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Ebert sounds like he's missing his sense of humour.


Yeah he's fine with Bruckheimer's relentless jingoistic slaughter but bullying a 15 year old.. that's going too far.

ah ah.../points finger
you got me throbbin...you tundra loving prick.
i almost bought that as a real film trailer.
the only thing missing was megan fox ripping off her clothes to reveal a leather combat suit underneath and whipping out her machine gun.
was also waiting for the "produced and directed by jerry bruckheimer and michael bay".
how can a mother theresa biography NOT have explosions?
"she has come to defend the honor of christ"
and then like a hail of bullets.
well..thats how they should have done it........

The music sounds straight out of Jerry Bruckheimer.

Just got around to finally playing the PC version of this game. An amazing achievement worthy of any historical Hollywood A-list film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Ridley Scott, but like so many said historical Hollywood films they left out 2 fundamental things:

A) Any sense of narrative coherence
B) It was no fun at all.

I love the sheer fucking epicness that bruckheimer films have. Pirates had some of the same, which was awesome.

michael bay just likes to blow stuff up.
he disregards storyline,character development and any trace of subtle nuance.
imagine the movie "armageddon" without james cameron directing and only having michael bay and jerry bruckheimer?
the man is just a rich dude who thinks thats all movies should be...blowing crap up.
it's a shame he is trashing what could be a great storyline,nevermind the nostalgia factor alone.
totally wasted potential=epic fail

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Enzo, the Fermi paradox accounts for the probability of no faster than light travel. The milky way is at least 13 billion years old. That's more than enough time for thousands of civilisations to arise and colonise other stars using space ships that only reach a small fraction of the speed of light.


DFT, they really threw out most of the trappings of the 1950s original - I didn't hear any Theremin music at all. It was your typical, modern Jerry Bruckheimer style movie music - that is to say - completely forgettable.

There is an ugly scene in "Bad Boys II" that I want to tell you about. A cop played by Martin Lawrence is alarmed that his 15-year-old daughter is going out on her first date. We see the girl, pretty and hopeful in her new dress, being fussed over by her mother. The doorbell rings, and Lawrence opens it to confront her date, a nervous 15-year-old boy, tall and thin, neatly dressed.

Marcus and his partner (Will Smith) intimidate the boy without mercy. He is threatened with the unspeakable if he lays a hand on the girl. They demand to know if he is a virgin. They slap him with the N-word. At one point a gun is pulled on him. "Ever had sex with a man?" Smith asks. Then with a leer: "Want to?" The boy is terrified.

The needless cruelty of this scene took me out of the movie and into the minds of its makers. What were they thinking? Have they so lost touch with human nature that they think audiences will like this scene? Do they think it's funny? Did the actors voice any objections? It's the job of the producer to keep a film on track; did Jerry Bruckheimer notice anything distasteful? Or is it possible that everyone connected with the film has become so desensitized by the relentless cynical aggression of movies like this that the scene passed without comment?

---Roger Ebert; Bad Boys II review July 18, 2003

Damn you lawyers! I swear to Oprah, Bruckheimer,Baldwin,Kraynak, Beeks and whatever fleshly forms of your living gods you hold dear..that I will never pay one red cent to see Rambo lV.

*discard

I'm really not sure that you 'get' the film if you think that this scene was unnecessary. As well as lampooning all sorts of people and world events, at it's heart the film is a parody of the standard Michael Bay/Bruckheimer style of action flick. In those films there are very often these 'get down in the depths' scenes before the triumphant return, and also the great advice gleened from the most unlikely of places.

This scene has it all, and is both hilarious, and a great spoof.

The score almost makes me think this is fake. Jerry Bruckheimer infomercial music.

Hmmm, I don't know.
I'm not familiar with the graphic novel, but that level of visual un-reality works perfectly for "Sin City", but you put it in ancient Sparta and it looks like another bad Bruckheimer flick. We'll see, I s'pose.