The Glade 4.0

I must have completely missed the cheesy '80s action movie appreciation gene. Those films hold no interest for me. *shrug*

Most of them are just terrible movies. They are definitely testosterone fests, though. Which, if that's your thing, more power to you. I like heist movies, and spy movies. I also like good, clean action. So movies like the Bourne Identity really draw me in (though, the action director for the second film was fail, and the third film was better but not great). Give me nice, tight, logical continuous action shots. I want to see the story of a fight play out, and if the movie is supposed to be realistic, I don't want to groan when someone hucks a bigass knife through someone's skull at 50 yards before the poor bastard even fires his AK-47.

Movies like Rambo, Red Dawn, Commando, and even Predator were just meh. Navy seals? Heh. Top Gun? not so much. Iron Eagle? bleh. Pilot movies were better than the Rambo genre, but not by a whole lot. I loved them when I was a kid, but got over it.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

That's because you are a boy, not a man.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Mindless mayhem can be fun.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I like my mindless mayhem to involve Zombies, I think.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

The shakeycam was only added in the sequels. The first one didn't really have one.

Yeah, the shakey cam in the second movie pissed me right off. The first one's action direction was much, much better.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

I concur with both statements above.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

I could normally state that Shakeycam never bothers me, but The Bourne...whatever, the second one is the exception to that statement. I never saw the third because the director of the second returned to helm it.

You should see the third, I think it was the best of the three.

The shakey cam in the 3rd wasn't as bad as in the second one. The second movie actually got me to the point of actually starting to get motion sick.

I disagree with Jhorra that it's the best of the 3, but it's a pretty good wrap up of the series and worth a watch.

Quantum of Solace had pretty bad shakeycam, too.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I don't notice shakeycam really if I'm watching a movie I'm getting into, but if the movie isn't my favorite or whatever, it's a really annoying effect.

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In time, this too shall pass.

This is the most compelling movie review I've ever seen.

The Expendables was the most fun I've had at a movie theater in years...

When it comes out on Bluray I'm buying a case of beer and having a Commando/Expendables Day of Awesome...

That was mindless fun.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Loved it. Saw it last night. I want that shot gun...holy crap.

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Raell Kromwell

LTTP Necropost:

Loved it, but for the General.
The writers either needed to make his change of heart have an actual impact on the way the story played out, or make him an out-and-out villain right up to the end. As it was, all he did was spout pseudo-tough-guy one-liners that made me want to believe he was gonna turn into some kind of hero to his people, then fail to follow through. During the climactic guns-n-bombs scene, all I could think of was that the heroes were killing all the wrong people and blowing up a perfectly good villa that didn't need to be destroyed.

Other than that - pretty decent action flick.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister