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<blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 9632512" data-attributes="member: 7015707"><p><strong>Overrated:</strong></p><p></p><p>Half-Life 2- This game was only superficially related to the first game, it was boring to play, the faces were in the uncanny valley, it had less guns, the revolver looked like a plastic toy, the driving segment was gratituitous and poorly executed, and the opening train sequence was even longer and more boring then the one in the first game. The only good thing about it was the gravity gun.</p><p></p><p>2001 A Space Odyssey - Not really geek culture per se but an overrated sci-fi movie nonetheless. It's boring. Nothing happens and there's no dialogue. They also padded it out with 20 minutes of pointless kaleidoscopes, and the ending doesn't make any sense at all unless you've read the books. I used to attribute its popularity to the popularity of weed during the 60's but then they decriminalized weed and I tried it and I don't think weed would have helped</p><p></p><p>Rogue One - This was a decent movie but it did not feel like a Star Wars movie at all. It also introduces plot inconsistencies because episode 4 STRONGLY implies that the Tantive 4 did not personally participate in the recent battle, and because it makes Tarkin significantly less restrained; in episode 4 he was a cold restrained psychopath, in Rogue One he feels more like a maniac obsessed with blowing things up. And speaking of blowing things up, what was up with the destruction of Jedha City? In space we see it destroyed instantly, like a normal explosion, but on the ground it takes like several minutes</p><p></p><p><strong>Underrated</strong></p><p></p><p>The old 1993 Mario Bros movie - This has the same issue as Rogue One but got the opposite reception. It was a good enough movie, it's only problem didn't fit well into its franchise</p><p></p><p>The Star Wars Holiday Special - It's still better than a lot of the Disney movies</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bohandas, post: 9632512, member: 7015707"] [b]Overrated:[/b] Half-Life 2- This game was only superficially related to the first game, it was boring to play, the faces were in the uncanny valley, it had less guns, the revolver looked like a plastic toy, the driving segment was gratituitous and poorly executed, and the opening train sequence was even longer and more boring then the one in the first game. The only good thing about it was the gravity gun. 2001 A Space Odyssey - Not really geek culture per se but an overrated sci-fi movie nonetheless. It's boring. Nothing happens and there's no dialogue. They also padded it out with 20 minutes of pointless kaleidoscopes, and the ending doesn't make any sense at all unless you've read the books. I used to attribute its popularity to the popularity of weed during the 60's but then they decriminalized weed and I tried it and I don't think weed would have helped Rogue One - This was a decent movie but it did not feel like a Star Wars movie at all. It also introduces plot inconsistencies because episode 4 STRONGLY implies that the Tantive 4 did not personally participate in the recent battle, and because it makes Tarkin significantly less restrained; in episode 4 he was a cold restrained psychopath, in Rogue One he feels more like a maniac obsessed with blowing things up. And speaking of blowing things up, what was up with the destruction of Jedha City? In space we see it destroyed instantly, like a normal explosion, but on the ground it takes like several minutes [b]Underrated[/b] The old 1993 Mario Bros movie - This has the same issue as Rogue One but got the opposite reception. It was a good enough movie, it's only problem didn't fit well into its franchise The Star Wars Holiday Special - It's still better than a lot of the Disney movies [/QUOTE]
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