Escape to the Movies: Scre4m
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Jesus Christ, can't people have an opinion anymore without people shitting on it? No, there are NO good contemporary scary movies, don't agree? Enjoy the teeny bopping mediocrity but don't try to convince me.ArBeater said:
Seems like MovieBob is moving into Zero Punctuation territory. He's starting to make his reviews more and more personal and removing himself from the public opinion. As he does this his reviews become less and less helpful as his opinion is reveled to be not quite so in line with others.
The difference in why ZP can get away with this is refuge in audacity, so shameless that it's not really a review as it is a skit. MovieBob is currently under the Uwe Effect, except the more personal he gets, the more he moves towards the boring middle.
There really is only two things he can do at this point, take the full leap and accept being a movie knockoff of ZP or move to be more professional and critique with the majority audience in mind when reviewing.
The difference in why ZP can get away with this is refuge in audacity, so shameless that it's not really a review as it is a skit. MovieBob is currently under the Uwe Effect, except the more personal he gets, the more he moves towards the boring middle.
There really is only two things he can do at this point, take the full leap and accept being a movie knockoff of ZP or move to be more professional and critique with the majority audience in mind when reviewing.
I'm still going to see this tonight, because its one of those movies that perhaps by yourself is sort of dull but with your friends is a fun experience. Besides which, I'm starting to agree with your judgments less and less, so what you may think was a bad movie may end up up being a fun movie for me and my friends.
One last thing though, to all the people who say "Never seen a Scream movie up till now and proud of it", can I ask where in any universe that makes sense? If your going to hate on something, at least watch it first. Do you have to enjoy it? Hell no, in fact you can hate the Scream movies with all your guts, but at least watch it if you're going to hate it, otherwise you're simply hating something for the sake of either hating on something or to simply follow a trend. Who knows, maybe you'll like it, maybe you'll hate it, but the point is that to hate something without even experiencing it is just plain bad behaviour.
One last thing though, to all the people who say "Never seen a Scream movie up till now and proud of it", can I ask where in any universe that makes sense? If your going to hate on something, at least watch it first. Do you have to enjoy it? Hell no, in fact you can hate the Scream movies with all your guts, but at least watch it if you're going to hate it, otherwise you're simply hating something for the sake of either hating on something or to simply follow a trend. Who knows, maybe you'll like it, maybe you'll hate it, but the point is that to hate something without even experiencing it is just plain bad behaviour.
...really? You're taking this argument in this direction? Fine, I'll bite.ArBeater said:
A. This is a pop culture and media website. This is a pop-culture and media-focused article. By context, this post and all statements within this article, unless explicitly otherwise noted, are on the subjects of pop-culture and media. Neither side was talking about genocide, class wars, or geopolitical struggles. This... is NOT CNN.
B. This is also a conversation conveying personal experiences from a certain context based in the 90s, i.e. being an ostensibly suburban/urban American youth. I'm sure not every person on the planet had a great decade. But America was on top of the fucking world in that decade, and were pretty much doing well financially, culturally, and I'm arguing entertainment-wise.
C. None of this shit has stopped in the 2000s, nor did it not exist in the 20th century, much less before that. Hell, if you want to talk millions killed, why not talk the perfect storm of natural disasters that has taken place in the 21st century, or the massive financial plunge and nuclear disasters of the 70s and 80s? Because you're a tool trolling on a board, that's why, and it's embarrassing for me that I'm only coming to this conclusion at this point in my post.
D. America isn't an ethnicity, you half-wit. I could be chinese, black, or hmong for all your ass knows. My view is no more ethnocentric than yours is coherent, relevant, or well-written. Even the complaints you established have no base in ethnicity, they (at best) are oriented in classism.
E. He's outright stating that the 90s sucked, and therefore is subject to debate. Had he made the milquetoast sentiment of: "The 90s were OK, I guess" or "The 90s weren't so great" I probably wouldn't have as much of a leg to stand on. He made a blanket statement, so I sought to counter(and did quite a decent job, if I do say so myself).
Just... go away. Your misplaced knee-jerk moral outrage denotes a stupidity that hurts me more than your words could.
Man, I am on a pretty long "disagreeing with Bob" streak.
Sucker Punch absolutely blew, Your Highness was stupid and occasionally humorous, and while I'm holding off on seeing Scre-four-m until tomorrow, I'm a pretty big fan of the original Scream, and find the sequels nothing if inconsequential and mediocre.
And one response I've been waiting to bring out for a while: "The 90s sucked... according to a goddamn pro wrestler. Nuff said." Honestly, there is no real "best" decade (the only reasons people tend to prefer certain eras are the fact that they grew up then, the fact that they've been told that those were the best times by old guard analysts who grew up then, or pure personal taste in X art form), and the 90s were a damn good one as far as economic/political standings in Europe and North America (and while artistic output is a subjective thing, my top ten favorite movies contains more from the 90s than any other decade).
Well, at least I took his advice and saw Insidious. One of the best horror films I've seen in I don't know how long.
EDIT: Also, yes, chalk me up for team "Bob is being petty here".
Sucker Punch absolutely blew, Your Highness was stupid and occasionally humorous, and while I'm holding off on seeing Scre-four-m until tomorrow, I'm a pretty big fan of the original Scream, and find the sequels nothing if inconsequential and mediocre.
And one response I've been waiting to bring out for a while: "The 90s sucked... according to a goddamn pro wrestler. Nuff said." Honestly, there is no real "best" decade (the only reasons people tend to prefer certain eras are the fact that they grew up then, the fact that they've been told that those were the best times by old guard analysts who grew up then, or pure personal taste in X art form), and the 90s were a damn good one as far as economic/political standings in Europe and North America (and while artistic output is a subjective thing, my top ten favorite movies contains more from the 90s than any other decade).
Well, at least I took his advice and saw Insidious. One of the best horror films I've seen in I don't know how long.
EDIT: Also, yes, chalk me up for team "Bob is being petty here".
Yeah; I left out a lot, though, because I could spend all day listing what made the 90s awesome. It obviously wasn't perfect (there's plenty about the intervening years that I've actually become quite fond of), but there was enough to argue against a fictitious character whose recycled line was more a reference to the fact that no one would hire a clumsy, difficult-to-work-with monstrous turd in the 90s.brazuca said:
A "Why the 90ties sucked" episode would be great for the big picture... cause dont really get the point so much cause the movies dont seem to suck to me that much more than todays ones do, but then I was also kind of young back then so maybe I wouldnt know, I mean would actually be interesting to see the general point of Bob there and then just never hear of it again, cause it's beginning to get a bit annoying.
When every comment you post gets questioned by some know it all you tend to get defensive. And why are you worried about how I look? I know who and what I am. People are living today because of my everyday duties, I don't need some random dude's validation. Anyways i'm done, go ahead and repost something else calling me names, i'm sure you'll hurt my feelings or something.ArBeater said:
