know, it's a stretch, but you can't really nitpick a time travel flick. Those movies are always a total mess logic-wise anyway.
The real head-scratcher for me is why he can only go back to when the kid was born. Like, biology doesn't work like that. If you're messing with time, you'd need a cutoff date at least nine months earlier just to make sure nothing accidentally changes during conception.
What makes this movie hit different is how it dives into some pretty heavy stuff for a Disney flick—like an alcoholic dad and even suicide attempts. It adds such a raw emotional punch, especially during that ending.
Drew Sanchez82 said:Whatever, they're both Burton films. And look, they both have solid ratings, but hey, taste is subjective. Some people just don't vibe with his style or don't see him as their director, though I bet that's mostly just older folks who didn't grow up watching his stuff back in the 80s and 90s.
All we really know so far is that the original trio is back for the sequel, the writers seem like a safe bet, and the story likely takes place 27 years later—so it's a straight-up sequel. I just really hope they don't flip the script during pre-production and turn it into a prequel. I'm not sure fans would go for it, even though seeing Bubimir's life before his undead persona could be cool... but honestly, that probably only works if they were making two movies.
If you write the script and I direct it, is it my movie or yours?
I mean, sure, it's way too early to tell, but I'm not getting my hopes up too high (even though the original is one of my absolute faves)
Planet of the Apes and Dark Shadows were honestly such terrible movies
Super creative, you say? And the last original script Burton actually wrote, hmm... I don't think so Think about the characters in Corpse Bride, or the story for Edward Scissorhands...
I dig Burton, but he's been out of his game for a while and he's definitely starting to repeat himself
Honestly, just hope for the best, because the movie's gonna be trash and that's that.
I mean, I know they won't actually use that script—it's not the 90s anymore—but I have to mention it because Burton wrote the absolute worst possible screenplay for a sequel and the studio just totally swallowed it, haha. Back then, they weren't even making a sequel, but now that there's a little extra cash lying around, suddenly they're all about making a number two...