28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[Spinal]

I hate the cover more and more.

Me too. It ranks among the worst they've ever done.

[Watashi]

Not sure what's up with the mostly positive reviews for Despicable Me, which is slight and unexceptional. The best thing that you can say about it is that it is palatable and not openly irritating. So it's got that, I guess. Carell's lead character pales in comparison with a similar villain who appears on TV daily - The Disney's Channel's Dr. Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb. The adorableness of both the minions and the orphans is overplayed and it is not long before the film reaches for sentimental moments that are largely unearned. No real reason to see this one unless you have a young child who has been bludgeoned by the marketing campaign.

Anyone who hates this movie can only be a Pixar shill.

http://www.nypress.com/article-21414-dispicable-me.html

[Watashi]

Me too. It ranks among the worst they've ever done.

The cover could be a picture of Terrence Malick taking a shit and it would still be firmly placed in my DVD shelf.

I think you're overreacting over such a meaningless image.

[Spinal]

This is a very welcome rebuttal to Pixar sentimentality.

Flat-out false. It surpasses Pixar in that department. The film uses a big-eyed toddler orphan with a ponytail sticking straight in the air. I mean, come on.

[Spinal]

I think you're overreacting over such a meaningless image.

Just calling it how I see it. I don't recall another Criterion cover being so aesthetically unpleasing.

[Watashi]

Flat-out false. It surpasses Pixar in that department. The film uses a big-eyed toddler orphan with a ponytail sticking straight in the air. I mean, come on.

Face it, Spinal. You're a Pixar shill.

I always knew it.

[Watashi]

Just calling it how I see it. I don't recall another Criterion cover being so aesthetically unpleasing.

I went through the list just now and there's tons of just bland photoshopped images (most of them are fairly old). At least this one is trying to be creative and unique.

I like the old cover better too. The artist also designed my other two favorite Criterion covers, Days of Heaven and Paris, Texas.

[Watashi]

Just calling it how I see it. I don't recall another Criterion cover being so aesthetically unpleasing.

Whenever someone brings up bad DVD covers, I always have to post it:

[Sxottlan]

I had to chuckle at when they finally reveal what the mission is, we're seeing it through a cocaine-induced haze so that we don't actually hear it.

Rhys-Meyers can actually pull off a pretty good American accent.

[Sxottlan]

I like the old cover better too. The artist also designed my other two favorite Criterion covers, Days of Heaven and Paris, Texas.

Are we talking the old 20th Century Fox cover or did Criterion have something different earlier? I only ever saw a bland placeholder.

[MadMan]

Madman has outdone himself. He is truly... mad.

Nah.

It works by MadMan saying it.

You liked The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Good job.

How's that work?

*SIGH* Favorite movie and what I think the best movie are, well, they're not the same thing. I thought that was obvious. I'm tired of explaining myself, so I might just start responding by posting random images.

PS: Slowly....ROTK is the best movie in the trilogy. However, FOTR is my favorite movie in the series. They're not the same thing. Read through it again. For clarity. Hurray.

First time I watched FOTR, I loved the Wringwraiths up until the point that Vigo shows up and drives them all away. They lossed a significant amount of 'bad ass' points during that scene.

Made me sad.

I think they still remain badass, but its just a reminder that Aragon is the kickass king of men, and therefore will beat down anything or anyone in his path.

I don't believe in weekend viewings anymore.

[Skitch]

K was hoping that Rhys-Meyers would be carrying the cocaine-filled vase through the whole movie. Though its final scene was definitely worth it. Again, terrific movie.

Yaaaaaaay!

[Skitch]

*SIGH* Favorite movie and what I think the best movie are, well, they're not the same thing. I thought that was obvious.

I thought it was pretty clear as well.

*shrug*

[Sven]

I think you're overreacting over such a meaningless image.

I don't know why you'd be so down on a guy for reacting critically towards something that you admit has no meaning.

[[ETM]]

But it's only the words that get lost. The picture itself remains visibly either unchanged or so minutely changed that it does not matter. And that is an eyesore.

That's just... I don't know why I bother.

[Skitch]

There's only one way to settle this: monkey knife fight.

[[ETM]]

[Skitch]

:lol:

I'll be avataring that asap.

[Sven]

That's just... I don't know why I bother.

Is that not a distraction? The way the letters fold, but the image does not?

[Kurosawa Fan]

Is that not a distraction? The way the letters fold, but the image does not?

I'm with you. That defeats the purpose of the meaning ETM attributed it. The cover, image aside, doesn't work at all. It was an interesting idea that should have been tossed when the final product was presented.

[[ETM]]

Is that not a distraction? The way the letters fold, but the image does not?

The fold is flattened towards the bottom, like when you press it to see as much of the image as possible, but you don't care what I think anyway, nor will you ever see it the same way.

[Sycophant]

*SIGH* Favorite movie and what I think the best movie are, well, they're not the same thing. I thought that was obvious. I'm tired of explaining myself, so I might just start responding by posting random images.

PS: Slowly....ROTK is the best movie in the trilogy. However, FOTR is my favorite movie in the series. They're not the same thing. Read through it again. For clarity. Hurray.

I know better than to do this, but your pissiness makes me want to prod you. Obviously we understand what you're saying. What we don't get is how you parse the Lord of the Rings movies to divide "best" and "favorite." If you think one is better, why don't you prefer it? And if you prefer one, why do you think another one is better? Popular thought around here does not embrace this dichotomy. I certainly have a tendency to contest the idea that best and favorite should be two separate things.

Anyway, I think we've been over this with you. I find your position basically incomprehensible.

[Qrazy]

I know better than to do this, but your pissiness makes me want to prod you. Obviously we understand what you're saying. What we don't get is how you parse the Lord of the Rings movies to divide "best" and "favorite." If you think one is better, why don't you prefer it? And if you prefer one, why do you think another one is better? Popular thought around here does not embrace this dichotomy. I certainly have a tendency to contest the idea that best and favorite should be two separate things.

Anyway, I think we've been over this with you. I find your position basically incomprehensible.

I clarified this distinction quite well in a thread a little while ago, but I don't remember which thread I clarified it in... alas.

[Spinal]

Yeah, I know how the argument goes. And while I can sorta kinda understand it when you're talking about Citizen Kane vs. Die Hard 2, I'm absolutely bewildered why one would bother to make the distinction between two Lord of the Rings films.

[Russ]

I'm absolutely bewildered why one would bother to make the distinction between two Lord of the Rings films.

i dunno, it's probably not that much different than preferring the first book of the trilogy (which I do) to the others.