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I just finished it and wrote a review somewhere else basically saying the same thing. It felt like I was watching a 2000-2010's Clint Eastwood-directed movie.
Mardsen really showed me something here, especially in the diner scene. I didn't know he had it in him. Pacino embraced his age and was a lot of fun to watch.
I think what happened was people thought it was Keaton doing a Liam Neeson, cashing in a paycheck kind of role. I initially skipped it for a few weeks until a buddy recommended it.
Yeah, this was me. I was tempted to see it in the theater but I thought I'd wait for streaming. Don't get me wrong, I love going to the movie theater but a three-hour Western sounded perfect for a Sunday evening at home.
She's black, but oddly enough they kept her red hair.
Yep, no idea what they were thinking there. I am old and collected those issues when I was a kid. I know the Dark Phoenix saga almost page by page. I get they can't get that same story down, but it didn't even get close.
The casting of Jean Grey was essential to the movie, and instead the producer grabbed the most popular young redhead around (even though IMO she is a very wooden actress), then tried to force the bigger names in the cast to have equal parts in a movie about her. Top it off with the stars being so over the X-Men movies that they sleep-walked through their parts and you've got a disaster before the thing even comes out. I remember reading Marvel considered just shelving the thing completely then just letting it out to try to recoop whatever they could from it.
I'm right with you... IMO they shouldn't have done Dark Phoenix in this. It felt tacked on and forced. However, as an action-packed comic book movie it delivers like crazy. It's also got a big rewatchability factor I find lacking in a lot of the others. I guess it's just entertaining.
I'm procrastinating at work so I'll play... I like your ranking btw. It is always interesting to see where people put Last Stand.
MASTERPIECES!!!
1) X2
AMAZING!
2) X-Men: First Class
GOOD FUN!
3) Logan
4) Deadpool & Wolverine
5) X-Men: Days of Future Past
6) Deadpool 2
7) Deadpool
FLAWED, BUT WATCHABLE
8) X-Men: The Last Stand
9) X-Men
10) The Wolverine
11) X-Men Origins: Wolverine
BORING & FORGETTABLE
12) The New Mutants
THE ONLY TWO THAT ARE TRULY AWFUL
13) X-Men: Apocalypse
14) Dark Phoenix
The dynamic between the fake and real him is interesting to me. Who is Tony? The one at home? The one in the mob? The one who talks to the therapist?
I always found it to be about how, no matter who you are, you're going through the same crap as anyone else. Here's this huge mafia kingpin who is having anxiety attacks, has weight issues, is trying to have a work/home balance, has a spendy wife, has mommy issues, and deals with two brats who don't appreciate him.
Tony's up there as the biggest anti-hero on TV with Vic Mackey and Walter White.
In real life I believe cruise ships have small jails for unruly people. The Death Star had something like 2 million people on it. I would assume they have a jail for unruly personnel, just in case. Also, this was a military installation so I'd assume they hold enemy prisoners there while in transit to real prisons.
This is a great response. Some people are fat. Could be their fault, could be for a variety of reasons. Don't belittle them but don't encourage them to be that way. Just leave them alone.
You just brought me back to that crazy character. "The only thing that can kill Barnes.. is Barnes."
YOU ARE CORRECT SIR
He's always the lead singer of Oingo Boingo first to me.
That was her? I didn't even notice... and I even had two posters of her in my bedroom growing up!
Lee has a cameo at the end and they play a version of the song over the credits.
Spoiler alert!
Watched this again over the weekend and I must be getting old because all I kept doing was admiring the house (and the Porsche... man I still want a 928). The staircase, the kitchen, they even had a bar. That pond was deep enough for the girl and the piano to fully immerse. Who has a suburban house in Chicago with a pond in their backyard? Awesome.
Two seconds later you can see her grinning. Seriously.
It's the definition of a mediocre movie. I just like going to the movies and it fulfilled that itch, so I had a good enough time. If you're looking for something to do on a lazy Sunday, it's not bad.
Nothing new is presented here and the story is really recycled and drab. The acting is okay, nobody really standing out or trying too hard or too little (except Bill Murray who clearly didn't care a bit). There were a few good laughs. They leaned really heavily into nostalgia for the first couple movies - they even had a cameo of the curator and the ghost at the museum from the very first movie.
The lesbian ghost plot was completely left field, but there are so many characters to keep track of that you kind of blink and they have already moved onto another subplot or random scene.
It's one of those movies that you rather forget about the second you get home.
Good call I forgot about those! Good lord, that even adds to the churn, doesn't it?
Are those considered canon? I was kinda thinking about the 'main' Aliens franchise.
Broke into the wrong god damn rec room, didn't you!