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Wow...how was this made?


So lets try to touch up on everything wrong with this movie. This will take awhile.

Its going to start with the locker room scene...why? What was the point of showing all that azz? They talk like no one has ever talked. It's just male nudity and bad dialog.

Start off with the way too long intro scene where they murder the guy in a public place and no one seems to mind. First thing that kills me. When they synchronize their watches to coincide with turning off the power, it has no point. They didn't do it at the same time, and then, for no reason they start to count down again at a random time...why?

So then they kill everyone (In which Marky Mark breakdances on the floor. Which, you might spin alot while breakdancing, but you're in the same spot while spinning, making it pretty easy to aim and kill). There are 3 women in a hot tub with a dead guy bleeding in it. And then the stud assassins try to hit on the women and I guess they weren't really feeling it since they had blood on them and just witness a dozen people get murdered. So because they don't want to do them right then and now, the frat boys call them lesbians...wow

So lets skip some awful and get to where they kidnap the asian chick. By the way, we are halfway into this movie now. We hate all the main characters because their are the biggest d-bags ever, and our main character is a liar and cheater. Lets skip Christina Applegate's story. Also the black chick too. It really doesn't matter. But lets go over the kidnapped chicked getting dropped off at Walbergs house.

She basically screams all over the house and no one notices. Mark keeps shoving her in the bathroom (which by the way, apparently has two doors. There is a part, where Christina Applegate wants to get into the bathroom, passes the closer door to the bathroom that we don't know exists, and goes to the further door that Walberg is at. Why did she go to that door?) There's terrible ska music that plays through it all and basically you're hoping to die. It finally ends and we get to the most jaw dropping part of the movie.

So the asian girl and Marky are in the house by themselves. REMINDER: WE ARE MORE THAN HALFWAY THROUGH THE MOVIE AND THIS IS THEIR FIRST SCENE ALONE TOGETHER. First part goes without saying, the bathroom scene. This would never happen right? Like...if you're kidnapped, and have been screaming all over thouse 10 minutes earlier? But now she's getting off on him tugging on your panties? Then we go back out to the living room. The scene plays out like a first date. It weird because the whole part has to take place in a manner of 2 hours max. And during that time they basically fall mad in love with eachother. But not really because she try to escape really badly. But in this part, is a part where they are making dinner together, and they are basically finger banging eachother's hands while putting stuffing into some cooked bird. It a scene that leaves an audience speechless.

So then it ends when Kelly Bundy and her family get back. Apparently the jewish mom has convinced her daughter in a couple hours to break up with her fiance. Something she had no intentions of doing earlier. GOD I'M NOT EVEN REALLY GETTING INTO LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS YET. Ugh this movie is so bad. Anyway, we have a really bad mexican standoff scene where Mark should have gotten killed if they didn't just wait to kill him for no reason.

Blah blah blah blah, for some reason every main character runs into eachother in their cars even though they didn't know where eachother was at, blah blah blah, Walberg grabs some cash then leaves it in the car later, blah blah blah.

So were at a movie rental store (for those too young to remember, that how one used to watch movies without buying them before netflix) and the asian chick and Marky are in love...I don't know how this happened. They only had the one part in the house together. And since the movie needs to tell you whether its Friday or Saturday, we know that this all happened in one day in just a few hours. And the last time they were togther, the chick tried to escape...

But they're in love. And as they're tongue dancing, LDP comes up to kill Marky. Lets go over Phillip's motivation. He only wants to kill Walberg because he needs him to die to save his own skin. But he has such a misappropriated anger toward him. Walberg did nothing to him. Absolutely nothing. He just needs him dead to cover his tracks. The motivation doesn't justify the rage he has.

Fight scene near a cliff (why is the video store by a cliff?) fight scene in a video store (dramatic!) and a awkward death scene (why do you care what he says when he dies?) and Marky fakes his death in an explotion. He then meets the chick again (in which, hello guy from the first action scene of the movie who shows up again randomly!) and hey live happily ever after even though they only had one time together in a house in which she tried to escape.

LIGHTNING ROUND!!!!

Why are all his friends such a holes when LDP takes credit for the kill at the beginning yet he they know Marky did?

What is with the guy with the masturbation addiction? So...just awful. BTW, at the beginning, which is only a few days from the end, the guy says he just jerked it for the first time the other day, but when they're at the movie rental place, he has his face on the wall for being the adult renter of the month. 1. who would want their face on the wall for that. 2. hasn't he been only jerking it for a few days?

The rape culture in this movie was really really creepy.

So the asian rich dad. He apparently is going to kill himself because he's broke. But his best friend (I'm assuming their as least really good friends because their godparents with eachother) has tons of money because he's a mobster of some sort. The black mob boss couldn't help out the asian dad with the money? I assume he could give him some sort of supervising job.

All hitmen drive minivans?

I could go on really if I gave more thought. I can't believe this has a 6.1 rating. I would destroy every copy of the movie if I could.

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All of what you said.....that's why it's such a great movie! It's a comedy with some action thrown in.

Btw...the girl has a thing for Melvin when he first shows up to pick her up/kidnap her. She's definitely checking him out. Then when all the cars almost hit each other, she's like "That was intense! ". Intensity has started many romances/flings. She mentions how her dad pays her no attention...Melvin is very caring with her. And Melvin has a huge need to be liked. He sees that this girl actually likes him and isn't using him like the other women in his life.

As far as why LDP really wanted to kill Melvin...yes he wanted to save his own ass of course. But I think some of it was also personal. He knew Melvin was the best in reality and he was the best only in name. I think he wanted to prove he was better.





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Tl;dr

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Yeah this movie is all over the place. It's like a style over substance type of flick, but even the style part of it is ugly and full of leather aprons and dyed red marky mark hair. The whole thing makes no sense, every character is just awful, the effects are crap (I really liked the streaks behind him to indicate he's running fast) and whoever made it really likes to see guys in their underwear. How did this even get written, approved, given money, filmed, edited, and distributed with nobody pointing out how awful it all is...

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Seriously, dude. Get a life!!!

This is a goofball action comedy wit lots of black humor.

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You sir are an idiot

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mirror...

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Too long to bother to read.

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Ohh chill out dude, its a Comedy

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As everyone else said, it's a comedy. That should have been very apparent when the two hitmen hiding around the corner jump out after Mark Whalberg has killed everyone and they start shooting the corpses on the ground and then fist bump each other afterward, as if they've done their job.

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