BLASPHEMY!!! I read “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.” Nothing like Total Recall.
“A Scanner Darkly” is by far the closest to the original work of the adaptations that I’ve seen. I have yet to see Radio Free Albumuth though.
nerding out over closeness to the source is totally a waste of time and why watchmen, for example sucked. dickian themes are hella present in that film while also playing to the strenghts of arnie and the action genre in general without dumbing down. good movie
not that a scanner darkly wasnt cool and even minority report is good by speilberg standards
Push was good. I liked it a lot. But it wasn’t groundbreaking, overhyped, or terrible, and it doesn’t have a ton of sequels, which is probably why it just kind of quietly slipped by a lot of people.
Note that I didn’t say that Total Recall wasn’t a good movie. And for the record, I rather liked “Watchmen,” well the Director’s Cut anyway. Frankly I thought the movie’s climax was handled better than the novel- it felt less random.
I will say it. Total Recall is a bad movie. The character’s motivations are all fucked up, the story doesn’t make much if any sense, everything set up on Earth feels like it falls apart on Mars, and then goes off into left field… I can’t stand that one. I would say that was my least favorite Arnold movie up until that point, and continued to be until he made Jingle All the Way.
Yes, worse than Conan the Destroyer and Hercules Goes Bananas.
The presence of Arnold Schwarzenegger should compensate for any issues you have with the movie.
The last movie I saw was Senna in London. Incredible film, very sad. That is the point of this thread right?
I watched Despicable Me with some friends. Not too bad… I thought it was going to be really awful. But still, Dreamworks movies just feel flat and lifeless next to Disney-Pixar movies. It’s like an episode of Scrubs compared against one of those new Futurama episodes written by Comedy Central.
LOL, no.
While Tr2 was at least capable of sticking to big fucking robots smashing the shit out of big fucking robots motto (why the fuck should it be called transformers in the first place?) - Tr3 failed to do even that.
The worst thing about it that it couldn’t make sense out of itself, it was absolutely off point all the time.
I was distracted the whole time, lolling at predictability, inadequacies and scenes that actually had some potential until the director managed to fuck THEM up too. I didn’t do any of that during the Tr2.
Tr2 had at least more than 50% in fun department.
In Tr3, the percentage of unwarranted boring crap was 98%, and regular Transformers fun stuff was left about 2%. Fail.
The only thing Mike succeeded at was his seemingly deliberate urge to make it worse than Tr2. It looked to me as it was a fucking shenanigan from him.
I can’t tell, is Scrubs supposed to be the deep one or the lifeless one in that comparison?
obviously the deep one
I guess the third one just felt less irritating while I was watching it, though now that you mention it, it was probably worse than I thought. I may have to go rewatch the second to compare them. There were things of course that I really disliked already about the third one: the story about the whole moon landing cover up thing had potential, but quickly got needlessly complicated and screwed up. The whole [COLOR=‘Black’]Sentinel betraying them thing was really bizarre and didn’t make any sense. His parents seemed to be in there for no reason. A lot of improbable deus ex machinas, etc. I did enjoy Alan Tudyk’s character though, at the very least.
…but Tiki only ever watches Frasier, so you can’t blame him for not being in the know. 
Zulawski’s Possession
emotional, grotesque, abstract and exceptionally acted.
The only way I could love Kelsey Grammer more is if he were a Democratic Socialist instead of a Republican.
Speaking of Transformers, I just watched the second one on Blu-Ray on my new HD TV. It was most certainly a good movie. A fun watch, to be sure. I don’t have any issues with these movies simply because I only take them for what they are. Explosion fests with massive robots. It’s basically what you did as a kid playing with your Transformers, Legos, and GI Joes. Wanton destruction with no real depth. If you don’t like these movies, you’re thinking too hard, or you’re a girl who likes chick flicks and Barbies.
Hahahahaha you’re an idiot.
Starship Troopers 1997
Was pretty good, but that blonde guy who’s eyes were always closed for no reason really ruined the entire movie for me.
Transformers 1 and 2 tried way too hard to put jokes into the movie and failed. Masturbation jokes in the original towards the end and those stupid hood robots and that guy taking off his pants. I have no problem with a movie being pretty much all explosions but I don’t want them to make me cringe with their stupid jokes in the process.