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05-10-12, 09:11 AM
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I saw E.T. as an adult, and I hated it. I also saw the G.I. Joe cartoon for the first time as an adult, and thought it was dumb. But both E.T. and G.I. Joe get a lot of love from people who first saw them before their tastes matured.
The point of movies is to manipulate the emotions of the viewers. But Spielberg pulls on those strings so hard that they snap. I lose my willing suspension of disbelief. It's like watching a holocaust movie about a little Jewish boy who's retarded, is hiding from Nazis, is alcoholic, and whose puppy is dying of cancer. Spielberg pushes it too far.
The point of movies is to manipulate the emotions of the viewers. But Spielberg pulls on those strings so hard that they snap. I lose my willing suspension of disbelief. It's like watching a holocaust movie about a little Jewish boy who's retarded, is hiding from Nazis, is alcoholic, and whose puppy is dying of cancer. Spielberg pushes it too far.
I know a lot of people hate Spielberg's manipulations but it never bothered me. I think it's because I think he is so in love with the movies that he pours out every bit of sap and syrup he feels for them into his own movies. You can feel the love. Feel the love with me, Nick.
05-10-12, 10:14 AM
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05-10-12, 01:49 PM
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05-10-12, 02:44 PM
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Not only do I love E.T., I think it's one of the few "perfect" films out there. So I guess count me among the brainwashed. I loved it when I was 12, and still love it today for very different reasons.
05-10-12, 04:19 PM
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My mind does a good job of blocking out most films I don't care for, but I'll echo other posters who have said A Christmas Story (I've seen it over a dozen times; it never does anything for me), and Anchorman (I don't hate it, but I think it's vastly overrated). Same goes for Bridesmaids.
05-10-12, 05:45 PM
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05-10-12, 07:11 PM
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Isn't Nick Danger's use of retarded appropriate? Seriously. He was describing a character that Spielberg would possibly use in one of his movies. It's not like he used it in a derogatory way. He was describing the possible character. You seem like a joyless twit. And if joyless twit offends you, I don't know. Go pull your knickers out of your fanny or something.
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I just didn't find it that funny. Everyone who saw it told me it was a scream...that it was inventive...that it was hilarious. And I found it to be less than okay. Bill Murray was more smug than witty. I cannot recall a single funny line by Ackroyd or Ramis. It just didn't work for me. I thought GREMLINS was more entertaining, and TEMPLE OF DOOM was my favorite film of that year.
05-11-12, 08:38 AM
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Star Trek (2009)
To this day, I'm appalled that there are people that rank it as good as The Wrath of Khan. Or a good Star Trek movie. Or just a good movie at all. Seriously? For me it was watching a staple of my adolescence and young adulthood lobotomized like in that scene from the original "Planet of the Apes" and I was as angry as Heston's character and wanting to lunge at Dr. Zaius. And the lens flares were the least of my gripes about that piece of shit.
It was a Star Trek movie designed for people who wouldn't otherwise be caught dead watching Star Trek. "Hurr Hurr. Kirk grabs Uhura's boobies! Scotty is in the waterslide! 'Splosions! 'Splosions! 'Splosions!" Throughout the whole depressing slog 3 years ago I was half expecting nuKirk and nuSpock to bust out the light sabers and destroy the not-Death Star (since the film is a complete lift from A New Hope) and at the end some obnoxious Aerosmith track playing at the end credits.
Trek was never Asimov-level SF, but it had it's own (for the most part) dignified identity. But, to make the big bucks you've got to make your product more accessible to people with ADD, I guess.
/END RANT
To this day, I'm appalled that there are people that rank it as good as The Wrath of Khan. Or a good Star Trek movie. Or just a good movie at all. Seriously? For me it was watching a staple of my adolescence and young adulthood lobotomized like in that scene from the original "Planet of the Apes" and I was as angry as Heston's character and wanting to lunge at Dr. Zaius. And the lens flares were the least of my gripes about that piece of shit.
It was a Star Trek movie designed for people who wouldn't otherwise be caught dead watching Star Trek. "Hurr Hurr. Kirk grabs Uhura's boobies! Scotty is in the waterslide! 'Splosions! 'Splosions! 'Splosions!" Throughout the whole depressing slog 3 years ago I was half expecting nuKirk and nuSpock to bust out the light sabers and destroy the not-Death Star (since the film is a complete lift from A New Hope) and at the end some obnoxious Aerosmith track playing at the end credits.
Trek was never Asimov-level SF, but it had it's own (for the most part) dignified identity. But, to make the big bucks you've got to make your product more accessible to people with ADD, I guess.
/END RANT
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05-11-12, 08:42 AM
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AD! for the win!
05-11-12, 08:59 AM
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05-11-12, 09:04 AM
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