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1 hour ago, gsoda3 said:

the story was bad.  the acting sucked.  li bingbing was wow.  that's about it.

you couldn’t be more wrong.  oscar buzz is building. 

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The story wasn’t inherently bad. It had  some nice suspense . The acting/casting was atrocious. 

Chinese Lead - watching her try to flirt with Jason Statham was cringe worthy acting 

Jason Statham - his range consists of 0-1

Chinese Father - did they intentionally find bad actors?

Brooding punk supermodel who can’t act as a engineer - check

Token Black actor plays stereotype black guy who sounds like he didn’t graduate High School but yet holds Uber technical position somehow. Couldn’t afford a better actor?

Dwight  - fine

Cliff Curtis - fine

 

 

 

 

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Dwight stole the show.

Fun movie.  Would watch again for free on HBO.

 

Apparently Statham was pissed because the original cut was pretty gory, but the studio wanted a PG-13 flick to make more money and it was all cut. 

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5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Syfy doesn’t spend $130 million dollars on a movie. 

I cant believe any studio did, but here we are. 

Leaks have it closer 180 million but it was co-financed by a Chinese studio..... It did pretty good business but the 2nd week drop will most likely point to if this is a hit or not.

Posted
6 hours ago, Continental Op said:

This movie adequately met all of my giant shark eating things movie needs.  

Pretty much what my expectations are, loved the books. 

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Dwight stole the show.
Fun movie.  Would watch again for free on HBO.
 
Apparently Statham was pissed because the original cut was pretty gory, but the studio wanted a PG-13 flick to make more money and it was all cut. 


They should release 2 versions. Why has no studio done this? PG-13 for the mass audience, R for the rest of us. I’m sure there is a reason. I guess it depends if they shot the gory scenes and cut them vs not shooting them at all.


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4 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Leaks have it closer 180 million but it was co-financed by a Chinese studio..... It did pretty good business but the 2nd week drop will most likely point to if this is a hit or not.

it’s making good money in china.  it’ll clear a profit easily and be pretty profitable.   which is great news, because I can’t wait for the meg 2

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13 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Leaks have it closer 180 million but it was co-financed by a Chinese studio..... It did pretty good business but the 2nd week drop will most likely point to if this is a hit or not.

You would think for an extra 178 million they could have at least put tentacles on the shark.

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LMAO.  When JW: Fallen Kingdom is a better movie, you know you have a pile of shit on your hands.  This could’ve/should’ve been better, Author of the series has to be highly disappointed or even pissed.  Prior post nailed it,  SyFy material at best.  Hard to believe a mechanical shark 40+ yrs old is still more realistic than this cgi crap. 

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