i just saw Dragonball Evolution

[Necronomitr0n]

tl;dr

[rtil]

1. stupid gimmick.

2. dumb gags.

6. the stupidest ending imaginable.

8. shitty camera work

just like crank 1 the movie isn't supposed to be taken seriously , and for good reason. these same things were in crank 1. it's an absolutely ridiculous premise and there's no way he could have survived from the ending in the first crank.

[Daveb0t]

to be honest I never saw either, but it seemed like crank 2's trailer seemed to emphasize all of these things and as such I guessed right!

Plus a bunch of people sitting near me gabbering on about the action one day in the library helped push that thought.

And also:
8. shitty camera work. the first movie's camera work was stable enough to make it possible to keep up with the action, but still shaky and visceral. in crank 2 the camera is shaking all over the place and you cant tell what the fuck is going on

Is a big problem I see in action movies all the fucking time nowadays.

[billy]

1. stupid gimmick.

2. dumb gags.

6. the stupidest ending imaginable.

8. shitty camera work

just like crank 1 the movie isn't supposed to be taken seriously , and for good reason. these same things were in crank 1. it's an absolutely ridiculous premise and there's no way he could have survived from the ending in the first crank.

no you don't understand, i liked the first one

the second one is all garbage with no energy, and the camera work is way shittier, the editing tricks lazier and less creative

[rtil]

no i do understand that you liked the first one, but all those elements were in the first movie, which was poorly made

[billy]

i understand that you think the first movie was poorly made, but please provide some backup/examples to your claims, because i don't know why you think so.

i thought the gags in the first one were cute with the energy and flow, while the 2nd one tried to jam pack as many stupid gags as possible into each scene. i mean yeah the first one had a couple of dumb gags like where he says the taxi driver is al qaeda, but in this movie we have about 10 minutes of screen time devoted to the most annoying asian woman possible shouting in the most stereotypical accent possible "ME LOVE U, U WAN SUCKY SUCKY"

in the first movie, the scenes were all very brisk, never staying in the same place for long enough to get boring. crank 2 makes sticking a shotgun up someone's ass boring. the problem with the second movie is that it has horrible pacing compared to the first. the first moves from scene to scene at a fast clip with the main character going in pretty much a straight line to get back at the people who poisoned him. All stunts are directly related to him being able to continue living. In the second movie he's just randomly grabbing electrical appliances and shocking himself like its a video game powerup. All the scenes in crank 2 last way too long, because even the action scenes are boring due to the impossibility of figuring out whats going on in most scenes. with a bit more liberal cutting, the movie could probably have been improved considerably, but then it would be about 50 minutes long.

i did not think the camera work in crank 1 was shitty at all. there were a lot of very cool camera tricks in the first movie, the directors rollerskating around with the cameras in many scenes. I found the result was unique and not very shaky. The action was framed pretty well in most scenes.

the plot was unrealistic and unbelievable in both movies, of course, but that isn't the point or a problem. anyways, the first movie is moderately plausible (from a movie perspective) until the last 10 minutes, which makes it easier to swallow.

[rtil]

i don't really give a shit, i was just saying the movie was poorly made. and it's true - they were on a low budget and they tried a lot of high budget stuff. like the falling scene in the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnM64N-JH7M <- that is amateur film-making

[billy]

the shots at 1:28 and 1:31 were done without blue screens

ps metropolis circuit more like big whup

[mishkamash]

lmao pwnt

[billy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYngWc_4-1k...feature=related

these 6 minutes are better than any amount of crank 2

[rtil]

i'm sure crank 2 was bad, i wasn't planning on seeing it either way

[texas]

i love terribly made movies so i think ill like crank 2  

[billy]

good scene from crank 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XjPMgRfLlc...feature=related

a shitty scene from crank 2 taken from some douche's cellphone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmKSjwUJeFc

[Fuzz]

I'm going to go see crank 2 wednesday...

[Necronomitr0n]

I'm going to go see crank 2 wednesday...

[texas]

is cool story bro some stupid 4chan fad because it seems like it is

[rtil]

if you guys want to watch a good movie about electrically charged people, watch electric dragon 90.000v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nHfldl5FzQ

[Mad Meat]

I WILL NEVER WATCH THAT MOVIE

[Mad Meat]

but i won't F*cking wait for that movie

NO ONE SHOULD WAIT!!!!@!

[psi43]

so we can all agree that crank 1 and 2 were fucking horrible and billy is a stupid faggot?

good