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The Deal With This Movie...

posted 17 years ago by So_In_Love
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You guys know what the deal with this movie is? People nowadays are startng to think that if a movie is a bomb a the box office, it is a bad movie. Completely UNTRUE! I would't even call this movie a true bomb, it has done better than most movies would hope for.

Just because a movie makes less than expected at the box office, does not make it a bad movie. I found this movie pretty funny, yea, it has some okay joes, but I found myself crying laughing at some of the parts.

Another problem, people are just overanalyzing the movie. I hate when that happens. I don't think this movie was actally made to analyze fully, unlike one of Jeff's movies "The Fly".

It has some drama, comedy, and love in it. The complete package, and putting the cherry on top, was that fabulous cast! Jeff Goldblum, Eddie Murphy and Kelly Preston (although I was completely jealous of her parts with Goldblum). Good movie, definately award-winnng material.

Always an active duty Jr. American Gladiator!

[–] j0h4nn3s_86 16 years ago

now i haven't seen this movie for years but i just remember that i watched it alot when i was younger (~14 i think) and suddenly got interest to watch it again :P mainly wondering if it is as good as i remember.. well and remember that kelly preston looked really good in it

[–] avortac4 (3752) 3 years ago

I don't care about boxes or offices, I don't look at how much MONEY some piece of supposed entertainment and escapism 'made'.

I only look whether something is a turd or not.

This movie sits steadily in the turdland, only the big names elevate it a bit, but not high enough to escape its smell.

Eddie Murphy in a role he doesn't fit at all, Jeff Goldblum in a role that just brings stress to the viewer (where is his charm??), a story that's basically a watered-down, capitalistically mixed-up rip-off of a much better movie and more poignant story (Network (1976)), and so on.

A big part of the important character introduction happens in a darn highway, of all places. The most annoying place in the world is right next to where cars constantly whizz by with their loud noise (which is why most of America is such an annoying place, because they think more cars means better country, and not understand that adding more lanes does not mean better commute, less congestion or faster commute).

What's any good about this movie is basically rip-off of other movies, and although I wouldn't classify this movie as completely bad, it's not a movie anyone would want to watch many times. It doesn't say anything interesting or important, it gives a message that capitalistic greed is good (almost worse than Gordon Gekko), that God is a black guy that supports shopping TV networks and so on.

It's a horrible attempt to cash-in on the big star power.. it's like the 'story', such as it is, was patched together from some leftover scrapts from some producers' kids' neighbours' drunken birthday brainstorming session.

How can anyone think this movie is good, I can't understand..