The Goodbye Girl

The 400 Blows

When it comes to Buffy, I think you can start at season 2, and go through season 5 and stop there.  Its uneven, but MAN is it entertaining as hell.

I've seen Sidekicks, yes, and all it is is a slightly updated Karate Kid model with a bit of wish fulfillment/revenge fanatasy mixed in.  It came out on HBO right when I started doing Martial Arts so it certainly made it into my rotation at the time.  I liked that they emphasized that the kid needed to run his ass around a few times and actually get into shape.  It's a harmless, totally forgettable movie.

As for the Martial Arts involved, it was a hodgepodge of tournament Karate (which is to say, a mix of Shotokan, Tae Kwon Do, probably some Shorin-Ryu, and undoubtedly Norris' own Kuk Sul Won).  It was flashy, with no real soul and no real stakes.  Piscapo is a total caricature at this point and no matter how much gravitas Mako and Beau Bridges try to give it, it never really escapes its own trappings.

And this is the only reason why I'm ok with Kevin James repeatedly getting snubbed for his stuff.  Even though Grown Ups and Paul Blart: Mall Cop didn't yield any noms, I know that in 5 years or so they'll give him the oscar for something like Dirt Fucker:  The Fucker Who Fucks Dirt even though it wont be his most remembered performance.

As I can attest to from my portrayal of Stormtroopers 1-47 in Return of Pink Five

LOUD!!!NOISES!!1!!!one!!!

I'll close this out by saying that three or four things probably REALLY pissed him off, to the point where he started hunting inequities that probably also exist in some of his favorite films if he examined them with the same scrutiny. 

When all you have is a hammer, everything start to looks like a nail.

You went beyond voicing an opinion.  You repeatedly stated you could not even fathom how any right minded person could feel opposite of yours.  You sounded like a house Republican.

Or Hurt Locker was a marginally better film.

No, I saw that.  It was very deft.  Here, I'll give it a try.

"I generally don't consider myself to have an infallible position on movies, nor do I generally bifurcate audiences into those who get it, and fucking morons who shouldn't be allowed to see movies, let alone enjoy them.  But in this case I'm going to be."

You're right!  Through the use of the word "generally," I was able to fortify my position of irrational hate AND insulate myself from perceptions of snobbery.  Thanks, generally!

Generally.  Coming to a sentence near you.

You generally don't consider yourself to be that type of person, all the way up until the moment you totally are.

There are tons of relationships in, oh say, TNG that absolutely don't work for me, that might work for you.  I recognize that this ultimately boils down to preference as opposed to some mythical litmus test that definitively distills good from bad. 

Again, I barely have a dog in this fight.  Spider Man 2 is not going to be the film I go down swinging for.  But it's worth recognizing your hate for this movie has become self aware and spawned an engine of perpetual motion that cannot be dissuaded from its supposition of this movie sucking, irrespective of wether or not the performance of two actors simply "works," for someone else or not.

p.s. For the record, every time Tasha Yar and Data's "love affair," got referenced as evidence of Data being more than machine, I wanted to knock the books out of Star Trek's hands and pants it in front of the entire gym class.