I wouldn't fall asleep. If it really was that boring I'd simply stop watching it, but it would have to be really boring. I wouldn't watch it anyway, doesn't sound like my cup of tea, being a dudebro and all.
Your point? Rotten Tomatoes doesn't just include critics ratings (note the 90% positive from around 120,000 RT users). And L.A. Confidential didn't just receive recognition from Rotten Tomatoes. Academy Award for the screenplay. Voted into the Top 100 all time screenplays by the Writers Guild. You just got caught bullish*tting about the screenplay and characters and won't admit it.
And Inception has a 93% out of 346,136 users. And you even said yourself in another thread that Inception was an overhyped piece of crap. So if more people liked Inception, and it won 4 Oscars, and you think that movie was bad, what does that say about Rottentomatoes ratings or the Oscars? Fools seldom differ I guess. The reality is that there are shitty movies that everyone loves.
As I already said multiple times, I'm not arguing personal opinion. When I asked you why you thought L.A. Confidential was "unfocused", you made factually incorrect claims about the tabloid and prostitution elements of the story and how the characters involved in those were not related to the main plot involving corruption. You bullsh*tted about it and got caught.
The Dictator Pretty awful and unfunny. I think the problem was that it was all scripted. SBC's brand of humor works best when he's allowed to go off the rails and troll people and do elaborate practical jokes. This felt like some generic Adam Sandler movie.
It was a great action movie based on a preposterous scifi concept. How the fuck was it trying to seem smart?
It was dumb as hell. The South Park episode sums up everything that's wrong with it. And the worst part is that it takes itself very seriously while being dumb. I normally like Christopher Nolan, but he was really in love with the smell of his own farts when he made inception.
My two main problems with Inception were: A. They didn't make any effort to provide a back story for the concept of invading people's dreams etc. I didn't feel like that part of it held up well enough compared to a movie like The Matrix, where they took the time to build a back story. B. They set up Dom's dead wife Mal as a major antagonist within the film, and then resolve the obstacle she represents with a very weak "I just need to let you go" psychology lite approach from Dom. That seemed like a complete cop out to me for a film that was trying to present itself as a riddle most of the time.
All I know is, I used to suffer from insomnia when I worked the overnight. I practically lived Inception on a regular basis. The whole dream/reality time elapse concept is totally true, I was tripping out 24/7 on little to no sleep, no idea what was real and what I dreamt up during a mini nap.
wow, I'll say this for you Monkey, your willing to spend a LOT of time on a movie you didn't like lol.
Which movie are you referring to? I actually turned the Dictator off half way through because it was so bad. I only sat through LA Confidential because it came so HIGHLY recommended.
I watched the last Air bender (finally) just to see how bad it was and bro, this is a REALLY REALLY BAD movie. I had to leave the room after the first scene, the CG is SO evident... but I didn't ofc. I wish I did. The Mickey Mouse troupe of actors must have gone on to star in Glee or something. I'm not a fan of the original cartoon, but I didn't think it was bad or anything. NOT like this movie. I mean and I even like Mario Brothers, this movie though, seems like it was written by a 12 year old. And there's supposed to be sequals *...* I shudder to imagine. It might've been ok, but the acting was SO trivialized to the point that I couldn't imagine anybody over the age of 9 would enjoy it.
Pretty much. It's a less funny version of Coming to America, but Coming to America wasn't really very funny to begin with.
There was all sorts of things wrong with it. The series had kid's humor in it which made it charming. That kind of stuff doesn't reflect easily into a movie. Especially a live action one. Also, they squeezed the entire first season into 90 minutes. It made his journey from the south pole to the north pole seem entirely trivial. So much happened in between that is left out. Making a 2nd movie wouldn't make any sense at this point since key plots and characters were skipped. The entire situation when they got to the north pole was stretched out into multiple episodes that built up to the huge battle there. In the movie, they summarized a mass portion of it in narration.. such as sokka falling in love with the princess. You simply can not squeeze all of that into a single movie. What's worse is that season 2 and 3 have alot more complex plots and huge wars so that's quite impossible to do with shymalan's horrific story telling.
trying to think of a live action movie of a child's comic or cartoon and I can't think of one... maybe Turtles but... I think the Turtles movie came first? And everything about the latest turtles (I got the BDR set which comes with the 4th movie, MY EYES THEY CANNOT UNSEE!) just sucks. And before that they were more mature/ but clean. So perhaps child humor, like video game adaptations, just don't work in live action. Pity. I still think they coulda' done TLB a little better. perhaps at least not making the sword fights seem like... I mean the one sword fight it seemed he was fighting with a stick not an edged pole and the bad guys all bounced around like Power Rangers fights. In fact it WAS just like a Power Ranger fight lol. I wonder what his budget was. If the rule was there was to be no blood that's one thing BUT why make it Live Action if there's no LIFE??