More good movies we've seen.

[Brian Peacock]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've coloured in the bits that your poor grasp of English seemed to have missed...

And you still fail to get your point across. Just fuckin' never mind, please.

I can't help that you can't grasp the obvious. It's probably your age.

Okay then.

[tattuchu]

The Lone Ranger. Epic, entertaining, clever, full of surprises. I laughed throughout the entire film, as did the rest of the audience. Worth seeing on the big screen. This, in fact, is a movie that's made to view on the big screen. Currently a 22% approval rating on rottentomatoes.com. Another instance, it seems, in which the critics and I watched an entirely different film.

[Animavore]

Wow! Some accolades there.

I haven't seen Evil Dead 2 since I was 15 (don't think I saw the first) and what I remember most was crying, crying laughing, and not just out of my eyes, there was seepage from every orifice as the laughter purged me of excess humours. Sure, a lot of it was to do with the stupid comments my friend and I made and the fact that we had to be quiet as not to wake his parents, meaning we had to bite into pillows (careful now), as it did to do with the on-screen antics, but stifled guffaws there was aplenty.

So I was surprised to see the remake went down the pure gore-fest route which, although not taking itself too seriously, couldn't really be classed a horror-comedy like the original ones (they were supposed to be comedies, right?).

Fortunately I enjoy mindless blood splatter and disembowelling, especially when it's done this well. It was done mostly with make-up and prosthetics touched up with CGI with tons of fake blood rather than taking the cheapened path of doing everything in CGI. There's enough seriously unfortunate shit happening to the hapless victims to keep you wincing and shocked to keep the most sadistic person sated. Worth an evening with some popcorn and friends

[Clinton Huxley]

I watched a little bit of The Golden Child last night. It was jaw-droppingly bad, which made it weirdly goodish.

The soundtrack was hilarious, very, very 80s.....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Lone Ranger. Epic, entertaining, clever, full of surprises. I laughed throughout the entire film, as did the rest of the audience. Worth seeing on the big screen. This, in fact, is a movie that's made to view on the big screen. Currently a 22% approval rating on rottentomatoes.com. Another instance, it seems, in which the critics and I watched an entirely different film.

Johnny Depp. 'nuff said.

[FBM]

Wow! Some accolades there.

I haven't seen Evil Dead 2 since I was 15 (don't think I saw the first) and what I remember most was crying, crying laughing, and not just out of my eyes, there was seepage from every orifice as the laughter purged me of excess humours. Sure, a lot of it was to do with the stupid comments my friend and I made and the fact that we had to be quiet as not to wake his parents, meaning we had to bite into pillows (careful now), as it did to do with the on-screen antics, but stifled guffaws there was aplenty.

So I was surprised to see the remake went down the pure gore-fest route which, although not taking itself too seriously, couldn't really be classed a horror-comedy like the original ones (they were supposed to be comedies, right?).

Fortunately I enjoy mindless blood splatter and disembowelling, especially when it's done this well. It was done mostly with make-up and prosthetics touched up with CGI with tons of fake blood rather than taking the cheapened path of doing everything in CGI. There's enough seriously unfortunate shit happening to the hapless victims to keep you wincing and shocked to keep the most sadistic person sated. Worth an evening with some popcorn and friends

Just visiting the hotlink site so that I can see the image.

[Animavore]

It was the new remake of Evil Dead

[Animavore]

Even Jeremy Jahns didn't like The Lone Ranger and he is the common person's critic. So I'll have to reserve judgement until I see it. When it just happens to be on TV some day in the unforeseeable future.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Fuck critics.

[Animavore]

Only if they're sexy

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Only if they're sexy

Critical thinking would lead you to believe they may not be.

[tattuchu]

Fuck critics.

I read a lot of the reviews and critics were saying: It was too violent and gory. It wasn't, and it wasn't. It was too strange. It wasn't and , besides, what's wrong with strange? It wasn't true to the original. Who gives a shit? It was more about Tonto than The Lone Ranger. Again, who gives a shit. It wasn't for kids. So what? It was too long. No it wasn't. It was boring. No it wasn't. The script was weak. Only in some parallel Bizarro universe. It was Pirates of the Caribbean in the West. No it wasn't. Depp was doing another Jack Sparrow. Except no he wasn't. The film wasn't enough like Pirates, and Depp should have acted more like Jack Sparrow. Oh FFS. It was too dark. There's nothing wrong with dark. It was too light-hearted. There's nothing wrong with light-hearted. It alternated between dark and light-hearted and couldn't make up its mind. Fucking idiots. It was obviously the victim of some serious editing. It was? The film could have benefited from some serious editing. I give up

So apparently critics prefer safe, bland, cliched tripe that doesn't excite or challenge the viewer. Case in point: Monsters University, easily Pixar's worst film, a tiresome and tedious and humorless affair. Children and adults alike were bored with this one in the viewing I saw, and no one laughed. Not once. Tomatometer rating currently at 78%

[Animavore]

So apparently critics prefer safe, bland, cliched tripe

In what way isn't The Lone Ranger "safe, bland, cliched tripe"?

that doesn't excite or challenge the viewer.

In what way does The Lone Ranger "challenge" the viewer.


Not being sarcastic. Haven't seen it. Just asking.

[tattuchu]

Even Jeremy Jahns didn't like The Lone Ranger and he is the common person's critic. So I'll have to reserve judgement until I see it. When it just happens to be on TV some day in the unforeseeable future.

I disagree with everything this idiot said. The framing device of having an old Tonto relaying the story to a young kid is what made the movie special. It was fun, it was funny, and it kept the whole affair fresh whereas it might have gotten tiresome if it had just played straight.
The Ranger being a goody two-shoes and not using a gun, and that being unrealistic? It's a comedy FFS, and that was played for laughs.
The Ranger left Tonto to die in the sand because at that point the Ranger had changed. Also because he hated Tonto. Tonto annoyed him!
The movie is too long? What is with all these idiot critics and their obsession with film length?! What's wrong with a film being long? You got ADHD or something? Take your Ritalin pill and shut the fuck up, retard. I'm usually disappointed if a film is too short. I always want more. This film gave me more. I appreciated that. I felt I finally got my money's worth for a change. Why the fuck would I have wanted the movie tightened up and dumbed down? I liked that it actually had a story to tell.
And what is with their obsession, also, with Jack Sparrow? Depp here gave a much more restrained performance, not the least bit flamboyant like Sparrow. It's like these critics are saying he was too much like Jack Sparrow, when secretly they were wishing he was more like Jack Sparrow.