San Andreas

bnt

So, who wants to see California get folded, spindled and mutilated by Mother Nature, once again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VflsU3kZE

Global release date is May 29. Cast is suitably eclectic, including Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra D'Addario, Paul Giamatti, Ioan Gruffudd, Carla Gugino, and Kylie Minogue.

Mackman

The Rock, Paul Giamatti, Stuff being destroyed, if there is half a story there, could be a good turn the brain off popcorn flick

Virtanen

Good disaster flicks, bad disaster flicks, I love them all

This is going to be some summer for blockbusters

Duggy747

"All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!"

Films like these have to be rated by cheese, I'm hoping for at least a 3 out of 5 slices of cheese rating :pac:

I always preferred playing computer games then watching them!

gouche

Duggy747 wrote: »

"All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!"

Films like these have to be rated by cheese, I'm hoping for at least a 3 out of 5 slices of cheese rating :pac:

I actually clicked into this thread thinking it was a film based on the game.
Seriously disappointed:pac:

JP Liz V1

Is Roland Emmerich involved with this in anyway

DoYouEvenLift

Movie's looking good!

gouche

Movie.....what movie?
I was, um, distracted.

bnt

Trailer #3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzRbK9qIhBs

irishgeo

i this not a copy of the storyline of The Day After Tomorrow and 2012

Disaster happens
family member missing
separated father finds son/daughter
etc etc

ill go see it for the craic.

DoYouEvenLift

irishgeo wrote: »

i this not a copy of the storyline of The Day After Tomorrow and 2012

Disaster happens
family member missing
separated father finds son/daughter
etc etc

ill go see it for the craic.

I don't think anyone will go into this movie expecting an original masterpiece. It's a big, dumb, action blockbuster and these kinds of movies are simply an enjoyable break from other movies meant to actually be taken seriously...yet we'll probably still have regular people on the internet who think they're movie critics completely dissecting this lol. Movies like this should either be rated as "worth a watch" or "don't bother watching".

Charlie19

This might be a decent one for 3d.

wowy

Saw it the other night.

Left my brain at the door. Enjoyed the cheesiness, the destruction, and the real-world statistical impossibly of only good-looking people (and Paul Giamatti) featuring.

acquiescefc

I think its worth a watch. Cheese factor is very high but the special effects were pretty stunning if some of the acting was typical 'american disaster movie'.

Another film where they use the most annoying posh english guys as support. I like the fact they started with the action straight away, not having a 30 minute family history build up to the disaster(s)

Its a good film, definitely worth watching if you leave the brain at home. Made me feel like i was watching a Disney version of Cloverfield and the 3D was a bonus.

Into The Blue

Is it one of those where only the hero knows the truth, and runs around trying to convince everyone for an hour, but they think he's mad?

Hate that in films.

grames_bond

Thisd was summed up to me perfectly as "a giggle worthy piece of sh!t" and i have to say i agree. Some great set pieces, every disaster movie cliche in the world and cheesiness turned up to 11! It's fun, but I wouldn't be rushing out to see it again.

Faith+1

wowy wrote: »

Saw it the other night.

Left my brain at the door. Enjoyed the cheesiness, the destruction, and the real-world statistical impossibly of only good-looking people (and Paul Giamatti) featuring.

^^^^ Lol

DoYouEvenLift

Charlie19 wrote: »

This might be a decent one for 3d.

Yeah this is actually one of the only blockbusters this year genuinely filmed in 3D


http://realorfake3d.com

Tazzimus

I'll probably see this for 3 reasons.
One is Dwayne Johnson, the other two are Alexandra Dadarrio

ScumLord

I've seen the posters for this around and had no idea what it was about based on the posters. For some reason I saw a soldier when I looked at the posters and thought it was another alien invasion film.

Charlie19

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Yeah this is actually one of the only blockbusters this year genuinely filmed in 3D


http://realorfake3d.com

Im on my phone but that looks to be in the fake 3D section.

Potential-Monke

Charlie19 wrote: »

Im on my phone but that looks to be in the fake 3D section.

It is indeed!

cloud493

Goodness me, that was very enjoyable. I mean its absolute ****e like, but the film knows it, and it embraces it, and its all the better for it. Very good indeed.

constitutionus

just back from it myself.

have to agree with others. that was alot more fun than i thought it was gonna be.



by no stretch of the imagination a great film , but very good craic for what it is. which is basically a good aul fashioned disaster film that proudly wears its cheese on top, and for once the 3D didnt suck.

visually its lovely to look at on both the CGI and acting front. yer wan from percy jackson sure did grow up nice. havent enjoyed watching a girl swim on screen so much in quite a while , and with carla guigino made a nice distraction for the lads to counter the beefcake factor the rock brings.



speaking of which dwayne really is a good solid actor for this type of fair. he's a hell of alot better than arnie/stallone/van damme was in their day and shock horror there was actually a very nice touching family story in here for him to get into.

that said what happend to ioan gruffords character was just LOL tastic. seriously i kept wondering what else they could get him to do to get the audience to hate him more so as to justify his end.

all things being equal though you get exactly what you'd expect from this type of film.

6.5/10 from me.

and a GOOD one, its not a great film but still very good for what should be a car crash. i reckon dads would have a blast brining their 10yrs olds to this.

DoYouEvenLift

Charlie19 wrote: »

Im on my phone but that looks to be in the fake 3D section.

You're right, wtf I was fully sure it was under the real column last I checked...welp, I guess that's that, another one to avoid in the format.

More people really need to not support fake 3D films because then studios might put the little extra effort into filming in the format which is when it's actually worth going to.

Into The Blue

Is it one of those films where only the hero knows the truth, and runs around trying to convince everyone for an hour, but they think he's mad?

Charlie19

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

More people really need to not support fake 3D films because then studios might put the little extra effort into filming in the format which is when it's actually worth going to.

The trailers for the latest installments of both the jurasick park and the Terminator movie franchises looked class in 3D.

San Andreas was ok but I thought the good 3D effects didn't outweigh the occasional blured segments, I'm not sure if this was down to the poor lighting in the cinema as I don't think it was dark enough.

The film itself was a bit of craic and I'd recommend it just for the special effects alone.

ancapailldorcha

I saw this last night.

It's a popcorn flick through and through. Divorced, dedicated Dad? Ars*hole Father-in-law? Check. Shoddy attempt at character development for said Dad? Check.

It's a lot of fun though I've no idea how they cast those two English lads. I wonder if that's how most Americans think of the English. Paul Giamatti's great in this as well. The destruction of San Francisco is CGI-heavy yet a pleasure to watch. It's so daft and over the top that I was in stitches for a lot of it.

cloud493

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I saw this last night.

It's a popcorn flick through and through. Divorced, dedicated Dad? Ars*hole Father-in-law? Check. Shoddy attempt at character development for said Dad? Check.

It's a lot of fun though I've no idea how they cast those two English lads. I wonder if that's how most Americans think of the English. Paul Giamatti's great in this as well. The destruction of San Francisco is CGI-heavy yet a pleasure to watch. It's so daft and over the top that I was in stitches for a lot of it.

They had the acceptable english accent didn't they sure :pac: BBC english or whatever you call it these days.

ancapailldorcha

cloud493 wrote: »

They had the acceptable english accent didn't they sure :pac: BBC english or whatever you call it these days.

They sounded like they belonged on the set of Downton Abbey. It could be that the producers knew what this was and just decided to crank up the cheese.

Into The Blue

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I saw this last night.

Is it one of those films where only the hero knows the truth, and runs around trying to convince everyone for an hour, but they think he's mad?

ancapailldorcha

No. There's an earthquake and even in a film like this, everyone cops on quite quickly to what's going on.

cloud493

Your man who knows the answer goes on tv about it, and saves lots of people and everyone is grateful to him

Charlie19

Cheesiest quote from Johnson has to be:

"it's been a while since I got you to 2nd base"

Nervous Wreck

This film was so much fun.

sonic85

Charlie19 wrote: »

Cheesiest quote from Johnson has to be:

"it's been a while since I got you to 2nd base"

that was so good!

wasn't gone on this movie - was kind of bored sh!tless for most of it but the rock was good and the two women were top notch!

Seen this on Saturday night.

Went in with pretty low expectations. Last film I seen before this was Mad Max: Fury Road, which was a bit of a disappointing all-rounder for me, so I wasn't too keen to be stepping into the cinema again in general to be honest.

I have to say, though, I really, really enjoyed San Andreas. It's one of those films that would have been dreadful if it tried to take itself really seriously, but thankfully it seemed that everyone working on it knew it was cheesy as feck, so it does kind of run with it.

Haven't seen the Rock in a film in a long time but he seems to have come a long way. He seems perfectly suited to this kinda role.


There are points in this film, for example, the bit

where the old chap just happens to be wearing a hat for a flying school, and the flying school is located right beside them conveniently

that, if it was any other film, I'd get a headache from rolling my eyes, but this film was just so silly and cheesy that it merely added to it.


Also,

both women had serious juggs!

which always helps. Haha. Seriously though - I'd highly recommend this film. Definitely one that I dreaded going to, but i'd watch again (and it's very rare that I'd be tempted to watch anything more than once). I'd give it a solid 7 out of 10 if I had to rate it.

No_Comply

What this is insistance on calling every 'fun' action movie dumb? Is it so people will think you also appreciate the finer side of film?

I mean FFS! This is an action movie. Plain and simple. A lot of work has gone into it so people will pay for and enjoy it for what it is - an action/disaster movie who's main focus to 'capture' how the event may unfold from a certain perspective.

Going on about 'cheese factor' and how dumb some of these movies are is annoying at this stage.

It's OK to like and enjoy these films without having to insult them as some form of indirect validation of your pallet for cinema.

No_Comply

No_Comply wrote: »

What this is insistance on calling every 'fun' action movie dumb? Is it so people will think you also appreciate the finer side of film?

I mean FFS! This is an action movie. Plain and simple. A lot of work has gone into it so people will pay for and enjoy it for what it is - an action/disaster movie who's main focus to 'capture' how the event may unfold from a certain perspective.

Going on about 'cheese factor' and how dumb some of these movies are is annoying at this stage.

It's OK to like and enjoy these films without having to insult them as some form of indirect validation of your pallet for cinema.

Can't speak for anyone else of course, but I reckon if this film took itself seriously, as if it was supposed to be some some serious drama, then it'd have been pretty crappy.

I don't think it's an insult for a film to work to it's strengths.

Look at 28 Weeks Later. That's a film with an absurd storyline (zombie outbreak), but it takes itself really seriously. And it works.. for the most part. But there's a part of that film where they try to build suspense, and the outbreak has just began.

There's a bit where there's a child (I think, it's been a while) following a group of people. He walks on his own for a second and the camera changes to show a zombie/infected person standing behind him, ready to tear him apart. Then the camera changes, the child looks around, and the zombie is gone.

It completely takes you right out of the film and in that 3 second scene you've gone from being engrossed in a storyline to realising that you're sitting in a cinema watching a film. It's at that point you start to wonder how long it took them to build the sets, or how many boom operators are required for that scene. It takes you right out of it (or at least, it did, for me).

It takes you a while to get back into things.


Whereas in films like San Andreas, the film knows it's using every cliche it can pick up on, but it's presented in a 'yeah, we know this is silly, but sure why not!' kind of way.

Look at the Expendables. Another film with cheesiness turned all the way up, but the film knows it, so it doesn't even try to make sense. Again, if it was taking itself very seriously, I don't think it'd be as much fun, it'd be more cringey than laugh worthy.


I don't think anyone mentions it in a bad way..?

Mr E

This film just bounced along nicely. :pac:
Very entertaining and decent special effects too.

Didn't realise that Alexandra Daddario was Kate in White Collar.

Adamantium

The Rock nicked so many vehicles in this, I wonder was calling it San Andreas a knowing sly wink to a certain game series.

Aside from her looks, Daddario is a really good actress, I'm impressed with her and the rest of them had as they had to deliver some fairly bland stuff.
Was very impressed by how toned down much of the destruction was,

I was expecting the whole of California to be submerged and the plate underwater by films end

I can't think of much else that was good.
It's the worst CGI looking film I've seen in a while. It looked cartoony. I almost wonder if scale models would be cheaper and look better.

Pegmatite

cloud493 wrote: »

They had the acceptable english accent didn't they sure :pac: BBC english or whatever you call it these days.

Yer man sounded like Lee Evans.

fluke

No_Comply wrote: »

What this is insistance on calling every 'fun' action movie dumb? Is it so people will think you also appreciate the finer side of film?

It's dumb because

he has means to save people he has a duty to protect, instead he goes and saves his family, no ramifications.

johnnysmack

Best comedy I've seen in years!

captainfrost

I thought it was same storyline as the game. I think watching someone play SA while you sit and watch is better than this.
Total waste of beer.

french_bloke

Saw it there last night, only two things to say

1: BEWBS (movie guy voice)

2: Camera angles

Worth a viewing!

TerrorFirmer

I thought it was entertaining fluff. A bit too cheesy even compared with other films in the same vein, but the Rock put it a decent show, special effects were good and it was just the perfect 90 minute run time for a movie like this.

I don't think every action movie has to be brainless or dumb by any means but this film is exactly both of those things. It doesn't even pretend to be otherwise to be fair. It's part of the charm.

Nobody considers the words cheese, dumb and brainless synonymous with action films - it just so happens that a great number of productions intentionally embrace those qualities because there is a market for them.

I mean look at Commando - the infallible king of dumb, cheesy action movies.

Joeface

It's a grand disaster movie ,enjoyed it for what it was.
Actually thought they were going to be really brave at the end of the movie. Would have been interesting if they had gone that way.anyone who has seen it will know what I am referring too.

Virtanen

Joeface wrote: »

It's a grand disaster movie ,enjoyed it for what it was.
Actually thought they were going to be really brave at the end of the movie. Would have been interesting if they had gone that way.anyone who has seen it will know what I am referring too.

Yeah, I thought that too. I live in hope that, one day, we'll get a movie of this ilk brave enough to do it. It also bugged me at the end that

all the news reports focussed on the lives saved, not the THOUSANDS who died

, but whatever, it's par-for-the-course for disaster movies, which I absolutely love despite their flaws

candy-gal1

I liked this and the effects were awesome seriously, but it also felt so much like every other blockbuster about a natural disaster - maybe ive just seen too many though lol