Craig H Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 21 Jump Street is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Hating on 21 Jump Street **AND** Face/Off? Excuse me, but fuck this (part of the) thread. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glfpunk Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Travolta is a cartoon. 21 jump street is funny if listening to Jonah Hill for more than a few minutes doesn't make you want to throw up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I don't think anyone is going to throw up by just listening to someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I don't think anyone is going to throw up by just listening to someone. Limp Bizkit....Checkmate. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I accepted the face swap scenario when I was a kid and I accept it now. Face/Off is easily a top 100 movie of the 90's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I'm pretty sure Face/Off was among the first films to be released in the DVD format too. It changed the game, people. Historic movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I accepted that a big fucking teddy bear could shoot a laser crossbow & fly the Millennium Falcon. I accepted that a fucking DeLorean could travel to the future, the Wild West era, and 1985. I can accept that Travolta and Cage can switch faces, their body type differences would be viewed as "negligible," and that the only way to tell them apart ever is through their blood type, not their fingerprints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Koch Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Face/Off was on TNT this past weekend and I ended up watching it. I haven't seen the movie for years, but I still really enjoyed it. John Woo almost falls into self-parody and the "science" is totally ridiculous, but it's still a fun movie. The Blu-ray is always dirt cheap so I might have to pick it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I accepted that a big fucking teddy bear could shoot a laser crossbow & fly the Millennium Falcon. I accepted that a fucking DeLorean could travel to the future, the Wild West era, and 1985. I can accept that Travolta and Cage can switch faces, their body type differences would be viewed as "negligible," and that the only way to tell them apart ever is through their blood type, not their fingerprints. Now you can accept me hating the shit out of this putrid movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Face/Off is just stupid fun. Of course it's not a 5 star film. It's not trying to be. But, on the subject of John Travolta, you've got Michael, The General's Daughter, Domestic Disturbance, Be Cool... personally, I really liked Savages and From Paris with Love, but I might be alone in that regard. Lonely Hearts is good, too. None of these movies are going to remembered as classics or anything, but they aren't bad either. "Perfectly Acceptable (Insert Genre Here) Movies" are what he usually does, but then sometimes he does shit like Old Dogs, Wild Hogs, etc. Just cash-grab movies like the Happy Madison crew make now, but with older leads. True story, though... Battlefield Earth is one of the only movies I actually can't sit through. It joins Kung-Pow and Atlas Shrugged, Pt. I on that list. My custom title should read HUGE TRAVOLTA FAN, obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Wild Hogs was tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Everyone's expectations for 21 Jump Street should have been low enough that they were easily surpassed. As far as Face/Off, I've read so many other asinine movie defenses on this board that I don't think Mr. Woo needs a public defendant here. It's gold, John. GOLD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Don't forget Travolta chewing up the scenery in The Punisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Wild Hogs was tremendous. I liked that movie a lot. It's not high-brow or deep or anything but it's funny and it's got Marisa Tomei looking oh-so-fine. What's not to love? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Praising Be Cool is a bridge too far for me, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 What's wrong with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Everything in the commercials for THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, not just the images of the fantasies, but even the music, looks like it was designed to be like a 2-hour cell phone commercial. It's all the same whimsical "embrace life and TOUCH THE WORLD" stuff that people do in like a Microsoft Surface or Verizon commercial, with the same "Ooooh..Aaaaaaahhhhh....Ooooooooh" music that makes me think the whole thing has been transformed into a 2-hour long piece of pure torture. It looks, ironically like it is going to be the least imaginative movie about imagination imaginable. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Broken Arrow is so under-rated. The plot is silly, but never laughably outrageous like Face/Off. And Travolta is so great as the bad guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 For some reason I am really intrigued by the fact that Walter Mitty is only PG It doesn't seem to be being advertised as a kid's movie but I get this weird sense that being PG - it will end up being so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Broken Arrow is very under rated, but it lacks doves. Thus, < Face/Off Regarding Walter Mitty,I don't get the appeal of a movie where you know that all the fantastic~~! adventures aren't "real." Looks really bad (yuck yuck yuck) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Face/Off always reminded me of the fake movie trailers they played before Tropic Thunder. You could imagine Tugg Speedman talking it up to Lazurus and Portnoy. "So, like, FBI scientists, using science, figure out a way to switch my face with that of...the man who murdered my son!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I've never really understood Hollywood's decades-long obsession with bringing Walter Mitty to the screen, and it makes even less sense now in 2013, when the actual story isn't nearly the ubiquitous staple of middle school English classes that it used to be. Who is this movie even for? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I've never really understood Hollywood's decades-long obsession with bringing Walter Mitty to the screen, and it makes even less sense now in 2013, when the actual story isn't nearly the ubiquitous staple of middle school English classes that it used to be. Who is this movie even for? The thing is, they clearly don't want to bring Walter Mitty to the screen. They want to bring a movie about a guy who daydreams, but who learns to embrace life through the love of a good woman.. ...and somehow gets sent on a real magical quest. That's a really familiar movie, isn't it? It seems like they've already made it a bunch of times. It's really easy to write too, I'll bet. Way easier than actually finding a way to sell the actual story as a movie. That would take some chops. But, fuck that. There's no 3rd act in Mitty, brah! Where's the arc!!! Get me the guy that made Mr Popper's Penguin's work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stennick Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I'm not even remotely interested in the Mitty movie in fact it almost sounded like a fake movie you'd hear about in Entourage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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