Whoa whoa whoa wait, hold on a minute... are you saying The Last Airbender was a good movie? O.OZombie Nixon said:
You umm... had a point until that last little remark, now I'll consider your comment void.
Escape to the Movies: The Expendables
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You umm... had a point until that last little remark, now I'll consider your comment void.
Its a mineless action movie...what's wrong with it? There's nothing wrong with satisfying our animalistic need for gore and violence. Don't take this movie aseriously. Don't watch it for the story, watch it for the explosions, gun fights and ass-kicking goodness.
Sometimes a movie doesn't need to be artsy and deep, its just needs to be entertaining and this moive fits that bill to a tee. ANd if that makes me a mindless sheep, well BAA BAA and soak your head MovieBob
Sometimes a movie doesn't need to be artsy and deep, its just needs to be entertaining and this moive fits that bill to a tee. ANd if that makes me a mindless sheep, well BAA BAA and soak your head MovieBob
You know, you can see *gasp* both Scott Pilgrim and The Expendables. That's what I'm doing. Anyway, Bob, chill. Seriously, raging like that is not good for your health.
Also, The Nuge? And not Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga, or Sarah Palin, or a billion other people that are so much worse than a slightly crazy gun-nut that plays righteous guitar?
Also, The Nuge? And not Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga, or Sarah Palin, or a billion other people that are so much worse than a slightly crazy gun-nut that plays righteous guitar?
Iunno... Didn't Expendables seem as if it was trying to hard? Especially with the advertising. I just watched it again, and he has a few good points to go with the angst.Badassassin said:
Scott Pilgrim wasn't going to do well against this behemoth, even if it was a bad movie. I doubt there's much to really watch here, unless four or five guys died in the beginning to thin out the herd so to speak.
Wow... just... wow. I almost feel obligated to dust off my woolly coat a grab my spot on the pasture. I mean good gods, of all the things to invoke such a massive community response, it ends up being a review of the Expendables? I'm almost sure this is the most writing devoted to that lovely bit of popcorn cinema anywhere on these vast untamed Internets. Hmmm... the need to avoid conformity runs strong in this place. Hmm... well...
So I saw both movies (huzzah for free tickets), both were mildly entertaining, both tickled radically different parts of my brain. Regardless, I still appreciated the tickling period. Honestly, to make any general assumption about a human being based on his or her movie preferences betrays a dangerous lack of knowledge about the human pysche, and a general lack of knowledge period. If such tidy little groups like 'jock', or 'hipster' actually existed, the world would be such a bland and wholly unremarkable place. But we do love our tidy little groups don't we, hell, even I appreciate a good jaunt through TV Tropes every now and then.
*sigh* Meh, I'm more impressed with the thread than it's subject... just the wide range of bile and vitriol it seemed to spark amongst folks who seemed generally... sane. (Of course sanity is a myth, as is normalcy, as is the 'common man'). Hmmm, well, ta ta.
Oh, and here, this should drain the hatred from this place easily enough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne3L99fjhyo
BOW TO YOG KUDL! THE UNHOLY KITTEN GOD! Bow and relinquish unto him your soul!
So I saw both movies (huzzah for free tickets), both were mildly entertaining, both tickled radically different parts of my brain. Regardless, I still appreciated the tickling period. Honestly, to make any general assumption about a human being based on his or her movie preferences betrays a dangerous lack of knowledge about the human pysche, and a general lack of knowledge period. If such tidy little groups like 'jock', or 'hipster' actually existed, the world would be such a bland and wholly unremarkable place. But we do love our tidy little groups don't we, hell, even I appreciate a good jaunt through TV Tropes every now and then.
*sigh* Meh, I'm more impressed with the thread than it's subject... just the wide range of bile and vitriol it seemed to spark amongst folks who seemed generally... sane. (Of course sanity is a myth, as is normalcy, as is the 'common man'). Hmmm, well, ta ta.
Oh, and here, this should drain the hatred from this place easily enough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne3L99fjhyo
BOW TO YOG KUDL! THE UNHOLY KITTEN GOD! Bow and relinquish unto him your soul!
My main gripe about this MovieBob video wasn't that he didn't like the Expendables, or even that he's inconsistent in terms of which action he likes and which action he doesn't. If someone likes one action movie and doesn't like another, that doesn't necessarily make him a hypocrite, it just makes him have different tastes at different times. Which is fine.
What I found reprehensible was the sheer lack of professionalism in the review.
In debate class years and years and years ago, we learned about a thing called "logical fallacy." One of those fallacies was the "ad hominem" attack. Now, I could be mistaken (it's been a while) but basically, it's saying "Well, you cheated on your wife, so your idea can't possible be right!" Or, more to the point, "You're stupid, so your idea is stupid!"
This review is rife with ad hominem attacks, and very little else. As I said in my last post (six pages ago), this review stinks of "MovieBob wrote the review before he saw the movie."
What I found reprehensible was the sheer lack of professionalism in the review.
In debate class years and years and years ago, we learned about a thing called "logical fallacy." One of those fallacies was the "ad hominem" attack. Now, I could be mistaken (it's been a while) but basically, it's saying "Well, you cheated on your wife, so your idea can't possible be right!" Or, more to the point, "You're stupid, so your idea is stupid!"
This review is rife with ad hominem attacks, and very little else. As I said in my last post (six pages ago), this review stinks of "MovieBob wrote the review before he saw the movie."
Wouldn't have mattered what week you came back in, because he seems to find a way to criticize Bay's Transformers every chance he gets.Thyunda said:
What gets me is that he says in a post that he was happy (or proud) with how that review turned out.
What was there to be proud of? He pretty much said he was going to hate it weeks before he did the review.
So let it be decreed. When you decide you're going to hate a movie before giving it any chance, you are pulling a "Moviebob"
It will go as followed:
Guy 1 - How did you like ___________?"
Guy 2 - eh, I hated it, but I knew I was going to before going in.
Guy 1 - Ah, pulled a Moviebob
Guy 2 - You know it
Mortagog said:
The fact that i have to explain this may indeed make this post pointless as you obviously have no idea what i ment, but allow me to dumb it down.
She was born in 1990. She came to awareness long after the death of the macho hero.
She did not grow up with them as i did (Yeah, im old and young women are easy.... Sue me).
Thus, most people her age who arent weird 80s retrofile junkies have no idea of the appeal of such films.
Not to mention she was a woman.
This is a guy flick. Only the most awesome of tomboy women are able to watch such a film and not be revolted, confused or bored.
I heard horror tales of another friends girlfriend who fell asleep during the film. The mechanics of how one sleeps through so many explosions still escapes me - But thats not the point.
This film was in essence, designed for MEN ubove 25 years old in order to appeal to their nostalgia toward their childhood heros.... It worked too. I saw it. my friends saw it. My father and uncle saw it. Seems like everyone saw it.
It was entertaining for every reason i was led to believe.
Enter cinema.
Brain off.
Hehehehe Explosions.
Leave cinema.
Scott Pilgrim on the other hand is marketed to the 15 to 18 year old gamer and net culture croud. I dont know anyone over 25 with a shred of interest in seeing the film. Me, ill pirate it and have a look but its not worth any money to me.
TLDR - OLD GUYS ONLY MOVIE ENJOYED BY YOUNG WOMAN = WTF AND FUCK SCOTT PILGRIM
I saw both movies in the same weekend and I thought that expendables was a 3/5 and scott was a 4/5. I liked scott more as it was quirky and original. I liked expendables because it was ridiculous and knew it. There is no reason for the massive rage, get over yourself.
Ouuuuccchhh... That was just one big long rant about how the movie sucked. Sucked this way, sucked that way, etc. etc.
He's probably just bitter because he was looking forward to it so much
I just thought of something similar... Hope it doesn't happen. (Not saying what)
He's probably just bitter because he was looking forward to it so much
I just thought of something similar... Hope it doesn't happen. (Not saying what)
I don't think people are going insane because we all secretly loved the expenables, its because we think MovieBob was unprofessional in his review. Most of us would have been happy to let MovieBob slap The Expendables out of the window but we hate the way he did it. Next week should be interesting and I'll be keeping an eye on his blog to see if he squirts some more bile our way.EnigmaticSevens said:
It seems this 'review' was more about "Scott Pilgrim" apparently not doing well in the box office than about "The Expendables". Now, i haven't seen either yet (they have not come out here, was actually planning to see both), but I can spot a bad review from miles away and Bob, this is a really, really bad review. I'm stumped, since you usually do a good job and seem to avoid making the 'easy' comments.
Insulting people for their taste is ok'ish, some tastes simple are awful, but this was beyond control. Further, the review contained little logic and told the viewer nothing but "I am pissed of about something, but it sure as hell ain't this movie".
But I'm sure the past zillion posts already contained this information. I hope you do not make the mistake of being 'proud' of stirring up controversy and take the advise. You messed up, it happens to everyone.
Insulting people for their taste is ok'ish, some tastes simple are awful, but this was beyond control. Further, the review contained little logic and told the viewer nothing but "I am pissed of about something, but it sure as hell ain't this movie".
But I'm sure the past zillion posts already contained this information. I hope you do not make the mistake of being 'proud' of stirring up controversy and take the advise. You messed up, it happens to everyone.