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Joined: Apr 09 2009 Location: Jax, Florida Posts: 45

Jurassic Park 3. The whole movie was pretty dumb, but come on. It was like they didn't want to even finish making the movie. They're being chased by a pteranadon or something, and someone says "I think I hear a helicopter!" and suddenly the military is there to bail them out.

Posted: Jun 25 2009 06:39 pm

ChewDizzle wrote:

Jurassic Park 3. The whole movie was pretty dumb, but come on. It was like they didn't want to even finish making the movie. They're being chased by a pteranadon or something, and someone says "I think I hear a helicopter!" and suddenly the military is there to bail them out.

Hahaha great call. I remember rather enjoying JP 3 (if only because I'm a big Sam Neil fan and it was great to have Dr. Grant back), but I had forgotten about that. Even at the time I was like, "wtf? Where did they come from all of a sudden?" (I know technically Ellie got a phone call or something, but it was still really, really goofy.)

Posted: Jul 03 2009 03:03 pm

Knyte wrote:

Fuck, even AFTER the books came out, when Lucas re-did ROTJ, he didn't show any hint of evil still existing. He just added in more planets celebrating that happy days had arrived.

That's not even the worst of it. In the newest DVD version of ROTJ, they fucking edited out the original actor who played Anakin (Sebastian Shaw) and replaced him with with Hayden Christensen.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Spirits.jpg

Yeah, that makes ALOT of sense. It seems the whole nature of the Jedi spirits was retconned, so then when you die after returning to the light side, you retain your physical form as you were before you first turned to the dark side.

It's a load of bullshit, really. And what kind of example is that setting? I'll bet that if Obi-Wan had known that, he would have turned to the dark side as a teenager and then turned right back so he could keep his younger body after death.

Posted: Jul 03 2009 06:30 pm

Anakin's lucky he didn't turn to the Dark Side as a child. Talk about awkward, spending all of eternity trapped as a Force Ghost that looks like Jake Lloyd.

Posted: Jul 04 2009 02:57 am

Not at all an ending but when Randy got killed in Scream 2...

It just killed that whole movie after that.

Joined: Feb 16 2008 Posts: 832

Most horror movies ) have a thing for introducing characters that are fucking awesome, and then killing them off and leaving you to deal with a horribly written cast filled with irritating teenagers (hello almost every zombie movie ever)

Posted: Jul 06 2009 10:00 pm

Kojjiro! wrote:

Most horror movies ) have a thing for introducing characters that are fucking awesome, and then killing them off and leaving you to deal with a horribly written cast filled with irritating teenagers (hello almost every zombie movie ever)

At least Return of the Living Dead kept the cool black guy alive until the end.

Gallery 2 · Posted: Jul 08 2009 09:46 am

Hoo boy, time to check the list...

But for a warm-up: War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise, only becase that STUPID KID SHOULD HAD STAYED DEAD!

...I'm talking about the teenager douchebag, not Dakota Fanning by the way, regardless of how you feel abot her.

Posted: Jul 14 2009 01:53 pm

Gran Torino had a stupid ending (and terrible acting all the way through). Clint only got critical attention because he used more slurrs than a klan member.

SPOILER:
Falling down with arms outspread like a cross? That symbolism is about as deep as a puddle.

Posted: Jul 14 2009 03:00 pm

Milhouse wrote:

Gran Torino had a stupid ending (and terrible acting all the way through). Clint only got critical attention because he used more slurrs than a klan member.

SPOILER:
Falling down with arms outspread like a cross? That symbolism is about as deep as a puddle.

The slurs were for shock value, I hope. The acting was pretty good, but the movie got kinda boring after awhile.

When he called the girl "Yum-Yum" I knew I wasn't gonna like it as much.

Posted: Jul 14 2009 03:17 pm

Aw, I love Gran Torino.

And the slurs weren't for shock value. Walt had fought in the Korean War and worked for an American car company. He was harboring a lot of a generic hatred toward Asians. And he was an old school blue collar worker, and that's just how they were. Look at his relationship with barber. They go back and forth, saying horrible things to each other, but underneath that, they're good friends.

Posted: Jul 14 2009 03:51 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Aw, I love Gran Torino.

And the slurs weren't for shock value. Walt had fought in the Korean War and worked for an American car company. He was harboring a lot of a generic hatred toward Asians. And he was an old school blue collar worker, and that's just how they were. Look at his relationship with barber. They go back and forth, saying horrible things to each other, but underneath that, they're good friends.

For me , it was just him saying "Gook" or "Zipperheads" every other minute that got me to label it shock value. It's an ok movie , but it feels like I've seen the same plot before .

The editing is another story...