Stavros Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Too much Kim Kardashian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Not enough Udo Kier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Short summary: I'm not 14 anymore. I REALLY don't give a flying fuck about Legolas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Well, I'm also no longer 14, I saw The Hobbit: TDOS, and really liked it a lot. As it happens, Legolas was a particular highlight for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Aaron, one of these days you and I need to sit down for an E2 segment and just spend a few hours arguing with each other over the Hobbit movies. I have a feeling it'll be amusing for everyone involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Perhaps, yes. Gonna divert to the actual Hobbit thread now; more thoughts over there in a moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted December 14, 2013 Report Share Posted December 14, 2013 Short summary: I'm not 14 anymore. I REALLY don't give a flying fuck about Legolas. Tolkein marketed Legolas at 14 year old girls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted December 14, 2013 Report Share Posted December 14, 2013 Legolas in the original film trilogy was very much marketed towards the female crowd, I would argue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted December 14, 2013 Report Share Posted December 14, 2013 I think he was marketed to everyone. Teenage me thought him skateboarding down Helm's Deep was the most badass thing ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted December 14, 2013 Report Share Posted December 14, 2013 My sister, who was a teenager at the time, had a major crush on Orlando Bloom, although I think that was more for the Pirates movies than his Vanilla Coke elf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 14, 2013 Report Share Posted December 14, 2013 When I was thirteen I tried to imitate Legolas doing a jumping dual knife stab on an Uruk-Hai and sprained my ankle on the landing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 14, 2013 Report Share Posted December 14, 2013 On the subject of girls and Legolas: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted December 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2013 I think Robert DeNiro in Cape Fear, may be his best performance ever. I could sympathise with his reason for demanding justice, but at the same time, he made my skin crawl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Posted December 14, 2013 Report Share Posted December 14, 2013 Totally agree, his performance is what puts the remake over the original for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 14, 2013 Report Share Posted December 14, 2013 Catching Fire is actually better than the book. It hits everything it needs to and keeps the emotion going throughout the whole movie. I think Katniss' whiny inner monolog is what killed the books for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted December 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2013 Mars Attacks looks awful on Blu-Ray, the special effects look cheap and cheesy, the music is just lame, and everyone seems to only show up for the money, and the dialogue is bloody awful, and the ending is horrible, and stupid. This movie has aged badly. All in all, I really enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Posted December 15, 2013 Report Share Posted December 15, 2013 Those are all positives right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 15, 2013 Report Share Posted December 15, 2013 Mars Attacks is a tribute to 50s sci-fi B-movies. Everything Suavestar listed off (with perhaps the exception of just being there for the money) is a trait of those films and it's part of why I love it so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted December 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2013 Those are all positives right? Yes. Because as Will said right after you: Mars Attacks is a tribute to 50s sci-fi B-movies. Everything Suavestar listed off (with perhaps the exception of just being there for the money) is a trait of those films and it's part of why I love it so much. Yeah, it's awesome in its own very odd way. When I say there for the money, it was an all star cast, and most of them, just do nothing, like Danny DeVito, it felt like they were just doing it, because they were down on their luck, and needed the money, which I thought was part of the joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 Star Trek TOS: "The Day of the Dove". There are few things more unnerving than a Mr. Spock who has decided that he has had precisely enough of your shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 And can probably itemize how much to the last decimal point... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 What's really funny is to watch TOS season 1 and count how many times "Spock the Enforcer" recommends violence or disregards human life in favor of statistics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 Spock recommending violence or sacrificing some to save more ties into his logical and unemotional approach, but it's startling to see how incredibly easy it is to tip him into murderous rage if you poke him long enough. There's virtually no middle ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 I've always thought that Vulcans don't control their emotions so much as repress them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 I see it as Vulcans control their emotions, whereas Spock, who's half human, represses them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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