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The signs are all there, Einstein. Sometimes, you don't have to have tried something to know what it's really like when the pointers are all there. Nearly every review I've seen for Barbie from actual reviewers I trust describe it as some sort of anti-men propaganda piece, while Little Women has was similarly touted for being more feminist than the book (not as bad as Barbie, though).
If everyone's telling you a similar experience they had to a similar thing, chances are, you'll probably have that similar experience too. It's common sense.
No, it isn't. If it was, why don't you go give it a try yourself and let me know how it felt?
"I've never dipped my hand into a pool of lava before, so I guess I'd never know what it's like until I give it a try." - Kowalski
Worst of all, her movies seem to be getting more and more progressively (no pun intended) woke with each one. Granted, I haven't actually sat down and watched any of them yet, but judging by their plot premises as well as the reception each have received, it seems she went from being not really woke (Lady Bird), kinda woke (Little Women), to really woke (Barbie).
I wonder what she has in store for us next? A remake of Francois Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black with an even more anti-men slant than the original?
The only one who was the least bit memorable was Sheriff Teasle in the first movie and he wasn't even really a villain, he was just a douche. Brian Dennehy was great in the role but I wish the film portrayed him as more of a competent threat against Rambo like he was in the book. I haven't read it but supposedly, Teasle is a vet himself in that version of the story and actually uses Korean War tactics against Rambo's Vietnam tactics in the final act.
The Teasle of the film looks like he hasn't fired a gun in 20-something years.
Strangely enough, I actually don't rate DDL as highly as most people do. He's a good actor but to me, his acting feels very try hard most of the time. There isn't quite the sense of spontaneity and ease that folks De Niro and Pacino had back in their prime (even when they were playing really intense roles).
The one performance of his I DO rate really highly, is one that rarely gets talked about today, The Age of Innocence. There, Daniel comes off more subdued and natural than he's ever been in any of his other films, with every emotion being palpable but not overly pronounced. Maybe Scorsese's just a better actor's director than anyone else DDL's ever worked with (PTA, Spielberg, Sheridan etc), I don't know.
Oh yeah, fuck that guy. He's not even that funny most of the time. I think I laughed like 3 or 4 times while watching Deadpool.
In his defense, though, the character was drastically toned down from his psychotic, immoral self that was present in the comics. They made him into just another smartass, wise-cracking superhero (albeit, one who's more profane and crude), just like virtually every character's that's come out of a Marvel film since The Avengers.
Both those guys showed a fair bit of range in their early years but once they got super famous, they started being cast just to deliver their trademark screen persona time and time again. They are both immensely talented but I think both became victims of their own success in a way.
Ashley Laurence seems like the sweetest, kindest lady out there. That, and she's also ridiculously hot.
Wasn't he something of a diva back in his day? Don't get me wrong, I love Sly as much as the next guy but if reports are to believed, Stallone was quite an egotist and hothead during his prime years (probably mellowed out a lot over the years, I presume).
What about The Party at Kitty's and Stud's?
True, he's just known as The Rock everywhere he goes. No one's ever associated him with a specific role he did like with Arnie or Sly (Terminator, Rambo). Hell, no even seems to ever even quote any of his lines from his films or do any impersonations of him (or if they did, it would be of his wrestling persona only).
Dwayne is a strange case of an action star who's every bit as famous and successful as any of the major action stars that came before him (Arnie, Sly, Eastwood, Cruise, Chan etc), but whose legacy on film seems more on par with the likes of Seagal and Van Damme than anything. The odd decent, guilty pleasure action film popping up in his filmography every now and then, but no all-time classics like First Blood or Terminator or any particularly iconic roles either.
He's like the Denny's of action stars.
Ask how many did he watch without touching himself.
I think there's still plenty of great actors out there just waiting for their big break, the real problem is the quality of scripts they're given these days. Had if the 70's and 80's were as creatively bankrupt as Hollywood is today, I doubt folks like Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford would've gone very far.
I was surprised by how good it was myself. When I heard the news they were making a Furiosa spinoff rather than a proper Mad Max sequel, I was concerned it was gonna be the typical woke, man-hating SJW action film that portrays all men as either scum or morons that's all too common these days. Surprisingly, this was not the case, as Furiosa is even less woke than Fury Road (a film that I don't think deserves being dumped on as a "feminist flick", anyway) and is instead, merely a balls-to-the wall action film that serves as a nice companion piece to the last Mad Max film.
The only thing I didn't like was the overabundance of CGI. Some folks decried Fury Road for supposedly being too CGI-heavy (Rob Ager), but in that film, they used it to mainly enhance shots/environments that were already there whereas in Furiosa, it seems like they used CGI more often than not in place of real stunts and locations. Maybe Miller at his age just can't handle shooting extensively in the blazing hot sun while also coordinating complex action sequences anymore, I don't know.
Funny that made you reference to those movies, as I've noticed that they use the exact same font used for the poster of Aliens.
He got accused of rape and has since fled to Israel because of it. I'm not normally one for pointing fingers, but given how he just left the country without even wanting to stand trial, he's probably guilty.
Yeah, you're not missing much. I finished the series last week and it does not get better.
Out of all the ones I've seen...
Liked:
Beetlejuice
Batman
Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood (all-time fave)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Corpse Bride
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Disliked:
Batman Returns
Alice in Wonderland
Dark Shadows
Frankenweenie
A pretty shitty one, though.