the vynsane asylum

Maybe I'm getting old, but there seemed to be a little TOO much gratuitous violence in this one. Did we really need a slow motion bullet through the throat shot? Or Mike shooting thru the wall and evaporating a jamacian's face up close? Or driving over fat corpses and decapitating them? Or about a thousand other vicious deaths throughout the film?

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well, to be exact, a corpse can't die... so it was a viscious corpse defiling, rather than a viscious death...

i thought the movie was alright... still, the best thing about it, other than martin laurence rolling on "E" (or "X" as the cops were calling it in the movie... still haven't heard anyone who actually DOES drugs call it "X"...) was the trailer for once upon a time in mexico!!! holy crap, i can't wait for this movie!!!!!!!

Eternal Padawan wrote:Maybe I'm getting old, but there seemed to be a little TOO much gratuitous violence in this one. Did we really need a slow motion bullet through the throat shot? Or Mike shooting thru the wall and evaporating a jamacian's face up close? Or driving over fat corpses and decapitating them? Or about a thousand other vicious deaths throughout the film?

Yes, you must be getting old if you can't understand Michael Bay's brilliant, yet unsubsidized attempt to demystify the occulence of violence in cinema by portraying black men in role reversal as the dominant hero persona (i.e cops) and furthering reversing the stereotype by casting two former sitcom stars, who incidentally both used to be vicious criminals ( as showcased by thier skin color) to disprove, or rather nonprove that black people can do violence for the sake of good.

If you can't see that, you are just STUPID.

The cut of your jib seems familiar to me, Negative Boy.

Weren't you one of the guys who gangbanged me last Arbor Day, when Roy was at his sister's?

I went to Rocky Balboa this weekend. I kinda felt obligated since I watched the other five growing up. It wasn't Academy Award material by any means, but it was good, and it was anice little denouement to the series. I didn't really understand the cutting between the color and BW during the fight. Some kind of homage to the original?

Wow. I came in here expecting talk of Bad Boys II and I get you talkin' of Rocky Balboa.

Well, would anyone read a Rocky topic if I started it? I don't think so. And was anyone ever going to come back and add anything new or insightful in the Bad Boys II thread? Besides the Giraffe? Again, I don't think so. So i'm just going to start posting comments about movies I've seen in random movie topics. Next up is Smokin' Aces. You'll have to guess where I talk about it.

Did you hear any cheering from the back of the theater? It wasn't for Rocky. It was for your mother as she put on a little show for me.