You ever watch a movie and then realize that there's nothing really interesting to say about it.
Or perhaps you watch a film and then a few days later you completely forgot about it.
Well that's what happened to me with all these movies.
Gladiator: Well Gladiator is easily the best movie of this list. Good acting, a solid script, really good cinematography and just an overall sense of atmosphere that delivers on that 50s sword and sandal epic story but in a modern more intense Style.
It's one of those films that was uber popular when it came out and then kind of faded into the background.
But is still immensely responsible for a lot of modern movie filmmaking.
Everything from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, all the way up to those modern Marvel comic films.
I still hold firm that Gladiator is the pinnacle modern film that all modern filmography is heavily inspired by.
Patriot Games:
So Gladiator is a really good average movie that I would love to watch again if given the opportunity. Whereas Patriot Games is a decent movie that didn't grab me at all.
Everything about it is technically fine. It has decent cinematography. Harrison Ford's acting is good. It's script is okay.
It's corny but acceptable for these kind of political thriller films.
There's just nothing about it that really catches my interest.
And the over-the-top Irish accents!
Sweet Lord above. It's like listening to act Lucky Charms leprechaun sometimes.
And therein lies another problem.
The Irish are supposed to be the antagonist.
A group of radical people fighting against the British Imperial government.
Now they're a fringe group.
They kill indiscriminately and they have possible connections to mysterious North African Mercenaries. But I still feel like we're fighting The Underdogs here.
It's just hard to want to support Harrison Ford and his super militia of CIA, FBI, British special intelligence buddies and their satellite tracking system of Seal Team fighters.
Who go around mercifully slaughtering anybody they ''think'' might be in association with this Irish separatist movement.
It's like playing one of those modern Call of Duty games where you're the big bad U.S. Marine strapped to the nines with Hyper Advanced military equipment. Fighting against a bunch of locals with soviet-era AK-47s* and shotguns with duct tape flashlights on them.
It just doesn't feel right. But whatever it doesn't mean the Patriot Games is a bad movie. It's just not that captivating.
It kind of makes me reconsider my stance on ''The sum of all fears''.
That movie has a lot of the same problems where it's just kind of middle-of-the-road. But it was a heck of a lot more interesting than this one.
God I hope hunt for the Red October is still good.
I loved that movie.
* I always got rid of my Advanced American Rifle in these games for an AK when given the opportunity.
There was just something more fun about fighting with those.
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