What the hell kind of accent is Eccleston supposed to be doing in this!? It starts off as that bad 1920s NY gangster accent, which is apparently what we sound like to British people, but by the end it sounds more vaguely English.
Christopher Eccleston without the Manchester accent is like David Tennant without the hair. Just sad.
@Jeriba: As far as I can tell, based on years of television viewing, to Britons all Americans sound like a) they're from Georgia, or b) that obnoxious tourist in that one Fawlty Towers episode who wanted the Waldorf Salad.
@Jay042: "Didn't Trey Parker and Matt Stone already do this movie?"
Amen to that. Both this and Transformers seem like exactly the bad action films they made fun of in Team America. They're almost so bad they're a parody themselves. Yet they're just too stupid to be funny, to me at least. Too bad they had to take down what could have been decent movies for this generation's kids based on shows for 80s generation kids. As bad as GI Joe and Transformers got at times, it still seemed more respectable than this trash.
@Spoonman360: It's the eyebrow, right? Joseph is definitely rockin' the brow in thaT shot. Great actor, he'd do some interesting things with the Joker.
Is it just me, or does Joseph Gordon-Levitt look a HELL of a lot like Heath Ledger? He's also an excellent actor in his own right. Hmm...wheels turning....
@ultra76: had the same thought after seeing brick for the first time a few days ago....the similar facial structure is what does it but it was really eerie for a bit.
@Paul_Is_Drunk: No, it's definitely an underrated teen comedy. It is, in fact, one of the best teen comedy movies to be produced in the last twenty years.
That doesn't make it great art, really. It's not Casablanca, or whatever. But it's totally head and shoulders above everything else in the genre since 1989.
@braak: I saw him at the National Museum in DC me and about a dozen of my friends looking past the art, trying to figure out where we'd seen him before.
Josephs Gordon Levitt is seriously talented. See "Brick" or better yet, "Mysterious Skin". That him and Christopher Eccleston are doing a toy movie to make some scratch ain't a bad thing. It lets them do other movies on the cheap.
Hell, they might even be able to bring some good to it. Though this is a movie by the guy who shat forth "The Mummy", so expectations are very low.
I'm curious about his casting overall, because I just don't see Cobra Commander as being that...YOUNG? I mean, Gordon-Levitt was born in 1981. I just wonder how they're going to handle him.
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Christopher Eccleston without the Manchester accent is like David Tennant without the hair. Just sad.
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Amen to that. Both this and Transformers seem like exactly the bad action films they made fun of in Team America. They're almost so bad they're a parody themselves. Yet they're just too stupid to be funny, to me at least. Too bad they had to take down what could have been decent movies for this generation's kids based on shows for 80s generation kids. As bad as GI Joe and Transformers got at times, it still seemed more respectable than this trash.
07/06/09
I miss you more then Michael Bay missed the mark
When he made Pearl Harbor
I miss you more than that movie missed the point
And that's an awful lot girl
And now, now you've gone away
And all I'm trying to say is
Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you...
Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked
Just a little bit more than I miss you
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*that's right I'm feeling bitchy, today. Wanna mess yo?*
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Almost an underrated teen comedy. Almost.
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That doesn't make it great art, really. It's not Casablanca, or whatever. But it's totally head and shoulders above everything else in the genre since 1989.
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Hell, they might even be able to bring some good to it. Though this is a movie by the guy who shat forth "The Mummy", so expectations are very low.
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