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Author Topic: Elektra Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-13-2005 05:54 AM                     Once again, the best part of this movie was the Sin City trailer. Jennifer Garner is nice eye candy but even that is not enough to keep you in the auditorium [ 01-31-2005, 07:37 PM: Message edited by: Chris Hipp ]  |  IP: Logged David Yauch Expert Film Handler Posts: 206 From: Mesa, AZ, USA Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-15-2005 12:21 AM                     Right up there with Gigli. Absolute shit.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 01-15-2005 12:29 AM                    About as bad as Daredevil. I guess that is what happens when your break shit off of shit.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 01-15-2005 03:26 PM                        CINEMA: Century 20 Jordan Creek, West Des Moines, IA SHOW: 15-Jan-2005, 12:30pm AUDITORIUM: 13 PRESENTATION: Dolby Digital/THX PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: I don't think we had surrounds or LFE during the first two trailers...OH! There they are! RATING: 2 stars Guy in wheelchair rolls into the auditorium followed by two pre-teen boys who immediately abandon him for better seats. Guy in wheelchair shouts "JORDAN! Did you get any napkins?" Jordan: "No!" End of conversation, and nobody gets any napkins. RITE AID?!? The best product placement deal they could come up with for "Elektra" was store-branded products from RITE-AID?!? Our hero is a mixed-up assassin for hire. Wasn't she a billionaire before? Did her money die with her? Is the reason she doesn't want to talk "mutual funds" a sore point? She's supposed to kill her lovely neighbors with a freakishly huge bow and arrow. This would have been funny if the little girl was eating an apple. Anyway, she befriends them instead and fights a whole bunch of guys who poof into a dash of Curry powder upon being killed, so THEY won't kill them. I liked "Daredevil". This movie has absolutely nothing to do with Daredevil unless you're looking REALLY closely and REALLY stretching it...Elektra's purse is the color of Daredevil's suit. I THINK that was Elektra's purse... The movie has all the production values of a syndicated television series shot in Vancouver. I halfway expected Adrian Paul to make a cameo. Still, I didn't mind it. I won't be buying the DVD, but it was better than anything on television this afternoon.  |  IP: Logged John Anastasio Master Film Handler Posts: 325 From: Trenton, NJ, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 01-16-2005 07:11 AM                        Big pile of crap, seen at the biggest pile of crap theater chain I can think of. If the Destinta people ever buy real lenses and clean their projection ports, maybe the audience won't all head for their opthalmologists thinking they've got cataracts. It's really annoying watching film with a contrast ratio of about 3:1.  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-16-2005 10:19 AM                     You must mean the beautiful Jennifer Garner, Chris. I have the poster of her in that red outfit. Whew, I get chills from that. She can hurt me any day. BTW My review will go here Monday  |  IP: Logged Nicholas Roznovsky Expert Film Handler Posts: 156 From: College Station, TX, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-18-2005 02:59 PM                        Ugh, I have no one to blame but myself. I saw the trailer and still went to go see this film. Jennifer Garner is nice to look at, but no one's nice enough to make me want to see that movie again.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-18-2005 07:48 PM                     quote: Darryl Spicer I guess that is what happens when your break shit off of shit. ...not to mention the ugly brown streak smeared between the two that threatens to infect other films near 'em in the multiplex.  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-24-2005 11:14 PM                     Well, it sucked big donkey rectum. The only thing that kept me occupied was Jennifer Garner and the martial arts part, but man it sucked. Wonderful names for obvious villans...Tattoo, Typhoid, and Stone....DUH!!!  |  IP: Logged Don Cross Film Handler Posts: 97 From: Charleston, WV, USA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 01-28-2005 07:39 PM                     Two stars out of ten. On the upside; does the actress have anywhere to go but up??  |  IP: Logged

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