NightAngle04 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 I turned on him after he went insane when peole said Cop Out was a shitty movie. He blocked me on Twitter for that. What did you say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Honestly I though Red State was a huge leap forward for him as a director. It actually had a visual style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 For me it started all the way back to Mallrats. Mallrats was, to be frank, not very good. And most of the world agreed. It tanked, and rightfully so. I thought I was the only one who didn't really like Mallrats. But yeah, everything else Dan says, is on the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 I will always be of the opinion that Chasing Amy is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and I watch bad movies on purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Smith isn't a *good* director, writer or comedian. He's just not. He's *entertaining*, but he legitimately thinks he's Scorcese. I honestly like him better as an actor, than anything else. All in all, though, Smith is a guy who has outlived his usefullness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 And he was in Live Free and Die Hard, so fuck him and Justin Long, for good measure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midoco123 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 I think I might as well throw my hat into the ring on this Kevin Smith discussion. He reminds me of The Offspring, showing signs of maturity, but then doing very stupid things that show he hasn't grown up at all, despite his age. A relic perhaps that should have been left in the 90's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Isn't Comic Book Men just Pawn Stars for comics? Why do people hate it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Think of all the reasons that most geeks dislike Big Bang Theory. Now, imagine a show that really only reenforces that with actual people that Comic Book Guy would roll his eyes at for being caricatures. I mean, the parts of Pawn Stars and that kind of show that I always dislike are the obviously scripted and recreated interactions between the staff (Just try to convince me that if you were an employer that you wouldn't have fired Chumlee by now, even if he was your friend growing up). Comic Book Men pretty much ramps that part up to 11 because it's a freaking hour long and half of it is just that parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 This collective hate-on for Kevin Smith gives me hope for humanity. He hasn't made a really good movie. Clerks was alright, but it worked more for the era it came out than anything else. Mallrats was equally alright, but had even less narrative. At that point, I would never have watched another Smith film is everyone I knew seemingly had a hard-on for him. Dogma was misguided nonsense. Chasing Amy was downright offensively bad. Jersey Girl, which I will always say is probably his best film (that I've seen), was sentimental pap. Jay and Silent Bob and Zack and Miri made me want to eat a gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 I've seen The Hurt Locker twice now, and both times I've walked away with the same idea: After he believes Beckham was killed, Sergeant James goes AWOL to look for the boy's family. Later that same night, he returns to the base, but is called out on duty because an oil tanker exploded. While he and his men are out, James seemingly finds the perfect vantage point from which the bomber could have detonated the device. He's sure that's where the man was. A few scenes later, it turns out Beckham is alive and well, but James completely ignores him. In fact, he walks away from him in a hurry. Now, it's been my interpretation that while he was out looking for Beckham's parents, James set the bomb on the tanker and did it from the spot where he would later take his men. The reason he did it, in my mind, was because he snapped over Beckham's "death." Here was a young kid living through a wartorn area, and he wasn't planting bombs or shooting people. He was trying to make a buck. In Beckham, James saw a purity he didn't see everyday. So when he thought the boy had been killed and his body was going to be used to hurt even more people, he couldn't take it and he struck back. Later, then, when he realized Beckham was still alive, he couldn't handle what he was seeing, nor could he deal with what he had done in his name, so to speak. With all of those spare parts under his bunk, James had the tools and the knowledge to make a bomb. Furthermore, it wouldn't take a large one to blow up an oil tanker, and he could have been concealing it inside of his hoodie or his fatigues. As for why James showed them that spot, I'd say to make it look like it was someone else. And as for the guys who abduct Specialist Eldridge, they had nothing to do with the bomb. They saw a soldier, and jumped him. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 On the Kevin Smith thing, I stopped liking him for his sex fiend character that he plays. I know (hope) it's an act, but when his wife and daughter are in stage and he says stuff like I F#@ked that to make that it just rubs me the wrong way. But I legitimately likes Mallrats, it gave us Jason Lee in a film world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Zack and Miri worked for me because of Elizabeth Banks. She's just wonderful in everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Teaser for the Japanese remake of Unforgiven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Haven't seen the original, should probably do that soon. Les Mis is adding a new number done by the original composer for the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Teaser for the Japanese remake of Unforgiven. "Ned" and "Little Bill" look fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 Stop whatever you are doing and watch the Pacific Rim trailer. Holy shitballs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 This. Now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 Are you following Modern Seinfeld on Twitter? https://twitter.com/SeinfeldToday Jerry releases a special for pay-what-you-want online distribution. Kramer sets up the website. Nobody can download it. Elaine has a bad waiter at a nice restaurant, her negative Yelp review goes viral, she gets banned. Kramer accidentally joins the Tea Party. George finds a rare gun from his dad's War days. Kramer talks him into selling it on eBay for $200. It shows up on Pawn Stars for $50,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 1) That was GlaDOS voicing the computers. 2) I want to make sweet love to that movie and introduce it to my parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 Sweet monkeyballs that looks fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 .... I'll be in my bunk... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 I saw this on Netflix and had to comment- Why have I not heard of this before? What if a 1980s American aircraft carrier (with its modern firepower) time-warped back to Pacific waters just outside Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941? That's the intriguing premise behind this sci-fi adventure that stars Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen. I'm so watching this later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 Dexter Series 7 is really good. It's such a shame it took two years to actually get good again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 Ok, that film was completely mystifying. Half military pornography showing how great the US armed forces are, half twilight zone discussion of the cause and effect of time travel, and practically no action. I was so sure that this film would be all about the Nimitz just blowing the Japanese out of the water but no, they splash a couple of Zeros, meet a couple of people from the past and thats it. If this were made today it would be a special effects bonanza, but halfway through this everyone's still trying to find out what's going on. I can't recommend this. It's utterly baffling that they made a film about this massive aircraft carrier going back in time and then did so little with it. It's actually about the time travel rather than just using that as a plot device. It would be like having a bodyswap movie where they spend the rest of the film working with scientists to try and find out how it happened, it misses the point of the device. Not that I'm action obsessed or whatever, but what was there instead wasn't that compelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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