Nobody likes Face/Off

Face/Off is great, this Facebook guy is wrong and should not be taken seriously.

I haven't seen it in something like 20 years. But I remember it being pretty cool. I've been excited to watch it again Film & 40s style.

I've honestly never even seen it. Might get around to it at some point I guess.

I really liked it I remember renting it at blockbuster on VHS yes I'm old.

On the John Woo -scale I'd put it above Hard-Boiled but below From Riches to Rags.

So I love it quite a bit.

I remember trying to convince my father to rent it at blockbusters, he didnt like John Travolta but I told him Nikolas Cage was the main protagonist which is technically true ;p

I was pretty young at the time it came out. (I would've been 8 in 1998 but i'm not sure if that's when I watched it) I like that it wasnt the violence that put my father off, but John Travolta.

Anyway, yeah it's a good movie that only gets better with age. I've never heard of Faceoff the TV show.

It's dumb.

Is that bad?

@zombievac: If you're trying to get some complete "This number is an exact representation of mathematically how good this movie is" then yeah it's no good, but I think it's a better system than you think. Critics are all unique individuals so if a vast majority of them tend to at least think a movie is good, then that movie is probably pretty damn good. There are extremely few 90%+ rated movies that I haven't at least seen the value in when I watched them.

I haven't seen it since I was a child and I remember next to nothing about it, but the sheer amount of excitement and reverence Dan shows for this movie makes me want to watch it again.

Critics and movie goers like it a lot.

What is this thread

Face/Off is a bad movie. I enjoyed watching Face/Off. Maybe not as religiously as professional wresting's own Dan Ryckert, but admittedly it was his enthusiasm that got me to watch the movie in the first place.

Edit: This movie scored what on Rotten Tomatoes? I'm not one to take RT as scripture, but seeing a 92%, 96% if you only include "top critics" is just a little shocking! Like, it's kind of making me think "did I miss something? Are my opinions bad? Am I bad?"

I thought it was cool when I was a kid, but thought it was just alright as an adult. I don't know, man. I just didn't think it was as memorable, or interesting as most. This site is really the only place I can think of, that has any reverence for it.

If I want dumb fun, then I go with 'Big Trouble In Little China'. Also I have never understood the love for Nic Cage, but that's just me.

It's a great movie, critics love it, has somewhat of a cult following, and pretty sure an entry level requirement for this site is to like face off so most people here like it too.

I haven't really enjoyed any of his work after Hard Target, one of the most underrated American action movies ever.

Sure, it works, given the caveats of how simple it is. The problem, IMO, is similar to that of Metacritic though - they subjectively (and almost randomly it seems, in some cases) say the review was "positive" or "negative", yet any written review without a "score" attached is going to mention both, depending on the film, and often is neither definitely positive or definitely negative overall.

So, it's just not that useful to me... UNLESS there is no other good indicator for how good a film might be, because I find that I have less free time than money or anything else, so I want to spend my time on the best experiences I can within reason - for me, just liking something an average amount and finding it "decent" is generally not what I'm looking for.

It's like games - there are PLENTY of them I'd play and enjoy just fine if no other options existed. But since they almost always do these days, I try to suss out the best of the best and work my way through those first... and find that I no longer have time for anything less these days - even though I have no children to take care of, etc - so I have more free time than many people my age do pretty often! There is so much out there now for TV, films, and games that I can easily get by just playing/watching the best of a given genre or area of interest. I find that I generally have enough time to play the "8/10" or higher stuff for the most part, it seems - and yet I have to figure that out via my own research, RT doesn't cut it for me since there are plenty of films that get all mostly positive reviews that are still very mediocre overall.

The fuck? It's the opposite. Everytime I see face off on the guide I get excited, then I realize it's the stupid TV show and I get pissed.

Great movie i don't care what anybody says.

I bet your facebook friend is a lot of fun at parties.

I think I did too. I just watched it for the first time as an adult. Good action movie. Laughably over the top and ridiculous, but it knows what it is and has a *gasp* good story.