QuoteReplyTopic: Member-Started Forum: I AM NUMBER FOUR Posted: February 17 2011 at 10:54am
NOW THAT WE'RE HALFWAY INTO FEBRUARY, IT'S LIKELY THAT NEW RELEASES WON'T BE FORGOTTEN BY THE END OF THE YEAR LIKE THOSE IN JANUARY. THAT COULD BE THE CASE FOR "I AM NUMBER TWO FOUR". SINCE THE RAZZIE RADAR IS BUSY WITH"BIG MOMMAS"THIS WEEK (AND SOME USERS FELT THE NEED FOR THIS FILM TO ALSO HAVE A FORUM) I DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
THE LAST DECADE PROVED THAT SUPER-HERO MOVIES CAN BE GOOD. BUT IT ALSO PROVED THAT IF YOUR STORY FOCUSES MORE ON BEING ABOUT TEENS AND/OR FOR TEENS, THE RESULTS CAN BE UGLY. SO THIS MOVIE COULD BE THE BIGGEST BOX OFFICE HIT OF THE YEAR AND THE BIGGEST CRITICAL FLOP OF THE YEAR, ALL IN ONE.
IT STARS NEWCOMER ALEX PETTYFER, AND I THINK THAT WOULD'VE BEEN A MUCH COOLER NAME FOR THE CHARACTER. IT CO-STARS TIMOTHY OLYPHANT AND DIANNA AGRON, WHO AT LEAST HAVE SHOWN THEY'RE GOOD TV ACTORS. IT'S DIRECTED BY J.D. CARUSO (THE SOMEHOW-NOT-NOMINEE "EAGLE EYE") AND IT'S WRITTEN BY USUAL TV WRITER MARTI NOXON AND ALFRED GOUGH & MILES MILLAR, THE BERRY DEFINITION OF HIT-OR-MISS.
BASED ON EVERYTHING STATED ABOVE, I PREDICT THE BEST PART OF THIS MOVIE WILL BE IT'S ADDITION TO THE DEBATE OF "ISRAZZIE WINNER MICHAEL BAYWORSE AS A DIRECTOR OR AS A PRODUCER?".
PETTYFER: "The paparazzi! They still must be wondering if we're dating"
AGRON: "Oh, no! What if they see that we're actually reading from cards?"
As for the question if Michael Bay is worst as a director or a producer. I'd say director because he can do more direct harm to the picture. Eventhough he also seem to have an extremely bad track record when it comes to producing (almost every single horror-remake in the last few years).
Even as a producer, you can sense Bay's directorial influence on the movie, like his music-video-style pacing, poor writing, so-so performances, etc. The man simply has no business being in the movie business!
Originally posted by Vheid
As for the question if Michael Bay is worst as a director or a producer. I'd say director because he can do more direct harm to the picture. Eventhough he also seem to have an extremely bad track record when it comes to producing (almost every single horror-remake in the last few years).
The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.
Come on, Metacritic! Give this another negative review! At least Rotten Tomatoes already gave it a 29% (very bad, but not the worst this year). To HeadRAZZ: Please add this to your official contenders list at your earliest convenience!
As for the film itself, it's an adaptation of a sci-fi alien novel, where the mission is to save the 4th unit of an alien agency (?) after his three predecessors have been killed. But you know what they say about Michael Bay's production credits. Besides, you put this in the hands of a director with that resume, and you see how well it turns out.
RAZZIE Dirty Dozen: Battlefield Earth, F G Fingered, Pluto Nash, A Sound of Thunder, Alone in the Dark, Dirty Love, Rise Silver Srfr, Daddy Day Camp, IKWKM, The Love Guru, All About Steve, Airbender
"It's positioned of the as the start of a franchise, but "I Am Number Four"'s familiar plot and unconvincing performances add up to one noisy, derivative, and ultimately forgettable sci-fi thriller".
Note to Hollywood: I know this is very hard for you to understand or consider, but maybe, just maybe ... you should release a single, stand-alone movie, wait and see how audiences take to it, and then IF the movie is well-liked by critics and audiences alike, THEN turn it into a franchise.
Crazy idea, isn't it?
The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.
The insanely poor casting choices on Mr. Brooks didn't help either. Kevin Costner = hasn't had a hit movie in over a decade. Demi Moore = never really taken all that seriously. Dane Cook = unfunny comedian who is only famous for his online fan following. That doesn't sound like a winning line-up to me.
Originally posted by Vits
Yeah,Burn.That's what ruined MR. BROOKS(1/10).
The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.
What are Burn and Vits talking about? Mr Brooks wasn't THAT poorly recieved. 56% positive on RT -- not really anything to write home to, but not something to shoot yourself in the head after watching either.
Elizabeth Hartman and Judith Barsi are much more talented and beautiful than Scarlett Johansson and Chloe Grace Moretz. Fact.
As I have said MANY times before, 50% positive range reviews on RT don't impress me at all...
The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.
Yes,that movie's reviews were only average.But critics disliked the movie for the same reasons I did:
HAVE YOU EVER MET A "MR. BROOKS"?YOU HAVE?SORRY(*/*****):
The main problem with the story is that it seems it's made up as it goes along.
The main problem with the premise is that BROOKS & MARSHALL barely argue,making the latter kind of pointless.Their conversations are voice-over thougths split in two and said out loud.At least it isn't narrating.If it was it would tell us the obvious.
The main problem with the script is that it tries so hard to engage us to watch the trilogy with the same methods(like leaving loose ends)that a TV pilot would use(it originally was a TV show)that it doesn't become aware that a trilogy can't happen if people don't like the first movie,and people won't like it if they see only a first act.
I wouldn't be too sure about no sequels. All a movie needs to do in order to have a sequel greenlit (or in these days, a SERIES of sequels) is break even at the box office, or through DVD sales. I'm sure this is just a minor speed bump before Mr. Bay moves ahead with a sequel after he is done whipping his ass with the "Transformers" movies.
Originally posted by Vheid
To get back on the topic of this forum...
I.m Nr. 4 will NOT have a sequel/franchise. Seeing that it just lost the top box office-spot toUnknown. [link]
The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.
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