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#1 schreibot

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Posted 24 July 2012 - 06:22 PM

This movie makes zero sense from the beginning. My favorite thing about it is the accents... Guy Pierce does a reasonably good tough guy accent, but there are so many bad american accents... these and the reference to the Lambada are my favorite bad parts. There's some good material here.

I will say that the movie is reasonably impressive visually and only cost $20 million (it made $25m)

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Posted 24 July 2012 - 07:02 PM

Also, they skydive from outer space. (There is so much crazy implausible shit in this movie.)

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Posted 31 August 2012 - 10:50 PM

Ho-ly shit. This film is practically begging to be in a HDTGM episode for two reasons: Guy Pearce and some craptacular CGI sequences.

Guy Pearce, who probably tried his best, plays a wise-ass CIA agent who's simply named 'Snow'.
Snow is too cool for school, until he is wrongfully convicted of murder. Soon, his only chance at redemption is to except a one man mission to save the Presidents daughter from a maximum security prison...in space!

I won't go into all the details and crazy, laughable shit that this movie takes you through. But think of the story as if Escape From New York and Die Hard had a baby... and then they shot that baby into space. Oh, and it's the future, like 2080 or something.

Anyways, I personally think this film is ripe with material and fairly new.


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Posted 02 September 2012 - 05:19 AM

I will agree that this movie is definitely HDTGM fodder, but I thought Pearce's delivery of one-liners was SUB LIME.

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Posted 02 September 2012 - 03:15 PM

You know what made me the ANGRIEST about this movie? Aside from all illogical plot lines, they introduce a HORRIFYING psychopath antagonist character and you just wait and wait and wait to see him die in a satisfying way and NOPE. Just not even gonna bother with that guy, we're parachuting to Earth now!

uuuuuuuughghghghhhhh

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Posted 05 September 2012 - 07:41 AM

If this was a 3rd Snake Pliskin movie, would that have made it more enjoyable?

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Posted 05 September 2012 - 06:13 PM

View PostLando, on 05 September 2012 - 07:41 AM, said:

If this was a 3rd Snake Pliskin movie, would that have made it more enjoyable?


I don't know. I mean, did you see the SECOND Snake Plissken movie? Then again, your mileage may vary, and that might make anything you watch after that seem more enjoyable. Speaking of that, the second "Resident Evil" movie was one of the worst films I've ever seen in a theater, but I remember liking the third one quite a bit, and I don't know if it's because I thought it was genuinely good, or if it was because the one before it was THAT bad.
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Posted 06 September 2012 - 05:57 AM

View PostPlanBFromOuterSpace, on 05 September 2012 - 06:13 PM, said:

I don't know. I mean, did you see the SECOND Snake Plissken movie?


Yeah, and I was around the same age as when I thought Batman Forever was a good movie.

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Posted 08 September 2012 - 06:24 PM

I just saw this movie today. Holy $hit. They have to do it.
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Posted 08 September 2012 - 06:24 PM

View PostShannon, on 02 September 2012 - 03:15 PM, said:

You know what made me the ANGRIEST about this movie? Aside from all illogical plot lines, they introduce a HORRIFYING psychopath antagonist character and you just wait and wait and wait to see him die in a satisfying way and NOPE. Just not even gonna bother with that guy, we're parachuting to Earth now!

uuuuuuuughghghghhhhh


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Posted 18 October 2012 - 11:53 PM

Add my vote to this one. It's absolutely bloody terrible, but in a way I think the show would have fun with.

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Posted 01 November 2012 - 06:57 PM

I only made through about half of this movie before shutting it off in frustration. It would make a great episode, but then I'd have to sit through the rest of it. So conflicted...

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 02:19 AM

And it's Luc Besson. He knows how to make awesome things. (Messed up things where pre-teen Natalie Portman has sex with old dudes :Director's Extra Special Cut:) but awesome things none the less. He's even done sci-fi stuff with special effects before. I literally don't know what happened here.

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Posted 06 January 2013 - 01:02 PM

Oh wow, just watched this one today. They HAVE to do it! Best worst movie in a while. Favorite scene has got to be the motorcycle chase near the beginning; those effects gave me flashbacks of The Last Starfighter.

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Posted 08 January 2013 - 08:59 AM

Besson only wrote and produced it, he didn't direct it.

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Posted 13 January 2013 - 01:33 PM

What I found really funny was that there were still hostages on the space jail when they did the sky dive escape plan, so in essence, Snow killed dozens of innocent people.

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Posted 13 January 2013 - 02:19 PM

When I clicked on this thread, I was thinking of the movie "Lock Up", starring HDTGM favorite Sly Stallone. Even though I was like 8 when it came out, I distinctly remember an ad where they interview people leaving the movie, one of which was a toddler (who clearly should not have been allowed to watch a violent prison movie), saying about the movie: "It's weally hawd-cowe" in an adorable voice.

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 06:51 AM

Can't deny the wonderful awesomeness of "Lockout." Guy Pearce was really channeling his inner '80s action star. In fact, the whole script seemed to be an '80s action movie in space.

It just goes to show; Hollywood thinks you can take any premise and it gets 100% better by setting it in space.

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Posted 29 January 2013 - 03:43 PM

Holy shit, I was *this close* to watching this last night. I mean I thought it looked pretty bad but is it unwatchable?

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Posted 29 January 2013 - 04:13 PM

View Postfanny pack, on 29 January 2013 - 03:43 PM, said:

Holy shit, I was *this close* to watching this last night. I mean I thought it looked pretty bad but is it unwatchable?


It's bad, but it's not Pluto Nash bad.