I have been waiting for this one for 2 years. Going Friday @ 4:20 using the old fart rate! Opening day. I made sure I was off duty that night.
It was a long 14-month shoot but I’m so glad the picture is finally coming to theaters. I sure hope you enjoy it! ~Huck
The first one sucked, so I don't expect this one to be any better. A vacuous film in an era of vacuous culture. The only thing the original was good for was using as a surround sound demo - it was one of the first movies that had a really good quality soundtrack with discrete content in the rear channels. Otherwise, the worst of '80s dreck.
I am sitting on the fence over this one. On the plus side, the early reviews are extremely positive. On the other side, I'm with @Jack_Straw on the original. It is bad. I was a thirteen year old boy watching it in the theater, and if it bored me to tears then, it will never work for me. A more recent partial rewatch annoyed me even more. Should I stay or should I go? Shalom, y'all! L. Bangs
Well, I wouldn't say it was among the worst movies of the 80s, but I did fall asleep watching it on two occasions. I never could get through the whole thing without dozing. The first time, my girlfriend at the time was angry at me because we were watching at one of here friends' places, and the friend's boyfriend loved the movie so it made me look like a tool, in her eyes. I tried watching at again several years later and still fell asleep and never went back to it since. Considering how it was described as an "high-level action" film, it was surprisingly devoid of excitement. I would actually bet that the sequel is better than the original, based on my recollections.
Because it's the new 800 lb gorilla, there's virtually nothing else opening to use our 3 AMC A*List tickets on, so we'll probably see it. I never saw the original at the time, but I did catch it when they brought it back shortly after the theaters reopened and there was nothing to put on the screens. It didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense because in modern warfare, "fighter jets" never get closer than a couple of miles from each other. All this stuff of whooshing around each other, practically wing tip to wing tip, only applies to air shows. You don't use machine guns when you have air-to-air missiles.
