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Last 40 minutes go full cartoon

posted 2 years ago by xhonzi (133)
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I thought the movie had established a certain level of heightened reality (as most do) in the first hour that I could deal with. There's treasure out there somewhere, and everybody wants it. Everyone is kinda bad, even the good guys are back stabbing thieves. The bad guy has hired some security people, and at least one thief of his own. There's a pair of artifacts and a journal which are the keys to unlocking the mystery, both literally and figuratively.

Okay, got it. It's real life, but more treasurey/thievey. Cool.

Starting somewhere about Chloe's double/triplecross and Braddock's killing Banderas... And then culminating with Braddock getting a flying pirate ship hilariously dropped on her head- it just went (and not in a good way) full cartoon.

Or, possibly... Full videogame?

I finished the first 3 games and played a good chunk of the 4th.

I remember the ShangriLa ending of the 3rd one best, but I think it's fairly representative of the game endings all getting a little more fantastical at the end. For sure, it's built into the genre. Act 1 is home, Act 2 is the big world, and what secrets it's been keeping, and Act 3 is... ShangriLa. Whether it's Indiana Jones, National Treasure, Tomb Raider, or Uncharted, they all follow this pattern to degrees.

But, and maybe I'm just too 40, flying galleons? And not just flying them, but swinging them around, crashing them into each other, etc?

That would be half cartoon, but somehow the bad guys also got more ridiculous and became end game bosses?

And the protagonists take 500 year old swords to fight dozens of gun toting thugs? Drake puts on his iconic holsters, fires two wild shots, and that's enough guns for one movie, thanks... We've got swords. Which wouldn't be too bad, I guess, were the games not 40% gunplay.

I think I've already forgotten other over the top things at the end.

I was enjoying the tone and reality of the first hour. I was totally taken out of it by the shift in both in the last third. But I think my 12 year old loved it.

[–] PaladinNJ (20373) 2 years ago

It really was just a live action cartoon.

[–] jekporkins (1928) 2 years ago

Yeah, I was with it for the most part, but once they got on that plane any sense of reality went out the damn window. Drake is floating on a car going terminal velocity and the girl tells him to follow her (neither are holding onto the car, mind you and at that speed he wouldn't be able to hear her) and they sky-surf to a crate, thought he clearly had never jumped out of an airplane before. Then he pulls the chute while barely grasping anything and they float down. At the very least his arm would have been ripped from the crate, even if he had a firm grasp. It wasn't like he tied himself to it.

Once they got to the ships I gave up and just went with it because it just got more ludicrous.

I took my 15-year old daughter and she's a huge Holland crusher. She naturally thought it was amazing all the way through. I realized I was not the target audience.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

You paid to see this? That makes you the target audience.

[–] jekporkins (1928) 2 years ago

I went to see it because my daughter wanted to go. She was the target audience.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16305) 2 years ago

The flying galleons bit looked like the best part of the movie.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Well I don't think it could have gotten any more ridiculous than the flying galleons... 1) they have wooden boat 500 years old that have magically managed to avoid rotting or being eaten by insects....2) They have magic helicopters that can lift more weight than any helicopter in recorded history by a factor of 7... 3) they can fall from a height of hundreds of feet and not break apart on impact when they hit the ocean... 4) they have magic anchors that when dropped from the ship grab hold of the ocean floor and won't allow anyone to pull them back up... The ships were beyond laughable... but don't worry if you make it that far in the movie you will have already given up on reality an accepted that you are watching a Bugs Bunny type cartoon where reality no longer exists... Where men can fall leap from crate to crate while the crates are being pulled hundreds of miles per hour behind a plane.

[–] chilone (17319) 2 years ago

Leaping FORWARD, no less. It defied the laws of physics shamelessly.

... I still enjoyed it. 😜

[–] maximmm (3090) 2 years ago

This is what happens when they take a video game and turn it into a live-action film without adding the necessary bits of realism to it to make it at least half believable.

[–] acidraindrop (3055) 2 years ago

If I hate holland, love wahlberg, really liked Fast 9, would I enjoy this movie?

[–] howgamer (3666) 2 years ago

I agree completely. I was enjoying this much more than I expected up until the lady turns on them, it was a fun adventure film. Then it become a way over-the-top cgi fest full of bad action and expected twists and turns.

[–] Iffy762 (1331) 2 years ago

I think the action and what they discover can be fantastical, as that is the whole point of the movie IMO. I mean, if they stuck to real history and what real people can do with physics then I think it removes the fun. (Leaping forward on the plane's loose cargo did look much too CGI, though; I think they could have toned it down so the movement of the pieces looked less like someone playing with their army figurines). However I did think it was a bit strange that these ships, which were supposed to be priceless historical artifacts, were bashed against each other for flimsy (no pun intended) reasons. That is, the internal logic of the movie didn't quite add up. But the outcome was that the ships and most of the treasure were lost, which means the outcome brings the story around to what we have in the real world which is no ships and no treasure. And in general I feel like that kind of movie needs to stick to the trope that you can have all sorts of fantastical discoveries and supernatural things happen during the movie, but there needs to be no proof of anything supernatural and the actual artifacts need to conform to what we have in the real world. I think anytime a show breaks this convention it gets very confusing for the audience and feels unfinished.

[–] Strazdas (2328) 2 years ago

The final boss fight in Uncharted 2 was with sword fights, and since they tried to basically do uncharted 2 but worse with the movie it had to be with swords.