---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
I tried to watch it - man was it awful! Lame acting and RIDICULOUSLY bad dialogue. It might vie for worst sci fi film with that god awful Prometheus. Prometheus was abysmal. And worse than just being a bad film with a tired cliche in every frame it completely undermined the first Alien film which is still marvelous. What was Ridley Scott thinking! But maybe the new Terminator film will give it a run for it's money. There was a great film that surely didn't need a sequel, but it got one that made no sense at all and, once again, undermined the original. I don't know why people rate T2 at all. Better special effects probably. But the series went rapidly downhill, the last one with Christian Bale was dreadful, all those cheesy references to dialogue in the first film made me want to scream "Make it stop!" but I was in a cinema and was probably in a minority anyway. People must love those references or they wouldn't always do them right? Worst sci-fi movie I have ever seen must be Battleship. It isn't really sci-fi but people will think it is because it's got big robots in it. It's more accurately described as an advert for America's values and it's endless fight against the nameless terrors that threaten the safety of the American way of life. Been a lot of films like that recently. Aliens with no backstory, stopping the hapless residents from going about their business, I don't know why they don't just call the monsters Ayrabh's or Gheehadees or something as they aren't fooling anyone. One thing they get wrong though is that the aliens they come up against are always highly organised and technologically advanced, unlike America's real enemies. Go figure... From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2015 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] It Follows I watched "Jupiter Ascending" last night. It's a "tentpole movie." IOW, something the Wachowski's did to get funding for projects they really want to do. It's a very basic story, sorta a takeoff on Cinderella (if you get the homage). Lots of temporary employment for CG artists. On 07/03/2015 01:55 PM, Duveyoung wrote: Jupiter Ascending got bad reviews, and I found it good enough to watch two times already. All kinds of production values and new tech concepts. It Follows is a rude slap in the face comparatively. Turns out it is simply a "see girls in underwear running" flick.....AND THAT'S IT. It's got about twenty things that piss ya off: characters going into dark places alone, being too dumb to find practical help, and endlessly starting the fucking movie over and over again with the same exact scenario: waiting for IT, and then running. Just trying to save ya getting emotionally ripped off. Worse part of the film is that IT DOES DELIVER with a lot of good qualities....gets ya expecting a LOGICAL and REASONABLE film, cuz, you know, good money and minds were behind this film. But shit. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : I'll have to see for myself. With horror and science fiction people often bring pre-concieved expectations. The film is distributed by Weinstein so might even have extras and an alternate ending. Similarly now that "Jupiter Ascending" is at RB I'll be checking it out for myself. On 07/03/2015 09:53 AM, Duveyoung wrote: Not worth the Redbox rental price. Reason: the ending ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : Shows up at Redbox on the 14th. On 07/03/2015 09:12 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Especially if you paid the prices I'm seeing to watch it online. Wait for Netflix for these titles or at least Redbox. Or did you inherit an eyepatch? On 07/02/2015 08:35 PM, Duveyoung wrote: WHAT A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT MOVIE. I won't spoil it here, but you should read ONLY THE BAD REVIEWS of this GOTCHA-TO-BUY-ME-YOU-SUCKER "BAIT AND FUCKING SWITCH" ABUSE UPON THE PUBLIC. I cannot believe those Rotten Tomatoes ratings.... The positive reviews are all bullshit-for-sure;-written-probably-by-paid-for-shills who must have all bought into this HEIST of the public mindset. All the RT reviewers should have their checking accounts audited for a major influx of payola......holy shit this film pissed me off. Piss. Shit. Fuck fuck fucking fuck fuck..........fuck. ( Heh......Just trying to help fill in the recently obvious film-review vacuum.) ItFollows http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/it_follows/ ItFollows Critics Consensus: Smart, original, and above all terrifying, It Follows is the rare modern horror film that works on multiple levels -- and leaves a lingering stin... View on www.rottentomatoes... Preview by Yahoo
