I agree. It's very similar to Black Hawk Down. It's BHD meets Independence Day without the one liners.Originally Posted by kwelz
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I agree. It's very similar to Black Hawk Down. It's BHD meets Independence Day without the one liners.
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Saw it and liked it. Lots of good realistic gunplay, (imho), not that running in slow motion and doing a flip off the wall while shooting with both hands and with perfect hair crap. Might see it again.
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Question with a Spoiler ahead.
Was I the only one who smiled and felt a little emotional when the rest of the team started roping down after the Sergent against his orders? Yes it was a bit corny but a damn fine moment none the less.
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TEAM AMERICA... F$%K YEAH!
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...Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837
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TEAM AMERICA... F$%K YEAH!
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EXACTLY. the only thing corny about this movie is the title. Otherwise this was one of the best movies I've seen in along time, and I watch a lot....
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What a steaming pile of horse dung. I was convinced they couldn't **** this up. I was clearly wrong.
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer."
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If the gun goes dry I use my knife. If the knife breaks off I use my teeth. I have only one rule - Start one job and see it through - The universe will have to offer someone else the leftovers. Multi tasking doesn't work in business or in gunfighting.
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Care to pontificate? I mean the trailers were fairly straightforward. We knew this wasn't going to be a cinematic masterpiece.
Last edited by steve-oh; 03-14-11 at 15:05.
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Action-wise: It's more a critique of modern-action movies. I find the lack of continuity in scenes appalling. In this scene, this guy is here, shooting at these guys, in the next, he is somewhere else, doing something else...characters in action scenes seem to be used as part of the backdrop, instead of being part of the action. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to what happens in these scenes. Seems to have been really popularized by Transformers (or any Michael Bay shit-fest, really).
Story-wise: don't waste time with half-assed attempts at character development if you are going to be lazy and trite. The emotional scenes came off as lame and cheesy because I didn't care about any of the characters. I quite honestly had no idea who lived and who died until they showed them at the very end of the movie. If they ran with it as a faux-documentary, i think it could have worked pretty well.
I am not a movie snob, though I do love movies. I enjoy mindless popcorn flicks as much as anyone else, but this movie sucked.
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer."
— Frank Zappa
If the gun goes dry I use my knife. If the knife breaks off I use my teeth. I have only one rule - Start one job and see it through - The universe will have to offer someone else the leftovers. Multi tasking doesn't work in business or in gunfighting.
- Michael de Bethencourt
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You make valid critique... but I guess I had lower expectations with characters and continuity.
The scenes that had me rolling my eyes were the ones with the kid and his father... Like when they were forming an escape out of the bomb zone only to STOP EVERYTHING they were doing and rush in to see the boy's dad dead... They just lost who knows how many soldiers and untold civilians right in front of them but the whole movie PAUSES for some emotional pap...
And the fact that later in the movie every wild spray&pray of bullets resulted in a "blown water bladder" in the aliens...
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"Our destruction... will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence..."
...Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837
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That's also the same oxygen thief that voted for Babe: A Pig in the City as best movie of the year over.....Saving Private Ryan?! His website doesn't reflect that now, but I distinctly remember that being the case back then.
The transition to the sidearm at the end was pretty cool. Don't see that in movies too often.
The movie was entertaining, but it brought to light a few of the complaints I've had about movies (more correctly theaters) and sound effects lately. First off, they made the mistake of using pathetic-sounding dubbed gunshots. If there is one thing that takes me out of being engrossed in a movie, it's horrible sound effects. Makes me feel like I'm watching a video game. Give me realistic sounds like HEAT and I'm golden.
Second, is it just me or does it seem like a majority of movie theaters nowadays have HORRIBLE audio quality? I'm talking, so bad my friggin' computer has higher quality audio. This is one of the reasons I almost never go to the movies anymore.
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