Atomic Space Vixen
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My real name gets Toxic Tears
My usual alias when I sign up somewhere and don't want to give real info gets Glitter Girl.
My real goth name that everyone knows me as is Dark Princess Esmeralda BrokenAngel Bloodmoon. :ph34r:
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I haven't read this whole thread, but how can this even be a proper poll or discussion without the awe-inspiring, chimp-mangling kumquatq3 being mentioned? He'd beat them both with one hand while writing soul-shattering sonnets with the other.
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Is anyone else surprised this thread hasn't been locked yet?
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Look at how many people love Superman.
Look at how much more popular Batman has become.
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I don't think you can argue that the majority of people out there think that Peter Jackson is an excellent director, based on the LotR movies alone.
I haven't argued that at all. In fact, I've admitted time and again that my opinion is in the minority.
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Any "movie buff" who puts Mean Girls abot LotR in terms of quality knowns nothing about film.
I called Mean Girls a "fun little movie". I approach a Mean Girls differently than I would approach a Citizen Kane. If I'm reading a mystery novel, I'll judge it on different standards than I'd judge a work of high literature.
Anyway, a movie lives or dies in the director's hands. A good director can save a crappy script, and a brilliant script can die in the hands of a crappy director. A good director can coax great performances out of mediocre actors, and again vice versa. Jackson managed to bore me with Cate Blanchett and Sean Bean in his troupe.
Maybe his problem was sticking as close to the books (I assume, I haven't read them) as he did, and should have strayed more from them than he did. That's something else a good director can do. A good director should be able to take a story and glue my ass to the seat making me want to see how it all ends. So I don't think Jackson is a good director.
I know I can find review after review praising the LoTR films and Jackson, but they are not universally beloved.
But hey, folks, I've read the J.R.R. Tolkien novels more than once, and my quarrel isn't with his grand mythic vision. It's with Peter Jackson's often uninspired translation of his story into cinematic terms... Add a lot of dull acting - except Sir Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis - and you have an uneven movie with yawns aplenty. So there's one critic's opinion, which won't make a bit of difference to zillions of LOTR fans.Like all the other installments in the saga, The Return of the King is part of a good movie, but only mediocre on its own, full of awkward pauses and redundancies.And make no mistake: Return of the King is an empty spectacle. Nowhere did any of its characters feel like real people with real emotions -
Certainly Franka Potente was out of her depth.
I disagree there, I really liked her in the first movie. I just don't think they gave her enough to use for her short stint in the sequel. But then I may be biased, being a huge fan of Run Lola Run.
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Yep, I thought it was going to be another "girl teen-film" and I was pleasantly surprised. (I only watched it because my step-daughter insisted: she had seen it before.) It is not the normal grist to the mill, and in fact shows some innovative story-telling. And at least it is not yet-another-sequel-or-remake!
Much credit can go to the awesome Tina Fey.
I see she's written a few items for Saturday Night Live; that shows the merit of the show and her talent.
She's the first female head writer there, and has helped transform it from a boy's club to inclusive of their female talent which is very apparent. For that alone she is one of my heros.
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But I will say, I
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Yep, I thought it was going to be another "girl teen-film" and I was pleasantly surprised. (I only watched it because my step-daughter insisted: she had seen it before.) It is not the normal grist to the mill, and in fact shows some innovative story-telling. And at least it is not yet-another-sequel-or-remake!
Much credit can go to the awesome Tina Fey.
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...but Mean Girls was good I thought it would be rubbish but i was pleasantly surprised.
I agree. It was a fun little movie.
And thank you Kirottu and Musopticon.
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.... would you like people to attack you for your views on religion and politics?
Of course not. It's just strange that it's a friggin' movie director that a dissenting opinion is getting people worked up over.
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Don't feed the trolls.
This is some pretty obvious trolling.
Your arguement was laid out pretty simple, and then deflated. You are entitled to not like LotR. That's subjective. Peter Jackson is universally recognized as a very polished, quality director who's entire body of work are well-made films.
Your arguement centers entirely on the story of LotR, which Peter Jackson is not responsible for. He didn't write it. His direction and visual storytelling are both unique, and masterful.
Either you are misguided enough to blame Peter Jackson for Tolkein's story, or you are obviously trolling.
I'm going with the latter of the two.
I've been a movie buff all my life. I know what a director does and what a director is responsible for. I also know what I like, and I don't like what I've seen of Jackson's work so far. I'd like to think that I have enough posts in this particular forum (don't let my post count fool you, I've been more active in Way Off Topic than anywhere else on the site) to show that I don't go around trolling, but do have strongly held opinions. Yet from this particular opinion I've been attacked time and again. Strangely enough, I've been attacked more for not liking Peter Jackson than I have for any of my views on religion or politics. Strange what stirs up passions...
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Actually, you were the first one to use insults in this thread by attacking everyone personally who disagreed with your 'Peter Jackson is a hack' assessment. I (and others) are just following your example. :cool:
Okay, here's a challenge... Go back to before I was insulted the first time and show me where I attacked everyone personally who disagreed with me. I see disagreements, but please, give me just one quote, keeping in mind a difference in opinion is not a personal attack. If you can not provide one, I would like an apology for the above lie.
Thank you.
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Plastic people was terrific ? :ph34r:
The last episode was a bit crap. It had a lot of potential but it looked like either the writers got painted into a corner with the plot. Or they simply had to sew it up for a 90 minute timeslot.
Dr Who bonks his way around the universe coming soon :D
Even with stupid villains, the writing was fairly crisp and the Doctor and Rose have been pretty consistantly fun to watch.
I also have a feeling that the writers knew they were going with a deus ex machina ending for the finale because the god was literally in the machine. Of course, that didn't make it any less anti-climatic.
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"Then again, I think Gigli was an awesome movie, so my critique probably isn't the best in the world."
Awesome? No, i said it was good, and much better than the fools think.
"How does not liking Jackson's work make me "self-indulgent"?"
Not an insult, just a fact. You actually believe that your opinion is factual when you call Jackson a hack even when all the evidence points to you being wrong. Your self indulgent as no matter the evidence you cling to the needy belief that everyone but you is wrong.
Don't be sad. We all go through phases like that.
It's amazing. "Gigli" is pretty much a universally reviled movie, yet you say, "No, i said it was good, and much better than the fools think" then you have the absolute gall to call me out for having an opinion that goes up against the majority? Wow, you hypocrite.
Do I believe my opinion is factual? Of course I do. It would be bizarre to have an opinion that one believes is or may be wrong. My opinion is that there is no God. That also puts me in a minority. I have no issues with having a minority opinion. Just because a majority believes something doesn't make them right.
So go along now and learn the difference between "your" and "you're" and stick to arguing with me on the topic up for discussion and not bringing it down to personal insults.
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Obviously... you, uh.... suffer from both a mental and moral turpitude. It's quite clear.
Okay, that's a better insult.
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Having watched the whole season of Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor, I fell in love with the show all over again (and with Eccleston too
). Even the weakest episode was terrific.I was however torn on the season finale. There were some incredible moments (Daleks coming silently up behind outside the window was classic), but I couldn't help but feel a little disappointment. I was hoping for more drama and heartbreak in The Doctor's transformation, but as it was it seems like it was happening because he had a headache and not about to die. As for defeating the Daleks, it seems like the writers took "deus ex machina" and went for it with gusto. It was a little anti-climatic that Uber Rose was just able to "erase" them from existance like that.
Ah well. I still enjoyed it and am looking forward to a new season and seeing what the new Doctor will bring.
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Peter Jackson a ahack? Only a fool who knows NOTHING about movies would think that. Must come from the same Camp For Over Self Indulgent Have No Clue Wannabe Movie Critics that also claim that George Lucas can't direct.
If you're going to try to insult me, at least have it make sense. How does not liking Jackson's work make me "self-indulgent"?
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How does it feel, having no soul?
Oh, quite normal, thanks!
Um, no. You're wrong. You're absolutely wrong. I thought he did a superb job on the LOTR movies, and I felt they were among the best films ever made! And that's not my LOTR fanboyism speaking through, that's my unbiased opinion. While they all had flaws (length being one, but that was mostly unavoidable), I thought they were way better than most of the trash Hollywood churns out every year. And I'm sure most of the millions of fans who purchased movie tickets to see them would at least say there was something to like in them.As for King Kong, PJ is a great director, but I'm keeping my expectations low. King Kong just doesn't need a remake. It would be sweet if he did The Hobbit, just too complete the LOTR series.
If by "great director" you mean "hack", then sure. I watched the first two, and part of the third. I never saw the end and have no desire to. If an epic trilogy can't keep you interested in seeing how it all ends, it's done its job poorly. I did enjoy Magneto's magic flashlight though!
As for the millions of fans, are these the same people who continue to make American Idol such a smash hit while ignoring great shows like Keen Eddie or Firefly? Popularity is no indication of quality, my friend.
And no version of the Hobbit can top Leonard Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins", where at least the cheese was fun, unlike BoTR.
Given that no one has ever successfully filmed an epic high fantasy trilogy other than Peter Jackson, your words mean very little.Coercing the movie going masses to sit through eight hours worth of the kind of stuff they make fun of you in high school for liking... Now that's talent.
Maybe it wasn't "high" fantasy, but Star Wars was as much fantasy as it was science fiction, and the first three films were fun, a word sadly lacking from Jackson's vocabulary. Unless the magic flashlight was intentional. And besides, he filmed all three back-to-back, before the first was even released. Even if it flopped, he would have still have filmed all three parts "successfully". That's talent in grubbing for money, not in directing.
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King Kong's story really doesn't appeal to me. But I don't understand calling Peter Jackson a hack. He has a really good body of work overall.
His last three movies were overblown dreck that could have stood using a good deal of editing, and could have stood being a lot less unintentionally funny.
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its been so long since I've seen the original that I was wondering who those messing looking people were. Hows the flooding going?
I was wondering what you were talking about with the flooding, then I remembered. Wrong part of the province, I'm in Edmonton.
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I know that chimps are a favorite in WOT, but I thought I'd add a linky to the new trailer...
http://www.volkswagen.com/vwcms_publish/vw...al/en/home.html
I didn't have much hope for this movie, its hack director is one big strike against it, but from the trailer it looks pretty good.
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Yeah but doing a woman with a thing would be very different to doing it in a lesbian fashion.
Well, it would feel different when you don't have to strap it on, I'm sure. :D
Scientists find planet with 3 suns
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We'll try to do better keeping you updated on Britney's pregnancy. :D