Max Landis doesn't get why it bombed.
Off the top of my head? The marketing sucked. I assume the movie sucked too since it's a late August release.
Plus, your stars are Jesse Eisenberg and Kirsten Stewart.
Also, your "well reviewed" movie is currently rocking a 6.5 on IMDB.
American Ultra
Plus, your stars are Jesse Eisenberg and Kirsten Stewart.
In what looks like a fucking spy action movie. Fucking really? His dad needs to have a chat with him. Granted, his dad got an actor and a couple illegal child actors killed, but when his movies weren't mired in wrongful death lawsuits, they were entertaining.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Literally the only thing I had read about the movie was about how those two "wanted to work together again."Leisher wrote:Off the top of my head? The marketing sucked. I assume the movie sucked too since it's a late August release.
Plus, your stars are Jesse Eisenberg and Kirsten Stewart.
It's not me, it's someone else.
That may be why I disliked it. By the time I got around to it it was way up on a pedestal. A pedestal of suck.Malcolm wrote:PE felt overhyped. It was very eh.GORDON wrote:As soon as I heard, "It's like Pineapple Express meets Jason Bourne," they lost me. Hated PE.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I do not remember it well enough to defend my review.TheCatt wrote:Pineapple Express did suck pretty hard.GORDON wrote:As soon as I heard, "It's like Pineapple Express meets Jason Bourne," they lost me. Hated PE.
But Leisher loved it.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
To be fair, I've also posted some tremendous movies that you might never have found.TheCatt wrote:I watched it cuz of your review.
You owe me.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Sure, Public Enemy was awesome. Pineapple Express was not. Never have I watched a Cheech and Chong movie and thought, "You know what this is missing? Some shitty, slo-mo fight sequences from a couple of stoners who look like they'd be winded putting on trunks to get ready to box." We also have to have some bullshit subplot about Seth trying to decide if the supermodel-looking high school chick he's banging is the right one for him.Troy wrote:PE owns, haters vacate
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Re: American Ultra
Not as incredibly bad as I thought it would be, but not great either.
Stewart was actually passable, but that's mainly because Eisenberg is chewing up the scenery throughout the movie. Nothing about him screams action hero. Maybe that was the point, but it really doesn't work here. It especially doesn't work when you consider one of the film's biggest plot points (hint: It's about the girl).
What really sucks though is the story. It's both cliche and terribly stupid, mainly because of how dumb and realistic the baddies act.
The brightest spot of the movie is Walton Goggins. His role is really small, but he steals an important scene.
You can skip it, but if you must see it, do so for free.
Stewart was actually passable, but that's mainly because Eisenberg is chewing up the scenery throughout the movie. Nothing about him screams action hero. Maybe that was the point, but it really doesn't work here. It especially doesn't work when you consider one of the film's biggest plot points (hint: It's about the girl).
What really sucks though is the story. It's both cliche and terribly stupid, mainly because of how dumb and realistic the baddies act.
The brightest spot of the movie is Walton Goggins. His role is really small, but he steals an important scene.
You can skip it, but if you must see it, do so for free.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Re: American Ultra
Saw it for free, and I liked it better than I thought I would. It is more "Jason Bourne except if he was brainwashed to be a burnout" then it was like Pineapple Express. And for that reason I liked it OK.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."