6 Underground (Netflix)

cmac2009

Sleepy wrote: »

The product placement was frequent and it's as dumb as a box or rocks alright but I'll admit to enjoying this with a takeaway pizza during a hungover evening on the couch.

It's disposable, fun, action. Like a Bond film with more graphic deaths.

Oof. What an insult to the bond franchise!

mathie

Dades wrote: »

I'm just glad he's finally ditched the robots.

I like to think they ditched him

Stone Deaf 4evr

Watched it friday,

Its a shame, I wanted to like it more, as some of the action is incredibly well done - the two standouts being the parkour sequence with the falling steel and the boat assault, but by jaysus did it do its best to drag it out.

The whole backstory for each team member were all excessively long, and could easily have been just as well served in a mini montage, not to mention the various threads that kinda go nowhere.

Also, I'm not sure when we got to the point in car chases where you have lads coming out through windscreens / getting knocked off motorcycles and rolled over, but Its possibly just a shade too graphic for my tastes.

Brief_Lives

I lasted 34 minutes.... so bad... so so bad.....

the only good thing was the sound out of the Alfa Romeo Giulias engine....

mikhail

It's a Michael Bay movie. Knowing that before I watched it, I was neither surprised nor disappointed. I was moderately entertained. It's essentially Mission Impossible with a brain injury and more explosions.

Stone Deaf 4evr

mikhail wrote: »

It's a Michael Bay movie. Knowing that before I watched it, I was neither surprised nor disappointed. I was moderately entertained. It's essentially Mission Impossible with a brain injury and more explosions.

got a genuine laugh from that, well done

pixelburp

If you ever wondered what a Michael Bay movie would look like utterly unencumbered from such things like a semblance of creative oversight, or even some trace of empathy, Netflix has provided the answer. Completely obnoxious, bewildering chaos with every Bay cliché ramped up to dizzying levels, product placement n all. Not even entertaining or inventive chaos, just oversaturated trash.

I genuinely think Bay has a resting contempt for 'ordinary' human beings, suspecting it but this film finally confirmed my theory: his characters always angry, awful people even Bay himself seemed to hate; here though he took out his misanthropy on everyone. Bystanders killed in leering slow motion, bodies and gore sprayed like his signature explosion sparks. Even a scene during a humanitarian crisis was treated with cynical backchat and kinda sleazy slaughter. Ryan Reynolds' familiar big-mouthed snark only made the mean spiritedness more pronounced.

Between this and The Irishman, I'm wondering if the blank cheques Netflix is writing for these auteurs should come with just a few more caveats.

mikhail

pixelburp wrote: »

Even a scene during a humanitarian crisis was treated with cynical backchat and kinda sleazy slaughter.

I mostly agree, except for that one scene. It was meant to be a St Paul falling off his donkey moment - it's a very abrupt, clumsy character arc from asshole to ... well, different grade of asshole. I found it jarringly callous (and I'm as jaded as the next guy) until I realized it was the whole point. I can admire it for being emotionally effective, even as I completely understand your reaction to it.

pixelburp

mikhail wrote: »

I mostly agree, except for that one scene. It was meant to be a St Paul falling off his donkey moment - it's a very abrupt, clumsy character arc from asshole to ... well, different grade of asshole. I found it jarringly callous (and I'm as jaded as the next guy) until I realized it was the whole point. I can admire it for being emotionally effective, even as I completely understand your reaction to it.

Naw, I do get the intention of the moment from the point of view of the script, but not sure I agree it was emotionally effective. It might have worked better if the preceding chase in Italy didn't feature so many innocent bystanders killed in slow motion, while our "heroes" traded apologetic quips over killing them, or screamed at each other in trademark Bay fashion.

It has been said, but Bay really does shoot every scene like it needs to be EPIC, with literally no quiet moments. Weirdly, if for once he had kept the camera steady, and shot the aftermath of the attack as an unflinching scene of horror, it might have worked. Instead he filmed it like he always does, the cinematic equivalent of ALL CAPS SCREAMING.

BDI

Knocked it off with about twenty minutes left. Just couldn’t be bothered caring how they ended it. Only watched it that long because I had spent ages scrolling for something to watch and didn’t want to go looking again.

1/10 maybe 2/10 if you are that way inclined and fancy the Deadpool fella. Complete paint by numbers stuff.

ted1

BDI wrote: »

Knocked it off with about twenty minutes left.

Me too, such a ****e ...drink coke .. film, it wasn’t for.....eat a piazza ..... the remote being on the other side of the .... drink captain Morgan’s...., room I’d turned it off sooner.

* this post carries product placement

ted1

pixelburp wrote: »

It has been said, but Bay really does shoot every scene like it needs to be EPIC, with literally no quiet moments.

The effects were awful, in the 20 minutes I watched cars were blowing up slightly before impacts

pixelburp

ted1 wrote: »

The effects were awful, in the 20 minutes I watched cars were blowing up slightly before impacts

You turned off too early, as at the start during the car chase, a vegetable stand blew up in a shower of flame and sparks; Bay is beyond parody at this stage, he's kinda bullet proof really.

Martin Tyler AgueroooOO

Watched this drunk with a load of crap food last night and loved every single stupid minute of it. The greatest $150 million ever used to make a film. I will never watch it sober or again.

yourdeadwright

turned it off after 10 minutes I thought it was awful

byte

ted1 wrote: »

Me too, such a ****e ...drink coke .. film, it wasn’t for.....eat a piazza ..... the remote being on the other side of the .... drink captain Morgan’s...., room I’d turned it off sooner.

* this post carries product placement

Hahaha. It was probably more entertaining to see all the product placement than the actual storyline! It was the sort of crap I would expect to see in a low budget movie with Steven Segal or somebody.

I need a Lavazza after that.

shamrock55

yourdeadwright wrote: »

turned it off after 10 minutes I thought it was awful

I lasted 20,an awful pile of ****e altogether

cena

The whole back and fourth was very annoying. It would have been much better

Awful film imo, its like everyone took one breath at the start of the film, spoke their lines a 100 miles a hour and the exhaled at the end, my eyes and brain were wrecked from looking at it, total nausea.

Also every time i see Ryan Reynolds i see or hear Deadpool, he cant escape it lol

JohnnyFlash

Great hangover movie.

Watched it to the end. Didn't care how it finished. Made no sense

B.A._Baracus

Lasted 30 minutes had to switch it off.

pixelburp

Just to make y'all a little more depressed, according to Netflix's own stats (and so open to interpretation on how they count "watched"), this was their most popular movie, second being Adam Sandler's latest comedy "Murder Mystery".

Sigh.

Dodge

I genuinely enjoyed it. I guessed what it was supposed to be (a completely ridiculously OTT ‘early 90s’ style action film) and I got what I wanted

It’s not art, but for 90 minutes of brain dead fun, it did it’s job

Zak Flaps

Dades wrote: »

I'm just glad he's finally ditched the robots.

I'm just hoping he ditches the movies.

sonic85

If this was supposed to supposed to be a stab at mimicking 80s or 90s action flicks then they failed miserably. In fact it's an insult. I'd rather watch the likes of Commando or True Lies a hundred times in a loop than watch this a second time.

Mr Freeze

The dutch angles during the sex scenes were really annoying. Also only watched this as I got a new TV and someone said its a great example of Dobly Vision, I dunno, I turned it off before half way.

Its truely atrocious. Not just the plot or lack off but the way its made/edited. Its painful to watch.

Agent Coulson

Netflix said today 83 million member households watched it in the first 4 weeks.

I wonder how many would have went to see it in the cinema and what kind of box office it would have done by comparison.

speedboatchase

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Netflix said today 83 million member households watched it in the first 4 weeks.

I wonder how many would have went to see it in the cinema and what kind of box office it would have done by comparison.

Worth pointing that Netflix rather sneakily adjusted what counts as a viewer having "watched" something on their service.

Previously, a watch counted as someone watching something for 70 mins. Yesterday they changed that to 2 mins.

So 83 million people watched at least 2 mins of Six Underground.

Need a Username

It was a fun two hours to help me ignore the world.

The end credits are unusually short.