That was hilariously awful. Poor Clive Owen. Anyone who thinks this movie is tongue and cheek needs to watch the directors' other movies and interviews with him. He is crazy untalented and borderline retarded. This movie is bad in a completely unintentional way. Although I see why people would think it's not, it's hard to not think it's dumb on purpose. It's trying to be "cool" action movie. I've seen the whole movie, the action is poorly staged crap nothing like the animation. It's a fun train wreck if you like disasters though.

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Plot Schmlot. I'll take 2 hours of that trailer please.

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Thanks a lot , the girl in the tv series to which you borrowed your nickname was hopefully much more witty and interesting to listen in her voice-overs than your snobbish ranting . If you ask me who seems the more complexed and retarded between you and the director of this movie ... Well you guessed who I am going to choose . But thanks a lot in any case to make some of the retarded teens which posts on IMDB forums look like Roger Erbert while Iam reading your prose . You must be glad to be the Joan Rivers of the movie critics I suppose .

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Steph, your post did to the English language what Shoot Em Up did to my brain. Congrats.

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That was awesome! I wasn't sure about this film after seeing the trailer, but now I can't wait for Friday. I haven't laughed that hard in a looooooong time.

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Movie snob anyone?

Sex and violence rolled into one, with intentional comic book "cool".

If you can't dig that, you my man have lost your testicles in a vat of "War of warcraft" sessions. Get a life Veron.

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I for one thought the clip looked great..a movie you can turn your brain off to, and enjoy a visually stimulating thrill ride...You want Ben-Hur, go rent it, but don't go to a film called "Shoot em' up" and expect that. Was there a "cheese" factor. Yes. But whats wrong with a little cheese? People expect every single film made to be spectacular in every facet, at the expense of the original vision...sometimes..the writer, wrote the character to say stupid lines..I've had plenty of friends, who are no longer my friends because they said stupid things all the time, they are out there. Get off your high horses and enjoy the damned movie for what it is.

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Listen, John. As a women you know that you can love the movie all you want before you see it but that doesn't mean it's good. You can also kid yourself that the cheese is intentional, having unfunny one liners, etc. Giamatti has it the worst in the movie, everyone of his lines bombs hard. Watch the director's other movies first. It's like watching sub-poor man's Kevin Smith dialog directed by a third grader. He's terrible. I'm not a film snob either, my favorite movie is Disorderlies.

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Tastes are what they are..Again, all you've said is "I don't like the directors style" but this is an art form, and there are no lines between what is good and what isn't. It's all about perception. If you think your version of what is good, is any better than anyones else's, then you ARE a film snob.

I wont claim to be any kind of expert of this directors work. But I know this particular clip reminds me a lot of Robert Rodriguez's work and Frank Miller..both of which received the exact same criticisms. And in both cases, I argued this is a distinct style, which isn't possible, without comic book dialog. You may not like this style, don't go watch the movie. But the rest of us seem to "get it", based on what I read, you are in the minority in your opinion. This clip has almost no dialog in it, and you can tell it's meant to look the way it looks..Accidental bad is Transformers.

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At least we can agree Transformers was bad. Sin City is actually one of my favorite movies and comparing Shoot Em Up to it is really not fair. Davis rips off everyone and everything, and he does it poorly in my opinion.

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My daughter and I are both college-educated women and we would pay to watch Clive Owen eat a sandwich! Excellent, intelligent actor who is a MAN!!! Let him have a laugh...I'll be there!

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Bitchy possible IMDB users aside, I thought this movie was great. I don't think it was an unintentional cheese. I saw this as a parody on just about every other action movie with sex and guns. If you are one to take yourself seriously, don't go see a movie like this.

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I second post number 10, I would also pay to watch Clive Owen eat a sandwich. Or in this case a carrot. I'm pretty sure this movie was supposed to be a spoof on gun-happy action movies, how else do you explain the strong gun control message that dominates the second half of the movie.

Someone explain to me how that sex scene where he kills like 12 people manages to be both funny and hot. Oh right, because it's Clive Owen.

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VeronicaOfMars, how has getting the sand out of your vagina been going? I'm sure you think you know what you're talking about when it comes to movies but I seriously think you should just stick to cooking dinner for your man...if you have one.

Anyways, Transformers was a great movie. Awesome CGI and a pretty good plot. Not the greatest movie ever but it has made a spot to my top 20 favorite movies of all time.

As for Shoot 'Em Up, I honestly think that it was a good movie. Sure the dialogue was tacky and the plot lacked severely, but come on, what did you honestly expect from a movie called "Shoot 'Em Up"?

The movie was supposed to be like that. It was supposed to be tacky, stupid and funny at the same time. It's just something to relax to after a hard day's work. I'm sorry the movie didn't consist of the main character being a woman working for some shitty magazine company and then falling in love with some douchebag.

All I'm saying is know what you are talking about before you open up those flaps of skin that spew shit all over the place. Alright?

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can anyone help me to find the name of the SONG playing in the background???

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