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So are you the director of this movie? I need a job. I just graduated from film school and I am really good at camerawork and grip/electric work. I have low rates. Please DM me for a resume.
OP is trying to paint Cavill as some sort of anti-woke martyr, canceled for speaking his mind against evil no-name liberal women who somehow have more power than one of the most bankable action stars in the world. I have a good idea who the OP and anyone who agrees with him could be.
It really just depends on the director.
FFC is an egotistical madman who has too much fun sniffing his own farts to listen to anyone's criticism. That's why he sold off his entire estate to make a movie everyone said wouldn't work, and didn't work.
John Carpenter became disillusioned with the film industry after the 80's, began thinking with his wallet in the 90's, and has since grown bitter and resentful of all the criticism that came his way his entire career. He's been his own biggest critic for several decades now. This might be the case with Brian De Palma too.
George Lucas never liked directing and has admitted to being bad at it. He's since nestled into a career producing role, a position he's much better and more confident at doing.
George A Romero stopped caring about his legacy and started doing whatever he wanted, regardless of whether it would be good or not.
Meanwhile, directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, and Clint Eastwood are all old legacy directors who are doing just fine, and some of them have released some of their best works past the age of 70. Speilberg with The Fabelmans and West Side Story, Scorsese with The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, Ridley Scott with The Martian, Eastwood with Gran Torino, American Sniper, Sully, etc. They've had ups and downs but they're still going strong.
I'll be seeing it tonight. I had high hopes about a year ago but everything since then has made my hopes dwindle. I was hoping this would be something more like Beau Is Afraid or Babylon, an ambitious movie that usually makes no sense but is at least one-of-a-kind and incredible in its own regard. I know Beau Is Afraid wasn't everyone's cup of tea but you cant deny the integrity and the dreamlike craftsmanship of that movie. Now I'm feeling this will be more like Southland Tales, or what would happen if Tommy Wiseau were handed a sheet of LSD and $120 million to make a blockbuster.
So what did you think
Most people in Hollywood probably don't care. There are way bigger issues, like child molestation and couch casting, for example. Brad Pitt has cheated on every single woman he's ever been with, and literally nobody cares.
We don't know what his kids think. The fact that he openly apologized about this whole thing shows he's actually a pretty caring human being.
Meh. People who are tryna blacklist Grohl, a successful millionaire, for cheating on his wife have nothing better to do with themselves. I have never cheated and probably never will, so I don't condone Grohl's action. But people are acting like Grohl should be canceled, which is absurd. I'd rather him cheat on his wife 1000 times than beat his wife once.
The real-world scenes are just as cliche and over-the-top as the fake world scenes.
The robber you describe doesn't at ALL feel like a real robber, he instead feels like yet another cliche action movie villain who even has a lame one-liner: "go fish, amigo." A real robber would probably flee at the sight of a witness instead of playing weird psychological games with them. The Robert Prosky character also feels way too ridiculous and overwritten to ever be from the real world.
The movie theatre has marques for fake movies like 'Blood Blood Blood' and 'Hacksaw Killers Pt 7' which are two of the most fake-movie titles I've ever heard, and the real movies playing, like The Seventh Seal, are 30 years out of date. I know Fathom Events are things but where are these movie theaters that only play classic movies?
Benedict shooting the mechanic in public with zero response simply would not happen. I get McTiernan was going for some sense of nihilism like everyone is desensitized to violence, but no. A loud murder would not go unreported. There might be a slightly delayed response but someone would absolutely call the cops.
You also have Jack Slater and kid using thin metal barrels as cover during the rooftop shootout at the end, as if metal barrels would protect them from heavy bullets. A cliche straight from a bad action movie.
That burglar was so ridiculous and one of the weakest elements of the movie. He feels just as over the top and cliche as the "fake world" characters. The writers did a bad job separating the fake world from the real world; all the characters feel equally as movie-esque.
I like John McTiernan's style and direction, and it makes the movie worth watching. But the script thinks it's way smarter than it actually is and it would've benefited from an R-rating. Hard to make a movie about gritty R-rated action crime movies with a PG-13. The scenes in the "real world" feel just as ridiculous and cliche as the stuff in the "movie world". It all feels the same. Lots of meta movies from the time period have the same problem, like The Hard Way for example.
I bet she would love Men Behind The Sun.
Those are all great. My three are:
1. The Cliff/Li fight scene
2. Cliff and Rick watching the Italian movie and giving their commentary on it
3. The penultimate assault scene
Really don't think he looks that bad at all. He's 78 for fucks sake, he supposed to look like Zac Efron? He looks like a pretty normal 78 year old man to me. My grandpa is 82 and looked about the same four years ago. Hell, look at John Carpenter, a few years younger but looks 20 years older.
meh, it's not great
Democrats are hating on this movie because it's terrible. It's very poorly made and, as the OP said, way too much stuff is crammed into this movie, to where the actual events are so simplified it's almost insulting to Reagan's legacy. This movie is basically the equivalent of those picture books where each page has one sentence written in a way that a 3-year-old can comprehend.
He was very poorly directed. He's a good actor but his dialogue was straight from a Dhar Mann episode and the direction isn't much different from that either.
But hey, he's fast, so it's okay to support him.
They most certainly do have reviews on IMDb, have you never written user review yourself?
I don't understand what you're trying to say. IMDb is FAR more rightwinged than Letterboxd. Compare the ratings of Reagan on both cites, for example.
I mean it'll probably be shit. IMDb seems to attract a right-leaning biased userbase just as Letterboxd attracts a left-leaning biased userbase.