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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Wrathbone » Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:00 pm

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It's not terrible
Oh, it is. It’s truly terrible. Even Ivan the Terrible wasn’t quite as terrible as Resurgence. I’m not convinced there is a single redeeming feature about it.

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Post by Raid » Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:36 pm

I don't agree. It's not very interesting and I can't think of any good reason to actually watch it, but it's mostly competent.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Drarok » Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:51 pm

Wait, wasn't Brent Spiner done for in the first one?!
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And that's the story of why I'm not allowed near pregnant women for the next few weeks.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Wrathbone » Mon Apr 05, 2021 7:21 am

Nope, he was just sleepy, although honestly that’s the least of the film’s problems. I’ve purged much of it from my brain, but I do recall that an inexplicable amount of time is spent following Jeff Goldblum’s dad going round in a school bus collecting children like they’re pokemon.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Raid » Mon Apr 05, 2021 7:57 am

Yeah, the Goldblum's dad storyline is probably the most pointless part of the film. I liked the character from the first film, but they should have found a better way of integrating him into the plot of the sequel.

Spiner's character was apparently in a coma since the first attack. Y'know the bit in the first where it looks like the captured alien is manipulating his vocal cords and that Spiner's character was definitely dead? Yeah, that's now apparently not what was happening, and instead it was dictating telepathically. It's a shame because the vocal cord thing was a cool horror piece that's now ruined, but on the other hand, without Spiner in it the film would have had exactly zero interesting characters.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Animalmother » Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:22 pm

Cast Away
Never seen all of it in one go before. Pretty good if needlessly over long. The air crash and storm effects hold up surprisingly well for something made in 2000. It's very of its age and so Tom Hanksy you couldn't mistake it for any other film era. It's like if Forrest Hump got smart and stranded on a desert island.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Animalmother » Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:22 pm

Red Heat
Thinly veiled right-wing bullshit: Check
Evil foreigners: Check
Drugs are bad: Check
Excessive use of blood squibs: Check
Bad suits: Check
Wanton destruction: Check
Latent homoeroticism: Check X 10
Arnie punching a window: Check
Bursting into a hotel room where a naked lady is: Check
Police chief yelling: Check
Women in Spandex dancing: Check
Poor haircut choices: Check

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Raid » Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:27 pm

I also watched Red Heat this evening. It's really not very good. Jim Belushi isn't funny enough for it to be a good Buddy Cop movie, and Arnie just has absolutely no charisma in this. I know that's intentional, but bloody hell does it make for a surprisingly dry experience in an 80s Arnie film. Yes, all of the 80s tropes are there; sound design that makes every pistol sound like a howitzer, enough gated reverb to make Phil Collins jealous and a rise in the stock price for every stunt glass company in America.

But it's just no fun.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Animalmother » Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:14 pm

It's utter trash. Arnie looks like a clown in that ridiculous blue suit and flat top haircut. James Belushi is just a fucking asshole, actually everyone in this film is a fucking asshole. The only highlight is how insanely hot Gina Gershon is, that's pretty much it.

Raw Deal was also just added and if memory serves that's utter pish as well.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Wrathbone » Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:33 am

Raw Deal is very boring. Arnie has some weird slick hairdo and a machine gun that looks like it was borrowed from the A-Team.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Maturin » Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:49 am

Although Red Heat and Raw Deal are two of the lesser Arnie vehicles of the 80s, I still find enough in them to happily pass the time with. If they're on TV and I just fancy something to watch in the evening.

It's still Arnie blowing shit up and/or saying one-liners for the most part.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Raid » Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:54 am

I don't remember a single one-liner from Arnie in Red Heat. There were hardly any explosions either.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Maturin » Sun Apr 11, 2021 12:06 pm

And/or I said.

Okay, blowing shit up/shooting shit up. You know what I mean...

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by Raid » Sun Apr 11, 2021 12:17 pm

My point I suppose is that it's reduced to angry shouting and some pretty lifeless shooting. There's none of the usual Arnie silliness, with the possible exception of the mostly naked fistfight at the very start. No quips, no ridiculous feats of strength, no real use of Arnie's trademark accent. You could replace Schwarzenegger with any buff actor and it would be exactly the same film.

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Re: I Just Watched (Films)

Post by eny » Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:14 pm

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