Yeah that's a good way of doing it. I don't remember that about Hunt for Red October but it's been quite a while since I've sat down and watched the whole thing.
Yeah that's a good way of doing it. I don't remember that about Hunt for Red October but it's been quite a while since I've sat down and watched the whole thing.You can go to far the other way too though. I hated having to read most of my way through Inglorious Bastards, which is a shame because it could have been a much better movie. My favorite method was The Hunt For Red October, where the Russians paused and switched to English early on in the movie. The audience knows what is going on, and no doubt appreciates the change.
It just takes away from the authenticity of the show. All of the Spanish being spoken in Narcos is what makes that show so fucking great. It feels so damn authentic. Could you imagine if Pablo Escobar was speaking in English with an accent? It would have been so dumb.
That show Tyrant that was on FX had this same problem and it was just so stupid how they were speaking English in the middle of the middle east in terrorists cells with the fake ass accents. That show was canceled cause it was doing so bad and it feeling fake as hell probably had something to do with it.
You can go to far the other way too though. I hated having to read most of my way through Inglorious Bastards, which is a shame because it could have been a much better movie. My favorite method was The Hunt For Red October, where the Russians paused and switched to English early on in the movie. The audience knows what is going on, and no doubt appreciates the change.
Oh man the third episode of Chernobyl was released last night, and dang, pretty tough... those poor frickin firefighters and plant workers. And those miners, lol, with the pork and beans flapping in the wind (hopefully not much of a spoiler). I hope every one of those guys, the firefighters, medics, miners, all of them, got Hero of the Soviet Union awards. They sure deserved it. Yeah big deal when they're getting cancer or dying early, you might say, but still, the mention and acknowledgement I think would be important.
I don't know what it is, but I just cannot get into John Wick movies. I've seen all three in the theater, and I keep going back hoping to like them... or understand why other people like them, but I just can't. The thing is... it's not like I hate action-heavy movies, but there's just something about these that I can't get. Maybe it's just that the John Wick character is such a wet blanket that it's hard to have any sort of emotional attachment when the character himself shows little to no emotion. (It doesn't help that Keanu tends to use a very deadpan style.) A good example of how to do this properly was in the movie Dredd. Judge Dredd is also a very deadpan character, but the movie worked by including....
John Wick 3 - Parabellum 9/10
Rating is for a standard action movie.
JW1 is still probably my favorite, but they went all out for this one. Some very humorous kills, good fight choreography (IMHO), linear but interesting plot line, excellent CGI. I thought the scenes with the attack dogs were the most original and creative. The running dog joke wasn't bad either but I wouldn't have missed it.
I thought the ending was unexpected but I can see why they went that way to set up the sequel.
Definitely one of the most engaging action flicks I've seen in a while and that tends to be what I gravitate toward.
I'm going (hopefully) to get a trial HBO subscription just to watch this.Chernobyl (HBO) -- 9/10
Ok so I've only watched the first two episodes (only ones so far) but dang, this is a finely crafted show. I'm not SUPER knowledgeable about the Chernobyl incident but I probably know more than the average bear. Good acting and the atmosphere is suspenseful and tense. I'm really looking forward to the next episode(s). I hope it's more than 10 episodes but I doubt it. Bah I just checked apparently it's a 5-part series. Nooooooooo! /vader
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) 6/10
Only at the end did I have an inkling that I'd seen it before. Honestly, I think it isn't that good. My thought at the beginning was to give it a short leash. If I didn't start liking it more in the next 15 minutes, hit eject. It got a little better and I decided to stick it out (2:11 or so). Eh, kind of goofy movie, had a germ of an idea and that appeared to be OK at the end. Had the thought that it was kind of a rebaked 2001, all in all, with the nostalgia for the TV series as it's heartbeat. I hope I never watch it again! Now, the Star Trek from 2009 was pretty dang good and I hope I do rewatch that one.
I have gone through the Start Trek series a few times, still only watched #1 only once. At least they spent their ~10 minutes taking a camera around their little star ship pretty early in the movie, so the audience knows what they are in for. But yes, they could have scrapped that movie, started with Wrath of Khan, and no one would have missed it.
lol, yeah I was kinda let down by this. The first trailer for it that I saw way back made it look like a Taken clone in the snowy mountains, which I would've actually been ok with. But meh, it definitely doesn't reach that level and there's a lot of lowish humor in it that was lacking from Taken. I thought it was ok but that was it.Cold pursuit.
terrible.
lol, yeah I was kinda let down by this. The first trailer for it that I saw way back made it look like a Taken clone in the snowy mountains, which I would've actually been ok with. But meh, it definitely doesn't reach that level and there's a lot of lowish humor in it that was lacking from Taken. I thought it was ok but that was it.
Although I disagree, I can understand this. If you are the type who needs spoon fed emotional direction, or comic relief to balance a deadpan style, these movies will not be for you. And I mean this without and disrespect or passive aggressiveness. I enjoy a good movie with little wiggle room as for emotional direction as well.
However, if you like over the top action, emotional freedom, and can relate to the undying force of blind determination compounded with a dash of the duality of man, you will enjoy a John Wick flick.
Although I disagree, I can understand this. If you are the type who needs spoon fed emotional direction, or comic relief to balance a deadpan style, these movies will not be for you. And I mean this without and disrespect or passive aggressiveness. I enjoy a good movie with little wiggle room as for emotional direction as well.
However, if you like over the top action, emotional freedom, and can relate to the undying force of blind determination compounded with a dash of the duality of man, you will enjoy a John Wick flick.