The movie that propably had the most impact on my life.
I was little over 10 at the time I saw it first. My dad brought it home on VHS. From the first second my eyes were glued to the screen. Immediately after it was over I rewound the tape and watched it again which up to today, close to 35 later, I haven´t done with any other movie. I recorded it on audio tape so I could listen to it, even wrote down the whole thing on paper (that was well before the internet, folks). We re-ennacted the scenes, I had memorized every line. I cannot recall how many times I`ve seen it since then.
I would give it 11 if possible.
The last TNG movie - the last Star Trek movie (I don´t recognize Abramsverse).
I had hoped they would continue the storyline from Insurrection concerning the conspiracy in Starfleet but I was very satisfied with this one. The chemistry between Stewart and Hardy is what makes this worth watching. I know many fans don´t like this one, I often heard comments that Stuart Baird was the wrong choice for directing a Star Trek movie but I don´t share these thoughts. As a longtime Star Trek fan myself I think a lot of times other fans critizise something in Trek movies it´s due to the fact that these movies have to appeal to a wider audience. That´s the reason that those not so much Star Trek like elements make it´s way into the features. I can live with that.
It´s very sad seeing the crew split up at the end. I always hoped the franchise would continue. But as with the TV show - all good things must come to an end.
Interesting fact I hadn´t thought of before. Like the first TOS movie I didn´t liked the first TNG movie very much. In both cases the second one was more action oriented and in both scripts they brought back the arch-enemy of the respective captain. Here they raised up the ante by threatening the whole Federation instead of a personal vandetta.
Is "First Contact" the best TNG movie maybe even the best Star Trek movie ? I don´t know. Personally I have another candidate for that title. But it is certainly a great movie althought it probably makes more sense for those who know Trek mythology. Some of the humor might also be wasted on the casual watcher.
From the production side this is a trade off. "Generations" had the much better locations but the sets on "First Contact" are superior. The Borg looked better than ever, that´s the luxury of a movie budget. I like the new uniforms, they have a much more, let´s descibe it as, adult look. It was nessessary since the old TV uniforms didn´t look great on a big screen. I can´t comprehend why people think SFX is worse than "Generations". I don´t see it. The new Enterprise looks great, technically this was I think were it could be in terms of technology and budget.
Oh, one last thought: blond doesn´t look as good on Dr Crusher as red. But that´s just me ;-)
Show me one gamer around the time who didn´t dream at least once for something like this to happen to him.
Doesn´t matter how often I watch Asterix - it makes me laugh every time.
I still remember how skeptical I was when I went into the cinema back in 1998. I mean, you already knew what will happen, what story is there to tell, right ? Boy was I wrong.
Because I also remember how absolutely amazed I was, how the movie took me in, how I experienced the sinking of the ship, how I cried and how I still sat in my chair long after the credits were over.
And even after 25 years the movie still gets to me, invoking all the emotions I had the first time. It's a masterpiece in every regard. Eleven Oscars, but none for the actors. Which I still think is wrong. Even with all the technical stuff deservedly getting an award, you don't have a movie without the actors. They are the ones bringing in the emotion through their performances.
Technically this still stands it's grounds. Sure you see the CGI is dated but it's still very good. Even in HD which brings in so much more details of the sets and costumes.
It's a movie I can watch every couple of years and never feel bored.
Still one of the best action movies ever. Straight forward, no nonsense. Yes there are some quirks but in general Die Hard raised the bar a lot higher and defined the genre anew.
Even better in 4k.
Despite the fact that this has some rather embarrassing scenes (Data floating, manual control column f.e.) this is my personal favorite TNG movie. The story, or should I say the underlying message, is absolutely Star Trek. The scenery looks amazing, sets too. I think it could have benefitted from more running time to get a little bit more out of it.
There are a million things I could say about this. Since I agree with a lot of the other comments, positive and negative, I´ll try keeping it under 100.000.
Technically, this is beyond doubt. I would say TFA is the new benchmark. I love everything about the design in general, my favorite beeing the new Stormtroopers. And since I have been one of the biggest critics of JJ Abrams let me say his directing is solid. Maybe not Oscar worthy but I´d say it is his best work so far.
I won´t comment much on the story, not because I don´t want to spoil too much, but because this is only the first part of it. There are some things I didn´t like that may make sense in the context of the complete story.
One part of the movie where I seem to have a totally different point of view is the charcater of Kylo Ren. He started out interesting but the moment he removed his mask the character was finished for me. What made Vader so strong wasn´t only that he acted sinister and evil it was that he had no face. Just this motionless mask without eyes, without expression. That gave him that little bit extra from just beeing an evil person. When Ren removed the mask and he had a face he became a young man with daddy-issues. He was finished as a villain, I couldn´t take him serious any longer. Having his butt kicked by Rey also didn´t help. And if she is anything BUT (!) Luke´s daughter it wouldn´t make much sense.
Concerning the death of Han it was Harrison´s wish to get the character killed long ago. But it should have been done diffenrently. Han was a crucial part in the SW universe and his death should have more meaning.
So is it a great movie? Yes. Is it Star Wars? Well, it has the right ingredients. If the story developes where I hope it leads than, yes, this could become monumental like the original.
One big advantage this has already over the prequels is the discussion and speculation it will spawn over the coming months. With the prequels everybody knew what would happen it was just a matter of getting there. This feels more like the original saga.
So let the rumors run wild.
By the time TNG was about to be finishing it´s TV-run it was already established that there would be a movie following shortly thereafter. Unfortunately I didn´t thought, and still don`t, that this movie was a great one. And I´m saying that being a huge Star Trek fan.
Technically this was above doubt. The crash sequence looks great even compared with todays movies. But the writing is nowhere near the quality that the show had established. The story in general wasn´t very deep and Soran was a weakly written charakter with little to no depth. On the other hand they wrote to many side stories: Picards loss, Datas Emotions, Lursa and B´tor who work with Soran in hopes to get a weapon to regain their power within the Empire. Either of this would have made for a good story in itself if discovered in more detail but here they all fight with the supposed "A" story and somehow they all take away from each other. Especially Data, finally, getting his emotion-chip after so many years was something that should not have been treated in such fashion.
And then there is the biggest issue for me: why bring back parts of the classic crew ? Don´t get me wrong, I love the original Star Trek, I liked the movies (some less, some more). But they´ve had their farewell, it was a chapter closed. TNG had long become a proven and very succesfull show that had shown beyond a doubt that they can stand their ground against the original. And now, after Picard and his crew had mastered numeros threats they get beaten by one Bird of Prey (am I the only one wondering why they didn´t changed their shield harmonic after the first shot?) and Picard needs Kirk of all people to again save the day. I felt that threw the TNG franchise back a bid. It´s like saying "You still can´t do without us" while in reality the torch had long been handed over.
Oh, and one other thing I wondered: why was the interior of the Enterprise suddenly so dark. They turned down almost all the lights. Did Starfleet issue an order to save energy ? Well, I guess since they were still using the sets from the TV show they needed to do this in order to cover up that the sets couldn´t stand the detail of the big screen.
Since in the end most of the things in "Generations" were done to lay the foundation for the next movies, and it worked out, everything´s fine. Financially it was a huge success so the legend lived on.
Willis and Jackson as a tag-team are a great match. If there is one thing I could critisize it´s that the Evil German thing, even back than, was a bit overdone.
Unfortunately this also was the last really good one of the Die Hard series. Everything after this was just trying to cash in on the name.
Ya, not quite up there with the first still one of the better action movies.
Of the first three this is the one I liked the least. I always attributed that to the fact that this was directed by Harlin instead of McTiernan. The highrise was better than the airport as a playground, Rickman was the much better villain. I don´t know it just wasn´t there in the second. The movie is like a copy of the original - slightly faded.
I can't resist to watch them when I find they're on TV.
Funnily enough, many de Funes movies in German contain the name "Balduin" in the movie title even if the character he plays is not named Balduin.
What could be better than Laurel and Hardy ? Laurel and Hardy times two ;-) Also, always great to see a lot off James Finlayson.
For me as a huge U2 Fan the album Rattle and Hum marked a turning point. Up to this point I generally like everything whereas I resented a lot that came after that. There are only a few songs I really love.
And so is this concert movie kind of a split. The first half is OK while in the second it really takes of with some of the best U2 had to offer. I remember watching this in cinema back in the late 80s and it was almost like being at a concert with fans singing to every song. Watched this on BluRay now and it is awesome. The picture still is a bit grainy, which I like because it helps sell the 80s timeframe, but the sound is sensational. Overall lots of great memories.
Thank you for finally giving the ones a voice in that discussion to whom it concerns the most - the players.
I am pro-fights. I don´t miss them when there wasn´t one in a game but I fear the game would be much worse if fighting is banned.
Contains major spoilers !!!!!
Huge and utterly dissapointing. After TFA I said this movie would make or break the story. For me it broke.
Where to begin? Let´s start with my biggest problem.
After that rebel cruisers bridge was hit and Leia was thrown into space we saw her drifting in the cold empty vacuum of space. This was a powerful scene and I had tears welling up in my eyes thinking that would be a great ending for the character dying how she always lived. Fighting. I did not realise, or care, that it would have been a huge coincidence had they written this scene at that point not knowing Carrie would pass away. But as I said powerful scene. And then she opens her eyes and floated back into the ship still beeing alive. At that point I was seriously considering leaving the cinema. It´s scifi but, please, without as much as a hint of an explanation that is just awful writing. It is Disney all over it. Anyway I stayed and watched the rest but in general I was done with the movie.
There are tons of other things I didn´t like.
way to much unnessesary and stupid humor. Most of the time it does not fit and just destroys scenes. Holding for General Hux - that might have been OK once but two or three times it just becomes goofy. And there is more of this througout the movie.
the writing was all over the place. So much things going on that do little to nothing for the general plot and just add playtime. Like that whole thing with the codebreaker, going to the casino. Just sugarcoating CGI.
and speaking of playtime - way too long. About five times towards the end I thought it was over. It could have ended when the reached the rebel base- no let´s add another battle. When they realised they where trapped. With Luke going out to face Kylo. At some point I would have been OK with the movie ending with the First Order defeating the rebels, everyone dying, and the franchise done with. But of course that is not happening and the movie ends.....no, just show us a kid with a broom looking at the stars and indicate he could be the hero of a future movie.
in many ways the continuation of storylines is not satisfiying. They introduce Snoke in the first movie without an explanation who he is, where he comes from and how he got there. Would have been OK, could have done later. So now he´s dead without so much as a fight and there are questions left to be answered.
what about Rey ? Are we really to believe her parents were some drunk and drifting scavengers that sold her for money like Ren said ? That would be very stupid because how in the universe could she master the Force in ways even the best Jedis or Sith couldn´t without as much as years of training. Another void in the storytelling.
too many, shall I call them, homage scenes ? A lot of times I felt I had already seen this movie. The scene in the throne room f.e. Snoke = Emperor, Rey = Luke, Ben = Vader, the destruction of the rebel fleet playing in the background and the Ben killing Snoke is like Vader killing the Emperor. I know that was said about TFA as well but I feel it´s much worse here. The Battle of Hoth reviseted would be another thing where they re-did some scenes to a T. All that was left was tow cables.
Those are just some examples of the things I disliked and maybe there could be satisfactory explanation later. There is a lot more but it would take too much time to write it down. But I doubt I will go to the cinema for the next one.
To be fair there where some positives in this movie.
I liked the scenes with Rey and Luke althought they did not really lead anywhere. But some nice insights into Lukes story after ROTJ.
The conversations between Kylo and Rey where very interesting and I thought there was really potential to steer the story to something new and exciting. Not happening.
So overall I was not satisfied. I really like TFA, it built some expectations that where all crushed with this. As far as I am concerned I am done with this new story. I am not not very eager to find out what else the canibalise and how they try to write themselves out of this. There is nothing left.
This is my view of the movie. If you liked it I´m happy for you.
May the Force be with us. Always.
This is how you do an action movie. Just the right amount of everything without being over the top. Spot on !
Reboot this as much as you want Maguire was the best Spider-Man.
This is one of those movies you need an 11th heart in the rating.
The thing I like most about Ridleys movies is the fact that he uses CGI only when absolutely necassary and does as much practical shooting as possible. And he always tells a story. Just watched the extended cut which gives it a little more depth.
I can`t remember a bad movie from him but Gladiator sure is one of Ridleys masterpieces.
Top Gun is a movie that is full of cliché with a plot that follows along the lines of a blueprint that is typical for similar movies of that time. It was a movie for the MTV generation with lots of rock music. This wasn´t about the story. Teenage boys wanted to be Maverick and the girls fancied the love story (OK, probably not all of them but a lot)
It still can be an entertaining movie today if you keep that in mind. Just tune down the cheesy stuff. Enjoy the flight scenes, the soundtrack is still great and produced a lot of classic tunes.
I have not given a movie a "10" in almost three years. This was epic and could become even more so if this gets continued.
Not quite as good as the first. Speedmans character still is the weakest one, there is no developement. But good entertainment and a complement to the whole story.
Althought now nearly 14 years old it is still a very entertaining movie. There are the usual flaws that those kind of of stories almost always have, it comes with the territory so to say. Some similarities in style with Matrix are understandable because it wasn´t that long ago and a lot of movies copied it. i think it doesn´t hurt or diminishes Underworld.
A mixture of film noir, 70s brutality, 80s cool and 90s action results in a great and very entertaining movie. Easily one of Gibson's better movies and a favorite of mine. Absolutely timeless with a great cast.
High on action but low on realism. And don't even start about logical errors, the obivous being how they reach the German boat from America faster then the Germans did from France with a head start. To be fair, the movie does not claim to be historically accurate but it was the British who captured and decoded Enigma. I don't think there even was any US involvement. The whole plot could have come straight from a 50s war movie, pure fabrication with total US heroism. Shame, because technically this is not bad at all.
After watching this back then I bought the book and became and instant Clancy fan.
Althought the movies in general can´t reach up to the books because those are too complex there are some really good ones. Red October definately belongs into that category. It´s a classic cold war thriller with lots of suspension. Highly entertaining with great actors. Joh McTiernan did a great job of mixing the elements together.
But as mentioned I recommend checking out Clancys books if you like this kind of storys. Especially the early ones of which a lot of the movies are based on are great.
The main problem with the movie is that if you´ve seen the first two you know what will happen so there isn´t much suspense. On the other hand I wouldn´t recommend watching it at first because than it takes away something from the earlier movies. In itself it is not a bad movie. So there is your dilemma.
