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Transformers 5? Isn't that The Last Knight? What a steaming pile.

 

WHAT.

 

“The Last Knight” has a whole ass scene where a guy justifies why he’s dating a minor. Not for just that reason, but it’s a truly insane, terrible movie.

 

so so so bad lol. that’s the one with Hopkins, right?

 

I still can't process how the scene with the dude carrying a card explaining how he can date a minor made it in a movie

 

I have only seen Armageddon and 40 minutes of Bad Boys, but there is a moment where the President is giving a speech in Armageddon and a kid runs across the screen in slow-motion waving an American flag that is so transparently silly that I might never forget it.

 

Yep! I honestly thought he was washed after seeing him in it. Thankfully The Father and Armageddon Time dispelled that.

 

Armageddon does not hold up to an ounce of intellectual scrutiny ("He has space dementia!") but I also genuinely enjoy it as mindless popcorn. It hits the right marks entertainment-wise. Like a really well-built house made of marshmallows. It's not gonna hold up and it's not good for you, but they knew how to put it together.

 

The idea that it would be easier to teach a bunch of drillers how to be astronauts rather than teaching astronauts how to drill is so mind-numbingly stupid.

 

Speaking of Michael Bay, I believe The Rock is the greatest American action movie ever.

 

The smartest thing Bay ever did was realize what he had in Steve Buscemi in Armageddon. Dude just runs away with it.

 

Space dementia

 

I actively like The Rock, Armageddon, Face/Off and Independence Day. I LOATHE Con Air. And it's really hard to put my finger on why.

 

“Con Air” rules! I was a big fan of pretty much anything Jerry Bruckheimer put his name on when I was a teen, even “Gone In 60 Seconds” and “Coyote Ugly.” He knew his market and exactly how to deliver to them.

As far as those ‘90s action movies go, “The Rock” and “Enemy of the State” are top tier.

 

Con Air is excellent. Enemy of the State was pretty good. I remember having that on VHS. Along with The Fugitive.

Though TLJ winning an Oscar for that over Ralph Fiennes is one of the most baffling Oscar moments ever

 

Fiennes in Schindler's
Malkovich in In the Line of Fire
DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Pete Postlethwaite in In the Name of the Father

You cannot convince me TLJ didn't win due to some kind of vote-split happenstance.

 

This kills me every time I watch it, I'm almost surprised Bay allowed it on the DVD

 

You are thinking of Age Of Extinction. That one I won’t defend

the one with Hopkins (the last knight) rules

 

had to google TLJ

 

I need your review of Ambulance.

 

Pretty sure that's what There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is about, but "double decker bus" fits the poetry better than "stolen ambulance"

 

I actually looked up a few scenes of Armageddon to refresh my memory and Owen Wilson tries to outrun a helicopter on a horse and is unceremoniously killed off in a crash that gets rid of a bunch of anonymous characters.

I believe Deep Impact was the better reviewed film at the time so it is interesting that that one is never talked about anymore but Armageddon comes up all the time.