Posted: 4/17/2010 9:12:37 PM EDT
Simply question, hopefully a complex answer...
As a cop, how do you feel about the movie Training Day? |
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Never saw it and while certain members of the cast might draw me in (Harris Yulin and Cliff Curtis), the honest truth is that I would have no interest in seeing it. Why?
It's too overweighted in the big names in the cast for the plot involved. A movie about narcotics might draw me in ........ if I'm not too busy being overwhelmed by the actors and their fame......and this would do it. I have no dislike for Mr. Washington........but I have yet to see what is special about him as an actor..........and without that, the movie drops pretty far, pretty quick. It is better to have a leading cast of nobodys than to have a leading cast of unimpressibles. Of course, most police movies, most police shows I avoid because what they do makes me absolutely cringe. ______________________________________________ ("Blast off: one-eight-oh. Two hundred: Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Two ten: U.S. Government certified. Two twenty: lunar trajectory, junk of the month club, sirloin steak. Two thirty: Grade A poison. Absolute dynamite. Eighty-nine percent pure junk. Best I've ever seen. If the rest is like this, you'll be dealing on this load for two years."––Chemist analyzing shipment, (w,stte), "The French Connection") |
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Pretty good movie; didn't like Ethen Hawk's role. Not as good a movie as Narc, or The Departed. Narc is one of my alltime favorites as is The Departed. I think Training Day an OK movie. Very "HollyWood"..........but to a certain degree, I think some of the things in the movie are fairly accurate (dirty cops, gang activity). |
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It was a Hollywood cop fantasy flick. It's how they want the public to believe the Police operate. It was entertaining, but unrealistic. I never once saw him do ANY paperwork! I liked it, as entertainment. But as far as realism, it's about as real as Bad Boys II. The sad thing is, some morons watch movies like Training Day and view it as reality. It fuels anti-cop sentiments. BTW, when I watch these types of movies, I can't help but think "damn, I'd hate to write that report" during the big action scenes. 
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