I thought the same thing when the trailer were airing and decided on a whim to go see it at the theater across the street one night that just happened to be it's last night in said theater. I'm glad I did 'cause I really enjoyed it. Now, I won't venture to say that means it's a good movie 'cause there are too many clashing opinions on what makes a "good movie", but it was entertaining, I liked the setting, the action and it didn't bore or annoy me. Plus I had an aversion to Collin Farrell for a long time, but liking his performance in both the Fright Night remake and this has turned me into a fan. So did you get around to seeing it and, if so, what did you think?
Oh, by the way, I decided to check out your page out of curiosity after reading your well written description of JCVD and I'm going to have to add you. Hope you don't mind.
I did eventually see it, and my quick thought was, "Not bad, definitely not boring, but really kind of bland". I wasn't bothered by how little it ended up resembling either the first movie or story as the premise was really the only important thing, but it just felt like they had opportunities to get interesting and never managed to do so.
If there's one thing they really, really needed to copy from the first movie is how long the first movie maintained the "is he in a conspiracy or is he just out of his own head" question, which added a huge surreal effect to the events of the story. Then when things were revealed and stuff got crazy, it just made *sense* in a strange kind of way.
The remake had a couple token moments like this, but for the most part it was a humdrum generic SF conspiracy with really great action sequences
I was disappointed by the major differences at first and I can agree it was a little bland, but it surpassed my expectations and I was pleased. Oh yeah, and I completely agree that the lack of keeping the head games going hurt the cause.
I've gone into too many movie viewings expecting one thing just to come out disappointed and even angry or disgusted when I get something entirely different, and then growing to like the movie in question later on after I give it another shot upon being blindsided by sudden urges to see it again. The American "Godzilla" is one such film.
The only things I can't forgive now are when a film is just plain boring or completely lazy and almost offensively formulaic. I know pretty much everything is formulaic at least to an extent, but there's a line.
I have a unabashed love of the Emmerich Godzilla. It's such a glorious train wreck of a film that tries so hard and fails so badly, but still has fun doing it.
And considering what they originally had in the plans for that film, I think we should be glad we got "gloriously bad".
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Oh, by the way, I decided to check out your page out of curiosity after reading your well written description of JCVD and I'm going to have to add you. Hope you don't mind.
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If there's one thing they really, really needed to copy from the first movie is how long the first movie maintained the "is he in a conspiracy or is he just out of his own head" question, which added a huge surreal effect to the events of the story. Then when things were revealed and stuff got crazy, it just made *sense* in a strange kind of way.
The remake had a couple token moments like this, but for the most part it was a humdrum generic SF conspiracy with really great action sequences
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I've gone into too many movie viewings expecting one thing just to come out disappointed and even angry or disgusted when I get something entirely different, and then growing to like the movie in question later on after I give it another shot upon being blindsided by sudden urges to see it again. The American "Godzilla" is one such film.
The only things I can't forgive now are when a film is just plain boring or completely lazy and almost offensively formulaic. I know pretty much everything is formulaic at least to an extent, but there's a line.
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And considering what they originally had in the plans for that film, I think we should be glad we got "gloriously bad".
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