Movies that I just don't get

[tetsujin28]

Our QC officer has a red swingline stapler, and we joke about it all the time.

My lab seems to have this inordinate obsession with having cake, for any conceivable occasion. Every time I find myself passing plates of cake down a line of people there, I and several others break out laughing.

So here's my question: why don't we have Jennifer Anniston working across the street? Or Nigella?

 

[TracerBullet42]

A wise man once spoke on the topic of Tolerance. The line has always remained with me:

"Don't ram your religion down my throat, and I won't ram my fridge down yours."

The sentiment's been expressed a few times on this thread - you're welcome to describe your tastes, and to express bewilderment, but please don't try and force those tastes on others.

The thread has been mostly self-policing so far, but let's make sure we all count to ten before hitting "Send" if we're feeling emotional

Thanks,
-Hyp.
(Moderator)

Here here, Hyp. This thread WAS fun to read through for a while...everyone needs to relax.

A movie, rather a series, I just don't get is the Star Wars movies...I've never been all that impressed with them. I think it may be because I am in that "tweener" age group that was too young when they first came out to enjoy them, and too old to see the new "kiddish" ones as anything enjoyable either...

I just don't get it...

 

[Pielorinho]

Watching taky and pez argue reminds me, inexplicably, of this comic

Not that I'm saying you go around sniffing pus -- kitties, taky.

Daniel

 

[Mallus]

Trying desperately to reply to the original question and not spin off into anime, Tarrantino, Rebecca Pidgeon speaking super-clipped dialogue, and the sheer, undenialable pornography that is Nigella Lawson licking her fingers...

Two from the opposite ends of the film spectrum, though united by their ability to annoy me...

1) Todd Solondz's Happiness. People who I know and respect swear by this film. I only swore at it. Its is to a mean, biting black comedy what shooting fish in a barrel is to sport. And I liked Neil LaBute's Your Friends and Neighbors. Go figure...

2) Michael Bay's Armageddon. The film that manages to combine Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi and and a frickin' giant Earth-smashing meteor into a tedious mess. For me, it was like going to a perfromance of one of my favorite peices of music where every single note the orchestra struck was wrong...

Now Hudson Hawk... that was an entertaining picture.

 

[takyris]

Watching taky and pez argue reminds me, inexplicably, of this comic

Not that I'm saying you go around sniffing pus -- kitties, taky.

Daniel

As long as I'm winning, I'm a happy camper.

 

[pezagent]

Ninja Scroll sucks. This is by the same guy who gave us Vampire Hunter: D, which also sucks.

Vampire Hunter D was created by Amano, who had nothing to do with Ninja Scroll. Honestly if you're going to bash something get the facts straight. And eat your peas, too--they're good for you.

Sucks rocks. Crap writing, crap design, crap animation. Do NOT watch these movies because you will hate yourself in the morning.

Great review. I hear the New York Times is hiring. I seriously doubt anyone would hate themselves after watching either, and if they do, I think they've got deeper problems than Anime movies. Eh?

Lain is interesting -- long and dull, but interesting. Er.

Another insightful review. Thumbs up or down then?

/johnny

 

[pezagent]

Perhaps if you used some of that crisp, clean dialogue training you've gotten from reading all the great works, misinterpretation would not have been an issue.

I don't know what you're talking about. Futhermore, you're just being wise. The fact is I never made any direct implication that you were unintelligent because you didn't watch Anime. Since you would like us to believe you are intelligent for whatever reason, like it matters, then perhaps you could come up with a better phrase for "deeper watch," which is what I was originally poking fun at.

The hero who everybody hangs onto despite the fact that he's a brooding, rude, borderline antisocial person. I dislike it in American Badass Cinema as well, for the record, since yes, there are a fair number of rude, antisocial jerks among the "heroes" of American cinema.

I think antisocial jerks walk among us. Especially those who can't call people by their first names. My name is Johnny, yet you like referring to me in third person as "Pezdude." Perhaps you have trouble identifying with these characters because you can relate to them too much. That which you hate in others is what you hate in yourself. Eh?

The cliche of the clueless geek surrounded by hot magical chicks who love him, but they can't tell him, and he never figures it out. You're honestly telling me that you've never seen this in any anime? That's the power fantasy wish fulfillment garbage to which I am referring. Or, possibly, "gangly teenage kid gets a combat-suit and then blows up eight buildings and a bunch of enemy tanks".

Maybe you're upset because you never get any magical hot chicks flying through your window at night. Here's a tip: leave out more cookies.

You dislike dialogue that doesn't advance the plot. I dislike long periods of watching a hero brood on a cliff overlooking a valley, or on the edge of a cave, or at the edge of the fire. The female interest almost always goes out to check on him to find out why he's so driven and commited and what secret pain lurks i his heart and so on and so forth. Reverse the genders, and you've got the ice queen who is iron-willed and will never admit that she loves the ordiary joe, until the end of the movie, where she sacrifices herself for him (or, optionally, stands over his dying body and admits that she loves him just a little too late). This whole "Our relationship consists of denial of the relationship" cliche doesn't do it for me at all. I've enjoyed it once or twice -- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon had beautiful acting that conveyed it well enough to make it seem plausible. But in general, boring and annoying.

I find your posts to be both boring and annoying as well. They make me wish you were more of a brooding hero on a cliff overlooking the village--then I could just look at you in awe. But since I'm not getting that sort of action here, I guess I'll resort to watching more cool Anime. See how that works?

and one of the attractions of anime, I have heard,

You have heard? Eh? So wait, you're making judgement calls on a whole genre and you've watched like two movies? Perhaps now I'm being wise. But I'm also bored and trying to entertain myself.

Not necessarily from sex anime, but from bad anime... yes. Yes, I am. At least, by my standards. People who self-describe as anime fans are likely to have <snip>

Guess what... you're generalizing again. Can you prove this? No. So drop it. Please.

This comes from somebody who liked "Spirited Away" and "Mononoke" and plans to watch the one by the same guy that has the dirigibles in it. I also liked the first few episodes of "Ranma", because I found it funny -- although the later stuff didn't impress me.

I'm not really sure what would impress you. I think you spend too much time in your head, not in your heart. I do that sometimes. I didn't like Lord of the Rings because I was being critical of it. When I let go of all my expectations and watched it through the eyes of a child--only then did I really enjoy it.

Note: Will check out "Lain".

I will alert the media.

Well, yeah. I'm not writing my Master's Thesis. I'm writing a post on a messageboard in a thread dedicated to talking about stuff we don't like. Of course I'm generalizing. Welcome to the Internet.

Are you sure? I mean, about the thesis. I think there's something on a Usenet FAQ about dismissing threads with "Welcome to the Internet." What is that supposed to mean? There's only one way a conversation could be headed after that sort of comment...

Ug. I'm really tired of this discussion. For somebody not writing a thesis you sure talk a lot of crap.

I'm done with this conversation. It started from me to expressing my opinions about Tarantino and it's evolved into a conversation about you. I'd like to point out that not everything is about you.

And my name is Johnny. Maybe you'd have more tolerance for antisocial behavior if you understood your own better. You can start by calling people by their first names.

PS. It's not uncommon for people to recommend, or share ideas with others. If you don't like people sharing with you, I'm sorry, that's not my problem.

I think after reading your posts you may be a writer (?) in search of depth in character. I know from experience you can't get there from the outside in. You may wish to try a different approach.

/johnny

 

[Hypersmurf]

"Done with Thread".

I'm done with this conversation.

Thank you, gentlemen.

-Hyp.
(Moderator)

 

[takyris]

Pezagent, one minor note. You seem offended by the fact that I refer to you as pezdude. If that has offended you, I apologize. General etiquette here is to refer to people by their screen names. While you sign your posts as /johnny, your username is Pezagent, and I refer to you through a nicknamized form of that, Pezdude. This was not intended as a derogatory term. I shorten just about everyone's name and stick "dude" or "mon" on the end of it. A seach of other posts by me in informal conversations should verify this.

If the insult lies in the fact that I altered your name from Pezagent to Pezdude, I sincerely apologize. If the insult lies in the fact that I referred to you by (an altered version of) your username, then perhaps you should consider changing your username. Many of us know the real-life names of people on this board, but we generally use each other's usernames unless the person is referring to a real-life event, such as a baby or a death in the family. An independent and informal survey ought to confirm that referring to a user by his username, rather than his real-life name, is not usually an insult.

EDIT: Smurf-dude, apologies. Not intended to continue stirring of nest. Did want to clarify that nicknamization of his username was not intended as a slanderous attack.
As for the rest, as I said, I'm done.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Smurf-dude, apologies. Not intended to continue stirring of nest. Did want to clarify that nicknamization of his username was not intended as a slanderous attack.

'scool.

-Hyp.