• 8 years ago
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    "Kylo Ren is the weakest villain in Star Wars history. He was weak. He was easily manipulated. He couldn't beat a girl in saber combat who just picked it up an hour before. And I HATE TO SAY THIS because my hopes were so high for Adam Driver, but he was not intimidating or even interesting on screen. He easily had the weakest performance. When he spoke without his mask for the first time, half of the theater laughed at how nasaly and nerdy he was."

    So this wasn't an isolated incident that only happend in the theater I was in. Interesting.
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      Editing … No one laughed, but then again I was at a press release. I thought Driver was fine, maybe the weak link, but fine.
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      Editing … I got the impression that Kylo wasn't supposed to be a badass, and that the entire Order was meant to be perceived as "the wannabes" that could never match The Empire or Lord Vader
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      Editing … just like J.J. and George Lucas then! it's like poetry, it rhymes.
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      Editing … Lucas is a worse director than J.J. That's not saying much, but Lucas is the definition of a hack.
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … why? what makes you say that?
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      Editing … Have you seen those prequels?
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      Editing … yes, I have?
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      Editing … Let's take a quick peek into their filmography. The only thing that Lucas has directed well was American Graffiti, and even that wasn't anything special. A New Hope is a really good movie, but it's not good thanks to the direction, and the prequel movies are actually some of the most horribly paced and directed movies known to mankind. His first big movie, THX 1138 wasn't a mastepiece of directing either. It's a bit shoddy if anything.
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      Editing … Now J.J. is not a godlike director, but if you are trying to say that the pilot episodes of Lost aren't well directed, you are full of shit. The Star Trek films are all flash, but at least it has his handmark on them. And his movies always know what they are and where they are going, even though they are not into my liking. Now if we really want to pit Lucas and J.J, we should talk about writing original material.
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      Editing … All I know is that I'd rather rewatch THX 1138, American Graffitti and A New Hope than the Star Trek reboot, Super 8 and Force Awakens any day of the week.
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    Just had a thought. I bet part of why professional game review scores are so bloated is because of school test scores where anything under a 60 is failing (and in a lot of people's minds a D is failing as well even though it technically isn't). It gets people into the mindset that anything below a 70 is bad and 70-79 are just okay so game reviewers give at least an 8 to anything they like. The way I score things, anything above a 5 means I like it and a 5 is neutral.
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      Editing … Universities seem to do things differently. Anything above 70's a really good mark.
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      Editing … Yeah everyone came up with this already.. It's hard to deny really. But the strange thing to realize from this is that 10 or 100 point reviews aren't nearly as prevalent in film reviews.
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      Editing … "Yeah everyone came up with this already" I'm slow. Maybe the sort of people who like movies aren't the sort of people who like numbers as much. People who like numbers tend to be nerds and nerds tend to have less of a social life and therefore more free time to spend on things that are longer than movies such as video games.
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      Editing … I attribute it to two things. 1) the film medium is much older and the industry is therefore more "mature", 2) the audiences for game reviews is or has been comprised of idiots and kids.
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      Editing … After all it's possible to like numbers in lieu of properly understanding abstract concepts like quality, design, and taste
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    The best movies of the decade
    www.metacritic.com/feature/the-best-movies-of-the-decade

    1. Pan’s Labyrinth
    2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    3. Ratatouille
    4. Spirited Away
    5. The Hurt Locker
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      Editing … Uhhhhhhhhhhh... Okay
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      Editing … None of the Lord of the Rings trilogy?!
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      Editing … Haafie, the LOTR movies are at #6, #15 and #47 in their top 100 list.
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      Editing … I actually own most of these movies on DVD and just bought a bunch of movies on this list that I haven't seen yet on Amazon. Looking forward to some of the more obscure Indie movies I've never even heard of before until five minutes ago.
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      Editing … Ah, ok, I quite liked that trilogy, but it is my kind of genre. Did not see any of the top 5 myself, I gave up on Ratatouille after 15 minutes.
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      Editing … 6. LOTR 3 | 7. Sideways | 8. Wall-E | 9. Crouching Tiger | 10. 35 Shots of Rum
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      Editing … I use Flickchart to recommend me films, really nice way of making a list of favourites (sorry favslist).
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      Editing … I don't really agree with their top 10, altough I've seen 8/10 of these movies so far.
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      Editing … I personally use Letterboxd
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      Editing … Pan's Labyrinth is supposed to be that good? I thought it was kinda meh.
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