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Based on the title I assumed this was a documentary about INXS. Was I wrong?

I think we're just asked to accept that they're always the same kids, despite being portrayed by different actors (and the fact that they sometimes de-age in subsequent films). Believe it or not, this was not a direct-to-DVD movie but was in fact a made-for-TV movie for NBC. NBC actually believed people wanted to watch this.

Sort of. He was actually on record as not caring about the film adaptations of his work (he just didn't watch them), but 20th Century Fox was sued over League by two writers who claimed it ripped off a screenplay they wrote. Moore had to go to court to defend himself, and the experience was so unpleasant he said he would never go through it again. Then Fox settled, which Moore felt impugned his character and implied guilt. He's since insisted that any adaptations of his work remove his name.

Matthew Broderick talks about Brando getting his lines on an earpiece as early as The Freshman, so apparently that was a normal thing for him at this point.

It absolutely is. This is a definitive fun-bad movie.

FC didn't kill the Trek franchise, though. So we can't blame Adam for that one.

This is tangential, but I just realized Adam Scott was in Star Trek First Contact. MIND BLOWN

I kind of like Home Fries. *sheepishly slinks away*

I wouldn't doubt that's possible (the movie kind of screams amateur hour and despite his problem with scripts Shyamalan does know how to shoot a movie competently), but IMDB trivia pages aren't terribly reliable sources of information.

The Scientology connections are pretty tenuous, IMO. Volcanoes! Overcoming fear! It's pretty generic stuff.

Also keep in mind Will Smith not only produced this, but gets a 'story by' credit. I have a feeling he's more to blame here than M Night, which might explain why it's only boring bad and not boy howdy bad.

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Yeah, I found all the previews for Now You See Me extremely cheeseball. It felt like a rental.

Yeah, let me reiterate as someone who did pay to see this - don't. I'm sure the ep will be fun because our beloved trio makes everything fun, but don't spend money on AE. Go see Star Trek or FF6.

Ahh man, this honestly bums me out. I saw this yesterday and it's just so-so and kinda boring, not wacky wackadoo crazy. And I don't want to get ya down Paul, but there is no twist. It's just a super simplistic father/son story with sprinkles of nonsense.

Other random observations/thoughts: 1)The spaceship is made of toilet paper 2)Will sends his son up an active volcano despite the fact that there are nearby mountains that are not active volcanoes 3)Why does Jaden's supersuit not have a helmet? 4)Why does Will not use a tourniquet on his injured leg? 5)There was some kind of vague message about our relationship to Earth with the buffalo shot and the end shot with the humpback whales, but I don't really know what it was because I'm pretty sure it's stupid

Okay, so honestly I wish this had been terrrrrible so I could have enjoyed it on a so-bad-its-good level, but it was mostly just...there. Sort of lifelessly occupying the screen, moving unimaginatively from one point to the next. There are worse ways to spend an hour and a half, really. Definite plot problems. It feels more like an outline than a story. Don't think it would be fun for the show, though.

Well, I'm going to subject myself to this later today. I'll be sure to report back all the madness.

Fortunately, I was born without shame.

And I loved every minute of it!

Why do all these super wholesome films always have extremely porn-y titles?

I don't think it rips off Moon as much as it rips off the things Moon ripped off (like Silent Running, 2001 or Solaris). Honestly, I am one of those rare birds that didn't enjoy Moon that much. It starts off quite good, but it falls apart somewhere in the middle, when it turns into a movie where Sam Rockwell (who I do love) argues with himself. And the *SPOILERS* cloning subplot there is telegraphed from the word go, so I guess I was disappointed that there wasn't something more interesting going on. I never felt Oblivion was selling itself as anything other than what it was (homage to 60s/70s sci-fi teetering on pastiche), so the less original elements didn't bother me that much. And I thought the bit about the moon actually made quite a bit of sense (as opposed to several other plot points). If the moon was shattered/exploded as it was depicted (presumably by some kind of projectile or super laser or whatever), then several bits would absolutely be hurled our way into our atmosphere, and even the smallest debris would cause devastating, life-ending consequences. If you're an alien interested in the planet and not the people, that's not a totally unreasonable way to go. Really, the biggest plot hole (and this is common to many, many 'We're here for your water!' stories) is that water exists in abundance in the universe, so there's no reason to commit resources to a conflict on an inhabited planet when you can just go unchallenged to the our edges of the solar system and extract more water than you'll ever find on Earth. No need for additional fuel to escape the gravity well, no need for soldiers to engage hostiles. Same goes for gold (Cowboys & Aliens). But ya know, it's just a movie, I should really just relax.

The problem with trying to make Jaden Smith happen is that Jaden Smith doesn't have 1/1000th of his father's charisma. That kid is dull as dirt. Well, when he's not out shopping with Kylie Jenner in his Iron Man costume. No seriously, that is a thing that happened.