Oh, to watch the love of your life walk towards you across a field of grass, while the sun is rising and the birds are singing. Knowing how much they love you, and finally being able to tell them that you love them too.
Perfect example why you should never watch movie trailers. Going in blind makes the movie
IMO the best combination of action & humor ever made!
The U.K is steadily moving backwards. We are now living it what seems like Victorian times. The rich get richer and well you know the rest.
This is a 2 hour VFX sizzle reel. It is not thrilling. It is not exciting. Snooze fest in Green screen land.
When did you last go to a movie in which the audience applauded as the credits rolled? (It is not a typical Canadian response.) Behind me, a young female law student was weeping. As I sat there, I was deeply and intellectually moved by the power of this woman's life and the subsequent effect she has had on our lives, on my life, and I had been totally unaware of her. Let me put that in context. Although I am 20 years younger than RBG, her litigational years were my culturally maturing years (college, university and entering the work force). That was the culture of my years, her years, and I thought I knew the seminole personalities of my time but I had never heard of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Indeed, until these past two years (in which she has gained a rock-star like celebrity) I had no idea of her influence on my life. This movie (and the excellent documentary, RBG, which, on the recommendation of other movie goers last night, I watched as background for this review) have now convinced me that I would not have been allowed to be the person I have become had she not addressed the legal restrictions of gender in the law of the United States that undermined a global sense of personhood. I am Canadian, so these were not my laws she changed, but the culture of the civil rights struggle in America was not lost on us. My maturing personal ethic of the time, cradled by my faith in a just God and a loving, growing relationship with Jesus, was not of feminism but of the rights of every person to live under a judicially just system and in a compassionate and culturally rich society. I appreciate now that this was the justice for which RBG challenged her legal system. Thank you, Mimi Leader and Daniel Stiepleman for telling her story. Now, concerning the merits of the movie, itself: The cast is superb and the performances of Felicia Jones and Armie Hammer were deep and warm. I was also impressed by how the role of young Jane Ginsburg, adeptly performed by Cailee Spaeny, gathered in the emotional climate of the time. Wonderfull cameo performances. The cinematography and soundtrack brought a sense of grandeur and the costumes a sense of style and subtle class. I give this movie a 10 (important) out of 10. [BioPic]
6 + 1 for "What colour is Michael Jackson?"
Maybe rather than 15 minutes of credits, they could have better spent the time on a decent final act.
I can't believe most comments are people whining, ... Who cares, It was a Sci-Fi Movie people, get a grip.
If you don't like that particular type of Genre, Then why have you bothered watching it for ?.
(I guess Curiosity isn't your strong point)
Personally, I'm most certainly a Space Cadet, I live for the Stars and what's out there!... I Thought this Film was a Great piece, It's best Watched it with an Ambient lighting and 3D.
As long as I'm still alive by the first Manned Mars Landing, I'll be happy to leave this Earth, Though It's not always the same sharing moments when single.
I guess I've got my work cut out for me!
The biggest robbery here is that they got Jake to star in this crap
I was hoping for more. This was predictable. The ending especially. I liked the atmosphere of it all but that was about it.
Some logical problems, and the director was incompetent when directing the extras, but I still loved it.
please just watch the original, it looks so much better and doesn't have the crappy CG (just the good looking CG)
Stunning! Honest, simple, poignant. And Owen Wilson! Very valuable, but without pushing applications to the throat. Wonderfully subtle.
It is impossible to capture the essence of infinite love, sublime mercy or unrelenting grace. When faced with even the shadow of these things, we walk away with more questions than answers. This film can't do it. The book tried it's best. We only truly see it in Jesus. But, eventually you have to find these answers in the submission of trust. We need to learn to trust God. That being said, I'm glad for films and books that point us in the right direction. Let's keep trying to reflect these big truths. I give this movie a 7 (good) out of 10, for a decent adaptation and some fine performances, especially Octavia Spencer and Alice Braga. I give the book a 9 (superb) out of 10.
I was hoping for something warm, but now I'm even more depressed. Gosh it's "UP" all over again. :sob:
It's a very fun movie. People take this shit too seriously. "Baby shower" was wild. You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts!
Pointless plot with a stupid setting that makes no sense.
No characters you could care about.
Dialogues that only manage to annoy.
Action scenes as boring fillers, providing zero entertainment. Even that one unique idea was barely noteworthy.
That's subpar even by Michael Bay's standards.
As the many professional reviews I read afterwards suggest, Fatman is a movie that doesn't live up to it's promise.
Fatman has a great premise about a gruffy slightly gritty Santa, a boy-child that feels wronged with his lump of coal and a Santa-obsessed hitman hired to kill him. I even think for the most part that tonally it mostly works. It's not overly gritty and it's not overly serious for most of it's runtime. It strikes that nice balance of casual surrealism.
The problem is that the movie knows what it wants to tell you and doesn't have any patience or subtlety in getting there. All the dramatic tension you expected from the trailer when you hear Mel Gibson's Santa yelling to the hitman about "You think you were the first to come for the Fatman?" the movie doesn't actually have much Fatman hunting. There's no series of hide and seek where we see that Santa is capable of defending himself. Even the tension the movie decides to try to generate of the Hitman even trying to FIND Santa in the first place isn't really tension. It's just a road trip without all the fun aspects of a road-trip movie. No interesting stops, No interesting road people. The movie just walks a straight lines from Point A to Point B. Nothing you see even really matters. Santa goes by Chris in this movie. In this small down he knows everybody and everybody knows him. There is however no payoff for this. He saves a woman from going home with a married man by casually reminding him of his wife and kids but while we see her again and she's clearly a friend there's no payoff. It's like a failure of the Chekhov's Gun trope.
There's a semi interesting plot line about Santa being underfunded and having to take a military contract to be able to pay his workers. In retrospect this entire plot line fails to have any narrative purpose other than world building Santa as a factory owner. In spite of their presence all over the final fight scenes these military security personnel plan next to no role in the violence. There's an even smaller plot line about Chris/Santa being grumpy because of his commercialized depictions compared to this underpaid status and while I like the characterization there it serves so little point to the plot that it feels kinda wasted.
Wasted is unfortunately the only way to describe this whole movie. I went into this hoping for a darkly humorous film with a bit of violence and while a lot of the scenes sans context imply that, this is no Ladykillers (either one).
The greater plot lacks complexity and any form of exciting details.
So they used incredibly much screen time for pointless fillers, most them desperately trying to enrich the movie with emotions by action scenes. And every single one of them is a subpar snorefest.
The movie has some emotional moments and good chemistry between some actors.
But these few moments aren't enough to safe this trainwreck. This movie could have been cut down to 5 or 6 minutes and it would probably provide better entertainment.
Two strangers, on the streets of New York, one night, trying to decide how to face what just might be the biggest decisions of their lives. Great performance by the two leads, believable tension, choices worth thinking about, no easy answers. I gave this an 8 (great) out of 10.
I could've written a funnier movie, and I am not a funny guy.
Visuals: 10/10
Story: 8/10
Soundtrack: 8/10
Overall: 8/10
What an unusual movie. The pacing was erratic and the arc was fractured but the one thing that could hold this film together was going to be the casting of the two lead characters and they nailed it. Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba were the glue for this far sweeping fantasy. It wasn’t until the credits rolled that I realized we had been serenaded by a beautiful score from the very beginning. This will not be a film for everyone but in it’s genre it is fresh and transcendent. I give this film an 8 (an homage to the power of stories) out of 10. [Drama Romance]
This is just stupid. The only thing I found amazing about the whole thing was that I watched it all! I kept waiting for something intriguing to happen... and it just ended.
I typically like mindless teen comedies, but this one's so very bad. I wanted all the characters to burn.
This film is like toilet training a toddler: you just sit there and wait for the stinker to be over and done.
One thing I can say about this is that it had a lot of gags. Oh, wait, no, it made me gag. That's what I meant to say. It made me gag a lot.
Seriously, this is the knock off local Disneyland you take your kids to when you don't have the time or the money for the real thing. If you love your kids and respect yourself, take them to something they'll appreciate instead.
(So why not a 0 ranking? I'll give it credit for the animation and voice acting, neither of which was as bad as the rest of the film.)
I love Rebecca Hall to bits and indeed this movie doesn't fly without her.
It's just lazy writing, and an incredibly litteral, in-your-face interpretation than should have been taken much further. Or maybe I missed it. But depression deserves a much better treatment
I saw another comment about House of Leaves. Just because there's a house (and blueprints which by the way are totally mentioned then forgotten) doesn't mean there's a chance that the everest of semiotics will be made into a movie. I for one hope not.
So yeah, hooray for Rebecca, and I'm glad she still works in that mystery/horror vein, but I hope she chooses more interesting projects moving forward.
Fun comedy, both cynical and sentimental in the appropriate doses, just like a real wedding.
it was not what i expected but i liked it hh. really fun movie and you don't get the story at first but then u get really hooked on with the characters and their struggles and how they help each other throughout the movie. really fun,enjoyable movie.
