Originally posted by Todd1700I lold.
This would be my pick as well. Never forget seeing TPM and watching a rowdy opening night crowd go from totally psyched to stunned silence as the realization of how bad it was set in. It was like expecting the mailman to hand you a check for a million dollars from Publishers Clearing House and instead it turns out to be a letter from your doctor saying you have cancer.
Originally posted by Todd1700
This would be my pick as well. Never forget seeing TPM and watching a rowdy opening night crowd go from totally psyched to stunned silence as the realization of how bad it was set in. It was like expecting the mailman to hand you a check for a million dollars from Publishers Clearing House and instead it turns out to be a letter from your doctor saying you have cancer.
Lol yeah, and then I remember Conan O'Brien sending Triumph the dog to a premiere of "Attack of the Clones". One of those premieres where you had fans camped out and shit waiting. It shows some people re-enacting the Phantom Menace lol, and they look silly as hell. Especially one part where they are mimicking the part where the jedis are swimming.
"Who wants to hear a spoiler? You will die alone".
Originally posted by Dreampanther
Two major changes that changed the tone completely, imo.1) Pinta wasn't "miraculously" still alive and unharmed after weeks and weeks of captivity. She was found dead in a car, suffocated on her own vomit. She had also been repeatedly raped by her captors (hence my derisive "Hollywood ending" comments).
2) This meant that Creasy didn't just get out of hospital to start hunting them down. Like the mercenary he was, with decades of experience and training, he mapped out a campaign to wipe them out. All of them.
Thus:
His best friend and long-time mercenary partner, Guido (not in the movie, though Walken's character is based on him) arranges a place for him to stay on an island in Malta and he goes off to rebuild his strength, regain his skills and lay out his plans.
Due to the connection he had with Pinta, he finds himself able to experience love again and slowly falls in love with a woman, Nadia, while on the island. She knows about Pinta and his plans and supports him. When he's ready, he leaves her and starts his war:
Everything he does, every kidnapper and enforcer he finds, extracts information from, blows up, executes - is all designed to do one thing: Terrify the guy at the top to the point where he decides the only thing to do is hole up in his base, built like a fort and guarded like a prison.
This is exactly what Creasy wants. The one thing they never fought was somebody like him. He is not a tough guy from the streets with a grudge. He is not an assassin. He didn't do covert ops. He is one of the deadliest soldiers alive, with decades of military experience in some of the worst places on earth, used to full-on assaults.
Now, picture this guy, doing a HALO drop late at night, stocked up on ammo, with grenades, submachine guns, assault rifle...
Then imagine what happened when he dropped into the middle of a fortress, facing guys whose experience consists of bullying shop owners and kidnapping children. They had nowhere to run. They had nowhere to hide. They had never been in a war before.
The book ends with an epilogue, where Creasy returns to the island, wounded (everyone thinks he's dead) and finds Nadia waiting for him with news: She's pregnant.
Thanks, Dreampanther. I need to check out the book.
I'm a huge fan of what the finished movie product was, but I understand you're frustration coming from the book reader's side of things. That's a lot of changes.
Double Dragon
It could have been like Marked for Death or the original TMNT but likely brutal violence plus the common objective of to rescue a damsel. Usually 1 hero but for this movie it would be 2 heroes to rescue the beautiful damsel but also having to fight a ruthless Syndicate that is creating terror in most of the Metropolis City.
That wasn't asking for a miracle it's something that easily could have been made resembling the original amazing. arcade
game.
Instead the notorious Hollywood of hugely alter a movie so much that it barely resembles the video game that the movie is based on didn't fail as this was a very unfaithful adaptation as most feature hollywood video game movies are.
It be topnotch if Hollywood decided to actually reboot this movie with a faithful adaptation.
Movies that can be good or great should be remade and this movie is in that category as no doubt it can be a great hardcore action movie.
Originally posted by TheOneFirestorm
Double Dragon
It could have been like Marked for Death or the original TMNT but likely brutal violence plus the common objective of to rescue a damsel. Usually 1 hero but for this movie it would be 2 heroes to rescue the beautiful damsel but also having to fight a ruthless Syndicate that is creating terror in most of the Metropolis City.
That wasn't asking for a miracle it's something that easily could have been made resembling the original amazing. arcade
game.Instead the notorious Hollywood of hugely alter a movie so much that it barely resembles the video game that the movie is based on didn't fail as this was a very unfaithful adaptation as most feature hollywood video game movies are.
It be topnotch if Hollywood decided to actually reboot this movie with a faithful adaptation.
Movies that can be good or great should be remade and this movie is in that category as no doubt it can be a great hardcore action movie.
A movie I saw a few weeks ago called The Autopsy of Jane Doe. It was a really cool premise and really well done, but I really think they should have gone back to the drawing board while writing to explore much more potential and get rid of some kind of silly and predictable twists.
It's a shame because it really was well done and a fun concept.
Originally posted by Impediment
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
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That movie was a huge let down...
And its a shame because they knocked it out the part with the original Sin City; the characters were extremely likable...the script writing was excellent...and the story was very immersive.
I have no idea what happened with A Dame to Kill For; it somehow lost everything that made the 1st one great...
I loved and still love MoS btw...
Russel was the perfect Jor El...
Loved Zod and Faora...
The "Flight" part was awesome and IMHO really captured the "feel" of Superman...
The fight screens were amazing...
Loved the opening sequence while on Krypton...
MoS was easily the strongest of the DC Cinematic Universe films, but thats just my opinion...
Maybe some of you need some reminding; check out "Flight" and tell that this wasnt well done; the feel of it...the music...it implied strongly that Superman was the greatest being on Earth without stating it a single time.
Originally posted by Dreampanther
Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. Really enjoyed it up until just before the end. I still don't understand why they decided to change the original story's ending. I can only assume Hollywood wanted to try and use their film to create a message that violence is bad or live by the gun, die by it or some such ridiculously stupid sentimental nonsense.Anyway, if they had stuck to the original story Man on Fire would have been one of my favourite movies. As it is, when it's on I tend to watch only the middle part and then switch to something else.
whats the original ending?
Originally posted by tkitna
That was ridiculous.How about Jor-el? The dude dies, but yet appears 100 more times in the movie helping Clark and Lois. Stupid. Die already for cripes sake.
Speaking of Jor-el, what about the dragon he was riding around on? Is this a Superman movie of Game Of Thrones?
Amy Adams as Lois. Puke.
The great villain and military leader Zod who constantly got his ass kicked. First by the formidable scientist Jor-el and then by Clark who's never thrown a punch in his life. Yeah Zod was more laughable than terrifying.
Superman snapping the neck of the villain and killing him. Are you serious? Its Superman. He overcomes and finds a way, but no, he just murders the bad guy. Could they have gone any further away from the character than that?
I remember seeing this movie with my son and buddy (whos a huge Superman fanboy) and when we walked out he said, 'man that movie sucked didnt it'. He couldnt have been more right. Just awful. I think its the worst movie in the entire DCEU to be honest.
so basically youre own opinion on it.... nobody cares