starring: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett.
I hadn't ever seen the ending to this film as I think we left the theater about forty minutes in. I just finished the second disk and surprisingly, there were some positives.
1. Alec Baldwin. He stole every scene he was in. Thank God.2. There was less talk and more action than the first disk, again, thank God.
3. A few assorted scenes of the preparations for the final mission, the guys screwing around, laughing, and later their loaded looks (at each other) when they realize they're pretty much doomed. This sort of sentiment is *crucial* in a war film, this Band of Brothers understanding. It's like the trash dump scene in Toy Story 3; we're dying and I'm scared, will you hold my hand? Humanity. It's a must. And while Michael Bay is no Spielberg, I still cried (a very tiny bit). Shut up, Matt.
So that there was the good. Some items that needed improvement?
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| Wasn't this Ted Striker's painting in Airplane? |
LENGTHY DIALOGUE THAT GOES NO WHERE. The writer, Randall Wallace is no stranger to epic stories, he also wrote Braveheart and We Were Soldiers, and these were no where near this cheesy in dialogue. Script doctor. Look into it. The entire first disk could have been cut by at least half; everyone's lines were awful. Redo all that and this film could have actually been something.
RESPECT OUR SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN. If you are making a film about actual events, especially surrounding a war, then don't try to pull some Top Gun/Titanic/Crimson Tide rip off. People lost their lives for Christ's sake, it shouldn't be a music video or a lunch box, it should be tribute. Give these people the Goddamned common courtesy of some original, thoughtful ideas.
This film did not have to be this bad.
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I've yet to see this film. I've heard it isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be, and to be honest, I've really liked some of Michael Bay's films (The Rock, Armageddon, The Island). But I'm too unmotivated to ever go to the video store, and every time I see it playing on TV, it's with commercials. Like I'm going to sit through some epic length film with commercials.
i have to admit, this wasn't THAT bad, after the first disk was over, i was actually okay with it. i think i was just too uppity when i first went in the theater, i like to think i've chilled out a bit. i also harbor a secret fondness for michael bay, i loved The Rock, and muting the animal cracker scene, i liked armegeddon too.
it's just the talking parts that get me.
Robert De Niro can't do accents for shit!
he spoke full sicilian! believably! i suppose that's not an accent, but still.
and the southern, in cape fear?
Robert De Niro is Italian!
And his Southern accent was shit.
"for my ulcer I take a HALF'a one'a these, a HAAAALF! And that's when I have extreme pain! I had a three month supply, what'd you do with them all?"
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