While Dark Skies isn't
a bad film in any particular sense, this is just one of those cases when a movie probably just shouldn't have been made around the subject matter.
Not exact matches
Of course,
film,
in particular, and pop culture,
in general, have a long history of pushing the envelope, which isn't always a
bad thing.
Does the «
bad guy»
in this
film represent a
particular country?
I don't know from «best» and «
worst» but here's a list,
in no
particular order, of the ten
films of 2017 that I most enjoyed watching, thinking about, and discussing with friends.
A group of sadistic
bad guys (and the first half of this
film is
particular gripping by how efficient the Korean terrorists are, when it comes to the killing of the President's armed guard), kidnap the President and one lone man, trapped
in the building, is charged with taking down the
bad guys and saving the USA.
Characters mask their personal motivations such that one is always wondering whether a
particular person will turn out to be on the good or
bad side — perhaps another advantage this
film has over its predecessor,
in that its release is long after most of its audience would have read its source.
I do wish that it didn't seem so inconsequential when all's said and done, because,
in truth, everyone does such a nice job (Breslin,
in particular, is fast becoming a reason to see a
film by herself) with what they're given that I felt kind of
badly that they weren't given something less threadbare and obvious.
While there don't seem to be any «
bad dads» present
in «Moonrise,» there are a number of recurring elements from his prior
films, «The Royal Tenenbaums»
in particular.
It's similar to a lot of other
films of different ilk, and many may find some striking similarities with Point Break
in particular, and that's dipping pretty deep
in the
bad action movie barrel for inspiration.
I'm
in that camp and enjoyed Franco's recreation of
particular scenes, along with the behind - the - camera retelling of insufferable moments with Wiseau, as well as the monumentous occasion where Wiseau premiered the six million dollar
film that's considered one of the
worst in modern history, if not all time.
The
film's
worst performances,
in no
particular order, come from Josh Lucas, Emmy Rossum, Mike Vogel and Kevin Dillon.
On cinematic smooching: «You know I think it's hard
in any
film when you're kissing someone who you don't really have genuine feelings for... but at the same time it's our job... there are
worse things I could be doing on that
particular day than kissing Tom Cruise I suppose.»
This was a golden era for motor racing, and sports car competition
in particular: cars that could exceed 220mph, and match or even exceed F1 lap times; extreme and often treacherous circuits, from the steep banking of Daytona to the 3.4 - mile straight of Le Mans and the tortuous mountain course of the Targa Florio; hero drivers, facing the ever present prospect of serious injury or
worse, the whole vibrant madness immortalised
in the
film «Le Mans», the ill - fated brainchild of Steve McQueen.