Am I the only one who finds the premise of The Cable Guy compelling? That poor kid raised by a TV set... he's not that different from us. Nowadays, he would feel at home here or at TV Tropes.

The movie could have been executed better, but I think it deserves much more credit than people give it.

I confess:

Waterworld is pretty much my favourite movie of all time. Oh, that escapism..

I don't understand why Coen-brothers' movies are considered good or funny (Big Lebowsky or Oh brother, where art you). Fargo is rather good though.

Same goes to Woody Allen. His movies are ok (no more), but defenetly not funny to me. He recently made series of romantic movies in romantic european cities. What cities he picks? Paris, Rome etc.. Talking about playing it safe. Who saw that coming?

Speaking of saw: I really like Saw. It has that special atmosphere and that twist always gets me. But only the first one, others are..well, nobody likes others, so here we go..

I also don´t get what´s original or funny in Dave Chappelle. To me, its´all about "Black people - white people" + lots of swearing in between.

My favourite Bond is Roger Moore. He made Cold War fun.

I heard a lot about Community - tv-show. When I saw several episodes, I first thought I made a mistake and picked up some different show. Sadly, I didn't.

I understand most of those are comedies and any opinion on  a topic can only be subjective.

But not Saw. Saw is not funny. Saw is serious. And it will get you.

Saw

Last edited by Scooperfield (2012-11-27 19:39:25)

I think he's a dick. And I lost respect for Whoopi Goldberg when she made that 'not rape, rape' comment. I do like Chinatown, though and I won't defend myself as I don't feel I need to. It doesn't mean I like Polanksi.

And I feel the same way about the singer Chris Brown. He has many adoring female fans who can't get past his looks and voice. Silly little girls.  I find him repugnant and will never think what he did is ok. Despite the fact that Rihanna has 'forgiven' him. He's still a cunt.

Consider watching Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. Creep, yes (he also had a relationship with an underage Nastassja Kinski), but a creep who tried to get right with the victim and the law and got jerked around.

And it's not like Polanski is the only creep who ever made a movie.

Last edited by Zarban (2012-11-27 23:58:00)

Chris Brown is still a cunt, though, right? Just so we are all clear on that

Yay!

Zarban makes a good point,  Polanski is not the only creep to make a film. I would class Victor Salva as a worse person that Polanski. He is an actual genuine registered sex offender. And he made a film for Disney! And he's a cunt.

And if we are talking underage relationships with girls, we should probably talk about almost every rock star from the 70s 

Last edited by Jimmy B (2012-11-28 00:15:52)

Not to also find another dimension of excuses for Roman Polanski, but also bear in mind that his wife and unborn child were both murdered by The Manson Family and...well, you might become worse at being human yourself.

I have t-shirts older than the child he intoxicated and sodomized. He's scum and won't get a penny of my money while he's alive. And get out of here with the, "he isn't the only one." I won't pay to watch Powder either. A scum is a scum is a scum.

And it's called statutory rape, Trey. Let's not pretend it was anything different.

I don't want to argue too much on this point, cause I can see it either way. But I'm not shedding any tears for a guy who lives a plush life in France and still gets to make movies with relative impunity. France isn't a prison. I don't consider 35 years of that to be a punishment of any kind, really.

But that's me.

Safe place! safe place! I thought you said this was a safe place!

Few more unpopular opinions:
* My favorite director is John Sayles. I've taken a lot of shit for that although I don't think this forums will give me any grief over that one.
* My all time favorite movie is Lone Star. It's the movie I would most like to have made myself.
* I think Matthew McConaughey is not a bad actor (But I'll admitt he has made his share of stinkers). I like Nick Cage for that matter too.
* My go-to-movies when I'm sick... Indiana Jones (Not unpopular), National Treasure, Sahara, Romancing The Stone and The Mummy.
* I like the The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
* I like the Tales of the Gold Monkey.
* My favourite vfx commentary to a movie is the Volker Engel commentary to ID4.
* I liked both the Lost and BSG endings.

Last edited by AshDigital (2012-11-28 19:07:30)

The Lost ending wasn't bad at all, the show had much bigger issues. I rewatched it recently from beginning to end - it sometimes feels like the writers simply didn't know where they were going. When multi-season arcs are considered, I think nothing beats Babylon 5 (it feels very consistent, maybe except Season 5...  but that's only because the show was canceled and then un-canceled).