CaptainFoamerang

Er, was Flash or Venom or childhood hero? >.>

Well are we talking character and story depth or plain information depth?

The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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Bear in mind that this what I've gathered from these films upon single viewings. If someone brings up something that could warrant additional viewings, I might add them to my Netflix queue.

Blade Runner
Overall, just a very bland film to me. Much of the movie is spent building up the danger of the escaped androids, yet those same androids simply spend most of the their time acting odd or moping over their situation. The main character of the film wasn't fleshed out enough to make me care about him or his mission. Perhaps my interpretation of the film suffered for not looking at it as "Han Solo fights robots." There's just too much that goes unsaid or not shown about the characters and their relationships, so it's hollow.

The Godfather
Pretty disappointing to me because it had some of the best actors you could ask for in a movie, but the direction and the writing didn't use them to their fullest potential. The movie's supposed to be about a son whose kept his nose clean his whole life reluctantly taking over the reins of a criminal empire, but there's no reluctance. We don't really see Michael Corleone struggle with his decisions and his character comes off so flat. I mean, he takes off for the country of his forebears and has a wife, but after she gets offed and he returns it's like that whole part of his life never happened. Essentially, it was too evident that it was based on a novel because the writer and director tried to cram as much material in there as they could without putting more thought into smoothing out the story.

The Godfather Part II
There were the same issues as the first one, except they were compounded by the fact that this was the sequel and you'd think the creative staff would've learned from their mistakes. Furthermore, it was too much of a rehash of the first film. Again we get the flashbacks of Vito's earlier life, except now they're less relevant and less compelling. Again we have a betrayal that has to be addressed through a strategic mass assassination sequence.

Citizen Kane
Strangely enough, this came off to me as the Avatar of its time. The story, characters, and performances were so-so, and it depended a lot on its technical accomplishments. There were a lot directorial techniques applied that were among the first of their kind, but Welles was less talented behind the camera than Cameron, and much of the power and emotion behind the performances were lost, perhaps due to Welles' inexperience as a director or maybe because the actors' talent simply wasn't there. Some have suggested that I'm simply prejudiced against films that came before my time; however, I did enjoy 12 Angry Men and A Raisin in the Sun because there was talent behind the writing and the performances.

Abandoning as many expectations for movies as possible has generally produced good results for me. I think the Sucker Punch that's being alluded to in the title refers to how they're choosing to represent the film in most trailers, which is an eye candy film, and the sucker punch is the substance.

There's being realistic and being a negative nancy. The latter tends to involve attempting to stamp out optimism where it's found.

Yes. We've been getting nothing but optimism from you about this film.

You're right. I don't let the rankings and generally accepted perceptions of films to spackle over their glaring flaws. I'm pretty consistent about that.

I don't really put that much stock in rankings like that anymore, especially after seeing how mediocre the first two Godfather movies were. And the same goes for Citizen Kane.

From the trailer.

So you were trying to say my taste sucks for saying what I said? Just say that next time.

And that means what? o.O

Agreed, sir.

It was definitely one of the more disappointing movies I'd seen because it'd been so hyped up over the years as one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. Then I go to watch it and struggle to stay awake.

I might rewatch it again soon to reevaluate my take on it, but I've got Blu-Rays coming in that I'm actually interested in. >.>

Why would you fear that?

It seems that by making this move they're allaying fears that this will be an all flash and no substance movie, and the climax will undoubtedly be more powerful.

Actually, one of the trailers indicates that the fantasy does reflect an escape plan and it shows the various tasks they have to complete with their real and fantastical versions.

It wasn't.

Maybe Kyle Rayner as GL?

Don't forget Brendan Gleeson and Stanley Tucci.