no seriously, Big Fish was a shitty pointless movie

[Stars]

i don't feel like explaining myself. people with brains will agree

[Irrelevant]

no seriously! yes seriously!

[mpp]

if you're an emotionless, detached, void human being, then, yes, big fish was a stupid movie

i can't believe that any person could go sit thru that movie and not feel an emotional connection

jesse nobody likes you and all you do is post shit like this to get attention

you're really a worthless human being. what do you get out of this?

[Best Looking Boy]

that movie was really awful. the most stale thing ive seen in years. ewan mcgregor trying to sound like a hick, i cried but i had a different reason for crying than everyone else in the theatre.

[BeautifulLoser]

Originally posted by Best Looking Boy
that movie was really awful. the most stale thing ive seen in years. ewan mcgregor trying to sound like a hick, i cried but i had a different reason for crying than everyone else in the theatre.

Boooo

[Best Looking Boy]

thanks, youre still a fat pig and i am not

[mpp]

Originally posted by Best Looking Boy
i cried but i had a different reason for crying than everyone else in the theatre.

i cried too, which is rare for me at movies (i can't recall the last time i cried at a movie...maybe "where the red fern grows"...nah just playing, it was definitely "forrest gump")

i don't care about the reason you cried...maybe people who don't like this movie don't have a dad or something, i dunno

Originally posted by mpp


(i can't recall the last time i cried at a movie it was definitely "forrest gump")

weird me too. i guess this means it's time to see Big Fish.

[Best Looking Boy]

Originally posted by mpp


i cried too, which is rare for me at movies (i can't recall the last time i cried at a movie...maybe "where the red fern grows"...nah just playing, it was definitely "forrest gump")

i don't care about the reason you cried...maybe people who don't like this movie don't have a dad or something, i dunno

i cried because i paid for it, should have made tony pay.

[mpp]

Originally posted by Best Looking Boy
i cried because i paid for it, should have made tony pay.

LOL

you're a soulless freak, i hope you realize that

[Best Looking Boy]

i fucking wish, if i didnt have a soul i wouldnt pity you fucks.

[mpp]

Originally posted by Best Looking Boy
i fucking wish, if i didnt have a soul i wouldnt pity you fucks.

eh, go watch "cold mountain" and enjoy your oscar snobs kidman and zellweger

[Best Looking Boy]

id rather see fucking paycheck. can we argue in one thread please

[BeautifulLoser]

Originally posted by Best Looking Boy
paycheck

[Best Looking Boy]

i rest my case

[Axis of Action]

These differences stem from my belief that there are two types of moviegoers (though the complaints manifest in different forms depending on the person and the movie).

There are those who go to be entertained, and there are those who go to feel. This isn't to say those who go to be entertained can't feel, it's that they're looking for different things from movies. I haven't seen Big Fish so I can't perfectly address it, but the basic idea is those who go to feel appreciate more nuanced movies. I've heard tremendously good things about Big Fish,... about 10% have complained, if not less.

Well, whatever. Movie appreciation is extremely subjective, we all go to experience something else. Some of us look at acting in different ways, and as such, some people hate Ewan and others love him (I think the man is great, he's an excellent actor, though I can't comment on his Big Fish performance yet). Same with people like Jason Lee... I love the guy. He's not an a-list actor, he doesn't have any stellar qualities, but there's something about him, what he does with his characters that I simply love. Basically... arguing about movies is like arguing over art. Well, technically it's the same thing. I hate people who argue over visual art, judging it's worth, because neither will change their opinion and will only get more and more pissed off.

I dunno, I'm kind of winding around here. Hmm. Meh.

[Best Looking Boy]

two different types of people
mindless, sap-loving drones
people almost as smart as me

[Axis of Action]

Originally posted by Best Looking Boy
two different types of people
mindless, sap-loving drones
people almost as smart as me

right, that's what I meant.

[Stars]

Originally posted by Sean Casey
jesse nobody likes you and all you do is post shit like this to get attention

you're really a worthless human being. what do you get out of this?

no i just think the movie sucked and i'm dissappointed that so many people seem to make a big deal about it.

i'm really glad I don't care whether people on this message board like me or not, otherwise my life would be sad, probably much like yours.

[Ugly]

I just wanted to see it cuz Tim Burton is a cool visual director and I've liked Ewan McGreggor since Trainspotting. But if I hear any more "Forrest Gump" comparisions, I'm gonna pass cuz I really hate that flick.

[Isaac]

Originally posted by Ugly
I just wanted to see it cuz Tim Burton is a cool visual director and I've liked Ewan McGreggor since Trainspotting.

Same here.

[Isaac]

http://filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?Id=5404
Paycheck (2.5 Stars)- For the average escapism-craving Joe, “Paycheck” is a breezy way to forget about reality for two hours. The movie looks nice. Its freshly scrubbed stars, with their soap-opera faces and Barbie-doll bodies, are pleasing to the eyes. The violence is served up light, like an airy soufflé, and there’s a happy ending to induce smiles as viewers exit the theatre. In other words, it’s an innocuous film that can’t hurt you. However, longtime fans of John Woo, who have come to accept operatic, lead-slinging death dances as an integral part of the director’s powerful aesthetic, will probably be unsatisfied with this neutered variation on his earlier, superior works.

[Isaac]

http://filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?Id=5409
Big Fish (4 Stars)- "Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,

we ourselves flash and yearn,

and moreover my mother told me as a boy

(repeatingly) 'Ever to confess you're bored

means you have no

Inner Resources.'"


Dream Song #14, John Berryman




Edward Bloom, the charismatic spinner of ripping yarns at the center of Tim Burton's wonderful new film, ranks among the most remarkable movie characters to appear in years. In attempting to provide a context and motive for his embellishments, reviewers have invoked everything from the southern tradition of tall tales, folk fables and Homer to ancient mythology but I think Berryman's poem hits the nail sufficiently close to the head. Born with inner resources to burn and understanding that most people's lives could use a dash or two of spice, Bloom regards it his gentlemanly duty to reinvent the world as a place richer in possibility, poetry and outright magic for their pleasure. As sort of a public service.

[ammy]

Originally posted by Best Looking Boy
two different types of people
mindless, sap-loving drones
people almost as smart as me

no, two types..

the kind that will see harry potter to have fun

and the kind that refuse to see it because it's "for kids"

[Nimrod]

I like how somewhere in between being Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney, he had his facial moles removed.