Went in with positive expectations, but it's just a boring unfunny movie where it seems like most of the cast is trying way too hard to be funny. This being a hollywood mainstream movie in 2021 you shouldn't be surprised to find buzzwords like 'white privilege', 'patriarchy' and 'toxic masculinity' (guys) etc. thrown in there for no reason apart from virtue signaling. The scene where the IT guys is talking about how he ended up where he is having gone through MIT and amassing a mountain of college debt and the indian guy says "That story sounds horrible, boring and full of white privilege" is absolutely pathetic even by today's Hollywood standards. The whole thing is like somebody watched "Truman show" and decided that it definitely needed to be redone as a boring and unfunny action movie with some wokeness added in for flavour.
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Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 28 septembre 2021 à 21h24
That's my primary issue with Ryan Reynolds in a nutshell (I wrote similar my review of his performance in Self/less (https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/238615-selfless/discuss/5b95b65b9251414338028105)
It's nice to know I'm not alone in my assessment of his work to-date.
Réponse de aholejones
le 29 septembre 2021 à 04h52
He found success with Deadpool and has pretty much been milking that same schtick in every movie after that. Although some might argue it goes all the way back to his Van Wilder days. I suppose I can't blame him for trying to milk that '15 minutes of fame' for all it's worth, but it just wasn't funny in this, and I suppose people might say it was never funny to begin with. Then again Reynold's is not even the worst part in this and Lil Rel and Taika Waikiti are much worse in this and their 'comedy' is so forced and unfunny it's like the director just said to them "Ok guys! Forget the script and now I just want you to act funny in front of the camera!" and that's what they did - they try their hardest to act funny and fail spectacularly.
Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 29 septembre 2021 à 10h29
Blade Trinity was bad on many levels - while that mess wasn't all his fault, his cringe-worthy performance yet managed to stand out.
So, this movie must be pretty bad if he' s outdone by the others.
Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 3 octobre 2021 à 11h55
First, wearing a bathing suit is hardly "whipping out" her butt. Second, "the" male gaze? Nah, more like the adolescent male gaze that is most likely to enjoy Ryan Reynold's typical level of...(well, what he calls, anyway) humour and likes butts with nowhere near enough junk in the trunk for the more sophisticated glute-aficionado.
Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 3 octobre 2021 à 16h26
All in good fun, mate - cheers! (we argue plenty, it makes a nice change to laugh a bit).
Réponse de manfromatlantis
le 19 décembre 2021 à 00h15
I almost went to this but changed my mind at last minute.
Réponse de Midi-chlorian_Count
le 19 décembre 2021 à 04h45
I watched on Disney+ long after the initial hype had disappeared. I thought it was entertaining enough for what it was.
Particularly enjoyed the background stuff going on - i.e. the new players jumping up and down non stop and running continuously into the wall.
I do agree though re that "white privilege" line. Seems like a prerequisite in any mainstream film now which is a bit of a shame because it's so jarringly incongruous when it's said and also because in twenty / thirty years or whatever it's going to make any film made in this time period seem horribly dated...
Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 19 décembre 2021 à 15h55
Hey @mechajutaro Thanks for asking "what changed". Firstly, I questioned your take on Blake Lively because I thought it was oddly tangential, but you replied in a reasonable way, and I let you know that I saw it as such. I was happy to do so.
But, after seeing your comments in other threads in which I was not a part, as well as comments you made in threads in which I was chiming in myself, I noticed a tendency you have to interject rather off topic in a way that, in the opinions of myself and others, diminishes the conversations, and I called you out on it. I'd since been advised that it was not at all my imagination, but that others have observed the particular issue with you that I did. I tried to show you respect by addressing you directly and in good faith, not even saying "quit it" board-wide, just to tone it down in threads in which I'm involved; and your dismissal of my efforts was disappointing.
That said, I recently responded to a comment you posted in a thread I'm in. As I said, I'm all for different viewpoints, people have a right to be individuals, be themselves, blah blah blah, and I appreciate when you contribute constructively. I'm not the first, nor will I be the last, person here who is happy to recognize your positive contributions to this board. But, I became just one more person here to call out your BS, and many would really appreciate if you heard us on that.
So, I hope that answers your question.
Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 20 décembre 2021 à 14h18
I know that's how you intended it; I hope you can appreciate that others don't always see the good fun. If I accidentally poked you in the eye, my intention not to hurt notwithstanding, it'd be odd for me not to acknowledge that it hurt you, as well as seek to avoid, as much as reasonably possible, whatever action I took that brought about that hurtful result.
At any rate, I've unblocked you. Be you, do you, looking forward to your insights :-) - just please leave some room for others in the sandbox. We all want a fun, decent place to talk movies and help TMDb avoid what may have contributed to Amazon's decision to shutter IMDb's discussion boards., right?
Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 21 décembre 2021 à 17h00
Maybe, maybe not. All I was addressing here is the "intent defense." One can't decide that their intentions are the deciding factor in how their contributions are measured. There's more to it than intentions. That's all.
That's a matter of interpretation. If people continuously ask you to tone down your sex-oriented humor, and you stick our your chin and say "no, deal with it", there are those who indeed feel forced to avoid you or the threads in which you interject that stuff obtusely. Again, you see it your way, and that's fine; but there are others who are just as within their right to see it their way.
We agree! And TMDb agrees, which is why there is a deliberate effort to keep it from descending to a lower level. And we all have a stake in this. Let's all help each other in this.
You gathered that? Interesting. I hadn't, and it's the first I've heard that take. You have a unique perspective on things, which is cool...just, try to appreciate that your unique perspective is not altogether common. If you think that, because you see it that way, everyone else does or there must be something wrong with them, you may come to see the error in that approach. I've been challenged to absorb that, as well, in my life. So, believe me, I understand what internalizing that might require.
I appreciate your sharing your opinion. My opinion is, I think it's unfortunate that people still want to believe that words on the internet are just words; and I think that's a lame excuse to not only be callous to others, but then to also put it on them for failing to accommodate one's callousness. Or, worse yet, to use "it's just words on the internet" to normalize ideas that others translate into actions that can be hurtful or even dangerous.
No two people will always agree, and I don't mind disagreement at all, so this is all good here. Thanks for the convo.
Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 22 décembre 2021 à 15h24
The strawman of generalization is annoying. Nobody is or was "labelling everything they disagree with" as anything. We disagree, and can disagree, all the time. Disagreement is not the issue. And, not sure how "blubbering heap" is useful, but your hyperbolized rhetoric is, at least, consistent, of a kind I prefer to avoid more often than not. So, before I get sucked into this rabbit hole for another cycle of endless arguing, I'm not particularly compelled to go back and forth here.
I've said my piece, you've said yours - whether, or to what degree, if any, we're hearing each other - I'm content to let our foregoing stand on its own, let's just move forward.
Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 18 janvier 2022 à 09h56
Meh.
I have never initiated contact with a moderator to deal with anyone. Not sure why you are so compelled to keep harping on this, but if moderators get involved, they are most likely doing so out of their own personal sense of duty to keep things civil/on topic/decent. And, since you brought up the moderators yet again, perhaps the better question may be, why do your "contributions" demand moderator attention so frequently? (Please do not answer me directly, it is a rhetorical question for you to consider, not a new hook upon which to hang yet another argument that has nothing to do with movies or TV).