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Originally Posted by Artemis
Nice film school answer,Leonard Maltin but I was rather hoping for a more human answer on why that particular movie and not some equally worthy one speaks to your soul.
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Originally Posted by Artemis
In life as in Art few things disappoint as much as predictability.Quote:
Originally Posted by Demonictoyz
Also "oldies" are hardly ever great.
PS ffs.
Art is from the south of the equator, which if my American history classes are correct, is a "fiery pit of torture and brimstone". Essentially, it is where bad people go for being non-white or having too many natural resources. :fear:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
True story.I just happened to watch a bit of House Hunters International featuring Wellington and the thought struck me that when reading people's posts I always have a Canadian dialect artificially attached to everyone.:unsure:
I am attempting now to be more accurate in my imagining of everybody and I have to say that Art sure doesn't sound near as smart with that funny accent.
You on the other hand still sound fat.
A bit more nasally though.
Rart is basically the same but now ends a lot of sentences with Ah so.
War of the Worlds 1953
No wonder you are so surly. That would be enough to drive anyone over the edge. :OQuote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
BTW, you probably shouldn't try to come across as superio[u]r AND admit to watching House Hunters in the same post. :no:
I was being cereal.Don't you do the same thing and just have everyone speak in your case in Northeastern American?
I just find that weird or telling or something.
I also,strangely,don't attach images to most people except those who have provided pictures.
I'm pretty sure this is unhealthy on some social or psychological level.
As for trying to be superior,mostly that is the furthest thing from my mind the thing I'm least trying to do.
I get frustrated by people's seeming lack of caring and wish for better, and this is how I deal with it, that's all.
Btw I've also been know in times of boredom to watch Survivor and The Amazing Race and even,God help me,America's Got Talent :frusty:.
If you mean, "Try to sound out the big words", then yes. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Honestly, I tend to read online the way I have always done so with novels. That is, each individual takes on (usual) characteristics or tone based on what I have learned about them. From what I understand from prior conversations like this, your way is FAR more common- people just do not realize they are doing it.
Now I'm off to factor into my head-speech-calculator the knowledge of your watching of our ('Merkin) lowest common denominator programming.
OK, got it. Your new voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF-C...amp;feature=kp
Never did a film course in my life :snooty:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Believe it or not that is actually my human answer, I like a believable interplay between characters, and a plot driven story that builds on the interactions between the characters. Recent films that also fall into this category and are memorable films for me are Training Day, Michael Clayton and Gosford Park, but for me personally the tension created and the climactic scenes of The Bedford Incident are more memorable.
Anything else, Torquemada?
At least I don't go around saying 'eh' all the time..... :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Groundhog day.
If you want to see a FAR less poignant, less interesting, but filled with CGI violence that the storyline makes you realize doesn't matter version, see Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise playing action hero Bill Murray caught up in a Starship Troopers world. :yup:Quote:
Originally Posted by ziggyjuarez
I seemed to have missed the poignant part of Groundhog Day.
It was when the Groundhog drove the car wasn't it?
Hey,Mug you should watch The Raid 2 because there's a scene where people are brutally killed with a two hammers so obviously that makes it twice as good as Oldboy.
Made me :lol::lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Now you nod your head and I'll hit it with a hammer. http://i.imgur.com/PCdLB98.gif?1
PS- It is impossible for a movie to be twice as good as Oldboy without Mads Mikkelsen being in it.
Harsh, man. Bill Paxton is great in whatever he's in.Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
If I was caught in some kind of causal loop I'll take Emily Blunt over Andie Mcdowell any day(s).
Bill Paxton? :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by piercersethHarsh, man. Bill Paxton is great in whatever he's in.Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
If I was caught in some kind of causal loop I'll take Emily Blunt over Andie Mcdowell any day(s).
You need to ventilate the room when painting/gluing/meth labing.....
He meant Sara Paxton.
New fume hood is on back order. Cooking my crank with a foot bellows and a box fan in the interim.Quote:
Originally Posted by Artemis
Now you got me thinking of a not-so-casual loop involving both Blunt and McDowell. :naughty:Quote:
Originally Posted by piercerseth
EDIT- Well, McDowell from the time of Groundhog Day. Now she's 56...
Shawshank Redemption also used to be my favourite movie for years. I had no idea at that time that it was such a popular movie. I hardly ever heard anyone talk about it in the 90's and it surprised me to find it at number 1 on the IMDB lists.
No excuses, Idol won't stand by and let that be anyone's favorite. :no: And don't even think about liking Hanibal...:fear:Quote:
Originally Posted by asdasd21
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Originally Posted by megabytemeNo excuses, Idol won't stand by and let that be anyone's favorite. :no: And don't even think about liking Hanibal...:fear:Quote:
Originally Posted by asdasd21
Still a great movie but I lost some of the interest I had in that movie once i discovered that my opinion was shared by so many (IMDB number 1)
Probably a name for this "condition".
The 90's was a great decade for movies.
It's Hannibal,wank and forgive me for not enjoying staring into the Pit like you do.Quote:
Originally Posted by megabytemeNo excuses, Idol won't stand by and let that be anyone's favorite. :no: And don't even think about liking Hanibal...:fear:Quote:
Originally Posted by asdasd21
As for Shawshank and it's initial popularity,when first released it was a bit of a bomb assumingly because it made the mistake of being marketed to adults who unlike children tend to not make relative garbage like Maleficent among the top grossing movies of all time.No I take that back, Shawshank isn't a bad film,it just irks me that it's so ridiculously overrated.
If a single solitary(prison humour) person can stand here and make a case why SR is considered better than either Papillon or Cool Hand Luke, both of which are about a gazillion times better as both prison dramas and showcases for indomitable spirit then I shall never again voice a word of protest toward you lemmings.
Also Dustin Hoffman/Steve McQueen ,Paul Newman/George Kennedy vs Tim Robbins/Morgan Freeman.:mellow:
I watched Edge of Tomorrow yesterday which probably makes sense temporally and while there is a scrap of a good story there it's largely defeated by truly horrible directing and what I term the "War is heck" effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
In the War is heck effect,all the violence is so bloodless,both literally and figuratively that you never get the true sense that there are any real costs involved.Hence you never really care what happens to anyone.
I will also note that the armored suits made no sense as the strength of infantry is it's mobility.If you want indiscriminate blow stuff up superiority that's what you have missiles and bombs and planes and ships with big guns for.
I also had the thought that seriously what kind of human being like the ones who inhabit Hollywood now don't even try to make the best movie they can and throw away logic and plot and emotion just for the sake of appealing to a bunch of mouth breathing teens?
If I made movies and was ever happy to settle for that I'm fairly sure I'd do the right thing and off myself.
Forget pathos and that nonsense, Steve jumped a Triumph over a goddamn barbed wire fence. If the insurers hadn't been pussies he'd have legit done it himself.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Tim Robbins climbed through a pipe covered in water and chocolate pudding mix.
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Don't get me started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlywcuw-1TU&feature=kp
I even found that during the ending stretch I could not care as I'd already seen him wiped out ad nauseam. They kinda made their point that he'd been 'sploded A LOT, then they talked about ALL the times he'd been demised that we didn't see. Personally, I thought the Nicholas Cage movie Next (2007) handled the same material better.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
The power suits would have been a bit more effective if they had worked as a shield as well as a sword. However, giving the lifeless, drab, background characters who are less worthy of our care as they have NO value to the general story protection against death would be self-defeating.
BTW, the Canadian Army told you your benefit was mobility because they didn't want to pay for cool weapons. Or protection.
If you could make cool weapons entirely from trees,we would rule the World I tell you,the World!!!!!
Anyway 100,000 highly armed mechs with guns facing an enemy who is destined to get within your lines is going to get you this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01jUksh1EcY
Those high tech suits would only realistically work if the army lined up like they did in Wellington's day.
That and there was no realistic growth to Cruise's character unlike Murray's in Groundhog Day.One minute he's the biggest coward on 7 continents and the next he's a more caring version of Rambo with no reasoning for the transformation except,because.:mellow:
All in all I think it would have been better if the movie was actually more about him becoming a badass like the trailers mislead you to believe.Also the movie somehow managed to drag and yet still not have much going on.
Cruise was motivated by inescapable boredom. As watchers of the film, I believe we can both relate to what gave him the desire to not be stuck in the film anymore.
Also, this :facepalm:
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
113 min - Action | Sci-Fi - 6 June 2014 (USA)
Your rating:
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Ratings: 8.2/10 from 67,082 users Metascore: 71/100
Reviews: 313 user | 395 critic | 43 from Metacritic.com
IMDB ratings have veered into joke territory .It's so bad now that people are regularly commenting on it in the reviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
Contrary to appearances here I'm barely on the internet so I don't rightly know what meatacritic is except it sounds nerdish adn ghey but it seems to be the most accurate as it alone isn't (and I'm sorry or beating the dead equine) spoolging over Shawshank Redemption.Quote:
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Has IMDb been hacked?26 May 2014 | by fergus-17 (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews
I'm struggling to understand how this got such good reviews. I usually rate the IMDb score as the gold standard but something has gone seriously wrong here. I did see the trailer, it was good and contained the only laughs of the movie. The movie was truly the most tedious thing I have ever experienced. Why did it get such good reviews from critics and such a high score on IMDb? User reviews here are spot on. Not a single good review. The reviewer above who mentioned he had sat down to more entertaining bowel movements surpassed any joke in the film.
Something is very wrong here.
I've had doubts for a while, probably a year and a half. Certain "blockbusters" get 20k votes on opening day. Reminds me of services that will five you 50k "friends" (or however many you want) on Farcebook. Undoubtedly, there are fake upvoters for hire on IMDb now.
And remember, you and I have wrestled over unexceptional films that were entertaining enough for me to defend. This is not even up to that standard.
I'd have to say aliens as i really love the atmosphere and setting.
Drive was great - Life of Brian too
Aliens
Shawshank Redemption should be in the favourite list on this threat somewhere. LOL...Prison Break was inspired by this movie.
lol @ Prison Break
con air
One favorite is tough, but Sling Blade is up there...
The Matrix (the first part). Thats my favorite of all time.
Dune in it's day it was a thing of beauty.
Works so hard to create the last 15 minutes, but pays off.Quote:
Originally Posted by clarkkam2000
Sharknado 2! bottom line.
Minority report