21 users responded in this post

Subscribe to this post comment rss or trackback url
mygif
highlyverbal said on July 3rd, 2013 at 4:33 am

Now that is a pretty good burn.

ReplyReply
mygif
Farwell3d said on July 3rd, 2013 at 4:36 am

Except that Showgirls is blatantly obviously a parody…

ReplyReply
mygif

For some reason, I’d thought this was a Jeremy Renner vehicle. Huh.

ReplyReply
mygif

Hey! This movie wasn’t that bad! They even figured out how to have a car chase in the middle of a hostage situation.

ReplyReply
mygif
Jim Caldwell said on July 3rd, 2013 at 7:45 am

Why does Channing Tatum deserve better?

ReplyReply
mygif
MonkeyWithTypewriter said on July 3rd, 2013 at 8:18 am

Because Charming Potato isn’t that bad an actor. But I guess SOMEONE had to do this film.

ReplyReply
mygif

With all the allusions to “Bert Macklin saves Obama” I thought this whole thing was supposed to be a loving send-up of the genre, like Hot Fuzz, but I guess not.

ReplyReply
mygif

The previews made this look pretty parodical to me. Maybe I just don’t have very high standards for a John McClane/Barack Obama buddy comedy, which is what this seems to me to be.

ReplyReply
mygif
Blueblaze88 said on July 3rd, 2013 at 1:18 pm

I’m with Jim – Channing Tatum is The current Shia LaBeouf… a not-especially charming, not praticularly talented actor whose only redeeming quality seems to be that Hollywood keeps insisting he’s The Next Big Thing. I don’t have anything against him, but I’ve seen better actors in small town community theaters, and he certainly doesn’t “deserve” anything.

Edit – his other redeeming quality is his stage name. Which is deliciously hilarious.

ReplyReply
mygif

Offscreen, The Beef tends to come across as a pretentious weirdo. C-Tates tends to come across as a decent, likeable guy who is well aware of his limitations as an actor and has a sense of humour.

Also, he has a Secret Handshake with the kid who played his daughter in White House Down, and after watching that (the handshake, that is, not the film) I find it hard to hold any of his past roles against him.

ReplyReply
mygif

I’m with Jim – Channing Tatum is The current Shia LaBeouf… a not-especially charming, not praticularly talented actor whose only redeeming quality seems to be that Hollywood keeps insisting he’s The Next Big Thing.

This was a fair sentiment prior to Charming Potato’s turns in 21 Jump Street, Side Effects and Magic Mike, as he was just plain good in all of those movies. And he’s good in White House Down too, channeling early-period John McClane better than Bruce Willis does nowadays.

ReplyReply
mygif
William Kendall said on July 3rd, 2013 at 6:58 pm

I’m with Jim Caldwell. Tatum just stares at you with that dull look, and you know the only thing in that empty skull of his are squirrels running around in all that free space.

ReplyReply
mygif
Jack-Pumpkinhead said on July 3rd, 2013 at 10:55 pm

Well, Tatum is the ancestor of CALCULON, greatest Robot Actor of the 31st Century!

ReplyReply
mygif
Ian Austin said on July 5th, 2013 at 1:47 am

Tatum is a much better actor than Shia, because Tatum has no illusions about who he is or what he does.

ReplyReply
mygif

Shia LeBouf kinda strikes me as what Will Weaton would be if someone had cast Will Weaton as the star of both Transformers and Indiana Jones and it all went to his head.

Meanwhile, Channing Tatum will always have a special place in my girlfriends *ahem* heart after his performance in Magic Mike.

This is how I keep the two separate in my mind.

ReplyReply
mygif
VersasoVantare said on July 5th, 2013 at 12:28 pm

Dang, I thought Channing Tatum was a character from the Simpsons.

ReplyReply
mygif

You might be thinking of Drederick Tatum? (I probably didn’t spell that right. Is there a Simpsons wiki where I can check? Who am I kidding, of course there is.)

This guy. Oh, hey, I think I did spell it right!

ReplyReply
mygif

I’m surprised on all the Tatum hate on this site (not really, many years on the internet have made me accustomed to it, I just don’t understand it because I’ve seen a number of great performances from him, even pre- jump street…same with shia lebouf, sometimes in the same movie).

All that said, what didn’t work about this movie for you?

ReplyReply
mygif
RobotKeaton said on July 7th, 2013 at 7:16 pm

Haven’t seen the movie or even a trailer, but White House Down is a great name for a parody. Or a punk band.

ReplyReply
mygif
Quietus said on July 7th, 2013 at 9:56 pm

A.V. Club gave this a good review compared to Olympus Has Fallen, supposedly because the latter took itself too seriously and this one is more like dumb fun. Thoughts?

ReplyReply
mygif

Tatum hatum.

Had to be said.

ReplyReply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Please Note: Comment moderation may be active so there is no need to resubmit your comments