Monster_Munch
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The police arrive and arrest king Arthur and his knights before they have a chance to get the grail.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The police arrive and arrest king Arthur and his knights before they have a chance to get the grail.
The movie is not filmed as though it's from her point of view, but a wider one. So to suddenly make the audience need to narrow in and be happy/content with her experience fails, and everyone ends up mad.
i agree ( haven't seen true grit though ), except for children of men -
wasn't the point to save the girl with the baby, don't you see her floating toward the ship baby in hand or am i remembering things differently?
Anyway, my vote is for District B13. The movie starts off great, but the climax with the bomb just fails to produce any tension.
After I read the synopsis for that movie, I already knew there was NO $#@%ING WAY that you could get me to watch that.
Oh, it's definitely worth watching. One of the coolest movies I've seen in a long time. Just the finale fell flat.
A ghetto gang as a NEUTRON BOMB?!Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Seems like one of those movies that's all style-over-substance and targeted to parkour enthusiasts.
Style-over-substance examples I've actually watched that I can't stand:
-Equillibrium
-Underworld
Spoilers for those who haven't seen Contact:
It's been a while since I've seen the movie but I remember something about the aliens 'reading her mind' and creating an environment that would comfort the visitor. Hence the very Earth-like beautiful beach and the image of the person she loved most (I haven't read Sagan's book but I believe there are five travelers in the book, and they all see the person that they love/loved most).
It would have been lame for Ellie to return and tell everyone, "Haha, you religitards, science won! There's like aliens, sharks with lasers and cool shit out there."
The twist was a stroke of genius: Ellie discovered a certain truth about the Universe but unfortunately wasn't able to furnish evidence. She found herself in the old uncomfortable 'You have to faith in me and my experiences, which I regrettably can never prove.' position that she always mocked. It is a significant part of what makes it such a great movie (to me). In the end, both atheists and believers can identify with the unique position Ellie finds herself in. That is a master-stroke IMO.
Really? REALLY?
Its even worse. Clinging to the hope of being reunited with his love was mostly what kept him going instead of taking a triple gainer off a cliff and dashing his brains on the rocks below.
So keeping her alive in his mind is what kept him alive...but it was for naught (except that it got him home alive).
Worst...suckiest...ending in recent memory were "Nights in Rodanthe" and "Message in a Bottle".
So you must never want to watch any movie based on a book. They're hardly even close to the books.
behind enemy lines
How about Signs with crazy ass Joaquin Phoenix? Oh gee golly the aliens don't like water? How weak is that?
The Final Countdown
Saw this first the first time about a week ago, its from 1980. Premise of the movie is a modern aircraft carrier gets pulled through some kind of time vortex that transports the ship and its crew back in time to December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. The crew must decide whether or not to intervene with the attack and risk messing with such a major historical event. It was fun watching scenes of F14's making Japanese Zero pilots shit their pants, but at the end of the film another freak time-storm-vortex sucks them back to the future before they can decimate the entire Japanese feet. Seemed like a major cop-out and I can only guess that they did it because they simply didn't have the technology and special effects to properly pull off such a climactic battle scene and do it justice
Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange', Kubrick NAILED it here, and if anything, added texture that was entirely within the world, without changing the content or the feel
The Final Countdown
Saw this first the first time about a week ago, its from 1980. Premise of the movie is a modern aircraft carrier gets pulled through some kind of time vortex that transports the ship and its crew back in time to December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. The crew must decide whether or not to intervene with the attack and risk messing with such a major historical event. It was fun watching scenes of F14's making Japanese Zero pilots shit their pants, but at the end of the film another freak time-storm-vortex sucks them back to the future before they can decimate the entire Japanese feet. Seemed like a major cop-out and I can only guess that they did it because they simply didn't have the technology and special effects to properly pull off such a climactic battle scene and do it justice
I think it's interesting that so many people hated the ending of Contact. I don't think it could have ended any other way.18If she had gone out, met the aliens, and come back with grand technologies and lots of proof, the rest of the film would have made no sense. Sure, the hearing was a little over the top, but she needed to be forced to concede that she had witnessed the scientific equivalent of a miracle and only had her personal experience to back her up. The only part I didn't like was the "hours of static" bit. I would have preferred they left everything completely ambiguous, rather than wink at the audience and tell them Ellie was right all along.
Was that in the Philadelphia Experiment?I have only ever seen it in bits and pieces, and not in many years. The only thing I remember was the guy stuck in the deck after they came back. Do they explain why that happened?
MotionMan
Was that in the Philadelphia Experiment?
I have only ever seen it in bits and pieces, and not in many years. The only thing I remember was the guy stuck in the deck after they came back. Do they explain why that happened?
MotionMan
