I've seen this movie twice, I honestly don't see that much wrong with it, plus it's a John McTiernan movie. I know this film has got it's problems, like when Chris Klein and LL Cool J are on the motorcycle in the desert, and they use that spring sound effect, and the editing is bad. I know of two other people who thought that this movie was pretty decent, but all in all, the pluses for the film are equal to it's problems.
sharethis is a good film, the game between the Horsemen and Golden Hoarde is ace.
shareThis movie is a piece of crap if you see it sober, try getting drunk in pure vodka and/or rum, then go see it, actually it start to make sense the movie...
But other than that, yeah, the movie is pretty bad... too much of the "I do what I want, when I want, nobody tells me what to do, I'm the good bad boy...", typical hollywood, disapointing actually considering the Director made excellent movies such as the Thomas Crown and 13th Warrior, now this were movies that really impressed me.
It was strange though. Lucia Rijker who was supposed to be Indonesian spoke Dutch, Rebecca Romijn (Aurora) who was Dutch had a Russian accent and Jean Reno who was Russian (Petrovich)had a French accent. But I liked it. I haven´t seen the original though.
shareIf you see the original, you will enjoy it far more than this. Another case of the original being far superior in terms of actually being a movie (FX and updating aside)
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I don't see what was so bad about this movie.. I thought it had a little bit of everything and the sport itself is an interesting thing.. People who believe that originals are always far superior can lick my sack because I don't think I've seen ANY remake where the original was better.. I am a Chris Klein fan and I think this was one of his better acted movies.....
I wouldn't say its a 10.. but definately enjoyable to watch
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Bring your helmet.
I wouldn't say it was a 10 either.
This is the first film I've ever seen which actually made me feel physically ill, or at least the first half did. After 45 minutes of this cretinous crap I had to employ regular use of the fast forward button, stopping only when things looked interesting. This was when the screen went green for several minutes. I thought something had happened to my TV. It turns out to be a scene filmed in infra-red (or a green filter) for some reason. Thillled by the exciting new moviemaking technique a watched for a bit more. I had no idea what was meant to be happening but niether did the director or actors, so that's ok. At least it meant I caught the infamous cartoon BOOIINNG sound which made me laugh at least. I also liked the was the ratings went up instantly when something exciting happened in the game. Presumably all those people who weren't actually watching the game were on the phone to someone who was in case somebody got their head smashed in or something.
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by - redean (Fri May 28 09:54:41)
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It takes something special to make something this bad. There were so many things that would have stuck out as being terrible in any given movie - put them together in one movie, and its genius.
- The cartoon Boing sound when they drive through the barbwire at top speed
- The poor dubbing of the cursing
- The steaming over RRS's breasts
- The painted on beard that Chris Klein grows overnight.
- The night vision. Oh, how I love the night vision.
And that doesn't even take into account the story bits that make NO SENSE.
-People bash each other with weapons all movie - when Chris Klein gets into a fistfight, the crowd thinks its too hardcore
- They declare " no more penalties", but they never called a penalty before that point.
And the best part is when the TV executive does a jig when he sees the insta-ratings go up.
Make another one, McTiernan.
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when the movie is bad the movie is bad
I enjoyed it. Not the best film ever, and some bits were annoying (nightvision, boingy sounds, etc), but it's still fun to watch.
Jean Reno makes a great villain, one of those characters you can really despise. When Chris Klein was clubbing him to death at the end it was such a relief, because I'd got to the point where if he wasn't killed soon, I'd throw my TV through the window!
Usually, this sort of big, dumb, generic action flick is the kind I'd avoid, but I got absorbed into what was going on, I just didn't want to turn it off. It has a few bad points (OK so it's a lot more than a few), but it was entertaining enough to keep me watching. 6/10
I just recently watched this movie on TV and I watched it aghast. I actually thought it was an April Fools Joke or something - or that I'd got stoned without knowing it. Best thing about the movie are these posts. I haven't laughed so hard in yonks. :D
It was Tiernan just copying the other films of the same ilk that come with meshing Hong Kong with Hollywood. Whereas I love Hong Kong action and some of the hybreeds - this was really bad.
I don't want to upset anyone but I think that some of that "bad editing" was actually intended.
I watched it letterbox format - and the most hilarous thing was when the format and not the actually camera shot did a turn.
I thought that the night vision was cool. Added an intense believability to the film, which although wasn't a classic, wasn't all bad.
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This is one of the top 5 worst movies I have ever seen, what a piece of CRAP!!!!
shareIn my home country of Madagascar, Roller ball is the main sport. We play it everyday... all the time... a lot. We have an average of 13 deaths every twelve hours of gametime. I still don't understand why the heck we have people on roller blades and motorcycles chucking solid metal balls at eachother. Someone is going to get run over or knocked in the head with one of those flippin metal balls! Don't tell me no one thought of this! It's bound to happen. I joined the military to avoid playing roller ball! Well the point is that my family has had three roller ball related deaths in the last five years. One of them was my kitty, whom i brought to the arena to see my brother play. She leaped out of her cage and ran in front of my brothers motorcycle, I still have no idea why the heck they have flippin motorcycles, was run over causing him to fall and impale himself through my father! Then he died five hours later from food poisoning! All because of roller ball! so think about that the next time you want to watch rollerball. Inconsiderate ugly not attractive ugly little stubid big jerks. please pray for kitty.
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Motorcyle Rollerball is the most popular version of the sport, but in many parts of the world, they still play with rickshaws, per the original rules. Snowmobile Rollerball was an official sport in the 1972 Winter Olympics, but because of the increas in fuel prices from the oil embargo, that variant died out. Dune Buggy Rollerball is still popular in Central America. Of course, for most children in America, trying to play a little pickup Rollerball in their neighborhood, its hard to get together enough people with motorcycles, and children have to settle for beating each other to a pulp on bicycles.
What few people realize is that Rollerball was developed by the Lakota tribe, who used horses to get around and struck each other with their coup sticks. Also, rabbits were not in abundance on the plains, so the "rabbit hole" was originally praire dog tunnels expanded to fit human competitors. The name was changed when the Americans contacted them and were unable to pronounce their name for prairie dog. The popularity of the sport soon spread throughout the tribes of the upper plains, where it is still a popular diversion on the rez to this day. This is why the American team has been proportionally overrepresented by its Native American population in the past few Olympics, where they have thrived under the leadership of Joseph Skates-Like-Wind.
shareOkay this movie sucked, technically it really did blow. But if you just enjoy being entertained by extreme violence, fast motion action seens and ECW/WWF(E) announcer Paul Hayman smoking pot and yelling a lot... then this is the movie for you. Regardless of its flaws I had fun watching it and I bought the DVD for 7bucks at Rogers Video. I figure it was worth the price.
It also has one of my favourite lines in a bad movie... Jean Reno screaming at Shane McMahon that he will "make disappear your whole family" in that great french accent of his.
All in all... this is just a fun, bloody, horribly acted, technically inept, but still fun action movie.
- It also, i think, tries, and almost succeeds at making a commentary on the negative direction that sports (real sports - not like WWE), as violent entertainment, is heading into.
PLEASE DON"T WATCH THIS FILM!!!!!! A portion of it was filmed in my hometown Lethbridge Alberta.... and the fact that they put my homecity in this insult to mankind is embarrasing.....
share... you don't mention any "pluses"... !
There's definitely something rustling behind your curtain...
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