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Ivan, Jr. wrote:Just picked up my copy of 4GOT10. It's on sale for $7.99 DVD or $9.99 BluRay at Best Buy (in the US)
Travis wrote:That review just kind of seemed mean. It was accurate about the movie, but it just seemed mean-spirited.
Travis wrote:That review just kind of seemed mean. It was accurate about the movie, but it just seemed mean-spirited.
Video Rating: 4.5/5 3D Rating: NA
For its brief theatrical run and now on home video, the film is framed at 2.35:1 and is presented in 1080p using the AVC codec. Apart from some mottled darker scenes where black levels crush shadow detail, the visuals here are quite excellent with very good sharpness and color which appears solid and natural. Contrast has been consistently applied to the picture. The film has been divided into 8 chapters.
Audio Rating: 4/5
The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 sound mix uses Sid De La Cruz’s twangy background score to traverse the widest reaches of its soundstage. Dialogue has been well recorded and has been placed in the center channel. There are some split effects during shootouts, but the film’s low budget makes itself felt here as the channels don’t get the kind of explosive use that distinguishes the best action-oriented pictures from their less sophisticated siblings.
Special Features: 2/5
Behind the Scenes (18:03, HD): director Timothy Woodward Jr. discusses the basic plot of the movie and then spends a generous amount of time praising all of the stars in his cast. There is ample behind-the-scenes footage of the staging and filming taking place, and stars Dolph Lundgren and Danny Trejo offer a few soundbites of their own.
Deleted Scenes (2:53, HD): six brief scenes including an alternate ending may be watched separately or in montage.
savagesketch wrote:Just got finished watching this one. Sadly, it's another disappointment. Maybe not as bad as the Serafini trio of films (only a hair better), but it still has a misogynistic undertone and utilizes the same 'ol method of freezing the frame and flashing the characters' names as they walk on screen (which wore out its welcome years ago; lazy way to tell a story imho). As you can imagine, Dolph is barely in it. And when he does, the picture really doesn't get any more exciting. Its cliche after cliche, where the "name" stars show up, spout their line(s) of exposition dialogue, then leave. Clearly low budget and shot over the course of a weekend. On a side note, there's absolutely no reason for Vivica A. Fox to be in this... At all.
Jox wrote:savagesketch wrote:Just got finished watching this one. Sadly, it's another disappointment. Maybe not as bad as the Serafini trio of films (only a hair better), but it still has a misogynistic undertone and utilizes the same 'ol method of freezing the frame and flashing the characters' names as they walk on screen (which wore out its welcome years ago; lazy way to tell a story imho). As you can imagine, Dolph is barely in it. And when he does, the picture really doesn't get any more exciting. Its cliche after cliche, where the "name" stars show up, spout their line(s) of exposition dialogue, then leave. Clearly low budget and shot over the course of a weekend. On a side note, there's absolutely no reason for Vivica A. Fox to be in this... At all.
I just got the Blu-ray, watched it and I don't know what to make of it...
No, actually it pissed me off and ruined my quiet evening before a good night sleep!
The shame is that the bad takes over the good... and it makes me hate Tarantino and the likes even more for deluding immature writers and directors into thinking they can get away with making a film just by destructuring the timeline. And no, guys holding and shooting a gun don't make a "cool movie"!
These movies, even when they were bad, used to tell something (this doesn't, and I don't remember a Dolph film being only about "getting the money"). People don't seem to know how to tell real stories about their protagonists anymore, at least in these genre / action flicks.
It's like it doesn't tell anything really, there's no "journey", as the director puts it in the really bad featurette that comes with it (he tells the starting point of the movie three times in a row before commenting on something else, and the featurette is not even properly edited, mixed and finished, with some voice-over track coming on the main sound track, not mentioning it fills the time by showing you long clips of the movie you've just seen), and too many characters to follow the protagonist and yeah, it's quite offensive and aggressive (not only the protagonist seem to only be able to have sex by sodomy, but it has to come with again some ridiculous hard rock music, and don't even mention some of the worst shout-outs with the lamest bullet times and slow-mo ever committed. Vivica Fox also puts out the worst performance of a DA (or whatever her title in the police is) ever.
I see where Dolph was coming from, but I'm afraid it doesn't all comes through (and again not enough to get his teeth on despite what he saw), in some way these past few years I feel the more he tries the worse he's getting acting-wise sometimes.
On the other end, the DP and his Blackmagic camera are very good and manage to make it look better than it should, the music is more than decent (except during the night shoot out where it switches to another ridiculous rock-ish score) even though it's too on the nose in its choice of western spaghetti rip off like in KILL BILL, and the main title credits almost fooled me into thinking the film might be better more artsy than expected...
My advice: wait for a youtube compilation of Dolph's scenes (who by the way shows up way more than I expected given his mere two/three days shoot).
I hope Dolph doesn't get to do another movie with Woodward because the guy also seems to keep hiring the same people over and over...
savagesketch wrote: Unfortunately, you can't do justice to a generic cliche script under such a tight shooting schedule. No time for character development, character arc, etc.
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