The Call of the Wild (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7504726/ The budget was $135 million? I know the dogs and other animals in the movie are CGI but no way it cost 135 million. Did it all go to Harrison Ford? The CGI was good but the movie was missing a soul, a heart, direction and purpose.
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I'm still scratching my head over the big box office success of Bad Boys for Life. I was convinced it was going to be mostly ignored since like you mentioned, the previous film was 17 years ago.
"Call of the Wild" had a 135 million dollar budget for two reasons. Harrison Ford's salary and a 100% CGI dog. Everyone in the film industry was asking why wasn't a real dog used instead of CGI? It would have been much cheaper.
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I just finished watching 12 Monkeys. Just had a strange urge to see it, can't think why.
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Originally Posted by Mark Aisthorpe
I just finished watching 12 Monkeys. Just had a strange urge to see it, can't think why.
I love Terry Gilliam. Love him or hate him, his films are unique and wonderfully strange.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Underwater (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5774060/ A movie that FAILS at STEALING from Jaws, Aliens, the Abyss, the Meg, 47 meters down, Leviathan, Deep Star Six and even a bit of The Descent. The characters are dumb and their given dialogues even dumber and annoying saying not much that's intelligent and mostly repeating the same lines over and over whining about how they are going to die. One of the characters constantly says what he is going to do, when is he going to do it, why is he going to do and how is he going to do it so the audience knows what is happening: insulting for the screenwriter to treat the audience as if they are idiots. The cinematography is unfocused quick seconds shots never once did I feel that the characters, walking on the ocean floor almost 7 miles down, trying to get to the safety of an underwater drilling station, while being pursued by deadly aquatic creatures, were in any life threatening danger. The sound of Kristen Stewart's MONOTONE voice alone is enough to disrupt any attempts by the script to create and built up dread, tension and suspense.
I remembered some talk here about this flick some time back. It popped up on Amazon Prime so I gave it a go.
Pretty good Vietnam flick, particularly that it is about our Australian Allies.
As an old Cav Trooper, the cavalry to the rescue was quite good.
Certainly worth watching IMO.
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Vivarium (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8368406/ If you value your time, don't waste it watching this. Interesting mice in a maze setup but the writers didn't know what to do with it. Very boring and bleak and non sensical.
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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
Underwater (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5774060/ A movie that FAILS at STEALING from Jaws, Aliens, the Abyss, the Meg, 47 meters down, Leviathan, Deep Star Six and even a bit of The Descent. The characters are dumb and their given dialogues even dumber and annoying saying not much that's intelligent and mostly repeating the same lines over and over whining about how they are going to die. One of the characters constantly says what he is going to do, when is he going to do it, why is he going to do and how is he going to do it so the audience knows what is happening: insulting for the screenwriter to treat the audience as if they are idiots. The cinematography is unfocused quick seconds shots never once did I feel that the characters, walking on the ocean floor almost 7 miles down, trying to get to the safety of an underwater drilling station, while being pursued by deadly aquatic creatures, were in any life threatening danger. The sound of Kristen Stewart's MONOTONE voice alone is enough to disrupt any attempts by the script to create and built up dread, tension and suspense.
The movie was torn apart by critics and it flopped hard at the box office so it suffered the double whammy.
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I somehow managed to miss a Philip Seymore Hoffman/Marissa Tomei/Sidney Lumet movie called "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" and watched the other night. Good movie that had one of the best lines I've heard in a film in months. The only thing I wasn't keen on was how Sidney went back and forth in time, sometimes overlapping a piece of a scene here or there. In the end, it worked out, but would have preferred a more linear narrative approach to build tension.
Finished the Frankenstein Chronicles. I would recommend it. It starts out as a cop show (technically the lead is a Bow Street Runner) involving solving murders and missing persons cases. Then throw in some crazy Frankenstonian type shenanigans Finally, sprinkle in some conspiracies and cover ups.
Also started, and mostly completed, His Dark Materials. Another fine show I would recommend. It probably butchers the books it's based off of, but since I haven't read them I can freely ignore that and not lose a wink of sleep over it.
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