I know movies like this exist. This one just makes me laugh so much. How ridiculous. Wonder if it will become the most successful straight to DVD release.
Titanic II – Trailer
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I managed to see Avatar in 3-D last week, and influenced by the consensus of reviewers who concluded that the film looked good but was ultimately hurt by a terrible story, I entered the theater ready to dismiss the graphics as merely a step beyond what we’ve come to expect from Pixar and to be on the look out for the most egregious defects in the script. Yes, there were a few lines of dialogue that made me cringe, and the use of Bush-era rhetoric about war and terror was a bit heavy-handed for my taste, and constantly referring to the soldiers as ex-marines was a mistake (Cameron could’ve portrayed the soldiers anyway he wanted in his version of the future, so why lead us to believe that the army of mercenaries on Pandora is made up of former U.S. marines? Everyone knows at least one person who’s served in the military, and it just makes more sense for a storyteller to avoid anything that might cause your audience to side with your antagonists). But on the whole I enjoyed the film more than anything I’ve seen in a long time, and so I come before you today to praise Avatar, not bury it.
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“The Losers” is all style and no substance. The biggest surprise is that it wasn’t directed by Michael Bay. There were so many slow motion and moving camera shots that I swear director Sylvain White must’ve watched every Bay film before shooting.
Nearly every scene is in broad daylight, which is a dead giveaway that the budget wasn’t much. So I looked it up and it was merely $25 million. I know, I know, $25 mill is a lot but not in the world of action films. I’m impressed considering they got Zoe “Avatar” Saldana, Chris “Captain America” Evans, Idris “The Wire” Elba, Jason “Narc” Patrick, and Jeffrey “Dean” Morgan.
$25 million for film name actors, sure they’re not superstars but it’s still impressive. The actors must’ve taken a little bit of a cut in pay. The budget shows on-screen. I give White credit though, for being able to pull off a visually impressive film with so little cash.
“The Losers” is kind of like “The A-Team.” Five men, an elite special forces team, are betrayed in the middle of a mission by the mysterious “Max,” and left for dead. The men hide out in Bolivia formulating a plan to get back at Max and reclaim their lives until Aisha, Saldana, arrives and convinces the men to help her get Max and in the process return home.
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CLASH OF THE TITANS
Outside of my family I think I’m the only person I know who has seen “Clash of the Titans” from 1981. My parents showed it to me and I also remember watching it in school. We were talking about mythology or something and so we watched the movie. (I’m a product of Texas public schools if that clears up why I was shown the movie instead of reading some books.)
And of course it has been on TV a million times. So I don’t really understand how my fiancée and our friends have missed it. The only conclusion is that my friends had horrible childhoods. Although there was a recent discussion about the TV show “Hey Dude”, which I had never heard of, an indication that perhaps my childhood was shit. (Again being from Texas you would think I would’ve been a fan of anything related to a dude ranch. Well you would be wrong. Dude ranches are for everyone born outside of Texas. Texans know about ranches.)
I don’t know how I went from “Clash of the Titans” to dude ranches. Let’s get back on track people. So having grown up on the Harry Hamlin classic Titan film, I was obviously very excited about seeing this one. I nagged my fiancée like a child to see it with me but we never found the time. So I went on my own. I opted for the 2D because 3D blows. If I wanted to watch something in 3D I would walk around town and leave my eyes open.
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