Starring Mark Wahlberg.
The only exception is The Other Guys.
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It opens with a talking head news reporter monologuing a voiceover of some bullshit
Trailer blitzes
This is a very lazy observation, but for a US production, if it’s released in the US first it’s often a sign they’re trying to get the opening weekend without many reviews available to dissuade attendance.
If it’s actually a good film, it’ll open in a foreign region a week or two before the US so they can use those reviews in promotion.
Wow first one to say Jared Leto.
Unless I've missed morbin time suddenly becoming popular?
Bladerunner 2049 is great. In that, he plays a self-absorbed sadistic rich asshole. Phenomenal casting if you ask me.
More than five 'executive producers.'
Two character immediately infordumping to each other as if that’s how humans normally communicate.
“Are you ready? This is going to be a hard job. As you know, they’ve tightened security but we got a man on the inside. As long as does his job then it’s smooth sailing.”
“I was born ready. Eveeything will be fine as long as the shipment is on time. As you know, we put a tracker on the lead car and I can watch exactly where it is from this device in real-time.”
Two character immediately infordumping to each other as if that’s how humans normally communicate.
How dare you besmirch The Princess Bride!
Compare this to the bank robbery opening in Dark Knight haha.
I've never seen Heat, but I've also never seen any newer movies top that scene since.
Heat is as good as people have been telling you.
There's also a novel, Heat 2, written by the movie's director that serves as a prequel and sequel.
And I hear soon there is Heat 2 the movie
Directed by JJ Abrams
Unfortunately for too long now: “A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away”
Directed by:
- Uwe Boll
- Michael Bay
If you see this logo:
The company is the king of what used to be called Direct To Video. Now it is all Direct to Streaming.
Don't forget Adam Sandler
Only if it's a Happy Gilmore production. If he's acting in someone else's movie, he can be a great actor.
Ehhh..... "Spaceman" was pretty good actually
these logo's:
Though i will say the production value on the latest daily wire show was really high, probably the absolute fuck-tonne of money they spent on it.
What the hell is Angel. I am seeing that company logo all over. Are they a distribution house or are they some sort of religious shit?
I think they are kind of like a production house with an additional kickstarter backing thing, or small individual investors of some other kind, i'm not sure.
Here is the wiki
Their programming is pretty faithy, have a look at the lineup and you'll see from the titles.
I don't care much for that genre, but i don't see it as that much different than any other genre, it's just not for me.
What i will say is that their productions are the faith based equivalent of straight to vhs action movies.
It's generic dross with meh writing and some reasonable production values.
but that's just my opinion, perhaps it's worth a shot if you're into that kind of genre.
Oversaturated marketing campaign and overly bloated cast are the two big red flags for me.
Both are indicative that the budget for the movie was not put towards the actual content of the film but about trying to pull in the largest demographics of people.
A lot of directors and actors/actresses are massive red flags based on the projects that they take on. If they are also working with a star studded cast then it is going to suck so much. The Rock and Chris Pratt have earned their current association with bland movies that suck for example. I still like some older Rock movies from before he became bland action hero who can't show weakness for any reason. Pratt is fun as Starlord, but his other roles are mediocre.
Bland marketing is often a bad sign, where it is hard to tell the thing is different than a bunch of other similar movies. Bland action movies are a great example of this, if they can't pull of a unique impression from the trailers it is most likely going to suck.
Detailed CGI in sci fi that's been lense or motioned blurred into oblivion.
Doesn't even matter if the CGI was subpar because now the whole thing looks like RGB vommit.
It's especially painful coming from gaming where you get to see crisp visual quality at every angle even on games as old as Halo CE.
If it's a movie about a woman and it's written and directed by a man
Aliens
There are always exceptions but 99% of the time the movie ends up being misogynistic garbage
If it's a comedy: the first joke.
But there's always exceptions to any rule. I recently watched Spaceballs (yes, first time) and it would normally fall under that rule (for me, don't hate), but it got increasingly better as it went along.
Pacing that feels more like an Instagram reel than a feature film.
Excessive use of poor effects or artificial camera shake.
- Camera cuts
It sucks for me because once they start with the unnecessary cuts it pulls me right out and I'll probably stop watching.
Promoted in media, then suddenly disappears and not heard of again for 4-8 months.
It went horribly with test audiences, then got sent for a focus-group-based reworking. Always trash.
Typically things I look for are a movie that's pushed like its a big budget film but doesn't have any actors I've ever heard of.
Too much expositional dialogue at the beginning of the movie especially when its so foreign to the way people talk in real life.
In the new Star Wars movie, the "can you hear me now?" "joke" in the first 5 minutes.
Unnecessary sequels to a completed story.
I'm sure there are others but my break is over and this is all I could think of.
Directed by: Uwe Boll
For comedies, none of the jokes in the trailer are that funny or make you laugh.
Typically the impression I get from the trailer. I have seen so many trailers and so many movies I usually can't even tell you why anymore.
Voiceover
exposition in the form of character monologue at a length longer than 30 seconds that is required for the rest of the movie to make sense.
I'd say any bad exposition, no matter how short. I was marginally interested in watching Shang-Chi after watching Wonder Man since I heard Trevor was in it too.
Right after the intro sequence, they jump to the present to introduce him and his friend and she immediately says something like "we've been friends for 10 years" and it was just so forced that I turned it off.