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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Aug 11, 2024 11:48:57 GMT -5
Cate Blanchett is always called "Cate Blanchett", almost never "Cate" or "Blanchett".
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Post by Ryushinku on Aug 11, 2024 12:48:16 GMT -5
$8.8 million estimated weekend. And the reviews are poor-to-terrible.
This is going to be a pretty huge bomb.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 11, 2024 14:23:22 GMT -5
Cate Blanchett is always called "Cate Blanchett", almost never "Cate" or "Blanchett". Some people are like that, where just one name never seems to suit them. Like Mark Henry, you have to say the whole thing.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Aug 11, 2024 14:30:09 GMT -5
I'm like genuinely fascinated by how much of a war crime the casting of this movie is to the point where I kinda wanna watch it but I know I'm never gonna do that
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Post by mystermystery on Aug 11, 2024 21:50:48 GMT -5
Guess this should lock Eli Roth into low budget horror movies for years to come (he's already working on Thanksgiving 2, last I heard).
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Post by Rave on Aug 11, 2024 22:53:46 GMT -5
I'm like genuinely fascinated by how much of a war crime the casting of this movie is to the point where I kinda wanna watch it but I know I'm never gonna do that I know I'll eventually end up watching it, but only if it shows up on a streaming service I get and if I'm bored enough. Prob'ly Tubi, that seems to be where the real crap ends up.
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Post by chrom on Aug 12, 2024 4:54:06 GMT -5
Apparently the Director is begging people to give it a chance and watch it
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 12, 2024 14:45:30 GMT -5
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Post by chrom on Aug 15, 2024 5:32:26 GMT -5
The guy who directed this is also doing the live action Legend of Zelda.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 15, 2024 5:38:12 GMT -5
The guy who directed this is also doing the live action Legend of Zelda. They share a producer but Eli Roth isn't involved in the Zelda movie. It's being directed by Wes Ball who did the newest Planet of the Apes movie. ... Granted besides that the only things he's done are the Maze Runner movies which are all terrible.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Aug 15, 2024 7:56:11 GMT -5
Is this entertaining bad (like Battlefield Earth), or boring bad (like 'Godzilla' in 1998)?
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Post by Ryushinku on Aug 15, 2024 10:52:17 GMT -5
Seems very much like boring bad, which is the worst option of the two.
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Post by PHD-FENDERBAUM on Aug 15, 2024 10:55:32 GMT -5
Being a huge fan of the games I can honestly say it was boring bad , I do not remember laughing even once and this is a very lighthearted movie.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Aug 15, 2024 23:15:01 GMT -5
Review from Cameron of the LoadingReadyRun team in this video...
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Post by schma on Aug 17, 2024 8:28:59 GMT -5
Review from Cameron of the LoadingReadyRun team in this video... I'm glad others saw this. Checkpoint is great but this review was awesome.
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Post by prettynami on Aug 17, 2024 22:46:10 GMT -5
Just saw it. It wasn't terrible, but it definitely wasn't good.
It looked like Borderlands, the sets and props were pretty good to amazing.
Cate Blanchett was fine as Lilith. I never thought of Lilith as particularly young in the games (I dont know if they say her age) but she was fine. Jack Black was fine as claptrap. And Kevin Hart was fine as Roland. However, I will say Jamie Lee Curtis looked like Tanis but was probably a bit too old... and Tanis didn't come off as unhinged or messed in the head as in the games...
And that was the problem throughout - Tiny Tina, a cornerstone of the film, wasn't weird enough to do the circle back to endearing and fun which made the character in the game likeable. The film Tiny Tina is just sorta annoying.
The movie also did a pretty terrible job at integrating the action and dialogue together to move the plot together smoothly - instead the action sequences feel like they are only taking place to break up some talking.
Plot wise if you are familiar with the games it merges some of the characters together, adds stand ins for other characters and merges together plot lines through several of the games/expansions. So if you are looking for a one to one replica of the game you will not find it here and you may get to confused if you can't clear your mind before watching. Too many of the characters in the movie are given "mysterious" backgrounds to lend an air to the film but it doesn't really work. Of all the characters I have no idea why they used Krieg when they chose to change his background anyways - then again most of the major characters have significantly different BGs.
The special affects weren't too bad. There is a part when Cate Blanchett's head clips through the rollbar of a vehicle which was hilarious, but otherwise they look fine and on par with most Hollywood stuff. It certainly lacks a little of the gibs and violent human of the games (which hurts the Tanis and Tiny Tina characters) and favours big flamey explosions over violent ones.
I went in hoping it would be as terrible as the rating - a so bad its good classic... But it was more middle of the road.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Aug 19, 2024 1:31:20 GMT -5
Cate Blanchett is always called "Cate Blanchett", almost never "Cate" or "Blanchett". I'm going to try to get everyone to start referring to her as "Kitty Blanch" from now on.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Aug 25, 2024 3:34:46 GMT -5
Saw it last week and yeah it was really shit.
Honestly it had the look of a porn parody but with actual actors and a $120 million budget.
Though props to Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart (even though they were both horribly miscast) for trying their hardest to make it work but there is no way they were going to save this.
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Post by chrom on Aug 25, 2024 16:08:02 GMT -5
It and The Crow will compete for The Golden Razzie
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Post by uewfigfed on Aug 26, 2024 18:38:46 GMT -5
Hated everything not named Jack Black about this movie. Not the biggest lore/canon buff but some simple things they could’ve got right: - Actually having a 4th as Tannis is an NPC - Lilith isn’t borderline Jean Grey OP due to being the “FireHawk” - No ultimate skills (give them SOMETHING to break up the endless, boring gunfights) - No Mordecai or Brick (which sounds like the easiest alley-oop Rock casting I’ve ever heard of)
Okay maybe I am more a canon buff than initially thought lol
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