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images.amazon.com/images/...ZZZZZZ.jpg raté pour le tagline, la reine mère attendra, car pour l'instant on nous demande de combattre le feu par le feu, rien que ça! Les acteurs ne sont pas de grands: - Bale est le tueur peu charismatique de American psycho - Isabella Scorupco enchaine les films d'action de sérié B après son apparition dans Goldeneye (sisi vous savez, Natalia Simonovia, et encore maintenant vu la tête qu'elle a on la confondrait avec le dragon: i.imdb.com/Photos/CMSIcon...dshot.jpg ) Le scenar a de mauvais relent de Gozilla (brrr) et le staff ressemble à celui d'un bon gros blockbuster à 2€. Heureusement y'a des dragons, il reste plus qu'à croiser les doigts pour que ça ressemble à un film 

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Euh, l'affiche, ça fait un petit moment qu'on l'a, merci quand même.
Bien joué sinon, dommage que tu aies tout faux sur toute la ligne. Renseigne-toi un peu mieux au lieu de rester sur tes a-priori. C'est apparemment le meilleur blockbuster de l'été, pour tous ceux qui l'on vu, ce qui n'empêche pas que ça reste une série B, ça, on est d'accord, je pense...

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*_* Bon on reprend. L'affiche c'était juste pour donner le tagline.
) a pour l'instant à son actif des merveilles du style: - des épisodes de diverses illustres séries dont (attention ça fait mal
): 21 jump street, Baywatch (aka Alerte à Malibu, chut on ne se moque pas), Mc Gyver (seulement un épisode, dommage), X-Files (c'est déjà mieux). - ses deux seuls films: X-Files (pas mal), suivi de Airborne (images.amazon.com/images/...ZZZZZZ.jpg pas de commentaire
) BOn évidemment j'ai fait une sélection des pires réalisation, mais c'était juste pour me justifier hehe :smokin: J'ai vu le trailer, ah ça y'a pas à dire les dragons sont beaux et ça va être fun, mais dès qu'un acteur apparait ça me donne envie de vomir, la pauvre Natalya a bien changé en fausse blonde pulpeuse (et je suis prêt à parier qu'elle sera la seule à vouloir protéger les dragons: "pasque c'est nous qu'on les a dérangés d'abord"). Y'a un bourrin avec son cigarre et un veston de l'armée américaine (lui à mon avis il voudra buter un max de dragon), et le film se terminera sur une belle boucherie sur fond de Londres en flamme, avec des dragons dans tous les sens et un gros poutou entre les acteurs principaux. (je sens que je vais devenir bookmaker si je continue Bon je m'en veux de m'être emporté sur un film qui sera peut être bien (si le réalisateur à pris la peine de jeter un oeil à Godzilla avant de faire son film) mais IMHO, ça sera pas une référence, ça fera passer un bon moment au moins. Et puis moi aussi j'aime bien les films de série B, je voudrais pas passer pour le rabat joie de service qui passe son temps à matter des films d'auteurs tournés en super 8. Gillosen je propose donc d'arrêter la polémique jusqu'à la sortie du film.
D'accord j'y suis peut être allé un peu fort sur un film que je n'ai pas encore vu, mais je vois pas trop où est-ce que j'ai faux, précise au moins au lieu de m'envoyer paître comme ça. Et pour ta gouverne ce ne sont pas des préjugés comme ça, je te rappelle que Rob Bowman, le magnifique réalisateur de ce blockbuster de série B (c toi qui le dit, et si tu aimes ce genre de film, pourquoi pas heinBien joué sinon, dommage que tu aies tout faux sur toute la ligne.



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Polémique que je n'ai pas lancé à coups de sentences provocatrices, mais bon, ça va, on s'est pas étripé non plus.
Ce que je te " reproche ", c'est de juger le film sur le passé des différents protagonistes et sur la bande-annonce, alors que je parlais de gens qui ont eux VU le film. Pour le reste, je suppose que tu as tout juste quant au déroulement du film, mais de toute manière, je ne lui en demande pas plus, donc, ça me va. 


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Tu dois avoir raison, après tout ce cher Peter Jackson n'avait jusqu'à lors réalisé que des films d'horreur ultra gore (dont Brain Dead, culte pour certains) et un obscur film d'auteur (créature celeste, nettement plus "sain"
) et j'aurai été bien en peine de prévoir la qualité de FotR (au point de se demander si c'est bien le même barbu qui a réalisé ces trois films!
) Et pour ceux qui ont VU le film, qu'ils viennent poster sur ce forum!
Et puis tant mieux si c'est un bon film d'action de série B, j'aurai peut être la même surprise qu'avec FotR (hehe nan je déconne là!:) )



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21 Août.
I had little expectations for Reign of Fire. I dislike Matthew McConaughey. I think his best work was in Dazed and Confused. That was a very long time ago. I do like Christian Bale. His work in Empire of the Sun is great. Also a very long time ago. But in their current movie. I like them both. Reign of Fire is a kickass monster/action movie if I've ever seen one. Although not everything works, I found myself comparing it to Aliens. The basic story goes like this: A boy and his mother uncover a dormant dragon present day. This dragon escapes and begins to populate the world. By the year 2030 (give or take) dragons have destroyed civilization. They need ash to survive and ash is created through destruction. That little boy grow up to be Christian Bales character, Quinn. He leads a group of rebels in the English countryside. Hiding and just trying to survive, they hold strong in an abandoned castle. Along comes McConaughey's character VanZant. VanZant is a leader of American military forces also combatting the dragons. Eventually, the two see eye to eye and wage war together. If it doesn't sound deep, it isn't. But it is fun. Dragons soar in the hundreds. And to date, no one has fought a dragon with explosive tipped arrows and Panzer tanks. You see it here. I really dug the film. Anyone looking to be surprised will probably do so here. Congrats to Rob Bowman on pulling off quite a trick in a summer season full of them.
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Heya, PoleOfJustice here with more rantings from projectionland… Well, we started out with some trailers, one of which is for SHANGHAI KNIGHTS. I’m really anticipating this, ‘cause SHANGHAI NOON was a blast. Is it completely stupid? It damn well better be! Some yahoo in front of me complained that he was tired of Jackie Chan, that his stunts didn’t impress him anymore. I thought: did Buster Keaton have to deal with this crap? I mean, did anyone complain “Well, he’s just gonna sit there and look forlorn while stuff breaks. What’s the point?” People, there is no nobility in being jaded. So, on to REIGN OF FIRE. Spoilers, although this is, IMHO, a movie that works better when you have an idea of what’s coming… First off, let’s get something straight: REIGN OF FIRE isn’t about dragons. Yes, there are dragons in it, yes, the humans in the film are in a situation defined by the presence of dragons, but it ain’t about them. What it IS about is humanity, mythmaking, survival, and sheer, unadulterated bravery in the face of impossible odds. If you want a CGI fest, stop reading here and go rent ARMAGEDDON. If, on the other hand, if you have some sense of the sweeping arc of human history, and you are still in possession of a cerebral cortex, and like to take it out jogging occasionally, then you need to see this, like now. The film starts out like the trailer: kid goes into tunnel, finds dragon, chaos ensues. We are then treated to a lightning fast history of how the dragons laid waste to civilization, how they rise up every few million years or so to burn everything and feed on the ash, and how they then hibernate until the ecology has replenished itself enough to start the cycle over again. At first blush this seemed a bit rushed, but in the context of the film it couldn’t be any other way: director Rob Bowman is preparing you for a broad, sweeping telling of a new legend In this sense, ROF reminded me of UNBREAKABLE, in that it tells the tale of a larger than life, eons old legend/myth that has its origins in real human behavior. For the observant, Bowman clues us in early on: Christian Bale and his best friend re-enact the “Luke, I am your father” battle scene from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK for a group of breathless children. This is brilliant: it works as a cute little reference for the audience, but it really maps out the films intent. Lucas has explicitly stated that he was creating a myth with the larger than life characters of the original trilogy, and that is precisely what Bowman is doing with ROF. What’s brilliant about this scene is that it also dovetails into the origins of oral history, how tales told breathlessly around a campfire resulted in the icons of civilization. And that’s the moment when the “movie” stops and the “film” begins: you aren’t seeing a dragon flick, you’re witnessing the rebuilding of human society from the ground up. You’re seeing how storytelling wasn’t originally just a way to pass the time, but how it shaped and became history. And with a bedtime prayer scene immediately after the storytelling, you’re seeing how prayer, faith, and ritual stemmed from basic, unambiguous human need, not from high concept, abstract spirituality. Human society, ground zero. Then Matthew McConaughey and his army shows up, and we’re at societal interaction and conflict: mistrust and ideological differences abound as Bale first rejects, then grudgingly allows the band of soldiers to move in. The two butt heads, and the beauty of it is that they’re both right: Bale wants to protect his large, desperate family, and McConaughey wants to make the necessary sacrifices to save the human race. This is after the first real dragon sighting of the film, in which three soldiers dive from a helicopter (!) in order to try and lure the beast into the sight of a very, very big gun. The dragon slaying scene in outstanding. Show-off CGI is downplayed in favor of genuine tension as the figures dart in and out of heavy cloud cover. Incredible, and seriously nerve-wracking, which is more than I can say for ANY action sequence I can recall in recent memory. Then we are treated to a bit of explaining: turns out the dragons breed like fish, in that several females produce eggs, and one male fertilizes them. Take out the male, the species dies off. Turns out the male is the one which was found in the tunnel in the film’s beginning, and since Bale is the kid that found him in the beginning, the two enemies must now join forces to wipe out the core of the problem. McConaughey tries once without Bale, and fails completely, actually leading a dragon back to the castle. The dragon attacking the castle is absolutely gorgeous, every Gothic, goose bump inducing archetype rolled into one visually astounding sequence. The film then plays out its themes with a small group embarking on a mission to take out the male once and for all… This is easily the biggest surprise of the year, for me at least. I was willing to see it, but wasn’t particularly looking forward to it, having burned out a bit on brain-dead CGI demos a while ago. People looking for an action film will be sadly disappointed, but that’s their problem. DAMMIT, Hollywood, THIS IS HOW YOU DO THIS. Subtlety, intelligence, and a deep understanding of who we are and what it is we’re made of. The sheer depth of REIGN OF FIRE makes the way-too-impressed-with-itself MINORITY REPORT look even more shallow and pseudo-intellectual (which, frankly, I didn’t think was possible.) If this doesn’t make some serious impact, and by that I mean a take of $150-200 million, then we as a society richly deserve every putrid loaf of Scooby Poop that Hollywood sees fit to flush down are ever willing throats. I can’t shake the feeling that many of the people who complain about the stupidity of Hollywood product will be the same people who will deride this because they “wanted to see more @#%$ blow up,” as one Mensa candidate near me complained. If so, they forfeit their right to ever complain about Hollywood again. This is a REAL, INTELLIGENT FILM, and it’s been so long since the American public has been given one in an action setting that this might just fly right over a lot of otherwise intelligent people’s heads. Sad.