Jason: I want to point out right off the bat
that, unlike Shawn, I am not a Nicolas Cage hater. I've liked his
work in The Rock, Con Air, Gone in 60 Seconds, Bringing Out the Dead
and a number of mid-to-late 90s films.
But the man's star has fallen hard.
Stolen is proof of that. Maybe it's because he's flat broke and has
to take every film that comes his way, but Cage phones it in here. He
can be a fun and quirky actor, but he's just going through the
motions in Stolen. He's boring, just like the movie.
There's technically nothing wrong with
Stolen. It's well made and, essentially well written. But the action
is nothing better than a TV movie, save for one great car-jump trick
inside a parking garage. Otherwise it's boring foot and car chases,
plus a lame fistfight or two. Yawn. Been there, done that.
It didn't take long for Cage to fall
from award winner to Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
Stolen is just the latest entry in his descent. Here's hoping The
Expendables 3 wakes him up. A Bad from me.
Shawn: Nick Cage. Again. I’ve seen this same guy in a
lot of films lately. And it’s just that. It isn’t the character in ANY
of these movies. It’s Nicolas Cage.
He
gets movies where they’re like: “Be yourself, but pretending you are
cooler." But he fails. And I have a hard time with the watch, cause I’m
too busy loathing him. Get over myself? OK.
The
movie was a decent idea, not like we haven’t seen it before, done over
and over by better AND worse actors. This was a mediocre film that was
made Ugly to me by the cast. Can’t watch it again. Would pee on it,
but it's on my computer, and I need that. So . . . That’s where I stand on
that.
Jason: Dredd is fucking awesome! For the
record, this film went into production before the much more hyped --
and deservedly so -- The Raid. But the only similarities are its
cops-trapped-in-a-building-by-drug-dealers theme. The Raid is a hard
core martial arts/action film. Dredd is a Judge Dredd movie that
happens to take place inside a building. Deal with it.
Karl Urban embodies Dredd perfectly.
He's a sci-fi Clint Eastwood who looks like the comic version of
Dredd, right down to the sour look on his face throughout. I want
a dozen Dredd movie just because Urban is that good. Too bad this
bombed and it'll never happen.
Action? Bloody and R-rated. This movie
doesn't fuck around one bit with the violence. And there's plenty of
profanity too. The world needs more hard-R action movies. Hopefully
Dredd and the recent announcement of an R-rate Die Hard movie is the
beginning of the tide turning.
Fuck yeah, this movie rates a Good. The
Raid is still the best action movie I've seen in years, but Dredd is
hands down the most bad ass of comic book movies to come down the
pike in a long time.
Shawn: Sometimes a movie comes along that, when the final credits roll, you just sit there and reflect. One word: bravo. Two more: thank you.
I
liked this movie as much as I liked Robocop when I first saw that. This movie is adjusted for the time travel between then and now. It’s
sad that it got ZERO attention when it made Stallone’s Judge Dredd look like
a kids cartoon. No attention. I
guess the bastards in Hollow wood…Yes, hollow…are zombifying the masses
with such shit as Twilight. My HAND is a better love story than Twilight.
Too bad.
This was a Good, and for the first time in Basement Reviews history, left me longing for a rating a step up from a Good.
Thank you.
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