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So, how often have I seen this film by now? Twenty times? Thirty? I can't say for sure but I do know I absolutely love it! 30 years 'old' by now, and still this one hasn't lost a single bit of its charm. Leave it to Spielberg to turn an ugly pile of molten plastic into the cutest creature in the universe.
5/5
He even helped Comic Relief:
A completely pointless post but I love to film too DD, just a slightly different introduction to him.
Great movie and completely agree with the above DD! :-bd
9/10
It was actually great fun. As fun as I remember this franchise being. Hour and 50 minutes flew like that and I didn't find myself a least bit bored. I'm not sure how I'd rank it within the franchise because I haven't seen either of the previous movies in years. From back of my memory, I'd say the humor was there added with a little bit of personal drama like in the second movie. Brolin made a great impression of Jones and Will Smith was like has always been. Looking at this movie, I'm left to wonder if Will Smith is a daylight vampire. On film, he looks like he has not aged...at all. Anyway, saw it in 3D and I'm kind of glad I did. There were some scenes where 3D added some dept and in a movie like this it doesn't really break it. Shoot me, but few scenes made me think what Bond movie would look like with 3D adding dept to some breath taking scenarios. And it didn't have anything to do with me seeing the attached trailer for Skyfall.
3/5 Not bad. Good fun.
One description fits to all Matt Helm films ; Beautiful girls, Dean Martin and hippy soundtrack. Nothing else really. Pales in comparison with the Bond movies. No wonder, because they are just spoofs made in the height of the Bond mania.
I watched this one repeatably as a child. Jerry Lewis is still funny in this. Funniest comedian of the last century in fact. But this movie is a collection of random jokes that either miss their mark or get a laughter out of you. Still, very average movie as a whole.
Not the best of the Helm series(I would give that title to The Silencers) but TWC does benefit from the most impressive female cast in that series(Elke Sommer, Tina Louise, Sharon Tate and best of all, Nancy Kwan). I'm sure Dino enjoyed that. If you like the Elke Sommer/Nigel Green villainy combo, I highly recommend the 1967 Bond spoof Deadlier Than The Male.
bought it yesterday not seen it for several years. excellent script and acting. its not your typical effects laden sci fi blockbuster and all the better for it.
Being the huge Alien fan that I am, anticipation for this film left me with a case of insomnia last night. I do consider myself privileged, however, to have seen it in its world première exactly 3 hours ago.
I will of course refrain from blowing people's experience, so I will cut my 'review' in two halves and with spoiler warnings.
A couple of things about the film (including plot and fan service):
Acting is good, but there's a 2001 kind of quality to it. This means that one could occasionally argue that human characters are insignificant to the surroundings and the ominous threats they (and we) are faced with.
The visuals are stunningly beautiful ("best CGI ever" lists will need some internal shifting), the music's great (with a tiny nod to the Alien score by Jerry Goldsmith) and the sound effects are impressive.
Sexual subtext, with exhausting eagerness exposed by film theoreticians as omnipresent in Alien, is slightly less subtle in this film but also much less frequent, IMO at least. The film's critical emphasis is more on the existential rather than on the sexual, which is a good thing by the way. Repeating the things that have kept us contemplating Alien for the past three decades, would have been this film's worst enemy.
Overall though, one doesn't even need to view this film as a philosophical thesis. It's at least as enjoyable as a straight but great Sci-Fi film.
My recommendation:
I must see it ASAP. Which is on 1st of June in here I think.
BTW, did you see it in 3D or in 2D?
2D, sir, but with a VIP-treatment. Anyway, for the life of me I can't imagine how 3D could add to this visually impressive film. I say leave it. The 3D might help to get bored teens through it though. ;-)
Well, I think we're back to the old discussions. Some love Blade Runner, some think it's a flawed film. Some love Alien, some think it's nothing compared to Aliens. I'm a Blade Runner and Alien fan and this film felt like it was made for me. This isn't War Of The Worlds or Avatar. You need to understand that this isn't a Sci-Fi spectacle full of action beats, quick cuts and loaded with explosions. It offers the goods, don't worry, but in sufficiently small doses to effectively cut off a certain group of people. Either way, I like a film that understands the long-term dangers of excessive exposition and appreciates the combination of wonderful images and the time we need to inspect them thoroughly. Even now, as we speak, I'm getting prepared to see it again for there's still stuff that I haven't been able to fully see or understand. Dense in its details, healthily balanced in its spectacle, that's the type of film I crave, that's what Prometheus gave me.
For a tv movie released in -89, I felt this second Get Smart movie captured most of the feel and humor of the original sixties serial. I haven't seen The Nude Bomb, so I can't compare these 80's efforts. Still, it was fun for an hour and a half.
Good film. 8/10 Gemma is great in this.
I have to reiterate that it is very brutal and gruesome, so if that's your thing, you'll certainly enjoy this.
that's what I'm asking ;) I DL'ed it, and want to know if it's good before I sit down and watch it..... apparently it's a very, very disturbing film.
@Creasy47 I saw 'I Saw the Devil' in cinemas a year ago..... this film will be a cult classic in a few years :)
if you like asian cinema, I suggest 'Attack the gas station !' (1999)... a completly absurd, yet utterly amazing film.
and I cannot not suggest the master of gangter/crime films, Hong-Kong's Johnnie TO, who directed the masterpieces 'PTU', 'The Mission' (1999) and 'Breaking News'.
And yes, it will be. I loved it. Brutal and nasty from start to finish.
apparently the plot is a bit 'out there' and hard to follow, but it's one of the most disturbing horror film in recent years.....
@Creasy have you seen 'The Chaser' ? IMO one of the finest korean films ever made...