Escape to the Movies: Tower Heist

[Not G. Ivingname]

Didn't know it existed till today, and now I am even less interested knowing it exists.

 

[Aureliano]

Huh. So it sounds like that one movie that looked crappy turned out to be that one movie that IS crappy. How...surprising?

In other news, I heart Wafflebot. I guess Bob didn't get sent to an advanced screening of Harold and Kumar though. It was probably the weakest entrant into the series, but it was still clearly a good use of one's time. Thomas Lennon was also a great surprise second banana (I have yet to see him bobble a role since Viva Variety), but Amir Blumenfeld was basically a mistake or at least still too wet behind the ears to be able to pull off his role in this one.

More heart than a Holiday cash-in usually has, but not enough to be a full third part of the trilogy. But again, Wafflebot was an inspired addition.

 

[jbrooks]

I'm gonna contribute to the mob and say that the first two "Rush Hour" movies were definitely NOT forgettable.

Also, Eddie Murphy's original idea with a primarily black-comedian cast sounds fucking amazing. The idea worked recently with "Death at a Funeral", so Hollywood needs to get their collective heads out of their collective asses and let someone other than Tyler Perry direct an all-black movie (I realize this may be a little biased seeing as how I'm black, but that doesn't make it any less true).

 

[TokenRupee]

Jackie Chan makes everything better.

Jackie Chan in The happening - kick Mark Whalberg's ass and end the movie
Jackie Chan in The last airbender - Forget the airbender and just have Jackie fighting the fire mages.
Jackie Chan in Transformers - Knock out Megan Fox and Shia Le Beef so its actually about the robots.
Jackie Chan in Green lanturn - Kill Sinestro so there can't be an equally bad sequel.

It works

It does!

Also, I liked Rush Hour 1 and 2. 3 was meh and some of those others were good. But I will agree with Bob that The Weather Man was bloody awful.

 

[Blueruler182]

Wait wait wait wait wait...

The digital distribution problem that comic books are almost finished with right now... is still screwing with the movie industry?

And comic books themselves are now rocking the movie industry.

What the furk are you industry big-wigs doing?

 

[tehweave]

Okay, Rush Hour 1 and 2 were freaking hilarious.

But the rest of Ratner's stuff sucks. I'll agree.

This movie? I kind of wanted to see it. Past tense.

 

[Alar]

What, Puss in the Boots isn't good?

Ha. Hahahahaha. Ahh, you're funny, ZeppMan217.

Didn't they make five Shrek movies already (admittedly, I liked the first two and the fifth)? And you expect a spin-off from a relatively popular character to be good? I hope you were sarcastic, sir.

 

[Unhappy Crow]

You know, the idea of Eddie and a few other Black American actors would've been better. I don't know. Too bad for this movie though.

Also, I actually like rush Hours 1 and 2. 3 was okay, but not as funny as the first two.

 

[dthree]

"Two hours of your life will be stolen."

Now I don't need to watch the video. Sorry, Bob. You should write a better tease.

 

[MB202]

Dear God I HOPE Donkey doesn't get his own Shrek spin-off! D:

 

[Kolby Jack]

WHAT?! Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2 are hilarious! BLASPHEMY!!!

That's an overreaction, but it's not sarcasm. I love those movies.

 

[zephae]

I get the feeling that Rush Hour is to MovieBob what Family Guy is to Matt and Trey.

 

[Lionsfan]

You all do realize what will follow [http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/06/03/beverly-hills-cop-4-may-be-geared-towards-kids-says-brett-ratner] if this movie does well in the box office. Hasn't Axel suffered enough?

Well supposedly Murphy has put the axe on that himself. In the Rolling Stone interview he recently gave he talked about it.

There was a big push for "Beverly Hills Cop IV" - What's going on with that? They're not doing it. What I'm trying to do with "Beverly Hills Cop" now is produce a TV show starring Axel Foley's son, and Axel is the chief of police in Detroit. I'd do the pilot, show up here and there. None of the movie scripts were right; it was trying to force this premise. If you have to force something you shouldn't be doing it. It was always a rehash of the old thing, it was always wrong.

So there's that at least.

If you don't want to buy the magazine cause I don't think that part is on their website, here's a link [http://perezhilton.com/2011-10-27-eddie-murphy-says-beverly-hills-cop-4-not-happening#.TrR_gDtg3Sw]

OT: I have to say it's disappointing Eddie had these last 10 years. I know he's getting old, but those family films really ruined his perception among the current generation; people today think Dane Cook is a better/more successful stand-up comedian than Eddie was.

*clutches old Raw DVD* THEY'RE WRONG DO YOU HEAR ME!?!

Tower Heist

Two hours of your life will be stolen.

Watch Video

3000 comments... 4 video boycotts... and dozens upon dozens of bile from your fans who you INSULTED later...

And you still can't let the Expendables thing go, can you?

I shudder to think what will happen if Metroid goes multi-platform.

What does The Expendables have to do with this? Besides that Bob didn't like either one

 

[Kenbo Slice]

MovieBob hates a movie. People following saying "I won't see this movie even if it might be good." You guys, don't listen to critics, go see for yourself.

 

[RJ Dalton]

I just read a review in my local newspaper that declared this movie "so cleverly written, it's almost criminal" and then proceeded to give it four stars.
Who do I believe? The person praising a movie with Ben Stiller in it, or the guy who tells me it sucks?
Hmmm . . .

 

[tobimaro]

Roger Ebert over at the Chicago Sun-Times gave this movie 2 and a half stars. Still not good enough to make me go and watch this one.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Hey....I quite liked Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2.

Same, which is why I might eventually see this...

 

[moviedork]

$59.99 .. What?

Seeing the movies usually is $15-$18 where I live by myself. I get to see it on a huge screen, with nice comfy seats in the dark with popcorn, a soda, and candy that I can purchase free with my membership card.

They want to charge me triple the money, by buying it to see 'once' at my hose on my regular screen TV with no luxurious snacks to order? All a few months before it comes out on DVD? ... I, would really like to know who came up with that. Not going to yell, or scold... just question them on why. That's the amount I would get for a game like Skyrim (spite that it's $10 over the amount). Not to mention what if the movie like Bob said blows? Then that's just money wasted. People aren't made of money especially in these hard times in the economy so yeah that's going to bankrupt them for sure.

The idea is to get a group of friends together to watch it together. Not for one person to pay $60 bucks. Though I agree $60 is too much, but if I had three or four friends over, I wouldn't mind paying $30 or so bucks.

 

[moviedork]

Yeah looks like Hollywood is using "The Expendables" as a benchmark as now on. Just put a bunch of Triple-A stars in and magically(within the first weekend) and it prints money, let's do lunch.

This movie's nothing like The Expendables. Just because Bob trashed both don't make them similar at all.

Also maybe you guys should give the movie a chance. It's got a 68% on rotten tomatoes with most people saying it's a fluffy movie that's somewhat entertaining. Give it a chance! There's a huge difference on Rotten Tomatoes between a 40% movie (The Expendables) and a 68% on Tower Heist. Give it a chance and make up your own mind about it.

the huge difference being that all the regular viewers haven't gotten around to rating it yet thus dragging the score down.

The 68% is based on 131 critic reviews, while the general audience has it at 70%. Enough people have seen it.