That makes me sad and frowny-faced.DeadWolfe said:
Yabut there's no sarcastic face.Ouabache said:If I were sad i would add this
Yah, I sort of got that.Ouabache said:
Purely subjective. Rated entirely experientially. Applause=5. Squirming=1. Oh, and there's one movie that got 'unratable'. I try never to turn off a movie once I've started it, but some are just too painful to finish.Ouabache said:
DeadWolfe said:
Ouabache said:
Waking Life had great animation - I was really intrigued by it - fort he first half hour. But after an hour and a half of angst that felt like it was squeezed out of a play-doh mold, ("Excuse me" "Stop. Wait. I really want to have a moment with you that isn't an anonymous two ships passing in the night. Oh the angst of it all...") I kept thinking it should have stayed 20 minutes long.moose said:
My kids go ape over these new movies that are awful, uninspired photocopies of better-done movies. They can't imagine why we don't find them intriguing. It's not that we're not into it, it's that we've seen it a thousand times before, and there's nothing new.moose said:
That's the '04 one, not the '96 Cronenberg one.moose said:
OK, I oversimplified there. The first one was hilarious. The rest squeezed the life out of the exact same jokes until they were wrinkly, prunified old crack-hags.moose said:
Agreed. He was good to watch, but he played a one-note song in this one.Moonbear said:
Yep. Any many others that had great looks but a story that didn't know what it wanted to be.Anttech said:
Ah, it was cute and corny, but forgettable. As per my rating system, it was pretty much what I was expecting.tribdog said:
True. I am a pretty forgiving moviegoer, not a curmedgeon.tribdog said:
ahh, you see, here's the rub. I don't care why you rated it so high. I didn't like the movie. I don't go to ratings to be told why a movie deserves a certain score, I go to ratings to find out if a movie is good.DaveC426913 said:
Moonbear said:
That's why I don't usually decide which movies to see based on reviews. The critics are rating them based on things like cinematography and directing, I just want to know if I'm going to be able to forget about the real world for about 2 hours and laugh, cry, or jump into the arms of the nearest guy (though that last one doesn't have much to do with the moviestribdog said:
).At the time, I did send an email to the movie studio telling them why I wasn't seeing it. I don't know if they cared, but I figured not seeing a movie doesn't mean much if they don't know why I'm not seeing it or that I might have seen if it they chose a less controversial actor. Basically, I wanted to let them know that there IS a such thing as negative publicity, so they can't count on letting controversy like that boost their sales. I wouldn't mind at all seeing Tom Cruise become a washed-up has-been.Pengwuino said:
Can we act like two crazy teenagers?tribdog said:
Moonbear said:
physically or mentally? cause I'm not sure I can contort myself quite like i used to and I definitely know some parts of me are a lot less hyperactive than they were in my teensmoonbear said:
Moonbear said:Can we act like two crazy teenagers?
Didn't I tell you that you have to buy my plane ticket to CA first?Pengwuino said:
Oh, geez, wait, you're nearly half my age, aren't you? Shouldn't you be grossed out by the thought of such things with someone as old as me? 
I don't think I have the energy to keep up with a real teenager. (You're still over 18, right? Otherwise this conversation never happened. 
)34 (I did say ALMOST half my age). It doesn't feel old to me now, but I know when I was still in my teens, that age sure sounded old then.Pengwuino said:
OK, good point. I'll concede on that. Although in my defense, (I think) I'm with you on the how one rates. I don't really rate in the form of a "critique", I rate a 5 if I applauded at the end, and a 1 of I booed. The actual critique is secondary and is quite difficult to write mostly. Lately, I've given up and just posted the rating.tribdog said:
One of the things I liked about it was that is wasn't a Tom Cruise movie. At least, I've never before seen him a blind-terriified, cowardly shlub running so pell-mell for his very life as to not have any time to be a hero...Moonbear said:
I give this comment one star out of five.DaveC426913 said:
If he were a symbol of Christianity, and got himself baptized and then ordained in public, and then the world found out he was a Scientologist posing as a Christian - yeah, I'm thinkin' he would be rather less popular in the eyes of Christian movie-goers.tribdog said:
