| (07.26) | Lady in the Water  |
| (05.21) | Da Vinci Code, The  |
| (05.06) | United 93  |
| (02.05) | King Kong  |
| (01.29) | Syriana |
| (01.24) | Walk the Line |
| (01.05) | Chronicles of Narnia, The: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  |
| (01.02) | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| (12.30) | Jarhead |
| (12.27) | Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
| (12.05) | randy: Polar Express, The |
| (12.02) | Geoff: Polar Express, The |
| (07.27) | Jen: Lady in the Water |
| (07.27) | Justin: Lady in the Water |
| (07.12) | Sarah: Da Vinci Code, The |
| (05.25) | Chris: Da Vinci Code, The |
| (05.25) | Acceler8: Da Vinci Code, The |
| (05.21) | Mr Plow: Da Vinci Code, The |
| (05.11) | Sarah: United 93 |
| (05.11) | Bread: United 93 |
Yikes, what a steaming pile of crap this movie is!
Windtalkers is basically two hours of pointless, plotless, hyper-exaggerated 'war action.' The enemy Japanese soldiers served no other purpose than to run aimlessly into the American line-of-fire so that we could see them get shot and hurl through the air in slow-motion. I'm not joking when I say that a good 30-40 minutes of the entire running time of the movie involved scenes like this, along with further scenes of artillery shells and endless huge explosions that cause soldiers in thier blast radius to -- yup, you guessed it -- hurl through the air in slow-motion.
There's absolutely nothing at all in Windtalkers that made it worthwhile (save for the vaguest of ideas about Navejo Indian codebreakers -- but that seemed entirely incidental to the film). There's no interesting characters or plot like in Saving Private Ryan, no eerie poeticism like in The Thin Red Line, and no sense of military startegy like in We Were Soldiers or Black Hawk Down.
all this and you still gave it a 2? you're too kind ;)
strange thing is, i predicted this is EXACTLY what the movie would be about...and hey, it's got nick cage, which automatically knocks off a few points ;) (though i'm sure i'll see that upcoming movie...forget what it was called, but about the writer or something...you know the one ;) )
Did you manage to see this one, Randy?
And I figured I had to give it a something above a "1" because it actually looked pretty good -- cinematography-wise, that is...
nope...haven't seen it, don't care to
i honestly REALLY don't like nicholas cage...the fact that he's attached to so many comic properties is probably going to take 8 years off my life...
i mean, really? john constantine??? perhaps cage has had his good roles, but i'm sorry if i can't believe him as a rebelious, blond, BRITISH!! magician...argh...stupid cage...
an update here...apparently cage isn't after the constantine role anymore...rumours include keanu reeves to play the magician...he's also been talked about as supes, another comic character that cage was once after...hmmm
if superman took after xmen or daredevil at all, it basically *would* be visually like the matrix heh...i can't see keanu playing clark though, but really, does ANYONE have the right to make a superMAN film anyways? (aside from miles millar and alfred gough, but like 5-6 seasons of smallville from now? :P )
i think this is the best movie ever and it should have got more then a one.
Felt so hopeless looking for asnwres to my questions...until now.
Felt so hopeless looking for asnwres to my questions...until now.
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