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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 9:22:34 GMT -5
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Apr 7, 2015 13:34:48 GMT -5
weird thing was about that time, i didn't see most of the bigger movies at that time
saw DEEP IMPACT, LOST IN SPACE and others and loved them, still annoyed i didn't go to see ARMAGEDDON 'cos that would have been a blast!
bigger memories came in the home, hearing bill paxton's reaction to the GIANT F5 tornado in TWISTER still gives me chills, pierce brosnan almost DYING in DANTES PEAK, and almost dismissing XMEN first time i saw it!!!
and that time was probably the last i went to the cinema on a semi regular basis!
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Apr 7, 2015 15:02:01 GMT -5
There were some good ones too such as Men in Black. Not sure if the NC mentions it. However, there were many bad ones during those years.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 7, 2015 15:08:46 GMT -5
There were some good ones too such as Men in Black. He mentions Men in Black. He shouldn't have grouped Mission:Impossible in what he was talking about being bad, it was a good movie. Loved the mention of Face/Off as a good movie, but he should have also included The Rock and Con Air. |
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Apr 7, 2015 17:48:08 GMT -5
I know Doug doesn't like Hercules for a number of reasons, but even objectively it did well enough with audiences and critics to where I wouldn't count it as part of that summer movie slog. And the story doesn't really work unless he starts off as kind of a geek.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2015 1:46:07 GMT -5
There were some good ones too such as Men in Black. He mentions Men in Black. He shouldn't have grouped Mission:Impossible in what he was talking about being bad, it was a good movie. Loved the mention of Face/Off as a good movie, but he should have also included The Rock and Con Air. Movies like The Rock and Con Air may had success because they really weren't a dated product their time. He was talking about the majority of The Blockbusters was 90's Disaster Films that focused more on CGI the new thing at the time where the formula was the same where the hero is a geeky character and the key was survival and not being a hero in a PG-13 movie. The Rock/Con-Air/Bad Boys felt like a Rated R action film from the 80's telling a original story, a bigger budget, more practical effects, and having more every man character. Something new in the sea of 90's disaster films, but something familiar from the past with some new refreshing rules. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 8, 2015 1:48:17 GMT -5
It is nice to see when people remember that lazy trends are by no means new. There's always a string of "me too!" films before the trends change.
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Post by xCompackx on Apr 8, 2015 6:23:12 GMT -5
As someone who actually likes most of the movies mentioned, I have to disagree here.
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Post by horsemen4ever on Apr 8, 2015 7:39:36 GMT -5
Well to sum up 90's movies and an example of them.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 8, 2015 14:29:59 GMT -5
What a lot of that era came down to was, like he said, CGI bursting onto the scene in the early 90s, then the industry having to mature around it.
I often look back at some of the first generation DVDs my brother and I got when we were kids, and I see how many of those 90s blockbusters are there...unopened, or at least next to never viewed. They were big because they told us they were big, not because they really touched us in any meaningful way.
I don't get out to the movies all the time these days or anything, but yeah, it took into the 2000s for Hollywood to realize that CGI could be used to accentuate a story, to create atmosphere, etc., and not exist as the sole reason to get a movie greenlit in the first place.
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