jay canseco
War Child
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Maybe we're all just too jaded to see a fun movie anymore?
Maybe we're all just too jaded to see a fun movie anymore?
Maybe we're all just too jaded to see a fun movie anymore?
I saw it today, too and gotta echo the same sentiments about the script. A lot of it was a hell of fun and worth the ride. I thought the action set pieces were some of the best/most inventive in the whole series (the bike chase, the Area 51 fight, even the jungle fight) so I'll just list what I didn't like:
- Shia and the CG Monkeys
- 3 waterfalls
- Mac / Marion / Oxley being incredibly underwritten
- CG gophers? What the fuck? This isn't Caddyshack 3
- Shia getting smacked in the nuts repeatedly during the rapier fight
This could've also been called How Harrison Ford Got His Groove Back. Seriously, what the hell has he been doing for 10+ years?
I'd put it firmly between Temple of Doom and Last Crusade though.
Raiders is the 2nd best action film of all time.
What's in your number one spot?
Ooh, good one.
Hmm ... probably Raiders. I really, really like the X-Men movies (at least the first two; the third one I just liked, with no "really"), but that's more "comic book flick" than "action flick."
Terminator 2 bitches.
I was telling YLB that one of the things that prevents me from ever permanently leaving Interference, for now at least, is waiting for the lead-up to and then your review of Avatar. I feel that either way, whether it is awesome, or horrible, you're going to die after seeing it.
and i loved putting Indy in that weird suburbia mock-up -- a great visual contrast, let's us know the word has changed since the 1930s.
...... and i loved the alien connection -- makes sense now that God is dead and science lives.
As I said, though, it's not that I didn't enjoy the movie. One thing I particularly liked was how Indy showed signs of becoming so much like his father. The look of disdain as Marcus Brody's head fell off the statue; the reading advice to the student during the library motorcycle chase; the quicksand lecture; and the abrupt change in attitude toward Mutt once he found out he was his son---all very Henry Jones, Sr. and very funny to see.
Top 10 action-adventure pictures of all-time:
#3. Titanic
#8. Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
I always prefered it when Arnie killed people in his films rather than just shooting them in the kneecaps. And I'd throw in The Matrix too.
Agreed on the Matrix. I think the 2nd Matrix film, while a worse movie overall, had some truly great action sequences.
I was telling YLB that one of the things that prevents me from ever permanently leaving Interference, for now at least, is waiting for the lead-up to and then your review of Avatar. I feel that either way, whether it is awesome, or horrible, you're going to die after seeing it.