Greyed

Every film is not a great film. Every film does not set out to be a great film. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. The world is not binary. This is a common thing I see in gamers, particularly. Either something is the best or it sucks and should never be used. The best class, the best weapon, the best piece of hardware, the best VOIP software, the best car, blah, blah, blahdeblah, blah. If it isn't the best, it is the most utter, vile worst tripe ever to cause horror to the existence of the poster. But that is rarely, ever, the case.

Common example from movies. Keanu Reeves. Everyone bags on him as a bad actor. A horrible actor. I've heard people describe him as the worst actor ever. I then ask those people a simple question; have they seen any Skinamax movie? All of a sudden the scale now has 3 data points. The best actors EVARRRRRR, Keanu Reeves and the Skinamax acting-which-is-so-bad-they-would've-flunked-high-school-acting-class acting. Thus he is neither great, nor the worst and, indeed, given the distance between those two points, his acting isn't all that bad.

As I said before, just because you didn't like the movie doesn't mean the movie was bad.

Nope, not obsessing. I mentioned it twice, just like you did. 'cept, you know, mine was on purpose. I've used the "I, uh, did that on purpose" line when I was (much) younger, too, you know.

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stickyjeans69

It wasn't the "Uh, I did that on purpose" Crap. I'd rather not carry lies or BS around with me . Thanks for your concern.

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hannse12

saw this movie and thought it was awesoem. Kinda makes me sad that the director was supposed to do the Halo movie, but had to make D9 instead, tho that movie rocked 2.

ScratchMonkey

You guys should listen to my brother's stories about visits by directors to the Los Angeles MTA trains. He assists them in setting up shots in movies like Speed, and those directors are real idiots in their understanding of how Real Life works. They create loads of fake tech in their movies to paper over their ignorance, instead of first getting it right and then adapting the story to fit reality. After all, their job isn't to educate the even-more-ignorant public, but to give them the entertainment equivalent of a theme park ride. Real science and engineering just gets in the way of that.

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snooggums

Their job is to be entertaining and explosions/car chass/bomb defusing/caller id aren't exciting in real life.

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FrankManik

The only part that gave me that feeling was Wikus and Christopher got into gunfights. I know the heroes have to not die, but using car doors for cover pulled me out of the movie a bit. Wikus's accuracy with the lightning gun I eventually just wrote down to 'That gun is targeting itself'.