Die Hard 5 is so much worse. 2 has its flaws, but I still like it and there was at least some effort. 5 on the other hand, no cared nor even tried.
Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched
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Nope nope. I'm confident there's only 4. Live free or die hard is the last one. I refuse believe this supposed Die Hard 5 you speak of exists.
You were sayin'....
I don't remember much about the later half of season 2 to be honest, but I do remember being very put off by Harley's attitude right after the one night stand. Instead of being horrified that she slept with her best friend on her bachelorette party, she spends the rest of the day (and a few episodes I think?) trying to convince Ivy that they have something. I realize its absurd to expect a fucking psychopath murderer to not be a dick when it comes to relationships, but then its an absurd show.
But I agree its something that could have worked had there been more time. Going from "Our relationship is dead, sorry Kite Man" to "Harley you're my new soulmate" in a single episode was not ideal. I was also probably just bitter that Kite Man was out of the picture because he was one of the best parts of the show.
I was so distracted by the censoring I found it a little hard to follow what you're saying lol
Yeah, I can see why she would appeal to women specifically. But I think there are plenty of other DC characters who fit the description. Power Girl, Catwoman, Huntress, Big Barda, etc. I find it odd that they decided to go with the psychopath killer as one of the faces of the DC universe, which then leads to the uncomfortable idea that part of her appeal is that she's a psychopath killer.
And I don't just mean the movies either, I was thinking more about the comics. I can't remember if she only started getting more popular after the first Suicide Squad movie, but it was bizarre to see Harley Quinn getting more attention in the comics than Superman himself at some point. Her newfound popularity would be an interesting topic of a video essay.
*shrugs* Well part of it I'm sure is just her design. It's an easy cosplay look to replicate. Let's women put on a false smile, while also looking menacing and holding a bat. It's also sexualized but also cute. It's basically a perfect storm of pop culture elements, from the aesthetic to the mental, to become super popular. There's like a billion anime characters that broadly fit Harley's overall design. Extreme makeup, loli-esque attire but on an adult woman's body (Daddy's Little Monster) And then the escapism of "she's allowed to be an asshole to people, because she's a bad girl" Plus, just "The Bad Girl" trope itself is incredibly popular. They basically just distilled her into an avatar for a specific subset of women, and they responded very positively.
What that says about the general mood/demeanor of the women of the world....*shrugs*
I mean why is The Joker so popular? Because as far as overall behavioral traits, he and Harley are very similar. Some people just enjoy crazy mother fuckers running around being chaotic and crazy, but looking cool/sexy while doing it.
The thing that annoyed me so much about that movie is just how stupid the premise is. The idea that terorists can shut down Dulles airport and no planes can land because apparently every other airport on the Eastern Seaboard(including military airstrips) is shut down due to snow, so the planes just have to spend hours circling because.....reasons.
Except, if they have fuel to circle for hours, they havre fuel to get to almost any other airport within a couple hundred miles, and there are hundreds of airports(there's 3 in the DC area alone, not including Andrews AFB, which is where Air Force One is based) in that radius(and there are apparently specific FAA regulations that require any airstrip, including military airfields, to allow planes in distress to land) . Clearly whoever wrote the script never looked at a fucking map of that region and marked out all the airports, they just handwaved "Oh, they're all shut down, except Dulles, which is special for some reason". And the plot doesn't fucking working without this incredible contrivance.
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Batman: Soul of the Dragon - 9/10
Lady Shiva may be slumming it as a Chinatown gang boss, Cheshire may have gotten jobbed, Richard Dragon’s fan disappointed and the ending maybe kind of weird but I’d be a lying son of a ***** if the concept of Batman, Lady Shiva, Bronze Tiger and Bruce Lee (actually Richard Dragon but he’s not a white guy and he’s drawn to look and move like Master Lee so fuck the pretence) kicking all the ass of the Cult of Kobra in a slick, groovy 70’s throwback style wasn’t about fifty kinds of fucking awesome.
Lady Shiva may be slumming it as a Chinatown gang boss, Cheshire may have gotten jobbed, Richard Dragon’s fan disappointed and the ending maybe kind of weird but I’d be a lying son of a ***** if the concept of Batman, Lady Shiva, Bronze Tiger and Bruce Lee (actually Richard Dragon but he’s not a white guy and he’s drawn to look and move like Master Lee so fuck the pretence) kicking all the ass of the Cult of Kobra in a slick, groovy 70’s throwback style wasn’t about fifty kinds of fucking awesome.
Mortal Kombat (2021) (5/10)
This film...really isn't very good.
It's poorly edited. It's rushed. It simultaniously takes itself too seriously, while also not seriously enough. It tries to juggle far too many characters, and as a result, all of them are underbaked. A lot of flak's been directed towards Cole, but he isn't the problem - removing Cole would remove one more superfluous character, but there'd still be too many.
There's also the fact that little makes sense, or is never explained. That Sub-Zero kills Scorpion and his family is a key plot point, but why he does this is never explained, nor does anyone even ask. Yes, Sub-Zero says "for the Lin Kuei," but who the fuck are the Lin Kuei? I mean, I know what they are, but the average moviegoer doesn't, and even if they did, that doesn't excuse the poor writing. How does Sub-Zero end up in Tsang Tsung's service? Why is he still alive?
Nor does it excuse how the 'rules' make no sense, because in one scene, Tsang Tsung stresses the need to keep Outworld's cheating a secret, but when Raiden finds out, he and his monks are "well, what else is new?", and all subterfuge goes out the window. It takes days, if not weeks for Kano to learn his 'arcana,' but Sonya can pick it up literally seconds after killing him. At the start of the film, it stresses how few Earthrealm champions are left, but at the end, Raiden is "well, let's find more champions." Christ, how is this dragon marking supposed to work anyway? Is it bloodline based, or is there a set number of champions Earthrealm can have? And speaking of realms, why does Outworld look like Iceland with a tinge of sepia? It's astounding that Outworld in MK2 can look more creative than a film made over two decades later.
So, yeah, I didn't like this film much. As an MK film, it's too drab to be enjoyable. As a film by itself, it's too poorly written, paced, and edited to reccomend. Short answer to a question you may have, yes, the 1995 film is better, and no, that isn't nostalgia talking. It was better paced, understood it was far better to focus on a few select characters rather than trying to cover numerous ones and spreading itself thin, and yes, it's better written. I mean, the first film ends with Liu Kang fighting Shang Tsung, for reasons that are clearly defined on the personal level (revenge for Chen) and plot level (final battle of the tournament). The 2021 film ends with Sub-Zero and Scorpion fighting for reasons that aren't explained (the latter character having barely been in the film) while the 'protagonist' barely does anything, over plot stakes that are nebulous. And even with the effects, yeah, okay, Goro looks better, but the 1995 film was simply more creative, the 1995 film ending in an extra-dimensional tower, the 2021 film ending in a frozen over fight dojo.
Sigh...
Yeah, I don't reccommend this. Spend your time elsewhere, if you're an MK fan or not. I'd even reccommend Annihilation over this, as it's more enjoyable at least.
Edit: That said, I'm going to give brownie points to Kano (or at least his actor). He's the one bright spot in this drab fest, even if he suffers from the same underdevelopment as everyone else.
This film...really isn't very good.
It's poorly edited. It's rushed. It simultaniously takes itself too seriously, while also not seriously enough. It tries to juggle far too many characters, and as a result, all of them are underbaked. A lot of flak's been directed towards Cole, but he isn't the problem - removing Cole would remove one more superfluous character, but there'd still be too many.
There's also the fact that little makes sense, or is never explained. That Sub-Zero kills Scorpion and his family is a key plot point, but why he does this is never explained, nor does anyone even ask. Yes, Sub-Zero says "for the Lin Kuei," but who the fuck are the Lin Kuei? I mean, I know what they are, but the average moviegoer doesn't, and even if they did, that doesn't excuse the poor writing. How does Sub-Zero end up in Tsang Tsung's service? Why is he still alive?
Nor does it excuse how the 'rules' make no sense, because in one scene, Tsang Tsung stresses the need to keep Outworld's cheating a secret, but when Raiden finds out, he and his monks are "well, what else is new?", and all subterfuge goes out the window. It takes days, if not weeks for Kano to learn his 'arcana,' but Sonya can pick it up literally seconds after killing him. At the start of the film, it stresses how few Earthrealm champions are left, but at the end, Raiden is "well, let's find more champions." Christ, how is this dragon marking supposed to work anyway? Is it bloodline based, or is there a set number of champions Earthrealm can have? And speaking of realms, why does Outworld look like Iceland with a tinge of sepia? It's astounding that Outworld in MK2 can look more creative than a film made over two decades later.
So, yeah, I didn't like this film much. As an MK film, it's too drab to be enjoyable. As a film by itself, it's too poorly written, paced, and edited to reccomend. Short answer to a question you may have, yes, the 1995 film is better, and no, that isn't nostalgia talking. It was better paced, understood it was far better to focus on a few select characters rather than trying to cover numerous ones and spreading itself thin, and yes, it's better written. I mean, the first film ends with Liu Kang fighting Shang Tsung, for reasons that are clearly defined on the personal level (revenge for Chen) and plot level (final battle of the tournament). The 2021 film ends with Sub-Zero and Scorpion fighting for reasons that aren't explained (the latter character having barely been in the film) while the 'protagonist' barely does anything, over plot stakes that are nebulous. And even with the effects, yeah, okay, Goro looks better, but the 1995 film was simply more creative, the 1995 film ending in an extra-dimensional tower, the 2021 film ending in a frozen over fight dojo.
Sigh...
Yeah, I don't reccommend this. Spend your time elsewhere, if you're an MK fan or not. I'd even reccommend Annihilation over this, as it's more enjoyable at least.
Edit: That said, I'm going to give brownie points to Kano (or at least his actor). He's the one bright spot in this drab fest, even if he suffers from the same underdevelopment as everyone else.
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Watched The Suicide Squad a few hours ago. Even if the bar wasn't already fairly low for me (only DC movies I've really enjoyed were Shazam! and Aquaman, haven't seen either Wonder Woman or Birds of Prey), it would still easily be my favorite DC movie. All of the main cast did really well in their performances, with Ratcatcher 2 being the standout as the heart of the group, and John Cena as Peacemaker surprising me with how legitimately good his acting was in more subtle moments. The story wasn't necessarily ground-breaking, but there were enough turns in it, and it was well paced enough for the 2+ hour runtime to not feel like it was dragging on.
My main issue with the film is that neither of the villains of the piece really did much. I was excited for Peter Capaldi as The Thinker, but his ultimate role was basically exposition, and while Starro was a lot of fun, his appearance almost felt like it belonged in another movie. That said, this was still an incredibly fun movie to watch, and I would easily give it an 8/10, and probably even a 9. James Gunn knew what kind of movie he wanted to make, and he made that movie to a T.
My main issue with the film is that neither of the villains of the piece really did much. I was excited for Peter Capaldi as The Thinker, but his ultimate role was basically exposition, and while Starro was a lot of fun, his appearance almost felt like it belonged in another movie. That said, this was still an incredibly fun movie to watch, and I would easily give it an 8/10, and probably even a 9. James Gunn knew what kind of movie he wanted to make, and he made that movie to a T.
Except Cora is insufferable for a completely different reason; she fairly regularly whines about being isolated because of her exceptional biotics. Didn’t stop her rising in the Allince ranks, receiving specialised high level training from the Asari and getting into the Andromeda Initiative which is actively recruiting exceptional people.
And basically every player is yelling at the screen “*****, talk to Jack and get back to us”
*shrugs* I didn't get her "whining" about her biotics, at least no more than Kaiden did when he gave us his multi game tale of woe as a biotic test subject. She sure as hell didn't sound like she was whining, just telling her sob story...like EVERY ME companion does.
And seriously, if you don't think Jack was giving as much of a sob story about her biotic past, then you don't know how aggressive people project trauma. If Kaiden's story about what it was like to be one of the first gens of human biotics, NONE of them had a good life. Cora had to get shipped off to an alien planet, to live with an entire other species, to find any amount of solace and recognition for her abilities.
Jack’s death was faked by Cerberus, she was abducted and used as a test subject on an uncharted world in an attempt to make her the best human biotic ever as basically a toddler. Pragia’s whole existence was an abomination and that’s not getting into what they did to the other kids so Jack didn’t die.
Kaiden had it rough and I’m sure Cora was sad a fair bit. But Jack wins the biotic misery poker easily. Mind you as people Cora and Kaiden would be better to work with since they aren’t barely functional psychopaths who commit mass murder so maybe it evens out. Mind you aside from Kasumi and Zaeed I find myself very unimpressed with the human squad mates in Mass Effect so it’s maybe less Cora I have an issue with.
So only the worst victim has any right to talk about the problems they suffered growing up? So are you equally as critical of Kaiden since "he didn't have it as bad as Jack?" If not, then I think you're being a bit unfair to Cora. Besides, she never came across as complaining about it to me, not the way you imply. She just, told her story, the same way Kaiden did.
Also why the hell are we still discussing this in the movie thread?
Free Guy
Ryan Reynolds continues his brand of mild irreverence chased with every feel good cliché in the basket. There's some fun background humor/visual gags, some funny hard cuts between in-world awesomeness and everyday mundanity, and I guess the characters are affable enough... but the melange of action/comedy/romance/sci-fi means nothing really stands out. Cameras whipping around big busy CGI vistas while the characters stand in the middle not interacting with anything just isn't impressive anymore.
The whole They Live angle (put on sunglasses to see the world for what it is) is wasted and the anticorporate sentiment feels as disingenuous as when Ready Player One did it. And the romcom aspect was kinda cute but dated and builds to a switcheroo that I don't think most people are going to like.
Ryan Reynolds continues his brand of mild irreverence chased with every feel good cliché in the basket. There's some fun background humor/visual gags, some funny hard cuts between in-world awesomeness and everyday mundanity, and I guess the characters are affable enough... but the melange of action/comedy/romance/sci-fi means nothing really stands out. Cameras whipping around big busy CGI vistas while the characters stand in the middle not interacting with anything just isn't impressive anymore.
The whole They Live angle (put on sunglasses to see the world for what it is) is wasted and the anticorporate sentiment feels as disingenuous as when Ready Player One did it. And the romcom aspect was kinda cute but dated and builds to a switcheroo that I don't think most people are going to like.
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Shadow In the Cloud
I'll start with the positives:
+ It's entertaining if more in an "this is kinda so wonky lower budget it's so doesn't work" it's actually good way.
+ Chloë Grace Moretz really does a good job even if it's clear the script isn't there and jesus she really doesn't feel like she was suited for this kind of style of female badass while feels more like a Charlize Theron role as Chloë Grace Moretz doesn't have quite that intimidating presence that it felt like this part needed.
+ It comes off as at least more authentic than Battlefield V's bionic woman with a cricket bat
Now the rest
The warning signs are in the trailer. "From the producer of Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2". Anyone who knows their film knows that "From the producer of" is a sign of a studio trying to cover up a film that is very flawed. Director often have visions and styles but unless it's the director who also produces them producers are behind the scenes bean counters who try to keep both the studio and the director happy. They do the paperwork and stuff to make the film work they aren't the vision department as such.
So some-one mentioned earlier in this thread about how the Amazon film Ice Road felt like it was developed by an A.I. Well Shadow In The Cloud very much feels like that.
This feels like a film where an A.I. was fed every "Woman are powerful" film since about the year 2016 and well this film comes off so over the top and so far into that kind of style it really comes off as self parody. I think I have a decent tolerance for the stuff but jesus does this movie come off where the character is the most Mary Sue like of Mary sue. Oh and yes before I get told off Mary Sue has to be an author insert I'm using the term because there isn't really a proper term for it other than I dunno an awesome box character as Liana K once called it or a Buckaroo Banzi esc character. Now because people likely won't believe me here's some of what actually happens in this film. This is the non spoiler stuff
Now for some more plot points that are spoilers
I'll start with the positives:
+ It's entertaining if more in an "this is kinda so wonky lower budget it's so doesn't work" it's actually good way.
+ Chloë Grace Moretz really does a good job even if it's clear the script isn't there and jesus she really doesn't feel like she was suited for this kind of style of female badass while feels more like a Charlize Theron role as Chloë Grace Moretz doesn't have quite that intimidating presence that it felt like this part needed.
+ It comes off as at least more authentic than Battlefield V's bionic woman with a cricket bat
Now the rest
The warning signs are in the trailer. "From the producer of Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2". Anyone who knows their film knows that "From the producer of" is a sign of a studio trying to cover up a film that is very flawed. Director often have visions and styles but unless it's the director who also produces them producers are behind the scenes bean counters who try to keep both the studio and the director happy. They do the paperwork and stuff to make the film work they aren't the vision department as such.
So some-one mentioned earlier in this thread about how the Amazon film Ice Road felt like it was developed by an A.I. Well Shadow In The Cloud very much feels like that.
This feels like a film where an A.I. was fed every "Woman are powerful" film since about the year 2016 and well this film comes off so over the top and so far into that kind of style it really comes off as self parody. I think I have a decent tolerance for the stuff but jesus does this movie come off where the character is the most Mary Sue like of Mary sue. Oh and yes before I get told off Mary Sue has to be an author insert I'm using the term because there isn't really a proper term for it other than I dunno an awesome box character as Liana K once called it or a Buckaroo Banzi esc character. Now because people likely won't believe me here's some of what actually happens in this film. This is the non spoiler stuff
- Female lead tells the male characters how awesome she is and claims to be far more skilled then them
- Climbs along the underside of the plane while in flight and is able to climb back into the plane from under it. Oh while under fire from enemy planes I should mention.
- Shoots down at least 2 of the 4 enemy aircraft, the others you never see who takes them down so they just mysteriously end up on fire and exploding
- Dislocates her finger using it to wedge a hatch shut then puts it back into the socket
- bare knuckle brawls a monster despite starting the film with her arm in a sling (and the events are meant to be happening all on roughly the same day)
- Almost all the male characters are assholes to her in various ways from the flight officer who just generally seems to hate the idea of a woman being on the plane to the jackass dude who keeps making sexual innuendos and remarks to her.
- She tell the experience co-pilot how to land the plane because he seemingly doesn't know what to do.
Now for some more plot points that are spoilers
- She's actually a recent mother
[*]The package she's carrying on this supposed secret assignment is her baby that she had with one of the men on the flight but hid the fact from him
[*]She's the only one who manages to take down any of the Gremlin monsters (she takes down both of them in fact)
[*]She's trying to escape her abusive husband whom she cheat on with one of the guys on the flight, he then broke up with her not knowing she was pregnant when she revealed to him she was married.
[*]The film ends with her literally breast feeding her child after surviving a plane crash waiting for rescue
Ok more in depth talk with spoilers about the film
One of the big twists and somehow the film still turns this into a "The men are in the wrong" moment is it's revealed that the female lead actually was lying and had forged her orders to join the flight. The entire thing being a set up so she can escape with her baby because her abusive husband has caught up to her and found her. The thing being some of the male character doubt her and give her a hard time while she's adamant and maintains the lie that she's really on some special mission delivering an important secret cargo. Thing being when it's revealed what's going on most of the men (even the ones being real assholes) are on her side and fairly understanding or at least willing to try and help. That doesn't matter thought they were asshole so no redemption for them as they get shot to pieces mostly in pretty brutal ways which I can only assume the A.I. meant as some catharsis like the whole Captain Marvel breaking a mans arm for coming onto her in a somewhat lecherous way. The guys were right she was lying and she shouldn't really have been on the flight but get framed as the bad guys for having doubted her with no moment of "Yes they were right she was wrong but there's a great thing at play so put it aside for the sake of doing the right thing".
The next issue is the films element don't come together really.
Ok so the monsters are Gremlins the supposed creatures that cause technical things to break down and mythically caused issues with planes in various conflicts. The thing being the discovery that there are actual Gremlins and they're not a myth in the film doesn't have the gravitas it feels like it should have. They go from "Oh there is no such thing" to "Ok so we're fighting and killing the things and they're real" without really the "Oh shit" moment as characters realise the wider implications of what they've just discovered. It would be a ground breaking thing a sort of "So some of those other planes that went down, they actually did get taken down by Gremlins not careless airmen or dodgey mechanics failing to do proper checks and repairs" I mean you'd think some-one on the flight would want to try and make sure they got at least a corpse back to command to prove the thing were real.
The second problem with the Gremlins is they don't really tie into anything, they're just there to cause trouble and incite things to happen or go wrong. They don't tie into any of the themes or grander ideas of the film in any real meaningful way they're almost like just henchmen villains or something. It feels like the film should have tied them into stuff more. Maybe one of the crew of the plane on a previous assignment crashed and swore he saw something but wasn't believed and was blamed for the crash and demoted so suddenly what's going on validated his claims of gremlins existing or have the Gremlins be a metaphor for something. As an example have their myth being they're attracted to "sin" and or "Wrongdoing" and so when Maude Garrett (the female lead character) overcomes them it's symbolic of her overcoming what during World War II would have been seriously looked down on with her having a baby out of wedlock with the father and the fact she was cheating on her husband not to mention lying and forging the orders. A sort of "I did wrong but for the right reasons" thematic thing where she's defeating them as a metaphor for acknowledging she did wrong and defeating them because she did it for the right reasons so they can't take her down. But the film does none of that it's sort of just "Oh they're real, guess we gotta kill them and not actually ask any questions about these giant flying monsters that we suddenly know are real"
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This really feels like a film that could have been good if they'd actually realised that with a cast of 8 characters that making 7 of them expendable cannon fodder or background objects almost was probably a bad move and seems to be trying to make the female lead look better and stronger and more capable by making every other character more useless and incompetent. She wasn't shown as "Just as capable as the guys" it was very much ultimate badass in a room full of incompetent idiots and "Useless men" kind of feeling to the film.
Oh and the film weirdly gets somewhat undermined by the stock footage in the credits of the WASPS from WWII including training and footage of them when the film made a crude joke about a number of them being lesbians but then the stock footage shows a woman mechanic kissing a woman pilot. Also the film was making it seem so awful the men are commenting on her looks when in the stock footage you see some of the WASPS flirting with male forces members and even one in the cockpit applying her make up lol.
One of the big twists and somehow the film still turns this into a "The men are in the wrong" moment is it's revealed that the female lead actually was lying and had forged her orders to join the flight. The entire thing being a set up so she can escape with her baby because her abusive husband has caught up to her and found her. The thing being some of the male character doubt her and give her a hard time while she's adamant and maintains the lie that she's really on some special mission delivering an important secret cargo. Thing being when it's revealed what's going on most of the men (even the ones being real assholes) are on her side and fairly understanding or at least willing to try and help. That doesn't matter thought they were asshole so no redemption for them as they get shot to pieces mostly in pretty brutal ways which I can only assume the A.I. meant as some catharsis like the whole Captain Marvel breaking a mans arm for coming onto her in a somewhat lecherous way. The guys were right she was lying and she shouldn't really have been on the flight but get framed as the bad guys for having doubted her with no moment of "Yes they were right she was wrong but there's a great thing at play so put it aside for the sake of doing the right thing".
The next issue is the films element don't come together really.
Ok so the monsters are Gremlins the supposed creatures that cause technical things to break down and mythically caused issues with planes in various conflicts. The thing being the discovery that there are actual Gremlins and they're not a myth in the film doesn't have the gravitas it feels like it should have. They go from "Oh there is no such thing" to "Ok so we're fighting and killing the things and they're real" without really the "Oh shit" moment as characters realise the wider implications of what they've just discovered. It would be a ground breaking thing a sort of "So some of those other planes that went down, they actually did get taken down by Gremlins not careless airmen or dodgey mechanics failing to do proper checks and repairs" I mean you'd think some-one on the flight would want to try and make sure they got at least a corpse back to command to prove the thing were real.
The second problem with the Gremlins is they don't really tie into anything, they're just there to cause trouble and incite things to happen or go wrong. They don't tie into any of the themes or grander ideas of the film in any real meaningful way they're almost like just henchmen villains or something. It feels like the film should have tied them into stuff more. Maybe one of the crew of the plane on a previous assignment crashed and swore he saw something but wasn't believed and was blamed for the crash and demoted so suddenly what's going on validated his claims of gremlins existing or have the Gremlins be a metaphor for something. As an example have their myth being they're attracted to "sin" and or "Wrongdoing" and so when Maude Garrett (the female lead character) overcomes them it's symbolic of her overcoming what during World War II would have been seriously looked down on with her having a baby out of wedlock with the father and the fact she was cheating on her husband not to mention lying and forging the orders. A sort of "I did wrong but for the right reasons" thematic thing where she's defeating them as a metaphor for acknowledging she did wrong and defeating them because she did it for the right reasons so they can't take her down. But the film does none of that it's sort of just "Oh they're real, guess we gotta kill them and not actually ask any questions about these giant flying monsters that we suddenly know are real"
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This really feels like a film that could have been good if they'd actually realised that with a cast of 8 characters that making 7 of them expendable cannon fodder or background objects almost was probably a bad move and seems to be trying to make the female lead look better and stronger and more capable by making every other character more useless and incompetent. She wasn't shown as "Just as capable as the guys" it was very much ultimate badass in a room full of incompetent idiots and "Useless men" kind of feeling to the film.
Oh and the film weirdly gets somewhat undermined by the stock footage in the credits of the WASPS from WWII including training and footage of them when the film made a crude joke about a number of them being lesbians but then the stock footage shows a woman mechanic kissing a woman pilot. Also the film was making it seem so awful the men are commenting on her looks when in the stock footage you see some of the WASPS flirting with male forces members and even one in the cockpit applying her make up lol.
The Life Of David Gale: Good / Great
Kevin Spacey plays David Gale, an anti-death penalty advocate who finds himself in prison... facing the death penalty. *Dun-dun DUUUUUN!*
Not a great film, but far from a bad one. It's from 2003, so I'll give it a pass on the whole "twist" it tries to throw at you, i.e.: a lot more clever twists have been introduced to the point twisty films are getting tiresome. Spacey is amazing as always, and the story he unfolds will keep you watching to the unsatisfactory ending which I suppose was supposed to be an "oh, wow" moment, but for me was more of a "well, shit" one. I mean, a lot in this film was ultimately unnecessary, I guess? Convolution for convolution's sake? Anyway, worth a watch if you've got a couple hours just hanging around and you've already masturbated for the day.
Kevin Spacey plays David Gale, an anti-death penalty advocate who finds himself in prison... facing the death penalty. *Dun-dun DUUUUUN!*
Not a great film, but far from a bad one. It's from 2003, so I'll give it a pass on the whole "twist" it tries to throw at you, i.e.: a lot more clever twists have been introduced to the point twisty films are getting tiresome. Spacey is amazing as always, and the story he unfolds will keep you watching to the unsatisfactory ending which I suppose was supposed to be an "oh, wow" moment, but for me was more of a "well, shit" one. I mean, a lot in this film was ultimately unnecessary, I guess? Convolution for convolution's sake? Anyway, worth a watch if you've got a couple hours just hanging around and you've already masturbated for the day.