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I saw the first 15 minutes of Crank, and the acting was no better than a saturday night live sketch with Jimmy Fallon in it.............

I was told the action is great, but man you actually have to sit through the other parts and it totally negates the action.

On TMN I watched Recount, an HBO movie about the Gore Bush Election scandal... Always good to see a little of what went on behind the scenes.

Had some good actors in it., Spacey, Dennis Leary etc... a little long, but to see the complete ridiculousness of the process was interesting. Those Bush cronies were relentless back then... It also shows you how dumb and slow some of the top Gore people were... some.

I have banned all Jason Statham movies from my television, as all that I have seen have been pure shiiite... yes even the transporter.
 
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I'll have to watch it again, because although the moving was very well-made and very interesting, the ending (or the last hour of the movie) really ruined it for me. Totally went in a different direction than I expected, and really ruined an otherwise refreshing low-budget film.
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I was so dissapointed it became "Freddy in Space" in the last act. It was such a sci-fi cliche. Too bad, really liked what I saw prior to that.
 
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Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull.

I don't know if i've ever been this dissapointed in a film before. I tried not to let hype get to me, but I was hoping for a sequel since 1989 when I saw Last Crusade in the theater 6 times.



I don't understand how it's rated so highly on the ole' tomatometer. THe script was so weak, the pacing was bad, the acting was lame, Marain was given NOTHING to do, and the ending was such a momumental letdown.



I defend Shia Labeuf , but he was terribly mis-cast as Mutt. He just didn't fit the character as a 50's greaser at all.



And i've been avoiding spoilers so maybe I'm wrong but where is the outrage over the scene with Mutt becoming Tarzan in the jungle? It was so bad. I've never been that upset watching one scene, it just killed whatever enjoyment I was mustering from the film.
 
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And i've been avoiding spoilers so maybe I'm wrong but where is the outrage over the scene with Mutt becoming Tarzan in the jungle? It was so bad. I've never been that upset watching one scene, it just killed whatever enjoyment I was mustering from the film.
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Yeah, that scene was bad, but c'mon. What about (spoiler alert: highlight to read) Indy being right in the middle of a nuclear blast and surviving by taking refuge in a refrigerator? Even forgetting that the blast would incinerate him and that fridge immediately, and that the radiation would kill him, the refrigerator getting hurled a mile into the air with Indy inside would turn him into a mashed up pulp. I mean, I try not to over-analyze popcorn flicks, but you hope for at least some semblance of reality. And having the entire story be about aliens just ruins the entire series. George Lucas has now successfully gone back and ruined every good film he ever created.

At least I was prepared for it though. I knew going in that it was going to be another George Lucas butcher-job on a successful film franchise, but one of my friends really wanted to see it and dragged me along with him.
 
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"Hey George, Harrison and myself were thinking we need to tweak the script a bit."

"NO!!! CGI gophers Steven, CGI gophers is all we need!"

JackBurton said:
And i've been avoiding spoilers so maybe I'm wrong but where is the outrage over the scene with Mutt becoming Tarzan in the jungle? It was so bad. I've never been that upset watching one scene, it just killed whatever enjoyment I was mustering from the film.
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Right in my review I ranted about it too.
 
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Temple of Doom was over-the-top in plot, but at least all the scenes fit into the theme of the movie.

The jungle boy scene, the fridge scene, and Marion driving over a cliff onto a tree added up to just a few seconds of film, but was so ridiculous. Why they would have those scenes in the film is beyond me.
 
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Lucas I think has honestly gone a bit crazy in his old age. It seems like he's secluded himself on his ranch, and is utterly convinced that actors and sets are just an inconvenience to moves, and he can do it all better on a computer. He's also convinced himself that a movie needs cutie & slapstick kiddie moments to be "fun".

It's hard to believe that he can't realize that his spaceships actually looked more realistic in 1977 than they did in 2007.
 
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Yup. The effects in the 3 newest Star Wars films were just terrible. There were characters standing in rooms where furniture was CGI.

CGI can be very complimentary in scenes, but to overuse it too much like Lucas does, it really shows how fake it looks and takes you out of the scene.

Lucas is just completely out of touch with movie audiences.

Of course, guys will always do their best work when they're broke and trying hard for success. When guys like Spielberg and Lucas reach 60 and have a billion dollars, they've lost motivation.
 
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Speaking of CGI, I heard there's a new installment of Jurassic Park in the works.

To be honest, I didn't like the first 2. Never saw the 3rd.
 
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The third was the WORST ... I think the movie was about 45 minutes long.. complete chopiness in terms of story sequence......ridiculous..

The first one was great.. concept action effects... that was a great summer movie... sure the science was off but who the hell cares, it had dinosaurs in it that looked real.

Also Lucas has made one good movie his whole life in which he directed ... American Graffitti. The acting in the first star wars is brutal... Empire was a thing of beauty because he had Kirschner or whomever direct it.

The new star wars are bad because he directed them... and the cheesy dialogue exists because of him.. he can't direct actors to be good.
 
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When you make a Harvard-educated accomplished actress like Natalie Portman butcher basic lines, you know that you can't write a script to save your life. Anyone who knows the line in the third new Star Wars film can attest to what I am referring to...
 
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The new Star Wars were abysmal. It wasn't the overripe effects so much as the total lack of personality. The characters were cardboard and lifeless. And that little wuss they got to play Vader...give me a break.

I'd probably rent a new Jurassic Park. I liked the first two and even the third one wasn't too bad.
 
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BTW, I saw "Rambo" the other day, I was shocked at how much I liked it. It's as good, if not better than any Rambo film, and Stallone does a much better job at ressurecting his 80's action icon than Spielberg/Lucas did with Indy 4.

The film is only 83 minutes, and flies by very fast. It's got non-stop action, and a pretty interesting if thin plot.

It's violent as all hell, but everyone expects that in a Rambo film, right?

A great action film. I highly recommend it.
 
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Went and seen "The Strangers" Friday night.

Stupid story line with a stupid ending, but what you'd expect from you're typical slasher movie.

It did have a few jumpy parts and I did like the use of the simple masks, but I suggest waiting for it to go to dvd before seeing it.
 
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I rented the Jodi Foster film, "THe Brave One". Skip it. It is very bad. It relies on non-stop coincidences to keep the story going and the ending is ludicrous to say the least. It was no "Death Wish" or even the recent "Death Senteance".
 
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I found this kickass list of Hollywood sequels which will pollute the market over the next couple of years:

The Brazilian Job

I Robot 2

I Am Legend 2

Beverly Hills Cop 4

National Treasure 3

Cars 2

Toy Story 3

Jeepers Creepers 3

Shrek 5

Night at the Museum 2

Crank 2: High Voltage

Transporter 3

Super Troopers 2

Silent Hill 2

The Descent 2

The Grudge 3

Ice Age 3

Ghost Rider 2

The Untouchables: Capone Rising

The Thomas Crown Affair 2

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Starship Troopers 3: Mauruder

Pink Panther 2

Ace Ventura 3 (no Jim Carey)

War of the Worlds 2

Scary Move 5

Saw 5

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/13412/30_upcoming_movie_sequels_you_didnt_know_about.html?redux

I put the ones in bold for the ones that I think, nay, I know, will be gay.

The ones not highlighted have a chance of not causing me to regurgitate
 
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