Review by Jordy
VIP8Another Bond pastiche from Matthew Vaughn, and once again it’s worse than the last one. Here we have what is basically another Kingsman film, but this time it’s made for the wine moms who had found their new favorite film with The Lost City. The plot is quite bonkers, it's so dense and the amount of schlocky plot twists indicate that Vaughn’s at least somewhat aware of how tasteless it all is. Sometimes you can still find traces of the cleverness you’d expect from him, but generally it favours being loud and cringe. I understand that he’s targeting a different demographic here than with Kingsman, but the end result is so tame and commercial that it feels more like typical streaming filler (Red Notice, Ghosted). Some of the acting is atrocious. Obviously Rockwell puts in the best work, but it doesn’t make up for the stiff performances by Cavill, Howard and Lipa (though she gets a pass for being Dua Lipa). The directing is also noticeably a step down compared to Vaughn’s previous stuff. It doesn’t feel like he put much heart and soul in this, because besides some good stuntwork it looks like shit. There’s just so much plastic sheen (artificial bright lighting, tacky CGI, unnatural compositions and camera movement) that it becomes incredibly ugly to look at. You could pass that off as ‘well it’s meant to be cartoonish’, but I’m not going to make that leap when there’s this little artistry to it. Vaughn needs to stop making these, the whole thing feels predictable and played out.
2.5/10
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@jordyep If you don't like Matthew Vaughn, then don't watch his movies! This flick was definately watchable, and not the worst i've seen, it has it's faults, but you seem to not like any of the cast, so i'd say you have a jaundiced opinion!
5.5/10
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VIP8The Meg.
Alternative title: Everything wrong with contemporary Hollywood in 2 hours.
Alternative title II: This one’s for you, China.
Just shut up, Meg.2/10
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Why are you denying people the right to watch a movie and turn their brain off. These are action movies where people don’t want to think, they want to sit down on their couch and watch Jason Statham or the Rock or whoever else beat the shit out of a monster or whatever and just have a good time. It doesn’t have to be intelligent and it doesn’t try to be, and no one actually is asking it to be. Asking people to stop turning their brains off completely invalidates whole genres of cinema like horror, straight up action, and monster beatdowns like Godzilla. People want to be able to just see cool stuff happen and it doesn’t have to completely make sense.
Regarding the visuals, well that’s your own opinion, I don’t have anything against it.
Personally I love the movie, it’s a great popcorn movie, and I don’t want it to be anything more; but please stop asking people to do what they enjoy.
Are we supposed to ignore the fact that Indiana Jones was 25/26 when he had an affair with Marion when she was 15/16? And she had a falling out with her dad afterwards?
She even says that in movie during her introduction scene in Nepal "I was a child, I was in love. It was wrong and you knew it"
And Jones doesn't even admit that he was WRONG for doing that. "I never meant to hurt you" and "YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WERE DOING" SERIOUSLY?! (After a little research, I actually found out there was a transcript between Lucas and Spielberg where they wanted her to be 12 and Jones 25. They changed her age to 15 later. Wow, so this was VERY intentional.)Indiana Jones is a creep, nothing more than that. I don't care if this movie is the best adventure, treasure hunter movie or whatever. He is a pedo and nothing is gonna fix that.
You don't believe me? I recommend reading this:
https://www.polygon.com/2015/8/3/9089181/indiana-jones-abusive-creeploading replies
By today’s standards sure, but if you’re gonna call every man a pedo who had relations with a 15-16 yo before the year 1930, I’m sure a couple of your great great grandparents would’ve been some.
Calling George Lucas a pedo pervert for making the character that old, sure especially if the 11 yo bit is true.
Why has this film been given a rating already? As I type this comment, this film hasn't been released yet. I'll admit it does look like it could be good going by the trailer but c'mon to whoever has scored it already... at least wait til you've seen the film!
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I'm not sure what your running, but there are different ways to get movies earlier.
Do some homework, look at IPTV, but don't jump the gun, make sure you understand it first.
it won't take long if you do it right.
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DO NOT WATCH!!
This is simply said - just an absolutely horrible piece of crap!!
First, it's trying to be a political and social satire - but it fails. But it somehow also tries to be a disaster movie - and again it fails.
It's like watching a couple of level-headed people dealing with an entire world of Trump clones.
This is nothing more than garbage.
DO NOT WATCH!!How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!loading replies
@schmoogie You were so close to getting the point of the movie but it flew right by you. If you can't see the parallels between this and real life then you might just be part of the Don't Look Up movement.
