Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers...but it's close.
I don’t know about this one. The pacing was way too long and slow compared to Fellowship. Of all of the things Jackson didn’t seem to mind leaving out of the movies, he surely could have trimmed the Ents’ screen time, the ridiculous aerial scenery shots of everything, and unnecessary humour or attempts at levity.
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GoldenEye, Conjuring 2, Batman Returns, The Dark Knight Rises, Shrek 2 and Mighty Ducks 2, Friday the 13th Part 4, and my most controversial pick Home Alone 2 Lost in New York.
I'm actually in the camp that enjoys Terminator > T2 and Alien > Aliens.
If you take the action sequences out of Top Gun Maverick, it's really pretty bad. I'm not saying Top Gun was great, but it was in the entertainment over substance world (of which Point Break is King). Arguably better, but if you step back from nostalgia and spectacle, neither were very good.
Where would people put Raid 2 and Raid?
There is also the 'thin thread' trilogies, where I would put Hot Fuzz over Shaun, and Snatch over Lock, Stock.
I think that Old Boy was the second, after Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.
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Superman is a technically better movie, but Superman II is a whole lot more fun
That's kind of the same as how I feel about Terminator and Terminator 2. Terminator 2 is entertaining, but I still prefer the first one when it comes to story and just the darker feel of the movie.
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I went and saw this in theaters and it was a shallow, pedantic, predictable and almost half-assed re-make of an iconic film.
And it had to be one of the most fun and enjoyable theater experiences I've ever had. That movie was almost literally a high-octane, non-stop thrill ride. I know it wasn't 'haute-couture' but goddamn was that a great movie.
So much fun.
They told you what it was going to be. They delivered on their promise....in spades. It was an absolute blast.
I generally dont criticize films that are honest about what they're going to be, they tell you what the movie is going to be and then deliver exactly what they said they would. And thats exactly what that film was.
I vehemently dislike Tom Cruise as a human, but that movie? You'll not hear a disparaging word from me.
Shallow summer tentpole popcorn flick that will see you leaving the theater with a smile on your face? That film delivered value for every penny of my admission and concessions.
No complaints. It told me what it was going to be. I knew what it was going to be. It was exactly that. Zero complaints.
Thats a rare film.
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I went and saw this in theaters and it was a shallow, pedantic, predictable and almost half-assed re-make of an iconic film.
And it had to be one of the most fun and enjoyable theater experiences I've ever had. That movie was almost literally a high-octane, non-stop thrill ride. I know it wasn't 'haute-couture' but goddamn was that a great movie.
So much fun.
They told you what it was going to be. They delivered on their promise....in spades. It was an absolute blast.
I generally dont criticize films that are honest about what they're going to be, they tell you what the movie is going to be and then deliver exactly what they said they would. And thats exactly what that film was.
I vehemently dislike Tom Cruise as a human, but that movie? You'll not hear a disparaging word from me.
Shallow summer tentpole popcorn flick that will see you leaving the theater with a smile on your face? That film delivered value for every penny of my admission and concessions.
No complaints. It told me what it was going to be. I knew what it was going to be. It was exactly that. Zero complaints.
Thats a rare film.
It's also shot in a way we will likely never see again. Real time in cockpit shot pushing hard G's on actors.
I know all flying shots weren't real time but to give casual viewers who never really have paid attention to things like what hard G's can do to a human it was very eye opening.
The cinematography was once in a lifetime. And that warrants points to be being better than the O.G.
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