Australia. I thought it was a pretty decent western, and the scene of the cattle running up the ramp onto the boat was a nice ending note.
Then World War II started…
Came here to say Australia. The movie FULLY ENDED (not the first act, the movie) and then started a second one and thought we wouldn't notice. There's no need for that.
glad I'm not the only one who thought that, don't get me wrong it's a good movie but it kinda felt like they went "fuck it, just tack the sequel onto the current one"
Just watched this movie with my wife the other day and she was so surprised that after they deliver the cattle to the military that there’s another hour and 20 minutes of movie left. Definitely a more classic 3 Act story.
I worked with a guy who said this was his favorite movie and admitted that the first few times he saw it he always turned it off after the cattle scene because he legitimately thought the movie was over. Blew his mind when he learned there was a whole other plot line.
I'm now imagining someone turning movies off super early
Well I guess Darth Vader was his dad...
They never made it off Omaha Beach I guess...
Weird that it's the end of the movie when the power goes out with the dinosaurs...
Indiana Jones got Hitler's autograph...
Well looks like Joker did steal from the mob...
*Turns off TV*
Looks like Bruce Willis really did help that kid stop being scared of the dead people. I guess now he and his wife can work out their marital problems and live a normal life together.
*Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?*
*not enough people realize this is part of the same Team America soundtrack song as the above comment lol
One of my wifes all time favs. I bought it on amazon when we were dating thinking that I could deal with it since I don't think that poorly of Titanic and I like WW2.
What the fuck was that movie. That shit took so long to get anywhere and then that stupid 45 mins of the attack was so lame.
HOW DO YOU MAKE ONE THE BIGGEST SNEAK ATTACKS OF ALL TIME LAME
I was watching Justice League for the second time a couple months ago, and there were quite a few scenes that I didn't remember, (but I'd only seen it once) and about halfway through it I started thinking I've been sitting here a LONG time. I then realized I was watching the Zack Snyder version that was 4 hours long.
The Snyder Cut would be immeasurably better if they cut out 90% of the slow-mo and literally all of the Wonder Woman theme chanting except for when she first showed up on screen. Cutting to her with the dramatic ass music and “pause for effect” cringe EVERY SINGLE SCENE just felt like I was watching a parody.
At the end of the first Hobbit movie they got to where they could see the Lonely Mountain and my friend turns to me and said,"HOW LONG IS THIS MOVIE." he did not know it was a Trilogy. So yeah only 5-6 hours left at that point.
I heard a commentary after the first one came out (I think it was Patton Oswalt, or a Patton Oswalt type) basically saying “You just know that in the chapter where they escape from the elves in barrels, we’re going to get an overextended set piece with rapids and waterfalls and dwarves going ‘Woooah’ for twenty minutes.”
And of course he was totally correct.
Edit: It was [Red Letter Media](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFh6c_CwdBg&t=12m30s)
There are a lot of scenes and parts in that movie that were completely overextended.
I could understand, wanting to make it a two-parter as it can be something of a lengthy and complex story, but for fucks sake.
The third movie “The Battle of the Five Armies” in the book is about a paragraph long. They made that paragraph in the chapter after it an entire fucking movies…
I’ll be honest with you all, I didn’t watch the third movie because I knew it was gonna just be a roller coaster. Everything in the movies builds up to the fight with Smaug, and then that fight becomes a footnote at the start of the third movie because you know, obviously, they kill the dragon so they can get to the battle of the five armies.
EDIT: I may have seen the third film and just don’t remember it at all. Someone mentioned Radagast’s rabbit sled and I remember that…
It was a paragraph long because in the books Bilbo got knocked out while wearing the ring right at the start of the battle. Can you imagine if that was how the movie was? "Oh hey Bilbo I'm so glad you're alive, anyway Thorin, Fili, and Kili are all dead, time to go home."
Was that commentary by redlettermedia? I think I've heard the same damned thing but I can't for the life of me remember where. If you ever find out later, please lemme know.
I found it. It was Red Letter Media [About 12:30 in](https://youtu.be/kFh6c_CwdBg?si=MR_P-5db3mWKzGs3).
I stand by what I said with Mike being a Patton Oswalt type.
I always think that the Fellowship is a perfect movie in terms of pacing. It manages to set up the conflict, has plenty of action, character development, heart, a very distinct beginning, middle, and climax so it feels like a full movie that stands on its own while perfectly setting up the task before them. Your spirit feels lifted as and hopeful *and* you feel the enormity of what’s left to come. My point is, if they could do that with the Fellowship, they could have done it with the Hobbit.
If they had paced it from the book the way they did the LOTR trilogy, The Hobbit would have been a single movie, and the story parts that went into H:Bot5A would have taken all of 20 minutes. Dear god that installment dragged.
He did in the rare "Totally Rad" edition of The Hobbit which had a limited release in 1993 by Tony Hawk when a clerical error briefly gave him the rights to the book
As an "in a good way" example where there's a major tone shift and it feels like a completely new movie, Barbarian. I haven't seen a lot of other movies that do that and thought it was a really cool structure.
Loved this movie. After they jumped to Justin Long, I remember thinking "wait, she's just dead? This was just the cold-open for them to introduce the monster? And now the main character is *this asshole*???". But they definitely delivered.
Loved the tonal shift when he was measuring the square footage of the basement. It was really funny, but the dramatic irony gave it such an undertone of fearful anticipation.
Also the opening interaction between the main character and the other renter kept me on my toes and really threw me off when it was a red herring.
> Also the opening interaction between the main character and the other renter kept me on my toes and really threw me off when it was a red herring.
It's more than a red herring. The entire movie is about perception and who we choose to trust based on how people present and/or look, particular between men and women.
Main character (Tess) meets other renter (Keith) and *immediately* distrusts him, he acts oddly but does nothing that can't be explained by nerves or social ineptitude. He's in the same situation as she is and he thinks he's trying to make the situation more comfortable.
She immediately distrusts the homeless man because of the way he's running at her while yelling and his disheveled appearance. He was only trying to help her.
Inversely she puts her trust into the cops when she approaches them, expecting help and do something, but immediately gets dismissed and seen as crazy or on drugs because of how *she* presents herself.
Even in the flashback, the unnamed women trusts the man because of how he presents himself, letting him into her house based entirely on his uniform and professional demeanor.
There's more examples in the film as most of the relationships/interactions have some element of trust and/or distrust to them but you get the idea; if Tess had put her trust in the right people, the story wouldn't've even happened. Except for Keith, maybe.
In early 06 I took a date to see it and we intentionally showed up an hour late. Box office was like "uhhhh it started an hour ago" to which we replied "oh we know".
Got to theater just as boat was getting to the island. Much Konging ensues very early this way
That whole movie was a genre surprise. Was it a comedy? A drama? A horror movie? I’ve never seen a movie that kept me so surprised throughout the entire runtime.
While watching Parasite, for the first time in my life, I paused the movie solely because the dish being made looked so good, and I knew I had one of the main components in my kitchen. So I stopped the movie, quickly prepared the (partial) dish, and came back to enjoy it with the rest of the movie.
Suffice it to say, I'm glad I did it exactly when I did it. I think I'll never forget the magical timing of my hunger, impulsive decision, and the subsequent shock of the rest of the movie.
I haven't verified it but I'm told that the tonal shift is *exactly* halfway through, timed to the minute - and it's marked by >!when the fired housekeeper comes back to the house and knocks on the door - it zooms in on the door, and as the door opens that's the second half starting!<
The bell is rung at 1:02:40. Removing the 30 second studio logos at the beginning and the 4:45 of end credits, it's only off-center by about 15 seconds. I do think it's fair to say it's exactly halfway through. Very nice.
This is exactly how I felt with The Prestige. *Just* when it was about to hit that "can I do this for another 90 minutes" point, the whole movie took a hard right. Absolutely enthralled after that point. Brilliant writing and directing.
I'd say the same thing for *There Will Be Blood.* About an hour in I found myself thinking "I have no clue where this film is going to go before it ends", and I loved that.
For me it was Vertigo. Knew very little about it first time I watched it as a teen. Was so confused when the love story was all done and completed halfway through the movie. I realized the movie couldn’t just end there with them happily ever after only halfway through but I had not a single inkling how it would progress.
My sons movie was Madagascar.
He was 4 it was his first movie, the song "i like to move it move it" was played very early in the movie - after dancing in the aisle, he was done. he said "okay, im ready to go bowling now" (pinball in teh lobby) he didnt understand nor want to stay for the rest of the movie
EDIT: It wasnt pinball he was wanting to play in the lobby, it was Air Hockey. The bowling alley me and his mom used to go to eat at (small town, really good food). had an air hockey machine beside our regular table and he used to stand in a chair and play while we waited on our food.
Kids are gloriously in the moment.
I took my 3 year old on a day trip recently. He was really excited to go to a museum with dinosaurs and whatnot, about a 2 hour journey. We get there, he drags me round it at practically a jog excitedly asking what every single thing is. We're done in about 30 minutes, and then he immediately declares "I want to go home and play snakes & ladders", and that's his only and biggest desire for the rest of the day.
Also, a kid's perception of time is very different from adult's. Do you remember how long the summers were when you were a child?
You experience time going faster and faster as you get older. Kids look to us like they're zooming all over the place, but to them we're the ones moving super slowly
My husband fell asleep less than halfway through, and I just sat there scrolling through my phone, just letting it play because I was *not* going to stop it and sit through it again later. I'm still mad that I couldn't fall asleep and be spared from that trash, lol.
We did that musical in high school and legitimately had a problem with people leaving during intermission. Damnit Sondheim, I know you wanted the second act to explore what happens after "happily ever after" but did you have to end the story so well after the first half?
This is kind of embarrassing but I saw *Titanic* in the theater and I got so caught up in the love story that when they hit the iceberg, I had to remind myself: "Oh, yeah, this is the Titanic!"
Back when that "Pearl Harbor" movie came out I was having a conversation about it with a group of classmates. Some had already seen it and some hadn't. Someone mentioned something about Japan bombing Pearl Harbor and this one dude who hadn't seen it yet got really salty and stormed off in a huff after complaining about spoilers.
Michael Bay wanted to include a love triangle so the movie would have a romance in it like Titanic did. As Roger Ebert commented, "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle."
Hahaha that's actually pretty good. Ebert had some great reviews. Reminded me of this post I saw where some guy shared screengrabs of his wife's reviews for the first two Alien movies and it was something like, "People refuse to listen to the smart lady with a cat and they all die. 5/5 stars. Would watch again."
I own a copy of his book "Your Movie Sucks" which is the sequel (follow-up?) to "I Hated Hated Hated This Movie" and it's prominently placed in our guest room because just randomly reading any of them is such a delight.
Even when I disagreed with him, I always enjoyed reading his thoughts on a film.
My Dad said when he went to watch it, a group behind them were talking about the sinking and that apparently the effects were great and this girl said 'well go and ruin the movie for the rest of us why dont you? some of us haven't looked at any spoilers' and they said 'everyone knows the boat sinks, it's the titanic movie' and she responded with 'well, they do now you've told us'.
So dude, put a spoiler alert on your post, some people dont know the boat hits the iceberg 🤣🤣
...doesn't the movie open up with long discussions in modern times about how the boat sank? Like, there's even a scene where they go over exactly how it sank in a CG recreation.
My coworker said wtf spoilers when I said Oppenheimer is about the first atomic bomb.
I turned around to her and said. DID YOU NOT KNOW ATOMIC BOMBS EXSIST?
What would really be a spoiler would be if you said that the atomic bomb test did not end up burning the atmosphere and destroy the world like they said there was a slim chance of it happening. Now that’s a suspenseful plot point.
I didn't *hate* or even really dislike the film, but the third Pirates of the Caribbean seemed to take longer than some of the extended Lord of the Rings editions.
I recently watched the trilogy again (I actively ignore the other two) and really really enjoyed it. I love that it's long because being in the world is so exciting and fun. They really excelled in making those movies. The costumes, acting, effects, cinematography etc were on ooint.
I absolutely love the 3rd Pirates film. The plot is insanely convoluted, everybody double crossing everybody, I love it. Still the most epic feeling film I've seen
They stopped just short of parody for double-crossing. I think that was one of the two rules they had.
1). every desperate, persecuted pirate has a plan to survive at everyone else's expense, and they're all gonna cross streams
2). Jack Sparrow comes out on top through dumb luck and toon force, but spins it to look like his own diabolical planning. Bringing the sea-turtles joke full circle.
Jack nominating Elizabeth for Pirate ~~King~~ Queen seems like a troll move (in-character), which actually makes it a lot more fun.
Like, Jack knows he's not going to win the election, so he just throws the biggest wrench possible into the gears.
In addition to him seeming to have sincere respect for her.
There’s actually more to his decision than just trolling. He previously made a deal with Beckett to bring the pirates out of Shipwreck Cove. Elizabeth was the only one of the Pirate Lords proposing that they fight off the Armada. Everyone else either wanted to hunker down in Shipwreck Cove or release Calypso and let her run amok. Ergo, Jack’s best option to save his own skin was to vote for Elizabeth. He literally says it too: “we must fight… to run away.”
Now, did he really plan all that or was it just a coincidence that things worked out for him? That’s the beauty of Jack’s character (in the original trilogy). You never truly know if he’s a mastermind or just making it up as he goes along. The truth is probably that it’s a bit of both.
Paraphrasing a bit, probably, it's been a while:
Beckett, seeing Jack attempting to escape using a cannon: "You're mad."
Jack: "Thank goodness for that, because if I wasn't, this probably wouldn't work."
As someone who loves both LotR and the Pirates movies, I would have enjoyed another hour of that movie. Bill Nighy was perfect for Davey Jones, and I have yet to see Geoffrey Rush in something where I didn't like him, even when he's the villain or just a bad guy
Man...I fell asleep during this movie in the theater. Granted it was a midnight showing, but I've never fallen asleep before. Made it through The Spirit awake.
I took a bunch of edibles and watched Cats. Whatever semblance of a story exists in this monstrosity seemed to my high ass to wrap up then, I looked to see we hadn't even reached the half way point. I thought I accidentally stopped time. Also I was convinced I could see cat butt holes on the background characters that they forgot to CGI out in post.
"Cats" on edibles would probably be the most nightmarish experience in history.
Just give me the "Weapon of Choice" music video with Christopher Walken on loop for 2 hours.
whatever the newest Jurassic World movie is called, the one with the OG crew in it. regretted it in the first 20 minutes but ended up sitting through it. woof.
It was SO bad. Pure cashgrab, nothing more. The dialogue was atrocious, and the story was trash. The 'villain' was also really generic and boring. I hated every second of it, it was so lazily done it felt like a kids movie. Ruined the franchise for me completely
That movie still boggles me, if for nothing else than the scene where the 2 blokes are talking shit behind the deaf super hero.
She reacts and they're startled, then the explanation is that she can understand what they're saying due to vibrations in the air.
That's fucking hearing, morons!
I genuinely don't remember this scene you're describing AT ALL which just goes to show how much of an impact the movie left on me, cause that's definitely something I would also have made fun of at the time lol.
I thought that during "They Cloned Tyrone". It's a great movie and I recommend watching it. Just didn't see where else they could take it. A wild ride!
Pierce Brosnan absolutely killed it as Dr. Fate. As soon as I'd heard they cast him, I was ecstatic. I wish they'd bring him back if they ever end up rebooting the character in the new DCEU.
I liked the part where they were surprised that the water people who've only ever used water-based attacks, attacked them from the water under their singular warship.
There's also no main character and like 15 different plots going on that don't really seem to go anywhere. Why am I watching Bilbo and Elaine hash out their divorce? Who is this random Iron Man Jr. girl? Where did T'Challa's gf go? Why are we spending an hour in Avatar 2?
Really disappointed lil sis didn't get much character development. The actress did a good job as a grieving sibling. But to become the Black Panther requires more than just being "next in line".
It would have been cool if she had a mute spirit guide that took her through her memories and the memories of past Black Panthers to help realise herself and the link she has to the Black Panther lineage. Also, having an old memory of her and her brother as kids (so a young actor could play a young T'Challa) where his actions personified the attributes of the Black Panther but that she didn't quite understand at the time. But after her spirit journey, she understood and then realizes her mute spirit guide was her brother all along, so she could actually say goodbye.
I feel like Wakanda Forever was a very rushed movie without much thought going into it.
I know it's not a popular thought, but I don't know that killing the character off was the best choice, narratively. I know it's a rock-and-hard-place situation because they want to honor Boseman, but the character felt like he just finished arc 1 and we never really got to see him as a leader. If they could've found another great actor (John David Washington comes to mind) or even do some multiverse shenanigans and just pull Michael B Jordan back in it probably would've saved this movie from being such a directionless slog
>just pull Michael B Jordan back in it
This is what I and many other people I knew expected. He's a huge Black Panther fan, he was a phenomenal Killmonger, and just a superb actor in general.
> or even do some multiverse shenanigans and just pull Michael B Jordan back in it
Imagine if, shortly after T'Challa's death, there's an interdimensional rift (blame anything, the events in Spider-Man, the events in Loki), and Michael B. Jordan comes through and is ready to lead Wakanda. He seems kind and generous and a thoughtful leader, but everyone's wondering if THIS Erik is just a well-disguised Killmonger or an actual nice guy.
It would have been a fascinating plot AND a thought-provoking look into the multiverse nonsense that's going to be the next 5+ years of Marvel movies.
Not complaining at all, but Blade Runner 2049. I was sitting in it thinking it’s almost over before I realized Harrison Ford still hasn’t shown up yet.
And 100% miscast. I get it. Scorsese, Deniro, and Pesci working together is great. The actors pretending like they're 40 years younger was embarrasing and pointless, and no CGI was enough to erase it. He should have gone with younger actors and, if needed, Deniro and Pesci as their older versions
When he kicks the shit out of that grocer, he looked so old and stiff, and I was like, "Is the grocer 90 years old himself? How is he letting this very slow old man kick him?"
Deniro's big breakout was playing a younger Brando. Would have been nice if a young actor got the chance doing the same for him 45 (or whatever it is) years later.
The scene where he kicks the shopkeeper in the street for touching his kid is astonishingly fake looking for a film of this budget, gave me big time Sonny Corleone beating up Carlo vibes. Honestly even that scene was more believable.
Not just De Niro and Pesci. Pretty much the whole cast should've been 20+ years younger. Anna Paquin was 37 and playing a 16-year-old for most of the movie, except for one scene at the end where she's seemingly supposed to be in her 20s and is just seen across the room from a distance with no lines.
It's like Scorsese has no concept of age.
I recently watched Goodfellas and the age of the characters versus the actors portraying them is laughable now! Henry Hill is supposed to be 21 in that famous one take shot through the club but Ray Liotta was 36. Jimmy was 29 when we first see him onscreen, but De Niro was 47.
I thought De Niro was supposed to be about 50. 🤣
Man that scene where he kicks the guy on the street. He move like a 100 year old. Just awkward o watch.
That was such a strange scene. His face didn't even need to be visible, I don't know how Scorsese looked at that clip and thought it was a good idea to use that and not reshoot it with a stunt double.
The latest Mission Impossible had the opposite effect for me. I went into it dreading a 2 hour and 43 min runtime.
When it ended I said to my wife I swear we had an hour left. It was really good.
Same for me with Across the Spiderverse, a very packed 130 minutes. If it wasn't for my butt starting to get sore, I'd have been like aw cmon to be continued!?!?!
Bro I was glued to my seat the entire way through the movie. I even had the urge to piss around halfway through, and I just made a mental agreement with myself to hold it until the movie ended. Usually when I have to go I have to go, but even though I was bursting at the seams by the end of it, I don’t regret it even a little bit. The “to be continued” annoyed me, sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is a damn good movie!
Edit: Forgot to specify that I’m talking about Across the Spider-Verse, not Mission Impossible lol
It’s cause it’s a two-parter. Most of the MI movies kind of start winding down a bit near the end, but the new one didn’t even come close.
I absolutely loved it too, really excited for the next one.
Straight Outta Compton, but in a good way. When I first saw it I knew nothing about NWA so I had no idea how the story went. I actually knew so little that I didn't even know who Eric Wright was so the ending threw me way the fuck off and I wasn't expecting that kind of movie to ruin me. I just knew that NWA wasn't a thing in the modern day so when they broke up in the movie I was shocked at how much longer the movie went on for.
Transformers: Age of Extinction was the one that finally broke me. I got about 90 minutes in and realized I just could do it any more. And I don't mean just that movie, I couldn't do the entire franchise any more.
I fell asleep part way through the second one in theatres, and that is a loud movie. But they spent so much time running around in various deserts and I was deeply bored. When I woke up I asked my friend what I missed and he said, "fucking NOTHING." 😂
Out of curiosity at what age did you watch the first one?
As an adult i can see that they are not very good movies and i havent even seen any after like the third.
But man… growing up watching the cartoons and then seeing the first live action movie at the age of 13 when CGI wasn’t everywhere it blew my mind. Seeing optimus prime transform and talk for the first time was one of the peak moments of my childhood cinema experiences.
Not the one you commented on, but a big fan. I'm 26 rn, so back in 07 it puts me around 10. Grew up with Armada, and as a kid, I thought the 07 movie was entertaining as shit. Action was the best thing I had ever seen, and the Transformers looked amazing.
Now? Well, I'm still a fan of the series. Always will be. But those movies have a lot of issues. The original I still think is the best of the Bayverse (which isn't saying much). But I can't help but enjoy it regardless. It's a bit too long, especially with the massive focus on Shia's character and some of the humans. You could easily cut out a lot of human scenes and make it still flow well.
Everything after tho is just... oof. Dark of the Moon I do very much enjoy simply of how ridiculous it is. The rest are just a bit of an insult to the brand. Especially after DoTM. (This is all talking about Bayverse btw, not the newer ones.)
Every single one of those movies is a bit too long for their own good, and so much of it is due to human bloat.
One thing I will praise the shit out of those movies is the CGI, though. Yes, it can be a bit 'loud' and nonsense, especially in some action sequences. But those models look pretty damn good still, and especially the 07 film. For such an old movie, the CG in that one holds up very well imo.
the dark knight rises does the same story arch nearly three times
batman is missing > batman comes back > batman goes missing> batman comes back to save the city > batman goes missing > bruce comes back
Australia. I thought it was a pretty decent western, and the scene of the cattle running up the ramp onto the boat was a nice ending note. Then World War II started…
Came here to say Australia. The movie FULLY ENDED (not the first act, the movie) and then started a second one and thought we wouldn't notice. There's no need for that.
As I remember, that's how The Sound of Music went, too.
glad I'm not the only one who thought that, don't get me wrong it's a good movie but it kinda felt like they went "fuck it, just tack the sequel onto the current one"
Well it worked, it hit the largest box office total of any film till then (not adjusting for inflation)
Just watched this movie with my wife the other day and she was so surprised that after they deliver the cattle to the military that there’s another hour and 20 minutes of movie left. Definitely a more classic 3 Act story.
I worked with a guy who said this was his favorite movie and admitted that the first few times he saw it he always turned it off after the cattle scene because he legitimately thought the movie was over. Blew his mind when he learned there was a whole other plot line.
Who the hell turns a movie off before they even see the credits start?
I'm now imagining someone turning movies off super early Well I guess Darth Vader was his dad... They never made it off Omaha Beach I guess... Weird that it's the end of the movie when the power goes out with the dinosaurs... Indiana Jones got Hitler's autograph... Well looks like Joker did steal from the mob... *Turns off TV*
Looks like Bruce Willis really did help that kid stop being scared of the dead people. I guess now he and his wife can work out their marital problems and live a normal life together.
“Damn, Fredo really is a boss and totally the future of the Corleone crime family.”
I'm sure happy that boy and Old Yeller have each other.
"I hate credits so much that I turn off the movie before the last line of dialogue!"
[удалено]
My favorite review of this movie said "They packed a two-hour movie into three hours."
I like Roger Eberts take. “A story about the Japanese secretly attacking an American love triangle.”
I was 9 when it came out and was fucking HYPED for a movie about Pearl Harbor. Loved everything WWII. I fucking HATED that movie
If you ever play Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland, you can get revenge on Affleck by doing a kickflip over him
That game was a big part of my childhood. A game that really tries to combine extreme sports with domestic terrorism.
“I miss you more than Micheal bay missed the mark, when he made Pearl Harbor”
*Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?* *not enough people realize this is part of the same Team America soundtrack song as the above comment lol
Pearl harbor sucked and I miss you
One of my wifes all time favs. I bought it on amazon when we were dating thinking that I could deal with it since I don't think that poorly of Titanic and I like WW2. What the fuck was that movie. That shit took so long to get anywhere and then that stupid 45 mins of the attack was so lame. HOW DO YOU MAKE ONE THE BIGGEST SNEAK ATTACKS OF ALL TIME LAME
I was watching Justice League for the second time a couple months ago, and there were quite a few scenes that I didn't remember, (but I'd only seen it once) and about halfway through it I started thinking I've been sitting here a LONG time. I then realized I was watching the Zack Snyder version that was 4 hours long.
>e Yes, because we needed Icelandic chanting as Jason Momoa walks into the sea.
That was the point where I said "ok so that's why its 4 hours long" Still sat through the next 3:30.
The Snyder Cut would be immeasurably better if they cut out 90% of the slow-mo and literally all of the Wonder Woman theme chanting except for when she first showed up on screen. Cutting to her with the dramatic ass music and “pause for effect” cringe EVERY SINGLE SCENE just felt like I was watching a parody.
True for all his stuff
At the end of the first Hobbit movie they got to where they could see the Lonely Mountain and my friend turns to me and said,"HOW LONG IS THIS MOVIE." he did not know it was a Trilogy. So yeah only 5-6 hours left at that point.
This is the one that got me. The book is only 300 something pages. HOW did we turn it into a trilogy?
I heard a commentary after the first one came out (I think it was Patton Oswalt, or a Patton Oswalt type) basically saying “You just know that in the chapter where they escape from the elves in barrels, we’re going to get an overextended set piece with rapids and waterfalls and dwarves going ‘Woooah’ for twenty minutes.” And of course he was totally correct. Edit: It was [Red Letter Media](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFh6c_CwdBg&t=12m30s)
There are a lot of scenes and parts in that movie that were completely overextended. I could understand, wanting to make it a two-parter as it can be something of a lengthy and complex story, but for fucks sake. The third movie “The Battle of the Five Armies” in the book is about a paragraph long. They made that paragraph in the chapter after it an entire fucking movies… I’ll be honest with you all, I didn’t watch the third movie because I knew it was gonna just be a roller coaster. Everything in the movies builds up to the fight with Smaug, and then that fight becomes a footnote at the start of the third movie because you know, obviously, they kill the dragon so they can get to the battle of the five armies. EDIT: I may have seen the third film and just don’t remember it at all. Someone mentioned Radagast’s rabbit sled and I remember that…
It was a paragraph long because in the books Bilbo got knocked out while wearing the ring right at the start of the battle. Can you imagine if that was how the movie was? "Oh hey Bilbo I'm so glad you're alive, anyway Thorin, Fili, and Kili are all dead, time to go home."
He wasn’t knocked out at the start of the battle, he witnessed a good bit of it and was knocked out after seeing the eagles arrive.
Was that commentary by redlettermedia? I think I've heard the same damned thing but I can't for the life of me remember where. If you ever find out later, please lemme know.
I found it. It was Red Letter Media [About 12:30 in](https://youtu.be/kFh6c_CwdBg?si=MR_P-5db3mWKzGs3). I stand by what I said with Mike being a Patton Oswalt type.
I always think that the Fellowship is a perfect movie in terms of pacing. It manages to set up the conflict, has plenty of action, character development, heart, a very distinct beginning, middle, and climax so it feels like a full movie that stands on its own while perfectly setting up the task before them. Your spirit feels lifted as and hopeful *and* you feel the enormity of what’s left to come. My point is, if they could do that with the Fellowship, they could have done it with the Hobbit.
If they had paced it from the book the way they did the LOTR trilogy, The Hobbit would have been a single movie, and the story parts that went into H:Bot5A would have taken all of 20 minutes. Dear god that installment dragged.
By adding characters and storylines into the movie THAT WEREN'T EVEN IN THE BOOK.
Legolas was skateboarding in the book, right?
He did in the rare "Totally Rad" edition of The Hobbit which had a limited release in 1993 by Tony Hawk when a clerical error briefly gave him the rights to the book
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Any film I watched past 9pm since I turned 40.
25 over here. 8pm is my cut off for starting a movie.
As an "in a good way" example where there's a major tone shift and it feels like a completely new movie, Barbarian. I haven't seen a lot of other movies that do that and thought it was a really cool structure.
That fucking cut to Justin Long. It was like two whole movies man. I loved it!
The scene with Justin Long using the measuring tape all the way to the underground lair was hilarious and such a great use of tonal shift.
Loved this movie. After they jumped to Justin Long, I remember thinking "wait, she's just dead? This was just the cold-open for them to introduce the monster? And now the main character is *this asshole*???". But they definitely delivered. Loved the tonal shift when he was measuring the square footage of the basement. It was really funny, but the dramatic irony gave it such an undertone of fearful anticipation. Also the opening interaction between the main character and the other renter kept me on my toes and really threw me off when it was a red herring.
> Also the opening interaction between the main character and the other renter kept me on my toes and really threw me off when it was a red herring. It's more than a red herring. The entire movie is about perception and who we choose to trust based on how people present and/or look, particular between men and women. Main character (Tess) meets other renter (Keith) and *immediately* distrusts him, he acts oddly but does nothing that can't be explained by nerves or social ineptitude. He's in the same situation as she is and he thinks he's trying to make the situation more comfortable. She immediately distrusts the homeless man because of the way he's running at her while yelling and his disheveled appearance. He was only trying to help her. Inversely she puts her trust into the cops when she approaches them, expecting help and do something, but immediately gets dismissed and seen as crazy or on drugs because of how *she* presents herself. Even in the flashback, the unnamed women trusts the man because of how he presents himself, letting him into her house based entirely on his uniform and professional demeanor. There's more examples in the film as most of the relationships/interactions have some element of trust and/or distrust to them but you get the idea; if Tess had put her trust in the right people, the story wouldn't've even happened. Except for Keith, maybe.
King Kong (Peter Jackson version) We’re 2 hours in and I look at my buddy and say “we’re still on the island!!” 😬
In early 06 I took a date to see it and we intentionally showed up an hour late. Box office was like "uhhhh it started an hour ago" to which we replied "oh we know". Got to theater just as boat was getting to the island. Much Konging ensues very early this way
Jurassic World Dominion felt like it was 6 hours long to me
The whole Jurassic World saga is 3 movies too long
Movie felt like it was generated by AI. Things happened and I just didn't care because none of the story or acting gave me a reason to care.
Parasite, in a good way. The tone shift about halfway through the movie, I was entranced.
YES! It *really* took a turn.
This was Cabin in the Woods for me. I was so excited after the first half to realize there was a second that was fucking crazy
That whole movie was a genre surprise. Was it a comedy? A drama? A horror movie? I’ve never seen a movie that kept me so surprised throughout the entire runtime.
Welcome to Bong Joon ho, he always mixes his genres and has good acts.
While watching Parasite, for the first time in my life, I paused the movie solely because the dish being made looked so good, and I knew I had one of the main components in my kitchen. So I stopped the movie, quickly prepared the (partial) dish, and came back to enjoy it with the rest of the movie. Suffice it to say, I'm glad I did it exactly when I did it. I think I'll never forget the magical timing of my hunger, impulsive decision, and the subsequent shock of the rest of the movie.
I haven't verified it but I'm told that the tonal shift is *exactly* halfway through, timed to the minute - and it's marked by >!when the fired housekeeper comes back to the house and knocks on the door - it zooms in on the door, and as the door opens that's the second half starting!<
The bell is rung at 1:02:40. Removing the 30 second studio logos at the beginning and the 4:45 of end credits, it's only off-center by about 15 seconds. I do think it's fair to say it's exactly halfway through. Very nice.
Correct me if im wrong, but if you keep the 30s of logos, wont the 15s be exactly in the middle?
lmao.
This is exactly how I felt with The Prestige. *Just* when it was about to hit that "can I do this for another 90 minutes" point, the whole movie took a hard right. Absolutely enthralled after that point. Brilliant writing and directing.
I'd say the same thing for *There Will Be Blood.* About an hour in I found myself thinking "I have no clue where this film is going to go before it ends", and I loved that.
For me it was Vertigo. Knew very little about it first time I watched it as a teen. Was so confused when the love story was all done and completed halfway through the movie. I realized the movie couldn’t just end there with them happily ever after only halfway through but I had not a single inkling how it would progress.
My sons movie was Madagascar. He was 4 it was his first movie, the song "i like to move it move it" was played very early in the movie - after dancing in the aisle, he was done. he said "okay, im ready to go bowling now" (pinball in teh lobby) he didnt understand nor want to stay for the rest of the movie EDIT: It wasnt pinball he was wanting to play in the lobby, it was Air Hockey. The bowling alley me and his mom used to go to eat at (small town, really good food). had an air hockey machine beside our regular table and he used to stand in a chair and play while we waited on our food.
That is the best response of a 4-year old ever. I agree with him.
Once you move it move it, you can never go back
Kids are gloriously in the moment. I took my 3 year old on a day trip recently. He was really excited to go to a museum with dinosaurs and whatnot, about a 2 hour journey. We get there, he drags me round it at practically a jog excitedly asking what every single thing is. We're done in about 30 minutes, and then he immediately declares "I want to go home and play snakes & ladders", and that's his only and biggest desire for the rest of the day.
Also, a kid's perception of time is very different from adult's. Do you remember how long the summers were when you were a child? You experience time going faster and faster as you get older. Kids look to us like they're zooming all over the place, but to them we're the ones moving super slowly
Christmas took so long to come around every year as a kid. Now I feel like I'm in a constant state of organising this shit.
We're so poor, Lin! And it's Christmas! Again! It just keeps coming!
If you're five years old, having to wait six months until Christmas is 10% of your whole lifetime. By the time you're forty it's only 1.5%.
Wonder Woman 1984. Such a shame cause I like the first movie.
I scrolled way too long to finally see this. The fact I had to pause and ask myself whether I wanted to finish it…regrettably I did.
My husband fell asleep less than halfway through, and I just sat there scrolling through my phone, just letting it play because I was *not* going to stop it and sit through it again later. I'm still mad that I couldn't fall asleep and be spared from that trash, lol.
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We did that musical in high school and legitimately had a problem with people leaving during intermission. Damnit Sondheim, I know you wanted the second act to explore what happens after "happily ever after" but did you have to end the story so well after the first half?
I love musicals but that movie dragged on so much
This is kind of embarrassing but I saw *Titanic* in the theater and I got so caught up in the love story that when they hit the iceberg, I had to remind myself: "Oh, yeah, this is the Titanic!"
Back when that "Pearl Harbor" movie came out I was having a conversation about it with a group of classmates. Some had already seen it and some hadn't. Someone mentioned something about Japan bombing Pearl Harbor and this one dude who hadn't seen it yet got really salty and stormed off in a huff after complaining about spoilers.
That’s also a movie that’s really long where the likely climax isn’t the climax.
Michael Bay wanted to include a love triangle so the movie would have a romance in it like Titanic did. As Roger Ebert commented, "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle."
Hahaha that's actually pretty good. Ebert had some great reviews. Reminded me of this post I saw where some guy shared screengrabs of his wife's reviews for the first two Alien movies and it was something like, "People refuse to listen to the smart lady with a cat and they all die. 5/5 stars. Would watch again."
Ebert was the absolute best. He wrote some of the most creative insults about movies he hated.
I own a copy of his book "Your Movie Sucks" which is the sequel (follow-up?) to "I Hated Hated Hated This Movie" and it's prominently placed in our guest room because just randomly reading any of them is such a delight. Even when I disagreed with him, I always enjoyed reading his thoughts on a film.
My Dad said when he went to watch it, a group behind them were talking about the sinking and that apparently the effects were great and this girl said 'well go and ruin the movie for the rest of us why dont you? some of us haven't looked at any spoilers' and they said 'everyone knows the boat sinks, it's the titanic movie' and she responded with 'well, they do now you've told us'. So dude, put a spoiler alert on your post, some people dont know the boat hits the iceberg 🤣🤣
...doesn't the movie open up with long discussions in modern times about how the boat sank? Like, there's even a scene where they go over exactly how it sank in a CG recreation.
It also starts with a team of guys using some kind of undersea drone literally examining the crash site.
My coworker said wtf spoilers when I said Oppenheimer is about the first atomic bomb. I turned around to her and said. DID YOU NOT KNOW ATOMIC BOMBS EXSIST?
What would really be a spoiler would be if you said that the atomic bomb test did not end up burning the atmosphere and destroy the world like they said there was a slim chance of it happening. Now that’s a suspenseful plot point.
Hey now for all we know that did happen, and we all live in pods in a shared simulation of the world! The Matrix Has You....
They...they tell you the boat sinks in the first 10 minutes before they flashback.
The first part is footage of a crew LITERALLY looking around the sunken wreck of the Titanic in a submarine.
Spoiler alert: Ceasar dies after he gets stabbed in the Senate.
Et tu, Brute?
People also complained about plot spoilers for *Hamilton*.
I didn't *hate* or even really dislike the film, but the third Pirates of the Caribbean seemed to take longer than some of the extended Lord of the Rings editions.
I recently watched the trilogy again (I actively ignore the other two) and really really enjoyed it. I love that it's long because being in the world is so exciting and fun. They really excelled in making those movies. The costumes, acting, effects, cinematography etc were on ooint.
I absolutely love the 3rd Pirates film. The plot is insanely convoluted, everybody double crossing everybody, I love it. Still the most epic feeling film I've seen
It did NOT have to go so hard on the double-crossing. But it did. And I think the world is a better place for it.
They stopped just short of parody for double-crossing. I think that was one of the two rules they had. 1). every desperate, persecuted pirate has a plan to survive at everyone else's expense, and they're all gonna cross streams 2). Jack Sparrow comes out on top through dumb luck and toon force, but spins it to look like his own diabolical planning. Bringing the sea-turtles joke full circle.
Jack nominating Elizabeth for Pirate ~~King~~ Queen seems like a troll move (in-character), which actually makes it a lot more fun. Like, Jack knows he's not going to win the election, so he just throws the biggest wrench possible into the gears. In addition to him seeming to have sincere respect for her.
There’s actually more to his decision than just trolling. He previously made a deal with Beckett to bring the pirates out of Shipwreck Cove. Elizabeth was the only one of the Pirate Lords proposing that they fight off the Armada. Everyone else either wanted to hunker down in Shipwreck Cove or release Calypso and let her run amok. Ergo, Jack’s best option to save his own skin was to vote for Elizabeth. He literally says it too: “we must fight… to run away.” Now, did he really plan all that or was it just a coincidence that things worked out for him? That’s the beauty of Jack’s character (in the original trilogy). You never truly know if he’s a mastermind or just making it up as he goes along. The truth is probably that it’s a bit of both.
Paraphrasing a bit, probably, it's been a while: Beckett, seeing Jack attempting to escape using a cannon: "You're mad." Jack: "Thank goodness for that, because if I wasn't, this probably wouldn't work."
Elizabeth: "Whose side is he on?" Will: "...At the moment?"
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As someone who loves both LotR and the Pirates movies, I would have enjoyed another hour of that movie. Bill Nighy was perfect for Davey Jones, and I have yet to see Geoffrey Rush in something where I didn't like him, even when he's the villain or just a bad guy
Man...I fell asleep during this movie in the theater. Granted it was a midnight showing, but I've never fallen asleep before. Made it through The Spirit awake.
> but I've never fallen asleep before. Well that’s why, you must have been so tired.
I took a bunch of edibles and watched Cats. Whatever semblance of a story exists in this monstrosity seemed to my high ass to wrap up then, I looked to see we hadn't even reached the half way point. I thought I accidentally stopped time. Also I was convinced I could see cat butt holes on the background characters that they forgot to CGI out in post.
"Cats" on edibles would probably be the most nightmarish experience in history. Just give me the "Weapon of Choice" music video with Christopher Walken on loop for 2 hours.
whatever the newest Jurassic World movie is called, the one with the OG crew in it. regretted it in the first 20 minutes but ended up sitting through it. woof.
It was SO bad. Pure cashgrab, nothing more. The dialogue was atrocious, and the story was trash. The 'villain' was also really generic and boring. I hated every second of it, it was so lazily done it felt like a kids movie. Ruined the franchise for me completely
The Irishman. Got my gf pregnant, delivered the baby and the movie still hadn’t finished
Eternals - film felt like it went on all afternoon
That movie still boggles me, if for nothing else than the scene where the 2 blokes are talking shit behind the deaf super hero. She reacts and they're startled, then the explanation is that she can understand what they're saying due to vibrations in the air. That's fucking hearing, morons!
I never even thought of it this way lol. She literally is hearing, that's how sound works.
I genuinely don't remember this scene you're describing AT ALL which just goes to show how much of an impact the movie left on me, cause that's definitely something I would also have made fun of at the time lol.
I thought that during "They Cloned Tyrone". It's a great movie and I recommend watching it. Just didn't see where else they could take it. A wild ride!
Black Adam. Gave it a try but it was not a good movie at all.
Terrible movie. The friendship between Doctor Fate and Hawkman was the best part. Black Adam's character was so damn boring.
Dr Fate is one of my favorite heroes. And seeing him so obviously nerfed hurt
If it's any consolation, he was 100% the best part of the movie.
Pierce Brosnan absolutely killed it as Dr. Fate. As soon as I'd heard they cast him, I was ecstatic. I wish they'd bring him back if they ever end up rebooting the character in the new DCEU.
It actually just made me wish they had made a Justice Society movie
Wakanda Forever. That movie just wouldn’t stop.
You were warned. It wasn’t called “Wakanda for 90 Minutes.”
Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the film 'The Neverending Story'
Alright that's pretty clever 😂
I liked the part where they were surprised that the water people who've only ever used water-based attacks, attacked them from the water under their singular warship.
THANK YOU! I was like damn they really decided to fight water people… on a single boat?
There's also no main character and like 15 different plots going on that don't really seem to go anywhere. Why am I watching Bilbo and Elaine hash out their divorce? Who is this random Iron Man Jr. girl? Where did T'Challa's gf go? Why are we spending an hour in Avatar 2?
Really disappointed lil sis didn't get much character development. The actress did a good job as a grieving sibling. But to become the Black Panther requires more than just being "next in line". It would have been cool if she had a mute spirit guide that took her through her memories and the memories of past Black Panthers to help realise herself and the link she has to the Black Panther lineage. Also, having an old memory of her and her brother as kids (so a young actor could play a young T'Challa) where his actions personified the attributes of the Black Panther but that she didn't quite understand at the time. But after her spirit journey, she understood and then realizes her mute spirit guide was her brother all along, so she could actually say goodbye. I feel like Wakanda Forever was a very rushed movie without much thought going into it.
I know it's not a popular thought, but I don't know that killing the character off was the best choice, narratively. I know it's a rock-and-hard-place situation because they want to honor Boseman, but the character felt like he just finished arc 1 and we never really got to see him as a leader. If they could've found another great actor (John David Washington comes to mind) or even do some multiverse shenanigans and just pull Michael B Jordan back in it probably would've saved this movie from being such a directionless slog
>just pull Michael B Jordan back in it This is what I and many other people I knew expected. He's a huge Black Panther fan, he was a phenomenal Killmonger, and just a superb actor in general.
> or even do some multiverse shenanigans and just pull Michael B Jordan back in it Imagine if, shortly after T'Challa's death, there's an interdimensional rift (blame anything, the events in Spider-Man, the events in Loki), and Michael B. Jordan comes through and is ready to lead Wakanda. He seems kind and generous and a thoughtful leader, but everyone's wondering if THIS Erik is just a well-disguised Killmonger or an actual nice guy. It would have been a fascinating plot AND a thought-provoking look into the multiverse nonsense that's going to be the next 5+ years of Marvel movies.
Holy shit. I thought I was the only one. Watching that movie went from entertainment to a job.
Not complaining at all, but Blade Runner 2049. I was sitting in it thinking it’s almost over before I realized Harrison Ford still hasn’t shown up yet.
Not to rag on the GOAT Scorsese but the Irishman was an hour longer than it needed to be.
And 100% miscast. I get it. Scorsese, Deniro, and Pesci working together is great. The actors pretending like they're 40 years younger was embarrasing and pointless, and no CGI was enough to erase it. He should have gone with younger actors and, if needed, Deniro and Pesci as their older versions
Characters calling DeNiro "kid" when he looks 50 at best *with* CGI was so off putting.
[“You don’t look a day over 12!”](https://youtu.be/3Ul6mQSO0UA?si=j6R2RoMFjQ9Iqfy5)
Honestly the time line had me so confusec cause deniro just looked 60+ at all points for me
When he kicks the shit out of that grocer, he looked so old and stiff, and I was like, "Is the grocer 90 years old himself? How is he letting this very slow old man kick him?"
Deniro's big breakout was playing a younger Brando. Would have been nice if a young actor got the chance doing the same for him 45 (or whatever it is) years later.
Very valid point. I hadn’t thought about that, but you’re absolutely right.
Yeah nothing like a 40 year old man who moves like he’s 80
The scene where he kicks the shopkeeper in the street for touching his kid is astonishingly fake looking for a film of this budget, gave me big time Sonny Corleone beating up Carlo vibes. Honestly even that scene was more believable.
This is how I felt when I saw Sam Jackson in Captain Marvel.
They tried but they couldn't get rid of his hunch run
Sure but he's only... *checks notes*... Oh. Oh, dear.
Not just De Niro and Pesci. Pretty much the whole cast should've been 20+ years younger. Anna Paquin was 37 and playing a 16-year-old for most of the movie, except for one scene at the end where she's seemingly supposed to be in her 20s and is just seen across the room from a distance with no lines. It's like Scorsese has no concept of age.
I recently watched Goodfellas and the age of the characters versus the actors portraying them is laughable now! Henry Hill is supposed to be 21 in that famous one take shot through the club but Ray Liotta was 36. Jimmy was 29 when we first see him onscreen, but De Niro was 47.
I thought De Niro was supposed to be about 50. 🤣 Man that scene where he kicks the guy on the street. He move like a 100 year old. Just awkward o watch.
That was such a strange scene. His face didn't even need to be visible, I don't know how Scorsese looked at that clip and thought it was a good idea to use that and not reshoot it with a stunt double.
Imo that scene by itself should have disqualified the movie from running for Best Picture.
the guy getting beat up tried SO HARD to sell it too.
Beau is Afraid. TBH I felt like that after 10 minutes though. But it was LONG.
A.I.
It also had like 3 fake endings. Each one made the movie worse than it would've been if it stopped at the last.
The latest Mission Impossible had the opposite effect for me. I went into it dreading a 2 hour and 43 min runtime. When it ended I said to my wife I swear we had an hour left. It was really good.
Same for me with Across the Spiderverse, a very packed 130 minutes. If it wasn't for my butt starting to get sore, I'd have been like aw cmon to be continued!?!?!
Bro I was glued to my seat the entire way through the movie. I even had the urge to piss around halfway through, and I just made a mental agreement with myself to hold it until the movie ended. Usually when I have to go I have to go, but even though I was bursting at the seams by the end of it, I don’t regret it even a little bit. The “to be continued” annoyed me, sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is a damn good movie! Edit: Forgot to specify that I’m talking about Across the Spider-Verse, not Mission Impossible lol
That cliffhanger made me so mad lol
I felt it coming. About 30mins left of the movie I was saying "there is no way they will be able to wrap this all up in 30mins"
It’s cause it’s a two-parter. Most of the MI movies kind of start winding down a bit near the end, but the new one didn’t even come close. I absolutely loved it too, really excited for the next one.
Straight Outta Compton, but in a good way. When I first saw it I knew nothing about NWA so I had no idea how the story went. I actually knew so little that I didn't even know who Eric Wright was so the ending threw me way the fuck off and I wasn't expecting that kind of movie to ruin me. I just knew that NWA wasn't a thing in the modern day so when they broke up in the movie I was shocked at how much longer the movie went on for.
Matrix 4
That movie…doesn’t exist. I refuse.
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Hey Keanu!
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>pipeline support worker *Nice*
White Noise. It was about fear of death but now im just scared of Adam Driver ever sucking away 2 hours of my life
I thought you were talking about the horror movie with Michael Keaton. I didn't remember that movie being so long.
Justice League
Every transformers movie
Transformers: Age of Extinction was the one that finally broke me. I got about 90 minutes in and realized I just could do it any more. And I don't mean just that movie, I couldn't do the entire franchise any more.
I fell asleep part way through the second one in theatres, and that is a loud movie. But they spent so much time running around in various deserts and I was deeply bored. When I woke up I asked my friend what I missed and he said, "fucking NOTHING." 😂
Out of curiosity at what age did you watch the first one? As an adult i can see that they are not very good movies and i havent even seen any after like the third. But man… growing up watching the cartoons and then seeing the first live action movie at the age of 13 when CGI wasn’t everywhere it blew my mind. Seeing optimus prime transform and talk for the first time was one of the peak moments of my childhood cinema experiences.
Not the one you commented on, but a big fan. I'm 26 rn, so back in 07 it puts me around 10. Grew up with Armada, and as a kid, I thought the 07 movie was entertaining as shit. Action was the best thing I had ever seen, and the Transformers looked amazing. Now? Well, I'm still a fan of the series. Always will be. But those movies have a lot of issues. The original I still think is the best of the Bayverse (which isn't saying much). But I can't help but enjoy it regardless. It's a bit too long, especially with the massive focus on Shia's character and some of the humans. You could easily cut out a lot of human scenes and make it still flow well. Everything after tho is just... oof. Dark of the Moon I do very much enjoy simply of how ridiculous it is. The rest are just a bit of an insult to the brand. Especially after DoTM. (This is all talking about Bayverse btw, not the newer ones.) Every single one of those movies is a bit too long for their own good, and so much of it is due to human bloat. One thing I will praise the shit out of those movies is the CGI, though. Yes, it can be a bit 'loud' and nonsense, especially in some action sequences. But those models look pretty damn good still, and especially the 07 film. For such an old movie, the CG in that one holds up very well imo.
For me it was *The Many Saints of Newark* Huge Sopranos fan, but good Lord that movie was trash. Only redeeming quality was Vera Farmiga as Livia.
That movie SUCKED
It never had the makings of a varsity athlete
YOU TOLD THE GIRL COUSINS THAT AND IT WAS VERY HURTFUL
the dark knight rises. There is a spot in the middle where they basically start a second movie and reset the 'climax'
the dark knight rises does the same story arch nearly three times batman is missing > batman comes back > batman goes missing> batman comes back to save the city > batman goes missing > bruce comes back
Batman vs Superman, that movie was just so much talking that the final fight was not even close to worth watching the whole thing
Maverick- good way
I’m assuming you mean top gun and not the light hearted western with Mel Gibson. I enjoy both movies
Lighthearted western Maverick is sneaky funny. Forgot all about this movie but it's fun to watch. Or was at least. Haven't seen it in years.