well it's better than the latest attempt but that's not saying a whole lot I think Ben and Johnny are perfectly cast I didn't care so much for Sue Doctor Doom was poorly handled the movie didn't have enough action for a superhero movie in my opinion overall just not that great
4 the times the lameness.
Another typical, easy and predictable thriller. Some of the plot "twists" are seen coming a mile away even though they're pretty implausible.
play it by ear
this movie is underrated
Cured my depression for 2 hours
It didn't inspire the wanderlust that I was hoping it would, but a great story nonetheless. It was far more about the people than the journey. That's not a knock, just a slight disappointment to me personally since it was suggested to me as a backpacker's film.
It's nothing interesting or new, like all of Ashton Kutcher's movies, but it's pretty entertaining.
Very disappointed, the biggest problem is that It tries to be a lot of things and fails at most of them. If you're choosing between two movies and this is one of them, choose the other one.
I like Nicolas cage, but God this movie was painful to watch.
His acting was the worse thing I've ever seen and the lead role has just as much personality as an asthmatic oyster.
Full of cliche and bad dialogues, the one liners are what you expect cheesy as hell but nevertheless this is one entertaining 90s action movie.
mediocre movie, i was expecting to be more fun to watch for such a story
“I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car,
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick, it even makes my rhyme.
I hate the way you’re always right, I hate it when you lie,
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you’re not around and the fact that you didn’t call
but mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.“
Visual and aural experience to sit through. Performance by De Niro as Neil McCauley is something to behold. The amount of attention Michael Mann paid to details while filming this is insane. The action sequences are unrivaled, both in aural and visual sense. There's a sense of professionalism about them that you just won't get from anywhere else. It's only logical, Mann took all the actors to weapons training that lasted for 3 months. All of the scenes were trained on shooting range with built sets, using live ammunition and 3-4 people at time. The documents 'Making of', 'Return to the Scene of the Crime', and 'The Conversation' are essential and must watch after you've seen the movie. It's one of a fucking kind.
Oh please the detective Come on !
this is not reasonable at all couldn't they come up with a better ending
in the begining I was sure that I am gonna give it 10/10
but I changed my mind now
I did not really like it. Or really did not like it, haha.
After 10 minutes of watching are hearing the word fuck/ing about 50 times, I wanted to just quit watching, but I held on until the end.
Some lines were really funny though, but the movie in general.. nah, not for me.
// EDIT (four years later): Full disclosure, I only finished this because it was an assignment for my Film Studies class. So I couldn't bear to drop it. I cared for that class. I lived and breathed for that class. But well, I would've dropped if given another option.
Having heard great things and seeing the rating on here, I had high expectations. It was mediocre at best and extremely predictable.
Bradley Cooper stars as a former Air Force pilot turned contractor sent to Hawaii to assist with the launch of a private satellite. Some of the locals have concerns and there may be more to the launch than meets the eye. Also his ex-girlfriend is there and she’s got another guy now.
What a monumental turd from Cameron Crowe. Hard to believe this has come from the same person who made Almost Famous. Did he just fancy making a film whilst he was on holiday?
The script is so, so shoddy it boggles the mind. Somehow it feels like nothing is happening, but the reality is that Bradley Cooper is taking down a satellite like bloody James Bond. However that’s not the focus here because this is a romantic comedy. There’s no focus at all, in fact, no goal, no subtle or profound connection between scenes. It’s frustrating, bordering on unwatchable.
Emma Stone is her usual likeable self but somehow she is supposed to be part-Hawaiian; understandably this has caused a lot of controversy, with some people calling the film racist. They could not have picked a whiter person to play a Hawaiian lady and it’s laughable.
Another major issue with the film is that it is very shit. The direction is shit. The soundtrack is almost offensive. Even the editing is shit. There’s nothing to like. It’s a shit rom-com, it’s a really shit political thriller (yes at some point things veer into that territory for some reason) and it’s a diabolical drama.
If you like pissing away your life on pointless, bland drivel then perhaps Aloha might be of some interest to you. Otherwise this is a film to be actively avoided. If you see it in the wild, destroy it.
http://benoliver999.com/film/2015/10/16/aloha/
There's an obvious reason why non-thespian Cindy Crawford (w/ 0 Oscars, Golden Globes, or BAFTAs) doesn't star in more movies. I'm always watching this putrid excuse of a motion picture on Escape TV after midnight following series like "The FBI Files" or "American Greed."
It feels a bit like Fast Times and I didn't like that either. I was worried this movie would be bland stereotypes in boring environment and it was. Relies on the fact Stoners will watch it and rate it high because its about weed and they like weed.. duh ..... awful
The movie isn´t bad at all. DeNiro is doing a great job. It just left me a little confused about what Levinson motivation and intentions were regarding the portrayal of Madoff. The movie shows more about what Bernies actions did to his family then about his victims. Madoff is still serving his sentence and from what I´ve read he is doing well even making deals inside prison. So why put him in the focus of a movie ?
This must be one of the worst movies ever. Keanu is so unnatural and acts like a 3-class actor. Forget this movie, don't waste your time. Watching this movie to the end is a real torture.
This movie is so bad that it is hilarious! The acting, the dialog and everything is so unrealistic that I could not help but laugh. At times I was like "Why doesn't he just throw them outside his house?!" I mean, he's a strong man and they are just two skinny annoying bitches. Keanu is soooo bad that I am not sure if he acted that way on purpose or not...
And finally, I am pretty sure that if Keanu was not in that movie, nobody would have seen it.
I stayed to watch just 54 minutes - a scenario is a total disaster
Very poor over the top plot and predictable end. Avoid
Another movie about Wall Street. Good plot and good story development, lacks a bit of more concrete information but passes the clear message that in the markets the small investors always loose in troubled times. Nice to see.
Well... there's a couple of hours of my life I'll never get back.
A truly dreadful film that is lacking in every single area... Bad acting, bad writing, one dimensional characters, a terrible plot, bad lighting and cinematography... I honestly cannot think of a single thing about this movie that I liked.
Will Ferrell is a dreadful one trick pony who acts exactly the same in every single movie he has ever done... really, really badly. You can't even say he's doing it on purpose anymore as he's tried his hand at some more dramatic roles and this absurd personality is still ever present no matter what the role.
I know some people think this is supposed to be a satirical look at these types of movies... but that was only the story thrown around AFTER the movie was seen to be so poor.
There isn't a single noteworthy thing about the film at all.
1/10
Powerful movie -- I'm reluctant to even take aspirin now... ;-)
When I wrote my thoughts on Spotlight, I speculated about how knowing the end of the story going in, knowing the extent of the scandal the team in Spotlight was uncovering, may have robbed the plot of some of its punch. And yet, The Big Short is, in many ways, the perfect counter to that.
Almost everyone old enough to watch this film lived through The Great Recession. They know that the disaster all the main characters in the film are predicting comes true, in all its horrible, self-destructive glory. But rather than taking away from the film, it adds to it. There's this sense of foreboding, of doom that hangs over everything.
A film about the financial crisis, especially involving traders and analysts and people crunching numbers in a fund, could easily be too dry. And yet, the fact that the individuals the film focuses on are slowly but surely investigating an economic massacre waiting to happen, and how each step they take reveals another way that disaster might have been diverted, or people who are supposedly in the know digging the whole deeper, means that the entire film is just an exercise in creating that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. It's not a prestige picture; it's a horror film.
It's also a very weird film. It's not so bold in its presentation that it feels unprecedented, but it feels stitched together, disjointed, and unusual, but in a good way. Adam McKay, of Anchorman fame, is the right man for the job. There is a darkly funny absurdity to the topic The Big Short covers, and with his fourth-wall breaking asides, his cuts to celebrity explanations of complex financial consequences in ridiculous situations, and his jumping between various characters acting wild or nutty lends the perfect tone to the movie, one of simultaneous horror at what hell hath been wrought and unavoidable bemusement at the clowns who steered us all into this ditch.
The direction and rhythm of the film is frenetic. It's closest comparison point is Requiem For a Dream with the same frenetic hodgepodge of images and sounds, bleeding and blending into one another, disorienting the viewer and conveying the sense in which the financial world the film depicts is intoxicating, dizzying, and unsettled all at the same time.
Another aspect of the film that makes it hard to compare to other works in this space is the fact that it doesn't really have a protagonist or a plot. Sure, it has a story, and it has characters who take up the most oxygen over the course of the movie, but more than anything it feels like a documentary. It's far too stylized and irreverent to really deserve that label, but it's far more interested in trying to describe what happened, to explain just what mistakes and lies and blindspots led to the global economic crisis, than it is in rising action and resolution, or showing people growing or changing.
That's not to say there isn't an emotional element to the film. Steve Carell stands out by playing essentially a smarter, angrier Michael Scott who grabs your attention every time he's on screen. The parallels between his character's sense that a catastrophe is looming in economic terms that he could do something to prevent, and his guilt over not doing more to prevent his brother's suicide was--while perhaps a little easy--also affecting.
The rest of the cast do their jobs well, but blend together a bit because again, while they're a vital part of the film, the film isn't really about them. The characters in The Big Short are conduits to detail, in amusing and human terms, just what the hell went wrong. Christian Bale is a collection of actorly tics, but he acquits himself well enough. Ryan Gosling does his best dudebro douchebag type, and is sufficiently entertaining in that guise. And Brad Pitt seems pretty reserved, short of his moment where he chastises his young wards for being too happy about what they're making their money from.
But again, the fact that there's not really a narrative means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The film is not really a story; it's an autopsy, cutting up the corpse of our financial system and exposing the bloody innards, the rotten organs at the core that led the USA, and the world, to the dire economic state it was in by late 2008. In that sense, the film succeeds wildly, and McKay manages to tackle something of real significance without losing the absurd madcap attitude he brings to his comedic works, and somehow, doing justice to the insanity of the lead up to The Great Recession in the process. It's a hell of an achievement to make a film this funny, this disturbing, and this great.
So just watched The Edge of Seventeen and...
...blegh. This was not as "good" as I thought it was going to be. After reading all the hype from the national RT/MC reviewers (I don't know of anyone that actually saw the movie in theaters), I finally watched it yesterday/today and just thought it was mediocre overall. From all the hype, I was expecting that Hailee Steinfeld's performance was going to be some sort of "revelation" but I just ended up absolutely hating her character for a majority of the movie. She was just such a bitch throughout with her "edgey" SJW/hipster/millennial attitude. I get what the director was going for, but the character just didn't appeal to me that much.
Also, there wasn't much of a real story or any significant meat to the movie as well. It just felt like not much happened other than Nadine having her little rushed "revelation" period at the end of the movie. The performances by the actors/actresses were definitely good but there wasn't a whole lot to work with. Honestly, I think that I was just too hyped for the movie itself and it was definitely a letdown in regards to that. Don't go in with any expectations for it other than being a slightly above-average rom-com.
The guy who played Harry came across sooooo sleazy at times. He made me super uncomfortable.
In a way I feel the romantic aspect was wholly unnecesary. Reese's interactions with the other two guys felt so much more natural and heartfelt. That scene where they all went to her room to warn her about her ex was so funny and sweet!
Also, the eldest daughter continuously sounded like she was reading from a script. Which was not very good, considering the high caliber of young actors taking over in movies and TV shows nowadays.
Still, overall it was a nice, chill movie.
I have the complete opposite opinion as tj.
It was boring, slow, and the jokes weren't funny. Maybe if you were in your late teens/early twenties in the era of the film you'd be able to relate to it a bit and enjoy it. I lasted about half way through before I left the screening, along with a few other people.
I'd recommend watching the trailer. If you watch that and think "yeh, this looks really funny" then you'll probably enjoy it. If, like me, you watched it and though "Hmm, i don't understand how this is getting 9/10s everywhere", you're probably better of missing it.
