More than any other film in the series (and somehow they all do this for me) Supremacy is one of those movies where I've seen it a few times, but I can never remember any single aspect of it or if I've ever actually seen it. It just makes no impression whatsoever. I'll never understand the appeal of the series. They…

I'm continually amazed that even the first film was remotely successful, let alone that they keep making them. It's a tacky series aimed at teenage car idiots who think that giant spoilers, neon undercarriage lights, and massive subwoofers pumping out terrible music are the height of coolness. I can't understand who…

As an American who had been watching wuxia and kung fu movies it was the same thing. It looked great, but it was a decidedly average film for the genre. One that also tended to focus much more on drama and a tedious romance than anything else.

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They were so talked-up along with the anime and kung fu influences that when I saw it opening day I actually left feeling disappointed. The cool, original effects were only used two or three times in the film. There were some great fights, but again, only a few of them. Instead a lot of the film was wasted on rambly,…

There was a "guess which is fake" feature in Brunching Shuttlecocks a year or two before either film came out that mentioned both. I fully expected The 13th Floor to be the far more successful film.

Especially since the machines aren't really doing anything overtly evil. You're not being tortured or having your lifespan significantly shortened or anything. You're just plugged into a simulation of a normal existence in the late '90s. The only argument to the contrary is a philosophical point that it's not real and…

I never cared for it either, despite being a big fan of the original and Del Toro.

Even down to it's early attempt to be meta and self-aware, but not quite able to push that far enough.

I want to live in the universe where that was the film that they made. It sounds utterly fabulous and would make me actually want to watch it. Smith and Lawrence? Absolutely no interest.

True Lies' only real offense is that it wasn't billed as "Tom ARNOLD Schwarzenegger".

It was a time when action movies were generally more cartoonish. The push for grim, realistic action movies hadn't really started so silly, outlandish things were just accepted. You were never expected to take them seriously. It's the fine line between "over the top" and "parody".

The '90s definitely went with "terrorists" as the generic villain, but they tended to bounce around a bit. Sometimes it would be former Soviet hardliners or simply out-of-work ex-Soviets turned into mercenaries/arms dealers. Occasionally it would be generically South American revolutionaries (nobody much caring what…

Heston's excellent "so far this is not blowing my skirt up, gentlemen" has proven to be a frequently used phrase for me ever since.

I think it's more because White Wolf was a big thing back in the '90s, but has since declined and is no longer popular or relevant. Goth culture isn't quite what it was during the '90s either and that certainly hasn't helped it.

That's why she went on to slob Lestat's undead knob for most of the subsequent books.

ArnoCorp has the same shtick. I can't think of another band that does this for any other actor to begin with, let alone two different bands exclusively dedicated to your films. What a culture we live in.

I've heard this before and while the original LW was definitely fairly dark I find it odd. Shane Black has never really written anything else that was particularly dark. Dark moments, sure. Those crop up even in the the awesome Monster Squad as part of its wild tonal shifts, but almost everything he does has a large…

The sex and death linkage, despite a lot of symbolic and moralistic theories, is often for very practical reasons. Teenagers are often at the core of slasher movies and teenagers often want to fuck each other. This is a pretty established thing. Thankfully audiences, especially audiences made up of the aforementioned…

I wish someone would have told China the same thing works in reverse because their Matt Damon America-pandering went a long way to ruining The Great Wall.