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I like -- not love -- the films. I find them slightly overrated. I especially find Cap. Sparrow overrated. I like Depp in the role, but I don't think he's as funny as people make him out to be. A little of him is good, but too much gives me a headache. Sparrow-centric scenes actually annoy me most of the time.
My favorite film in the series is AWE. I really like the action, the fantasy and above all, the score. My ranking is
3 > 2 > 1 >> 5 and 4.
4 is the one I like the least. The filmmakers seem somewhat concerned that without Turner and Elisabeth, they don't have 'enough' of the old formula to carry an entire film, so they overdose on Sparrow. And Sparrow is all over the place, uncaged, too much. Even Zimmer is overselling it. The first 10 minutes of the film are stuffed with familiar themes, just to make us feel 'at home'. Even when nothing is going on, the famous action themes are going nuts, almost as if something went wrong with the soundmix. But the film never quite reaches the magic of the first three in my opinion. It's goofy and uninteresting. I find the film such a letdown, in fact, that 5 comes off as a slight improvement, though just slight. 4 and 5 feel redundant, like what the inferior Hobbit films are to LOTR. The entire series is weaker because of them, I'd say. But every once in an while, I can sit through them and, on average, have a good time with them.
I was with it up until the wheels came off near the end. Though Anya Taylor-Joy continues to impress in what I have seen of her so far. And matt Smith is a real piece of work in this.
Now here's a film I cannot disagree with. The acting and aesthetics alone make this film worth your time.
Watched this for the first time about a month ago. Really enjoyed it, particularly the first half. Didn't know what to expect. First time I saw Anya in anything and naturally, fell in love with her. Matt Smith is great to watch as usual.
@QBranch
You should definitely check out The Witch ("The VVitch") if you can, and the miniseries The Queen's Gambit. Anya delivers.
Stock useless son of Mafia boss: 'Do you think I'm an idiot?'
Don Johnson: 'Yes.'
There you go...
I quite like Sparrow, though a bit less in 4 and 5. I'd agree that, even though I don't dislike the two last ones, they are lacking the sparkle that made the first three so enjoyable.
I'd also recommend The VVitch, Emma and Morgan (I feel like I am in the minority on this one though). Agreed on Matt Smith too. Though I have my fingers crossed for him to show up for the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, I would would understand if he turned it down. He's done well to move away from The Doctor over the last 10 years.
Agreed on all accounts! Incredible trilogy of movies.
I bet you were, as was I. I heard the people behind me comment on how much I was "grooving" to the soundtrack, as well. Had a blast.
Yes, Emma and Morgan are interesting Anya films too. I'd only not recommend The New Mutants to be honest.
A priceless British farce about a paid assassin (bomb-maker) doubling as a clockmaker in normal life. Everything goes awry when he takes notes of his latest target's details in his girlfriend's (the target person's secretary's) office and fails to notice that under the sheet he's writing on is some carbon paper. Once she gets suspicious, he has to get rid of her... and still plant the time bomb designed to kill his target person.
It's a totally black comedy/farce with brilliant performances by Alastair Sim, George Cole and Terry-Thomas (driving a beautiful Jaguar XK 120, by the way). Very funny, with quite a bit of suspense nonetheless, although nobody really expects a bad outcome in a movie like this. In the class of the original "Ladykillers" (with Alec Guinness, who admitted to have based his performance of the Professor on Alastair Sim's roles in movies like The Green Man). Strongly recommended.
"The Green Man", by the way, is just the name of the hotel where the climax takes place. Don't worry about Alastair Sim propagating environmentalist messages. This movie is as old as myself.
One of the films I regret not seeing in cinemas. Man that was a great film from start to finish. I wasn't a huge fan of the original but this one surpasses it in every way.
TENET 4K The first act is still like wading through mud with exposition dump after exposition dump, once the excellent Branagh appears and the action gets going TENET was more enjoyable. I tend to go back to this film for the IMAX shots, I still think the script needed a few rewrites it is way to convoluted than it needs to be.
To be honest, I think Lego Movie did this general idea much better. I dunno, maybe it just wasn't for me, but I feel this film either needed to take itself more seriously (more along the lines of The Truman Show) or drift a lot further into the realm of parody (sort of Airplane or Scary Movie territory).
As it is, it feels like Warner Brothers and Mattel hired two ageing former Indie filmmakers (clearly from Liberal Arts University backgrounds) to create a film they saw as subversive, but at the same time ultimately comes off making the company's product seem fundamentally positive (even the Mattel CEO's in the film are not depicted as being malicious, controlling or outright evil necessarily, just a bit bumbling). It's a weird film in that sense.
But hey, I know plenty of people enjoy it and get something out of it. I did expect to find this a lot funnier though.
Don't worry, I'm aligned with you. Lego Movie did it much better and I didn't laugh as much as I expected. I expected "Elf" but "Barbie" and I'd still rather watch Elf...
Hayworth & Ford reunite for this film, 6 years after Gilda.
and...
I have never watched the Hellraiser films all that regularly, so I don't know when I saw one last. But rewatching this original, what struck me most, was how well the practical make-up effects hold up. Not so much the big blobby snarling thing that chases Kirsty down the corridor, that looked ropey. But the make-up effects on Frank, look damn good for a 36 year old film. I also want to praise whatever post production trickery was done to Doug Bradley's voice. Every line he says, is quotable.
Yes I ventured with my 12 year old to take in some mindless entertainment. A good summer flick with no need to think or ponder life's deep dark themes. I am a Jason Stratham fan so I guess that made the movie more watchable for me.
Does it make sense, not really, but I don't think we go into watching this type of movie thinking it will make sense. The actors do a fine job of acting to what the script gives them to do. In most cases the roles are stereo types of characters.
The CGI isn't bad, the underwater action is hard to follow. In one sequence it wasn't clear which character was in trouble, and the fighting was hard to follow. The above water CGI is much better executed.
I am giving it a 3 out of 5. Not great but an entertaining summer yarn!
It's what you'd expect from a late 2000's Seagal. In decline, and about to enter an even steeper decline.
---The Good
1. Under Siege (1992)
2. Nico (1988)
3. Out For Justice (1991)
4. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
5. Exit Wounds (2001)
6. Pistol Whipped (2008)
7. Fire Down Below (1997)
---The Bad
8. Out Of Reach (2004)
9. The Keeper (2009)
10. Mercenary For Justice (2006)
***11. A Dangerous Man (2009)***
12. Into The Sun (2005)
13. Against The Dark (2009)
14. Flight Of Fury (2007)
15. Submerged (2005)
---The Ugly
16. Beyond The Law (2019)
17. End Of A Gun (2016)
18. Born To Raise Hell (2010)
19. Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
You should have watched it, it is.... something special. My favourite part, is when Seagal has to drag another character to safety, Seagal uses so little effort, he touches the other fella lightly, and he slides along as if Seagal has Jedi powers. =))
I have a feeling that is is trying to trick viewers into thinking that it is part of the Sniper series. The difference is, the Sniper films, though dtv since the 2nd film, are much much better made films than Sniper: Special Ops.
And yes, I only ever saw the first Sniper installment many years back but I remember enjoying it (can't speak for its DTV predecessors). Hell, how Seagal's film got away with that title when I read the only sniping that takes place is contained in the first five minutes is beyond me, and this is before he spends the rest of the film sitting in chairs and waving his gun around like a moron.
Yeah, I gotta see it. I'll try to find time for it this weekend. I've been on a roll with some great movies the past few days so might as well purposefully destroy that momentum and good vibes on my own.
Funny how that happens. Earlier this year, I suddenly had a craving for some cinematic "fast food", so I watched Albert Pyun's NEMESIS. It had been a while since my last excursion into pure B-movie land.
He ordered his food thirty minutes ago. It's still not ready. They'll pay with their lives.