Reign of Fire - what have you heard?

[Umbran]

DocMoriarty:
While free speech in the First Amendment sense is not protected on these boards, Krug is entitled to his opinion. So long as he follows the basic rules, he's prety much free to state and discuss his opinion here. That's what the forum is for.

You don't do yourself, your position, or the conversation as a whole any favors by being rude. Calling people names and insulting them does not give you moral high ground.


Krug:

The action sucks, the love story is BANAL, the dialogue is trite.

To me, this reads as simply more bashing with the "It's bad" club, but on a slightly smaller scale. You state the fact that you don't like the thing, but you don't say why. What about the dialog was trite? What made the love story banal? Why do you think the action sucked? What could have made these things better?

True critical thought invites thought. It requires more than a statement of your final opinion of the qualities, but why you came to those conclusions. If you want intelligent discussion, you must provide some insight as to your reasoning.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Who said I was trying to be polite? I have little tolerance for jerks like this who more often than not get off on acting this way.

As for the Free Speech item, I was merely pointing out some facts that internet trolls like to misrepresent on a regular basis when they are intentionally irritating people.

DocMoriarty:
While free speech in the First Amendment sense is not protected on these boards, Krug is entitled to his opinion. So long as he follows the basic rules, he's prety much free to state and discuss his opinion here. That's what the forum is for.

You don't do yourself, your position, or the conversation as a whole any favors by being rude. Calling people names and insulting them does not give you moral high ground.

 

[Dr Midnight]

Eeyikes- things got REAAAL ugly since I last posted. I'm bailing out of this one, because I'm familiar with the ego and personality archetype I'm up against. It's not worth it.

My fellow Doc, "ease down, you're just grinding metal! Ease down..." When I'm feeling as you do, I take a trip to that magical land of nuts and have it out with the empty air. There's no good to be done here.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Ease down!?!

But I was just about to run down the last bit of alien infestation.

 

[KChagga]

I liked AOTC.

The action I think did not suck.
Let's see here lightsaber battles, car chases, bounty hunter fighting, all out war, and oh yes did I mention lightsaber battles.

The love story did feel kind of contrived, but I have seen much worse. I wouldn't exactly call it banal in all caps.

The dialogue was sort of trite, but what did you expect it was a sci-fi ACTION movie. You honestly can't tell me you went to this movie having seen any previous star wars movies and expected some kind of oscar winning dialogue performances. Seriously think about it how many action moves actually do have good dialogue. I don't think I can ever remember coming out of any action movie thinking WOW that movie had great dialogue. It's an action movie, if you wanted dialogue go watch a shakespear play. The best you can hope for in action movies with dialogue is that they might have a really witty come back or a cool one liner.

Seriously people the only telling of whether a movie was good or bad is this. When you watched the movie were you entertained? Was there anything that entertained you in the film?

 

[Umbran]

Who said I was trying to be polite? I have little tolerance for jerks like this who more often than not get off on acting this way.

*sigh* I should have Doc Midnight's wisdom to stop...

Nobody said you were trying to be polite. But you won't change Krug's ideas or behavior by calling him names and insulting him. Being rude gains you nothing - It won't make him listen to you, nor will it make him shut up. Being rude loses you lots - including the respect of your peers, and any hope of having your position taken seriously. It also degrades the overall quality of the message boards. So please, keep it civil.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Actually I think the dialogue was pretty good. Look at it this way. You had a jedi who has lived as a monk for the lat 10 years and a very young senator that is very detached. Neither of them knows anything about love. So of course they are going to sound like sappy pathetic love sick puppies. If they sounded like Romeo and Juliet it woudnt be accurate to who their characters were at all.

The dialogue was sort of trite, but what did you expect it was a sci-fi ACTION movie. You honestly can't tell me you went to this movie having seen any previous star wars movies and expected some kind of oscar winning dialogue performances.

 

[Krug]

*sigh* I should have Doc Midnight's wisdom to stop...

Nobody said you were trying to be polite. But you won't change Krug's ideas or behavior by calling him names and insulting him. Being rude gains you nothing - It won't make him listen to you, nor will it make him shut up. Being rude loses you lots - including the respect of your peers, and any hope of having your position taken seriously. It also degrades the overall quality of the message boards. So please, keep it civil.

Yes, let's all move on. If you want a critical analysis of the movie, please read the 60 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes which state how bad AOTC is.

(Trust me, I'm really trying to control myself here, particularly in NOT replying to the good dialogue post.)

Now can we get to Reign of Fire?