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Well, I remember he competed on Celebrity Boxing. And, Beavis & Butthead made fun of his name in an episode of their show.
It's currently 5.6. I would say it's a bit underrated, not much though. 6.5 would be overrated IMHO.
Theres not much in the genre to grade against, as a cyber thriller. Hackers, Jonny Mnemonic, Source Code, Blackhat, and Nerve are all better movies. Jonny Mnemonic is probably the most comparable to Virtuosity, they are very similar, and close to the same age.
It's definitely worth watching though if you like the genre, for sure. Other people won't get over the aged special effects and out of place soundtrack.
Disagree. Brosnan Bond films strikingly mark the end of an era in the way the films were made, with miniatures and comic book style gleefully evil villains.
Daniel Craig Bond films were an obvious reworking to compete with the success of Bourne. It was the Bourne movies, and somewhat the Mission: Impossible series that increasingly made the archaic Bond formula appear more and more outdated and ridiculous.
Your assessment is laughably off-base. The Brosnan Bond films will live on with an endearing campiness however, to remind us of less serious times.
After a recent viewing, I had the thought, this is the best Bond theme to date.
Kenny Loggins owned the 1980's, and I don't think people realize it.
Rocky V is incredibly dramatic. I honestly think the street fight is what most viewers were taken aback by, like they were cheated out of a real Rocky fight because of it. Other than that, this movie has the most dramatic elements since Rocky II, especially with Adrian.
This movie actually has some tear jerking moments in it, if you give it a chance. The endearing flashback with Micky is gut-wrenching for me, and the ending montage with the overlapping melodramatic Elton John's Measure Of A Man, absolutely fantastic. That's actually the best montage of the entire series, as it goes through snapshots of all 5 movies up to that point. For me it's dramatic because it not only shows Rocky's long journey, it also reminds you that you've shared that journey with Rocky, with Stallone. It takes you back and makes you think about where you were in real life when you first saw those moments on the big screen, or home video...whatever you were doing at the time. It's like looking through a photo album.
The Rocky V soundtrack is great too.
Krasinski looks like Screech from Saved By The Bell for crying out loud, just without the white boy afro. Must have been a humorous casting meeting, when they all decided THIS was a good cast for an action role.
Forget bluray, it's time for a UHD 4k release. True Lies is the absolute worst dvd I still own in terms of picture quality and audio.
James Cameron is one weird guy to keep holding out on this.
Yeah, she had her big Charlton Heston moment and told Fox to kill her off.
Tom Cruise is arguably the most successful movie star of all time, and he's not done yet. Bigger than Clark Gable, bigger than John Wayne, than Eastwood. Cruise has shown a much better grasp of discriminating which roles and projects to agree to do, when compared to the likes of contemporaries. How many true flops/stinkers are in the Tom Cruise filmography? Not many, be honest. Not many when you look at some of Clint Eastwood's cringe worthy films and I love Eastwood also. Stallone and Schwarzenegger are really bad matched against Cruise films, as far as good to bad ratio. Stallone has even stooped so low as to do some DTV projects! (Avenging Angelo)
Elton was a snob and a half. Duh.
The drama in TRW is better. That's the difference really. I think with Fury Road, George Miller set out to produce the greatest action spectacle of all time, and he may have succeeded in that, as FR is an amazing adrenaline rush.
Drama matters. Do you really care for Immortan Joe's brood maidens as much as you care for the nearly helpless residents of the fuel refinery? Most of the characters in Fury Road are not sympathetic players. There's no guy walking through the desert shackled to a timber, after eating only one finger scrap of Dinki Di that the dog couldn't finish off. Drama.
Now do Robert KKK Byrd.
Maybe if you really want to, you can just volunteer to be a prisoner.
Agreed. By the time this film hit theaters, I had come to appreciate that the series was going with a different director with each film and therefore, a different type/style of Alien movie. Each of the first four are uniquely constructed, that each stands on its own quite well, and still managed to hold the meandering character development together somehow. There are many characters and different iterations of Ripley, but I don't find it confusing.
I thought Resurrection developed the idea of the Alien adapting to any vessel and/or environment the best with the introduction of the aquatic Alien. I also was never more terrified of any of the monsters more than I felt with The Baby, which I find absolutely horrific.
But actually the original, like it really wasn't, like, terrible at all.
This was a textualized version of scrambled eggs.
I like this take.
This is a finer crafted film. On it's own it's the best Hulk movie, but it didn't fit with what Marvel was doing in the future. I love the comic book visual transitions, which I never understood why people hated that so much? Hulk has a well developed origin story in here, and the desert battle against the military is epic, among the best action in any Marvel movie.
I really couldn't stand the 2008 movie. Edward Norton is very limited as an actor anyway, and then you're just trying to placate all the complainers of the 2003 version. It just didn't work, I thought it was a terrible movie.