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Wanted is fortunate it was in a year with so many other horrible movies.

Posted by Will Hunting (aka kelly) Mar 13 '09, 15:46

Love Guru was worse, but not by much.

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Dude, that movie was SO entertaining - Gwaahjo Mar 13, 16:11
it was so horrible. -- nm - Callisto Mar 13, 16:05 26
- I suspect he was making it for the Russian audience too. - con_carne Mar 13, 16:08
- And I don't even get the mysogynistic complaint so many others had. it was just all-around bad :) -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 13, 16:06 24
  - the actual TPB is 1000 times worse, if that makes it any better :) -- nm - Beaker Mar 13, 16:13
  - Other than Jolie, the honorary male, name the woman who wasn't a heinous bitch. - David Mar 13, 16:10 5
    - There were so few chicks, this would ring a lot more true if it wasn't a cast like 300. - Will Hunting Mar 13, 16:19 1
      - 300 at least had a reason to be that way. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 16:21
    - aka two. -- nm - TFox Mar 13, 16:18 1
      - It was lifted straight from the comic like that. -- nm - David Mar 13, 16:45
    - I didn't find all that many characters who weren't heinous in nature. - Will Hunting Mar 13, 16:15
  - Well, there was the girlfriend, and the boss.... - TFox Mar 13, 16:07 16
    - misanthropic, without a doubt. But I felt the mysogyny. - Reagen Mar 13, 16:12 15
      - Are we really analyzing this movie *this* deeply? It was just a fun bit of entertainment. (spoils) - Fuzzy Mar 13, 16:17 10
        
        I'm not asking it to be Tolstoy, but I am asking for its characters not to be repellant. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 16:21 9
        
        FYI... My comment was not aimed specifically at you, I'm surprised at the level of character analysis being applied to this film by many people. - Fuzzy Mar 13, 16:28 8
        
        if that's all you want, there are plenty of Steven Seagal movies out there. - Reagen Mar 13, 16:33 4
        
        Sure. And there is a place for that kind of mindless fun sometimes. - Fuzzy Mar 13, 16:42 2
        
        those are essentially live-action cartoons. - Reagen Mar 13, 16:47 1
        
        Posts like this always make me want to hit somebody with a giant mallet or something. -- nm - mara Mar 13, 16:51
        
        Under Seige 1 and 2 ruled -- nm - Beaker Mar 13, 16:34
        
        You can't get away with throwing s**t up on the screen in a time of Wall-E, Dark Knight and Iron Man. - Will Hunting Mar 13, 16:30 2
        
        Except Terminator movies. -- nm - znufrii si Mar 13, 16:41
        
        I would argue that the characters in Wanted are just as developed as those in Iron Man. - Fuzzy Mar 13, 16:38
      - Redeemable nihilism? Heh. -- nm - con_carne Mar 13, 16:14 3
        
        see; Fight Club. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 16:15 2
        
        sounds more like Fight Club without Robert Paulson -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 16:16 1
        
        Or Harry Potter with guns. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 16:17
You're wrong. Wanted would have been a blockbuster had The Matrix never existed. - JaxSean Mar 13, 16:03 4
- This might work if Matrix hadn't been 9 years prior. - Will Hunting Mar 13, 16:05 2
  - *shrug* it was based on a comic book, wasn't it? - JaxSean Mar 13, 16:17 1
    - but that's the point - the "comic movies have no depth" cliche died years ago. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 16:35
- I think Will is saying it wanted to *be* the matrix, and copied some bad elements from it -- nm - con_carne Mar 13, 16:04
I suspect I'd enjoy it much more if I were, say, wasted -- nm - con_carne Mar 13, 15:53
it wants to be Fight Club soooo bad. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 15:53
it was entertaining for what it was, but pales in comparison to Taken in all respects -- nm - Beaker Mar 13, 15:47 1
- It was the worst thing about every action movie in the last twenty years - Will Hunting Mar 13, 15:56

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