Weird I thought that's one of the ones we loved.

I guess I'll just have to sit over here and love it all by myself.

I'm curious what your issue with it is.

And I think the guys like it...it's been a while for me too.

I can totally understand why people love ID4, but I can't. Almost every scene in that movie has something in it that makes me nerd rage so hard. The worst thing, for me, has to be the scene where they're looking for new pilots.

They're looking for pilots to go fight the aliens and doing impromptu interviews to see what everyone's flight experience is. They get to Russel K. (Kay?) and he's all "I flew in 'nam, but now I do crop dusting" and the guy's like "cool, that's useful I guess..." and he's about to ask the next guy when Russel says "Oh BTW I'm glad I'll get a chance to get some payback for the time they abducted me and did strange alien tests on me and shit".

Everyone in the group looks around at each other with these "Oh, this dude is fucking crazy" looks on their faces. The audience laughs and shit, cause Russel K's being oh so goofy right now. Problem:

YOU'RE RECRUITING GUYS TO GO FIGHT THE FUCKING ALIENS!

I saw that in the theater and even the audience was laughing like "LOL he's so stupid!" But he's not stupid. He totally got abducted. The roswell crash was real, aliens have been abducting people...  The president literally said that they were doing that a couple scenes ago. It's just a stupid joke in the movie, but their reaction should have been different. Maybe laughing at first, but then going "Oh...  wait..." and getting serious about it. Or have his kid literally say "why are you laughing at my dad? You're going to fight aliens!" That would have not only hung a lantern on it, but also been a little character relationship moment where you can see Miguel now has a totally different opinion of his dad, etc.

There's a thing like that in just about every scene for me. Some of the jokes work, some of the effects are amazing, but the little problems add up.

So I decided to finally check out The Pacific. I just finished the first episode...and I know it sounds bad to say this about something like this, but I assure you I mean it purely in a filmic way...I don't give a shit.

I have no clue who any of these people are, barely understand why I'm supposed to care, and I'm just generally disinterested in everything that's happening. And let be clear, I fucking love Band Of Brothers, I usually love everything about that era of war (Strictly...you know in a historical, and appropriate way) but somehow The Pacific has managed to over ride all that and make me not give a shit.

Is it just me? Can someone please assure me that it does at least get better? I'm just sitting here in a pool of my own disappointment trying to make sense of it all.