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That doesn't mean anything at this stage. All hyped up films like this start off with high ratings on IMDB before their release.
I think the critics' reception is enough to go on to suggest this film is going to be no more than average. Shame as this last film has been set up nicely by its predecessors to have a lot of potential and would have made for a decent trilogy of films.
The people that have kept it going all these years have ruined it. People that favoured quantity and money over quality.
If anything this just further confirms that the show should have ended ages ago.
The show has ruined its legacy with this inferior, average, shadow of its former self period that has gone on now for almost 20 years. 10 or so years ago if I ever saw the question 'What are the best ever TV shows?' on say forums or message boards, this show tended to be the answer people would instinctively give. Saw the question pop up in the last year, and barely anybody mentioned it. I guess that is partly down to new great shows that have come into existence since, but I'm pretty sure it's also because of how you can now associate this show with how downhill it's gone and having more bad than good. Such a shame.
Dwayne Johnson is going to have to don a blonde wig I guess.
It's the sort of thing the PC-pushing liberals that have been running this franchise would do, so I wouldn't be surprised. I refuse to believe that out of the three films it won't feature a gay or lesbian character. It's bound to.
The less explained it is the more people feel compelled to think about it and debate it. I like that in a film where it leaves you to think after it ends.
It's funny, before I had even seen the film I saw a picture they used in Empire magazine for their film review, and it was of her character outside holding a gun with a fearful expression on her face. Even from that picture I thought the acting looked bad.
There is a lot in the Indiana Jones franchise that is hard to digest. I mean the submarine scene is too I guess, but at least you could suggest that the submarine never submerged and that's how Indy made it out alive.
I think a lot of it is to do with how it's presented on film. The idea of Indy getting into a lead-lined fridge to survive a nuclear blast is one thing, but to show the fridge flying through the air, seemingly the only object from that fake town that is seen flying that far, right above the bad guys in their car, then bouncing around with Indy falling out alive, is another.
Take for example the scene of Indy being dragged along the ground by the truck. In real life this would leave Indy as a bloody and bruised mess, yet we can buy it to an extent because they recreated it using actual stunt work. No such stunt work for the fridge scene, mainly because of how over the top it is. But then Crystal Skull had several of these OTT scenes that could have been jump the shark moments. The vine swinging with monkeys and Marian's driving a car over a cliff onto a tree, were just as bad.
Looks like M. Night is back to being rubbish. Probably believed his hype again after Split.
That might be my favourite scene in the film, but all of it is highly entertaining to me.
One of my favourite films for sure.
Yeah. The closer you view her face, the more you notice that it looks like work has been done to her. Still very pretty though when seen at a bit more of a distance.
Never found it particularly funny or cute, but didn't find it to be an overtly feminist moment. Just a male character acting protective over a girl character when the girl feels there's no need for it.
Wasn't it suggested that Finn kind of liked Rey, when he asked if she had a boyfriend earlier on? So you could say there's as much an element of him wanting to hold her hand in a romantic way.
Anyway, there were worse things that bothered me in this, and in comparison to TLJ, it's like a drop in the ocean.
Very true. It makes an absurd and over the top event look like it could actually happen, and told from these people's perspective through a camera, means that it puts the viewer in their place, with little idea what's going on as well.
I first watched this when it came out. I think it benefits watching it on the big screen at the time of release with little idea of what to expect, as it doesn't hold up quite so well on repeat viewings on a smaller screen.
Saw this movie for the first time no more than a month ago. It really is just an inferior version of Halloween, with worse acting, and cheaper scares. The rating is generous if anything.
The UK is pretty relevant to the Hollywood acting world, which is why they keep choosing UK actors to play America's classic superhero and comic book characters.
There are plenty of bad things about it. The scenes at the start depicting New York in the 1930's are done well, and you can't fault Serkis's performance as Kong. Other than that, there's not that much I can praise it for. I want to praise it for the special effects in places but in some scenes the green screening effects with humans alongside CGI is embarrassing and unforgivable.
It's that magical transporter that finds itself in many films. Doubt there was really any way for Cruise to be out of the club before Foxx, but he is. I kind of forgive it because it's there to help emphasise that no matter what Foxx does, he can't get away from this guy.
The choreography/extras (whichever you want to blame) was pretty lame in this one. I don't think there should be any excuses to get it right for those fighting in the foreground compared to in the distant background. Wasn't this one of the most expensive films of all time? Can they not afford better extras/choreographers?
At least in Alien it's more forgivable, in that some untrustworthy android isn't telling him to take a look, and there hadn't been any death and destruction prior to Kane looking into the egg. Plus he had a helmet on.
We're not privy to the attack on the hotel clerk. For all we know Anton may have sensed that the hotel clerk was going to warn Moss and so he killed him. Moss did ask the clerk to call him if any guy checked in.
There's probably an element of underestimating Moss from Anton also.