Bad Films I watched this weekend
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Chinese Zodiac (Jackie Chan). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424310/
There are some good bits in it but to be honest (for me) it's a major disappointment - which is a shame as I was really looking forward to it
There are some good bits in it but to be honest (for me) it's a major disappointment - which is a shame as I was really looking forward to it
The Amazing Spider-man 2 - Why? OK It's a cash cow. I only made the first 15 mins but the CGI looked much worse than the previous films and it's far more of a kid's film than say the Batman or Avengers series. This film deserves to go in the hoover bag along with all of its arachnid buddies. 1/10
Godzilla - Monster, monster, monster. Big explosions. Cliche-tastic. A proper workout for the home cinema system. It passed a couple of hours but not worth a rewatch. 4/10
Godzilla - Monster, monster, monster. Big explosions. Cliche-tastic. A proper workout for the home cinema system. It passed a couple of hours but not worth a rewatch. 4/10
Fury. Proof (if it were needed), that some "actors" just need to stay looking pretty and some "actors" are nothing of the sort (I'm looking at you Witwicky). Crappy battle scenes, characters I didn't give a crap about and a ridiculous ending means this is one DVD that'll be staying on the shelf. Tripe.
Lucy. I so wanted to like this - so much. I just sat on my sofa at the end of the film thinking "WTF?" As they say, the fail is strong with this one.
Lucy. I so wanted to like this - so much. I just sat on my sofa at the end of the film thinking "WTF?" As they say, the fail is strong with this one.
Edited by Goughie on Wednesday 11th March 15:07
Dragon Blade. Film that Jackie Chan produced and, seemingly, directed too. A group of Roman soldiers is lost in ancient China. That's the last remotely exciting bit that I've got. It's not just bad, it's like a B-movie version of a B-movie. Appaling. And it's got Adrian Brodie, who is I think slid down a bit recently, and John Cusack, who looked like he's falling asleep all the time... Tragically bad. Never trust IMDB, which rates it almost 7/10.
Exodus : Gods and Kings
The latest turn in the downward spiral of Ridley Scott's career.
Terrible script, awful pacing, average action scenes and generic CGI. I found a lot of the key casting very poor (John Turturro and Sigourney Weaver were actually distractingly badly cast) and the whole thing was overlong and incredibly dull. Not as bad as Noah, but not far off.
Based on the fact that pretty much everything he's done in the past 10 or so years has been awful rubbish (with the exception of American Gangster that I enjoyed) I'm not holding out any hope for Prometheus 2 or the proposed Blade Runner sequel.
5/10
The latest turn in the downward spiral of Ridley Scott's career.
Terrible script, awful pacing, average action scenes and generic CGI. I found a lot of the key casting very poor (John Turturro and Sigourney Weaver were actually distractingly badly cast) and the whole thing was overlong and incredibly dull. Not as bad as Noah, but not far off.
Based on the fact that pretty much everything he's done in the past 10 or so years has been awful rubbish (with the exception of American Gangster that I enjoyed) I'm not holding out any hope for Prometheus 2 or the proposed Blade Runner sequel.
5/10
My OH just came back from the supermarket with a cheap DVD called White House Down, ooh lordy it's not good.
I've sworn a vow of silence while she's watching it, specifically nothing critical. The bit in which a small band of terrorists manage to annihilate the entire defence system of the White House in a matter of minutes had me on the verge of exploding.
James Woods is in it for heaven's sake. I actually feel sorry for him.
I've sworn a vow of silence while she's watching it, specifically nothing critical. The bit in which a small band of terrorists manage to annihilate the entire defence system of the White House in a matter of minutes had me on the verge of exploding.
James Woods is in it for heaven's sake. I actually feel sorry for him.
Johnnytheboy said:
My OH just came back from the supermarket with a cheap DVD called White House Down, ooh lordy it's not good.
I've sworn a vow of silence while she's watching it, specifically nothing critical. The bit in which a small band of terrorists manage to annihilate the entire defence system of the White House in a matter of minutes had me on the verge of exploding.
James Woods is in it for heaven's sake. I actually feel sorry for him.
Oh, that was saved on my Hard Drive and I watched about 45 minutes of it!I've sworn a vow of silence while she's watching it, specifically nothing critical. The bit in which a small band of terrorists manage to annihilate the entire defence system of the White House in a matter of minutes had me on the verge of exploding.
James Woods is in it for heaven's sake. I actually feel sorry for him.
So many rubbish bits like Channing Tatum slouched with slack tie in his 'interview' to join the Secret Service (which he brings his daughter to). Or Gylllenhaal's swooning looks at Foxx in the first scene in the chopper. Or the complete uselessness of half the characters etc etc...
Just dumb mindless rubbish for the (USA) masses...
Interstellar - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692
I was really hoping for something great given the hype over this film but the reality is that it's quiet a weak film.
It's very pretty, really looked great, they made an effort to try and incorporate some actual physics to make it look more realistic. However unfortunately they didn't apply this model to the acting or really the script.
No-one is remotely believable or acts in ways that you'd expect given the circumstances.
So the Earth has a problem causing massive shortages of food, it's not really explained why this is the case or what anyone is trying to do to rectify that situation.
Matthew McConaughey's daughter has a 'ghost' in her room that speaks to her in binary by knocking books from a shelf, these reveal the coordinates to a secret NASA base. There they meet Michael Caine who tells them of a plan to take people to a new world in a different galaxy that they've found due to an artificial wormhole they've discovered. McConaughey decides he needs to go and see knowing that the trip will effectively take decades and he'll miss his children growing up (on a dying world where they've already lost their mother), he takes off in a moments flat and leaves them behind. Once in space he meets a Matt Damon who is suffering cabin fever, crashes into a black hole and ends up at the other side of the bookcase at different points in time where he communicates to his daughter in binary and they both figure out that he's the ghost (ignoring that he could have therefore done this at the start of the film and saved everyone a lot of time)
He also figures out, for no specific reason the secret of gravity and relays this information to his daughter, who uses this to build a big spaceship that can take everyone from Earth to their new home, he then falls through the bottom of the blackhole and arrives on a future spacestation near Saturn where he meets his now old and completely different looking) daughter for a happy ending. They're able to grow food and feed everyone on the space station but not Earth, no idea why, they could therefore presumably have done this is orbit and ship food down if it just woudln't grow there. They also don't have anywhere to go as none of the new worlds they were looking at were suitable. But none of that matters as apparently 'love can transcend dimensions'.
It's just a series of pretty CGI, pseudo-science and an unconvincing half plot.
6/10
I was really hoping for something great given the hype over this film but the reality is that it's quiet a weak film.
It's very pretty, really looked great, they made an effort to try and incorporate some actual physics to make it look more realistic. However unfortunately they didn't apply this model to the acting or really the script.
No-one is remotely believable or acts in ways that you'd expect given the circumstances.
So the Earth has a problem causing massive shortages of food, it's not really explained why this is the case or what anyone is trying to do to rectify that situation.
Matthew McConaughey's daughter has a 'ghost' in her room that speaks to her in binary by knocking books from a shelf, these reveal the coordinates to a secret NASA base. There they meet Michael Caine who tells them of a plan to take people to a new world in a different galaxy that they've found due to an artificial wormhole they've discovered. McConaughey decides he needs to go and see knowing that the trip will effectively take decades and he'll miss his children growing up (on a dying world where they've already lost their mother), he takes off in a moments flat and leaves them behind. Once in space he meets a Matt Damon who is suffering cabin fever, crashes into a black hole and ends up at the other side of the bookcase at different points in time where he communicates to his daughter in binary and they both figure out that he's the ghost (ignoring that he could have therefore done this at the start of the film and saved everyone a lot of time)
He also figures out, for no specific reason the secret of gravity and relays this information to his daughter, who uses this to build a big spaceship that can take everyone from Earth to their new home, he then falls through the bottom of the blackhole and arrives on a future spacestation near Saturn where he meets his now old and completely different looking) daughter for a happy ending. They're able to grow food and feed everyone on the space station but not Earth, no idea why, they could therefore presumably have done this is orbit and ship food down if it just woudln't grow there. They also don't have anywhere to go as none of the new worlds they were looking at were suitable. But none of that matters as apparently 'love can transcend dimensions'.
It's just a series of pretty CGI, pseudo-science and an unconvincing half plot.
6/10
qube_TA said:
Interstellar - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692
I was really hoping for something great given the hype over this film but the reality is that it's quiet a weak film.
It's very pretty, really looked great, they made an effort to try and incorporate some actual physics to make it look more realistic. However unfortunately they didn't apply this model to the acting or really the script.
No-one is remotely believable or acts in ways that you'd expect given the circumstances.
So the Earth has a problem causing massive shortages of food, it's not really explained why this is the case or what anyone is trying to do to rectify that situation.
Matthew McConaughey's daughter has a 'ghost' in her room that speaks to her in binary by knocking books from a shelf, these reveal the coordinates to a secret NASA base. There they meet Michael Caine who tells them of a plan to take people to a new world in a different galaxy that they've found due to an artificial wormhole they've discovered. McConaughey decides he needs to go and see knowing that the trip will effectively take decades and he'll miss his children growing up (on a dying world where they've already lost their mother), he takes off in a moments flat and leaves them behind. Once in space he meets a Matt Damon who is suffering cabin fever, crashes into a black hole and ends up at the other side of the bookcase at different points in time where he communicates to his daughter in binary and they both figure out that he's the ghost (ignoring that he could have therefore done this at the start of the film and saved everyone a lot of time)
He also figures out, for no specific reason the secret of gravity and relays this information to his daughter, who uses this to build a big spaceship that can take everyone from Earth to their new home, he then falls through the bottom of the blackhole and arrives on a future spacestation near Saturn where he meets his now old and completely different looking) daughter for a happy ending. They're able to grow food and feed everyone on the space station but not Earth, no idea why, they could therefore presumably have done this is orbit and ship food down if it just woudln't grow there. They also don't have anywhere to go as none of the new worlds they were looking at were suitable. But none of that matters as apparently 'love can transcend dimensions'.
It's just a series of pretty CGI, pseudo-science and an unconvincing half plot.
6/10
See I wasn't going to watch this as I read a review that skimmed the plot:I was really hoping for something great given the hype over this film but the reality is that it's quiet a weak film.
It's very pretty, really looked great, they made an effort to try and incorporate some actual physics to make it look more realistic. However unfortunately they didn't apply this model to the acting or really the script.
No-one is remotely believable or acts in ways that you'd expect given the circumstances.
So the Earth has a problem causing massive shortages of food, it's not really explained why this is the case or what anyone is trying to do to rectify that situation.
Matthew McConaughey's daughter has a 'ghost' in her room that speaks to her in binary by knocking books from a shelf, these reveal the coordinates to a secret NASA base. There they meet Michael Caine who tells them of a plan to take people to a new world in a different galaxy that they've found due to an artificial wormhole they've discovered. McConaughey decides he needs to go and see knowing that the trip will effectively take decades and he'll miss his children growing up (on a dying world where they've already lost their mother), he takes off in a moments flat and leaves them behind. Once in space he meets a Matt Damon who is suffering cabin fever, crashes into a black hole and ends up at the other side of the bookcase at different points in time where he communicates to his daughter in binary and they both figure out that he's the ghost (ignoring that he could have therefore done this at the start of the film and saved everyone a lot of time)
He also figures out, for no specific reason the secret of gravity and relays this information to his daughter, who uses this to build a big spaceship that can take everyone from Earth to their new home, he then falls through the bottom of the blackhole and arrives on a future spacestation near Saturn where he meets his now old and completely different looking) daughter for a happy ending. They're able to grow food and feed everyone on the space station but not Earth, no idea why, they could therefore presumably have done this is orbit and ship food down if it just woudln't grow there. They also don't have anywhere to go as none of the new worlds they were looking at were suitable. But none of that matters as apparently 'love can transcend dimensions'.
It's just a series of pretty CGI, pseudo-science and an unconvincing half plot.
6/10
The bit about the binary code and the ghost was made out to be the end of the film, so there was no resolution and gave the impression that this will go on in an endless loop.
However the plot you explained goes further mentioning about him finding his daughter on a space station.
I would enjoy that (plot linearity not withstanding) so may grab this on a sky rental to watch.
Shame though as heard lots of mixed reviews and at 3 hours, GF was a bit 'f
k no'.Edited by Rick_1138 on Monday 16th March 12:02
Edited by Rick_1138 on Monday 16th March 12:02
Edited by Rick_1138 on Monday 16th March 12:03
Rick_1138 said:
However the plot you explained goes further mentioning about him finding his daughter on a space station.
I would enjoy that (plot linearity not withstanding) so may grab this on a sky rental to watch.
it is very tagged on though, seemed there just to keep audiences who want a happy ending err, happy!
The Tree of Life.
Brad Pitt, Sean Penna and Jessica Chastain (old Murph in Interstellar).
The story of a family in Texas, and especially the eldest son witnessing the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.
It's pointlessness is only matched by its pretentiousness imo. 2/10
Brad Pitt, Sean Penna and Jessica Chastain (old Murph in Interstellar).
The story of a family in Texas, and especially the eldest son witnessing the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.
It's pointlessness is only matched by its pretentiousness imo. 2/10
ash73 said:
Don't really agree with your synopsis, the only real problem with the plot is the apparent paradox of Cooper requiring a tesseract constructed by future 5D-capable man to survive the black hole and send the data to his daughter; but future man could not exist until Cooper had survived the black hole. She doesn't figure out he's the "ghost" until she's older and re-examines the watch, so there's no loop at the start (his "stay" message failed). The point of the sensor data is it completes her formula to control gravity, it seems reasonable that capability would enable mankind to get back on track; and I think the third planet where Hathaway landed was habitable? I need to watch it again though.
It is a bit long, even for space geeks like me, but there are lots of positives; it doesn't belong in this thread imo.
I totally agree. Interstellar had it's flaws, but it had a lot of great things which IMHO meant for a great film.It is a bit long, even for space geeks like me, but there are lots of positives; it doesn't belong in this thread imo.
With regards to the plot hole you've pointed out:
Your concept above presumes that 'future 5D man' would not have existed without Cooper. That doesn't need to be the case, it wasn't a foregone conclusion that the end of humanity would be the end of the earth. Humans would have found a new way to survive.
So, for example, 100 years after Interstellar, humans transfer consciousness to another format, machine, or something even more ethereal like light. Given that scenario, it would make sense that they would want to see if the past could be altered so that humanity in biological form could survive with their future input through Cooper.
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