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I am surprised that NO-ONE has mentioned "The Magnificent Seven" (1960 version)
From your viewpoint. But it's okay if you don't like the film. I would be a fool to think that just because I liked it, everyone else would.
I guess time had a way of making us forget things. Here is the spoiler, if you want:
<spoiler>Warner's character is beheaded by an out of control truck backing up at him and when it stops, it releases a big piece if sheet metal it was carrying, taking off his head.<spoiler>
There is always someone ...
I take it you haven't seen the film.
There was some blood. Maybe not enough to satiate gore hounds. But the staging of the "event" was beyond belief. It looked so real!
Why do some people point out another person's nationality as a bad thing? "(both Jews btw)" If an actor is good, then it should not matter.
"...This was a great movie. It all felt genuine enough and wasn't filled with all the woke nonsense that takes you out of the movie. We may've lost Hoffman but we still have some greats out there in that vein like Giamatti"
Hoffman? As in Dustin Hoffman? I don't think he has passed away yet.
I agree. Giamatti is a great actor. And I also agree that "The Breakfast Club" and "Dead Poets Society" are great movies. The closing speech the kids give to the teacher in "The Breakfast Club" always brings a tear to my eye, because, like many young people, I grew up in that situation, so I could identify with at least two of the students.
It may be sad, boring and depressing ... to you.
But it is what real life is like some times, and therefore, for me, it was realistic, humanistic ... and subtly humorous.
If someone came to you tomorrow and asked you if you wanted to know your own fate, would you want to know?
And if you did find out, would you not try to prevent it?
I agree. "Shogun", "The Thorn Birds" "The Bourne Identity" and "The Count Of Monte Cristo". All good series and films.
However it is said, I am very worried about this film.
I was all for an updated version of "King Kong Vs. Godzilla" which I loved as a kid, but rewatching it, realized how hokey it actually was. It was just fun to watch guys in rubber suits smash highly detailed miniature cities.
But in "Godzilla Vs. Kong", for me anyways, everything was going fine (even when Godzilla, supposedly a protector of humanity and the Earth's natural balance, suddenly when crazy and started attacking the human installations) until Kong found that glowing axe and then turned into a monster version of Thor!
From then on, the movie, to me anyways, turned into a joke.
Yea. I agree. The very fact that he used profanity shows his lack of intelligence. Plus, his punctuation is all over the place.
I can see that you are of the camp "monster smash...people boring".
Then don't go see "Godzilla Minus One". You will be disappointed.
The human story actually makes more sense than almost any other Godzilla movie I have ever seen. The characters are engaging.
You won't like the fact that Godzilla shows up in the first 15 minutes and then vanishes for a few years and then comes back as a bigger threat.
This won the Oscar for best special effects, but you won't like it because it isn't a "monster smash everything all the time".
You have a right to your opinion, but personally, I think "Godzilla Minus One" blows all other Godzilla movies out of the water!
It seemed to me that Godzilla (2014) seemed to borrow the essence of Godzilla (1998)'s soundtrack.
I can understand how many people look at Sam Wilson becoming Captain America as woke. But, they probably haven't read the Captain America comics.
For quite a while in the comics, Sam Wilson was Captain America.
I plan to buy it also, but it's worth checking out for free, if it is indeed there.
I took it to mean that they thought that all cops are bad. Something they heard or were taught by their parents.
You do understand that the scene was an homage to The Three Stooges, right?
He killed two or three of the thugs in the desert. He just couldn't get a bead on Joshua before the head guy found him.
And he really wasn't bragging to Murtaugh about his skills. Watch the scene again and you will see that he says "it's the only thing I was ever good at", but he doesn't seem proud of it. It seems to me that he feels he is useless otherwise.