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How about you just re-release Halloween 4 with a better mask digitally added.
Yep, it was awful. No redeeming value at all.
Why is Conor McGregor weirdly grinning all the time, and acting like an idiot? Do the writers,producers watch the UFC at all? He's a better villain if you just let him be himself and just talk shit.
They replaced Brad Wesley, the main villain from the original, with this trust fund douche bag son of someone we never see. And this guy isn't threatening at all.
Dalton comes in and just immediately gets along with everyone. Part of the charm of the original is how cagey Dalton is, and also when he sees all the other current bouncers stealing, and taking advantage of their positions, and he tells them to hit the road. That part adds some nice tension to the situation and sets up later events. This has fucking nothing like that at all. No charm whatsoever. If I told ChatGPT to write an action movie that's like "Roadhouse" this is what it would come up with.
Jake Gyllenhaal looks weird and roided up. Every time he has his shirt off, I think that his head doesn't match how jacked he looks. It looks really manufactured. Swayze was so much better.
Apologies for calling your take Awful. I just hate the bullshit that Hollywood is producing right now.
I still maintain that the "dumb fun" from that area is different than what is being produced now. Most "guilty pleasures", as they call it, you actually want to watch again. You add them to your library. I don't see that with this film, or anything else that is being produced.
But yeah, if you like it, it's your opinion.
Awful take.
Don't see how any of the films you listed compare to this pile of garbage. They are all from the '80s/'90s when writers/directors knew how to make action films. They had bad ass heroes with attitudes, villains that were true scum bags, and hot woman with loose morals.
The heroes didn't drive the villains, that he just beat up, to the hospital while they exchange friendly banter. Fucking writers now a days have only seen Marvel movies, so that's the only kind of dialogue they know how to write. What a joke.
Compare this remake to the original "Roadhouse", and it loses every single category.
Fuck Hollywood in 2024! I'll stick to watching films from the past like the ones you listed.
1. Die Hard
2. The Fifth Element
3. Die Hard with a Vengeance
If you watch "Crystal Lake Memories", she says that she would've been willing to be topless for the scene, but they didn't negotiate that before filming. They wanted her to do it on the spot. So, it was an issue with money more than anything.
A photographic memory. Wish I had one, It's like a real life cheat code.
Couldn't have been cast any worse.
I'm now convinced that studios in 2024 are just intentionally trying to piss off the fan base of their IP and lose money in the process.
As usual... None.
Michael has every opportunity to randomly stalk the neighborhood and kill as many people as he can find just like "Halloween 2018". Instead, he is completely keyed in on Laurie. He stalks her wherever she goes, in broad daylight even, and he steals the tombstone of Judith and sets it up for her to find. This is more than just claiming another victim.
That's why Halloween II (1981) fits together with the original like a glove, and is way better than any of the other sequels. The brother/sister angle makes sense. Plus, you get a great performance from Donald Pleasence and Nancy Stephens in this amazing scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iirUmQhNAZc
No, I think he destroyed it so they would remain isolated, and so The Thing could not make it to civilization.
If you like Country, this is my favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NxyEAzgMOY
It is, it hits all the notes.
John Hughes was a master at capturing that suburban family Christmas, and all that goes into it.
Long John Silvers
Evil Dead 2
The Exorcist over The Sting
Star Wars over Annie Hall
Raging Bull over Ordinary People
Field of Dreams over Driving Miss Daisy
Goodfellas over Dances With Wolves
Shawshank over Forrest Gump
L.A. Confidential over Titanic
Private Ryan over Shakespeare In Love
Green Mile over American Beauty
Almost Famous (Not even nominated) over Gladiator
Finding Neverland over Million Dollar Baby
Inglourious Basterds over The Hurt Locker
Money Ball over The Artist
The Wolf of Wallstreet over 12 Years a Slave
Home Alone
Christmas Vacation
Die Hard
Go back to the drawing board and remember what got you here.
You started this whole thing with a brilliant casting choice in RDJ. He's charismatic, likeable, but also arrogant and flawed. You want to spend time with him and follow his story. Likewise, you continued to make really good casting and directing decisions. The Russos took this franchise to heights no one thought possible.
After "End Game", you just completely fell apart and forgot what got you to the top of the mountain. Your choices of casting, writers, and directors has been a dumpster fire. You pissed off the people doing your CGI, and now it's very sub par. Kevin Feige, and his underlings, could not have handled this post-"End Game" era any worse than they did. You turned a machine that was literally printing money into a giant flop factory.
Sly with Rambo and Rocky.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
Seriously.
If you shot someone multiple times, point blank, and they fell off a balcony, you would be raving like a maniac too if you looked down and they were gone. Especially if you already suspected that they weren't human.