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Zombie Marco








Since: 03-24-06

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Posted on 07-07-07 01:36 AM Link | Quote
Two words:

FUCK YES!

This movie was awesome. It is the pinnacle of action films. They should just stop making action movies because they will never surpass it. Not only that but it was very funny. I can wrap up the essence of the movie in this sentence: He gets chased by a freeway. That's right, a freeway. I'm not even going to tell you how or why.

Now, comparing this movie to Transformers, as everyone is. It owns Transformers in the face. John McClane kicks Optimus Prime so hard in the nuts that he was coughing up blood. And I know what you're thinking. He's a robot, he doesn't have blood. That is how hard he got kicked in the nuts.
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Posted on 07-07-07 01:46 AM Link | Quote
I could have sworn I posted a thread on this already. Ah well.

I saw this movie last Wednesday when it came out and I was just left in awe afterwords. I have to agree that it was better than Transformers. I mean the level of awesome that was put into that movie is impossible to match (maybe). Some parts really had an impact on you, such as...

Spoiler:
When they're in the tunnel and the cars are flying everywhere, you just can't help but shift and say OOOOH!


Overall the quality was great. Great plot, great action, plenty of humor on top, and plenty of other greatness. There was only one flaw that I saw.

Spoiler:
When the jet pilot landed safely, what was the point of showing that. It was completely pointless.


If you haven't seen it yet, you've got to see this. Definetely one of my all time favorite movies.


(Last edited by DSMagnum on 07-07-07 04:46 AM)
Xeoman

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Posted on 07-07-07 01:52 AM Link | Quote
Guess I'm on the other side of the fence. I'm a big fan of the original (a big reason why many of my friends think I hated this one), but I really didn't care for this movie at all. Take out Bruce Willis and it would have been a huge pile of diarrhea.

Bruce Willi's and his great character John McKlane was the only thing I really liked about it. Other than that, I just couldn't stand the ridiculous plot and some of the utterly bad actors. Timothy Olyphant reaches my list of "Should never play another villian in any A Title movie ever again". He was by far, one of the worst villians I have ever seen, his acting was absolutely atrocious ... half the time I thought he was going to start crying through most of his dialogue. On top of this he's apparely the OMEGA hacker, well how come he never touched a computer in this movie? If he could have done things himself it would have been more epic.

I just don't know, it was enjoyable but hardly epic like the original. Something I won't look back at in 10-20 years and call a classic.
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Posted on 07-07-07 01:59 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Lord X
Timothy Olyphant reaches my list of "Should never play another villian in any A Title movie ever again". He was by far, one of the worst villians I have ever seen, his acting was absolutely atrocious

True, it was kinda harsh to watch him, but if you think about it, the way he acted did seem fairly well for the role. Could've been done better, but it was still fitting.
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Posted on 07-07-07 02:01 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by DSMagnum
Originally posted by Lord X
Timothy Olyphant reaches my list of "Should never play another villian in any A Title movie ever again". He was by far, one of the worst villians I have ever seen, his acting was absolutely atrocious

True, it was kinda harsh to watch him, but if you think about it, the way he acted did seem fairly well for the role. Could've been done better, but it was still fitting.

A lot of my friends brought that up too and it is a good point. Your generic nerd such as that guy would probably be somewhat of a wimp, but I mean ... its JOHN MCLANE! He's got to have some challenge.

SPOILERS











I mean one yippie-kai-yay-motherfuBANG took that guy out!


(Last edited by Lord X on 07-07-07 05:01 AM)
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Zombie Marco








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Posted on 07-07-07 02:09 AM Link | Quote
I actually liked Timothy Olyphant.

Something I noticed: when the main hacker left the trailer before... you know... I noticed that his laptop had a certain logo on it. One you might recognize:



That's right. The incredible hacker was using Alienware. That made me lol.
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Posted on 07-09-07 01:57 PM Link | Quote
Yeah, I noticed the Alienware laptop.

I also noticed that the sound was poorly synched with the video in any of the far away shots. The characters seemed to movie their mouths a bit out of sync whenever the camera was zoomed far out. The closer up bits were fine though.

But yeah, went to see this with a friend, and gawd we both loved it! ^^
I still think I prefer some of the older ones, and this is split second with Die Hard With a Vengeance, both just below the first. I don't remember seeing much of Die Hard 2 though... I should watch it.

And McClain would EASILY wipe out Optimus Prime... He's just fire a car at it...




...When he's out of bullets anyway.
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