Better when it's men being tortured by women. *nods*
3x Blah, horror and my imagination are incompatible.
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by Umbra Ac Silentium » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:27 pm
The Holy Therns wrote:Your thought pattern is so bizarre I can't even be offended anymore.

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by Umbra Ac Silentium » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:29 pm
The Holy Therns wrote:Your thought pattern is so bizarre I can't even be offended anymore.

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by Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:57 am
LoL island wrote:Wiztopia wrote:
1) Just because some anime are bad doesn't mean the industry is ruined. Also nothing wrong with NGE or Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.
2) Manga is better but Naruto still pretty much sucks.
2) Pokemon games are better than the anime
3) Its not hard at all to find a good one. http://myanimelist.net/ Though you gotta laugh at which one is the top anime.
1. i do not give a fuck about the manga, we are talking about the anime
2.again, we are talking about the anime, not the games
3. to talk about your first comment, i have to agree, the indestry as vast and powerful as anime can not be so easily killed. but watch animes like Hayate no goku or just amv hell /0 and you know how fucked they can get

by Grave_n_idle » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:02 am
Wiztopia wrote:No. It really is quite bad. Plot holes and god mode.

by Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:05 am
Grave_n_idle wrote:Wiztopia wrote:No. It really is quite bad. Plot holes and god mode.
In what basically amounts to a blockbuster action movie, neither of those is even a weakness.
Place it in it's appropriate company, and it is actually pretty damn good.
Blame Pirates of the Caribbean, for raising the bar of expectation on summer hits, maybe.

by Grave_n_idle » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:13 am
Wiztopia wrote:Grave_n_idle wrote:
In what basically amounts to a blockbuster action movie, neither of those is even a weakness.
Place it in it's appropriate company, and it is actually pretty damn good.
Blame Pirates of the Caribbean, for raising the bar of expectation on summer hits, maybe.
1) The protagonist was the ONLY military person to have grenades.
2) No heat seeking missiles
3) Where the fuck were airplanes? They would have brought jets/airplanes to the planet.
4) Bullet proof animals![]()
5) There's more but I can't remember them all since I haven't seen it for awhile.

by Wilfred Test » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:18 am

by Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:27 am
Grave_n_idle wrote:Wiztopia wrote:
1) The protagonist was the ONLY military person to have grenades.
2) No heat seeking missiles
3) Where the fuck were airplanes? They would have brought jets/airplanes to the planet.
4) Bullet proof animals![]()
5) There's more but I can't remember them all since I haven't seen it for awhile.
There's an episode of Red Dwarf (Season V, "Quarantine") where yet another encounter ends up with the Boys from the Dwarf being chased through a (cheap) pipe gallery, while destruction rains down around them.
Lister laments "why do we never meet anyone nice"?
The Cat rapidly responds, "Why is it we never meet anyone who can shoot straight?", as explosions bounce of every available surface.
You're complaining about things that are basically part and parcel with the genre. Dramatic necessity determines which weapons are used, and who lives and dies.
You might as well complain about groups splitting up to explore in a horror movie.

by Grave_n_idle » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:30 am
Wiztopia wrote:Grave_n_idle wrote:
There's an episode of Red Dwarf (Season V, "Quarantine") where yet another encounter ends up with the Boys from the Dwarf being chased through a (cheap) pipe gallery, while destruction rains down around them.
Lister laments "why do we never meet anyone nice"?
The Cat rapidly responds, "Why is it we never meet anyone who can shoot straight?", as explosions bounce of every available surface.
You're complaining about things that are basically part and parcel with the genre. Dramatic necessity determines which weapons are used, and who lives and dies.
You might as well complain about groups splitting up to explore in a horror movie.
They could have made it more realistic by having the military have what the protagonist had.

by Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:32 am
Grave_n_idle wrote:Wiztopia wrote:
They could have made it more realistic by having the military have what the protagonist had.
Indeed. And Realism is the absolute benchmark of quality in movies set on alien worlds, where people are remote-piloting artificial giant blue Native American cat bodies.
Of course it sounds silly when I say it like that.

by Mid Lothian » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:37 am
Grave_n_idle wrote:Blame Pirates of the Caribbean, for raising the bar of expectation on summer hits, maybe.
Grave_n_idle wrote:Indeed. And Realism is the absolute benchmark of quality in movies set on alien worlds, where people are remote-piloting artificial giant blue Native American cat bodies.

by Grave_n_idle » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:50 am
Wiztopia wrote:Grave_n_idle wrote:
Indeed. And Realism is the absolute benchmark of quality in movies set on alien worlds, where people are remote-piloting artificial giant blue Native American cat bodies.
Of course it sounds silly when I say it like that.
The movie is still terrible. The action wasn't even that good. Only the special effects were.
EDIT: Also it was completely ridiculous how they won too. Oh yeah I remember another one that made me literally lol.
Shooting arrows through glass.

by Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:53 am
Grave_n_idle wrote:Wiztopia wrote:
The movie is still terrible. The action wasn't even that good. Only the special effects were.
EDIT: Also it was completely ridiculous how they won too. Oh yeah I remember another one that made me literally lol.
Shooting arrows through glass.
I don't want it to appear that I'm defending action movies (I'm not a fan of the genre), or 'special effects' movies (again, not a fan of special effects replacing good film-making. Yes, "Jurassic Park", "Independence Day", I'm looking at you).
What I'm saying is that for what it was "Avatar" is better than a lot of it's peers. At least it's gorgeous, if nothing else.
It certainly isn't nearly as bad as it seems fashionable to suggest.

by Grave_n_idle » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:57 am
Wiztopia wrote:Grave_n_idle wrote:
I don't want it to appear that I'm defending action movies (I'm not a fan of the genre), or 'special effects' movies (again, not a fan of special effects replacing good film-making. Yes, "Jurassic Park", "Independence Day", I'm looking at you).
What I'm saying is that for what it was "Avatar" is better than a lot of it's peers. At least it's gorgeous, if nothing else.
It certainly isn't nearly as bad as it seems fashionable to suggest.
Jurassic Park 2 was my first exposure to horrible adaptations changing the story completely for no reason.
I enjoyed the first one and Independence Day too.
Also hating something because its popular is a very stupid thing to do. I never do that. I only hate something because its shit.

by Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:05 am
Grave_n_idle wrote:Wiztopia wrote:
Jurassic Park 2 was my first exposure to horrible adaptations changing the story completely for no reason.
I enjoyed the first one and Independence Day too.
Also hating something because its popular is a very stupid thing to do. I never do that. I only hate something because its shit.
We're going to have to disagree. You've excused two of the most crass examples of everything that's supposed to be wrong with "Avatar", and yet you're faulting "Avatar" for the same vices (or virtues).
You then actually bring yourself to say "I only hate something because it's shit", after admitting you like two even-shitter films within the same basic genre. No, you can protest all you like, but I'm not buying - I think you're complaining about "Avatar" because that's what all the cool kids do. I bet you complained about "The Matrix" too, a couple of years ago.

by Grave_n_idle » Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:10 am
Wiztopia wrote:Grave_n_idle wrote:
We're going to have to disagree. You've excused two of the most crass examples of everything that's supposed to be wrong with "Avatar", and yet you're faulting "Avatar" for the same vices (or virtues).
You then actually bring yourself to say "I only hate something because it's shit", after admitting you like two even-shitter films within the same basic genre. No, you can protest all you like, but I'm not buying - I think you're complaining about "Avatar" because that's what all the cool kids do. I bet you complained about "The Matrix" too, a couple of years ago.
Avatar was shittier than both of them combined.

by Brandenburg-Altmark » Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:16 am

by Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:05 am
Grave_n_idle wrote:Wiztopia wrote:
Avatar was shittier than both of them combined.
Really, really, no. CPR curing massive electrocution alone outweighs any sins "Avatar" might commit.
We're going to have to agree to disagree, as I said. We're incompatible because of a difference in taste. I have taste, and you're different.
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