Defend your most controversial film opinion. (Page 5 of 15)

I laughed at the joke. But I appreciate sellew defending my honor.

... Would someone please be so kind as to direct me to the Piggly Wiggly? >_>

I tend to side more with the modern usage-rs than lexicographers, so I appreciate being made aware of the preferred distinction.

"Irregardless" and the dilution of "literally" will happen over my dead body, however.

MY DEAD BODY, GHOST

...so anyway, BLADE RUNNER is overrated.

Copy and pasted from a thread that didn't go anywhere:

I really dislike a lot of the casting in Harry Potter. Especially Michael Gambon and Richard Harris. They missed the mark on Dumbledore twice. Granted, a lot of it is the direction - some of the blocking inherently made it difficult to project cool/calm/collected. I'm remembering specifically a moment in Goblet of Fire when they have Dumbledore running around the room like a chicken with his head chopped off. That's more on the director than the actor.

But I never felt that "this is the most powerful and intelligent wizard in the world" while watching Dumbledore. Just an old dude who kinda freaks out easily.

Last edited by oTom (2013-10-22 06:51:20)

Well, having no experience with lexicographical proclivities, I'll defer to your obviously first-hand knowledge .  However, while I'm as quick as the next person to tell those damn kids to get off my lawn,

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I do know that the soi disant "modern usage experts" are nothing of the sort.  They're just pig-ignorant, snooty busybodies who, like the Emperor Caligula, are fighting the tides by throwing spears into the water and collecting chests full of worthless seashells.  Semantic drift happens all the fucking time, everywhere, and always has.  So in addition to being totally pointless, it's also completely arbitrary to say "English shall go this far, but no farther."  Why not wind back the clock to when 'silly' could mean 'rustic'?  There's just as much, or as little, reason to do that.

As for the 'disinterested'/'uninterested' distinction, I'm confident that any actual, real-life confusion can and will be sorted out by 'impartial', 'uninterested', etc.  But if I say "I need to go to the bank before work", you won't tend to look for me near the River Tyne.

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We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread....

Don't talk that way about my Blade Runner!!! My Blade Runner was a saint!!!!!!

Last edited by sellew (2013-10-22 09:39:24)

Blade Runner, to me, has always had more style than substance, but without the action that something like Akira has. Harrison Ford just sounds bored, and while that probably is the right way to play the character it's not fun to watch.

I've never been a fan of Blade Runner but I like Rocky 3 which was released the same year so, what do I know?

For Transformers, that'd be Vapes, he already said something about Dark of the Moon but not in-depth.

I enjoyed them as summer blockbusters, even able to look past the occasional logic holes, and enjoyed that the third one didn't have a ten minute, "Let's have Sam's parents embarrass him," scene. I still need to watch the third one at home sometime; the Blu-Ray release was overpriced and under-special-featured so I still haven't picked it up, and I'll admit that it was hard to tell what was going on because a lot of the robots were more monochrome. "So-and-so died? When did that happen? Oh, in an opening scene while it was still somewhat light out at the drive-in."

So... I enjoyed them but as you can tell from the above rambling, I'm not the one to defend them, exactly.