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MA · #**1261** 09-23-2012, 03:10 PM

i love that film! i know it's shit really, but i used to watch it over and over again as a kid, i loved it. i knew most of the fucking words.

AND BOY CAN ARNOLD ACT

Sekto Springs · #**1262** 09-23-2012, 03:41 PM

How can you think Predator is shit? It's the perfect, mindless, popcorn Sci Fi action movie. I firmly believe there are some movies that get amnesty from all forms of criticism because they are exactly the kind of movie you expect them to be.

Additionally, anyone who thinks Battleship was a dumb movie; carve "Captain Obvious" into your arm and hang yourself.

OddjobAbe · #**1263** 09-23-2012, 03:46 PM

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How can you think Predator is shit? It's the perfect, mindless, popcorn Sci Fi action movie.

I thought it was shit, not unentertaining. Here, I define "shit" as silly and cheesy, not offering any real intellectual stimulation, which is fine.

Wings of Fire · #**1264** 09-23-2012, 04:03 PM

I wouldn't call anything that offers me genuine entertainment to be shit.

Predator is mindless fun. Fun is its own worth.

OddjobAbe · #**1265** 09-23-2012, 04:11 PM

Hence

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Here, I define "shit" as silly and cheesy, not offering any real intellectual stimulation, which is fine.

MA · #**1266** 09-23-2012, 04:13 PM

I'M GONNA HAVE ME SOME FUN I'M GONNA HAVE ME SOME FUN I'M GONNA HAVE ME SUM FUN

Mr. Bungle · #**1267** 09-23-2012, 11:51 PM

I watched the first episodes of Game of Thrones and Curb your Enthusiasm, respectively.

Curb is very funny. Very Seinfeld-esque humor (only with a bit of a sharper edge) in how they draw out one absurd situation and somehow make it very watchable, relatable, and downright hilarious. Gonna watch more of the first season tomorrow.

Game of Thrones was... I dunno. There are things I liked and things I hated. For instance, I liked most of the acting, I liked the setdressing and cinematography, and the score was pretty nice too. On the other hand, I loathed most of the writing. Having the characters use modern English slang (like when one of the characters said he was "fucking" some girl) completely breaks the fantasy and just plain sounds stupid. And they do this a lot. I honestly think the show would be much better off if it were stripped of its profanity. I also thought the villain was very cliche.

Anyways, I decided I'm gonna watch through Curb for the next few days instead of Game of Thrones. I've heard Game gets better later on, but right now I don't have the patience.

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AND BOY CAN ARNOLD ACT

I believe you are referring to AHHNULD

Dynamithix · #**1268** 09-24-2012, 01:23 AM

I watched Groundhog Day and Escape from L.A. a few days ago. Both were pretty good, Groundhog Day was better even though they are very different movies.

OANST · #**1269** 09-24-2012, 06:18 AM

I watched This Is England, and Idiots and Angels yesterday. I enjoyed both quite a bit.

Crashpunk · #**1270** 09-24-2012, 01:16 PM

This is England is very good. Have you seen the sequels This is England '86 and '88?

OANST · #**1271** 09-24-2012, 01:17 PM

No. I saw This is England.

Crashpunk · #**1272** 09-24-2012, 01:22 PM

Well you should go watch them. They are very good.

OANST · #**1273** 09-24-2012, 01:33 PM

I saw This is England.

Crashpunk · #**1274** 09-24-2012, 01:34 PM

I...I..know.

Nepsotic · #**1275** 09-24-2012, 01:38 PM

OANST, he means, that since you enjoyed This is England, you may also enjoy the sequels.

OANST · #**1276** 09-24-2012, 01:44 PM

I saw This is England.

Nepsotic · #**1277** 09-24-2012, 02:05 PM

Yes you did. Now you watch next two films.

Varrok · #**1278** 09-24-2012, 02:06 PM

It should be "See how can be done?". How could you make such a mistake?! And you used a double [IMG] tag

MeechMunchie · #**1279** 09-24-2012, 02:06 PM

Well, that meme's dead to me now.

Mr. Bungle · #**1280** 09-24-2012, 02:15 PM

I watched about a half hour to forty-five minutes of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie a few weeks ago. I really, really didn't like it, but I have to commend it for getting me interested in the book.

MeechMunchie · #**1281** 09-24-2012, 02:16 PM

That movie really is awful. I just stare at Martin Freeman's lovely, comforting face until it's over.

Mr. Bungle · #**1282** 09-24-2012, 02:26 PM

Same here. He was the only thing the movie really had going for it. And Zooey Deschanel. Not that I think she's particularly funny or even that great of an actor. She's just nice to look at. I also can't picture the main character in the book looking any differently. Not that I'm complaining.

MeechMunchie · #**1283** 09-24-2012, 02:29 PM

Well, Arthur was always supposed to a bedraggled, slightly saggy middle-class Englishman.

Stephen Fry was okay, even if he was just reading from the book. And I like Bill Bailey as the whale.

Sekto Springs · #**1284** 09-24-2012, 02:38 PM

I would list Zooey Deschanel as one of the many reasons to never ever watch that movie ever.

Puppet fx were ace though.

MeechMunchie · #**1285** 09-24-2012, 02:39 PM

Good point. I already had an image of Arthur, but I will never remember again what I used to think Vogons looked like. Also Marvin, to a lesser extent, since I saw him in the Bowie one too.

Mr. Bungle · #**1286** 09-24-2012, 02:43 PM

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I would list Zooey Deschanel as one of the many reasons to never ever watch that movie ever.

Yeah, I can understand that, but seeing her makes it slightly more bearable. She is pretty, if nothing else.

OANST · #**1287** 09-24-2012, 02:47 PM

I saw This is England.

Bullet Magnet · #**1288** 09-24-2012, 03:06 PM

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Having the characters use modern English slang (like when one of the characters said he was "fucking" some girl) completely breaks the fantasy and just plain sounds stupid. And they do this a lot. I honestly think the show would be much better off if it were stripped of its profanity.

That's a very strange complaint. Fiction is a product of the time, and that includes language. It's already rather odd that Englishness (and occasionally Scottishness) is the go-to accent and culture for medieval fantasy, especially since most of medieval history happened outside of England. And that a fantasy world probably doesn't have even have English as a language anyway, so everything is a translation. If you're going to leave arbitrary words untranslated, where do you stop? Just at swearing can work, but it is very jarring and often fails. Firefly succeeded with "Gorram," clearly a corruption of "god-damn," and otherwise did all its cursing in Mandarin. Battlestar Galactica's "Frak," only just worked, largely due to it's similarity to "fuck" and its immediate adoption in normal conversation by fans of the show. Or me, at least.

But just as jarring is winding back the clock on the evolution of language. If we're going as far back as the world of Game of Thrones would suggest, we're talking Chaucerian or earlier, which is effectively unintelligible.

Where do you draw the line, in the knowledge that most of your audience won't care or will be alienated by such efforts anyway?

OANST · #**1289** 09-24-2012, 03:12 PM

I also found that to be a strange complaint.

Mr. Bungle · #**1290** 09-24-2012, 03:13 PM

It's not neccesarily the language that bothered me, but rather how it was used. I find an ancient King boasting about how he "fucked" some dame very jarring. I don't know, maybe people speak like that in that world, but in my experience with Fantasy swears and profanity aren't used in a dirty manner like that. I'm certainly no linguistics expert at all but I'm fairly sure people didn't start speaking in that manner until the last hundred years or so.