twooffour said:
Moth3r said:
greenpenguino said:
twooffour said:
Moth3r said:
... 1990s sci-fi film, heavily laden with CGI special effects but enjoyable and entertaining nonetheless.
See also Independence Day (1996), Starship Troopers (1997) and Men in Black (1997).
Discuss.
Nah.
Independence Day is cheesy and stereotypical, but a giant pile of silly fun. It's got Willi Schmidt, Jeff Nerdbloom and a wacky Jew with a beard, for Christ's sake.
Men in Black... WHAT? You troll (and forum administrator).You should add that 'Lost in Space' Remake to the heavily laden cgi list
*mutters* Although I do like that film more than TPM *mutters*
Ask someone to name a sci-fi film of the nineties that is heavily laden with CGI effects, and I suspect that very few would remember name Lost in Space.
And Men in Black is no less a giant pile of silly fun as Independence Day or The Phantom Menace.
Consider also Terminator 2. The original Terminator film was, in my opinion, a classic, even with it's low budget special effects and mono sound mix. The big-budget sequel doesn't particularly gel with the original (in my opinion - I know many would disagree). It is nonetheless a pretty decent sci-fi flick which is great fun to watch on its own merits, if you are able to temporarily forget that there was another - superior - film that preceded it.
I feel the same way about TPM.
Well, in that case something's clearly wrong with you.
Equating MiB to Episode I, simply because they're both "silly", is BEYOND absurd and displays a complete lack of thinking ability.
MiB is "silly", by the virtue of being a COMEDY. It has a funny protagonist, a well-structured storyline, a comical over-the-top villain, and tons and tons of funny one-liners, GAGS and slapstick.
Is it ever boring? Does it ever come off as uninspired, wooden and lazy?Okay, let's look at TPM - it's mostly a "serious" action adventure movie, mostly lighthearted in its tone, but generally less comedic than even ANH.
Its attempt to be comedic is almost exclusively condensed in Jar Jar Binks - now how funny that one was in comparison to Will Smith, Edgar the Bug and Jack Jeebs, I'll leave to you.
Aside from that, it's largely boring, lifeless, has no relatable main characters, and ends up being child-like, sappy and annoying at its worst when little Ani comes into play.
Can you say the same about Mib? Or EVEN Independence Day?
I'd probably put Sebulba on par with any hilarious MiB alien -that one was a really neat creation.
All the "awesome technology and funny gadgets" in TPM is quite cool (even though nowhere as refreshing as in MiB), and it has some amusing alien cameos in the podrace.
But being on par with MiB as a movie? PLEASE.
He said the movie is "a pile of silly fun." Not "it's a comedy," you moron. MIB is silly fun because its an sci-fi action-comedy that's fun to watch, ID4 is silly fun because it's an over the top disaster film that's fun to watch, and TPM is silly fun because it's a lighthearted children's adventure fantasy that's fun to watch. None of them are in the exact same genre, but they all came out around the same time, they all are sci-fi to some degree, they all have a lot of CG special effects, they all have elements of silliness in them, and they all are considered a generally fun ride, if not by consensus than at least by Moth3r. As he said, "It is nonetheless a pretty decent sci-fi flick which is great fun to watch on its own merits". Read the whole post before you make an over the top response.