SERENITY great cinema? Compared to what?
POSTED BY: Howard
UPDATED: Friday, November 4, 2005 01:41
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I appreciate what Howard is trying to say, but the fact that he's missing is that when people say Serenity is great film, most of us are comparing it to the disasterous attempts of film that clutter the top of the box-office list.
Your list of recomended films is impressive, but for most of us middle-income americans, it's hard to come in contact with those well made films. I live north of the Boston area, and the first film on your list, the elegant "A Very Long Engagement" played in a total of ONE THEATRE in the entire Metro Area.
When I call Serenity great cinema, I'd like to think I'm comparing it to these films that graced the multi-plexes this year:
WEDDING CRASHERS
FANTASTIC FOUR
THE LONGEST YARD
THE PACIFIER
THE RING 2
FOUR BROTHERS
GUESS WHO
SAHARA
BEWITCHED
SKY HIGH
KICKING AND SCREAMING
RED EYE
TRANSPORTER 2
BEAUTY SHOP
THE ISLAND
XXX: STATE OF THE UNION
HOUSE OF WAX
and those are just the movies that made more than Serenity.
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Quote:I was mixing and matching- and as we're gittin' all technical and such, Greedo said " Ootah khootah, Solo?"
Originally posted by 3HeadedMonkey:
actually, Greedo says "oola goota, solo?" which translates to "going somewhere, solo?"
and the launguage is rodian.
Soam beetchalay. Lanatron tee-tock la keecheetah! Heh heh heh heh...Chrisisall
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Ooh, looks like I pushed a button with that rant remark. I'm still gonna call them rants though - cuz that's what they are. Even if they are well-based in fact, the way that you stated these facts is what made them a rant, not what you said. Had you as much intelligence as you claim, you would've realized that. Also, if you wanted a thread discussing the problems with America today, you should have called it that, rather than picking on Serenity, which is not the problem. So . . yeah.
*wanders off in search of more enlightened thread*
I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Valkyrie Warrior, the Gourmet Cook and the Truth Scoper.
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Howard:
After reading your long winded fancy posts I decided one thing about you. You are a pompous fuck. The kind of person who hangs out in coffee houses and snaps his fingers to some bull shit goth poetry. The kind of person who wears a god damn black turtle neck and a beret.
What the hell kind of list of movies is that. Just the titles alone scream, I am going to destroy any vestige of entertainment this movie may have to offer, let alone their boring ass content. You wanna know what good entertainment is. Good entertainment is Arnold killing 91 people in Commando. That's good god damn entertainment and nothing you're 6 syllable word typing ass is gonna change that.
Now maybe you're in the minority of "higher thinking" people and you are just that much more advanced. But I doubt it. More likely you have taken days on these posts in order to "awe" us with your brilliance. But lets pretend you are as smart as you post. Well shit, I have never wanted to be just an ordinary person more in my life. Hell can you imagine trying to pick up a chick talking like you do ahhaha. Hell, I guess you dont have to imagine do you? How do you really enjoy anything?
Now I know what you're thinking and what you're gonna say. Blah blah blah *insert long winded phrase* you are a troglodyte and you are only attacking me because thats all you can do. Blah blah blah *insert sentece that I won't finish because only robots speak that way* you are a dictator because you don't see my wisdom. Blah blah blah you are a flaming ranter that has nothing constructive to say and is a child
And you know what, you're right and the beauty is you have to deal with people like me for the rest of your miserble cold calis life.
Oh and by the way, My dad can beat your dad up.
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All I can really say about this thread is ROFL.
Remember, trolls are like stray dogs and cats. They won't go away as long as you are feeding them.
Rae
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Quote:
After reading your long winded fancy posts I decided one thing about you. You are a pompous fuck. The kind of person who hangs out in coffee houses and snaps his fingers to some bull shit goth poetry. The kind of person who wears a god damn black turtle neck and a beret.
What the hell kind of list of movies is that. Just the titles alone scream, I am going to destroy any vestige of entertainment this movie may have to offer, let alone their boring ass content. You wanna know what good entertainment is. Good entertainment is Arnold killing 91 people in Commando. That's good god damn entertainment and nothing you're 6 syllable word typing ass is gonna change that.
Now maybe you're in the minority of "higher thinking" people and you are just that much more advanced. But I doubt it. More likely you have taken days on these posts in order to "awe" us with your brilliance. But lets pretend you are as smart as you post. Well shit, I have never wanted to be just an ordinary person more in my life. Hell can you imagine trying to pick up a chick talking like you do ahhaha. Hell, I guess you dont have to imagine do you? How do you really enjoy anything?
Now I know what you're thinking and what you're gonna say. Blah blah blah *insert long winded phrase* you are a troglodyte and you are only attacking me because thats all you can do. Blah blah blah *insert sentece that I won't finish because only robots speak that way* you are a dictator because you don't see my wisdom. Blah blah blah you are a flaming ranter that has nothing constructive to say and is a child
And you know what, you're right and the beauty is you have to deal with people like me for the rest of your miserble cold calis life.
Oh and by the way, My dad can beat your dad up.
This post made my day. Hi-larious.
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I'm gonna say right away you've got some amazing taste in films. But you know what, almost none of them are fun. Serenity was the best fun movie I've seen in a long time. Was it one of the best movies ever made? No. But then again the best movies aren't the most fondly remembered. Star Wars is awful but loved by billions because it's fun. Movies that enter the public consciousness (which I have no doubt Serenity will do) are films you can sit and watch and enjoy. Almost none of your movies (or at least the movies you reference that I've seen) do this.
One thought though:
Run Lola Run, fun movie but completely cashes in on video games and the MTV generation. It's a character who has three lives to save her boyfriend, animated segments for no reason, half of it is just her running (and if I remember rightly had an advertising campaign that amounted to "come see Lola breasts bounce!") and has an incredibly simple plot. How can you decry Terminator and then quote the merits of this film?
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Gladiator, just gotta say: You're my new hero!
I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Valkyrie Warrior, the Gourmet Cook and the Truth Scoper.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Howard:
Actually I never liked CITIZEN KANE
I much prefer THE TRIAL and so did
Mr Welles.
For years I felt alone in saying that
THE TRIAL is a better Welles film
than KANE. Until a wonderful LASERDISC
of THE TRIAL was released and in the
liner notes Welles is quoted in an]
interview as saying that for me THE
TRIAL is better.
The problem with the likes of THE TERMINATOR
is that giving your money for that crap just
encourages the studios.
Well I just dont see how the millions of people who loved The Termintor movies can all be wrong about it being good
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Gladdy,
They say you shouldn't use harsh language on a Forum.
It is, on occasion, hilarious.
(Personally the Howardism that really got my goat was the "Summer is a sell-out class traitor for choosing not to stay vegetarian during her ass-kicking training.")
G
I want my goat back.
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