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Rubber Band Man Contemplates McG And WE ARE MARSHALL!!
Merrick here...
Rubber Band Man sent in this look at WE ARE MARSHALL, a forthcoming enterprise from McG.
McG is the guy who directed both CHARLIE’S ANGELS movies, and came thisclose to putting SUPERMAN back on the big screen. Haters should take this alarming near miss into account when opening up on Bryan Singer.
WE ARE MARSHALL stars Matthew McConaughey and David Strathairn & is about efforts to keep a college football program together in the wake of a plane crash that claims the lives of many players…in a devastated community where football is everything.
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ROBERT PATRICK!!!
Word is McG is trying to evolve (read: defunkify) his caree; he wants to become more “legit” with this. Rubber Band Man says he’s heading the right direction, although his praise isn't unequivocal. The film opens December 22.
Here’s Rubber Band Man…
I like McG!
Well, maybe "like" is too strong a term. In fact I used to hate him. I hated everything about him - his pompous name, his pompous haircut, his pompous success - the list went on and on. But his new movie WE ARE MARSHALL has changed my mind - or at least started to. I saw it with a packed house at the first official screening of the finished film. I also caught his Q&A after the screening and discovered that he wasn't pompous at all. So while maybe I don't quite like him yet, you could say that I at least don't hate him anymore. And that's a start.
First, let's get to the movie. (There are some SPOILERS here - in a very conceptual sense. Nothing specific and no twists are revealed.)
It ain't big. It ain't fancy. It ain't McG (as we've come to know him). The movie is essentially a very small indie film about a very small concept - survival. The only difference between this movie and a real indie film is that MARSHALL uses a much more expensive metaphor - football. After Marshall's football team is lost in a plane crash, the school and town are completely at a loss. They don't know whether to go left, right, up or down. Then as they start pulling together a new team, they fight for their very existence - at least on the football field. Failing on the field equates to the abandonment of all hope and disappearing into oblivion. And that's really all football is in this movie - a vehicle to show us how well the school and town are surviving.
I guess the thing that really won me over was that it wasn't superficial. It was sincere. And I wasn't expecting that from McG. Who would expect that? He hasn't exactly been known for his depth. So I guess I'm really grading this film on a curve. If it were a Marc Forster movie, I'd say good job. But since McG did it I'm shocked and amazed.
Oh, and the sound designed kicked ass - noticeably. The bass was amp'd up and it felt like a man's movie. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if someone gave a nod to the sound department when award season rolls around.
I just realized something. I've been giving too good a review. I know there's a lot of paranoia about plants here. I bet I sound like one too. Let's face it, what kind of legit person could like McG? But I don't want my credibility blown - being that this is the first time I've written to you guys (and hopefully not the last). So let me switch gears and start dissing the movie.
Here are some problems.
The story's momentum never builds. It stays level. The entire movie feels like a series of blocky sequences, rather than a complete movie that builds in intensity. At the beginning of each sequence a new problem comes up. Then the characters spend the remainder of the sequence solving the problem. For example, someone basically says, "Hey, if we're going to rebuild our team then we need a coach." So for ten minutes they look for one and finally settle on Matthew McConaughey. Then someone says, "Great, we have a coach. Now we need a staff and players." We get a two-minute montage to find the staff. Then comes some scenes between McConaughey and Matt Fox, then McConaughey and the remaining players. Then the sequence closes with a five-minute montage of the coaching staff finding new players. The entire movie plays like this. It's very blocky.
And my god, there are so many montages that you'd think you were watching one long music video with a short story squeezed in. None of the montages are bad, but there's just so goddamn many!! That's one quality about himself that McG didn't reinvent with this movie.
Now, speaking of reinvention, let me close with some comments on the Q&A that I saw.
McG said point blank that he's attempting to reinvent himself with this movie. He wants to move up in his career and recreate his image as a serious, but entertaining filmmaker. In fact, he is so serious about this reinvention that he actually considered abandoning the McG moniker. And for those of you who don't know (and I didn't until I saw this Q&A), his real name is Joseph McGinty Nichol. His parents dubbed him McG when he was a baby. The name stuck - much to his chagrin growing up. Now he wears it as a badge of honor.
Well guys, that's it for the review. I feel like I've let you down. It's way too kiss ass, I know. But that is pretty much how I see it. I'll try to close with a negative.
While I did enjoy the movie, I doubt it will ever make a dime. It's just too small a movie at its core. And in a year no one will remember it. So that's that. Take it for what it is.
I'm not sure if this name has ever been used, but you can call me Rubber Band Man. Talk to you later.
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ROBERT PATRICK!!!
Well, maybe "like" is too strong a term. In fact I used to hate him. I hated everything about him - his pompous name, his pompous haircut, his pompous success - the list went on and on. But his new movie WE ARE MARSHALL has changed my mind - or at least started to. I saw it with a packed house at the first official screening of the finished film. I also caught his Q&A after the screening and discovered that he wasn't pompous at all. So while maybe I don't quite like him yet, you could say that I at least don't hate him anymore. And that's a start.
First, let's get to the movie. (There are some SPOILERS here - in a very conceptual sense. Nothing specific and no twists are revealed.)
It ain't big. It ain't fancy. It ain't McG (as we've come to know him). The movie is essentially a very small indie film about a very small concept - survival. The only difference between this movie and a real indie film is that MARSHALL uses a much more expensive metaphor - football. After Marshall's football team is lost in a plane crash, the school and town are completely at a loss. They don't know whether to go left, right, up or down. Then as they start pulling together a new team, they fight for their very existence - at least on the football field. Failing on the field equates to the abandonment of all hope and disappearing into oblivion. And that's really all football is in this movie - a vehicle to show us how well the school and town are surviving.
I guess the thing that really won me over was that it wasn't superficial. It was sincere. And I wasn't expecting that from McG. Who would expect that? He hasn't exactly been known for his depth. So I guess I'm really grading this film on a curve. If it were a Marc Forster movie, I'd say good job. But since McG did it I'm shocked and amazed.
Oh, and the sound designed kicked ass - noticeably. The bass was amp'd up and it felt like a man's movie. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if someone gave a nod to the sound department when award season rolls around.
I just realized something. I've been giving too good a review. I know there's a lot of paranoia about plants here. I bet I sound like one too. Let's face it, what kind of legit person could like McG? But I don't want my credibility blown - being that this is the first time I've written to you guys (and hopefully not the last). So let me switch gears and start dissing the movie.
Here are some problems.
The story's momentum never builds. It stays level. The entire movie feels like a series of blocky sequences, rather than a complete movie that builds in intensity. At the beginning of each sequence a new problem comes up. Then the characters spend the remainder of the sequence solving the problem. For example, someone basically says, "Hey, if we're going to rebuild our team then we need a coach." So for ten minutes they look for one and finally settle on Matthew McConaughey. Then someone says, "Great, we have a coach. Now we need a staff and players." We get a two-minute montage to find the staff. Then comes some scenes between McConaughey and Matt Fox, then McConaughey and the remaining players. Then the sequence closes with a five-minute montage of the coaching staff finding new players. The entire movie plays like this. It's very blocky.
And my god, there are so many montages that you'd think you were watching one long music video with a short story squeezed in. None of the montages are bad, but there's just so goddamn many!! That's one quality about himself that McG didn't reinvent with this movie.
Now, speaking of reinvention, let me close with some comments on the Q&A that I saw.
McG said point blank that he's attempting to reinvent himself with this movie. He wants to move up in his career and recreate his image as a serious, but entertaining filmmaker. In fact, he is so serious about this reinvention that he actually considered abandoning the McG moniker. And for those of you who don't know (and I didn't until I saw this Q&A), his real name is Joseph McGinty Nichol. His parents dubbed him McG when he was a baby. The name stuck - much to his chagrin growing up. Now he wears it as a badge of honor.
Well guys, that's it for the review. I feel like I've let you down. It's way too kiss ass, I know. But that is pretty much how I see it. I'll try to close with a negative.
While I did enjoy the movie, I doubt it will ever make a dime. It's just too small a movie at its core. And in a year no one will remember it. So that's that. Take it for what it is.
I'm not sure if this name has ever been used, but you can call me Rubber Band Man. Talk to you later.
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Nothing wrong with trying to better yourself. Props to Joe Nichol (a far better name for a director!) for taking it on the chin and having a go.
I might even see this. Sounds like the kind of movie I enjoy (on a Sunday afternoon).
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Anyone want a glass of milk?
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I'm actually looking forward to seeing whether this McG can do something other than that ubermoronic cartoon style he used for Charlie's Angels. It worked okay for those films, which I guess are a part of the 'intentionally stupid' genre, but I can't see an actual adult wanting to do that forever. Ditching the nickname would be a good start if he wants to be taken more seriously. Raging Bull is not 'a film by Marty' and Psycho is not 'directed by Hitch'. Insisting on being credited under your baby nickname seems a bit... I don't know... babyish?
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...are every bit as played-out as Farting CGI Animal movies.
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In my dealings with McG while covering the making of this movie he was sincere, gracious and genuinely concerned about getting the story right, getting the "feel" right.
The Marshall plane crash is a unique moment in West Virginia history. It devastated an entire community. Children were orphaned. A city was left without its most prominent leaders. The heart was literally torn from the second biggest university in the state.
If you weren't here, there's no way to understand the impact of the crash.
For McG to come in, a guy known for "Charlie's Angels" (spare me) and do the job that he did is amazing. Whatever the finished product, the feeling here from the people involved, from former Marshall coach Jack Lengyel who took over the program in 1971...to Reggie Oliver the quarterback of the 1971 "Young Thundering Herd" to the teammates and sons and daughters of those who died, McG and his crew did their jobs with the right attitude.
So he's not Steven Spielberg. So he's not Ridley Scott. In this instance, McG served an area that is still dealing with this crash, even 36 years later, very well.
I'm hopeful it's a good movie. I'm hopeful Matthew McConaughey doesn't come off as a lightweight Hollywood pretty boy. I'm hopeful about a number of things, but I'm thankful about the way the movie makers went about their business. It's been said many times here that Hollywood didn't have to take into account the feelings of the people of Huntington and the Marshall community while making this film. But they did. And in some ways that makes this movie a winner even before I see it. -
Damn him (along with Michael Bay!). Learn humility and the ability to direct. Then all will be well in the state of Denmark.
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While Ratner has far more better films under his belt, it is going to become fairly clear that these two are interchangeable in many areas. Oh, and Peter Jackson & Guillermo Del Toro could secretly switch directing roles, and no one would see the difference there either. You know it to be true.
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What was so bad with it (apart from silly lifting Krypton filled continent!!). Loved the first money scene with the plane and stadium. Loved the hit with the kid. Liked the dymanic with James Marsden. Cool opening with Eva Marie Saint. Theres loads to admire with Singers Supes!!
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supply of very large rocks and the thrown them at every opportunity and it doesnt matter who these rocks are aimed at. Hollywood is in the business of making money. If your looking art go to a gallery or arts. I would have thought this would have been undertstood by know around these parts. obviously not....
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and they throw them at every opportunity and it doesnt matter who the rocks are aimed at. Hollywood is in the business of making money. If your looking for arts go to a gallery or arts school. I thought that this would have been understood by now around these parts. obviously not....
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change his McName.
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It was horrible. Completely missed the point of the character, huge gaping plot holes, making one of the greatest superheroes ever out to be nothing more than a deadbeat dad and a stalker, giving him a useless kid, a nothing villian that we've seen him defeat four times before. The problem with the continent and plane scenes was that there's no sense of danger or worry that Superman isn't going to make it. He's portrayed as invincible, and Kryptonite is merely a minor inconvienence. I'll take a hundred Brett Ratner, Tim Burton, Michael Bay and McG Superman movies over one more Bryan Singer.
Sadly, we're getting another Singer one. *sigh*
AND WHERE THE HELL IS MY GREEN LANTERN MOVIE. If fucking DEADMAN can get a movie... -
#2 was an abomination. I'm not a McG hater, though. He's got some directorial talent, and is not as crass as Ratner.
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Harry could not stop talking cammy diaz's ass. I think that Ratner despite the knocks gets here has a lot of flair, Rush hour movies were a load of racist hooey but chans fights were the highlight of those films and even in the belittled x-3 he brought a certain flair to the fight scenes. If you cant have fun at the movies you should all stop going.
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I kid, I kid. Although, it's a sad commentary about this site when reviewers feel they must be negative to be taken seriously. Has it really come to that?
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Any movie that doesn't show him smoking a dube or at least have him playing a surfer is not credible. Sahara was so stupid. Those guys were supposed to be ex Navy seals but they seemed like ex frat boy stoners.
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I am afraid it has.
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Apparently you missed the fact that this is not a fictional film. This tragedy actually happened and is based on fact. The progression of "we need a coach" - "now what do we do?" would be very logical. I lived through this as a high school senior planning to attend Marshall, and did attend beginning in 1971, the year after the tragedy. One final thought, after being wiped out on November 14, 1970 Marshall went on to be the winningest football team in the 1990's as documented in Time and Sports Illustrated. Don't think this will make a dime? Go to ebay and see how much tickets to the Premier on Dec 12 cost. How about $200 - $1000.
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A gay man's movie.
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It's hard to watch a montage in a movie anymore without thinking of the "Montage" song from "Team America" and "South Park". I wouldn't be able to take this movie seriously.
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I'd put McG in the same catergory as Paul WS Anderson or Joel Schumacher..which 1 step above Roland Emmerich or Renny Harlin.
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not interested. Thanks anyway, McGinty.
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...is because of Matthew FOX.
Matthew Mc is one of the most overrated actors on screen -- while Matthew Fox is terribly underrated. I only hope that Fox stays put on LOST throughout the show.
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must be none other than the WORLD FAMOUS KENNY BASS from WCHS Channel 8.
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and I don't give two flying fucks about this...
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I don't understand the argument that Supes is a "deadbeat dad" in SR. He never knew that Lois was pregnant with Jason when he left for Krypton. And even if he did know, how would he know it was his?
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A gay man's movie."
Not that there is anything wrong with that... -
"unequivocal" means: 1. not equivocal; unambiguous; clear; having only one possible meaning or interpretation: an unequivocal indication of assent; unequivocal proof.
2. absolute; unqualified; not subject to conditions or exceptions: The cosigner of a note gives unequivocal assurance that it will be paid when due. -
Keep it alive!
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both have made killer comic book adaptations. singer- xmen. mcg- charlie's angels. yes. i know angels wasn't 'technically' a comic adaptation; but close enough. and, yes, i said both made killer adaptations. i like the angels films. a lot. those girls are awesome. and, the films are spot on fun. haters be damned. xmen 1 and 2 were awesome. loved em! but, then... came 'superman' returns. and, well, suffice it to say, i hated that movie so much. i would gladly have preferred to see mcg's version. it couldn't have been worse. and, superman wouldn't have wound up a loser stalker surrounded by a*holes and a bratty kid. F*CK YOU, SINGER. you've ruined all the MASS GOODWILL i had for you and your films, pre-'stuperman'. hell, i even loved your first film about the local cable tv host. and, i even loved apt pupil. but, dude, you RUINED the 'superman' franchise for a long time to come. be ashamed. be very ashamed. whew. rant subsiding. mcg wins the superman competition- hands down. plus, he produces supernatural. which is a cooler than it should be show...
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I'm looking forward to this movie although I wish the trailers said "a film by McG" or better yet "from the acclaimed director of Charlie's Angels Full Throttle." This movie looks good in a formulaic, emotionally manipulative but it's based on a true story so they can get away with it type of way. But I'm hoping it turns out to be undeniably great just to make some of you McG "haters" and "wassup rockers" shit your pants.
It seems to me like the only way to really hate McG a this point (as opposed to just not be into him) is to not really get it. Or at least to over react ridiculously. The guy has made exactly two movies, and one is a sequel to the other. That's all we have to judge on. Both have a distinctive style, tone and sense of humor that so far can be considered the McG style. The only movie that feels at all like those ones is Torque, which is obviously inspired by them.
The C's A's pictures can definitely be criticized on several levels: emotional content, intellectual stimulation, adherance to laws of physical reality. In other words, the sorts of things that only a humorless douchebag who doesn't know how to watch movies would think were relevant to these.
You guys are my buds so I am not calling any of you humorless douchebags. I'm talking about those OTHER guys who also don't get C's A's. For some reason they see the very deliberate tone of the movies (gratuitous dance sequences, logic defying mid-air motocross shootouts, Spiderman underoos - what McG calls "a pop a wheelie movie") and think it was done on accident. Like McG could somehow have been trying to make some other movie than exactly what these movies are.
I don't know what will become of McG, but I'm positive those movies will be appreciated on some minor level for many years. I mean come on, you got these horse shit "comedies" coming out every couple weeks (think red letters on white background for logo) from the annual bad Christmas comedy to the bi-monthly spoof movies with "Movie" in the title to the latest Owen Wilson Cashing In Adventure, and everything in between. This guy makes two stylistically ambitious, completely unique and adorably ridiculous action comedies over several years and you act like he skinned your mother alive and jacked off onto all the old photos of her when she had her skin.
There is only one explanation: you guys really still hate him for the Superman movie that you imagined he was gonna make even though he didn't make it. How can you hold a guy responsible for directing a hypothetical movie? If anyone is responsible it is YOU for imagining whatever it was that you imagined that offended you so much. YOU are the one who hates Superman.
In my years on the internet I have encountered many fanatics, but it seems like Superman zealots are a special brand. Most of you guys didn't even know who Brett Ratner was until you got mad at him for his own hypothetical direction of BRETT RATNER'S IMAGINARY SUPERMAN. You nearly beheaded J.J. Abrams (creator of FELICITY) and tried to get a constitutional amendment against Brian Singer getting married.
Why would ANYBODY want to touch Superman at this point? Only you guys really understand the exact Superman movie that you guys want. I think it's time that the professionals stop making Superman stories for you guys and you should make your own. It should probaly be illegal to show a Superman movie to anybody but yourself. A man's Superman movie is between a man and Superman.
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um. singer's 'superman' is a stalker, cause he keeps going over to 'lois lane's' house and using his 'x-ray vision' to watch her and her 'family' inside. that's a stalker.
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damn, i never realized that shit. Why DO most comedies do that? Immediately coming to mind are the movies Accepted, Waiting and 2007's Wild Hogs. All red lettered logos on white background. Did Porky's start this mess?
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I'm pretty sure the movie shows him doing that once, and he's there for like five minutes, and nothing is happening. I would've done the same thing if I were Superman. Also, Vern really hit the nail on the head with all this Superman love/hate, which there's been a lot of lately on this site. Vern is the man. I'd be interested in hearing what he thought of Returns.
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I know you keep a McG voodoo doll in you closet.
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I'm so tired of these football movies. I don't care if there based on fact, a triumph, or a disater. To be honest I have never, ever watch one of these damn movies, I am just more tired of seeing the previews and wasting space and money which could go to actaul orginal films.
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But, would Harry or Vern get a set visit???
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there is nothing legit about you sir
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McG would've owned Superman! How could it have been any worse?
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Apologists be damned. I'd rather dig out my Tai Seng DVD of "The Heroic Trio" for the 2,000th time and watch it.
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Quinn - Okay I'll tell you what I thought of Superman Returns, but don't tell these other guys what I said because they might burn me at the stake. I thought it was okay. I liked the scene with the plane, I liked the dude playing Superman, I liked the parts where he sat in space listening to voices like God listening to prayers and deciding which ones to answer. But on the other hand I thought Lex Luther was a dumb villain with a dumb plan and the whole movie was too bound by trying to be like those cheeseball Christopher Reeve Supermans. I know you boys love those things but I don't get it. Also I gotta say the 3-D was pretty weak, they shouldn't've bothered. Better than Freddyvision, though.
Doctor Sin: you're missing out dude. I live in a world where I can enjoy Heroic Trio AND C's A's. Throw in both sequels and that's FOUR movies I can enjoy. You only get one (or two if you like The Executioners). That's half as much at best. Sucker.
Heroic Trio is a good reference point but I don't think C's A's is really the same thing. The action is similar but the tone is less serious and designed as a big tribute to all possible aspects of American popular culture.
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Can you imagine how stylized that would be, fast editing, wire-work and club music. unfortunatley there would still be shitty awkward dialogue, oh well porn is porn. He could still do Charlie's Angels 3:Throttle Me
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Michelle Yoeh ain't bad neither.
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OOHHHHHH MAOW MAOW MAOW MAOW MAOW MAOW MAOW MAOW MAOW MAOW MAOW IT IS TRULY REALLY SUPER-DUPERLY CHRISTMAS AND WE HAVE OUR BIGGEST BESTEST CHRISTMAS MIRACLE OF ALL.....A NEW FILM BY THE ONE...THE ONLY....McG!!!!!!! ALL HAIL McG!!!! McG IS THE MOSTEST BESTEST SAVIOR TO THE WORLD TO COME ALONG SINCE EVER!!!! McG! IS BIGGER THAN JESUS!!! McG! IS BIGGER THAN GOD!!! McG! IS BIGGER THAN ALL OF THE RELIGIOUS ICONS ROLLED UP INTO ONE DEVASTATING LIGHTING BOLT FO ULTIMATE POWER!!!!! McG! LAUGHS AND SCOFFS AT THEN AND THEIR INFERIORITY AS COMPARED TO THE BRILLIANT WHITE LIGHT THAT COMES FROM THE GENIUS THAT IS McG!!!!! I JUST THINK OF THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW FILM FROM McG! AND MY DICK GETS SO THROBBING HARD THAT I AM GONNA EXPLODE THE VERY MOMENT I SEE THE FIRST FRAME OF THE TRAILER!!!! JUST ME GOING hmmmmmmmmmmmmBOOOM! AND I AM SPRAYING MY STICKY SWEETNESS ALL OVER THE BUILDING FROM THE ANTICIPATION THAT COMES FROM KNOW THAT A FILM ABOUT YOUNG BOYS IN TIGHT CLOTHING PUSHING UP AGAINST THEIR SWEATY DIRTY BODIES MAKES ME QUIVER INSIDE KNOWING THAT IT ALL COMES FROM THE ONE...THE ONLY...McG!!!!! ALL HAIL McG!!!!! ALL HAIL McG!!!! RUN DOWN TO THE LOCAL MALL...BLOW UP AND BIG TRUCK TO GET EVERYONE’S ATTENTION AND SCREAM THAT McG! IS THE GREATEST AND BESTEST AT EVERYTHING FOR HE IS McG!!!!! ALL HAIL McG!!!! ALL HAIL McG!!!!! ALL HAIL McG!!!!!!....And thus, I need bigger man diapers! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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Just like Ludacris making sure to go by "Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges" when it's Oscar time for Crash, or "Andy 'Ghost Face Killah' Flowers", (or whatever that dude's actual name is).
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I was thinking the same thing. The guy behind the highly stylized CA and Fastlane would make an AWESOME porno. I liked CA 1 and Fastlane a lot. I got a little bored during CA2 (although the way over the top the upside down on a motorcycle weapons firing was great.)
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This is how McG directs a film like We Are Marshall. He buys 25 copies of RUDY and gives one to each dept. and says, "music make it like this, art dept., make it like this, lighting make it like this."
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For G's sake people!! wtf!!? What he did with the first Charlies Angels was break new ground for pop-art. That film puts you in a giddy mood and seems to exsist in an exciting universe of its own. I love it! He gave us Creepy Thin man and hillarious lines like 'I should have you on my staff' More power to the man!
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It was a funny/cool update on Miami Vice. I really liked Charlie's Angels 1 but thought 2 was ass. Either way, I'm not interested in this Marshall flick. After Coach Carter, Glory Road, Gridiron gang, etc.. enough is enough.
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...without the "Luck Dragon."
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That sounds like a far more fair appraisal of the film than most people around here give it, but that's what I tend to think of your reviews in general. Enough ass kissing though! Also, I saw the 3-D too, and it was weak as hell. I'm really glad I saw it in a regular theatre first, because I thought it damn near ruined the plane scene.
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Um... it has Matthew Fox in it and everyone is going thru LOST withdrawls. Yeah. This will make some money.
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i'm sorry. he sucks. he mopes around the whole movie for no reason. spying on lois, when it's his own fault he's not with her. spying is stalking. no matter what you try to spin it as. ahhh!! singer sucks! 'stuperman' sucks!!!
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These Charlie's Angels films are very obviously meant to be over the top, silly, cartoon films. It's okay if you don't like them, but that's what they are. People single McG out as a bad director, but what did he do that was bad? They're well paced, the story and action are always clear, the girls look good - it seems like he achieved exactly what he set out to achieve. The question now is whether he has anything else to offer, and that's why I'm interested to see this new film of his. P.S. I'm assuming this new film is not about underpants, Lucy Liu in PVC and slow-motion wire-fu. I apologise if this is not the case.
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Come on..."I just realized something. I've been giving too good a review. I know there's a lot of paranoia about plants here. I bet I sound like one too. Let's face it, what kind of legit person could like McG? But I don't want my credibility blown - being that this is the first time I've written to you guys (and hopefully not the last). So let me switch gears and start dissing the movie."
I'm never usually someone to call "PLAAAANT!!!" but if read this way...
"Yo! Just check'd myself there...realized my street cred might be blown if y'alls realize Imma plant or sum shit...So since I wanna, like, hang wit u here's where Imma gon dis it a minnit..."
It's like a 40-year-old movie advertising whatever-the-fuck trying to sound like a sympathetic talkbacker who's "just so tired of all these angry folks calling people 'Plants'."
That said, I'm proud of McG though there's absolutely NO way he's not a pompous prick with that hair and name. I remember him describing CA2 as something like, 'just gunnin it 100 mph down the Pacific Coast Highway, that's what I'm talking about.' Lay off the coke, dude!
And does anyone ever acknowledge George the 7th Chicken? In all my years I've seen his rants, I've never seen someone reply to him. He's like some AICN sitcom character. {Insert George's trademark rant} Rest of talkbackers: "Oh, Geeeeoorrrrgggeeee....." -
that woefully childish moniker..so it turns you off and therefor you will never take him seriously..he could direct godfather 2 and i'd probably not like him due to a predisposed position to think he's a doushe for enabling that pretensious name
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i stayed away from this flick in theaters...and just recently saw it via netflix and...my gawd it WAS as bad as you all had been saying..the first half was decent but it spiraled down FAST..if kryptonite can make it so lex luthor can bitch slap his ass off a cliff..then how 15 minutes later can he pick up a damn kryptonite ISLAND and fly it into the stratosphere..but hell i never really been a big superman fan anyways..his exsistance makes there no need for all the others in the superhero lexicon..so good riddance
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was Joseph G McGinty nichol. That is a mouthful. McG is easier to pronouce.
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