Movie Discussion! - Page 307

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Despite being a sci fi fan, and having read Dick's work, I never actually gave blade runner a run through. Watched it a few nights ago and glad I did. Was interesting. The world is pretty wonderfully realized and you get a pretty intense sense of place, even after all these years. The pacing was a bit unusual for an 80's movie, but the 'antagonist' was great and it was easy to watch.

Here's hoping rumors of a sequel die a quick, painless death.

Y'know, I haven't seen this movie since it was released. I was 12. Even when I was 12, I knew it wasn't very good. So having found a high definition / remastered version and enough marijuana to sedate a small yak, my friend and I set out to watch it all the way through.

I'm not going to rip this movie apart, because its had 15 years of that already. To be honest, I actually enjoyed most of it up until the midway mark. The opening is set, quite pointlessly and heavy-handedly, somewhere involving something-something trade-disputes. Stuff starts blowing up, things get a bit spicy, and we learn that robots are evil and these weird Asian-sounding aliens are up to no good.


"They've gone up the ventilation shaft!"


The pacing is actually pretty good. Liam Neeson is kind of a boss, when he's not busy explaining medichlorians for no apparent reason. The acting is stiff and dialog is awful, blah blah, the usual -- but y'know, it was the same with the original 3. Lets not forget that.



Unfortunately, this movie does not have a Harrison Ford to man up and save the middle of this thing. And that's really where this falls apart. Precisely when we are subjected to 45 minutes of anakin and pod racing.

But then things get better when theres more battling and stuff and some jar jar antics (he's like chewbacca but not as interesting or funny and he sounds kind of rastafarian for some reason). And, in this movie's defense, it has some iconic star wars, as in, wars in the stars.


Wooohooooo!!! Yeeee-hawww! Got'em!

This kind of thing, its campy but fun. It sucks that this time around it involves a really obnoxious child-actor, but the elements were there.

That kind of serves to highlight my thoughts on this movie in general -- it had the recipe and formula down. It had the pacing, it had the scenes, it wasn't going to be amazing by any means, but it could have been a 'return of the jedi'. But it all kind of falls apart on the shoulders of a kid who should be worried about kid things, not saving a franchise.

While the story was a nice touch of fresh air in the generic world of blockbusters the strong part of this film were really the humorous parts where they used and abused the potential of the Game Over -> reload - gimmick. At the end (before the ridiculous happy end) just happens what you except to happen. Edge of Tomorrow was really good till the point when Cage (Tom Cruise) loses his resetting powers. From there on it becomes rather blank.

Then they went from blank to ridiculous with the mentioned happy end. In fact it was so rushed and completely detached from any logic it reminded me of the sarcastic happy end of The Last Laugh (1924) by F.W. Murnau. Oh Hollywood, the film would've been completely fine without the last minute.

note: by the way in case the one who possesses the powers of resetting time creates alternative realities: should be a really awkward situation for Rita (Emily Blunt) when she kills Cage in the training center with a headshot. A lot of explaining might be needed even for the Full Metal Bitch.