[quote]stokedporcupine8 wrote:
Can’t any of you appreciate a mildly original story?
Besides, I’d like to hear what standards all of you are judging movies by. It’s great to stand around and lament about how bad today’s movies are compared to whatever your favorite movies are, but it’s all just chest pounding unless you can explain what sort of standards you are using. [/quote]
Come on,stoked…follow the entire conversation of this thread. There is only one person that your post should be directed to.
[quote]stokedporcupine8 wrote:
Can’t any of you appreciate a mildly original story?
Besides, I’d like to hear what standards all of you are judging movies by. It’s great to stand around and lament about how bad today’s movies are compared to whatever your favorite movies are, but it’s all just chest pounding unless you can explain what sort of standards you are using. [/quote]
Most of the people like that hate damn near everything so it doesn’t matter. If they do make a list of movies they actually liked, it is some list they either stole from somewhere else or one that ignores that most of the movies they liked were era specific and wouldn’t be considered “good” outside of 1985.
I had quit going to movies until the new crop of good ones that includes everything from Batman Begins to Iron Man to Benjamin Button. If anything, movies are better right now than they were for the past 10 years as a whole.
I can’t stand people who can’t give credit where it is due.
Oh,I forgot about Mr.Harsh Times avatar…but then again he thinks everything is stupid and awful.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
stokedporcupine8 wrote:
Can’t any of you appreciate a mildly original story?
Besides, I’d like to hear what standards all of you are judging movies by. It’s great to stand around and lament about how bad today’s movies are compared to whatever your favorite movies are, but it’s all just chest pounding unless you can explain what sort of standards you are using.
Most of the people like that hate damn near everything so it doesn’t matter. If they do make a list of movies they actually liked, it is some list they either stole from somewhere else or one that ignores that most of the movies they liked were era specific and wouldn’t be considered “good” outside of 1985.
I had quit going to movies until the new crop of good ones that includes everything from Batman Begins to Iron Man to Benjamin Button. If anything, movies are better right now than they were for the past 10 years as a whole.
I can’t stand people who can’t give credit where it is due. [/quote]
What they also forget is that even in the best years for movies dozens of bad to mediocre flicks come out for every good one that you remember. The people long for the good old days should have to sit down and watch nothing but Turner Classic movies. There’s an awful lot of crap on there, and that’s just the stuff they bothered to save. There are thousands of movies that no longer exist, and won’t be missed by anyone.
OP-if you think d-9 was bad (it wasn’t), you should see Transformers 2. It has Michael Jackson’s face-paint all over it. Dripping with it.
i meant to address above to headhunter. i am not apologizing, clarifying.
[quote]Standard Donkey wrote:
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LMAO! That was so random, made me crack out laughing
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
stokedporcupine8 wrote:
Can’t any of you appreciate a mildly original story?
Besides, I’d like to hear what standards all of you are judging movies by. It’s great to stand around and lament about how bad today’s movies are compared to whatever your favorite movies are, but it’s all just chest pounding unless you can explain what sort of standards you are using.
Come on,stoked…follow the entire conversation of this thread. There is only one person that your post should be directed to.[/quote]
I counted two, lol.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
No comparison…
There’s more quality in that little clip than in all of 9.[/quote]
Weren’t you the guy who only watch a 1/2 hour of it? LOL. I think the movie was decent, just not classic.
It was a TERRIBLE movie. Absolutely awful.
It was so bad I’m going to go see it again, so I can bask in its mediocrity.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
It was a TERRIBLE movie. Absolutely awful.
It was so bad I’m going to go see it again, so I can bask in its mediocrity.[/quote]
Kiwi sarcasm at its best.
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Movie of the Century. Loved by all people. Even old trolls.[/quote]
“O Brave New World, that has such people in it!”
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
OP is right, District 9 is a fake movie because the critics and audiences liked it, but he did not.
What an astute observation.[/quote]
Social Metaphysics at its finest. Tell me, without someone else to give you ‘your’ opinion, whatever would you do? But perhaps such a question is above your paygrade.
“They vomit their gall and call it a (movie).”
— apologies to Nietzsche (you know, the football legend dude…lol)
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Makavali wrote:
It was a TERRIBLE movie. Absolutely awful.
It was so bad I’m going to go see it again, so I can bask in its mediocrity.
Kiwi sarcasm at its best.[/quote]
Love you schnookums.
headhunter just watch the damn movie…
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Anonymity wrote:
OP is right, District 9 is a fake movie because the critics and audiences liked it, but he did not.
What an astute observation.
Social Metaphysics at its finest. Tell me, without someone else to give you ‘your’ opinion, whatever would you do? But perhaps such a question is above your paygrade.
“They vomit their gall and call it a (movie).”
— apologies to Nietzsche (you know, the football legend dude…lol)
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Wow, social metaphysics, capitalized none-the-less. You sir, must be the most intelligent individual reading this thread.(sarcasm)
Your taste in cinema is obviously superior, as noted by the title of this thread. So obviously superior that and anyone who liked Distric 9 is following the masses and lemming to the critics. No one could ever form thier own opinion about this movie if it does not agree with yours! After all, you are the be all, end all of movie critics.
Since you did not like this movie, it is obviously awful and cannot be put in the same realm as “Real Movies”.
Congratulations on being a complete ass. Well, I don’t know, maybe that’s “above your paygrade”.
You know what I hated about District-9? It was so engrossing that - even though I had to piss about 30mins in - I couldn’t help but wait until the damn thing was over before I could bolt to the restroom. Granted, I didn’t sit through the whole flick deep in thought, but it was entertaining. And that’s what I paid for. To be entertained.
I think those of you that go to see a SCI-FI flick with expectations of some great revelation about humanity or whatever need to get your heads out of your asses. It’s a movie about aliens. Sheesh.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I had quit going to movies until the new crop of good ones that includes everything from Batman Begins to Iron Man to Benjamin Button. If anything, movies are better right now than they were for the past 10 years as a whole.
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Agreed.
The two Batman movies alone have redeemed the last three years for me, as well as movies like American Gangster, etc.
