This Dreamworks movie doesn’t get talked about much and it’s easy to see why after watching it and the making-of featurette. This movie seems like it wanted a PG-13 or R rating; I think the creators forgot they were making a kids movie at times. Even in the featurette you can hear them talking about characters being sensual and sexy.
Here are a few observations:
Enough innuendos made it into the movie to piss off parents, but the dialogue is still very much kids-movie level
The CGI and 2D animation are blended somewhat less effectively than Treasure Planet, but the movie still manages to look really good at times due to the imagination behind the world design.
This movie has the most MacGuffiny MacGuffin that ever was or will be.
Brad Pit, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Michelle Pfeiffer all star in this movie.
Bloodless PG action scenes are surprisingly well choreographed
I think the concept of a swashbuckler film about Sinbad was massively held back due to being made for kids. This could have been amazing. Unfortunately, it’s just a mediocre movie with hints of greatness and is probably best to watch buzzed on alcohol.
I hope someone else takes a stab at a Sinbad swashbuckler whether it is animated or live-action. We don’t get enough swashbucklers these days.
Yea, I loved all those Harryhausen movies. I actually ran into him unexpectedly a few years before he passed away when I was wandering around one of the back hallways of Comic-Con in the early days. One of my more unforgettable moments
If there is another Suicide Squad movie after this one, you won’t catch me watching it. Polka Dot Man is PeNgU1N oF d00m levels of “random” and Harley Quinn continues to make mental illness look like a superpower. The biggest problem is that I was just kinda bored through the whole thing. I never worried about any of the characters, partly because they aren’t that likeable and partly because the stakes never felt real. Finally, there is just something missing from the action choreography in this.
This movie is heavy and shocking. Reality was even more shocking than a movie based on that story.
Based on the Jack Ketchum novel of the same name, The Girl Next Door follows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt…and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime.
That is a real movie classic. LOVE it. I downloaded a 4K version of it for the permanent collection. :sunglasses:
So, I know this is the movie thread… but in case anyone here is also into serial productions, “The Blacklist” is simply amazing. James Spader outdoes himself. He has that low key snarky wit you see in many other works of his (particularly “Boston Legal”) but he takes it to a new level here in BL. I feel like I need to go back over it and record his best quotes. They are THAT good.
I kinda agree. I’ve now read several positive reviews of this one and I just don’t get it. If you were to take the story elements/ideas themselves, I think it could’ve been a good if not great movie, but it was horribly executed, so much so that in several places I was just thinking “wtf” (Is Harley just pooping colors?!!) Someone has some ’splaining to do…or not.
Maybe a Zack Snyder-type cut would help…as long as it’s not 4 hours long