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post #1 of 28
1/19/12 at 12:34pm
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Saw this a week ago, it comes out on the 27th.

 

Wondering if anybody else has seen this and what their impression was. I kind of hated it, but then noticed on twitter everybody was saying good things about it, and worse the audience in my screening clapped at the end (*sigh*).

 

I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, but oh boy ... at least the concept seemed to have a bit of potential.


Edited by ElCapitanAmerica - 1/19/12 at 12:47pm
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post #2 of 28
1/19/12 at 12:41pm

There have been so many free screenings around town for this.  I haven't been interested in going to any one of them. 

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post #3 of 28
1/19/12 at 12:46pm

People ALWAYS clap at the end of free screenings.  They're happy they saw it first and for free.  Let's see what a paying crowd has to say. 

 

Cap, was it flat-out shitty, or was it one of those pandering crowd-pleasers in the vein of Unstoppable?

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post #4 of 28
1/19/12 at 12:49pm

This seems like the most contrived god damn heist in history and there have been some ridiculously contrived heists. I was saddened when I realized it was not two hours of Jake Sully either ruminating on a failed life or two hours of Jake Sully kicking ass while on a ledge.

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post #5 of 28
1/19/12 at 12:49pm

Well, people did clap after Transformers 3.  A paying audience.

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post #6 of 28
1/19/12 at 1:02pm

Why not call this the much better title Man On The Edge?

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post #7 of 28
1/19/12 at 1:04pm
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Why not call this the much better title Man On The Edge?


I have a friend who was ranting about this VERY thing during Christmas. RANTING.  Not because he gave a crap about the movie itself.  It was more about how lazy everything was.

 

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post #8 of 28
1/19/12 at 1:06pm
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I haven't seen unstoppable, sounds like I should keep it that way.

 

The movie is just dumb. Worthington's character is framed, and the whole conspiracy behind him being framed is rather simple and uninteresting. Ed Harris' character frames cop Worthington for having stolen a diamond, so he can collect the insurance money AND keep the diamond. You also don't really see this, so I didn't really care much about it.

 

Worthington has a plan to exonerate himself, this is the potentially interesting part of the story. The plan consists of a "heist", and this has to be one of the stupidest heist movies I've seen. It doesn't help that the two characters executing this heist are pretty annoying, I'll call out Genesis Rodrigez in particular here.

 

In one of the more ridiculous parts of the movie, her character has to change into catwoman like skintight clothes, so of course we get a pandering shot of this beautiful lady in her underwear;

 

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The banter between her and Jamie Bell will have you rolling your eyes. They also make her some type of burglar hobbyist and semi-professional, and have her spouting little insults in Spanish here and there that don't seem to make much sense.

 

Meanwhile Worthington's character is hanging out on the ledge for a good chunk of the movie, not doing much of anything that is interesting while talking to Elizabeth Banks. I thought that the ledge part would have been shorter, but it seemed like he was there for more than half of the movie. I guess the movie is true to the title though.

 

Ed Harris here is weird, his head also looks disproportionate in this movie. I hope he's not sick.

 

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Worthington really needs a haircut.

 

The crowd I went with didn't help, I had a couple of dunces behind me that I think its the first time they went to a movie. They were amused by every predictable plot point and corny joke in the movie.

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post #9 of 28
1/19/12 at 1:08pm
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Why not call this the much better title Man On The Edge?


I would gladly pay to see this several times if it was Sam Worthington vs A Bear. Much like how I will probably see The Grey that weekend because of Liam Neeson vs (what I assume to be European) Wolves.

 

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post #10 of 28
1/19/12 at 1:11pm
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In one of the more ridiculous parts of the movie, her character has to change into catwoman like skintight clothes, so of course we get a pandering shot of this beautiful lady in her underwear;

 

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I had a conversation with a friend about the trailer for this and other movies that will throw a split-second shot of ladies in skimpy clothing to toss in the sex-appeal element necessary of ALL MARKETING.  I find it funny.  I assume it's supposed to work subliminally, but the pandering is so obvious.  I remember thinking the same for Columbiana. 

 

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post #11 of 28
1/19/12 at 1:12pm
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I would gladly pay to see this several times if it was Sam Worthington vs A Bear. Much like how I will probably see The Grey that weekend because of Liam Neeson vs (what I assume to be European) Wolves.

 


From what I'm hearing about The Grey, you shouldn't trust the marketing in regards to wolf-fighting.  Beware.

 

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post #12 of 28
1/19/12 at 1:13pm
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Colombiana was horrible too, but I guess a more entertaining film than this one.

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post #13 of 28
1/19/12 at 1:20pm
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I was saddened when I realized it was not two hours of Jake Sully either ruminating on a failed life or two hours of Jake Sully kicking ass while on a ledge.


I was saddened when I realized this wasn't two hours of Worthington standing on a ledge while some guy keeps trying to send him over and a rather territorial and stubborn pigeon is constantly pecking at his ankle like in Cat's Eye.

 

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post #14 of 28
1/19/12 at 3:35pm
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Ed Harris here is weird, his head also looks disproportionate in this movie. I hope he's not sick.

 

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The day after the screening I asked somebody who was there if they thought Harris looked sick. He looked pretty gaunt.

 

Seriously though, shit film. Just absolute dogshit.

 

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post #15 of 28
1/19/12 at 3:56pm
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People ALWAYS clap at the end of free screenings.  They're happy they saw it first and for free.  Let's see what a paying crowd has to say. 


I went to an advance screening of War of the Worlds and the crowd booed.  There are exceptions!  But the freebie folks tend to be a rowdy bunch.

 

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post #16 of 28
1/19/12 at 4:46pm
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This screening was bad, I have never been so disgusted in a movie theater. For some reason I could smell all the food they were buying, I guess the mostly morbidly obese crowd decided to have a bigger dinner because the movie was free. It smelled like a state fair.

 

Guy at the end was asking how the movie was, I kind of felt bad saying it sucked since everybody was going "YEAH!".

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post #17 of 28
1/19/12 at 7:13pm

 

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From what I'm hearing about The Grey, you shouldn't trust the marketing in regards to wolf-fighting.  Beware.

Don't be mislead, though the Grey is about surviving the elements and the situation it's largely all about the wolves. There's more than one sequence of wolf "action"

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post #18 of 28
1/19/12 at 7:16pm

Saw the trailer for this last night along with some Amanda Seyfried vehicle about a lost sister or something - they both looked fucking horrible.

 

It's good tho, I need to be reminded that even in a year of so many films I'm looking forward to, there's still gonna be some god awful dreck shat onto cinema screens as well.

 

Thank god Joel Edgertons stepping up - maybe he can steal Sam Worthingtons increasingly dull career right out from under him.

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post #19 of 28
1/20/12 at 12:14am

Joel Edgerton is Sam Worthington's older brother who beat the shit out of him throughout childhood and put his porn stash under lock and key so he couldn't get to it. Between those two Edgerton is fucking Chet from Weird Science and Worthington is wimpy-ass Ilan-Michael Smith.

 

Anyway, fuck that movie and the Seyfried one. Laughed at the fact that Michael Paré showed up in that trailer.

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post #20 of 28
1/25/12 at 12:06pm

Got free passes to a screening for this tomorrow via GoFoBo, so be on the lookout. I wasn't planning on seeing it otherwise but free is free.

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post #21 of 28
1/25/12 at 12:44pm
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Ed Harris here is weird, his head also looks disproportionate in this movie. I hope he's not sick.

 

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It's an illusion of the tight cut of the suit and the white hair around the very top. Basic drawing/proportions trick is to get the rough vertical measurement of his head then see how many times it fits into the length of the body. He counts 6, which is normal IINM. He's an older gentleman though. No escaping that.

 

"Worthington really needs a haircut."

 

Holy shit, what is with that fucking Neo Mullet? Part of me hopes it'll catch on for the laffs.

 

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post #22 of 28
1/27/12 at 8:15am

This really wasn't that bad. Maybe it was my lack of expectations coupled with it being free. Obviously, it's ridiculous (the plausibility that they knew the exact layout of the vault and how to break in with such ease while being completely normal people, for one). I found it entertaining enough, but it still qualifies as rental material.

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post #23 of 28
1/29/12 at 9:28pm
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In one of the more ridiculous parts of the movie, her character has to change into catwoman like skintight clothes, so of course we get a pandering shot of this beautiful lady in her underwear;

 

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Pandering sure, I mean her outfit in the wwhole damn movie basically has her tits popping out. But you talk about it like it's a bad thing. It is most certainly not.
 

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This really wasn't that bad. Maybe it was my lack of expectations coupled with it being free. Obviously, it's ridiculous (the plausibility that they knew the exact layout of the vault and how to break in with such ease while being completely normal people, for one). I found it entertaining enough, but it still qualifies as rental material.


Didn't see it for free but yeah, pretty much agree here. A total lazy sunday matinee type movie.

 

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post #24 of 28
1/31/12 at 9:45am

I saw this last night and outside of Tits McGee (Tits McGee-a? She's fiery and not much else), I don't remember much about it. I had a good time, I guess. But outside of desperately trying to be Inside Man there's nothing memorable about it (save for the girl), of course. And I like Sam Worthington, wish he would be in some better stuff.

 

I would have loved if this were almost the same movie, done Rear Window style. We just focus on Sam Worthington the entire time while the heist is going down, getting bits and pieces of what's happening through the ear piece.

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post #25 of 28
1/31/12 at 9:51am

How was Jamie Bell?  That was the only real draw for me.

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post #26 of 28
1/31/12 at 12:41pm

Okay. Not enough of a presence to recommend a theatrical visit.

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post #27 of 28
2/3/12 at 8:00pm

 

With out question this movie is a cookie cutter type film that deserves no recognition.The only reason to see this movie is,if you were going to commit suicide and wanted another motive to do so. During this movie you will feel compelled to  jump off a the  ledge, i strongly suggest stay away from this one.

http://mooviepedia.com/review/man-ledge/

 

This is one review i found on the web that sums it up.

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post #28 of 28
2/3/12 at 9:31pm

 

I'm waiting for the bevy of DTV sequels with names like MAN ON A LEDGE 2: BEYOND THE LEDGE and MAN ON A LEDGE 3: SNAKES ON A LEDGE.

 

 

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