UPDATE: I saw a movie so beautiful I started crying™
Stop rating movies before you even know they are in production!!!
The most mainstream film Gilliam has probably made, but also one of his best. Whilst the central mystery of how a deadly virus is unleashed on the world is compelling, it's Bruce Willis that holds the most attention, and whilst the ending is telegraphed well before, it's the journey to that end that becomes the most important part of the film and Willis makes the audience care about his character's fate. One of the best time travel stories ever made!
Loved this film, so many great performances. Brad Davis is superb as is the late JøhN Hurt. Randy Quaid plays a great supporting role.
Movie is truly harrowing ,and has hardly aged since I watched when released and revisited recently.
DID TO TURKISH TOURISM, WHAT ‘JAWS’ DID TO SWIMMING IN THE SEA!
Whew. Finally watched this after having it in the queue for awhile. It's a classic and I only know it from the Cable Guy joke. I did not expect it to be as shocking as it was. I figured it was shocking for its day but there is some shit in this movie that I did not see coming. So shocking I was saying "what, what, whattttt" out loud to myself alone. And that Cable Guy scene? Spot on. This movie was definitely not fair to the Turks, I will say that. I mean the whole movie is rough but specifically the trial scene where he calls them all pigs, etc. Not cool. But Oliver Stone and the makers have since apologized more than once and done talks on it so I think it's okay to enjoy the movie otherwise. Yeh?
A great movie. I've cried so much throughout the movie. If you don't find it touching then I am sorry, you don't have a heart. I recommend watching it, but prepare your tissues.
Exceptionally dark and sad movie. The two boys in this movie are very impressive actors and break your heart by the end of it.
I didn't cry at all during most part of the movie, just the last 10-15 minutes are... ;_; most tearjerking.
Going into this movie, I had a faint idea as to what it would be like. I was so wrong. After watching the trailer and reading the synopsis I personally thought of it as a revamped 'The Day After Tomorrow'. If you don't know what that movie is about, it is basically about a father who's trying to get to his son who's stuck in another city while a natural disaster hits. It is still one of my favorites. After watching 'How It Ends' though, I can say that it is firstly nothing like it and secondly far from being as good as I initially thought it would be.
The first few minutes were quite impressive. It had a good setup — not too slow and not too rushed — and what a good movie needs: likeable characters. Personally, I liked the cast a lot, but thought that their performance was only average. It was hard for me to feel the character's chemistry throughout.
After that 'promising' beginning, I wanted answers more than anything. Instead, I got a long, long, long journey through the U.S. with some minor obstacles and a lot of side-stories of characters I barely even knew. Those stories were touched but never really told and after a few minutes the main plot scared them away, never to be seen or heard from again. That resulted in characters appearing and vanishing in an instant without a huge impact on the main story.
So, the whole mid-section felt like a filler. A large portion of the movie was a filler. I wasn't bored, but also far from being satisfied. The few effects and action sequences that the movie had were fine but nothing special. Dialogues felt weak but not unnecessary or forced which is a good thing.
About 85 minutes into it, I was still waiting for something big to happen. I thought the movie (with the way it presented things, creating mystery as to what's going on and such) would soon hit its high with a big finale and a mind-blowing conclusion. But guess what ... that's when it ended. That's when I knew I wasted almost two hours of my time. The movie is titled 'How It Ends' and yet it doesn't even have a real ending. Why? How? What? No answers, no nothing. The whole time you're wondering what's going on, but you'll never get the answer. You'll never get a real conclusion to what's really going on. I'm disappointed and so will many others.
Score: 46 / 100
Written and directed by Zak Hilditch. From an atmosphere charged with tragedy and pain, 1922 is a typical nightmare draw from the mind of Stephen king. Highly recommend.
Since the plot is remarkably the same, I’m just going to copy-paste my original plot analysis from the original film:
“Halloween is about Michael Myers, a man that many years ago, murdered his own sister as a child. Locked away for years, he finally escapes and wreaks havoc on a random set of teenage friends, but not before stalking them first.” – Review of Halloween (1978)
Oh sorry, that’s not exactly accurate – this time, his victims aren’t as random as the original movie. This time, you more or less discover as the film moves along what you discover in the 1981 sequel – that (spoiler alert), Laurie is Michael’s younger sister. So his murderous rage is all about killing his family – that much you know about in the original series, but it’s more than that now, because you now understand on a deeper level how truly horrible his childhood was before he became the monster. In the original film, Loomis briefly explains how he intimately knows the extent of Michael’s evil ways – in this film, we see it. We see his abusive and repulsive family, his budding interest in death beginning with animals, his fascination with masks and self-loathing, and his untamable hatred towards the mental hospital but surprising respect towards Dr. Loomis. We see all of this because it takes its sweet time introducing us to his history that we needed the first time around!
More than that, it introduces us to more than just an idea that this man is evil, but also a physical representation of one heck of an intimidating beast of a man. Seriously, this guy is huge. He’s a hulk. The original film had a typical guy in a mask. Why was he wearing a mask? Because it’s Halloween, I guess…this movie explains everything. It took away all of my complaints about the first movie and then some. The best way I could describe this film is as if they took the script for the original movie, got a better director, got a better writer to rewrite certain scenes and introduce integral elements, got better actors, invested in better equipment and technology, and hired a different director of photography – because it actually shows us what we needed to see that the first film left out. In my honest opinion, this movie improved on just about every level.
However, where it didn’t improve – was partially in casting. I do believe this is the best guy to ever play Michael. It made the most sense, but the rest of the cast was either just fine, or a bad choice. Now, I like Malcom McDowell as much as the next guy, I think he’s a wonderful actor, but Dr. Loomis wasn’t the right choice for him. Loomis needs to be Michael’s opposite, someone caring and understanding but ultimately hurt when he can’t get through to Michael’s inner child. Donald Pleasence did a pretty good job in the first film, but McDowell looks and sounds too evil to play this type of role. It almost went to John Hurt, which would have been perfectly fine. I would have also accepted someone like Liam Neeson in that type of role. Not McDowell. The rest of the cast did a fine job at acting, but not so much at creating something memorable…and the original did when it came to Jamie Lee Curtis.
In my honest opinion Halloween was better than the original – but only on a technical level. It didn’t change anything about the series that was already good to begin with. It just improved on the parts that the original lacked. If you watched the rest of the classic series, you’ll notice that they’re always struggling to explain plot holes in order to make another movie – this movie mostly got that out of the way from the beginning as to not run around aimlessly trying to find direction. As far as horror goes, it’s a solid slasher film. The series has never really been a favorite of mine, but I definitely respect the film went with this remake. Check it out!
Seriously, are people watching a completely different movie than I am or is there something else to this movie that I am missing? It's not scary at all, it throws every (horror)movie cliche there is at the viewer making it extremely predictable and the story is just ridiculous as it stumbles towards a climax which simply isn't there. Just say the demon's name and that's it, it's gone. And the way they 'solve' the case is just too stupid. Put 2 tape recordings together and you get a coherent sentence... So let's just put 2 random sentences together and the case is solved!
How people can seriously give this movie a good rating and comment on how scary it was is beyond me.
Holds up pretty good for a twenty year old sci-fi.
By Paul WS Anderson's standards it's a masterpiece.
But the music is just awful, it's like the Starwars score made by a tone-deaf person.
Predictable story but nice enough entertainment for a rainy day.
Oddly enough this supposedly takes place in the same universe as Blade Runner but don't get your hopes up, apart from the odd reference and place names there are absolutely no similarities.
Good action flick..
Kurt Rusell probably in the best shape of his life!
Story has some predictability, if you can look passed that...great entertainment.
The whole cast was really well chosen, but Malek...Oh, Malek did just a phenomenal job here! He really shows his caliber as an actor, absolutely worth seeing!
Absolutely perfect! Exactly what I hoped it would be: An affectionate, but objective biopic about Queen and their music. I'd heard about it being an emotional rollercoaster, and I must admit, one or two tears did roll down my cheeks. But I was quite relieved that it didn't dwell on the aids too much, as that's not what Freddie would have wanted. He kept on "fighting 'til the end", and the main focus of the film was their music.
Outstanding performances by all members of the cast, and whoever did the casting, make-up and costumes deserves an award. You really believed Gwilym Lee was Brian May, Ben Hardy was Roger Taylor and Joseph Mazello was John Deacon. They all looked spot on. Needless to say Rami Malek was just phenomenal as Freddie. Nobody could have played the part better.
The amount of work that has gone into the making of this film is absolutely mind-blowing. They have set the standard high for all future biopics to compete. I've never known anything like this film.
all of the cast were brilliant, especially rami in the lead as freddie!! very captivating, funny, and moving
Rami Maleks acting is perfect, mimics, moves... you can see that he was into Mercury element! But also L. Bonyton played great as Mary, G. Lee as Brian and B. Hardy as Roger. So for acting cast has 10 from me! However since this is biopic there were slight changes in timeline (when Mercury found he has AIDS). Also if you ask me since we saw a lots of movies whit duration of 3 hours, since Bohemian Rhapsody song was 6 minutes long and since they skiped a lot of interesting points as during their tour in USA Brian collapsed as he was diagnosed with hepatitis (in movie other members are presented as polite guys and only Mercury was freak - but hepatitis did not came by itself), or their famous free concert in Hyde park London where 150.000 people listen them, or album Jazz and Don't stop me now song from that album that showed great vocal posibillities of all band members, or Game tour in Argentina where they had audience of 300.000 fans or Live in Rio, and what about collaborations... 1st time with Bowie in Under Pressure or Caballe in Barcelona... and what about the end and The show must go on...
So 45 minutes are missing... I do not care about Mercury's sex life as critics would like to see. If you ask me I enjoyed go to movie with my kids and show them what kind of music their parents were listening... as there is no band as Queen and probably will not be for a long time in future! For missing some important scenes from Queens great life I give 8. So all toghether it is great movie that I enjoyed watching and afer I came home ofcourse I tourned youtube and watched once again Queen at Wembley at Live Aid!
Rami Malek just won himself an Oscar. Don’t stop him now!
I can't remember the last time I cried while watching a movie. and I'm not an emotional person, but the ending scene was trully exceptional i just couldn't stop myself. the casting was amazing, Malek's performance was perfect as well 10/10
Historically not accurate, but I don’t care. The movie got me. Great actors. Great music. A great Band.
I just came back from watching this and OMG it was so AMAZING! I truly had my doubts about Rami Malek playing Freddie but he really outdid himself. He should be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor and the movie should be nominated for Best Movie, or Documentary. It is really a great movie that will take you through the best part of Freddie and Queen's life. I am a bit sad that they didn't show the last years of his life, but otherwise it might take longer. (Which wouldn't be a bad thing in my opinion XD). The other actors really portrayed the band very well. It never felt like a true movie and the final 20 minutes are EPIC!!!
But I might be biased I grew up as a Queen fan...
I enjoyed this movie. Amazing film.
An amazing film about an amazingly talented man (and of course the rest of the band Queen who are equally as amazing!) Really interesting to learn the backstories!
I was glued to the screen. Brilliant.
I love Queen and their music and yet there is a lot of drama in their personal lives so I was worried about whether this would be all drama or all music, but they found a pretty good balancebetween the two. Yes, there was a lot of drama, especially revolving around Freddie, but it didn't totally drown out the music or the story of the band itself. The casting and acting was great and overall it was much better than I was originally expecting.
Excellent movie, a great celebration of Freddy Mercury's life. I went into the cinema being a casual fan of Queen and I literally haven't listened to any other band since. I do wish they would have gone more into detail but then again it's already 2 hours long. Rami Malek did a fantastic job,and so did the rest of the cast. Also I cried. A lot.
It's brilliant movie they said. You'll be crying they said.
Yes, it is and yes I did. Maybe Rami's face is not exactly like Freddie's but his performance.. it was something amazing and I'm totally in love with this movie. I have Queen fever after this movie.
Its a great film!
Its a great film!
Its a great film!
Its a great film!
