Machete 2010 is about US politics of 2025 somehow

Blender Dumbass
👁 16 ❤ 1 💬 6

An exploitation film is a film that exploits some talked about fear or trend in culture in order to sell tickets to a movie that is probably not very good. Exploitation films are usually low budget, badly made B-movies, with a certain charm to them, if you like Tommy Wiseau's work. 2010's Robert Rodriguez film Machete is, somewhat of an intentional attempt at recreating the exploitation film phenomenon. Which exploits US politics of 2025, somehow. ( Rodriguez must have a time machine somewhere in his studio ).

#Machete #RobertRodriguez #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #trump #uspol #kirk #ice

Bronson 2008 is how you make a low budget film

Blender Dumbass
👁 27 💬 1

Having only a quarter of a million dollars, director Nicolas Winding Refn and actor Tom Hardy decided to make a period piece based on true events. Just so you know, period pieces are usually far more expensive to make than contemporary films. And yet they had almost nothing, in terms of budget to pull this movie off. How the hell did they do that?

#bronson #NicolasWindingRefn #TomHardy #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ) tries hard to beat Saving Private Ryan

Blender Dumbass
👁 7 💬 2

In 1998 Steven Spielberg shocked the cinematic frontier with his film Saving Private Ryan which had one of the most brutal depictions of warfare, with its opening battle-scene. This caused a small shift in the ways Hollywood was trying to cinematically portray war. And who's better than Ridley Scott, to attempt at beating Spielberg at war footage. Which he tried to do with his 2001 film Black Hawk Down.

#blackhawkdown #ridleyscott #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Gone in 60 Seconds ( 1974 ) is an enjoyable mess

Blender Dumbass
👁 9

Watching the Nicolas Cage and Jerry Bruckheimer remake made me extremely curious to see the original Gone in 60 Seconds. And let me tell you that, the film is impressive when it comes to the shier production value H. B. Halicki ( writer, producer, director and star ) put into this film. But on the other hand the film is very hard to follow.

#goneinsixtyseconds #hbhalicki #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Crimson Tide 1995 is a stupidly smart movie

Blender Dumbass
👁 8

Before Jerry Bruckheimer was obsessed with telling all his directors to be like Michael Bay and before Don Simpson had passed away. The duo of Simpson and Bruckheimer were obsessed with Tony Scott, the director of such classics as Top Gun, Days of Thunder and Enemy of the State ( which coincidentally were all produced by Jerry and Don, apart from the last film, which was produced after Don's passing ). But Tony Scott didn't only work with the duo. For example in 1993 he made a film not produced by Jerry and Don called True Romance from a screenplay of Quentin Tarantino. Which makes Crimson Tide the second collaboration of the two

#CrimsonTide #TonyScott #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Gone in 60 Seconds ( 2000 ) is better than it's rating suggests

Blender Dumbass
👁 6

What is it with Jerry Bruckheimer of the late 90s and early 2000s and with Nicolas Cage? First in 96 we get Michael Bay's The Rock. A year later in 97 Jerry puts Cage in Simon West's Con Air. And then in 2000 Dominic Sena under the supervision of Bruckheimer puts Nicolas out of his Cage and into a driver's seat of 1967 Ford Shelby GT500, in the subject of this review, the loose remake of H. B. Halicki 1974 film Gone in 60 Seconds.

#goneinsixtyseconds #nicolascage #angelinajolie #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Con Air 1997 is Bayhem! but Rick-Rolled

Blender Dumbass
👁 8 💬 1

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer didn't only work with the legendary Michael Bay. He worked with other legends too, like Tony Scott and in the case of Con Air Simon West who directed the Rick Astley music video Never Gonna Give You Up. Yet probably due to it being the first collaboration of Bruckheimer and West ( because it is West's directorial debut when it comes to feature films ), Bruckheimer steered him a bit to copy a style of another director he worked with. Michael Bay.

#conair #nicolascage #simonwest #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Ultraviolet 2006 is my guilty pleasure movie

Blender Dumbass
👁 12 ❤ 1 💬 1

With 9% Rotten Tomatoes score 2006 Kurt Wimmer film Ultraviolet starring Milla Jovovich cannot possibly be any good, can it? Well I re-watched it for this review and while I somewhat see where the critics are coming from, I also have enjoyed the hell out of it.

#Ultraviolet #MillaJovovich #KurtWimmer #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Rollerball 2002 at least attempted something

Blender Dumbass
👁 8

When looking at the poster of 2002 film Rollerball you ask yourself 2 questions: 1) Why somebody thought it would be a good idea? 2 ) Why this somebody is John McTiernan, the filmmaker that brought us classics like Predator and Die Hard?

#Rollerbal #JohnMcTiernan #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Le Grand Bleu 1988 is Besson's Dolphin Porn

Blender Dumbass
👁 23

Luc Besson is known to be a little bit of a pervert. But I'm about to argue that, in addition to liking young women, he also has a sort of a fetish. And while with directors like Quentin Tarantino the fetish is something rather understandable ( Quentin likes feet ). Luc Besson seems to be turned on by... well... fish. And specifically by Dolphins. His 1988 film Le Grand Bleu is a love triangle between a young woman, an amphibian man, and a Dolphin ( which the film presents to be a mermaid ).

#LeGrandBleu #LucBesson #Film #Review #Movies #Cinemastodon

I am (1990) forces you to be anti-ageist

Troler
👁 20 💬 1

The year is 1989 and USSR is rocked by instability. Perestroika caused the once great Soviet Union to collapse. Just before the collapse, a child is split from his family. Childhood imagination filters life, making it more profound. Still, loss is felt, still the mother is nowhere to be found...

#AsEsu IAm RomasLileikis StasysMotiejūnas Lithuania Lithuanian LithuanianCinema LithuanianFilmfilm LithaunianMovies review movies cinemastodon

The Island 2005 is Michael Bay's Minority Report

Blender Dumbass
👁 13 💬 4

As far as my speculation goes, I think, it is safe to assume, the following happened: In 1994 ( before doing Bad Boys ) Michael Bay signed a 10 year contract with Jerry Bruckheimer which expired in 2004 ( after Bad Boys 2 ). Knowing that the contract is about to expire, 2 years prior ( in 2002 ) Steven Spielberg, in an attempt to get on good terms with Michael Bay, added a small reference to Bad Boys into his film Minority Report. And then took Bay under his supervision for the next 10 years. Starting with the 2005 film The Island. And through the Transformers franchise. Bay returned the favor by showing a concept car designed for Minority Report ( Lexus 2054 aka Lexus Minority ) multiple times in the background of The Island. Still that's just a theory. I don't actually know what happened. But it seems plausible.

#theIsland #MichaelBay #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Lucy 2014 Pretentious or Profound ?

Blender Dumbass
👁 10 💬 1

On the surface level 2014 Luc Besson film Lucy starring Scarlett Johansson is a scientific thesis that is trying to say some grand truth about the world, while pretending to be an action film, to make people go see it. On the other hand though, it is an action film that injects a lot of profound-sounding pretentious pseudo scientific bullshit, to make itself appear as something better than it is: a dumb action movie. Which one of them is it? Or did I miss something?

#lucy #lucbesson #ScarlettJohansson #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

13 Hours is Michael Bay at his most serious

Blender Dumbass
👁 11 ❤ 1 💬 5

There are two modes for Michael Bay: The playful mode of him having fun. This is the Bay of Bad Boys and Transformers. And a serious mode. That is the Michael Bay of films like Ambulance, Pearl Harbor and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The latter of which is his most serious film ever.

#MichaelBay #13Hours #Benghazi #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #juliabutters

Pearl Harbor 2001 made me cry for 3 hours straight

Blender Dumbass
👁 12 💬 2

In my review of Bad Boys II I talked about how Michael Bay needed to discharge from Pearl Harbor and do a properly Bayhem! movie. This speculation of mine is largely based on some stories from the set of this movie, where it looked like Bay tried to actually make a properly directed film in the very beginning and then suddenly snapped and started setting up Bayhem! shots out of nowhere in the middle of production. And when people pointed that out to him he told them to "Shut the fuck up" and that he "knows what he is doing".

#PearlHarbor #MichaelBay #movies #film #review #cinemastodon