Charlie's Angels II: yep, it's bad...

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Well first off most sheeple won't notice it but these new charle's angels films have a real anti gun overtone to them. I mean the original angels before my time carried .38 snubbies,so why not these ones with baby glocks or kahr pm9's? It's stupid but using martial ats in place of guns really detracts from the experiance I'd say.

I mean to me this sends a dangerous message to younger women that martial arts is the be all end all even against a gun,and thats just stupid. I mean how long do you think it will be before some girl tries to take on a guy with a gun and loses? Can you say lawsuit?

Don't think it can happen?, i'd say it can theres no shortage of stupid people in the world. I know it may seem far fetched but i've heard more times from people "But I saw it in a movie":rolleyes:
 
You've always got to be worried about the free showings, Hunter.

I've been to a couple of free showings over the years, and uniformly they have STUNK!

The very worst, and possibly the WORST movie of all time, was Yor: The Hunter From the Future.

People in the audience were BEGGING the bad guys to kill the "hero."
 
pardon my rant...

i hope the thing flops and dies a quick but horrible death because if i have to look at any of those "women" too much longer and listen to them try to speak as though they are intelligent and have something worthwhile to offer, i may have to :barf:

i liked bruce till i seen that clip of him nose to nose with a guy out side a bar acting tough and all with his 400 lb bodyguard standing right there.

now i think he's just a punk

and demi is an idiot for marrying him and allowing him to reproduce

which is a statment justified by her exorbinant spending on plastic surgery and her new found love asthon, he's one of the sharper knives in the drawer, eh?

she looks that good cause she bought it

i believe we have the new cher on our hands

anyhow,,,

lucy liu i kind of like, except the media sure has overloaded us with her

too bad she associated herself with the rest of the lot...

havent seen the film, never will, will flip through it when its up on cable in 2 months...

ahhh, feel better now...thanks for bringing it up and thanks for listening...

:D
 
The new tom green show is pretty good, if you like humor that doesn't take a brain cell to understand. Like Andy Dick taking a bite out of Tom Green's nut he hadon a necklace.
 
What was that crack about...

"Any movie that promonantly features Desert Eagles automatically suks?" (or words to that effect):rolleyes: Ynyone seen "La Femme Nikita":D

I just _Loved_ it when the little heroine gets in a firefight with the BG's armed with a crew-served size Desert Eagle:D - Bout died laughing when she fished a spare clip out of the cleavage of her skintight little party frock, and her bust size shrank from a 'C' to an 'A':rolleyes: :D
The rest of the film wasn't too bad either (even though it was a :barf: French film):neener:
 
Yes, you are right. Most movies prominently featuring Desert Eagles are complete crap. La Femme Nikita definitely falls into that category. So does the American remake of the movie, Point of No Return.

I say again: Won't some talented writer write a decent screenplay featuring guns used by lawful citizens for self defense?

Outlawing television was the one good thing the Taliban did.

(Just kidding, guys!)
 
"La Femme Nikita"

Oh yeah, much better than the US remake Point of No Return with Brigette Fonda (also known as The Assassin in foreign markets).
 
The new tom green show is pretty good, if you like humor that doesn't take a brain cell to understand. Like Andy Dick taking a bite out of Tom Green's nut he hadon a necklace.
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Hmm. Glad I missed that. :rolleyes:
 
I say again: Won't some talented writer write a decent screenplay featuring guns used by lawful citizens for self defense?
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On madtv they had a women showing off her self defense technics on her son, long story short, they didn't work so she pulled out a gun. BTW, SNL hasn't been funny for a long time.
 
Wow, never thought I would hear anyone talking about Donnie Darko on THR. If you like dark films, this is a great one. Just make sure you pay attention or you might be scratching your head at the end.:uhoh:

Watch out for demented rabbits and falling 747 engines.
 
Marketing

I haven't seen Charlie's Angels but I've seen the trailer. It's all about marketing. Period. Teens and twenty-somethings think it looks fun and they will see it. They don't CARE if the weapons or stunts are believable. They were raised on music videos and computer games.

Every time the bar gets set higher- with a Crouching Tiger or Maxtrix movie - the next big action film has to top it. The next one that flops dismally will send the special effects wizards back to the drawing board and things will calm down for a while, then we'll get another action groundbreaker like Matrix.

I am a huge movie buff and I saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - what made that film succeed, in my opinion, was less the martial arts sequences than the story itself, which was compelling - not the usual flimsy American fare in action flicks. I didn't even mind reading the subtitles because the story was so good.

In America, we need to remember what people want to see in films are good STORIES, not only a bunch of special effects looking like a long music video/commercial. The more sparingly effects are used, the more impact they have.

Unfortunately it's business folks who run the big budgets, not story folks. I write screenplays and I know this well. Independent films are great [sometimes] because they have more artistic freedom and aren't so marketplace driven, but they also don't get financed with big budgets.
 
Heh.
I'd forgotten about Snatch.
That gets a pass though, because the humongous size of DE is used for comic effect versus 'I'm Mr. Cool with the BIGGEST HEATER EVER.'

Donnie Darko is indeed a great movie.

"Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!"

As for Charlie's Angels, it is exactly what it is: An hour forty-five of glitz. Hot chicks, cool cars, big guns, and absolutely nothing so complicated as a real plot.

Yep, gonna skip that one.
 
Ok, if you guys were looking at the Desert Eagles instead of Demi Moore, you were lookin' at the wrong set of weapons ;)
 
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