Posted on 06/29/2009 4:15:13 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
I’m not gonna defend Armageddon on a reality basis because the whole point of it is not really to show a realistic asteroid colliding with earth, I look at it more as a character study on how people react to a disaster. I get teared up every single time Liv Tyler talks to Bruce Willis for the last time. Music is great, drama is great, effects are great, cinematography is great. It’s a feel good movie. I felt good afterwards. Here’s the kicker, I AM a movie snob. I can tell you why a movie is good or is not good from a variety of perspectives and I know why TF2 is “bad” but I think that is missing the point. It’s like complaining that baseball is not basketball and you are an authority because you are a sports critic. But yeah, if an asteroid the size of Texas was coming at us, just get your house in order.
Wow! That is so frakking awesome! My son was at D-M last summer when they filmed at AMARC (the “Boneyard”) and he was psyched when he saw those parts (he watched it on base in Iraq the other day and loved it!! He’s USAF Security Forces) That is so cool. I will have to tell him your story, he’ll get a big kick out of that!!
LOL! You made me think of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine, who hated The English Patient, is made to see it (again) with her boss (J. Peterman), and ends up yelling at the screen "Die already! !"
Gawddddd I hated Independence Day too!
Have you seen the trailer for District 9?
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi262144537/
amen
Agreed! Fun movies are often those where you don't have to think about it. I like escapist entertainment... I loved "Starship Troopers" as a movie, though other than some character names and the title, it didn't share too much with the book. And "The Fifth Element" is a total blast to watch! Same with the Harry Potter movies, and THAT'S the one I'm waiting for!
Mark
Transformers 2 was fun BUT I think The Fifth Element was WAYyyyyyy better.
Star Trek kicked @$$.
I recommend it.....
They actually name him in one scene, then have one of his personal appointees (robot czar?) attempt to run roughshod over the Autobots and their human allies. In one scene, the pencil-necked geek actually rips the rank insignia off Major Lennox's ACU's.
I didn’t mind Transformers 2. I thought it was decent if too long. If someone doesn’t know what they are getting with Michael Bay by now they will never get it.
So, how many scenes were there that showed a conversation between more than two people with the camera constantly panning around them over and over and over....?
Haha. I seem to remember them doing that at least once. Bay may have been showing restraint.
I saw it. Obama's rep WAS a weasel, and an idiot.
They had a couple of ghetto-talking robots, neither of whom could read, and one with a big gold tooth.
The military are depicted as the intensely competent, professional guardians of the United States.
All in all, this movie is so politically incorrect it seems purposefully calculated to make a Leftist's head explode. Do not expect it to be nominated for any Oscars, but DO expect it to do impressively well at the box office.
And the Rotten Tomatoes crew eat either bread, pasta or rice with rotten tomatoes! (yeeeeeeeccccchhhh!!!)
Anyway, my cousin likes the ROTF film and will download himself a copy from the ‘net.
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