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The 2009 Summer Movie Thread
April 17th 2009, 19:56 CEST by Trunks Star Trek, Up, Terminator, Wolverine, Transformers 2, Harry Potter 6. Bitch about the upcoming summer blockbusters here. |
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So what shall we talk about? I bought 256 MB of SDRAM on eBay for an old laptop today. Cost me 9 quid. "the bullets aren't having any impact on him. Maybe I have to wait until he's finished talking." - Jibble
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What's 10/10 if not "perfect"? How can a perfect score indicate anything other than perfection? "the bullets aren't having any impact on him. Maybe I have to wait until he's finished talking." - Jibble
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There's no such thing as perfection. 10/10 means "meets our highest of expectations". 10/10 is meaningless if it's unobtainable. But it depends on what you're judging. |
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Do grades or five stars. |
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Since it's impossible to give an objective judgment of anything artistic, a review is merely a recommendation. A "perfect" score signifies an unqualified recommendation. EOD. BUYBUYBUY
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BobJustBob (#102): EOD. Heh. You don't participate in discussions, Bob, you just tell everyone else they're wrong. "the bullets aren't having any impact on him. Maybe I have to wait until he's finished talking." - Jibble
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Says the guy who skipped the substance of my post to make a snarky reply. But I guess you really had no other choice, since I posted facts and ended the discussion. BUYBUYBUY
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As long as you continue to conflate "facts" and "your opinion", yeah, I'm going to skip your posts. "the bullets aren't having any impact on him. Maybe I have to wait until he's finished talking." - Jibble
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Man, who crapped in your tree? "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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Like how you quoted one post and replied to the next? If everyone skipped my posts like you do, I'd be the most popular guy on the site. BUYBUYBUY
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Reading Bob requires to filter out the boberbole and find the nugget of information contained within. He's always held that his opinion is fact and anyone that disagrees is nuts, which ironically, has everyone else think that he's nuts. Hence the creation of the Boboverse out of the Great War of HL2. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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How about you morons tell me which part of my post you think is opinion? Oh wait, there's only one part. The part where I state the fact that there can be no objective metric of artistry. You morons actually disagree with that? Morons. BUYBUYBUY
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I don't understand the need to have everything out of 10, or some fraction or multiple of that (10 in .5 increments, or .1 increments, etc.) If you're going to do ratings, do something like Buy It/Rent It/Skip It, or even better, exactly how much you would pay to own that game. Given most reviewers aren't paying for their games and their job is living and breathing games, their conception of game prices may be skewed, but saying you'd pay $30 or less for a game is tremendously more descriptive and useful then "7.5". Also, that way there's no upper or lower limit; if they were feeling assinine enough, you could say you would pay $1,000,000 for GTA4, and still have room for the GTA5 hand job, or demand $300 back for lost time and emotional damage in playing "Imagine: Party Babyz" or whatever. |
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It's still spring, but I saw Crank: High Voltage tonight. What a fucked up movie. |
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I finally finished Saints Row 2 last night. 86% completion. I thought about going back and getting 100% but that just isn't gonna happen. Now onto one of my several other games in the pile. |
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I saw Disney's Earth last night. It's Planet Earth, but with less gore, more James Earl Jones, and a big screen. The big screen makes it cool. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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bobs pretty much right, though. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
"LP, your big balls are a religion." - Jibble |
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I predict that it's going to be hard to top the best movie ever made... Terminator: Salvation. |
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R.I.P. Bea Arthur (Yeah, laugh all you want, but I remember watching her a lot on TV when I was a kid) 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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#116 by yotsuya R.I.P. Bea Arthur i still catch a Golden Girls episode now and then. funny stuff. The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. -Ayn Rand
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And the theme song for Maude was sassy. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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If bob was incorrect about ratings system for movies, it would be easy to create an objective set of measurements which resulted in a rating that everyone agrees with, with the exact meaning of each point explained. For an objective ratings system, see crash test ratings. Objective ratings means objective measurements. No.
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I hear crickets... |
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Funk. |
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Nah, that's the echos from the cheering at draft when the Jets picked Sanchez. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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I remembered I've missed the last Indy Jones movie. Was it worth watching, or is it Episode 1 all over again? Also, please remind me - which Indy movie is the best? |
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Number three is best. I thought the fourth was aight, but it's pretty divisive how people feel. It's pretty much all silly fun, wacky shenanigans. If you can accept that in the context of Indy you're good to go, otherwise it's safe to pass. |
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Did I just fall down a sarchasm? |
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Indy 4 was very clearly written by the new George Lucas. "IT consultant of perfect lovemaking art."
- randomly generated subject header of a spam e-mail |
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Indy 4 is garbage. BUYBUYBUY
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#127 by BobJustBob Indy 4 is garbage. Your post fails the Codex of Jamie. Prepare to die. |
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Indy 4 was ok. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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#123 by Milan Brezovský I remembered I've missed the last Indy Jones movie. Was it worth watching, or is it Episode 1 all over again? Also, please remind me - which Indy movie is the best? Indy 4 is shit. If you must watch it, turn it off around the 75 minute mark. Raiders of the Lost Ark is best. |
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Indy 4 is fine. People are just haters. That said, it's 3 of 4, behind Raiders and Last Crusade. |
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Yeah, it's not that bad. It ticks most of the right boxes and has some genuine 'Indy' moments. That said, the final act does go a little too far and there are some slightly embarassing moments (Shia LaBeouf's Tarzan moment being the most objectionable). And all of the CGI does make you hearken back to a time when scenes would have been grounded in reality by virtue of the fact that someone would have to be physically able to do all of the stunts. |
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Oh, and I actually liked what Karen Allen brought to the film - there was still some chemistry between her and Ford and it was refreshing to have the female lead played by someone who is around the same age as the male hero. |
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I thought 4 was just fine. Although Patton Oswalt made a great observation about the series. He said the first one ended with the ominous warehouse full of crates that wrapped up a great adventure- the second one ended with a happy village, people laughing, the hero kissing the girls, the whole nine yards, a good ending- the third one ended with Indiana Jones and JAMES BOND riding off into the sunset on horses, off to chase more adventure.... How did the fourth one end? With a line of old people walking out of a church. 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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The first half of four was very Indy. The second half was very Lucas. You know what I mean. "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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jjohnsen (#130): If you must watch it, turn it off around the 75 minute mark. What's special about the 75 minute mark? It starts out stupid and never stops. The end may be the stupidest part, but it's a constant descent into more and more stupid rather than a sudden turn. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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Shadarr (#136): jjohnsen (#130): If you must watch it, turn it off around the 75 minute mark. What's special about the 75 minute mark? It starts out stupid and never stops. The end may be the stupidest part, but it's a constant descent into more and more stupid rather than a sudden turn. Jaded much? I'm not saying it's gold or anything, but to say the fourth one is complete poop ignores the other movies which had similar fillings at points... "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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It starts out with him surviving a nuclear bomb by getting inside a fridge. The kind of fridge that kids used to get trapped inside and suffocate. And then after he's been blown through the air by a nuclear bomb he somehow just opens that fridge up from the inside and pops out, no worse for wear. Nothing in the first three movies was that stupid. Since when is having standards a bad thing? It means that when I tell you something is good, you can trust that it's actually good because I don't tell you shitty movies like Indy 4 were good. And before you go all "You're just jaded, you don't like anything", fuck you. Batman Begins was good. The XMen movies were good. Indy 4 was worse than Terminator 3. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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X-Men 3 was poor. "the bullets aren't having any impact on him. Maybe I have to wait until he's finished talking." - Jibble
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It wasn't as good as the first two, but it wasn't the complete nose-dive I was expecting, as happened to the Batman series when Burton left. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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I've just seen Poltergeist. The first one. It was surprisingly good. It had some weirdly odd cuts in certain places that tore up the pacing, and the special effects were of course laughable at times, but it was pretty damned decent! Then, as I walked home, lighting suddenly flashed out of nowhere. I, of course, started counting. It's gotten closer. PRETTY FUCKING SCARY HUH?? At least give me it's a bit of a coincidence. And finally, the leading lady of that movie is pretty as heck. |
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Indy 4 was shit. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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Thank you kindly, PC hive mind, I've think I have enough information. "assemblerer is like the dorkier male version of ryslin. His posts make my head hurt." -- Mister Nutty
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Too late now, comrade Brezovskiy. You have awoken the mind, and it will FACT YOU TO DEATH. "the bullets aren't having any impact on him. Maybe I have to wait until he's finished talking." - Jibble
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#136 by Shadarr jjohnsen (#130): If you must watch it, turn it off around the 75 minute mark. What's special about the 75 minute mark? It starts out stupid and never stops. The end may be the stupidest part, but it's a constant descent into more and more stupid rather than a sudden turn. There's nothing great about 75 minutes, except the last 30-45 minutes is when it goes from bad to horrible. |
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I'm sure George Lucas will be happy to hear that I will not infringe on his copyrights by not pirating his movie. He'll have his not money and I will have my ~90 minutes of not watching not-so-good-or-maybe-outright-terrible movie! "assemblerer is like the dorkier male version of ryslin. His posts make my head hurt." -- Mister Nutty
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Making stuff so bad it's not even worth stealing: the new anti-piracy technology from George Lucas™. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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