Safe House

[mjmacky]

I know I'm guilty of personally setting the intellectual bar a bit lower for action movies, but it's more or less related to mood. Am I willing to kill 1.5-2 hours of time on a mindless action flick? Depends... am I busy, do I have some cool shows to catch up on, anybody post anything interesting on the internet? I treat movies with consideration of present alternative options and amount of effort I'm willing to exert, so it's really relative. Some of my favorites do include those mentioned here, Leon, Kill Bill, Sin City, but I don't honestly look at them in the sense of action flicks. Those were never and will never have to be pitted against my current mood.

Maybe instead, I could sit down and watch some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen in my life on Youtube...
Still, I have my own limitations.

Action movies I will keep aside for such times in the future: Killer Elite, Sherlock Holmes, Underworld: Awakening
Movies I'll probably watch with my in-laws: Safe House
Moves I won't watch: Mission Impossible 2012

[Artemis]

Endless and predictable violence performed by automatons wound up with ganglial motives is boring, insulting and stupid.
I can be like that all by myself.

Remind me not to drop in on you if I am in the neighborhood.

[IdolEyes787]

Action movies I will keep aside for such times in the future: Killer Elite, Sherlock Holmes, Underworld: Awakening

You know how some movies are so bad that they are good ? The Killer Elite and Sherlock Holmes are not among them.

Anyway who am I to presume to set standards for taste but personally I found Sherlock Homes to be so misguided in intent and so atrocious in execution that I would gladly watch a triplequadruple bill of Mission Impossibles instead.
As for The Killer Elite ,if Sam Peckinpah couldn't make a passable movie with that title ,what chance do you think Gary McKendry stands?(I've seen it btw and the only feeling that it left me with was "Gee that was a colossal waste of time as even with all the shooting ,nothing really happened").
Also I like Jason Stratham but to make him the star of a movie that also has Robert DeNiro and Clive Owen in the cast is just silly.

[mjmacky]

Also I like Jason Stratham but to make him the star of a movie that also has Robert DeNiro and Clive Owen in the cast is just silly.

I like Jason Statham doing the first part of films, up to about 5 years ago; e.g. Transporter 1, Italian Job (1st remake), Crank 1 (movie was so bad it was good), The One 1.
Crank 2 I refused to see, because a sequel to a movie so bad it's good is so much worse that it's the worst.

I went to see the somewhat recent Sherlock Holmes movie under the wrong pretext, since during the viewing I found out it was a silly action flick. I had planned to watch the next one as a silly action flick, but it won't bring me to a theatre. I'm a little disheartened to hear that Killer Elite didn't pan out (from anyone so far), I have a big man boner for Clive Owen.

Machete was a total pointless action flick, but it was awesome, could someone explain this and please don't tell me I'm broken.

[IdolEyes787]

[ I'm a little disheartened to hear that Killer Elite didn't pan out (from anyone so far), I have a big man boner for Clive Owen.

He is (imo) by far the best thing in Killer Elite but generally the same can be said about any movie that he's in.
I think he somehow manages to bring some gravitas to innately silly things like Sin City or Shoot-Em Up and therefore elevates them to being more than they actually are.The fact that he manages to do this while still keeping with the spirit of these movies is the talent.

I'm lobbying hard to have him replace Shia LaBeouf in the next Transformers. Not that I will be any more likely to watch it but there will then be slightly less chance of me wanting to kill myself and everyone involved.

[megabyteme]

I'm lobbying hard to have him replace Shia LaBeouf in the next Transformers. Not that I will be any more likely to watch it but there will then be slightly less chance of me wanting to kill myself and everyone involved.

First time evar that I am hoping LaBeef gets the roll. Sad day.