Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Thomas Shey]

Sure but there's also a difference between saying you dislike a play style and using that term like a badwrongfun cudgel... which goes on way too much around here.

Sometimes that's people overusing hyperbole; sometimes its them not really knowing how to express it differently.

And of course sometimes its the listener having a chip on their shoulder and reading dislike of something the person likes as an attack on the person.

Honestly its a wonder any discussion of taste can go on without cooking up.

 

[Autumnal]

That’s just what cowardly shunners of taste discussions think, when it’s obviously objectively true that…

[Burly men thrust Bruce into a sack and drag him off stage left. His argument continues, increasingly faintly, until there are the sounds of two giant cuttlefish having their day made by an unexpected smorgasbord.]

 

[dragoner]

It is also good to leave stuff on the internet in order to avoid hurting people's feelings.

 

[Nikosandros]

I often read a post in this thread and I nod vigorously. I'm in full agreement and I snicker at those fools the post is talking about. Then I pause and I wonder if I might be one of those fools.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

While I appreciate Heat, I really hate its legacy. The thing where the protagonist and antagonist have to do a face-to-face is a terrible trope that is a stain on American cinema, and I absolutely blame this movie for its popularity.

This movie definitely feels like Mann was going through a divorce:

"The only person who really understands me, a man who puts his toxic relationship with his work ahead of all human relationships, is another man who also has a toxic relationship with his work."

We don't even have DeNiro's Pacino's character calling the hospital to see how Natalie Portman's doing at the end, which could have shown he might actually have the potential for growth. Instead, we end with him holding hands with his true soulmate instead.

 

[trappedslider]

Sure but there's also a difference between saying you dislike a play style and using that term like a badwrongfun cudgel... which goes on way too much around here.

had to log out to see if i could make sense of this, since the user you're replying to has me blocked for unknown reasons

 

[el-remmen]

I never got through Heat. Too naughty word long.

“No good movie feels too long. No bad movie feels too short.”

 

[Nikosandros]

This movie definitely feels like Mann was going through a divorce:

"The only person who really understands me, a man who puts his toxic relationship with his work ahead of all human relationships, is another man who also has a toxic relationship with his work."

We don't even have DeNiro's character calling the hospital to see how Natalie Portman's doing at the end, which could have shown he might actually have the potential for growth. Instead, we end with him holding hands with his true soulmate instead.

I like Heat, but you do have a strong point here.

 

[soviet]

This movie definitely feels like Mann was going through a divorce:

"The only person who really understands me, a man who puts his toxic relationship with his work ahead of all human relationships, is another man who also has a toxic relationship with his work."

We don't even have DeNiro's character calling the hospital to see how Natalie Portman's doing at the end, which could have shown he might actually have the potential for growth. Instead, we end with him holding hands with his true soulmate instead.

What? Why would he do that?

 

[el-remmen]

Natalie Portman

Whoa. I don’t remember her being in that film at all! Does she appear after the diner convo? That’s as far as I got.