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I was very intrigued by this film and missed it in theatres. Very good first half, then did a complete 180 in the second half. Not a bad second half, just very bizarre.
Dirty Harry: Very good film, Clint is a pure badass, story was great. However the villain was a bit bland. Last scene is epic.
Magnum Force: My favorite, the villain's scheme is more fleshed out, Eastwood is epic ad always, and there's many really cool scenes. I really like the ending action scene with no music.
The Enforcer: Cool film, Eastwood has a lot of badass moments. And how can you hate a film where Clint fires a bazooka? :D
Sudden Impact: My least favorite, story doesn't really go anywhere and that villain woman is just so annoying, and I was angry Clint was on her side at the end.
Dead Pool: Ok film, really cool to see a young Liam Neeson and Jim Carrey. The final kill of the film (and the series) is so cool, Clint harpooning the villain with a huge weapon! :D
Burton plays John Morlar, a novelist who believes that he can cause disasters who is attacked in his flat at the beginning of the film. This film builds through flashbacks and a police investigation to a chilling climax. A very underrated film in my opinion, and one that deserves to be seen. Burton is excellent in what is really a supporting role, but that voice and those eyes mesmerise.
The Network edition comes with a great chat track with director Jack Gold, Stephen Jones, editor and writer (not of this film) and film critic and novelist Kim Newman.
I agree with you that CD had potential but didn't live up to it.
Ingrid Pitt is far more 'delicious' in The Vampire Lovers and gore... well, I've stopped looking for that in a Hammer film. I love my Hammer movies, don't get me wrong, but modern torture porn and some 60s / 70s gore films have more or less rendered me desensitized towards Hammer's level of gore. Anyway, CD disappointed me upon my first viewing.
The Devil Rides Out is in my top 5 Hammer horror movies, along with Frankenstein Created Woman, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Dracula: Prince Of Darkness and The Vampire Lovers.
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EDIT: Here's one of my favorite parts.
I guess William Castle's Zotz! is next
Superman 1: Epic film, Reeve instantly became my favorite Superman, Hackman delivers an insane performance, this film is just pure fun.
Superman 2: Very good, but not as good as the first outing. Stamp is awesome, Hackman and Reeve are wonderful again. I almost went crazy when I saw JW Pepper appear on screen! :D
Superman 3: Well, what can I say... I used to think Jinx and Christmas Jones were annoying, but Gus Gorman instantly became the most annoying character I have ever seen. The humour is also so campy it's not funny, the opening 5 minutes alone is more cringeworthy than DAD, MR and DAF put together. But, Reeve acts his heart out and is always a pleasure to see him.
Superman 4: Well, this film looks extremely cheap (I read about the budget cut in half). The special effects looked like they were already dated by 20 years... in 1987! But Reeve and Hackman delivers wonderful performances again. Nuclear Man however is the most boring vilain I have ever seen. And I was cringing when I saw a woman being transported into space... and she still managed to breath!
Superman Returns: I may be in the minority, but I enjoyed this film and Routh as Superman. The film is longer than the previous 4 and it shows a bit with some slow parts here and there, but the film is still pretty epic, and while Luthor is a lot more camp in this one, I enjoy Spacey in everything he does.
Man of Steel: Epic film from start to finish, Cavill is great IMO, the CGI is just breathtaking and that final battle, no matter the body count and property damage is just amazing. I also really liked Crowe, Costner and Shannon ( who delievered an insane performance as the villain). Can't wait for the next film next year.
Wonderful @DaltonCraig007 !! Everyone should see those movies in their lifetime!
Did you see the theatrical or Donner Cut? The later is the superior version as long as you keep one important thing in mind: the time travel from the ending of the first movie was meant to be the end of the second. Most people didn't realize that, so they naturally assumed Superman just does it twice (and understandably, they think that's unbelievably lame)
Also, about that time travel bit, I'd like to give my thoughts on it. What's depicted on camera, it certainly looks like simply spinning Earth backwards is all it takes to 'rewind time'. Lots of people (including me) think that's really stupid. I'm not the first guy to say this, but I like to believe that what's happening is Superman is flying SO FAST that he goes back in time.... and we simply see it happening on camera. Not saying it's more realistic that way, but at least that way it would fit better with the common laws of movie time travel ;)
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Most notable differences are the inclusion of Marlon Brando again (instead of Kal-El's lame mom) and the overall darker tone, particularly from Zod.
Zod is practically a different character in this one. I don't know which version was 'dubbed' but his voice is vastly different here. He's much more sinister sounding. Remember in the theatrical version when Zod says 'Why do you say this to me-- when you know I will kill you for it? ' There he sounds like he's actually asking a question, but in the Donner Cut he sounds pissed like he's really about to kill Lex. Little things like that.
One (sort of) problem with adding the time travel ending to the end is the fact that it still shows Clark go to that diner and kick the bullys ass, even though the 'time rewind' canceled out the scene before (when Clark had no powers). Here it looks like Clark just shows up and starts a fight for no reason. It does add some dark humor to it though, so I still like it. It adds a different take to the scene that we're familiar with from the theatrical version.
Another oddity is that now Superman has sex with Lois BEFORE losing his powers, which begs the question: why bother getting rid of his powers at all?
There's really only one big problem with the Donner Cut, if you forgive the time travel. The way Lois discovers Clark is Superman is completely different, which is fine, but all they had to work with were AUDITION TAPES. So out of the blue we're presented with a long grainy scene from ONE camera angle and Clark is suddenly skinny as a toothpick and his hair is much longer.
It totally takes you out of the movie. If they had no good footage to use, then they should have stuck with the original. But that's just me.
EDIT: Another plus: There's none of this nonsense
"If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being."
Man of Steel is a great movie IMO. I know it's cool these days to take a dump on Snyder - I still love the man because of Dawn Of The Dead and Sucker Punch (which is every heterosexual man's secret fantasy) - and I think his work on MOS deserves more praise. My current ranking:
- Movie
- Man of Steel
- Returns
- II
- Superman and the Mole Men
- Supergirl
- Steel, starring Shaquille O'Neal
- III and IV and a toilet flush
Can you really resist the charm of Supergirl in the hilariously bad movie of the same name? ;-)
I only decided to watch Man Of Steel as preparation for Batman v Superman, and felt sorry for people like Amy Adams and Russell Crowe for being in it, and mostly was rolling my eyes and bored. Which means I'm now even more worried about Batman v Superman, but because of the Batman side of it I'll still have to see it, I'm too curious not to. :P
Taking a role that is completely unlike what an actor has done before is generally a good thing and to be applauded. It's not safe, it shows willingness to take risks and new challenges. Might not work, but that's the case most times, anyway. And doing too many similar type of roles is the absolutely worst thing an actor can do, in my opinion.
A great quote.
Pity really Crowe and Costner are great and Cavill was convincing as both Kent and Superman but Shannon was completely wrong for Zod.
Give me Superman The Movie and II (not seen Donners cut though) without a doubt. Singers films isn't great but it's better than MOS. 3 (save good vs bad Superman) and particularly 4 are just junk.
<font color=#334455 size=5><b>02</b>Mallrats (1995)</font>
Clerks had done well enough for Kevin Smith to secure a little more money for the next film in the 'View Askewniverse'. The result is Mallrats, officially called a 'prequel' to Clerks though any link to the previous film hardly matters. In a sense, it's a Clerks redo more than anything else. Dante and Randal have now been replaced by TS (Jeremy London) and Brody (Jason Lee). One is a pretty normal though somewhat lazy and unambitious guy, the other is a comic book addict with too high a self-esteem to notice that very few people actually like him. And they both have girlfriend trouble; the significant others being played by lovely Claire Forlani and Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty.
Because Smith had only so much money to spend, the entire film is set in a shopping mall. A lovely collection of customers, store owners and special guests, each with their own peculiar story, cross paths with our two main guys. And of course Jason Mewes and Smith himself re-appear as Jay and Silent Bob. Stan Lee, never afraid of a small role in a film, shows up to lecture Brody on his love life. Priscilla Barnes gets to predict TS' future while topless and showing off a Scaramanga-like third nipple. Michael Rooker receives a 'stinky palm' in a very uncomfortable but o-so Smithian scene. And naturally this is also one of Ben Affleck's first movie roles and dare I say, not a good one. Why? Because his character is perpetually annoying and Affleck wasn't a mature enough actor to make the role amusing. He himself ends up being annoying, much like his character.
The most annoying element in the entire film, however, is Jason Lee. He keeps yelling at people, insulting people, then yelling more. And what he says makes very little sense. He delivers his lines like an untalented pseudo-actor picked up from a commercial. I really dislike this man in Mallrats. (Preview, I will like him better in later Smith movies but overall, I've never liked Jason Lee. It doesn't help he was terrible in those three Chipmunk movies too and yes, I did see those because I was forced to. ;-))
Clerks was kinda new at the time and Smith was seen as some punk kid from New Jersey making a film that defies established filmmaking rules and has a semi-critical voice through its main characters. For a short while, Smith might have even been compared to contemporaries like Tarantino. But Mallrats quickly showed that if Kevin Smith was ever going to be an accomplished filmmaker, he would need a lot more time to get there. Mallrats for the most part didn't work. TS' story is pulled from every teen sitcom, Brody is an objectionable element in the film, Jay and Silent Bob bring a few redeeming moments and Joey Lauren Adams guarantees a mere few seconds of genuine comedy but the whole thing is just barely consistent enough to be called a film. Mallrats is my least favourite of all of Kevin Smith's films. Had he not upped his game drastically after this one, I'd be a total Smith hater right now rather than a fan of the man. More money did not lead to better material, in fact one might argue it lead to something worse. I do not recommend this movie. Sorry, Kev.
The verdict
Clerks (1994): 7/10
Mallrats (1995): 4/10[/quote]
The Motion Picture: Cool start to the series, I really like how we're inside the same spaceship for a while. The special effects are awesome, colours flying all over the screen!
Wrath of Khan: My favorite so far. I had seen Cumberbatch as Khan in the 2013 films so this was a surprise to see how he was portrayed originally, and I must say I far prefer the '82 version!
Search for Spock: Didn't really like this one, the story didn't interest me, but was still an entertaining way to pass 2 hours.
The Voyage Home: Awesome! I love films where future characters travel back to previous times and have to cope with the surroundings! Some moments had me laughing a lot, Shatner and Nimoy had excellent chemistry here (the bus scene).
Tomorrow I'll continue with the 5th outing!