Critically Evaluate the last movie you saw.

[IdolEyes787]

Olymputz Has Fallen or setting the bar for taking over the White House movies really,really low for White House Down.

While I understand (and generally appreciate) the visceral appeal of the lone wolf/one man army type of movie, this film is total shite.
OK maybe if you had never seen a movie or read a book the constant use hoary old cliches might not offend you, but for anyone who has.....

To whit (spoilers)

The disgraced agent , thrust by Fate into one last chance,against all odds chance for redemption.
The President's son emerging from the car just in time to witness his mother's death.Also the President's son knowing of the only place to safely hide in White House.
The traitor who enables all the bad stuff to happen . In this case not even given the pittance of a motive for his betrayal.
The faithful and long suffering wife who of course is also a lawyerdoctor.
A poorly thought out failed rescue attempt by the best equipped and most highly trained soldiers on the planet.Not to mention if the "Hydra" was such an awesome defensive weapon why wasn't the White House equipped with in in the first place?
After all other enemy opposition has been eliminated,a final hand to hand confrontation between hero and villain.Of course no matter how old or out of shape the villain is he is also the enemy most skilled at martial arts.
The bomb thingy gets defused but not until there are only a handful of seconds left.
Bejesus Christ they were so lazy they even recycled the villain from Die Another Day.

Not for nothing but seriously I could write a better script than this and would probably do it for a lot less as well.
Also I'd have the good sense to have the hero own a cute dog and at some point lose his gun and have to use a sword and also include some gratuitous nudity of some up and coming starlet who when she does become famous will probably never take her clothes off again.

[megabyteme]

and coming starlet who when she does become famous will probably never take her clothes off again.

I was ready to start hating her, but this story refutes the earlier "leaked" report: http://www.gossipcop.com/emilia-clar...-oona-chaplin/

[IdolEyes787]

White House Down

This movie wants so badly to be Die Hard that I bet it has a John McClane poster on it's bedroom wall.It even finds a way to get Tatum into the iconic white tank top by the end.

Anyway I more or less enjoyed it if there are some real problems preventing it from being anything more than a decent time-waster.

Among these problems is that unlike the original Die Hard it veers over the line of plausibility way too much,the comedy isn't well incorporated and so seems really out of place,the "bad guys" aren't nearly interesting or demonstratively "bad" enough,a lot of the secondary characters eat up screen time for no real purpose and any action sequence that doesn't end with mass CG destruction ,even the ,what should have been climactic battle between Cale and Stenz basically director Emmerich leaves to just fizzle out.

Channing Tatum is OK as is Maggie Gyllenhaal in what is essentially Die Hard's black cop role but as stated earlier the movie really could have used Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber instead of James Wood basically mailing it in.The less said about Jamie Fox's Jordan wearing President probably the better.

Still all in all ,infinitely better than Olympus Has Fallen and if I have nothing better to do I wouldn't be entirely adverse to watching it again.

[megabyteme]

White House Down's

I was expecting it to be a documentary on the Bush years.

[IdolEyes787]

The Lone Ranger

Too much farce,not enough heroics.Loved Pirates,hated this.

Anyway everyone is horrible in this,even Depp whose attempt at a Native American accent is a constant source of irritation but worst offender is Armie Hammer as the titular hero.Simply no charm to his character.
Other than that the movie has no sense of place as it's apparently trying and failing to simply mimic the lightening in the bottle that was the original Pirates of the Caribbean.

One sort of expects that as a Western/ comedy it would fall short of the benchmark that is Blazing Saddles but what is truly amazes is that Blazing Saddles also supersedes it as simply a Western.

Also surely someone must have seen how badly out of place and not to mention pointless considering the target audience, the inclusion of The William Tell Overture is? So why did they still include it when something actually rousing ( like the Pirates theme) might have gone a long way into rescuing the silly climax?

Really,really bad.So bad I resorted to fast forwarding through parts.I would be seriously surprised if come next Spring this movie isn't nominated for a bunch of Razzies.

Anyway don't take my word for it.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/r...anger-20130708

[pootystomp]

The Lone Ranger

Absolutely awesome beginning and ending action sequences, the middle two hours was a joke.

[RhuBarb]

Was looking foward to seeing The Lone Ranger, thanks, not sure if i'll bother now, that is a scathing review, ouch ..

[IdolEyes787]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

I started off hating this movie but by the end it had totally won me over. The scripts not great but some of the performances are,especially Logan Lerman who so transforms from the cocky,unlikable schmucks he played in The Three Musketeers and Percy Jackson that it frankly boggles my mind.
Also boggling to my mind is that a generation of people wouldn't immediately recognize "Heroes" by David Bowie.

Anyway coming of age for the win or something.

[mjmacky]

I started off hating this movie but by the end it had totally won me over.

Was it the actual ending that sparked the thought that it had won you over? It's been a while, but I recall the actual reveal being quite powerfully presented.

[IdolEyes787]

Was it the actual ending that sparked the thought that it had won you over? It's been a while, but I recall the actual reveal being quite powerfully presented.

It wasn't the ending although the reveal was pretty well done.Basically the movie began with me thinking that the writer was more interested in his own cleverness than he was with telling a good story but somewhere along the way I found that I truly cared what happened to these characters.
I think that is largely in fact due to shit writing where none of them are presented with having a mean bone in their bodies. So shit writing 1 - logic 0.