Mar. 22 movie: Reign of Fire. Oh. My. God. That was the suckiest suck that ever sucked. Christian Bale, looking scarily pumped up, leads a ragtag post-apocalyptic community living in Northumberland and hiding from dragons, who now rule the world for some bizarre reason. Then Matthew McConaughey shows up, he's some kind of military guy, but really he's a steroid-inflated dickhead. He announces "I lead. You follow," then gets all of his own men and almost every adult in Bale's community killed. But since he's stronger, faster and better than everyone else, it's OK for him to be a jingoistic hotheaded bully with no respect for anyone but his own crew, whose decisions make their problems ten times worse. It was like American foreign policy with dragons. And we wonder why the rest of the world hates us!
As Georg said, we hope that Reign of Fire is the worst movie we see all year. McConaughey's is the only character in the entire movie with a personality, and his personality is revolting. Also, Dr. Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was in it, but he only has one or two lines and then he dies.
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i actually remember kind of liking this movie-- i saw it in theaters when it was released-- but i don't remember why!
Really? I'd love to know what you liked about it. I was just appalled by the idea that there are studio people out there who think we want to see a movie about an American "hero" who doesn't feel or care about anyone else, tells the British they disgust him, forces them to go along with his combat mission against their will, which mission gets nearly everyone killed. But it's okay because he was right all along! Ugh. I can't even think of anything to say except, ugh.
i wish i could remember. i may have to watch it again to figure it out!
I think it woud be hilarious if my write-up actually encouraged someone to see Reign of Fire, much less to see it *again.*
It was horrid, IMHO. And I *paid* to see it. Ouch. The special effects weren't even that great...