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A Rather Unserious Movie About a Somewhat Serious Topic
Wokeness: It's more "anti-woke", so be warned. Some are just as annoyed by anti-woke content.
My opinion: It emulates early 2000s comedies reasonably well, while delivering a clear message against biological men in women's sports. A lot of people said it was misrepresenting trans women in women's sports, but not only was it accurate, it became even more relevant with the Paris Olympics. I might be the only one that enjoyed Boreing's rather flat performance, that he did because no actor in Hollywood would touch this project. Kudos for DW for tackling the most sacred of progressive cows: transgenderism.
As a film, it's very much a small studio film with barely competent writing and acting but decent production values, and the final result rises above mediocrity.
Created: 12-11-2024
Funny the first time, wouldn't watch it again.
I had a few chuckles when I watched this movie, but it wasn't very funny and it basically relied on "REMEMBER THIS THING THAT HAPPENED FROM EARLIER THIS YEAR?!" gags. Unfortunately Ladyballers will not be understood or relevant even 3 years from now because of this. Am I Racist is a much better film in my opinion, but hey they have to start somewhere.
Created: 12-09-2024
Not woke in the slightest
The other review exaggerates the "wokeness" of this movie to a high degree. It's a dumb movie, but it's not woke at all.
Created: 12-09-2024
Curtis is not enough
Curtis does it for me. But not for this movie.
She used to be a smoke show, back in analog times. Also, a scream queen. She didn't have the wherewithal to carry a (real) movie as the leading role.
Also, 80s script. Incoherent, and incredibly contrived, from the get-go.
Silver tries, maybe a tad too hard, but his character is just a mess of dubious writing. Brown is solid, but his character should have found the villain immediately. As in, just exclaimed "I know his name", cue electric guitar.
I got so bored that I actually started doing some light work before the halfway point.
Created: 12-08-2024
Cotton candy, goes down easy
Not Carpenter's best movie, but he knows his stuff, and it shows in this hybrid, half-vampire, half-cowboy movie.
Purportedly a horror movie, it doesn't take itself seriously, and it's a good thing. Nobody in there looks like an elite anything, Woods in his early fifties looks a tad fragile, Baldwin is somewhat well, stout, the squad tactics suck (pun intended), and everybody's been ran over by the Good Idea Fairy.
On the other hand, everything is decided by the rule of cool. Woods looks terminally cool, as he's wont to, Baldwin does a serviceable jaded cowboy and Lee an adorable zombie floozy, winch fishing is impractical as hell, but looks highly fun, and so on.
The result is stupidly rewatchable, hence the high grade.
Created: 12-08-2024
Anti-Woke Perfection
Not only is this not woke it's fully anti-woke. The acting is good and the humor is spot on. This feels like one of those classic 90's comedies when movie makers weren't afraid to be offensive with their humor. The story and humor highlights the stupidity of the woke ideology and exposes it for the mental disorder that it is.
Created: 12-08-2024
What likely happens during jury deliberation
DIE casting, but accurate for location, so technical woke free.
Created: 12-08-2024
A REALITY CHECK!
As one of the reviewers already mentioned, the woke mob really hate this movie!! It doesn’t tiptoe around anyone’s feelings. This movie straight-up serves as a gritty wake up call for the "everyone deserves a trophy" one the main ideology of the wokesters.
Created: 12-08-2024
ONE OF THE GREATEST TRILOGY
No other comic book film can stand toe to toe with The Dark Knight or even the trilogy as a whole.
Created: 12-08-2024
Awkward and badly paced
This could have worked as a 40-minutes episode in something like Kindred (although Near Dark actually predates Vampire the Masquerade by a few years).
As a full feature film, it's stretched too thin, and mid-thirties Bigelow still hasn't come into her own yet.
The movie has some clumsy charm to it; Pasdar and Wright are very pretty, and with Henriksen, Paxton and Goldstein, it feel a bit like an Aliens reunion. Except they are the aliens this time.
The Lost Boys did the romance part better, and Carpenter's Vampires had the inhuman, ruthless killer down to pat. And both added humour.
Near Dark isn't bad. It just doesn't compare favourably.
Fun fact: the movie never uses the V-word.
Fun 80s fact: sense of time was different back then. "Do you miss the days?" asked to the guy who's been 'dead' for 72 hours...
Created: 12-07-2024
Good overall
Somewhat tight (despite the runtime) thriller around the chase for Bin Laden, as seen from the spook side.
Chastain is a solid actress, and still easy to look at in her mid-thirties, which is fortunate considering the amount of screen time she gets, and what little action or growth she show during.
Visuals are very good, but the script could have done with some tightening.
Bigelow apparently caused some controversy at the time by "glorifying torture". Yeah. Right. Cause clean wars sure are a thing. And better escalate into large-scale, civilian-mowing kinetic conflicts than assassinate a few bad agents.
Funny that the muppets touting this luxury belief are usually the same crowd that ad nauseams "by any means necessary" and "if it only saves one life".
Bunch of tossers.
Pratt is in the movie, but hasn't found his stride yet. Also, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo by Scott Adkins.
And to (somewhat) address a previous comment, Bigelow does not delve into geopolitics here, so yeah, OBL was the publicly designated target at the time.
Created: 12-07-2024
