This is the film that cinema snobs will describe as a "masterpiece", a "piece of art", etc...
Truth is the cinematography is great, the acting superb but where is the f*cking story? I'm not one for a complex plot or twists but at least make the characters interesting. Even the superb acting all round didn't save this. Everything falls flat even the 'message'. "Heey it's exploring sexuality and women's independence blablabla ". I don't think people need this message in 2023.
If I would summarize this movie in one sentence it's this : Someone really had a fantasy about Emma Stone in 10+ different positions and this movie was it. The only problem is NONE of the scenes felt sexy just gross.loading replies
@anwar29 so true. the lesbian scene was probably the only sexy scene. which was also the woke message you partly refer to.
the only message you seemed to have missed was that a person can grow into a different person after a brain transplant, creating a different soul, even if it's the same looking body. So that person is entitled to rebuilding their life and start a-new.
(or something like that).
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This movie is not a sci-fi... This is a movie about drugs and addiction. The way it shows the road down is unique. Drug like diamonds, or shiny precious pills are the reality for those addicted to it. I think it is a great movie but do not sit down to watch it expecting a sci-fi or an action movie.
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@gerasandor totally agree. how this movie got the "sci-fi" label is probably by someone taking little yellow crystals themselves and thinking that the brainbox of alternate reality is real.
What a garbage movie. Files at everything.
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@nuxxi I guess you mean "fails" ? ;)
When you order Ocean's Eleven from Aliexpress...
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@maddrum your comparison is spot on. I dont agree with the 1 out of 10 though, it's enjoyable enough. But yeah, dont expect wonders. The scene with 'Violet' having been back in the hotel is too predictable and just... well... doesnt make sense. Some other scenes also just dont make sense from a story point of view. But just turn off your brain and its entertainment enough.
The action in the movie is good, special effects are well done. But. The movie is so incredibly stupid....... plot is retarded, story line is nearly not present, and supersupersuper hero Batman is of course much stronger than any other DC hero. Cyborg perhaps makes even less sense, other then being the woke addition having no other function then just that. Add to that, Ezra Miller as The Flash is perhaps even more annoying then the guy in the series...... so yeah. Great movie. Perhaps good as background noise while doing something else. I gave it 6 out of 10 for the action sequences, but the movie by itself is perhaps a 4 out of 10 max.
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After watching the ending I changed my mind. Movie is a 2 or 3 out of 10 at best. UGH. So I'll rate it 4 out of 10 max.
Review by BLAQK
VIP7After a zombie outbreak, Las Vegas is quarantined away from the rest of the world and becomes a city of the dead. Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada), the owner of a casino, has 200 million dollars locked in his vault and hires a team of mercenaries, led by Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), to retrieve it. Things become more complicated when Scott’s daughter, Kate (Ella Purnell) tags along and they discover more than just your average zombies inside the city.
What Works:
The best part of this movie is, hands-down, the gore. We get some absolutely gnarly kills of both zombies and humans alike. The best part is, a lot of them are shocking, so you don’t even see it coming until the blood seems the splatter across the screen.
Dave Bautista is solid as the main protagonists. I was expecting him to be a comedic hero, like his portrayal of Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy. That really isn’t the case. He doesn’t have many funny moments. He is the emotional core of the movie. He gets a few scenes where he gets to act in hurt and despair and he does a good job.
Matthias Schweighöfer plays the best character of the movie, Ludwig Dieter, the safecracker. Dieter is the comic relief character, and from the trailer, I was ready to bet everything that he would be extremely obnoxious. I was wrong. Schweighöfer does a great job and is both funny and charming. He was one of the only characters I was actually invested in seeing live.
Finally, I really enjoyed the unique zombies they had running around Las Vegas. I’m not used to seeing zombies on horseback or zombie-tigers. Having an actually intelligent army of the dead was something I was not expecting, but it was certainly unique and gave us a few fun moments.
What Sucks:
This movie is almost two and a half hours long and it simply doesn’t need to be. There are plenty of scenes and lines that could have been cut. This film drags at times, that’s for sure.
The biggest problem I had is the cinematography. Zack Snyder not only directed this movie, but acted as his own cinematographer. He should never do that again. He really likes to have one object or person in focus at a time and make everything else a blurry mess. It’s both distracting and ugly.
Most of the characters are really underdeveloped and not only that, they are really stupid. You can make me care about characters by making me emotionally invested in them or by making them competent. There are so many terrible decisions and most of them aren’t developed enough for me to care.
Finally, this movie has problems with its tone. I supposed I shouldn’t be that shocked when a Zack Snyder movie is dark and depressing, but this film was marketed as a fun thrill ride. It really isn’t that. Almost everyone dies and by the end of it, it all feels like a waste. Nothing much was accomplished and the character we spent a huge chunk of the movie trying to rescue dies without any acknowledgement. If Geeta (Huma Qureshi) had survived, it might have felt somewhat worth it.
Verdict:
Army of the Dead has solid performances from Dave Bautista and Matthias Schweighöfer, a very unique batch of zombies, and some amazing gore. However, the tone and cinematography are a mess, the characters are stupid and underdeveloped, and the runtime is too long. It’s a decent enough watch, but don’t spend any money on it.
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@mrblaqk 100% agreed. The movie left me sad or even depressed
Charlie's Angels (2019) is everything I expected it to be, and that’s unfortunate. I can't think of a single thing I liked about this. It felt more like 119 minutes commercial to promote the new Charlie’s Angels song by Ariana Grande. This movie is yet another victim of American “wokeness”. Hollywood thinks that filling a main cast with women, having a female director and saying "girl power" enough times is all you need to create an empowering movie. Some women might like that but I’m not one of them.
Everything about this movie was hyper-generic:
the plot / villain - the whole Calisto shenanigans is outdated and tired - oh no, a bad guy has stolen dangerous tech and is going to sell it to another bad guy;
The dialogue is dreadful. I think the screenplay was entirely constructed of viral woke tweets;
the action scenes were pretty average, copy paste from other movies. It was weird to see all these skinny women with spaghetti arms to beat all the big men.
The three leads have absolutely no chemistry or star power. The characters were not likable and lacked personality. I just didn’t see where they had enough of a developed relationship. The Angels seemed dysfunctional, like mediocre spies who had no idea what they were doing. Kristen Stewart looks so damn awkward in all movies she's in. And the comedy (if you can call it that) just fell flat.
Charlie's Angels (2019) follows the ‘focus more on the politics not the plot movie’ rule, so it has one reason to exist - to empower women. But that’s the most frustrating part - it paints gender politics so simply: women = strong, men = bad. I mean, they even had a German security guard to harass one of the main characters because she looked hot on the security camera, I’m hard pressed to believe German men act like that at work. I thought we are past having characters saying stuff like "Women can do anything" as though it's some kind of revolutionary statement. Why don't instead of writing these dumb pseudo-empowering one liners, write engaging and realistic character arcs for women? Also, I hate movies that feel like they are punching you in the face over and over to get their point across.
One more thing I extremely dislike - they visit like 15 different countries in the film. But you barely notice because everywhere people speak ... English. Yes, even German security employees communicate with each other in English. It happens a lot when Hollywood makes movies in foreign countries.
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@cutecruel dont forget the Turkish kids. They get candy because they speak English!
The real Captain Marvel. Hope the movie will be fine.
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@dollasmike the only good thing about this movie is ---Chuck--- Zachary Levi. DC movies usually aren't anywhere close to levels of humor as Marvel, character development is non-existant and over-acting is the default in any scene. This movie is about a few little boys, where a boy gets trapped in a man's body basically - I'm expecting that humor level to not exceed that level. I hope to be proven incorrect, since I loved Chuck with Zachary and Ivonne Strahovskiy
Pacific Rim: Uprising can simply be described as a disappointment. A messy script with some lacklustre character development and some poorly-executed villain twists and turns. John Boyega and Cailee Spaeny bring something new and exciting to the crashing of Kaijus whereas the ‘new recruits’ really have nothing to do (or say) creating lacklustre action scenes. Burn Gorman’s Dr Hermann Gottlieb is a highlight amongst the returning cast who really deserved more from a boring unimaginative sequel.
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@brendan_jwhite unfortunately 100% true. John Boyega is in my opinion not a very good actor, he cannot carry a big blockbuster like this one; perhaps some smaller supporting role might fit with him.
Solid sunday afternoon/evening thriller - I was interested in this movie mainly because I'm a big Hannah-fan from former tv show Dexter and Yvonne does a good job performing the role of Caroline. Also as a guy, seeing a naked Yvonne Strahovski is pretty good i'll tell you that - oh and surpsiring end/twist!
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@cocotus I 100% agree with you, though I've been a fan of her since Chuck (if you havent seen it, watch that series). :)
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Edit: guess I didn't like the which came first, the chicken or egg story.
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You obviously totally didnt get the whole point. But ok, understanding the time traveling paradox can be a bit complicated ;)
Best Snyder movie so far. Sadly it is deeply misunderstood. Movie is way more deeper and complex than it looks like on first glance.
People don't realize Sweet Pea is the protagonist, Babydoll is a figment of Sweet Pea’s imagination. Babydoll does not exist. Babydoll's story is Sweet Pea’s story. Sweet Pea was sexually abused, killed her sister and is in psychiatric hospital in therapy. Babydoll is Sweet Pea's avatar. Way of dealing with grief, with guilt, and way to manage her current situation and overcome it. Babydoll is also Sweet Pea's guardian angel.
Sweet Pea is the only fully rounded character, other girls represent aspects of her psyche. Babydoll represents strength and courage, Amber loyalty, Blondie fear, and Rocket represents guilt. In the third level reality her psyche fights for the things to get her free from her current state. Second guardian angel (the Wise Man) guides her through. To fully recover she needs to get over her guilt (Rocket dies as a symbol), also other girls represent things which she needs to leave behind to fully recover .
Babydoll is one of those things. She is the fifth thing (“The fifth is a mystery. It is the reason. It is the goal. It will be a deep sacrifice and a perfect victory.”). Lobotomy of Babydoll represents Sweet Pea’s mind of taking control. Sweet Pea needs to sacrifice Babydoll to be “cured”. Escape at the end is a symbol of that process of being cured. That’s why the driver is the Wise Man, he guides her further.
Sucker Punch is Sweet Pea’s journey from “madness” to “sanity”. Movie is philosophical / psychological investigation wrapped in a special effects action-fantasy. As the movie changes realities (mostly in the third reality), Snyder uses more fetishized image of the girls. He uses clichés and cluttered iconography (nazi zombies, sexy schoolgirls). It is a way to detached and disconnected characters from second reality. Second reality, the brothel, is the “main” reality. In which everything happens.
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great analysis by ikendel.
unfortunately the movie is pushed/marketed as a "simple" action movie.
and as such it is too complex for most people to understand.
I also did not get all of what you described from the movie, but more things fall into place after reading this.
it's not a bad movie, but its a bit freaky - not strange for a movie about "crazy" persons, but it will probably mean a lot of people are lost somewhere in the first 10-15 minutes of the movie.
great music in this movie, by the way, very well chosen and enjoyable
(Bjork - Army of me, for example)
not too bad. That guy was pretty funny how he acted. just expect a B movie ;)
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why do you vote 1 if you say "not too bad" @kixtart
I thought it was quite entertaining. just dont expect an Oscar movie :)
