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Yeah, it has been getting positive reviews so far. Empire magazine gave it 3 (out of 5 ) stars which is still a recommendation.

It may get hurt because of the similarities to The Raid (although Dredd went into production first).

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Sooo... Blair Witch Jurassic Park Project?

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That's a profoundly terrible idea. Found Footage movies usually work on the strength of having an unknown entity as the antagonist. We already know what all these dinosaurs look like, so there's literally no benefit to doing it found-footage (and any action/chase scenes will be garbage).

I still am waiting for a good found-footage breaking into Area 51 movie. Wasn't Paranormal Activity guy making that, what happened to that project?

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's going to be amazing.

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That looks awesome!

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Yeah, I was thinking that too big_smile

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It's ok, it's better than Sorbo's Kull film and frankly there's far too few of this type of movie out there for me to exclude it totally. However, its principal failing is that it is boring. It's devoid of excitement, tension, peril and stakes.

Instead, we get like an extended scene with Conan and a thief companion entering the villain's fortress, only to find that the villain and his entourage have left the fortress already. Which, not coincidentally also happens in Pathfinder, also by the same director, as we greeted with a long 'chase' scene in a cave which doesn't really go anywhere.

Worse, when the villain does succeed at the end, he doesn't really become any more powerful and is defeated by Conan even whilst being supposedly 'all powerful', leaving you with the feeling that the entire film is pretty pointless.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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What annoys me is the sex scene with Rachel Nichols having a body double. Now, I know body doubles are not new but I do think they are sometimes pointless. If your lead actress doesn't want to show her breasts, the character doesn't need to show her breasts. It was only a sex scene that added nothing to the plot therefore seeing the character's breasts was totally unnecessary.

Now, if it was Rachel Nichols' breasts, I wouldn't be moaning big_smile

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That movie was a gigantic pile of garbage. One of the worst things I've ever sat through, and a total desecration of everything that's good about the original Conan.

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Bullet speaks the truth......

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The adaptation of Year One was disappointing, but yeah, I hope this is good. WB keeps making them change the cast for each direct to video movie, so they can have stunt casting. I'm not sure Conroy would be right for this particular Batman, though. Not that I wouldn't want to hear his take on it smile

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Tony Scott is on my personal black-list after what he did to Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. That is one of my all time favorite 70s movies, and he managed to completely fuck up every aspect of it, while also making it borderline unwatchable with his editing, stupid stop-motion over-crank bullshit, and ugly-ass color-grading.

Crimson Tide is still great though, I feel like after that movie something just happened to the man, like he started taking lots of drugs, or just flat out lost his mind or something. Everything of his before Crimson Tide tends to be watchable, with Crimson Tide as the peak before a sharp nosedive in quality.

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