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--- Quote from: Daniel ---It should have been scientifically impossible to make a movie with all these elements and make it bad... worse than bad, they made it boring. It could have been so cool, but it wasn't even entertaining in it's badness... I dozed off while watching it. In the middle of the afternoon.
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Now, see, I really enjoyed that film. There is no way in hell that it's ever going to win an academy award, but come on! it has an assault crossbow, a hot chick in a corset, and vampires. Vampires are inherently cool.
Come to think of it, I genuinely enjoy ever single one of the films that have been mentioned thus far.
One movie that comes closest to earning my hatred is "Eraserhead". I'd heard so many people talking about that film in almost reverent tones, and then when I finally came around to watching it... it really fucking sucked. It's just long stretches of absolutely nothing happening while loads of really irritating noises play in the background, briefly interspersed with short sequences that are apparently weird purely for the sake of being weird. And the sound NEVER STOPS. there's always an irritating noise playing - cars, trains, steam pipes, babies, rattles, clanks, thumps, bangs, squeaks, groans... after a while it just bored straight down into a corner of my brain that really wanted to rip the TV off the wall and throw it in front of a train. And then go lie on a beach at midnight.
seriously, look at me: I'm getting really worked up over a film that I watched six months ago and swore to avoid from then on.
Perhaps I just have lowbrow tastes, but I prefer a movie where something - anything at all - is happening for more than 60% of the time, and where the stuff that happens actually makes some kind of sense. That's probably why I never fit in with my Film Studies class...
shrimp:
I guess lady should have been "lady". In general female roles of that type are written more to appeal to the males in the audience and thus tend to be big breasted females with guns. Now I know Lara Croft in the game was written like that, cause only teenage boy gamers are targetted. I guess it's more a complaint in general about that type of casting, plus the fake boobies she had to wear. :)
At least she wasn't too scantily clad... :)
It just goes against my wee feminist that lives in my brain... she reckons that to beat the baddies you don't need HUGE boobs and you don't need to sleep with randomers to get closer to the target. Yes for stealth reasons your clothes may need to be tightish, but NOT spraypainted on. Plus long hair is just an EASY target... Especially if its in a NICE BIG THICK braid, grab hold and beat that bitch's face in easy-peasy.
Mih... I still stop my hatred of Jolie there... :)
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Revenge of the Sith.
Actually, perhaps not. It wasn't very good. It was godawful. But I can't quite bring myself to hate it. It's got lightsabers and spaceships and lasers and fighting and jumping and that awsome lizard thing Obi Wan rides and the jedi robot and I digress.
But there are some bits of it that are terrible. Why does the jedi robot cough? Why is Padme still pregnant at her funeral? And why in the name of all that is holy did Darth Vader shout "NOOOOOOO"
I hate the fact that it could have been really good. I hate that George Lucas couldn't let someone else write it. I'd like to hate the film, but I just can't bring myself to.
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I am also from Notts, England Shrimp. Do I know you?
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Blade 3: Trinity
I don't hate this film but it ranks among the worst I have seen, it was so abysmal that it was laughable. I was of the opinion that they shouldn't have the first movie but then they went and made it a trilogy. Which may have been one of worst decisions in the history of film making, if it wasn't so mindbogglingly common. Even Underworld was better, now that is a feat.
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--- Quote from: Astaldo ---Why does the jedi robot cough?
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According to the official "Star Wars" canon, In the "Clone Wars" animated series by Cartoon Network, General Grievous was a recurring character (he's not actually a jedi, he's a biomechanical droid who, despite not being force sensitive, has trained himself to use lightsabers). He suffered something of a defeat at the hands of Mace Windu, who used the force to crush his torso. The damage to his respiratory system (although he had an internal reservoir of air, he still needed to breath to keep his organic components oxygenated) never really healed, leaving him with a permanent wheezing cough.
--- Quote ---Why is Padme still pregnant at her funeral?
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Two things: firstly, there's apparently a deleted scene in which Yoda and Obi-Wan decide that she must still appear pregnant at the funeral so as to convince anakin/vader that the children were dead too.
the other thing is that, in the real world, it does take quite a long time for the appearance of pregnancy to fade. A woman who's only recently given birth will still have a distended abdomen. And that's assuming she's even alive for the normal healing process to kick in.
--- Quote ---And why in the name of all that is holy did Darth Vader shout "NOOOOOOO"?
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Because George Lucas writes terrible dialogue.
I personally thought it was roughly on a par with the "first" episode - namely episode 4, "A New Hope". not as good as Empire or Jedi, better than Phantom Menace and Clones. Still, I can honestly claim to like ALL of the SW films.
As for blade trinity - it's not supposed to be any good. They deliberately went OTT. That's why I enjoyed it so much - it was very unashamedly hokum.
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