The Hurricane Heist

JP Liz V1

From Rob Cohen, it gets both cinema general release and Sky Cinema premiere this weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56whWF2NJrM

I guess if you enjoyed Twister and Hard Rain which it looks in same vein as could be decent popcorn flick

Mr E

Cinema release isn't widespread. It's not showing anywhere in Limerick.

restive

Anyone seen this showing in Roscommon. Has 48% score on rotten tomatoes and described as the best worst film of the year.

Mr E

Showing in 2 cinemas in Roscommon.

http://entertainment.ie/cinema-listings/Roscommon/The-Hurricane-Heist/25.htm?search

silverharp

Mr E wrote: »

Showing in 2 cinemas in Roscommon.

http://entertainment.ie/cinema-listings/Roscommon/The-Hurricane-Heist/25.htm?search

so all of them then

Agent Coulson

It's bad so bad and the set pieces are done on bad scale models and I kind of liked it.

silverharp

it looks like a trailer for a tv show

razorblunt

In cinemas and on Sky Cinema? Yeah no thanks.
That actress from Taken is appalling too.

constitutionus

welll its showing in the IMC in tallaght so its spreading .

this looks GLORIOUSLY stupid. i mean 2012/geostorm levels of dumb.

so im in.

films like this are what the "meal deal" days are all about.

JP Liz V1

It needed more Jason Stackhouse

It's great fun, pure unadulterated rubbish and clearly aware of it. The kind of big dumb fun that passes 100 minutes and leaves you with a smile. In the age of 250 million dollar marvel blockbusters that look like made for TV films it's impressive to see a 45 million dollar film that actually looks like a film, every cent is onscreen and dumb as it gets The Hurricane Heist never fails to entertain.

JP Liz V1

Is the Asylum involved in this?

AMKC

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It's great fun, pure unadulterated rubbish and clearly aware of it. The kind of big dumb fun that passes 100 minutes and leaves you with a smile. In the age of 250 million dollar marvel blockbusters that look like made for TV films it's impressive to see a 45 million dollar film that actually looks like a film, every cent is onscreen and dumb as it gets The Hurricane Heist never fails to entertain.

In the age of 250 million dollar marvel blockbusters that look like made for TV films
I don't know where you get that idea. Any of the super Expensive 250 million dollar Marvel blockbusters look great on the big screen and terrible on a TV.

AMKC

AMKC wrote: »

In the age of 250 million dollar marvel blockbusters that look like made for TV films
I don't know where you get that idea. Any of the super Expensive 250 million dollar Marvel blockbusters look great on the big screen and terrible on a TV.

Marvel films all look the same, they share a universal mid-00s movie of the look aesthetic, we all know that they say it's because they want uniformity to the films but honestly given that their films are filmmaking by committee then it's the perfect flat and uninspired look for them.

The opening to the second film is one of the ugliest, most cluttered and visually dead looking things that I have ever seen. It looks like a really cheap video game cutscene and makes me worry about the future of cinema if people think it looks good and cinematic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEt5GyUiNO0

cena

It is not bad for a home movie. Not cinema price though

cena

cena wrote: »

It is not bad for a home movie. Not cinema price though

I never understood the whole mentality of measuring a films worth by the cost of seeing it. It's very much a rule that only applies to the cinema, you never hear anyone coming out of a gig saying anything similar. I think that if you go into the Hurricane Heist knowing what to expect and get 90 minutes of entertainment from a big dumb film then it's not bad going for 8 or so euro. I know that I would sooner rewatch it than I would most Superhero films as it's a film that recognises the inherent absurdity of the premise and just goes with it.

pixelburp

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Marvel films all look the same, they share a universal mid-00s movie of the look aesthetic, we all know that they say it's because they want uniformity to the films but honestly given that their films are filmmaking by committee then it's the perfect flat and uninspired look for them.
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That's not entirely true of late; Black Panther, Thor Ragnarok, and the Guardians of the Galaxy series have shown a willingness to lean more into stronger, bolder colour palettes; even Dr. Strange, which was arguably the franchise's most cooke-cutter film of recent years, worked in some psychedelia into its compositions. Spider-Man: Homecoming was a bit of a mixed bag.

There's definitely a uniformity to the colour grading at work yes; so Ragnarok's ludicrously colourful, Farscape'esque world had perhaps less vibrancy than it could have; and some of Black Panther's CGI work was surprisingly ropey in places; but whether it has been by accident or design, the latest Marvel films have been a lot nicer to look at.

It's probably no coincidence that all of the above examples (bar Dr. Strange) involved genuinely creative, imaginative directors at the helm, who knew how to work around any corporate dictums - whereas the 'team up' films have been directed by the franchise's least inspiring; Joss Whedon is a scriptwriter after all, he's not a good director whatsoever, and in fairness that horrible Age of Ultron scene isn't an entirely true barometer of the MCU's action scenes. They have their flaws (a lack of crunch & heft for one), but they're rarely that consistently bad.

pixelburp

pixelburp wrote: »

That's not entirely true of late; Black Panther, Thor Ragnarok, and the Guardians of the Galaxy series have shown a willingness to lean more into stronger, bolder colour palettes; even Dr. Strange, which was arguably the franchise's most cooke-cutter film of recent years, worked in some psychedelia into its compositions. Spider-Man: Homecoming was a bit of a mixed bag.

There's definitely a uniformity to the colour grading at work yes; so Ragnarok's ludicrously colourful, Farscape'esque world had perhaps less vibrancy than it could have; and some of Black Panther's CGI work was surprisingly ropey in places; but whether it has been by accident or design, the latest Marvel films have been a lot nicer to look at.

It's probably no coincidence that all of the above examples (bar Dr. Strange) involved genuinely creative, imaginative directors at the helm, who knew how to work around any corporate dictums - whereas the 'team up' films have been directed by the franchise's least inspiring; Joss Whedon is a scriptwriter after all, he's not a good director whatsoever, and in fairness that horrible Age of Ultron scene isn't an entirely true barometer of the MCU's action scenes. They have their flaws (a lack of crunch & heft for one), but they're rarely that consistently bad.

Ropey CGI is part and parcel of the Marvel Universe at this stage, with such huge budgets it's hard to believe some of the stuff that gets released. There are times when I genuinely am wondering if the CGI has fully rendered or did they just say it's fine, ship it as is.

There is a no budget direct to VOD science fiction film out in a couple of months called Higher Power and based on the trailer, the CGI is far superior to most Marvel films, doubly so when you consider that the work was done for hundreds of millions dollars less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl9lXEXIqgk

I thought that Thor 3 was grand for what it is, it's like a mid 80s low budget sci-fi film and it felt a shame that it was so bland looking. Having bright colours is all well and good but if your world is still flat and lifeless it doesn't add much. Dr Strange, again sure it had some nice ideas and a couple of visual flourishes but it was greenscreen movie making. It's weird to go back and look at a film such as Blade and compare it to what Marvel is doing, Blade had a visual style of its own. It was dark but they used colour throughout in a striking and vibrant manner, the opening blood rave is a great example. I know that Marvel don't make films for me, I get that and it's a shame that their output is so generic as Blade shows what can be when a studio just lets a director do his thing. It's getting to the stage where Marvel films are so bland and uniform that I actually kind of miss the gaudy days of Batman & Robin.

restive

Die hard in a hurricane. Not bad could be worse inspite of the plot holes. Enjoyable silly plot.

ziggy

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