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Saw Chronicle a few days ago
SNAAKE:
I liked BHD and hannibal.
and micheal fassbender is good in pretty much every movie he's in. so yeah...sold. unless reviews turn out to be horrible then I may have to wait for torrent uh..netflix!
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 27, 2012, 12:08:30 am ---I mean, he's done some very good stuff. But he also did Black Hawk Down. Gladiator. G.I. Jane. He's not exactly a sure thing.
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If two of his three worst movies (or at least the three you seem to dislike the most) were nominated for a combined 16 oscars, won 7 of those including best picture, then I'd say he's as close to a sure thing as your going to get. I thought BHD and Gladiator were both great movies, but I agree G.I. Jane was awful (and so was White Squal and A Good Year, which are the two movies you should of listed)
shmokes:
I'm willing to concede that White Squall is maybe not great. I remember it being good, but I saw it long ago . . . maybe high school. I haven't seen A Good Year. Gladiator is not very good. It gets stupider with each repeated viewing. The production values are spectacular, but the story almost could not possibly be any stupider. The story is retarded to the point of constant distraction. It's easy to not notice this on the first viewing because the production values are so dazzling. Black Hawk Down is just unwatchably bad from beginning to end. I honestly don't understand what anybody sees in it aside from, like, battle-porn in the same way Mel Gibson's Jesus movie, I comically can't produce the name at the moment, was just two hours of torture-porn. Black Hawk Down had no story. You're just meant to come out of it shaken because it supposedly so realistically captured the essence of a real wartime battle. Stupid.
Rando:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 28, 2012, 05:26:13 pm ---Black Hawk Down is just unwatchably bad from beginning to end. I honestly don't understand what anybody sees in it aside from, like, battle-porn in the same way Mel Gibson's Jesus movie, I comically can't produce the name at the moment, was just two hours of torture-porn. Black Hawk Down had no story. You're just meant to come out of it shaken because it supposedly so realistically captured the essence of a real wartime battle. Stupid.
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Wow, are tastes are soooo different Shmokes, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that Black Hawk Down wasn't a good or powerful film. Hard to watch at times, yes, as is the Jesus movie I've heard, but that doesn't make it bad. It's more like watching a series of events unfold than a traditional movie I guess, kind of like the opening to Saving Private Ryan, but that doesn't make it BAD does it? Just different and gripping, I thought.
I'd love to watch it again but the wife refuses to see it.
Chronicle is on my long list of movies to see at some point.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Rando on May 29, 2012, 11:05:12 am ---kind of like the opening to Saving Private Ryan,
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Lol . . . that's actually a pretty good analogy. Black Hawk Down is like if the opening of Saving Private Ryan lasted two hours and then the credits rolled. Except that Black Hawk Down would still find itself at a disadvantage to this reimagined Saving Private Ryan in that it stars the generally terrible Josh Harnett rather than Tom Hanks and Good Will Hunting.
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