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Get some streaming picks. Randi Stewart is a sergeant on a marine base where her father is the commanding officer. She is being treated by the new base psychiatrist, Bill Turner.
Her brother, Gordon Stewart is running for political office. General Stewart is murdered and Randi is the key suspect.
Once Bill starts investigating the crime through his treatment of Randi, he begins to uncover an unusually large amount of suicides on the base.
The intrigue grows and so does Bill's unprofessional feelings towards Randi. Is she the murderer? He doesn't really want to find out.
He just keeps getting sucked deeper and deeper into the "Quicksand". Written by DeMartini, Frank. Michael Dudikoff stars as Bill Turner, a marine psychiatrist who's new client Randi Stewart Brooke Thesis is accused of killing her father Gordon Dan Hedaya however some things come to surface such as meds with deadly side effects and such new things come to surface including Stewart's past that involves her brother a politician by the way in a story that manages to keep your interest throughout.
Quicksand is a collaboration between American Ninja veterans Michael Dudikoff and director Sam Firstenberg, back in the military horizons where American Ninja took place.
This time there are no ninjas And sadly no Steve James and what most surprises is just how much Dudikoff has softened his approach and has acted.
There aren't really a lot of action sequences Although there as an effective car-chase and Dudikoff doesn't do any ninjitsu that one would expect from the people who brought you American Ninja.
Quicksand is indeed somewhat old fashioned in the style it's made and directed, therefore the drama contradicts the look of the film at regular intervals while the terrible music score the film's major weakness comes off laughably overblown.
Still there are some effective moments and Dudikoff shares good chemistry with Thesis and Richard Kind. Hedaya is of course wasted and some of the subplots are half baked but I'd be lying if I said that this movie doesn't contain an energetic quality that keeps you mildly engrossed.
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Even the underwear is pretty chaste. So if your plot is a pink meteorite that falls to earth and turns the local women into Amazonian nymphomaniacs There is NO skin, no jokes, no movie The only reason this exists is so you can see the title on the IMDb and say to someone, "Did you know Sylvester Stallone had a brother?
Who was in a movie? David Boreanaz is not the world's greatest actor. I know this. He has good instincts, and has even been decent in some projects, but without an experienced director to really tell him what to do, he does tend to come off looking a little amateurish.
Don't know who Ari Ryan is, but kudos to him for getting a film made. I'm sure he was paid very well. But his direction is simplistic and camera-work uninspired and at times confusing , and for the first hour, all the characters do is bark at one another, whining about how they're not going to take part in a heist that we already know from the first scene is going to take place.
There ARE a few good one-liners Gary Busey managed to act sober for nearly all of his scenes. Vera Farmiga was a year away from "The Departed," and certainly does her best with what's given her, though that isn't much.
Her character takes an unnecessary u-turn late in the movie, and she motivates it as best she can. But left field is left field, and lousy writing is lousy writing.
The rest of the performances just kind of lay there. To even call Nick Lachey an actor is an insult to actual actors. The plot synopsis promised two gangs of thieves doing a heist at the same bank on the same day, but the reality is that a it's not a bank, it's a jewelry store, b they're not thieves, they're amateurs, and c we see a bit of the heist in the opening scene, then we flashback and they spend 90 minutes talking about it, to get us back there.
We already know it's going to happen, so where's the dilemma? Get to the good stuff, man, it's fun to watch RoboCop berate people and all, but no one's going to see your movie just because of Weller in a supporting role.
Really you could ditch most of the movies first half; Henry Thomas' character is at least interesting the lovable loser , but then the movie takes a giant crap on everyone around him in the final act, making all that set-up completely irrelevant.
Boreanaz' half of the movie isn't interesting at all; His character is a selfish, materialistic jerk, and he's surrounded by selfish, materialistic jerks.
The audience isn't interested. Get on with it. As a short film, this might work. It was a good idea. Unwatchable action sequences, too much exposition and too many bad actors nearly ruin the whole affair.
The few good actors make it watchable Someone give Henry Thomas a better movie, already. If you're not laughing yet, keep right on walking.
There's nothing more to see here. Still reading? Awesome: Fast cars, faster women, a stereotyped asexual martial artist starring along side a sex-addicted American super-agent named Richard Cannon.
The first time you see him, he's playing tennis against two topless women. Did I say action film?
It's a softcore adult film. With kung fu. And Chong Li from "Bloodsport. Is that good or bad? I'm not sure.
Neither is the movie. I saw this on accident, as it came as part of a double feature with "For Y'ur Height Only," starring 2'9" Filipino action superstar Weng Weng.
For once, this was a double-feature with everything. And I think this movie was actually the better of the two.
Judge for yourself, won't you? You'll be glad you did. This movie is better than every single one of those remakes. Plus it's got Shatner in it.
Why pay eight bucks for a movie ticket when you can rent this for free? Hey, in , this was probably considered a good movie If you've seen all the original 's horror flicks that didn't need to be remade in the first place, then track this one down.
It's not any dumber than "Jaws 2. I'd read somewhere that Dolph Lundgren got into directing a few years ago, when the next in a long line of straight-to-DVD cookie cutter action movies had its director get sick, so Ivan Drago himself just stepped in and took the reins.
Then I forgot about the movie for four years. I'm flipping channels today, and see the first two names in the credits: Dolph Lundgren With all this going for it, it should be one of the grandest movies of the 21st century.
Except, no. While not the worst movie I've ever seen, nor the worst action sequences I've ever seen, the action is still choppy, shot from entirely too close a range to see what's going on.
The acting isn't terrible except Dolph, though he's only required to stand there and look chiseled , but the plot is telegraphed in every scene.
Every good guy that turns out later to be shady, acts shady the moment they come on screen. Every character who is going to die, the camera lingers on them long enough to give them extra footage for future demo reels.
And Dolph's character is named "Lance Rockford. I am not making this up. Every action sequence is essentially the same, just a whole lot of bullet sound-effects and nothing interesting to look at or remember.
There was some mumbo-jumbo at the beginning where Lance Rockford was a POW in his past, as if to explain that the character is damaged or something.
It's completely unnecessary, as is about 45 minutes of the movie. By the time Lance Rockford is faced with a crucial moral dilemma, I honestly don't see how anyone watching it could care.
There are better places for your action fix, and better places for your Dolph fix. It's currently averaging around a 5. It's by no means worth a theatrical release, but nor is it Uwe-Boll-quality, either.
Guns fire, people shout a lot, and you'll find yourself getting bored when you're not studying the scars from Dolph's face-lifts.
But hey, Jerry Springer plays the bad guy, so that's worth a bonus point. And the pilot did not disappoint-- the show was funny, witty, and clever.
Everything we've come to except from Bryan Fuller, who would go on to create the similarly clever but low-rated "Wonderfalls," and the critical and popular smash "Pushing Daisies.
Whatever mess was going on behind-the-scenes, however, quickly began to spill over onto the show.
It swiftly began to lose its direction, being conceived as a dark comedy with moments of drama, but by the end of its first season, it's far more dramatic with only sparing moments of humor.
From the first episode to the last of season one, the Gravelings the tiny little CGI that 'cause' deaths go from dreaded demons to wacky comic relief.
In season two, their definition, motivations and character are changed completely. Anytime a show re-used footage from a previous episode, the writer of that previous episode was given a screen-credit, which is unheard of in television-- it wreaks of petty backstage squabbling and ego.
The first season sets up that George our main character and protagonist does not appear as herself to mortals, but by midway through the second season when Fuller was no longer involved , this has been dropped from the show completely, first when a character reacts to her supposed 'hotness' even though we've established that mortals see her as quite homely , and then she appears in a mirror as herself later on, sealing the sloppy writing by the new staff.
By the end of season two, the show had become a melodrama; season one was dark but witty in the beginning, even appropriate for children over Fans of the early episodes could not be pleased with what the show became, and fans of whatever the show ended up as, could not have known what was going on, because they were never watching in the first place.
The show was cancelled at the end of season two, and mercifully so. For a good time, watch the first half of season one, until Rebecca Gayheart's character departs Fuller departed after episode four.
After that, it is quickly downhill, as new writers are simply and obviously there just to collect a paycheck, clearly having petty arguments behind the scenes, and on top of all that, none of them have any clue whatsoever what to do with George's family.
But hey, at least everyone got paid. Yes, we all love BSG. But what if a creative team were given a show on Sci-Fi If this were to happen, the resulting show would be very much like "Flash Gordon.
Same character names all around? Exciting, new editorial changes, invented to showcase how brilliant the new producers are? You betcha.
Whereas BSG has drama, and tension, and memorable characters, the "writers" of this new Flash Gordon have made a series with none of these things.
It's not an action series, it's not funny, there is no dramatic anything. The first episode after the pilot seemed like it was headed in the right direction insect from Mongo stings Earthling, must rush to get antidote before victim OD's on seratonin , but then it went right back to nonsensical boredom, characters we don't care about on missions we care even less about, with the cheese of the movie removed and nothing new put back in.
To showcase the "genius" of these new "writers," let's look at their new contributions: they gave Dale a cop boyfriend tension, fine, whatever , they made Ming's henchman a generic-looking toadie, but one who rides a segway under a trenchcoat, and oh yes, they replaced Ming, an iconic bad guy from the last 80 years, and replaced him with The producers should be slapped in the face.
Other comments mention the acting, but the acting isn't all bad: the nerdy scientist, the bald best friend who vanished after the pilot, returned to get stung by that bug, then vanished again , and Flash himself are all decent enough actors, I feel bad for them that they got stuck here.
Dale and the cop aren't horrible either, but neither are they given much to do; their performances, as with the bounty hunter and Ming's daughter, are only one note because that's how they're written as far as we know , though if we recall, Ming's daughter in the movie was pretty one-note, too.
The staff writers don't seem like they're incompetent, but their bosses are. The direction isn't terrible, but what does it matter when the scripts are boring and empty?
After the 4th episode, I was done, and I'm pretty forgiving. Then I watched episode 5 just to see what they did with the Hawkmen.
Answer: You don't want to know. For all of our sakes, I hope the careers of those responsible for this "show" never, ever recover.
There is no reason to watch this. Even if you're just curious, please just read the bottom line: It's horrible. There's a shot pretty early on in this movie where the camera zooms in on a screaming woman who has just been wronged by Mr.
Fix It , continuing to zoom right into the back of her throat to her uvula, which then dissolves into a punching bag at a gym. Fix It" is cleverly written, well-paced, has some great visual gags, and Paul Sorvino for no apparent reason.
It's by no means theatrical quality you can see the end coming from ten miles away , but for straight-to-DVD, it's in the top tier.
The actors all start to look alike after a while they're all fairly generic LA-types, except for Sorvino and the radiant, subtle Alana De La Garza , and Boreanaz has limited range, but knows how to play to his strengths unlike, say, that other half of his former TV-romance.
He's the smug fratboy who's just a little bit more aware of what's going on around him, closer to his character on "Bones" than the dark, brooding The meat of the story was fun to watch, the set-up is clever, and this guy does some really evil things to the women he's trying to chase back to their former boyfriends.
Does he get his comeuppance? I don't think it's too big a spoiler to say that he does. What happens after that, though, takes only about 5 minutes of screen time and kinda ruined the movie for me.
It's difficult to talk about with spoiling it, but essentially, there's a new character introduced at the very end of the story, and we never get to know her, so we don't care.
Where a clever plot-twister like "Wild Things" spends 10 minutes of the closing credits revealing the behind-the-scenes, "Mr. Fix It" spend 30 seconds, and expects it to be satisfying.
But whatever. The getting there was fun, and I wasn't expecting art. And I always enjoy a good go-kart race. I had a longer thing here, but ultimately this movie isn't worth that many words.
It can be summed up in just a few, actually: Matthew Vaughn, longtime producer, directed the movie "Layer Cake. For some reason, afterwards, he decided he was a screenwriter too.
He isn't. His screen writing partner is someone with no writing to her credit, and according to the IMDb seems to be little more than a TV personality.
Their screenplay is awful, trite, simplistic and condescending, but you can still see the starlight of a brilliant book which I have not read shining through.
The actors mostly bring their A-game. Claire Danes is passable, but isn't a star either within or outside the movie , and has a horrible British accent.
Robert Deniro doesn't even attempt an accent, so at least he's playing to his strengths sort of. Name actors are given very little to do, and no-name actors are given huge parts to play.
The results are mixed. I did enjoy the movie while I was watching it, but afterwards I had time to ask questions. Questions like "why the heck was there only one guard on the wall hours a day?
Why not just cast 2 older actresses and save on the wrinkled latex? Just because you can direct a film does not mean you can write a screenplay.
See also "Spider-Man 3. This movie doesn't. It's just pretty okay. See you at the library. In , the martial arts movie was redefined by "The Matrix.
But for that 4 years, we had a short-lived champion It took something as historical as the Wachowski Brothers to knock it off its perch.
In this would have made a bundle, but today it's just something that might actually hold your attention on cable at 3 a. It's been about 48 hours now since I saw "Ocean's Thirteen.
The theater didn't laugh very often, I laughed less, and when the lights came up, my friends told me what a good movie it was.
I disagreed, but it took me a while to figure out why. S1, Ep2. When Inspector Nilsson grills Maja further about her relationship with Sebastian, she recalls a wild party he threw at the start of the new school year.
S1, Ep3. On the day of a funeral, guilt-ridden Maja itches to escape her cell. In a flashback, Maja's bond with Samir deepens as Sebastian spins out of control.
S1, Ep4. Sebastian's behavior prompts Maja to break up with him. During a police reconstruction of the shooting, memories of that day come rushing back to Maja.
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S1, Ep4. Sebastian's behavior prompts Maja to break up with him. During a police reconstruction of the shooting, memories of that day come rushing back to Maja.
S1, Ep5. When the trial begins, Maja - facing a possible 14 years in prison - testifies to Claes's true nature, and how her 18th birthday took a dark turn.
S1, Ep6. A witness who survived the shooting testifies that the night before the tragedy, Sebastian threw a party that ended in a shocking confrontation.
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I'll give Episode 3 about twenty minutes, but if it's not interesting, then I don't care what the rest of the show has to offer.
It's not fun, it's not funny, and only Scott Caan even bothers to play an actual character. I'm out, and I suspect the rest of America will be by mid-October.
There's over comments on the film a this point, so I can't say I have anything new to add or any new point to argue. The characters are exceptionally weak, and the screenplay reeks of a vanity project written by committee.
After watching "The Deer Hunter" for the first time a few months back, I was looking through criticism for that film, and recall one critic of the time saying that given too much money and time, it is entirely possible for a filmmaker to become so self-important that he could literally climb up his own ass.
More accurately, in her review of "The Deer Hunter," Pauline Kael spoke thusly: " It is a small minded film with greatness in it Daniel Day-Lewis goes beyond superb and achieves something even greater, but the film around him is so ambling and weak despite spectacular production-design , that there's still no reason to watch it.
A different filmmaker made the far more wise decision of letting Day-Lewis chew scenery as a lead and not as a supporting player, and that entire film was lauded with praise and positive reviews it richly deserved.
DiCaprio, though still a commanding presence, remains a weak actor without an ear for accents, as in this film he is only occasionally Irish.
He feels it is his job to simply arrive on set and glower or cry , and Scorsese is content to let him. The film is weaker for it, despite grand performances from every supporting actor, including Cameron Diaz.
There is no shortage of attractive blondes in Hollywood, but even in she was aware she'd better put something on screen besides her piercing blue eyes, and shockingly, she does She is charming and damaged all at once, from the first time we see her until about 80 minutes into the film The entire film is similarly rambling, with no direction or clear plot.
We're vaguely aware our hero wants to kill the man who killed his father, but he is given the chance several times and does nothing.
In voice-over, we are told, "You don't kill a King alone in the dark, but in front of the entire Court," but of numerous chances given, some of them are indeed quite public.
None are taken, as Amsterdams reasons for not doing so exist only in Scorsese's head, and not anywhere on screen.
Scorsese must have known this was a mess, because he pushed back the films original release date by a year, in order to keep working on it something unheard of, and a concession that could only be made to a director of his reputation.
He's made three more films with DiCaprio since then, and "The Departed" is easily the best of them, though by no means even in the Top Five for Scorsese's once-storied career.
If you're a fan of DiCaprio's strong presence, or weak acting, or his toned abdominal muscles, there are other films from not just Scorsese but other directors as well.
The IMDb trivia section says Scorsese wanted to make this film in the early s, but the failure of Heaven's Gate Michael Cimino's follow-up to "The Deer Hunter" caused studios to shy away from making big-budget, expensive historical dramas.
Miramax should have done the same in the early s, because there's nothing great about this film, and the only reason it got made is not because of any perceived greatness of Scorsese Maybe he's a little less Amsterdam, and a little more Bill, after all I caught this years and years ago on the USA Network, at something like 3 a.
At the time I was young and impressionable, and I thought I was watching something very dirty indeed. There wasn't much to see, but I was convinced I was watching an edited-for-TV version of a soft-core masterpiece.
Did I mention I was young? And, well There had been ZERO editing for that basic cable airing. No one get naked, and there wasn't even any swearing that I could recall.
Even the underwear is pretty chaste. So if your plot is a pink meteorite that falls to earth and turns the local women into Amazonian nymphomaniacs There is NO skin, no jokes, no movie The only reason this exists is so you can see the title on the IMDb and say to someone, "Did you know Sylvester Stallone had a brother?
Who was in a movie? David Boreanaz is not the world's greatest actor. I know this. He has good instincts, and has even been decent in some projects, but without an experienced director to really tell him what to do, he does tend to come off looking a little amateurish.
Don't know who Ari Ryan is, but kudos to him for getting a film made. I'm sure he was paid very well. But his direction is simplistic and camera-work uninspired and at times confusing , and for the first hour, all the characters do is bark at one another, whining about how they're not going to take part in a heist that we already know from the first scene is going to take place.
There ARE a few good one-liners Gary Busey managed to act sober for nearly all of his scenes. Vera Farmiga was a year away from "The Departed," and certainly does her best with what's given her, though that isn't much.
Her character takes an unnecessary u-turn late in the movie, and she motivates it as best she can. But left field is left field, and lousy writing is lousy writing.
The rest of the performances just kind of lay there. To even call Nick Lachey an actor is an insult to actual actors. The plot synopsis promised two gangs of thieves doing a heist at the same bank on the same day, but the reality is that a it's not a bank, it's a jewelry store, b they're not thieves, they're amateurs, and c we see a bit of the heist in the opening scene, then we flashback and they spend 90 minutes talking about it, to get us back there.
We already know it's going to happen, so where's the dilemma? Get to the good stuff, man, it's fun to watch RoboCop berate people and all, but no one's going to see your movie just because of Weller in a supporting role.
Really you could ditch most of the movies first half; Henry Thomas' character is at least interesting the lovable loser , but then the movie takes a giant crap on everyone around him in the final act, making all that set-up completely irrelevant.
Boreanaz' half of the movie isn't interesting at all; His character is a selfish, materialistic jerk, and he's surrounded by selfish, materialistic jerks.
The audience isn't interested. Get on with it. As a short film, this might work. It was a good idea. Unwatchable action sequences, too much exposition and too many bad actors nearly ruin the whole affair.
The few good actors make it watchable Someone give Henry Thomas a better movie, already. If you're not laughing yet, keep right on walking. There's nothing more to see here.
Still reading? Awesome: Fast cars, faster women, a stereotyped asexual martial artist starring along side a sex-addicted American super-agent named Richard Cannon.
The first time you see him, he's playing tennis against two topless women. Did I say action film? It's a softcore adult film.
With kung fu. And Chong Li from "Bloodsport. Is that good or bad? I'm not sure. Neither is the movie. I saw this on accident, as it came as part of a double feature with "For Y'ur Height Only," starring 2'9" Filipino action superstar Weng Weng.
For once, this was a double-feature with everything. And I think this movie was actually the better of the two.
Judge for yourself, won't you? You'll be glad you did. This movie is better than every single one of those remakes. Plus it's got Shatner in it.
Why pay eight bucks for a movie ticket when you can rent this for free? Hey, in , this was probably considered a good movie If you've seen all the original 's horror flicks that didn't need to be remade in the first place, then track this one down.
It's not any dumber than "Jaws 2. I'd read somewhere that Dolph Lundgren got into directing a few years ago, when the next in a long line of straight-to-DVD cookie cutter action movies had its director get sick, so Ivan Drago himself just stepped in and took the reins.
Then I forgot about the movie for four years. I'm flipping channels today, and see the first two names in the credits: Dolph Lundgren With all this going for it, it should be one of the grandest movies of the 21st century.
Except, no. While not the worst movie I've ever seen, nor the worst action sequences I've ever seen, the action is still choppy, shot from entirely too close a range to see what's going on.
The acting isn't terrible except Dolph, though he's only required to stand there and look chiseled , but the plot is telegraphed in every scene.
Every good guy that turns out later to be shady, acts shady the moment they come on screen. Every character who is going to die, the camera lingers on them long enough to give them extra footage for future demo reels.
And Dolph's character is named "Lance Rockford. I am not making this up. Every action sequence is essentially the same, just a whole lot of bullet sound-effects and nothing interesting to look at or remember.
There was some mumbo-jumbo at the beginning where Lance Rockford was a POW in his past, as if to explain that the character is damaged or something.
It's completely unnecessary, as is about 45 minutes of the movie. By the time Lance Rockford is faced with a crucial moral dilemma, I honestly don't see how anyone watching it could care.
There are better places for your action fix, and better places for your Dolph fix. It's currently averaging around a 5. It's by no means worth a theatrical release, but nor is it Uwe-Boll-quality, either.
Guns fire, people shout a lot, and you'll find yourself getting bored when you're not studying the scars from Dolph's face-lifts. But hey, Jerry Springer plays the bad guy, so that's worth a bonus point.
And the pilot did not disappoint-- the show was funny, witty, and clever. Everything we've come to except from Bryan Fuller, who would go on to create the similarly clever but low-rated "Wonderfalls," and the critical and popular smash "Pushing Daisies.
Whatever mess was going on behind-the-scenes, however, quickly began to spill over onto the show. It swiftly began to lose its direction, being conceived as a dark comedy with moments of drama, but by the end of its first season, it's far more dramatic with only sparing moments of humor.
From the first episode to the last of season one, the Gravelings the tiny little CGI that 'cause' deaths go from dreaded demons to wacky comic relief.
In season two, their definition, motivations and character are changed completely. Anytime a show re-used footage from a previous episode, the writer of that previous episode was given a screen-credit, which is unheard of in television-- it wreaks of petty backstage squabbling and ego.
The first season sets up that George our main character and protagonist does not appear as herself to mortals, but by midway through the second season when Fuller was no longer involved , this has been dropped from the show completely, first when a character reacts to her supposed 'hotness' even though we've established that mortals see her as quite homely , and then she appears in a mirror as herself later on, sealing the sloppy writing by the new staff.
By the end of season two, the show had become a melodrama; season one was dark but witty in the beginning, even appropriate for children over Fans of the early episodes could not be pleased with what the show became, and fans of whatever the show ended up as, could not have known what was going on, because they were never watching in the first place.
The show was cancelled at the end of season two, and mercifully so. For a good time, watch the first half of season one, until Rebecca Gayheart's character departs Fuller departed after episode four.
After that, it is quickly downhill, as new writers are simply and obviously there just to collect a paycheck, clearly having petty arguments behind the scenes, and on top of all that, none of them have any clue whatsoever what to do with George's family.
But hey, at least everyone got paid. Yes, we all love BSG. But what if a creative team were given a show on Sci-Fi If this were to happen, the resulting show would be very much like "Flash Gordon.
Same character names all around? Exciting, new editorial changes, invented to showcase how brilliant the new producers are? You betcha.
Whereas BSG has drama, and tension, and memorable characters, the "writers" of this new Flash Gordon have made a series with none of these things.
It's not an action series, it's not funny, there is no dramatic anything. The first episode after the pilot seemed like it was headed in the right direction insect from Mongo stings Earthling, must rush to get antidote before victim OD's on seratonin , but then it went right back to nonsensical boredom, characters we don't care about on missions we care even less about, with the cheese of the movie removed and nothing new put back in.
To showcase the "genius" of these new "writers," let's look at their new contributions: they gave Dale a cop boyfriend tension, fine, whatever , they made Ming's henchman a generic-looking toadie, but one who rides a segway under a trenchcoat, and oh yes, they replaced Ming, an iconic bad guy from the last 80 years, and replaced him with The producers should be slapped in the face.
Other comments mention the acting, but the acting isn't all bad: the nerdy scientist, the bald best friend who vanished after the pilot, returned to get stung by that bug, then vanished again , and Flash himself are all decent enough actors, I feel bad for them that they got stuck here.
Dale and the cop aren't horrible either, but neither are they given much to do; their performances, as with the bounty hunter and Ming's daughter, are only one note because that's how they're written as far as we know , though if we recall, Ming's daughter in the movie was pretty one-note, too.
The staff writers don't seem like they're incompetent, but their bosses are. The direction isn't terrible, but what does it matter when the scripts are boring and empty?
After the 4th episode, I was done, and I'm pretty forgiving. Then I watched episode 5 just to see what they did with the Hawkmen. Answer: You don't want to know.
For all of our sakes, I hope the careers of those responsible for this "show" never, ever recover. There is no reason to watch this.
Even if you're just curious, please just read the bottom line: It's horrible. There's a shot pretty early on in this movie where the camera zooms in on a screaming woman who has just been wronged by Mr.
Fix It , continuing to zoom right into the back of her throat to her uvula, which then dissolves into a punching bag at a gym. Fix It" is cleverly written, well-paced, has some great visual gags, and Paul Sorvino for no apparent reason.
It's by no means theatrical quality you can see the end coming from ten miles away , but for straight-to-DVD, it's in the top tier.
The actors all start to look alike after a while they're all fairly generic LA-types, except for Sorvino and the radiant, subtle Alana De La Garza , and Boreanaz has limited range, but knows how to play to his strengths unlike, say, that other half of his former TV-romance.
He's the smug fratboy who's just a little bit more aware of what's going on around him, closer to his character on "Bones" than the dark, brooding The meat of the story was fun to watch, the set-up is clever, and this guy does some really evil things to the women he's trying to chase back to their former boyfriends.
Does he get his comeuppance? I don't think it's too big a spoiler to say that he does. What happens after that, though, takes only about 5 minutes of screen time and kinda ruined the movie for me.
It's difficult to talk about with spoiling it, but essentially, there's a new character introduced at the very end of the story, and we never get to know her, so we don't care.
Where a clever plot-twister like "Wild Things" spends 10 minutes of the closing credits revealing the behind-the-scenes, "Mr. Fix It" spend 30 seconds, and expects it to be satisfying.
But whatever. The getting there was fun, and I wasn't expecting art. And I always enjoy a good go-kart race. I had a longer thing here, but ultimately this movie isn't worth that many words.
It can be summed up in just a few, actually: Matthew Vaughn, longtime producer, directed the movie "Layer Cake. For some reason, afterwards, he decided he was a screenwriter too.
He isn't. His screen writing partner is someone with no writing to her credit, and according to the IMDb seems to be little more than a TV personality.
Their screenplay is awful, trite, simplistic and condescending, but you can still see the starlight of a brilliant book which I have not read shining through.
The actors mostly bring their A-game. Claire Danes is passable, but isn't a star either within or outside the movie , and has a horrible British accent.
Robert Deniro doesn't even attempt an accent, so at least he's playing to his strengths sort of. Name actors are given very little to do, and no-name actors are given huge parts to play.
The results are mixed. I did enjoy the movie while I was watching it, but afterwards I had time to ask questions.
Questions like "why the heck was there only one guard on the wall hours a day? Why not just cast 2 older actresses and save on the wrinkled latex?
Just because you can direct a film does not mean you can write a screenplay. See also "Spider-Man 3. This movie doesn't.
It's just pretty okay. See you at the library. In , the martial arts movie was redefined by "The Matrix. But for that 4 years, we had a short-lived champion It took something as historical as the Wachowski Brothers to knock it off its perch.
In this would have made a bundle, but today it's just something that might actually hold your attention on cable at 3 a.
It's been about 48 hours now since I saw "Ocean's Thirteen. The theater didn't laugh very often, I laughed less, and when the lights came up, my friends told me what a good movie it was.
I disagreed, but it took me a while to figure out why. I think, ultimately, the reason the first movie was so good, was because it was fun, funny, and witty, but still knew the difference between "when to be funny" and "when to not be funny.
The situations were potentially dangerous, and you got the sense of real peril for the characters. You knew what was at stake. It was a real movie, and just as good on repeat viewings, due to a really original and fresh approach as well as some great one-liners.
The second movie wasn't reviewed nearly as well, and having watched it again since, it's really not bad either, except for the huge and sudden changes in tone throughout, as well as the fact that it pulls the last 10 minutes out of its rear end.
It was originally written as a different movie, then re-tooled for the "Ocean's" cast, and you can kinda tell; it's darker, tries to be more clever than it actually is, and as a result, is a lot less fun.
Whatever strengths the first two movies may or may not have had, the third is lacking them all, except the actors. But the plot is minimal; whether there was a screenplay or not and there was, from the writers of "Rounders" , you still get the impression that this is just an excuse for buddies to hang out in Vegas and shoot a movie, a la "Blue in the Face" back in the mid's.
No one has to do any heavy lifting, and the only actors who even try are the bickering brothers of Casey Affleck and Scott Caan, and of course Pacino, though he could be phoning it in too, and you'd never know it.
Whether you're a movie fanatic or not, the three films can still be summed up by their opening shots. In the first film, cut to: a chair.
Clooney sits down in it. The movie itself is really about him, and what makes his Danny Ocean tick, not just before, but during, and after the action.
In the second film, cut to: a magnifying glass. Brad Pitt walks into a room, and the next minutes is a closer look at Rusty's life and his relationship with the woman he wakes up in that first scene.
Third film? Cut to: a toy store. Yeah, that sounds about right. Soderbergh ain't so dumb. Few directors have name recognition these days, and even fewer directed their first film in or after the Clinton administration.
But David Fincher is a household name in some circles, his visual style in unmistakable and unequalled, and some might say, he can do no wrong. The biggest problem with "Zodiac" is that if it were a book and it is , it would be in the True Crime section of you local bookstore.
Books of this type sell very well, but I've never been a big fan. This film is essentially a police procedural, with not one protagonist but two-- Jake Gyllenhaal's Robert Graysmith disappears for huge stretches as the story focuses on Mark Ruffalo's Inspector Toschi, and his attempts with Anthony Edwards' Inspector Armstrong to track down the titular killer.
Is it riveting to watch? Is Fincher's visual style evident in every frame? I think so, yes Early in the film, Ruffalo looks out at late 's San Francisco, as a fire truck drives down the street toward him.
The attention to detail is mesmerizing. The question for the story is, would I watch it again? Probably not, but you can't have everything.
Bonus points for style and some outstanding casting, but as for rewatchability I'm not so sure. Time will tell.
What I fail to understand is why if "The Usual Suspects" was so incredibly popular because it was so freakin' good , "The Way of the Gun" gets stepped on, both at the box office upon its initial release, and in various, snarky IMDb user comments.
This movie isn't just good. It's DARK. There's not a single character in the movie who's likable, and some viewers attack that like it's a bad thing.
The story line is complex, the relationships between the numerous characters are subtle and nuanced; and still, some viewers attack that like that's a bad thing.
Just because a viewer doesn't understand something, doesn't make the film bad. It's a difference of opinion, absolutely, but that doesn't make "The Way of the Gun" a bad film.
Au contraire, this is a very smart film Because they wanted it to be simple. They wanted easy answers, a clear-cut good guy and bad guy, and a happy ending.
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