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Postby Umbra Ac Silentium » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:27 pm

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Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:;w; They have no taste, at all.


Now you know why I have to torture women to get off. :D

My mother, in particular, LOVES shitty horror movies. The Ring is her favorite movie.

Better when it's men being tortured by women. *nods*
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Postby The Rich Port » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:29 pm

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:
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Now you know why I have to torture women to get off. :D

My mother, in particular, LOVES shitty horror movies. The Ring is her favorite movie.

Better when it's men being tortured by women. *nods*
3x Blah, horror and my imagination are incompatible.


Getting your balls crushed may be nice FOR YOU, but silly old me can't get into it.

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Postby Umbra Ac Silentium » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:29 pm

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Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:Better when it's men being tortured by women. *nods*
3x Blah, horror and my imagination are incompatible.


Getting your balls crushed may be nice FOR YOU, but silly old me can't get into it.

Just crushed? :3

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Postby Minoriteeburg » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:35 pm

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The GMZ wrote:Avatar.....they already made it in two movies before, Dances With Wolves meets Fern Gully...ON ANOTHER PLANET!!! lame, UNOBTANIUM!?!?!? That is just stupid


I'm surprised people were expecting Avatar to win that Oscar it was nominated for a while back... Honestly.



It was better than the shitty Hurt Locker.
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Postby Grave_n_idle » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:57 pm

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I'm surprised people were expecting Avatar to win that Oscar it was nominated for a while back... Honestly.



It was better than the shitty Hurt Locker.


Indeed. "Avatar" wasn't as bad as it seems to be believed. I can't decide if it's a victim of it's own marketing success (nothing could have lived up to that hype)... or if it's just the trendy thing to hate Avatar.
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Postby Mad hatters in jeans » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:22 pm

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Mad hatters in jeans wrote:bit of a rushed conclusion from the two movies i stated shouldn't have been made don't you think?


Nope.

If you draw early conclusions you may find that people won't stick around to hear what you have to say later.

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Postby Wilgrove » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:30 pm

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To quote the film classic Worst movie-adaptation of a cartoon series Inspector Gadget: The Movie:

"It's a kid's movie!"



fixed.


I'd have to agree to this. The cartoon series was awesome, but the movie just sucked. You never see Dr. Claw's face in the TV series, so why the Hel did they show it in the movie?! Dr. Claw should've been like THIS!

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NOT like this.

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Postby Wilgrove » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:40 pm

Another movie would have to be The Blues Brothers 2000. It's the same basic plot as Blues Brothers, but without John Belushi. Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi had great rapport in the first movie that just didn't exist between Dan and John Goodman. The second movie didn't have the charm of the first one either, and as the movie went on....it just got more and more out there. I got the feeling that no one's heart was in it, which I wonder why they even bothered making it.

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Postby Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:57 am

LoL island wrote:
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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


1) Both industries are connected so you're ignorant to not care.

2) Doesn't matter. The anime can't kill the industry.

3) Fucked? Pools of blood and sex doesn't bother me.

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It was better than the shitty Hurt Locker.


Indeed. "Avatar" wasn't as bad as it seems to be believed. I can't decide if it's a victim of it's own marketing success (nothing could have lived up to that hype)... or if it's just the trendy thing to hate Avatar.


No. It really is quite bad. Plot holes and god mode.

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Postby Grave_n_idle » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:02 am

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.
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Postby 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.


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 :palm:

5) There's more but I can't remember them all since I haven't seen it for awhile.

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Postby Grave_n_idle » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:13 am

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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 :palm:

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

Minoriteeburg wrote:I mean besides the Justin Bieber movie....


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Postby 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 :palm:

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.


They could have made it more realistic by having the military have what the protagonist had.

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Postby 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.


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.
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Postby Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:32 am

Grave_n_idle wrote:
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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.


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.

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Postby 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.


I wouldn't - I don't know any summer hits released in December. But I agree - it was sh!t.

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.


We had people complaining about the realism of the Doctor Who episode Journey's End - and more specifically the TARDIS taking Earth back to its normal place. So a being that has two hearts who travels around in a box that's bigger on the inside than the outside and can cheat death by regenerating is realistic, but not said traveller pulling a planet back to its normal place.
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Postby 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.


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.
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Postby Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:53 am

Grave_n_idle wrote:
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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.


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.

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Postby 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.


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.
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Postby 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.


Avatar was shittier than both of them combined. I gave you the reasons why it was terrible. Hating something because its popular is really stupid. Also liking something because its popular is just as stupid.

Also no I didn't. The matrix was actually good.

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Postby 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.


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

Personally, while I dislike Avatar, I don't think it's all that bad. I'm only really annoyed with it for the same reason I was really annoyed by "Titanic." The marketing won't shut up about how it's his "great film epic" or how James Cameron is "that guy who made Avatar," when his real great achievements are 3 of the best action movies in history. "The Terminator," "Terminator 2," and "Aliens."
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Postby Wiztopia » Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:05 am

Grave_n_idle wrote:
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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.


You have taste?

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