Surrogates (2009)

Originally posted by edwinian
Really? I've been reading some pretty solid reviews, that describe the movie as high-concept fun. UGO has an excellent review up , if you want to check that one out. It seems like everyone was pretty happy that the run times is 88 minutes, this way it never drags and it's action packed from start to finish.

I found rottentomatoes.com to be pretty reliable. Needless to say the movie isn't getting much praise there. In fact, it got a 5/10. From past experience I've grown to trust rottentomatoes, so if they say a movie sucks it likely sucks.

It's been getting mostly 3 out of 5 in all the things I read. Decent and worth the look in other words.

Originally posted by Admiral Akbar
I found rottentomatoes.com to be pretty reliable. Needless to say the movie isn't getting much praise there. In fact, it got a 5/10. From past experience I've grown to trust rottentomatoes, so if they say a movie sucks it likely sucks.

Yeah, they're a decent review site, which bums me out, cuz I'm looking forward to this and will be watching it tonight.

Originally posted by Admiral Akbar
I found rottentomatoes.com to be pretty reliable. Needless to say the movie isn't getting much praise there. In fact, it got a 5/10. From past experience I've grown to trust rottentomatoes, so if they say a movie sucks it likely sucks.

but you should not always believe what rotten tomatoes tells you, just because they don't like a film doesn't mean you are going to... see a movie and judge for yourself

Yea, I agree, I've always thought Rotten Tomatoes was one of the better review sites out there, and trust their opinion for the most part. However to me it's all about the films trailer. If a trailer excites me, I'm going to see the film. regardless of the reviews. In this case, the premise, actors, and action all interested me. so I plan to still check it out and form my own opinion.

This movie was entirely mediocre.

Originally posted by BackFire
This movie was entirely mediocre.

F me then, I'm seeing it in about 2.5 hours and I had high hopes. Oh well, I'll be 'mediocured'.

And over at IMDB its at least and 8.0/10

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
but you should not always believe what rotten tomatoes tells you, just because they don't like a film doesn't mean you are going to... see a movie and judge for yourself

I know.

Originally posted by Robtard
F me then, I'm seeing it in about 2.5 hours and I had high hopes. Oh well, I'll be 'mediocured'.

I hope you enjoy the movie.

if what i read is true... this film is a total flop

Then all hope is lost if Johanathon Mostow is doing the Sub-Mariner movie.

Originally posted by Admiral Akbar
I hope you enjoy the movie.

As BF said, it was mediocre. Good idea, just poor story and delivery.

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
but you should not always believe what rotten tomatoes tells you, just because they don't like a film doesn't mean you are going to... see a movie and judge for yourself

I completely agree, except for the idea of limited time and money. The reviews have saved me from dropping $10 down to see the movie. With my excitement for this movie tamed, I am now willing to wait for it on DVD so I can rent it for a dollar. Sometimes the reviews are bad enough to convince me to save my time as well and never see a movie. Surrogates is getting subpar reviews, so I'll still watch and decide for myself if it is good, but its no longer worth a $10 gamble.

I thought it was a pretty decent film. I liked that I left the theater was thinking about themes that the movie was talking about, with society depending too much on technology. Like most people are staying definitely a good concept for a film. I was also pretty impressed with Willis. He does an excellent job in his role and he's really one of the more steady actors out there.

Went and seen today i thought it too was a decent film.

saw it last night. not bad... not bad at all. would have liked to see a bit more of how superhuman the surrogates were, though.

This movie sucks.

I had to get into work at 8am yesterday and had to stay for some appointments until 8pm, but had nothing to do in the middle of the day, so I took off and watched this movie. The experience was fun because I was literally the only person in the theater for the firs time in my life (I had a couple of times where it was just me and my friends though). I enjoyed the movie. It wasn't great, but not as bad as the reviews on R-Tomatoes suggests. I think it would have been worthy of a 60-65% rating.

I enjoyed this movie, my sort of thing. There´s seemed to be something missing though, can´t put my finger on it but I think they could have made more out of the story.

The "surrogates" were amazingly done, how they made Bruce Willis looks so long was truly impressive.