Let's Talk Movie Review

Gone4Now · 03-24-2009, 08:19 PM

Oh, man...I'll just have to put Knowing on my "see on a rental" list. I believe you, and won't waste the $8 to see it, but will eventually, down the road see it. DH doesn't want to see it anyway, so that saves money. :)

plain · 03-24-2009, 08:32 PM

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Ok, I just came back from "Knowing"

Full disclosure -- I love scifi, disaster, end-of-the-world type flicks. I give a LOT of leeway to these films, you have to buy into their view and mindset.

That said -- this thing SUCKED

It sucked so hard I expected to have a hickey when I walked out. It was so bad it should have starred Bill Pullman, Kevin Bacon and Anne Heche

Just don't. Please. Save yourself the $8 and 2 hours. May I suggest instead Roadhouse?

I too love apocalyptical movies. However, it's been a very very long time since I've seen a good Nick Cage film. I try to avoid his films like I do Stallone's.....

Gone4Now · 03-24-2009, 08:38 PM

Hey, I liked Family Man. :(

Why doesn't anyone but me like Face Off?

plain · 03-24-2009, 08:42 PM

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Hey, I liked Family Man. :(

Why doesn't anyone but me like Face Off?

I give face/off some style points, because I like that it was stereotypical John Woo (big circular movements in slo - mo, flowing coats like capes, etc).

Gone4Now · 03-24-2009, 08:44 PM

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I give face/off some style points, because I like that it was stereotypical John Woo (big circular movements in slo - mo, flowing coats like capes, etc).

And slo-mo doves....lest we forget.

:)

Manatee · 03-24-2009, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by plain

I too love apocalyptical movies. However, it's been a very very long time since I've seen a good Nick Cage film. I try to avoid his films like I do Stallone's.....

Well, I give him props for Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas and Face-off (but he was trying to be Travolta, anyone's cool doing that). Gone in 60 Seconds wasn't bad, but that movie didn't require acting chops -- any breathing middle age male would work.

Do you realize he's been in over -60- movies?

plain · 03-24-2009, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Manatee

Well, I give him props for Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas and Face-off (but he was trying to be Travolta, anyone's cool doing that). Gone in 60 Seconds wasn't bad, but that movie didn't require acting chops -- any breathing middle age male would work.

Do you realize he's been in over -60- movies?

Raising Arizona was a classic. Also, I really enjoyed Leaving Las Vegas, and was pleasantly surprised at the job he did. I tend to chalk that up to "give a million monkeys a typewriter and let them type for a million years...."

I didn't know he had 60+ movies. I guess being related to Francis Ford Coppola has its perks, eh?

luluc · 03-24-2009, 09:13 PM

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Well, I give him props for Raising Arizona,

the only movie i enjoyed of his - but i'm a coen bro fan.

plain · 03-24-2009, 09:15 PM

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the only movie i enjoyed of his - but i'm a coen bro fan.

Oooooh, Cohen Bros! "Barton Fink" was their best, bar none! There are so many levels of screenwriting going on in there....incredible film.

luluc · 03-24-2009, 09:18 PM

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Oooooh, Cohen Bros! "Barton Fink" was their best, bar none! There are so many levels of screenwriting going on in there....incredible film.

dh is a big oh brother fan, me i LOVED hudsucker proxy......both can't get enough of the dude "big lebowski".

MacMadame · 03-25-2009, 02:31 AM

What? You didn't like The Rock?

**LilMissDiva** · 03-25-2009, 10:52 AM

The Rock: What a special guy!

Nick Cage: Loved him in Raising Arizona, Honeymoon in Vegas (with Sarah Jessica Parker), Face/Off and Con-Air. He started to "lose it" after Bringing Out the Dead... that movie SUCKS! Gone in 60 Seconds was good, but yes I agree with anyone being able to play that part. Did you know he got paid $20M for that?

It's nice to be him.

plain · 03-26-2009, 01:02 AM

Nick will NEVER be able to top his multifaceted, subtle, nuanced character portrayal of Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider. Cage got robbed of the oscar on that one.

tapshoes · 03-26-2009, 07:46 AM

Lasst night's movies...oldies but goodies....

Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 4 (nobody does eerily over-the-edge-subtle- insanity like Bogart)

Touch of Evil - 4 (Charlton Heston as a mexican was pushing it, but once over that weirdness it was a good movie).

plain · 03-26-2009, 11:27 PM

I really liked Touch of Evil. It was a Hitchcock, right? Or am I confused again?