Posted on 05/19/2012 8:45:35 PM PDT by SMGFan
I’ll have to see “The Avengers” again — I love this genre of movie, but I kept waiting to be blown away and wasn’t.
Maybe because I was coming into the theatre after a horrendous work week and was very tired. SO.....I’ll see it again and may like it more the second time around. Maybe it was just that I kept wanting to see more of Ironman and less of everyone else! :-D Incidentally, is anyone ELSE tired of the inevitable destroy New York scenes in these movies? It’s always: Manhattan, cars flipping over, cops trying their best, terrified New Yorkers running for their lives, big chunks of buildings coming down...it could be stock footage! Movie makers really have to start doing something a little differently for ‘the big final battle.’
They tied it in with the game quite well, in my opinion. If you actually see the movie you’ll see the tie-in and recognize exactly what they’re doing. This movie is very entertaining and well-done, and every Freeper should see it just to see all the real-life veterans that are featured in it. Most notable is the role of Mick Canales, played by Greg Gadson, a then-Lieutenant Colonel who lost both legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2007. Does the movie seem “unbelievable” in the use of the aging veterans of the Missouri? Yes, but this is a movie about an alien invasion, so who cares?
LOL
You nailed it. Studios are soooo absorbed with special effects and cgi that they forgot about story. That’s one reason “the Avengers” has succeeded-—in spite of the special effects, which at times got in the way. There is STILL nothing that takes the place of story.
And that was the worst thing committed to the digital medium. Horrible does not come close to describing that “movie.”.
Just saw The Dictator last night - and I laughed my ass off. I know Sachca Baron Cohen is a big lib but he seemed to make a movie that makes fun of leftisim and oppressive dictators. Well up until the last minute before he does a liberal speech on free healthcare for all and the 1%.
I like Avengers. But walking out of the movie, I wondered aloud to my wife: “What do aliens have against NYC taxis? Every movie like this has the aliens blowing up all of the taxis in New York. Wouldn’t it be smarter to blow up infrastructure?”
You didn’t like “Firefly”?! Heresy!
Some of these “ideas” at EW are amusing.
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20483133_20596167,00.html
It is a scandal, an outrage, and a national disgrace that we do not teach our high school students about the virtual suicide charge of Taffy 3, and what was arguably one of the most astonishing David vs. Goliath surprise victories in naval history.
Or even Hood and Bismarck.
Been done...
That sums up a most of the SyFy original movies...
It's either that or Tokyo...
That's inevitable with Marvel stories- they are all written and edited by New Yorkers, with their "New York City is the center of the universe" point of view.
I have “Yamato”. My first impression of it (loosely anyway) was “Titanic with gunfire”.
Once you manage to look past the cultural “tropes” (i.e. the inevitable citation of Hiroshima and We-Will-Never-Fight-Again), it’s actually pretty good. And its battle perspective (being on the receiving end and essentially trapped like a rat) is very different.
But he hates 'people that annoy you'.
Hilarious!
I was just kidding
Right the LA-NYC centrism is one of the most annoying things possible.
I want a scifi film that starts off with LA and NYC being wiped out completely and ends with a ragtag collection of human refugees fleeing Earth for another world far far away as Earth becomes a new asteroid field. Even though the human race managed to “win” and “survive”- it wasn’t easy.
Battleship ended up making about $25Million and 2nd place over the weekend according to Box Office Mojo
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