What Movies Have You Watched? 17: Blowed Up Real Good

[Synobun]

Greenland. This movie tries desperately to replicate The Day After Tomorrow but hits all the notes poorly. Not worth watching unless you want to mock it. 3/10.

 

[Samson]

No time to die

I enjoyed it, but it is not a good film. Better than Skyfall (but that is not saying much), I think I missed Spectre but no comparison to Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace which I rated.

 

[The_J]

It's definitely too long, they could have cut a good part.
I'd not say that it's bad though.

 

[Takhisis]

Total Recall (2012).

OK film, I am not sure it added anything to the Arnie one other than the worst british accents since Mary Poppins.

Spoiler Rants :

What is going on with the physics and geology of the fall. And at the end, the hero girl turned over the hero boy by pulling on the shoulder that had just been shot?

What a coincidence, I've just watched the one with the Ahnold.

Greenland. This movie tries desperately to replicate The Day After Tomorrow but hits all the notes poorly. Not worth watching unless you want to mock it. 3/10.

Is it kindof an Eye of Argon of movies? I've just read the book and it's strangely very much worth it.

 

[Synobun]

Is it kindof an Eye of Argon of movies? I've just read the book and it's strangely very much worth it.

No, not at all. It just pretends it's serious even though the, erm, plausibility of just about everything in it is pants-on-backwards stupid. All the drama is incredibly contrived, too. "Family tries to survive a natural disaster" is a genre trope but it does it very poorly. All the elements are simply off.

 

[Takhisis]

…so how is that not an Eye of Argon? Minus the incredibly contrived drama, the rest is applicable to either work.

 

[Synobun]

…so how is that not an Eye of Argon? Minus the incredibly contrived drama, the rest is applicable to either work.

I googled Eye of Argon and it says it's lauded as the worst book ever written, so it doesn't seem applicable here.

 

[BenitoChavez]

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - The fight scenes in the first act were pretty awesome, and I liked the guy who played Shang. The bad guy, Shang's father was good too. The movie had potential but the main theme of the son coming to terms with his kind of evil, kinda of crazy dad is undercut by a bunch of contrivances in the plot, some annoying side characters, and some way over the top CGI.

 

[Takhisis]

it's lauded as the worst book ever written,

You should read it. The .pdf of the original mimeographed version at ansible.co.uk is glorious.

 

[Laurana Kanan]

I disagree in many respects with Syn on Greeland. Recently, watched it again on HBO and my original thoughts/review from an early screening last year remains unchanged.

 

[Zardnaar]

I disagree in many respects with Syn on Greeland. Recently, watched it again on HBO and my original thoughts/review from an early screening last year remains unchanged.

Same I liked it. Better than Day After Tomorrow.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The day after tomorrow is not here yet; do you have something planned that will be worse than today?

 

[Quintillus]

Most recently, Total Recall (1990). A pretty good film, with enough plot twist to be interesting but not so much to be confusing, good action sequences (including guns in space), and interesting characters. Once again, an '80s/early '90s Arnold action film was a good choice.

The day after tomorrow is not here yet; do you have something planned that will be worse than today?

It arrived in 2004, thanks to Roland Emmerich! I had a friend who was obsessed with that film, as well as National Treasure. It's not a bad film, but not one that I would have watched more than once or twice if it weren't for that friend wanting to re-watch it all the time (and not having a car of my own so I could drive to Blockbuster and pick out an alternative).

It's probably worth watching if you've never seen it and like disaster films or Roland Emmerich (and if you like one of those you probably like the other, right?).

 

[Synobun]

It arrived in 2004, thanks to Roland Emmerich! I had a friend who was obsessed with that film, as well as National Treasure. It's not a bad film, but not one that I would have watched more than once or twice if it weren't for that friend wanting to re-watch it all the time (and not having a car of my own so I could drive to Blockbuster and pick out an alternative).

It's probably worth watching if you've never seen it and like disaster films or Roland Emmerich (and if you like one of those you probably like the other, right?).

It's one of my favourite movies. Plus, Jake Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum?

 

[tjs282]

EDIT: The movie actually comes off more like a parody of a bunch of genres of movies... and now that I'm thinking about it... maybe it is... it kind of has to be... I didn't realize that when I chose the movie, I thought it was a serious action or heist film, so maybe my impression was skewed by that. I may have to re-evaluate once I finish the movie, or maybe watch it again.

Netflix fed me the trailer for that one last night.

So, just to be clear, you sat down to watch an action movie starring Ryan Reynolds and the Rock, but you honestly thought it was going to be a 'serious' movie...?

I mean, the last two movies I saw starring those two were Free Guy (plus a re-watch of Deadpools 1 + 2) and Rampage, respectively. Just sayin'...

 

[Sommerswerd]

Netflix fed me the trailer for that one last night.

So, just to be clear, you sat down to watch an action movie starring Ryan Reynolds and the Rock, but you honestly thought it was going to be a 'serious' movie...?

I mean, the last two movies I saw starring those two were Free Guy (plus a re-watch of Deadpools 1 + 2) and Rampage, respectively. Just sayin'...

I did, I really did. I was expecting something along the lines of Mission Impossible/Oceans Eleven. Not completely humorless, but an overall serious, action/heist flick, not some jokey-joke parody/spoof mashup. Silly me.

 

[El_Machinae]

If it's an action movie spoof, I want it to be at least as funny as The Other Guys.

 

[Synobun]

Red Notice is supposed to emulate Uncharted, AFAIK. Based purely on trailer alone, it represents Uncharted more than the actual Uncharted movie. And Uncharted really is genre parody when it comes down to it, so that jives.

 

[Takhisis]

Once again, an '80s/early '90s Arnold action film was a good choice.

This definition is borderline redundant.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Red Notice is supposed to emulate Uncharted, AFAIK. Based purely on trailer alone, it represents Uncharted more than the actual Uncharted movie. And Uncharted really is genre parody when it comes down to it, so that jives.

I've never seen Uncharted, but as I've said, at first I was expecting Mission Impossible/Ocean's Eleven, but pretty early on, that morphed into me thinking, that they were going for something more like The Expendables, where its mostly a serious action movie, except with the heroes openly mocking/throwing shade at the cliches and tropes that they themselves have portrayed themselves over the years. But still all through the lense of a legit, serious action film, with a little humor sprinkled in, mostly in the form of the previously mentioned nods, references and mocking of their prior roles and tropes. But when I thought that was what Red Notice was going for, I was unimpressed. While Expendables nailed that theme to perfection, Red Notice, not so much.

But once I realized that they were actually going for more of a straight-up comedy multi-genre parody/spoof, a little more serious than, but closer in line with stuff like Scream and Superhero Movie, I appreciated the movie much more, and what (at least I think (hope)) they were going for. The movie is much better, viewed through that lense. But even putting all of that aside, I definitely would have not been so hard on it initially if I had just realized from the beginning that it was a full blown comedy.

This definition is borderline redundant.

Not so fast! Stallone made lots of those too ... but yeah if you just add "80s/early '90s Arnold/Stallone action film" then its pretty much totally redundant.