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The Gray Man was really good. However the two CIA personnel are absolutely crap and pointless - especially the woman. She served no purpose except to be useless and annoy me.
The bloke is being touted as the next James Bond I think. If it's the same guy who was in Bridgerton. Looked like him.
 

Got around to watching this:
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It’s ok if you have 2 hours to spare with absolutely nothing else to do.
All I can say is Michael f’ing Bay! lol

So let me offer you my official Michael Bay critique on this sunny Sunday morning. ?
The scene where they need to perform surgery in a speeding ambulance and they FaceTime 2 surgeons, and the surgeons are like: No stress! It’s Easy Peasy. I just thought; that’s something that would be in a Michael Bay movie, FFS!
There’s no way that’s happening in a real flying ambulance without it going pear shaped.
That’s just a malpractice suite waiting to happen!

It’s pretty obvious that the majority of every Micheal Bay film budget goes to special effects!
Clearly very little of it goes into the script writing…
Basic dialogue and an unbelievable plot.
Oh, and every single character in all his films only has one dimension, FFS!
It’s like he has a book of clichés and he interchanges them between his movies.

Let’s look at this film…
Jake Gyllenhaal. The quintessential bad guy. When they were briefly telling his back story, it’s like he’s a bad guy for the sake of being a bad guy.
Then there’s the returning war hero veteran who’s broke and needs to make money so he’s talked into the job. But later on (cliche alert!) he had a crisis of conscience and ultimately becomes the hero and saves the day.
Then there’s the tough as nails woman who doesn’t take crap, but is haunted by her one character flaw. I can’t remember, was she a druggie?
Let’s be honest… If Michael decided to make the woman the returning veteran and the other guy the druggie, would it even effect the script?

And have you noticed that every female character in all his films are a 10/10?!
Do you think that someone like Melissa Mccarthy, you know, an actress who has charisma and who is actually talented would get the lead female part in one of his films?

I apologize in advance for this next part…
What’s up with his filming style? I understand it’s an action film, but does he really have to over emphasize it?
Here’s a typical Michael Bay scene: Car speeding, overhead shot but zoom in super fast! Explosion! Camera pan around super fast! Zoom in on lead characters face to show how serious it is… Another explosion! Super fast zoom out! Ect ect…
All that in a matter of seconds. I never noticed it before, until I watched his last movie Underground 6. I had to stop watching halfway through because I got motion sickness! Lol, sorry if I brought this to your attention. It’s hard to unsee when you notice it.

And did any of you notice the title? ‘ambuLAnce’… Emphasis on the LA. I can only assume he put that there for his hardcore base fans. You know, to continuously remind them that the film is set in LA. I don’t know what that says about his fan base, but I can speculate. ?

But you know what? I can forgive all that if it wasn’t for his biggest cardinal sin…

And I’ll never forgive him for this: Everybody knows that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created when some pet turtles got exposed to radioactive waste in the sewer! And Splinter was a Japanese sensei before also being exposed made him into a rat.
In fact, Shredder was his student once upon a time.
But I guess that’s too complicated for a Michael Bay film.

He was like: Scrap all that. We’ll just say they came from space! lollol
How to make a Michael Bay film 101.

Rant over. ;)
Anybody wanna offer me a counter argument? Lol, bring it! ?
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Got around to watching this:
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It’s ok if you have 2 hours to spare with absolutely nothing else to do.
All I can say is Michael f’ing Bay! lol

So let me offer you my official Michael Bay critique on this sunny Sunday morning. ?
The scene where they need to perform surgery in a speeding ambulance and they FaceTime 2 surgeons, and the surgeons are like: No stress! It’s Easy Peasy. I just thought; that’s something that would be in a Michael Bay movie, FFS!
There’s no way that’s happening in a real flying ambulance without it going pear shaped.
That’s just a malpractice suite waiting to happen!

It’s pretty obvious that the majority of every Micheal Bay film budget goes to special effects!
Clearly very little of it goes into the script writing…
Basic dialogue and an unbelievable plot.
Oh, and every single character in all his films only has one dimension, FFS!
It’s like he has a book of clichés and he interchanges them between his movies.

Let’s look at this film…
Jake Gyllenhaal. The quintessential bad guy. When they were briefly telling his back story, it’s like he’s a bad guy for the sake of being a bad guy.
Then there’s the returning war hero veteran who’s broke and needs to make money so he’s talked into the job. But later on (cliche alert!) he had a crisis of conscience and ultimately becomes the hero and saves the day.
Then there’s the tough as nails woman who doesn’t take crap, but is haunted by her one character flaw. I can’t remember, was she a druggie?
Let’s be honest… If Michael decided to make the woman the returning veteran and the other guy the druggie, would it even effect the script?

And have you noticed that every female character in all his films are a 10/10?!
Do you think that someone like Melissa Mccarthy, you know, an actress who has charisma and who is actually talented would get the lead female part in one of his films?

I apologize in advance for this next part…
What’s up with his filming style? I understand it’s an action film, but does he really have to over emphasize it?
Here’s a typical Michael Bay scene: Car speeding, overhead shot but zoom in super fast! Explosion! Camera pan around super fast! Zoom in on lead characters face to show how serious it is… Another explosion! Super fast zoom out! Ect ect…
All that in a matter of seconds. I never noticed it before, until I watched his last movie Underground 6. I had to stop watching halfway through because I got motion sickness! Lol, sorry if I brought this to your attention. It’s hard to unsee when you notice it.

And did any of you notice the title? ‘ambuLAnce’… Emphasis on the LA. I can only assume he put that there for his hardcore base fans. You know, to continuously remind them that the film is set in LA. I don’t know what that says about his fan base, but I can speculate. ?

But you know what? I can forgive all that if it wasn’t for his biggest cardinal sin…

And I’ll never forgive him for this: Everybody knows that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created when some pet turtles got exposed to radioactive waste in the sewer! And Splinter was a Japanese sensei before also being exposed made him into a rat.
In fact, Shredder was his student once upon a time.
But I guess that’s too complicated for a Michael Bay film.

He was like: Scrap all that. We’ll just say they came from space! lollol
How to make a Michael Bay film 101.

Rant over. ;)
Anybody wanna offer me a counter argument? Lol, bring it! ?
[/ISPOILER
South Park nailed Michael Bay a long time ago

 
I watched Paris is on Fire today - a very solid reenactment of the firefighters tackling the Notre-Dame blaze. Really well made and with some very tense moments. Would have been good to see it in the IMAX.
 

Soundtrack is top notch as well.

Just seen Where the Crawdads Sing, it was very good.


Saw this over the weekend too. Has had some really bad reviews (2 from The Guardian), but I enjoyed it also.
Did agree with one of the reviews that it would have been nice to see a flashback to the actual "murder", but at the same time the absense certainly didn't ruin the film, and may in some ways having it in may of degraded the mystery.
 
Got asked tonight to name my Top 5 superhero films, I thought it would be easy but I still can’t decide on the 5th

Watchmen
Dark Knight Rises
Joker
The Batman

Then it’s a 3-way battle between Batman Begins, Logan and Into The Spiderverse.

Mystery Men
Avengers
The Crow
Hancock
Shazam

Honoury mentions:
The Mask
Deadpool
 

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