atom bomb?
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leonthecleaner-1 — 12 years ago(September 28, 2013 11:42 PM)
Yes that's the one. I think that might be my first movie that I have seen him. The main woman character was weak but I found Bale pretty good in that movie, and I am not really a Bale fan.
Some people were saying it's from 1984 the movie which I have seen afterwards and was shocked because I thought it was terrible.
There is a lot of cool scenes in Equilibrium and the music rocks too.
The kids were interesting for sure, good contrast.
I think this director doesn't do typical hero movies that you are talking about. Ultraviolet was the same where the heroine was very strong/invincible. -
megoobee — 12 years ago(October 07, 2013 10:51 PM)
Reign of Fire was the first movie I saw with Christian Bale. Reign of Fire was a low budget dragon movie that could have and should have been a lot better.
The movie poster was deliberately misleading and implied massive helicopter vs dragon battles. In actuality, there was only one helicopter in the movie and it was not even armed.
It's a shame because the dragon special effects were pretty good, especially for early 2000's CGI.
If you haven't seen it, envision "Mad Max" vs. dragons. -
leonthecleaner-1 — 12 years ago(October 09, 2013 05:41 PM)
Yeah I like that movie, I saw it later on, but Denton Van Zan that guy was insane. Going 1 on 1 to a dragon, he is legend. It's not a strong movie, but yeah some good scenes.
Have you seen Pacific Rim? I just got it on bluray. -
megoobee — 12 years ago(October 12, 2013 03:53 PM)
Matthew McConaughey is under rated when it comes to action roles. As you indicated, he played the almost psychotically focused Denton Van Zan really well. I thought he was really good in "Sahara" which was unfortunately a theatrical flop. It was meant to be a fun movie but the story included a political undertone which the general public don't usually like.
I haven't seen Pacific Rim yet, waiting for it to show on one of the movie channels. What's your opinion, worth paying the price of a rental? -
leonthecleaner-1 — 12 years ago(October 13, 2013 04:42 PM)
I like that actor too. I like Killer Joe and Frailty. He is good for sure. Sahara was on a flight I was on years ago, didn't watch it, but I know the kind of movie. I am not a fan of those either.
I think Pacific Rim is worth seeing once. I only saw one trailer, and it should be better than Battleship. I just wanna see the effects and hope the story is ok. There are a lot of "brags" from the effects side from what I have read, in terms of new tech and methods used.
Same reason I enjoyed Transformers because of world class fx, but the story was ok. Like some of the jokes were entertaining. Though now I would only watch certain scenes. -
megoobee — 12 years ago(October 14, 2013 09:10 PM)
Transformers was a treat for all of us kids who grew up in the 80's. Making the movie now was the right time - had it been made 20 years earlier, the primitive CGI and/or stop action "claymation" style special effects would have not done the characters justice. I think most fans of the original cartoon were satisfied with how the characters were represented.
With all the cyber-robotic eye candy on screen, what more could you want, right?
If you ask Hollywood, you need to add pretty girls, unnecessary characters (ie: unfunny wise cracking donut eating hackers and used car salesmen), toilet humor (Bumblebee "lubricating" the Sector Seven guy) and pointless dramatics. (Jazz gets ripped in half by Megatron and dies but the radio shape shifting Decepticon survives being cut in half with a saw)
Distractions aside, I think the CGI was great. It didn't matter if the bots were transforming, whacking each other senseless or just standing around talking, they were great to watch. Modern special effect is so good you have to wonder how much better it can get? Scrawny Steve Rogers/Chris Evans, that was remarkable how they took a skinny body double and seamlessly grafted Chris Evans head onto it.
I'll see about getting a copy of Pacific Rim, maybe it will surprise me and be entertaining. -
leonthecleaner-1 — 12 years ago(October 16, 2013 03:30 PM)
lol don't. I watched it yesterday, probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I didn't care for the characters, no story, acting, even effects couldn't save it. I would probably rate it 2 if I am generous.
Yeah vfx is not getting so much better than it's getting faster to do in terms of computation. Most of the developments I have seen are going in that direction. A lot of processes still take so much time to compute. -
megoobee — 12 years ago(October 18, 2013 04:01 PM)
I thought it looked kind of dumb from the trailers, people running around like hamsters inside the bots. You would think they would have developed some sort of cybernetic interface to link the operator's brain to the machines. Human thought would be way faster and more accurate than using arms, legs and hands to control those bots if you ask me.
I'll grab a copy anyway and check back. Sometimes, bad movies are so awful that they become entertaining. -
leonthecleaner-1 — 12 years ago(October 22, 2013 06:22 PM)
Yeah the tech wasn't very smart at all. I thought they wanted to have 2 people so that they can do this group dance sort of moves that's in sync which wasn't very good anyway.
I also saw Oblivion and that was very bad too IMO, though not as bad as this one. -
megoobee — 12 years ago(October 26, 2013 03:36 PM)
Hmm, I saw the trailer for Captain American 2, it looks like a conspiracy themed story. Not sure if I understand that, he goes from fighting Red Skull/HYDRA to fighting Government elements against SHIELD?
Captain America was the weakest prequel leading up to The Avengers and I don't see this film as being much of an improvement. Iron Man and Thor were the best prequels in my opinion. IMDB shows a 7.9 rating for Iron Man, 7.0 for Thor, 6.9 for The Incredible Hulk and 6.8 for Captain America. It appears many movie fans are thinking along the same line as I am.
Captain America and his WW2 team just seemed to be a copy of the Inglourious Basterds team. -
leonthecleaner-1 — 12 years ago(October 27, 2013 03:14 PM)
For me I guess it would be:
Iron Man > Thor > Captain America > Hulk series
I think Iron Man and Thor was world class quality in everything. Really liked them, even though I am not a comic book guy who knows all the details. I thought Captain America was gonna be worse but I think it was better than Hulk movies.
I hope Thor 2 delivers. I haven't seen Captain America 2 trailer but hope it doesn't go down like Iron Man squeals. -
megoobee — 12 years ago(October 27, 2013 11:40 PM)
Thor 2 looks good from what I've seen so far. Not sure why they had to bring Natalie Portman back as his love interest but I'll give them the benefit of doubt.
It's going to be interesting seeing how long Loki stays aligned with the "good" side. There's a glimpse of Loki battling Thor so it's a given the conflict between them will continue. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing Thor 2.
Not very enthused about Captain America: The Winter Soldier at this point. -
leonthecleaner-1 — 12 years ago(October 28, 2013 08:09 AM)
Me too. I thought Thor was gonna be bad but was surprised by how good it was. Like the first fight in the beginning was cool. Destroyer was also great to watch like how she jumps on top of him and pins him, etc.
Thor vs Destroyer should have been longer and better, but still.
Overall too many great scenes.
Also looking forward Transformers 4