Movie Thread

[Keith Chegwin]

I wouldn't say that Snipes was only thinking about the money. He didn't like the script. He didn't the original director. They replaced the original director with Goyer and he didn't like Goyer either. There were clearly serious issues with that film. As for whether or not it destroyed his career, he fell pretty hard after that. The biggest things he's been in since were Expendables 3 and Chi-Raq

[AngrySpoonySnob]

Id be pissed if I had to give my screentime up for 2 kiddo's who cant act (biel and that faggot) as well.
From what I heard Snipes wanted the third movie to be post-apocalyptic with Blade needing to survive in a world taken over by vampires. Goyer or the studios wanted to setup a potential series or new movie trilogy for those faggy nightstalkers or what did they call themselves??

so yeah Wesley wanted to give Blade a good sending of while hollywood wanted to turn it into a cashcow to milk. No wonder Snipers was like fuck it if you people are all about the money and willing to rape this franchise over it then Im just going for the check too fuck yall im blazing up peaceee

[AngrySpoonySnob]

>Blade

For me Blade2 is the last western action movie with crazy good choreography/editing but without any major downside (e.g. super bad acting, laughably ridiculous story). Only rice niggas can make that kind of movie these days

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I think you need to watch the movie again, blade2 had so many facepalm moments. And that squad he worked with had all sorts of horrible acting.

[veris leta facies]

Bad Boys 2 (2003)

(SPOILS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING)

Michael Bay's kino never fails to impress. I saw the original Bad Boys a hundred years ago and barely remember anything of it, but I do recall it wasn't even nearly as in-your-face wackiness as this sequel is. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, those two funny nigaz of the 90's, in the two leading roles -> SUPER FUN COMING! Except not, they are really horrible actors (and I refer them as W&M for now on as that's what they are: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, not any believable characters), and writing is quite jagged hit-and-miss, some of the comedy is OK, some of their bromance-crisis is cringeworthy.

W&M are invisible super cops who can do anything, there's not once any slightest sense of danger. Action gets on so wacky level you'll expect to see next W&M escaping some exploding industrial complex with power of the fart, oss. The plot is silly nonsense (Cuban drug trafficking something, undercover DEA agent something, whatever) which is there only to move W&M from one bloated and overblown action scene to another. Joe Pantoliano is like some parody of the most cliched angry 80's cop movie chief. Villains are excellent, Spanish Jordi Mollà as over the top Cuban drug kingpin ("Get that American bitch!") and (underused) Swedish Peter Stormare as sleazy Russian (again) drug dealer ("Some fucking punk thinks he can die in my club! Ecstasy fucks them up!").

Violence is (as on a lollywood-blockbuster scale) gritty and there's some surprisingly dark humor, naked dead bodies flying around and getting dismantled during some chase scene. W&M marvel at some dead chick's huge boobs in a morgue and Martin hides from the bad guys besides her body under a bodybag sheet ("Don't tell to my wife!"). There's a completely out of place slapstick scene which goes on and on after Martin accidentally ingests some ecstasy. And there's a scene where an iguanidae explodes after walking on a landmine because.. why not? BOOM! Madness.

In the end Martin's DEA agent sister (who convincingly also is Will's love interest) gets kidnapped to Cuba and after the police senior management informs they can't do anything about it, IT IS NOW UP TO W&M TO SAVE HER FROM FILTHY CUBA. In hilarious over dramatic scene some CIA/DEA/whatever badasses join to W&M because.. BECAUSE REASONS. This results to another overblown action scene where they trash half of some Cuban village, but it's OK ("They make cocaine here!").

The biggest drawback here is the film's length, the two and half hour runtime is un-fucking-excusable. There's a good 45-60 minutes that could be safely cut off, the plot doesn't make any sense anyway, it's not like something plotwise important could be lost. Otherwise this is another Bay's masterpiece. Sigh, I still haven't seen any Bay's Transformers yet, maybe I should check them next. I've heard the first one is a real work of art, after BB2 I have no reason to doubt that.

[Keith Chegwin]

All I remember from Bad Boys I is that it was shit, but Tea Leoni was quite hot.

[AngrySpoonySnob]

I only remember laughing at the WHO THE FUCK IS REGGIE part when his daughter gets picked up for a date

[AngrySpoonySnob]

Den of Thieves was pretty decent to good even. Surprised me in this age of utter shit films. there still is a lot of missed potential though, sometimes it gets near a Heat kind of vibe but those moments are not enough to make this anywhere near that level.

edit: just realized that also has one of those funny "scare the daughter's date" scenes although the bad boys one is a bit better because its in a comedy and in Den of Thieves it doesnt seem to fit in as well.

[da PAC Nigguh]

Star Trek: The Motionless Picture is actually really good, despite its agonizingly slow pace at times (the film starts with a starfield that plays for a couple minutes before the opening credits even begin, setting the tone for every scene in the film).

The concept of V'Ger is one of the most interesting ideas to come out of Star Trek, though. An antagonist who isn't really bad, just a machine attempting to complete its purpose as it comprehended it. It's probably the most "hard Sci-Fi" stuff in the franchise, in the films at least.

[Liar Revealed]

Star Trek: The Motionless Picture is actually really good, despite its agonizingly slow pace at times (the film starts with a starfield that plays for a couple minutes before the opening credits even begin, setting the tone for every scene in the film).

Do you have THIS version?
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star ... tion_(DVD)
I really like like that particular Director's cut, but it was only on DVD and is out of print. It'll never be on Blu-ray either for dumb technical reasons and because one of the actors on the commentary track got outed as a pedo.

[da PAC Nigguh]

Star Trek: The Motionless Picture is actually really good, despite its agonizingly slow pace at times (the film starts with a starfield that plays for a couple minutes before the opening credits even begin, setting the tone for every scene in the film).

Do you have THIS version?
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star ... tion_(DVD)
I really like like that particular Director's cut, but it was only on DVD and is out of print. It'll never be on Blu-ray either for dumb technical reasons and because one of the actors on the commentary track got outed as a pedo.

Yep, I have that DVD. I also have the Theatrical Blu-ray but prefer the DVDs. With the exception of Star Trek II the TOS Blu-rays are shitty.