tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486647021928910059.post8944280569798916801..comments2023-05-21T02:03:43.034-07:00Comments on A year in the CAGE: #1 The RockSkyler Weaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516715611434524812noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486647021928910059.post-83304484761543479532019-10-03T11:32:52.462-07:002019-10-03T11:32:52.462-07:00#49 The Rock (1996) TNT On Demand. First Time View...#49 The Rock (1996) TNT On Demand. First Time View. I enjoyed this one a lot.KaBluiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07032525501051762974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486647021928910059.post-12373719934583515802013-07-07T19:50:15.281-07:002013-07-07T19:50:15.281-07:00Review #7 (I think...again...)
The Rock... This m...Review #7 (I think...again...)<br /><br />The Rock... This maybe the first Nicolas Cage i ever saw thinking back right now. It was a long time ago, maybe when I was 10~11, I enter my dad's room and see him watching a movie. I ask to join, and after some time "arguing" that "I'm already old enough to see grown up movies" he lets me sit next to him.<br /><br />At the time, I didn't know who Cage was, or even Sean Connery or any other people from the awesome cast and staff this film has, but after two hours of epic explosions and epic soundtrack, I can remember clearly asking to my dad "Who is that man screaming holding those green balls?"<br /><br />Needless to say that was my first small little step to get to the Cage admirer and loving fan that I am now.<br /><br />But back to the movie, what can I say? After watching it again, this may not have the biggest Cage factor of all, but damn, Michael Bay, Hans Zimmer, Sean Connery, Ed Harris and Nicolas Cage. There are few things that would make this better, and they all involve Cage in a bear suit.<br /><br />TO sum up, this a Michael Bay movie, so adrenaline and explosions at all times (including an epic bus chase scene with insane explosion and cars flying). Ed Harris plays the epic bad guy but with good intentions, while Sean Connery is just the regular awesome/insane person, while Cage tries to portrait the scientist guy, but just ends up as a regular screaming Cage.<br /><br />My final score:8.0<br />This is one of the few that I believe the movie could surpass, or even equals Cage acting.Rilifonhttps://www.facebook.com/ricardo.fonseca.1614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486647021928910059.post-37403669464059823292012-04-09T09:28:17.504-07:002012-04-09T09:28:17.504-07:00Nice review Steve, I think you've just secured...Nice review Steve, I think you've just secured the position of "Guest Reviewer" for the movie of your choice...James Ayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11560479592464116645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486647021928910059.post-72153878467145606632012-04-09T08:27:38.146-07:002012-04-09T08:27:38.146-07:00I had planned to get this movie on Blu-ray from Ne...I had planned to get this movie on Blu-ray from Netflix, but the popularity of your blog put in in high demand so they sent me the next item in my queue instead. So I crawled into the attic and brought down the VCR and had a refresher course on why DVD was such a huge leap in quality for movies. About 2 hours after I finished the movie Netflix emailed to say they're shipping me a Blu-ray copy from Antarctica and it'll arrive in several days. Sorry, not going to watch it again so soon.<br /><br />Like many movie plots, it is thin in many areas and there are holes like the Ferrari's self healing windshield, but I don't think the $100M in exchange for "millions of lives" is such a big hole. Behind all that action and those explosions the movie is asking the question of how you treat terrorism that uses the threat of force to extort money? Do you do like the Russians and treat hostages like they are already dead or do like with the Somali pirates and throw them crates full of cash?<br /><br />To me the greater plot holes were that people would sell out for only $1M each, the notion that the government is capable of saving $100M, and that the SEAL's best method of crossing a mile or so of San Francisco Bay is to fly out there on helicopters that can be seen on radar then use submersibles that last 100 yards or so least they break a sweat. Admittedly, Cage probably can't swim a mile, but I bet he knows how to ride in a zodiac.<br /><br />The missiles are ridiculous in their own right. They have guidance chips that need changed out so frequently that they use card edge slots with no mechanical retainers to keep them from working loose, but apparently they don't get changed out after all because to do so you have to remove the gas first and that was assembled with sewing thread that is always breaking.<br /><br />Ed Harris did a great job in the roll, after all, he's not really a "bad guy" is he? His methods are bad and he's surrounded himself with bad guys, but he's a troubled war hero trying to set things right and has no desire to hurt anyone. And for those of us that have sworn to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me" it leaves you with a bit more to think about in the shower scene than for most viewers.Steve Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01691715956208605416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486647021928910059.post-37286139147964078542012-04-04T13:10:54.419-07:002012-04-04T13:10:54.419-07:00The first two of roughly 136 action packed hours o...The first two of roughly 136 action packed hours over the next year have been LOGGED!<br /><br />Also, Shauna is right, why the hell is Ed Harris in this movie? He was disappointingly boring for a "bad guy".James Ayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11560479592464116645noreply@blogger.com