And yet he completely avoided the question. I wonder why he even bothers to respond if he's not going to bother saying anything meaningful in his responses.daxterx2005 said:Jim has finally replied to one of my posts!
Thank God for him.
And yet he completely avoided the question. I wonder why he even bothers to respond if he's not going to bother saying anything meaningful in his responses.daxterx2005 said:Jim has finally replied to one of my posts!
Thank God for him.
As soon as I saw the title of the movie, I was upset. This movie doesn't need defenders. It's awesome.Jimothy Sterling said:The Perfect Host
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He did answer the question. This series reviews movies that earned bad reviews. Just because daxterx2005 liked the movie doesn't negate the fact that it earned weak reviews.Aardvaarkman said:And yet he completely avoided the question. I wonder why he even bothers to respond if he's not going to bother saying anything meaningful in his responses.daxterx2005 said:Jim has finally replied to one of my posts!
Thank God for him.
No, he didn't answer the question. This is what Jim said:C.S.Strowbridge said:He did answer the question. This series reviews movies that earned bad reviews. Just because daxterx2005 liked the movie doesn't negate the fact that it earned weak reviews.
He did so in the video.Aardvaarkman said:He also sis not say anything about "bad reviews."
Have you listened to the theme song?Aardvaarkman said:He could have taken the opportunity to say exactly what this series is supposed to be about
If, not when.Aardvaarkman said:Your argument about the series is about films that got bad reviews falls apart when he does episodes on movies that got good reviews.
I wasn't talking about the video, I was talking about his response here.C.S.Strowbridge said:He did so in the video.Aardvaarkman said:He also sis not say anything about "bad reviews."
It's unintelligible.C.S.Strowbridge said:Have you listened to the theme song?
But they aren't the same thing. "Society" can think a movie is "bad" that got good critical reviews.Aardvaarkman said:It's about defending movies that society thinks are bad. Overall reviews are certainly part of that.
Yes, it has. He did The Phantom Menace, which not only got good reviews at the time, was a massive box-office success.C.S.Strowbridge said:If, not when.
It hasn't happened so far.
Magnolia/Magnet are good at picking out winning films for release, but not so good at advertising them, or doing wide releases. The only reason you hear of gems like Trollhunter is via the internet. Magnolia seems to only advertise via promos on their DVDs/Blu-Rays, and only does limited releases for a lot of great movies.SwimmingRock said:Seriously, how did this so severely fly under the radar? It came out in 2010, which was back when I still checked theater releases every week and I'd never heard of it either.wombat_of_war said:The first film you have defended that i have honestly never heard of.
Wait, mystery solved. According to imdb, it was only released in America. Will go a-hunting for this one. Thanks, Jim.
Trollhunter was f'n brilliant. I stumbled across it by total accident.HappyRat said:The only reason you hear of gems like Trollhunter is via the internet. Magnolia seems to only advertise via promos on their DVDs/Blu-Rays, and only does limited releases for a lot of great movies.
Pretty much this. I've seen just about every other movie you've defended, but this is one I'd never heard of before I saw this episode, which is a shame because this movie is right in my wheelhouse. I really love quirky dark comedies like this. I agree that the only real problem with the movie is that it doesn't know how to end itself, but the first three quarters of the movie are strong enough that I don't mind a bit of a weak ending.O maestre said:thanks jim I never would have found this gem without you 😏