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Movies you hate but everyone else loves
#21
RE: Movies you hate but everyone else loves
(January 31, 2018 at 5:37 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Star Wars episolds 7 and 8.

I for one don't care for what they did to Luke. 

Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#22
RE: Movies you hate but everyone else loves
Kingsman: The Secret Service. The characters were more than a bit flat, but what galled me about the movie is that they somehow managed to take a villain whose intention was to cause more death and destruction than Hitler (with his literal killer app) [largely because I honestly agree with him that a massive population bottleneck may very well be the best way we can expect to save the world from our environmental excesses], and somehow managed to have Colin Firth's not-M character seem more morally repugnant.

His training methods are like something out of Saw, except that there's always something that gets pulled out of Mark Millar's ass that makes it so that somehow it's not the certain death they make it out to be (one example that comes to mind is the skydiving without a parachute scene, where, after Eggsy manages to make it down, despite not having a parachute, Harry activates the parachute he aparently had on him the entire time, even though it invalidated the point of the exercise.) This would be okay if Eggsy at least called him out on it, but he doesn't.

Another point that frustrates me to no end is that, when Harry and Eggsy talk in his office, he mentions that "a gentleman should only have his name in the papers three times: when he's born, when he's married, and when he dies," and points out that it's important that the work of Kingsman remain secret. And what happens in the climax? All the world's leaders (and quite a few of its celebrities) get their heads blown up, the villain actually succeeds in making his massacre happen (if only for a few minutes), and the plan gets foiled when the satellites transmitting the app's mind control capabilities get blown up, which will almost certainly end with Kessler Syndrome happening, buggering up humanity's space and satellite programs for millennia. If they had brought it up just once, maybe have Merlin tell Eggsy "Eggsy, this is going to need one bugger of a cover-up" at some point during the climax, this wouldn't be a problem.

Seriously, I came into it expecting to love it, for its rebirth of the campy 1970s, Roger Moore-era, James Bond. Sadly, they fucked it up and I found myself once again looking at how similar I really am to the Unabomber. And looking deeper into his works, I suspect Mark Millar may be the one to blame. He can do some good stories (see Kick-Ass and Nemesis), but it's depressingly easy for him to just go completely off the rails (Trouble, Civil War, The Unfunnies, The Ulti-"You-Think-The-A-On-My-Head-Stands-For-France"-mates.)
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#23
RE: Movies you hate but everyone else loves
(January 31, 2018 at 7:41 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Star Wars

(January 31, 2018 at 7:17 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Interstellar.

Nothing in that movie made any sense. The ending was offensive.

I think I could write an essay about how terrible that movie is but then I'd have to watch the movie again.

What was offenssive at the end? I watched that movie when it came out but don't remember the ending well at all...

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Its insulting to general intelligence. Its possibly the single worst ending to a sci-fi film I've ever seen. The movie seemed to pay so much attention to detail with physics, time dilation, wormholes, etc. Then they ruin it at the end by throwing it all out and creating a mishmash of pseudoscience, bad science, romance and just plain old ridiculousness.
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#24
RE: Movies you hate but everyone else loves
(January 31, 2018 at 7:50 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Anything by Tarantino or starring Cage, it seems.

None of the Tarantino films??? You must have liked at least one of them...

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#25
RE: Movies you hate but everyone else loves
(January 31, 2018 at 10:28 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(January 31, 2018 at 7:41 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Star Wars


What was offenssive at the end? I watched that movie when it came out but don't remember the ending well at all...

Spoiler:




Its insulting to general intelligence. Its possibly the single worst ending to a sci-fi film I've ever seen. The movie seemed to pay so much attention to detail with physics, time dilation, wormholes, etc. Then they ruin it at the end by throwing it all out and creating a mishmash of pseudoscience, bad science, romance and just plain old ridiculousness.




Please, Tibby, tell me why Interstellar's ending was so bad, but apparently this was better.
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#26
RE: Movies you hate but everyone else loves
Yeah, that was a pretty bad ending. I still think Interstellar's was worse, mostly because it was a complete 180 from the rest of the movie.
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#27
RE: Movies you hate but everyone else loves
I felt Interstellar was pretty pretentious, but I think the fact that I wasn't feeling well that day and ended up sleeping through the first hour because of it might have had something to do with it.
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#28
RE: Movies you hate but everyone else loves
(January 31, 2018 at 10:45 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I felt Interstellar was pretty pretentious, but I think the fact that I wasn't feeling well that day and ended up sleeping through the first hour because of it might have had something to do with it.

Nah it was.

It was probably the first time I've walked out of a movie theater feeling angry that I'd somehow been robbed. The movie set up aliens for the first half, failed to deliver, and instead of leaving it there goes further and completely fucks up the ending.
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#29
RE: Movies you hate but everyone else loves
(January 31, 2018 at 10:50 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(January 31, 2018 at 10:45 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I felt Interstellar was pretty pretentious, but I think the fact that I wasn't feeling well that day and ended up sleeping through the first hour because of it might have had something to do with it.

Nah it was.

It was probably the first time I've walked out of a movie theater feeling angry that I'd somehow been robbed. The movie set up aliens for the first half, failed to deliver, and instead of leaving it there goes further and completely fucks up the ending.

The acting, visuals, and score in that movie were spectacular.

I found the Godfather films to be boring.
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#30
RE: Movies you hate but everyone else loves
All for naught if you don't have a good story in my opinion.
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