If not for the fact that I was with friends and they drove, I woudl have left about 20 minutes into the film.
We really need a puking smiley.. 
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Mr. Parcelan wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
What's Hero about?
I think I saw a trailer for it when I went to the movies a couple weeks ago, but I can't remember what it was about.
I think I thought it looked stupid.
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Mr. Parcelan wrote this stupid crap:
What's Hero about?
Jet Lee being a total badass and taking on an entire army by himself.
I will look for the american version in a bit.
I was thinking it was some pussy emotional action film.
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JooJooFlop was naked while typing this:
No, that's not it.I was thinking it was some pussy emotional action film.
Well anger is an emotion and Jet Li looked pretty pissed off so....
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Liam - "Caitlin: You terrify me, but in a good way."
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JooJooFlop had this to say about Robocop:
pussy emotional action film.
If that's how you call a visual masterpiece, sure.
Hero is great, and I daresay much better than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Has the same flowing, graceful battles but is a lot prettier overall. It is, in my opinion, one of the best movies ever. ^_^
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Naimah attempted to be funny by writing:
I still want to know why you hated Vol. 2 so much.
Seeing Master of Disguise made it impossible for me to hate any movie released nowadays...so why didn't you like KB2?
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Azizza impressed everyone with:
The only movie that I can ever thnk of that I saw in a theater that was worse than this was "In the Bedroom".
You must be destroyed.
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Out of a possible 10, JooJooFlop scored a straight 1 with:
No, that's not it.I was thinking it was some pussy emotional action film.
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Out of a possible 10, Nina scored a straight 1 with:
If that's how you call a visual masterpiece, sure.Hero is great, and I daresay much better than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
As for Azizza... I like EC Movie Reviews. I'd like to know more other than the fact that you hated it. You gave absolutely NO reason why. Not even a hint of one. Please elaborate. Without a purpose, your posting this has no reason to exist. 
Did you like the first one? Did you hate the first one?
I've noticed that the people who hated the first one didn't understand it or what it was made for or about. *shrug*
Details, please.
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Bajah was listening to Cher while typing:
As for Azizza... I like EC Movie Reviews. I'd like to know more other than the fact that you hated it. You gave absolutely NO reason why. Not even a hint of one. Please elaborate. Without a purpose, your posting this has no reason to exist.Did you like the first one? Did you hate the first one?
I've noticed that the people who hated the first one didn't understand it or what it was made for or about. *shrug*
Details, please.
It's not something people hear about.
Sorry guys.
This is Van Helsing.. Not to be confused with the anime Hellsing. =P Thank you please drive through.
Im gonna go see the movie tnite with KaL btw.. so I'm actually looking forward to your explanation of hating the movie when you write it tmorrow.
Oh and by the way, Jet Li doesn't take on an army, he gets his shit ruined at the end of the movie by about 10,000 arrows. Oops! Fazum'Zen Fastfist fucked around with this message on 04-17-2004 at 06:59 PM.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
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Just a wee pet peeve.. *grin* this is for all who have spelled it as above.. Van Halsing.. or Van HellsingThis is Van Helsing.. Not to be confused with the anime Hellsing. =P Thank you please drive through.
Word.
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Bajah had this to say about (_|_):
I've noticed that the people who hated the first one didn't understand it or what it was made for or about. *shrug*
Even after knowing what it was made for, I still couldn't stand it. But I didn't see KB 2, fool me twice, shame on me and whatnot
Some of us simply dont like bad acting, cheesey dialogue and the complete overuse of violence with 10,000 gallons of fake blood coming out of people, regardless of the intentions of the movie.
The advertising trailers for the first movie was quite deceiving.
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Out of a possible 10, Reynar scored a straight 1 with:
Even after knowing what it was made for, I still couldn't stand it. But I didn't see KB 2, fool me twice, shame on me and whatnotSome of us simply dont like bad acting, cheesey dialogue and the complete overuse of violence with 10,000 gallons of fake blood coming out of people, regardless of the intentions of the movie.
The advertising trailers for the first movie was quite deceiving.
It wasn't made for everyone. It was made by a big fan of 70's kung fun to honor 70's kung fu. It did very well at that.
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Bajah had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
It wasn't made for everyone. It was made by a big fan of 70's kung fun to honor 70's kung fu. It did very well at that.
Of course it wasn't made for everyone, which is why not everyone liked it. Folks on this board seemed shocked when someone doesn't like a movie that everyone else does.
Rented vol 1 last night.. so it was all still pretty fresh in mind. The over-use of blood in the first one, I believe, was a jab at anime. The fact that all human beings in any anime contain about 5-10 gallons of blood under extreme higher pressure, and even lopping off a finger results in a geyser of blood
And the shocking thing isn't that ECers are surprised when a handful of people didn't like the movie everyone else liked. The shocking thing is that ECers go to movies like they're movie critics, expecting against all odds that every single movie is supposed to, in some fashion, lead them to an epiphany of enlightenment and spiritual creaminess.
The first thing any film appreciation class teaches you is to identify the professed target audience, identify the work's purpose, and base your critique on those elements, rather than personal bias. You can add your personal bias afterwards, but it is not part of what a mechanics-critique is.
For instance, that "Bowling for Columbine" film may very well encapsulate the point of view and amuse the members of it's target audience; it may do the job that it was meant to do. That is, unfortunately, why it won an award. However, personal bias is why I said "unfortunately" and shouldn't be taken into account.
Now...if Kill Bill was targeted at fans of old kung-fu, spaghetti western, etc movies as an homage, and if the purpose was to pay respects to those films and to function as a good quirky (in the Tarantino-esque definition of the word "quirky") action movie, then I would say that the first volume of Kill Bill was a fantastic success. It was not, however, a movie meant to change your life. It was not a movie meant to entertain hordes of fans who think films like the Matrix (which had a different target audience and different purpose) are cutting edge chic.
That's what, classically, doomed movies based on comic books, for instance, and is in essence what killed the last two Batman movies (Joel Schumacher pulled the trigger, but this was his motive). It's also why Spider-Man and the X-Men movies have been such wild successes. In the past movie makers weren't writing for the people who would make or break the movies. They had failed to identify the core audience (in the name of, in theory, appealing to the masses), and didn't have a purpose in most cases (aside from getting a marketable image on the screen). Newer superhero movies are targetted towards the core audience (fans of the comics) more, making allowances for certain elements that need editting for time constraints or more non-fanboy viewers. The purpose is to tell the comic book stories as they should be told, faithful to the comics as much as possible, without just tossing names out on a screen (which is what happened with "Batman and Robin").
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Now, in the fullness of time, a film like Donnie Darko may end up being a "cult classic" (which more or less just means that there's a ravenous horde of fans who sees something there that the rest of us don't), but it won't be a cult classic like the "Evil Dead" series is.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael attempted to be funny by writing:
That's also why, critically speaking, movies like Donnie Darko aren't ever going to make it to the big screen. It's not that they're edgy indie films that most people aren't cool enough to get. The story, in long retrospect, is broadly understandable. The problem was that there was no core purpose, or if there was, the execution was so muddled that it obscured the purpose or message. Likewise, the core audience was muddled. Was this supposed to be targetted at teenagers? 20something college students? Sci-Fi junkies?Now, in the fullness of time, a film like Donnie Darko may end up being a "cult classic" (which more or less just means that there's a ravenous horde of fans who sees something there that the rest of us don't), but it won't be a cult classic like the "Evil Dead" series is.
I hated Donnie Darko. 
It's not something people hear about.
I mentioned it (Donnie Darko) only because inevitably people resort to the "you just didn't get it" argument without backing up their point. That's as bad as saying "I didn't like it" without backing up why.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about pies:
Yeah I avoided seeing it for a long time because no one could clue me in as to what the deal with it was. Then Lyinar got me to watch it so I'd at least be able to articulate what bugged me about not having people able to clue me in on what's going on. Then I watched it and it was horrible. It made me twitchy-annoyed from a critical standpoint, and it bored the hell out of me from a personal standpoint.I mentioned it (Donnie Darko) only because inevitably people resort to the "you just didn't get it" argument without backing up their point. That's as bad as saying "I didn't like it" without backing up why.
You just explained why I hated it, too. I avoided it for a long time, because it was "mind blowing", but no one could tell me why.
Then I watched it. And it was horrible. The only entertaining parts were at the beginning with his family and sister, the rest was godawfully boring. I think seeing Noah Wyle was the only thing that attempted to redeem it, because I happen to like that man.
FLCL falls into this trap, but I'm not even going to go there. Sean fucked around with this message on 04-18-2004 at 12:34 AM.
It's not something people hear about.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Sean wrote:
I hated Donnie Darko.
You are not alone. It wasn't mind blowing or eye opening. It was a steaming pile of crap.
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Lechium stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
I've noticed that they've been playing Donnie Darko alot on TMN and everyone keeps telling me its great because its about a guy whos pretty much like Jesus; but now that I see everyone is not taking a liking to it im a little hesitant to watch it now
I don't see a parallel between the Donnie Darko character and Jesus in any way except that they both died.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael was listening to Cher while typing:
I don't see a parallel between the Donnie Darko character and Jesus in any way except that they both died.
OR DID THEY?!
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Lashanna had this to say about Duck Tales:
OR DID THEY?!
They did. Anything more you read into what happened after is hearsay.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael probably says this to all the girls:
They did. Anything more you read into what happened after is hearsay.
So Jesus really didn't rise from the dead and give the Easter Bunny a job?
The whole kungfu training part of Vol 2 was the best thing out of both movies, simply BECAUSE of the bad acting and cheesiness of it all. The fumanchu stroke was so perfect. I loved it.
Thenagain, I was very tired when I saw it...
But it was different than the first one. I especially loved the character devlopment.
