Fair.
Okay, I’ll be the odd ball. I’ll watch it. Hell, if ZakGirl wants to, I’ll see it in the theater. I love Dwayne Johnson in silly roles and Chris Evans in a comedic role is a bonus. It’ll be silly and stupid, but it won’t be the worst 2 hours I’ve ever spent.
Plus, it’s NOT a sequel or a reboot of an existing franchise and I feel like I should support those. Let’s let Hollywood take some chances again - otherwise we’re stuck with “Despicable Me 19” vs. “Inside Out - Menopause” vs, “Bad Boys 9” and then we’ll complain about how all we see is sequels.
Christmas themed action movies are having a moment. I don’t think Christmas turns off action movie fans.
We get just had “Violent Night” and “Silent Night” last year. “Fatman” just a few years before that.
John McClane would like a word with all those whipper-snappers…
I’ve only seen the trailers for those, but they don’t look nearly as stupid. I could be wrong, of course.
You r e a l l y need to see Violent Night. A lot of standard Christmas themes turned up to eleven (at least). It’ll be part of your holiday rotation for sure.
Cheesier than the annual output of Wisconsin, but could be fun.
That one wasnt that bad.
Yep.
It looks like someone had some leftover battle footage from MCU movies, unused script pages from Air Force One, and an unfilmed adaptation of The Kidnapping of the American President II and found a way to mash them together. Sort of like putting chicken, cod liver oil, and pomegranate in a blender. I’m sure there is someone that would like it.
I think I’d rather watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and I would not like to watch SCCtM.
People who liked Violent Night from a couple of years ago.
Again, I’ve only seen the trailer for violent night, but it looked a lot better than this. I’ll check it out. David Harbour can sell a lot of things.
I did see Violent Night, and it works thanks to how gleefully R-rated it is, from very bad language, to Santa dismantling a platoon of mercs using a sledgehammer and a sharpened candy cane, to showing us what would happen if you walked into Home Alone-style traps in real life. I don’t see much of that subversiveness in this new movie.
Saw this. A perfectly adequate way to spend a couple of hours.
Watched most of the credits, favorite was “D Johnson’s barber”. Thought there might be a stinger, but after the music did the fifth “swelling crescendo to mark the end” I gave up.
As many other people have pointed out, I think someone was watching the first few minutes of Scrooged (1988) and said to themselves, “Hey! That’s not a bad idea!”