With the significant caveat that action is far and away the worst mainstream movie genre, Con Air is at least an 85th percentile action movie.
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Until the last 20 minutes when I just tuned out all the plane crashing on the strip, bad guy killing etc. stuff. I did already see it once so I guess I knew how it went. The wife and daughter already being in Vegas seemed kind of ridiculous.
The movie tries to sell us a realistic story for how this could all go down, and then just gets over the top cartoony silly at the end.
I liked the bunny gag. But how did John Malkovich know the bunny was so important to Cage?
Iām enjoying The Town so far. Crazy all star cast of up and comers at the time. Love seeing Don Draper and Bosch.
Jeremy Renner is awesome in this.
I had a neighbor who looked exactly like The Florist - down the giant gin blossom nose and all.
John Hammās character is such a scumbag.
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Michael Clayton is sort of like the experience of Gone Girl if about something other than a relationship. Itās a thriller with wait wat twists and an ending that rewards you for paying attention to the details but also letās you just enjoy the mood of Clayton solving the mystery.
I like to watch Michael Clayton as a double feature with the other Clooney movie Syriana. Similar mystery/thriller experience where his life depends on him solving a mystery that upends everything he thought he could trust.
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday (Jeffrey Wright) is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman (Matt Damon), a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes (George Clooney) uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
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Is Con Air a better Michael Bay movie than The Rock?
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I would rate those movies about the same, they both fall into the āsuprisingly watchable schlockā category. Your basic C- summer popcorn movie.
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With all the reviews I guess this qualifies as a hot take but I thought MI 7 was super super silly. Fun at times, but the plot was ridiculous. Imo.
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I believe you Iām just not sure Iād say anything different about the other MI plots. The most realistic MI movie was Bourne Legacy and it bombed.
Not yet seen DR prob wonāt see it tho until itās streaming.
Itās an A+ C- movie lol
Listening to the HDTGM with guest Roxanne Gay for their live review of Ambulance and you gotta give it to Bay, heās made some stinkers, but when his movies slap, they hit like a Marine about to go to prison for a made up law.
if youāre into āguys in meetingsā type movies, this is probably top 3?
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I agree, but I laughed at probably a dozen points that werenāt supposed to be funny in DR, donāt remember that happening in the other ones.
And for the record I didnāt hate it and will probably see part 2 just to see the absurd way they finish the story.
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Must be said it features best supporting actress Tilda Swinton making me think I like movies about lawyers
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think it was Riverman who joked once that Michael Clayton was a documentary. he probably wasnāt joking tho
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Lol scary true. Same for Syriana. Presents how ruthless big oil is like Clayton does for big law.
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donāt think so but itās close and I really enjoy both of them
Going to see the new MI today, my wife has never seen anything from the series (wtf) so we watched Fallout last night to at least get her a little familiar with the vibe, she liked it.
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I guess now you find out if sheās an MI fan or a Henry Cavill fan 
Eff it letās roll the greatest song ever paired with a trailer
So watching that trailer I think I spotted what made us all understand what Tom Cruise risks in order to do these stunts himself.
Remember when he broke his foot???
I donāt like watching movies where Iām supposed to care about shit human beings
Just completed Ford vs. Ferrari for the first time. Definitely enjoyed it more than I was necessarily expecting to; super predictable at all points and lacking even a scintilla of originality, but the execution was pristine. Really enjoyable overall.
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