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re: The majority vs you in opinions given to movies
Posted on 12/21/15 at 8:23 pm to bourne1978
Posted on 12/21/15 at 8:23 pm to bourne1978
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Name any movies that the majority gave positive opinions on, but you didn't.
how long do we have to discuss this? is there a word limit?
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Name any movies that the majority gave negative opinions on, but you didn't.
let me think. there are some that exist
1
Posted on 12/21/15 at 9:48 pm to Baloo
2. Avatar. I loved the new world Cameron created. The storyline is so so but visually it was amazing.
Posted on 12/21/15 at 10:31 pm to SlowFlowPro
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how long do we have to discuss this? is there a word limit?
Posted on 12/21/15 at 10:46 pm to fr33manator
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The majority vs you in opinions given to movies by fr33manator
1.The Force Awakens
2. Waterworld
Okay, all your opinions going forward are invalid forever.
Posted on 12/21/15 at 10:50 pm to elprez00
Yes. Because someone doesn't share specific opinions with you, it's obvious that every opinion they have is invalid.
Clearly the sign of a rational and intelligent thinker.
Clearly the sign of a rational and intelligent thinker.
Posted on 12/21/15 at 10:55 pm to fr33manator
It's not that we have a disagreement in the opinions you hold.
But. ..it's just that you have been such a whiny bitch.
"I don't like SW:TFA. But don't challenge my opinion, because that makes TFA a sacred cow. I need to keep repeating that I do not like this film in as many threads as possible. But again, please do not challenge my opinions. Sacred cow. . .arrrrgh!!!!"
Damn
Take a Midol
But. ..it's just that you have been such a whiny bitch.
"I don't like SW:TFA. But don't challenge my opinion, because that makes TFA a sacred cow. I need to keep repeating that I do not like this film in as many threads as possible. But again, please do not challenge my opinions. Sacred cow. . .arrrrgh!!!!"
Damn
Take a Midol
Posted on 12/21/15 at 11:18 pm to bourne1978
Hmm this is tricky.
1. I'd have to say that Gravity and Mad Max:Fury Road (as well as the first Mad Max) fall under this to me. Gravity has insanely high reviews for a thoroughly mediocre movie. I saw it once in theaters thought meh and have no interest in seeing it again. MM:FR was an okay action flick, but critics went crazy over it because it was "all practical effects" when nearly half the effects in that movie were CGI, including all of the best scenes. That's ignoring the fact that the two leads were a bumbling mess who spoke like a Neanderthal and the supposedly great feminist hero was a complete and utter frick-up whose grand scheme would have failed in the first 10 minutes if it wasn't for that Neanderthal not to mention her entire plan hinged on information from years prior which turned out to be no longer true. Blah. As for the first Mad Max, crap. Just crap.
You can throw Inception in here too. Not a bad movie by any means, but it is nowhere near as complex as people think it is and that forced cliche boring convoluted love story was just bad. It dragged down what was otherwise a decent sci-fi/action movie. It seems that Christopher Nolan loves taking good sci-fi/action scripts which are interesting and fun and new and loves to shite a cliched Hollywood love story all over them because he did it in Interstellar as well. Your writing is not the reason why your movies are great dude. You have two great writers (Goyer and your brother), you have some of the best technical staff in the industry, and you have some of the best actors in the business in your movies. Honestly, your job is not to screw it all up. You should really be the game managing Alex Smith of directors. But no, you think your writing skills are why Heath Ledger gave one of the best performances in a supporting acting role ever and earned your studio a billion dollars. /rant
2. I loved both of the Cars movies. Were they exceptional movies that deserve Oscar nods or consideration? No. But who gives a damn? They were charming, heart-felt, entertaining movies and if you can't see that, then something is wrong with you, not those movies. On that same note, the Transformers movies as well. They are action movies about giant sentient alien robots who disguise themselves as everyday vehicles and fight evil giant sentient alien robots who disguise themselves as everyday vehicles. And people have a problem with the story? Seriously? Because the cartoons were all about epic plots that change the way we look at movies and life.
These are good action movies with simple stories and some cheesy funny lines. No one ever said they'd be anything more than that. Same thing with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. What exactly did people want from that movie? Just because your 40 year old self hated it doesn't mean your 10 year old self wouldn't have loved it. And guess what? If you aren't going to let your inner 10 year old out when you see that movie, then don't go see it, because that's ultimately what that movie is about. I mean the name of the movie is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Teenage. Mutant. Ninja. Turtles. And people want to complain about that movie like its an insult to the film industry? GFY.
Oh and anyone hating on The Village can eat a pile of dog poop. Was it a great movie? No. It was a safe movie. I'm sorry that every movie doesn't have a screenplay that makes a New York Times writer pull out his thesaurus and pick 100 random words to use in his review, but shite man, there is a wide spectrum of quality between GREATEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!! and absolutely horrible. And this is one of the movies right smack dab in the middle of that spectrum.
Oh and Tomorrowland was a damn good movie and anyone who saw it as a "liberal" movie completely missed the point as it was one of the most conservative movies that Hollywood has released in the last 20 years. Whether that was by design or incidental, doesn't matter. I can go on and on about this, but that's for another discussion.
1. I'd have to say that Gravity and Mad Max:Fury Road (as well as the first Mad Max) fall under this to me. Gravity has insanely high reviews for a thoroughly mediocre movie. I saw it once in theaters thought meh and have no interest in seeing it again. MM:FR was an okay action flick, but critics went crazy over it because it was "all practical effects" when nearly half the effects in that movie were CGI, including all of the best scenes. That's ignoring the fact that the two leads were a bumbling mess who spoke like a Neanderthal and the supposedly great feminist hero was a complete and utter frick-up whose grand scheme would have failed in the first 10 minutes if it wasn't for that Neanderthal not to mention her entire plan hinged on information from years prior which turned out to be no longer true. Blah. As for the first Mad Max, crap. Just crap.
You can throw Inception in here too. Not a bad movie by any means, but it is nowhere near as complex as people think it is and that forced cliche boring convoluted love story was just bad. It dragged down what was otherwise a decent sci-fi/action movie. It seems that Christopher Nolan loves taking good sci-fi/action scripts which are interesting and fun and new and loves to shite a cliched Hollywood love story all over them because he did it in Interstellar as well. Your writing is not the reason why your movies are great dude. You have two great writers (Goyer and your brother), you have some of the best technical staff in the industry, and you have some of the best actors in the business in your movies. Honestly, your job is not to screw it all up. You should really be the game managing Alex Smith of directors. But no, you think your writing skills are why Heath Ledger gave one of the best performances in a supporting acting role ever and earned your studio a billion dollars. /rant
2. I loved both of the Cars movies. Were they exceptional movies that deserve Oscar nods or consideration? No. But who gives a damn? They were charming, heart-felt, entertaining movies and if you can't see that, then something is wrong with you, not those movies. On that same note, the Transformers movies as well. They are action movies about giant sentient alien robots who disguise themselves as everyday vehicles and fight evil giant sentient alien robots who disguise themselves as everyday vehicles. And people have a problem with the story? Seriously? Because the cartoons were all about epic plots that change the way we look at movies and life.
These are good action movies with simple stories and some cheesy funny lines. No one ever said they'd be anything more than that. Same thing with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. What exactly did people want from that movie? Just because your 40 year old self hated it doesn't mean your 10 year old self wouldn't have loved it. And guess what? If you aren't going to let your inner 10 year old out when you see that movie, then don't go see it, because that's ultimately what that movie is about. I mean the name of the movie is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Teenage. Mutant. Ninja. Turtles. And people want to complain about that movie like its an insult to the film industry? GFY. Oh and anyone hating on The Village can eat a pile of dog poop. Was it a great movie? No. It was a safe movie. I'm sorry that every movie doesn't have a screenplay that makes a New York Times writer pull out his thesaurus and pick 100 random words to use in his review, but shite man, there is a wide spectrum of quality between GREATEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!! and absolutely horrible. And this is one of the movies right smack dab in the middle of that spectrum.
Oh and Tomorrowland was a damn good movie and anyone who saw it as a "liberal" movie completely missed the point as it was one of the most conservative movies that Hollywood has released in the last 20 years. Whether that was by design or incidental, doesn't matter. I can go on and on about this, but that's for another discussion.
Posted on 12/21/15 at 11:19 pm to lynxcat
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2. Avatar. I loved the new world Cameron created. The storyline is so so but visually it was amazing.
Bingo! If you went into that movie expecting some new and original story that changed storytelling, then that was your mistake. What's funny, is that movie did more to change the industry then any other movie since The Matrix.
Posted on 12/21/15 at 11:21 pm to Roaad
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2. White House Down was a great action film, and should be seen as a true sequel to the first Die Hard.
I enjoyed this movie as well, but Olympus Has Fallen has more of that Die Hard in the White House kind of feeling.
Posted on 12/21/15 at 11:24 pm to bourne1978
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1. Name any movies that the majority gave positive opinions on, but you didn't.
Not sure about this board, but the majority of people I know liked Jurrasic World and I thought it was kinda boring and cheesy.
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Name any movies that the majority gave negative opinions on, but you didn't.
The Hobbit trilogy. Was it true to the book? No. But the book was very simple and moved quickly. I kind of enjoyed the extra stuff added in. I view the books as canon and the movies as a "reimagining".
Posted on 12/21/15 at 11:28 pm to PillageUrVillage
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The Hobbit trilogy. Was it true to the book? No. But the book was very simple and moved quickly. I kind of enjoyed the extra stuff added in. I view the books as canon and the movies as a "reimagining".
Yeah I thought about listing this too. Was it a bit disappointing? Sure. Especially if you thought it was going to be on par with the LOTR series. But The Hobbit was suppose to be a more light-hearted adventure. Granted they could have trimmed a lot of fat from the movies and actually put a lot of the LOTR appendices in the third movie like they said they would and it would have been much better. But anyways, they were still enjoyable movies and had some good moments.
Posted on 12/21/15 at 11:42 pm to ReturnoftheMuschamp
My biggest complaint was Radagast. Not at all how I pictured him. He certainly wasn't described as a retarded Looney Toons character in the books.
Posted on 12/22/15 at 12:09 am to bourne1978
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1. Name any movies that the majority gave positive opinions on, but you didn't.
Two big ones come to mind. These aren't terrible movies but I really dislike them for either what they say or what that implies.
The Godfather II - there are great elements to the movie, standout scenes that make it very entertaining in bits in pieces but it doesn't truly stand alone as a film unless you already know the story from the first film and want to see more of both future and past. Unlike the first movie the film is so dark that some scenes edge into outright obscurity on the screen that it lacks the style and beauty I so enjoyed in the style of the first. No, this was not film noir either. But more importantly than either the lack of cohesion or what I thought was inferior appearance of the movie is the intellectual dishonesty. To essentially remake the characters to make them less human and more easily condemned for their evil was such a craven move for people who were held up and acclaimed as artists for a more complex and interesting effort in the first movie. Really? Was it necessary to make this a children's morality tale instead of something to chew on more thoughtfully?
Forrest Gump - widely beloved because of the most likable actor on earth - Tom Hanks. The movie stumbles through history with such a lack of coherence or morality that it leaves me frankly puzzled. Was it necessary to punish every person who actually experienced thought or emotions (other than blind joy) with death or disability? Do the writers believe the curse of humanity isn't cruelty or evil, but sentience or complexity?
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2. Name any movies that the majority gave negative opinions on, but you didn't.
Movies I like others often detest: As well as a socially acceptable list like 2001 or the Godfather I find myself loving lots of trash for sure, things like Point Break, Roadhouse, lesser efforts like an over-acting Cage in Ghost Rider I find myself re-watching way too often, Death to Smoochy was mentioned and I really liked that one as well. It is probably a little shameful that older Adam Sandler movies are weirdly good to me: billy madison, the wedding singer, happy gilmore and even the waterboy (which I intellectually know is a terrible movie)
Posted on 12/22/15 at 1:17 am to molsusports
1. Gravity, American Hustle and Inception are three movies I found very overrated. Not necessarily bad, but just didn't come close to living up to the hype for me. Didn't enjoy The Cabin in the Woods. Frozen was awful and everybody kept talking about it.
2. Terminator Genisys was entertaining to me. Much better than Salvation and arguably better than the third. Horrible Bosses 2 had me laughing throughout. I'll echo Into Darkness. I also enjoyed The Grey, despite a lot of people mocking it.
2. Terminator Genisys was entertaining to me. Much better than Salvation and arguably better than the third. Horrible Bosses 2 had me laughing throughout. I'll echo Into Darkness. I also enjoyed The Grey, despite a lot of people mocking it.
Posted on 12/22/15 at 1:26 am to jackwoods4
i'm going to get blasted..
i'm sorry..
i don't care for the monty python/life of brian movies.
and i'm pretty easy going.. and like dumb comedy.
i'm sorry..
i don't care for the monty python/life of brian movies.
and i'm pretty easy going.. and like dumb comedy.
Posted on 12/22/15 at 3:56 am to bourne1978
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1. Name any movies that the majority gave positive opinions on, but you didn't.
The Wolf of Wall Street, Django Unchained
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2. Name any movies that the majority gave negative opinions on, but you didn't.
Brooklyn's Finest
Posted on 12/22/15 at 6:07 am to bourne1978
1 - Most here liked Peaky Blinders. I am not overwhelmed by it so far
2 - Waterworld crashed. I liked it.
2 - Waterworld crashed. I liked it.
Posted on 12/22/15 at 6:11 am to bourne1978
1. Name any movies that the majority gave positive opinions on, but you didn't:
- Fury Road. I rated 3/10. Worst villain of the saga.
- Man of Steel. I rated 4/10. Boring action sequences.
2. Name any movies that the majority gave negative opinions on, but you didn't.
- Superman Returns. Rated 9/10. Best Superman movie ever.
- Fury Road. I rated 3/10. Worst villain of the saga.
- Man of Steel. I rated 4/10. Boring action sequences.
2. Name any movies that the majority gave negative opinions on, but you didn't.
- Superman Returns. Rated 9/10. Best Superman movie ever.
Posted on 12/22/15 at 6:25 am to bourne1978
I had no idea so many people like The Postman!
Posted on 12/22/15 at 6:42 am to bourne1978
TFA
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