[quote]Tyrant wrote:
Also, I hate crap movies that become huge for no reason. Perfect example, Avatar. Yeah, the CGI was amazing, the video part of the movie rocked. 2D and 3D looked great. The acting was pathetic, the dialogue was juvenile and the plot itself wasn’t even his idea. Fuck that movie.
Seriously, watch it again, it sucks.[/quote]
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[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]Makavali wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
Things I’m sick and tired of in movies? Hmm…
Russell Crowe(He’s a New Zealander BTW)
Mel Gibson(He’s American BTW)
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Reminder: Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson are NOT Australians. I apologise sincerely for Steve Irwin however.[/quote]
Oh come now, you can’t steal Russ from us and then disown him. He’s one of you now, for better or worse.
And little Mel is still an Aussie at heart.
And leave Irwin alone, he died as he lived. With animals in his heart.[/quote]
Kiwis have SCV(Special Category Visa) access to Australia so they come, go and bludge here as they like. We didn’t steal Russ. He was just lucky enough to escape from NZ.
Mel is an American and crazier than a shithouse rat.
Steve was borderline retarded so you can’t really judge him by normal standards. All countries have mental defectives. Some of ours just happen to like mounting salt water crocodiles and taunting venomous snakes.
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That SCV goes both ways, and Kiwis don’t have access to most forms of social security or the dole without applying for permanent residency first. The SCV only allows us to live there and work there. Australians on the other hand, can come here and sit on the dole without waiting. 
No, he’s definitely one of you. His grandma was an Australian singer (a fairly well known one too), he grew up in Sydney, and started his career in Australia.
Exploiting your child and holding them near a croc as a PR stunt is normal behavior. Leave Steve alone! 
[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
I watched Aliens last night and I kinda thought now a days with all the CGI it’s not as scary.[/quote]
I agree Fuzz…some of the CGI nowadays is downright garbage.
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
[quote]Makavali wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
Things I’m sick and tired of in movies? Hmm…
Russell Crowe(He’s a New Zealander BTW)
Mel Gibson(He’s American BTW)
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Reminder: Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson are NOT Australians. I apologise sincerely for Steve Irwin however.[/quote]
Oh come now, you can’t steal Russ from us and then disown him. He’s one of you now, for better or worse.
And little Mel is still an Aussie at heart.
And leave Irwin alone, he died as he lived. With animals in his heart.[/quote]
Reckon, Crowe is all yours now and you’re welcome to him.
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A no returns policy eh? That doesn’t make him Australian.[/quote]
All care no responsibility
I hate the microthrust that appears in all the sex scenes in movies. C’mon, does every guy in Hollywood have a 1.5" dick?
Why does every ancient superbeing, intelligent person, or anybody in a film depicting an empire in Europe have an English accent?
Superman.
How do men have the same level of stubble during a film that occurs over a period of time?
Police officers being portrayed as imbeciles.
Stories not staying consistent to the rules they developed.
Pretty much everything evolving guns is messed up. How come people aren’t talking louder after a gunfight? There’s a reason people wear ear protection at ranges.
Spinning camera to make conversations look more appealing.
Jack Bauer not having to use the restroom in 24 hours.
Jack Bauer taking a the time of a commercial break to get from downtown LA to the Santa Monica Pier.
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
Yep, definitely a conspiracy to get all eligible Kiwis living scot free in the big red dirt ball.
There is an up side to this policy though remember…
Kiwis who emigrate to Aussie improve the IQ of both countries.
I really hate the way at some point in just about every suspense or horror movie, someone will start walking backwards towards where the danger will very obviously be.
I’m sick of dicks in movies. Enough with the dicks. All the old classics that I love from the 70’s and 80’s had tits and ass in them and No dicks.
Guys like tits, girls don’t like dicks. Sure they will look if it’s there but they don’t care. I care, guys care so show tits. I think all the guys in control in Hollywood now are gay.
Was actually talking about this one earlier…
The woman home alone with a big dog will, upon hearing a strange noise outside, either:
a) Send the dog out to be bark and be killed, thus wasting her first line of protection, or
b) Leave the dog inside and go out by herself, usually allowing the door to close and lock itself behind her.
That is assuming of course that the killer hasn’t already magically appeared inside the house, and slowly walked toward her chasing ehr past the front door and up the stairs so she can hide under the bed.
And while we’re on the subject of guns, I hate how a minigun (which fires 3000 rounds per minute) usually sounds like an M60. And can be fired handheld by a man, who somehow is carrying enough ammo for several 2-3 minute firefights, as well as one big 10 minute blow out.
One of my biggest gripes is how, even in PG-13 and R movies, the adults (or at least the father/male protector) are bumbling idiots, but the teenagers or children automatically know what to do. Then again, there may be a kernel of truth in that, since they spend all their time playing Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty.
CGI. 'Nuff said.
[quote]Doyle wrote:
[quote]captaincalvert wrote:
I’m sick of Hollywood getting English accents wrong, especially the Norwegian one, which is always so overdone that it makes me embarrassed that someone might think that I speak like that.
I also still vividly remember an episode of The X-files that took place in Northern Norway. In one or two scenes there was supposed to be Norwegians speaking Norwegian, but instead of hiring a couple of Norwegian actors to this simple job, they invented their own completely incomprehensible mock Norwegian. They spoke about as Norwegian as the Swedish cook spoke Swedish in the Muppet Show back in the seventies. I also seem to recall that the “Norwegian” fishermen looked like a cross bewtween cavemen and hobos, because of course you can’t possibly look like a normal person and work on a fishing boat. I found that incredibly disrespectful, and I’ve been wondering ever since if they do this with other peoples and languages I don’t understand as well.[/quote]
Hollywood does Aussie accents SO bad, they can’t get people with real Australian accents to play minor roles?[/quote]
The flip side of this is the pretty good job Australian actors have been doing in Hollywood (Worthington etc). Also the number of Australian soap stars (I use this term loosely) ending up on US TV series/movies (both A and B grade movies).
Parody movies.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
That SCV goes both ways, and Kiwis don’t have access to most forms of social security or the dole without applying for permanent residency first. The SCV only allows us to live there and work there. Australians on the other hand, can come here and sit on the dole without waiting.
No, he’s definitely one of you. His grandma was an Australian singer (a fairly well known one too), he grew up in Sydney, and started his career in Australia.
Exploiting your child and holding them near a croc as a PR stunt is normal behavior. Leave Steve alone! :([/quote]
It’s a well known fact that Kiwis come here to bludge. No Australian in their right mind would want to move to NZ. Maybe we’d go there to ski and drink some of that fruity Sauvignon Blanc. Not me. I’ll go to Perisher and I’ll take a Sancerre style SB over a load of fruity shit from Marlborough.
No…muggle. Crazy yank.
He ran out of raw chickens.
I think perhaps we need an Aus vs NZ thread as everything from Osama bin Laden’s death to Things I’m Sick of in Movies is turning into a nationalist battleground.
[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
All care no responsibility
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We deserve compensation.
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
Thank fuck for that.
We need another red neck, illiberal Aussie mouth breather like root canal surgery.
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
All care no responsibility
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We deserve compensation.
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Caveat emptor.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]Tyrant wrote:
Also, I hate crap movies that become huge for no reason. Perfect example, Avatar. Yeah, the CGI was amazing, the video part of the movie rocked. 2D and 3D looked great. The acting was pathetic, the dialogue was juvenile and the plot itself wasn’t even his idea. Fuck that movie.
Seriously, watch it again, it sucks.[/quote]
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Plot was atrocious.
Ripping off Rodger Dean and not crediting him was just disrespectfull as well.
[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
Thank fuck for that.
We need another red neck, illiberal Aussie mouth breather like root canal surgery.[/quote]
Actually I am a liberal in the true sense. I like freedom of speech, democracy, equal opportunity for women and minorities, tolerance within reason, I hate war, I love my country and I care about the kind of world my children will live in.
Picture is a statue of a NZ soldier at ANZAC bridge. There’s an Australian soldier beside him. I like the symbolism.
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[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ Don’t fret Hallowed, there’s always someone that comes along and says that she’s too good looking and wouldn’t have sex with me if I were the last man on Earth.
If I were the last man on Earth Maggie Gyllenenhalylyl wouldn’t even be allowed in line.[/quote]
If you were the last man on earth, surly you would only have sex with the most beautiful, intelligent and emotionally stable women?
Not for yourself of course, but for mankinds sake.
However, if you consider the sexual routine some Chinese emperors had to endure, maybe being the last man on earth would kind of suck.[/quote]
There was like a movie or book about that… it didn’t turn out so well for the guy…
Forgive me if I repeat any of the above but here are some of the things that really make me pissed about movies these days.
Matrix parodies- Ooh look a little dog is backflipping and kicking a ball while doing slow mo in this family comedy, ha ha how funny… This was also shared by the Angry VideoGame Nerd.
Movies named with one word- I do enjoy the good animated movie as childish as it is, but you can never ever force me to watch some 3D shit from the deepests parts of Korea or Belgium named with one word.
Good guy or bad guy doesn’t even go through with it- OOOHhh you finally corned your nemesis, you can have a speech just shoot him afterwards. Now someone probably already mentioned this but this is about going through with it. I am quite pissed that when the hero/villain realizes the person they are about to execute is being rescued but they don’t pull the trigger out of shock knowing they won’t get another chance, no they just stare and say “How can this be happening.”
