Very Bag Things was a pretty entertaining black comedy...
Friday Night Lights was fine for what it was...
The Kingdom was really good...
Now he's just a Michael Bay clone... Battleship...Lone Survivor... Now this... American flags waving all over the place... Over the top special effects.
Sad what has become of him.
I liked The Kingdom, had a cool Michael Mann feel about it, but this and Lone Survivor are very uninteresting to me. And Battleship, wow forgot about that one. Maybe he's just a really patriotic guy, but it kind of feels like pandering at this point.
shareDon't forget about the Rundown, one of the most enjoyable action/adventure movies from the early 2000s. Definitely the Rock's best lead performance as an action star.
What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.
Berg is just another interchangeable Hollywood Ho.
shareHis career trajectory is similar to Alex Proyas's...
shareGod, how can someone go from the likes of The Crow and Dark City to Gods of Egypt? I practically worshipped the young Alex Proyas when I was a teen, now we're both 20 years older I watch his earlier movies and cry tears of sadness.
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Lone Survivor was a very good modern war movie. He has also always been a military fan. The only "Michael Bay" clone movie he made was Battleship.
shareLone Survivor-military men who lost their lives because they made a moral choice.
Deepwater Horizon- Working men who were attempting to earn a good living for their family's. Many of whom lost their lives and many of whom did heroic things during a horrible accident.
Yeah what a hack Berg is for wanting to tell the world these peoples stories.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ... Oh, Sorry I drifted off during your American Patriotic Crap...
shareMangoon just sent me a PM of a list of his favourite movies:
- Act Of Valor
- 13 Hours
- Pearl Harbor
- American Sniper
- Red Dawn (both versions)
and a video he made himself that's just 24 hours of the American flag waving in the wind.
He was never that good in the first place. Very generic. At least triumphalism has the potential to be kinda rousing. It's preferable to masquerading as having something substantial to say... Might as well go for dumb sentiment than try to be intelligent, and fail.
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