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Title: Wind talkers?
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 17, 2002, 11:52:23 AM: I just started it, and so far I am not impressed. I hope it gets better so far, not so good.
Title: Wind talkers?
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 17, 2002, 12:59:34 PM: It is not getting any better.

A hellcat comes in a drops napalm, it is a tiny explosion.

Guy shoots a Bazooka at a machine gun nest and its a HUGE fireball! lol

I bet the movie could be ten to fifteen minutes shorter if all the slow motion shots of blown up Marines where shown at normal speed.
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Post by: funkedup on October 17, 2002, 03:21:21 PM: "Wind talkers"

That's what my bellybutton sounds like after too much chili.
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Post by: SunKing on October 17, 2002, 05:49:56 PM: I burned out halfway too. You can only watch the same guy mowing down hordes of Japense only so long. I had the same issue with "We were soldiers"
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Post by: HFMudd on October 17, 2002, 06:02:10 PM: Now that it is on video I think I'll watch it with my Dad. He was one of the invading Marines. Should be interesting to see what he has to say about it.
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Post by: lazs2 on October 18, 2002, 10:35:23 AM: I haven't seen it yet... main reason is....niclous cage. The guys idea of acting is to go into a 20 minute conflict and drama over someone asking him to pass the salt. Overacting at it's worst.. I can't believe anyone would watch that bug eyes loser.
lazs
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Post by: Monk on October 18, 2002, 10:41:21 AM: Pretty silly movie.
Title: Well I finished it.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 18, 2002, 12:07:06 PM: I will not be buying this one. I have pretty low standards too.

Over done special effects.

Plot situations that do not make sense.

Over acting by Cage.

His character was just annoying too.

Even the action was just lame. With good war movies out like Black hawk down and We where soldiers, I will not bother with this one again.

SunKink, if you think we where soldiers was bad, Stay for away from this sad film.

LoL has the Woo guy made a good film?
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Post by: mosgood on October 18, 2002, 12:31:46 PM: Nicholas Cage and Keanu Reeves went to the same acting school
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Post by: lazs2 on October 18, 2002, 12:36:15 PM: add that insipid tom cruise to the list as well as that ugly anorexic julia roberts
lazs
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Post by: GtoRA2 on October 18, 2002, 12:37:44 PM: Gota agree on Julia roberts..

LOL she looks like a horse..
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Post by: mosgood on October 18, 2002, 12:43:08 PM: did you guys see what happened to Nick Nolte. What a waste..:(
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Post by: -tronski- on October 20, 2002, 12:05:43 AM: Couple of years ago, I probably would've thought it was a good movie (hey..I thought Delta-Force, and Missing in Action were good films)...and I love John Woo film too, but
WindTalkers was a pretty crap film. Cliched would be being nice...I guess SPR and Band of Brothers has ruined the 'check' your brain at the door war films for me.

Tronsky
Title: Wind talkers?
Post by: Tumor on October 20, 2002, 06:40:02 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
I haven't seen it yet... main reason is....niclous cage. The guys idea of acting is to go into a 20 minute conflict and drama over someone asking him to pass the salt. Overacting at it's worst.. I can't believe anyone would watch that bug eyes loser.
lazs

Agreed, the guy should have stuck with "Raising Arizona" type roles. THAT was funny!
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Post by: Sikboy on October 20, 2002, 09:26:47 AM: Interesting, I watched it last night as well. Not very good imho. My wife said "For a movie about the code talkers, there sure wasn't much about the code talkers" I said "How do you spell bad movie in Cantonese?: John Woo" The duke nukem action style, the one dementional characters, the stock footage of battleship guns.

I don't know, at the end of the day it wasn't so much that it was an awful movie imho, but rather, as my friend Paul would say "it never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity."

-Sikboy
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Post by: Tumor on October 20, 2002, 10:19:52 AM: Quote
Originally posted by -tronski-
Couple of years ago, I probably would've thought it was a good movie (hey..I thought Delta-Force, and Missing in Action were good films)...and I love John Woo film too, but
WindTalkers was a pretty crap film. Cliched would be being nice...I guess SPR and Band of Brothers has ruined the 'check' your brain at the door war films for me.

Tronsky

Speakin of Band of Brothers... isn't that due out on DVD soon (or already out?). I'm too cheap to pay for HBO (or any other movie channel)... had it, never watched it.

Due out Nov 5th.
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Post by: 10Bears on October 20, 2002, 12:45:33 PM: Tumor, in BoB just the opening theme music will tear you up.
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Post by: Dinger on October 20, 2002, 01:18:39 PM: it wasn' stock footage of BBs, it was CG footage.
And they did get some good artillery action in. In one movie they used Grid, Shift from known point and polar plot methods of location. how often do you see that?
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Post by: Dowding on October 20, 2002, 03:14:37 PM: You're kidding, 10bears? Sarcasm?

Wind talkers was a bloody awful film.
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Post by: AKIron on October 20, 2002, 07:01:45 PM: Woulda been better if it was half as long.
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Post by: Sikboy on October 21, 2002, 08:28:51 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Dinger
it wasn' stock footage of BBs, it was CG footage.

Guess they need new computers then.

-Sikboy
Title: Wind talkers?
Post by: Mighty1 on October 21, 2002, 08:54:58 AM: Just watched it last night.

I've seen better!

Sorry I was just trying to think of a movie that was worse.

The only other movie I think was worse was Mel Brooks' "To Be or Not To Be" the only movie I've ever walked out of.