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Post by stinger on Aug 12, 2013 20:06:38 GMT -5
The Big Bang Theory is funnier than Seinfeld, Friends, or Arrested Development.
Ricky Gervais isn't funny.
Heath Ledger did not at all capture the correct essence of The Joker.
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Post by kamero00 on Aug 12, 2013 20:21:14 GMT -5
The Big Bang Theory is funnier than Seinfeld, Friends, or Arrested Development. Ricky Gervais isn't funny. Heath Ledger did not at all capture the correct essence of The Joker. I am 99% sure you are just trolling. lol
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Post by Gummydavidson on Aug 12, 2013 20:46:19 GMT -5
Doom was an enjoyable movie.
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Post by stinger on Aug 13, 2013 5:43:13 GMT -5
The Big Bang Theory is funnier than Seinfeld, Friends, or Arrested Development. Ricky Gervais isn't funny. Heath Ledger did not at all capture the correct essence of The Joker. I am 99% sure you are just trolling. lol I assure you I'm not, however, I did try to single out the opinions that would be the most unpopular. I genuinely think TBBT is hilarious. I don't understand those that don't. Also, I feel Joker should be more over the top and cartoonish. It's part of his character. He is a showman and a clown. Aside from the face paint, Ledger's Joker did not feel clownish at all to me. I just don't care for Gervais. No accounting for taste I guess.
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Aug 13, 2013 5:53:24 GMT -5
The Happening is actually a pretty good film with a good premise spoilt by touches of stupidity. And bad acting.
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Aug 13, 2013 5:55:26 GMT -5
All these big-budget comic book movies are pretty much ruining the film industry because studios are pouring so much cash and attention into them everything they neglect everything else. In fairness Hollywood runs in these cycles. Plus Comic books are a medium where there is a visual aspect, so it becomes easier to translate to film than a regular book. Still, market oversaturation is totally a thing, and is happening.
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Post by Emmet Russell on Aug 13, 2013 6:01:54 GMT -5
I love the movie to bits, but The Dark Knight wasn't all that good on a second viewing. The Joker was fantastic but I thought he was a diamond in the rough as the rest of the film didn't flow well, ended terribly and had so many plot holes that a second viewing ruined it for me.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Aug 13, 2013 6:11:52 GMT -5
The Happening is actually a pretty good film with a good premise spoilt by touches of stupidity. And bad acting. True Wahlberg especially was awful in this.
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Post by The OP on Aug 13, 2013 8:18:43 GMT -5
I am 99% sure you are just trolling. lol Also, I feel Joker should be more over the top and cartoonish. It's part of his character. He is a showman and a clown. Aside from the face paint, Ledger's Joker did not feel clownish at all to me. That's exactly right. I don't understand how you miss such a crucial aspect of that character when you're supposedly so entrenched in it that you have to keep yourself doped up, or whatever the media's bizarre justification is for why I'm supposed to think Ledger's drug abuse is a sign of his dedication as an actor or some ridiculous nonsense, and then have people call your performance brilliant. I really think it's something that people will get over and I don't think his performance will go do in history as a great one, nor will he be remembered as a great actor decades from now. He simply didn't have the chops or the resume. He was a flash in the pan actor who got caught up in drugs, that's all. People will come in this thread and disrespect Kurt Cobain who actually made a huge impact and changed the face of popular music and say people only remember him because he killed himself, and seem somehow oblivious to how that's a much better description of Ledger and what a totally marginal pop culture figure he is in comparison.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 13, 2013 10:11:56 GMT -5
-while I loved Heath Ledger's Joker, it still doesn't hold a candle to Mark Hamill's animated Joker incarnation. for that matter, you can apply the same logic to every DC character who was ever in a DCAU cartoon.
-TV serials are a much better platform for superheroes than movies are. you can get so much more across in 12-24 one hour TV episodes (or even cartoons) than you can in a 2 hour movie. that's why I think that while Marvel's thus far been really lucky with their movies, DC is smarter for giving Green Arrow and now the Flash television series instead.
-while I'm on the subject, Iron Man 2 and 3 were horrible and I'm pretty much expecting the same of the Thor, Captain America and Avengers sequels. I'll still go see them but the Iron Man sequels lowered the bar like you would not believe. if it had been anybody other than RDJ as Iron Man those sequels would've cleaned up at the Razzies.
-Ryan Reynolds wasn't the reason Green Lantern flopped. his acting was fine. it was the script he was given that was bad. hell, you can see exactly where Martin Campbell's original ideas were and where the studio interfered. I can't remember the last time I sat through a movie with that much wrong-headed, painfully obvious executive meddling. Geoff Johns may have been the guy who turned GL's comics into a huge success but that's no excuse for turning the movie into a shitty and rushed version of that he was doing. Captain America did a much better job of incorporating Ed Brubaker's ideas into the movie without letting it take over completely.
-I'll say the same thing for Daredevil. Ben Affleck was really good in that. hell, everyone's acting was good in that. it was just edited to pieces and people let the legitimately terrible Elektra movie colour their perceptions.
-the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie is the best one. actually, while I did like it, the Tom Jane one is probably the weakest of the 3, even with being largely an adaptation of Garth Ennis' classic "Welcome Back, Frank".
-if the movie industry never gives Mark Millar's terrible books another film adaptation again it'll be too soon, especially with his recent disgusting comments about women.
-meanwhile, for some reason, the far better Warren Ellis has only one film adaptation to his name, and it's for one of his weaker works. if there was ever a comic writer whose creator-owned work screamed "make me into a movie" it's Ellis.
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Post by The Ichi on Aug 13, 2013 13:10:46 GMT -5
The Big Bang Theory, whilst not being amazing, is still funnier than most sitcoms going these days. That's not really a praise of TBBT as it is a comment on the decay of sitcoms these days.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Aug 13, 2013 13:20:24 GMT -5
The Big Bang Theory, whilst not being amazing, is still funnier than most sitcoms going these days. That's not really a praise of TBBT as it is a comment on the decay of sitcoms these days. Pretty much, yeah. There arent too many 'regular' sit coms out there.
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Post by y4j1981 on Aug 13, 2013 13:46:42 GMT -5
I just don't care for Gervais. No accounting for taste I guess. ![](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3bduzqGzR1rsawgno1_500.gif) {Spoiler}{Spoiler} ![](http://24.media.tumblr.com/87fec89ab46424575fa8939251845b2b/tumblr_mn6550CdeI1qapkmyo1_500.png)
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 13, 2013 14:08:25 GMT -5
![](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3bduzqGzR1rsawgno1_500.gif) {Spoiler}{Spoiler} ![](http://24.media.tumblr.com/87fec89ab46424575fa8939251845b2b/tumblr_mn6550CdeI1qapkmyo1_500.png) I can't stand Gervais' body of work, but his Twitter feed is great.
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Post by paulbearer on Aug 14, 2013 4:09:03 GMT -5
Not even a fan of Scrubs....still even that is better than Big Bang which I find quite unfunny , it never grabs me like other sitcom and thus I don't care for it.
Elliot Carver was all right just not on the same level as Blofeld , Zorin or Sanchez.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2013 6:20:55 GMT -5
Dubs >>>>>>>>>>>>>> subs.
By far.
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 14, 2013 6:42:39 GMT -5
Seinfeld wasn't that great a show. When it was funny it was outrageously, rolling on the floor, wetting your pants kind of funny. But in between those rare moments there was a lot of dull, pointless, and downright stupid shit going on.
The first Survivor was innovative in its time-it was something new, unique and different. It created a genre that has since grown beyond all control and must be put down before it devours the entire globe.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Aug 14, 2013 8:03:57 GMT -5
Jackie Brown is Quentin Tarantino's best film.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Aug 14, 2013 8:11:38 GMT -5
Seinfeld wasn't that great a show. When it was funny it was outrageously, rolling on the floor, wetting your pants kind of funny. But in between those rare moments there was a lot of dull, pointless, and downright stupid shit going on. You pretty much summed up my thoughts perfectly
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 14, 2013 8:12:32 GMT -5
not necessarily an unpopular opinion among us so much as it is unpopular in Hollywood, but a lot of these animated movies coming out would be a lot better if instead of hiring a bunch of celebrities to phone in their performances, they used actual voice actors instead. if you need one guy to anchor the film like, say, Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda, fine, but there's no reason you couldn't have gotten say Steve Blum or Jennifer Hale to voice members of the furious 5, because everyone but Black and Hoffman mailed in their performances.
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