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Author Topic: National Security Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 01-19-2003 04:07 PM                     Reading Cinemas, Manville NJ, 1/18, 4:50 PM late matinee. Hall #3, attendance approx. 40. What happens when you give Police Academy a little Blue Streak? You get National Security -- 90 minutes of pure pleasure. Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn should have been put in charge of "Homeland Security". That way no terrorists would ever have gotten into the USA. Let the snobs fawn all over Chicago. THIS is what a movie ought to be! Hall #3 is the largest hall in Manville: ground section flat, middle section stadium, rear section stadium. From my place in the rear I could notice the image was out of focus on the left and sharp on the right. Sound (Dolby Digital) tended to lack clarity when a song came up against clatter.  |  IP: Logged John Carpenter Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 01-19-2003 06:54 PM                     sure didn't do very well for us in the box office this weekend - and it was targeting an audience that normally packs us (college age)... as for me I think the best parts were in the trailer.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-19-2003 08:32 PM                     quote: Let the snobs fawn all over Chicago. THIS is what a movie ought to be! LOL, Charles! Leave it to you to sneak in ANOTHER jab at Chicago (a movie you have YET to admit seeing)in a review of a totally unrelated movie, although I guess since its MIRAMAX, it MUST be bad, right? Come on, Charles, admit it. Did you apply for a job there and get rejected?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-19-2003 08:49 PM                        National Security didn't really appeal to me either. I think it's more targeted towards high school aged kids (or college students that should be in high school). [ 01-19-2003, 09:50 PM: Message edited by: Daryl C. W. O'Shea ]  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-19-2003 09:03 PM                        Charles, why not just tell us the reason(s) why you despise Miramax? I mean, you have to admit you seem to be more than a little obsessed with bashing the company. We're all friends here -- you can talk to us.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-19-2003 09:13 PM                     Feel free to start a new thread in Yak on the reasons to dislike Miramax if anyone likes, but let's please keep this to movie reviews only.  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-19-2003 09:30 PM                     Well i put a serious jab at chicago in my review. Renee Zelwgger was merely competent in the movie. Not a single song was classic the way they were sung in this movie. All That Jazz comes close to a classic showcase tune but Zeta Jones's version while good is not great enough to compensate having to endure the warbling by Renee and Gere in the other tunes. We are talking 3 above average songs in an entire movie filled with song after song. While I dont doubt there are people who genuinely like it, I can't believe the enormous praise the movie has been getting. I have not seen National Security. But Martin Lawrence would not be able to get away with the flimsiness in script and silly posing masquerading as acting we saw in chicago. Latifah is getting all this praise now and i felt that this was not as good as her Set It Off performance. Reilly was better in Magnolia and his many other movies. Golden Globes is making this movie as some sort of classic.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-19-2003 09:46 PM                     quote: "let's please keep this to movie reviews only" Ahem, this thread is to discuss National Security, NOT Chicago. All further comments about any movie other than National Security on this thread will be deleted. There is already a thread on Chicago. Reviews belong there.  |  IP: Logged

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