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[Donald mac Ronald]

I think this is the last action movie smith attempted that wasn't his mediocre bad boys franchise.

It attempted to portray him as the ultimate badass that only himself could bring him down.

Instead it was by the numbers crap we've seen a million times. Younger soldier replacing the old, tired but one last job in them pro.

The opening scene with the impossible sniper shot was to show how much of a bad Boyz Smiths character is. Then when they introduce the kid, he's driving around on a bike trying to whack his older self.

Looks like smith used his own likeness to cuck himself.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

The movie is fine, but watching it in dolby cinema at 120fps was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen; it was looking through a window. Too bad that version is now gone forever, home media really needs an update in that regard.

 

[jason10mm]

It's one of those films that sounded good on paper but Smith doesn't really have the star power for that kinda concept. It's something that mid 90's Schwarzeneggar or Stallone could have pulled off as it relies on a lot of audience love for the action star's history and then seeing a younger verion of it. But Will never really had all the action film backstopping necessary.

 

[The_hunter]

NeoSmith

 

[The Cockatrice]

that wasn't his mediocre bad boys franchise.

 

[Stitch]

The movie is fine, but watching it in dolby cinema at 120fps was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen; it was looking through a window. Too bad that version is now gone forever, home media really needs an update in that regard.

The UHD is still nice. 60 FPS and the sharpest picture quality I've ever seen. It's almost too real and feels a bit like Trumotion was enabled.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

The UHD is still nice. 60 FPS and the sharpest picture quality I've ever seen. It's almost too real and feels a bit like Trumotion was enabled.

you'd be blown away by the 120fps version then, I saw it both in 60fps IMAX and 120fps dolby cinema, the difference was huge.

 

[bender]

The movie is fine, but watching it in dolby cinema at 120fps was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen; it was looking through a window. Too bad that version is now gone forever, home media really needs an update in that regard.

 

[jason10mm]

you'd be blown away by the 120fps version then, I saw it both in 60fps IMAX and 120fps dolby cinema, the difference was huge.

If that high frame rate was anything like the Hobbit (at 48 fps, iirc) or the typical "soap opera effect" from tv hfr extrapolation, then I don't want it. That smooth motion just makes all the sets look fake, which they usually are. It's good for sports and maybe nature documentaries but it totally robs cinema of the illusion we've been trained on for over a century.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

120fps is nothing like 48fps obviously.

 

[AJUMP23]

Finally we have entered the matrix.

CGI smith all day.

 

[T8SC]

that wasn't his mediocre bad boys franchise.

 

[scoobidoo112]

That train sequence in IMAX at 120fps was something else! Shame the rest of it was so forgettable.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[Sticks]

Netflix slop

 

[GymWolf]

Dude tried to pull a van-damme but he is nowhere as cool.

 

[poodaddy]

I love that there are folks in this thread pretending Bad Boys is a good film franchise.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

in IMAX at 120fps

Where did you get to see this? Afaik all IMAX 3D showings of this movie were 60fps.

 

[scoobidoo112]

Where did you get to see this? Afaik all IMAX 3D showings of this movie were 60fps.

Here in the Netherlands, the Pathe IMAX theater at Arena Amsterdam advertised it being 120fps.

This was shortly after they had upgraded their projector to dual laser.

 

[AJUMP23]

I think we need a poll about something vs the smith kids.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Here in the Netherlands, the Pathe IMAX theater at Arena Amsterdam advertised it being 120fps.

This was shortly after they had upgraded their projector to dual laser.

I think you are probably misremembering as there were no IMAX showings in 120fps; if this chain of yours advertised 120fps it was probably for dolby cinema
Gemini Man IMAX 3D = 4K60
Gemini Man DC 3D = 2K120HDR

Edit:
I just checked the chain you mentioned via the wayback machine and it doesn't mention 120fps IMAX, only Dolby Cinema:

 

[scoobidoo112]

I think you are probably misremembering as there were no IMAX showings in 120fps; if this chain of yours advertised 120fps it was probably for dolby cinema
Gemini Man IMAX 3D = 4K60
Gemini Man DC 3D = 2K120HDR

Edit:
I just checked the chain you mentioned via the wayback machine and it doesn't mention 120fps IMAX, only Dolby Cinema:

Could be that I'm misremembering, but I'm pretty sure they made a big deal at that specific theater that they were showing it at 120fps.

I can't see the details in my account, only that it was an IMAX showing. Could have been a 2D showing though.

It sure looked smooth as hell though.

EDIT: Thinking about it some more, I seem to remember there being 2D showings at 120FPS, and 3D showings at 60FPS. Not 100% sure though.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

EDIT: Thinking about it some more, I seem to remember there being 2D showings at 120FPS, and 3D showings at 60FPS. Not 100% sure though.

Probably not as all 2D showings were 24fps ;P

 

[scoobidoo112]

Probably not as all 2D showings were 24fps ;P

Well then I don't know. Been too long.

All I can tell you for sure is I saw it in IMAX, and I'm like 99% sure I saw it at 120fps, as that's literally all I can remember about the movie.

I remember it being a big deal that I was living close to like the only theater in my country that was showing it at high fps, and that they had recently upgraded their IMAX projectors.

Avatar 2 was also amazing in IMAX 3D, but I think that was at 48fps.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

I remember it being a big deal that I was living close to like the only theater in my country that was showing it at high fps, and that they had recently upgraded their IMAX projectors.

The upgrade probably meant for 3D 4k60, as regular IMAX projectors topped out at 3D 2k60, which was the main IMAX format paramount distributed it in; they only distributed 120fps for DC 3D.

 

[GymWolf]

I love that there are folks in this thread pretending Bad Boys is a good film franchise.

There is a high chance that you may be a closeted gay.

 

[poodaddy]

There is a high chance that you may be a closeted gay.

If liking terrible films makes you straight, then my wrist dangles like an apple on a breezy day.

Bad Boys, Transformers, Fast and the Furious, Avatar, all absolutely God awful movies. Truly, remarkably terrible films, to the extent that its surprising.

 

[GymWolf]

If liking terrible films makes you straight, then my wrist dangles like an apple on a breezy day.

Bad Boys, Transformers, Fast and the Furious, Avatar, all absolutely God awful movies. Truly, remarkably terrible films, to the extent that its surprising.

Nothing that deep, just some internal gaf shanenigans.

 

[poodaddy]

Nothing that deep, just some internal gaf shanenigans.