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Went and saw Swordfish last night. At the start of the movie they have this foreign computer hacker trying to get into LAX. He is stopped and they find 2 passports on him and they detain him for further investigation. They claim that he is from Finland but the 2 passports they show are GERMAN passports and he carries on a lengthy conversation with his GERMAN lawyer in the GERMAN language (I lived in Germany for 17 years so I do know when German is being spoken). For such a high priced film as this it is an incredible mistake to make and I really don't understand why they would even have this Finnish/German confusion. Maybe they thought that the Germans would be offended by yet another German "bad guy" and decided to pawn this off as Finnish. I guess the German market is alot bigger than the Finnish one !!Anyway, the movie was enjoyable (not a potential Oscar winner), and the action and Halle Berry (topless, no less, and she was paid an EXTRA $500,000 for going topless in one scene) was worth the price of admission.
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The camerawork and sound on the scene with the hostage exploding at the beginning of the film was awesome, no wait, I take that back, the special effects were awesome, since most of it was CGI, but then the movie kinda went downhill from there, with only a minor rise (..in the movie!!!) when we got to see Halle topless.
Swordfish is a major disappointment. Watch this gross fall faster than the stock market in one or two weeks when the word gets out. The crimes we witnessed were not film's storyline but more about the bad direction by Dominic Sena and equally horrible writing of Skip Woods. I should have see it coming with the stupid title flickering and the 1/4 inch depth of field on John Travolta's face in the first 3-4 minutes, but that's just the begining. It gets worse, pure merde!
Swordfish has more than that mistake. The plausibility of the whole film goes right out the window after only the first few moments. It's dissapointing because Travolta's speech at the begin actually mocks Hollywood for how bad many films are -- then they do the exact same thing!Doug Schneider
...to my favorite critic, Duncan Shepherd:
Halle Berry's boobs, David Duchovny's buns. Swordfish and Evolution, respectively, in their promotional nutshells. Anything else about them?
The first one is a deplorable high-tech, high-impact, high-explosive thriller, the opening lines of which -- "You know, the problem with Hollywood is they make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit" -- apparently hope to summon up some preventative voodoo. Or hope at the very least to beat you to the punch.
There's more... Follow the "Movie" trail.clark
...stop making movies for awhile! Your last three "sucked dead bears" and your recent film career is paralleling Frank Stallone's. Try a sitcom again, or host a talk show, or just plain fishing or bowling. McVeigh's death may have had a greater sense of public closure if he was forced to watch "Battlefield Earth", "Lucky Numbers", and "Swordfish" in succession.
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MiKe
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