When you see a film review containing the words What the picture represents, in a very real way, is the death of cinema you know you have to go and see it. Especially as I was planning to anyway.
Well, I loved the first one, so unless the second one isn't as good (always a possibility) and doesn't live up to the trailers (which were excellent), I'll probably be happy.
It may just be that we have different taste in movies, too :-)
I can't think of any thing in the theatre's I want to see, right now . . . I did enjoy dumb and dumber-er . . . if only for seeing Bob Sagat say "shit" 8 or 9 hundred times.
It was well beyond stupid . . . a genre my wife and I tend to gravitate toward. We go for the brainy artsy films . . . and the mindlessly unredeamable ones.
I have to admit to being somewhat similar. I need films that are either serious, and treat themselves seriously, or films that refuse to do so.
So I loved Armageddeon because it refused to take itself at all seriously, The Bourne Identity because it never showed me anything I couldn't believe, and Charlies Angels because it was amazingly cool and completely unbelievable all the way through.
All of them were obviously written by smart people - either smart ones trying to draw me into something, or smart ones having a good time. Films that expect me to take them seriously while presenting something that's completely unbelievable aren't interesting to me at all (most action movies, for instance).
I completely agree with you about both the first Charlie's Angels movie (which I enjoyed and found better than I expected) and any of the alleged comedies like Dumb and Dumberer - modern humor often baffled and appalls me.
I knew the first CA movie would be fluff, with was very pleased to see that it was surprisingly well-intentioned and well-executed fluff, which exceeded my expectations - I primary went to it because my friend Dawn wanted to go, and she is excellent at providing a deeply amusing running commentary for dubious films (which was thing that made seeing Bulletproof Monk at all tolerable.
he heh. Did you see the (mtv?) 'ass coach' thing with the CA crew. Hilarious. Especially for Sean who came in halfway through and was much baffled.
I only go and see filns with explosions in. Sean says he goes to the cinema to take his brain out for a while. I don't mind, most more 'intelligent' films are about people's relationships with each other (and usually about sexual and/or love type ones too) which is something that I'm just not interested in. I don't need to dpress myself about how stupid and overly emotional most people are.
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I don't intend on it, at least not intentionally. I doubt there's any thing offered in the movie, aside from bikini-shots.
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I'll let you know :->
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I can't think of any thing in the theatre's I want to see, right now . . . I did enjoy dumb and dumber-er . . . if only for seeing Bob Sagat say "shit" 8 or 9 hundred times.
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I liked phone booth.
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So I loved Armageddeon because it refused to take itself at all seriously, The Bourne Identity because it never showed me anything I couldn't believe, and Charlies Angels because it was amazingly cool and completely unbelievable all the way through.
All of them were obviously written by smart people - either smart ones trying to draw me into something, or smart ones having a good time.
Films that expect me to take them seriously while presenting something that's completely unbelievable aren't interesting to me at all (most action movies, for instance).
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I knew the first CA movie would be fluff, with was very pleased to see that it was surprisingly well-intentioned and well-executed fluff, which exceeded my expectations - I primary went to it because my friend Dawn wanted to go, and she is excellent at providing a deeply amusing running commentary for dubious films (which was thing that made seeing Bulletproof Monk at all tolerable.
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I only go and see filns with explosions in. Sean says he goes to the cinema to take his brain out for a while. I don't mind, most more 'intelligent' films are about people's relationships with each other (and usually about sexual and/or love type ones too) which is something that I'm just not interested in. I don't need to dpress myself about how stupid and overly emotional most people are.
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I don't tend to like relationship centred films, unless they're comedies, because I can't take them terribly seriously most of the time.
And the ass coach thing was great, if a bit too long.