TheBoost

I enjoy the TPM and ROTS quite a bit.

darth_ender said:

My biggest point here is not where I am coming from, necessarily, but rather that I tire of religious bigotry, regardless of who is the target.  But I certainly leaned towards the unspoken rules utilized by so many that allow for the criticism of certain faiths and the...what's the word...untouchability(?) of other faiths.

What world are we in that Jews and Muslims are "untouchable" to criticism? Is this an EU thing?

RedFive said:

  

However, Orlando Bloom is the real winner here... bastard!

 

 

You mean because he finally found someone with a narrower waist than him?

I was thinking to myself that there aren't any films I actually HATE. That level of emotional investment seems odd in regards to whats supposed to be a couple hours distraction.

But I'm sick right now, and last night my brother called me and offered to bring over "Van Helsing."

I would have punched him in the face.

So maybe hating a movie isn't really that unreasonable. :)

I think it was nothing. Lando was just f-ing with him.

Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold said:

"Sounds like a complete dicatorship to me"

"Well, if it works..."

I gotta say that scene is just about the only time I got the impression those characters had the slightest bit of interest in eachother.

xhonzi said:

TheBoost said:

I think it's partly the annoyance of the obligatory chaste romance in these films, not that the romance itself is chaste.

Really?  I don't see that at all.  Perhaps in the case of Green Lantern, but not the others.  He seems to be upset that these films don't have sex scenes.  Enough to keep calling it out in his reviews.

He blames Marvel in the case of Cap.  Then he blames PG-13 in the case of Apes.  I know what I was expecting when I went to go see Rise of the Apes: Full frontal nudity.  And more "intimate details" between the  scientist who accidentally created an untelligent breed of ape and his wife.  And maybe some apes.  You know... rising.  If there's time left after all of the "intimate details" are laid out.  *wink wink*

Perhaps I'm projecting my own annoyance on Ebert.

I watch TPM (Phantom Edit) and ROTS on occasion. I'd rather have a Star Wars film that I'm a bit disappointed in than no Star Wars film. There's a lot in both those films i enjoy.

xhonzi said:

 

Here are some snippets (all PG-13 movies):

Green Lantern:

We demand one chaste kiss between hero and heroine, but no funny stuff.

 

Captain America:

Young Steve's Army confidante both before and after his transformation is the sultry Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), whose full red lips make her resemble a classic military pin-up of the period. ... they grow close, but only PG-13 close, because Marvel has apparently determined that fanboys find sex to be icky.

 

Rise of the Apes:

Whether she becomes Will's surrogate wife is an excellent question; the movie displays the usual PG-13 shyness about intimate details;

 

And a bit of a stretch: X-Men: First Class

At least all the X-Men are old enough to see an R-rated movie without adult supervision. Not that "X-Men" is R-rated; god forbid that a comic-book movie should turn away a single eager ticket-buyer.

Winner winner, chicken dinner.

And those are all of the reviews I read today.  I stopped reading Ebert years ago, but what's happened to the man?  He seems to be very upset that PG-13 ratings are standing between him and seeing famous boobs.

I think it's partly the annoyance of the obligatory chaste romance in these films, not that the romance itself is chaste.

L8wrtr said:

But again, the why of it just eludes me. I just don't understand why he flipped out. So much anymosity over something so idiotic..

I agree.

It's like you meet a dude at the coffee shop. Seems cool, then after a minute he says, "Well, I'm out."

And you go, "Oh, where you heading?"

And he goes, "Screw you lemming. You contributed nothing to my latte! I refuse to take this abuse!"

Anti-Matter said:
Note to all : Don't stir up controversy where none exists--particularly in a thread to which you've previously contributed NOTHING. The false pretense is transparent.

I can't shake the feeling if you type something like this, you're sitting in a home-made cape in the dark, tenting your fingers, perhaps cackling.

bkev said:

Warbler said:

huh?  I don't understand, are you say that in Dark Knight,  Batman didn't want the public to be buddy-buddy with the police?   I never got that idea from watching the movie.

I've only seen the movie once, but from what I understood in the ending Bats told Gordon he needed to be viewed as a menace and not a hero so that Harvey Dent could be remembered not as two-face but as the DA. So, Gordon was going to tread him as a vigilante in press statements etc. and not publicly support him; rather, the opposite. I thought Gordon was supposed to treat Batman like a criminal from then on out.

 How could you not understand. Batman was the hero. Not the hero we want to need, but the hero we need to want. And he's the hero that we deserve to have, but not the hero we have to deserve. Don't you see lil' Jimmy Jr? That's why Batman is running away at the end. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain, or hero along until you villain enough to die.

It all made perfect sense!

mrbenja0618 said:

I'm pretty sure he'll delete your pages like he did mine. I had a thread for redemption over there before I knew he was a nut job. He deleted mine for "having affiliations with another forum that has acted hostile towards his group."!

 "Hostile towards his group?"

I thought we were a bunch of film enthusiasts. Apparently we're middle school hooligans fighting for territory.

DuracellEnergizer said:

While she's a lovely young woman, I just cant find any sexiness in this pose. It's either TOO blatant, or I worry she just slipped and fell.

More in the "hot women who could beat you up" series.

BETH PHOENIX!

aka THE GLAMAZON

More in the "hot women who could beat you up" series.

BETH PHOENIX!

aka THE GLAMAZON

I'm reminded of a speech Ben Affleck's character gives in the film Bounce (IIRC). If I may paraphrase:

"It's like I was driving on the sidewalk, looking in my rearview mirror at all the injured people and thinking to myself, 'there are a lot of bad drivers around here.'"

I of course am named after the Sean Young film, which I wrote, directed, and costarred in.

thejediknighthusezni said:

       My great yearning for A SHRUBBERY!!!(but don't spend too much:)

       There might have been a few other reasons ;)

 

 

 

In all honesty i thought it was "The Jedi Knight Usezni" and you were Japanese or something/

theprequelsrule said:

TV's Frink said:

theprequelsrule said:

She excels at playing two types; waifs and jail-bait.

Wut?

Did you see Garden State?  Did you see Black Swan?

Yes. She plays waif types in both those films.

I quirky mentally handicapped receptionis and an obsessive possibly psychotic dancer are waif types?

"I do not think that word means what you think it means."

TV's Frink said:

I know this won't be a popular opinion, but...

Is it possible that Ledger's performance is overrated due to the timing of this death?  I say yes.

I think some of the hype surrounding a performance was very very very good can be attributed to that. But I don't think to any great deal.

TIE: Mask of the Phantasm/Batman

Close 2nd. The Dark Knight.

TDK would be higher, if not for one to many repetitions of the "not the hero with think we need to deserve, but the hero we deserve to think we need" monologues.

To this day I've never seen the end of Batman and Robin. I walked out of the theater when Poison Ivy took out a talking plant in a pot or something that just was to damn lame. I flirted with the snack bar girl because my ride stayed in the theater, and actually scored a date, so it was worth it.

I ignored Twooffour (or as I call him, Halfie) quite some time ago. Am I missing any interesting or amusing butt-holery, or just more of the same?

Tyrphanax said:

The whole thing about the Mandalorians is that they were cool because they were mysterious and secretive and we didn't know much about them, like with Boba Fett, she threw all that to the wind and completely described almost every little detail of them, which took away that mystery and intrigue and made them accessible to all the idiots out there who are not deserving.

We're no elitists. Not at all.

From "topic" to "I still hate the prequals" in less than one post.

That has to be a new record, even for us.

Unless, to be fair, "I hate the prequals" WAS the real topic, and the thread title was a clever ruse.