I have zero idea why “The Dark Knight” is so revered. It’s an ok movie, nothing more. And Heath Ledger gets uber worship for what? OD’ing. His Joker pales in comparison to Jack Nicholson’s.
And speaking of “Batman” movies, the first one, with Keaton & Nicholson is the standard, period. The second one with Keaton, DeVito, Walken was pretty good too.
Other points:
I got sucked into “Indiana Jones and the Last Ca$h Grab”. I remember my GF and I turning to each other and saying:,”What did we just watch?” when it ended.
“Star Wars”: I could spend months discussing this. Based on the SJW Abram’s reboot of the “Star Trek” franchise, I see these films being PC bilge with massive plot holes that are either ignored or band-aided over with special effects, just like in the “Star Trek” reboot.
The masses will go see them and the films will generate metric tons of revenue. But these flicks will be most likely be worse than the 3 prequels, where at least there was the anticipation of watching Darth Vader be created to captivate imagination. Are these sequels going to follow the canon storyline that leads to the final destruction of the Sith? I highly doubt it.
I stopped watching “Terminator” after the 2nd one, which has to be one of the best sequels of all time.
I have free passes to see “Creed” tomorrow night...I’m on the fence about going. Stallone finished the “Rocky & Rambo” franchises seemingly on high notes. Now, a “Rocky” semi-sequel and “Rambo: Last Blood” on deck? Does he really need the money? C’mon.
If it's free, I'd go ahead and attend the showing. In the event the movie sucks, you can warn the rest of us.
It sounds passable, but ironically it has same plot as the worst Rocky movie, Rocky V.
In both Rocky V (1989) and Creed (2015) Rocky has hung up his gloves and retired from the sport, and wants to stay out of the spotlight, but is persuaded to come back when he takes an aggressive young boxer under his wings (Tommy "the machine" Gunn in V, Apollo Creed's illigimate son in Creed), and agrees to serve as his trainer.
Audiences still wanted to see Rocky punch someone in V, so the movie includes a street fight between Rocky and Tommy. I heard there's a similar scene in Creed: some punk kids attack Rocky, and he beats the snot out of them.
