Critically Evaluate the last movie you saw.

**Stehle** · 10-07-2014, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by Artemis

Originally Posted by Stehle

...(Really wanted Bill Paxton to say, "Game Over Man, GAME OVER!" like he did in the "Aliens" movie for those who viewed it way back when.)

I've read your review a few times Stehle and gone away going be nice, it was a good movie, be nice, it was a good movie and it's true it is a good move but a unique story.... honestly all the way through I was going this is Groundhog Day with big fuck off guns and armoured suits. The movie is a pastiche of a lot of other ideas and there is the all pervading feeling that you have seen it before.

There was also one massively gigantic plot hole at the start. The General thanks his advertising genius who has just given him thousands of new recruits by falsifying reports of him impersonating an officer and sending him to the front line as cannon fodder.... really....??????? Why exactly would he do that? embolism?

Yes, I do agree with many of your sentiments and I thank you for pointing them out. My critical evaluation was perhaps swayed by the entertainment value, (that I experienced) and the fact I hadn't heard Bill Paxton's statement from a previous movie, (running joke / catch phrase in my family since watching the "Aliens" movie). I am sorry I was so narrow minded in my evaluation and hope the members can excuse that narrow mindedness.

**megabyteme** · 10-07-2014, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Stehle

My critical evaluation was perhaps swayed by the entertainment value, (that I experienced)

I'm with you on movies receiving extra leeway for entertainment value. Idol and I have gone rounds over this. Of course, he's about as much fun as a bag of wet cement.

Unfortunately, Cruise's version of Groundhog Day was about as charming. I simply could not care for the characters, nor their plight. Their deaths were repeatedly unemotional.

**IdolEyes787** · 10-07-2014, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by megabyteme

Originally Posted by Stehle

My critical evaluation was perhaps swayed by the entertainment value, (that I experienced)

I'm with you on movies receiving extra leeway for entertainment value. Idol and I have gone rounds over this. Of course, he's about as much fun as a bag of wet cement.

You seemed to have missed the "critical " part of "critical evaluation". There's a big difference between liking something and seeing the true worth of something.If you don't believe me then just ask your children.

Anyway I suggest you start a thread entitled "movies that are sort of shite but I still like them anyway

" because I'm sure we all have seen more of those than we have the good ones.

**Stehle** · 10-08-2014, 12:19 AM

I "believe" that was meant as a dark sort of humor or comic relief than graduating into his reluctance to lose forever his as of yet unrequited lady love.

**megabyteme** · 10-08-2014, 01:15 AM

Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

MEMBERS that are sort of shite but I still like them anyway

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Idol

**MyExclusiveCondo** · 10-14-2014, 07:46 AM

I Watched Annabelle. Well it is definitely scary enough for the faint-hearted like me!

**IdolEyes787** · 10-14-2014, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by MyExclusiveCondo

I Watched Annabelle. Well it is definitely scary enough for the faint-hearted like me!

You say that you're ~~illiterate~~ fainthearted so I'm going to need you to quantify things to get a better understanding exactly how scary it was.

Did you pee your pants 6 or more times? 3-5 times ? Less than 3 times?You did pee yourself but that is a regular occurrence and had nothing to do with the movie?

As always,thanking you in advance because apparently that's a thing.