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Okay, I know plenty of fanboys, like my friend Ryan Schile who do like it a lot, for whatever reason. So that's the first hole in your premise.
Secondly, you're basically making an appeal to authority. "Well, Spock likes it so why don't you?" And as much as I respect the character of Spock and Leonard Nimoy as an artist, that doesn't mean I'm always going to agree with either of them.
Further, we don't know what Nimoy's specific feelings about the story are. Whatever it is, I'm sure his opinion is more complicated than a thumbs up or thumbs down.
Holy shit, really guys?
This movie makes NO SENSE. Things just happen because they need to happen.
And that just happens to piss me off more than usual.
I think you're the greatest, Greg.
There's no way I'm Zedmore. And if I've got all that youthful enthusiasm, wouldn't that make me Ray?
Oh right, Serenity. I kinda like the idea of the supplemental episode/recording/whatever.
Gregory has just admitted in a thread on NP2K that he actually did like Transformers 2.
I suggest throwing him in the nearest volcano.
Selling beer at the Daytona 500. Ugh.
This is a good idea for a thread.
I said this to Teague earlier today.
When you can run Final Cut Pro on the iPad, I will sell a kidney to make that happen. I'll even sell one of mine, if I have to.
Trey wrote:Tho really, could there have been any such thing as a "spoiler" for Transformers II?
For a spoiler to exist, there would need be a logical sequence of events to lead up to that spoiler. Saying "window" comes after "blueberry" in a random string of words is pretty well meaningless.
We said we're sorry! We had no idea it could be this bad!
It is pretty accurate when applied to the media. But politically he's turned into one of those free-market "Democrats and Republicans are exactly the same!" nuts.
And as a Democrat, I disagree with that pretty strongly, obviously.
The other thing that's tough to slog through at times is when his dramatic ranting spills over into political ranting. And here, at least, there's hardly anything of value.
But, anyway, he rants about how politicians are just self appointed protagonists acting out dramas with "the future, Change, Our Heritage, Family Values, etc." as dramatic abstractions, while "legitimate political concerns - the environment, health care - go begging for an audience because they are not dramatic."
Uh, yeah.
I finished True and False not too long ago, and while it has good information, so much of it comes across as a writer saying, "SAY MY WORDS AND THEN GET OFF THE STAGE, STUPID ACTOR!" And his whole, "I am Mamet, fully formed genius sprung from Zeus' forehead" thing is even tougher to swallow when it's plainly obvious how much he's cribbing from Meisner, which is what "True and False" mostly is.
I'm rereading "Three Uses of the Knife" right now and it's even more deliberately obtuse and self important with less actual informative value. At the moment, it's mostly him railing against "problem plays" - in other words, any play that attempts to tackle a social issue - as wastes of time that exist only to make the audience feel pompous and self righteous. Projection much?
I happen to be rereading some of Mamet's stuff at the moment as this makes the Internet rounds. There's a lot of good information in here, if you can get past the bombast.
Sadly the advice would be a lot clearer if he wasn't as concerned with telling us how smart he was as he was about educating others on drama.
http://www.movieline.com/2010/03/david- … e-unit.php
I don't know how I feel about Synchedoche, but I think I'd like a Down In Front to figure it out. At the very least, the level of hatred from Mike would surely make it entertaining.
I love the Aviator, but largely because it plays in the juncture of two worlds I unabashedly love.
I also love Stranger than Fiction, not sure how much there is to talk about, but it might be an interesting platform for a discussion about premises and magic beans. Also, Dustin Hoffman rules.
Uh, yeah. How the hell did that happen?
FixedR6 wrote:It's like watching films with angry, cynical chipmunks in my head.
I'd watch that.
Dorkman is right. The difference can be summed up in something George Clooney once said on the Daily Show (paraphrased):
"Washington and Los Angeles are the same in that they're both one industry towns and think what they do keeps the world spinning. The difference is that in Washington, they're right."
downinfront wrote:Sometimes I make Brian cry by showing him lots of pictures of war. Then he runs around mostly naked for a while.
You know, typical Democrat stuff.
Also, we talked about it in the commentary but not here, nobody asks the obvious question when Neo mind-blows-up the Sentinel, "If he could only do that in the Matrix but it looks like he can do it in the 'real world,' then is there a chance that the 'real world' is another Matrix?" Nobody mentions or even seems to consider the possibility, which would seem like the immediately obvious answer.
If the wi-fi is part of the technology the machines have implanted into humans, then you must necessarily ask the question, "Why did the machines put that capability into the humans in the first place?"
There's no reason. And I guarantee any reason you come up with would infer a dramatic situation that we should've seen but didn't, like the machines being able to "remote control" people in the real world that's already been mentioned.
Based on what we see and what they explain to us in the next two movies, The One can do essentially anything at all. We have a demonstration of how much he can do without any kind of discussion or demonstration of his limitations.
In which case, where's the drama and tension? What's interesting about this character and why should I get invested in whether or not he succeeds?
Even Superman has kryptonite.
I love the original, fond memories of watching this on the sci-fi channel Saturday afternoons. I wish the new one was going to be something worth loving.
But I know it won't be.
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