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Ahhhhh, the haters ...

posted 9 years ago by ragdiman
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... gotta looooove the haters.

I do wonder lately why do some people watch movies. Is it for the whole deal, the storytelling, cinematic experience ... or to look for reason, logic, flaws and ponder for 90+ minutes what makes sense.

FICTION, PEOPLE, FICTION. ART. THAT'S WHAT FILM IS SUPPOSED TO BE.

I wonder why LOTR has such a big grade then. That sh*** is some illogical thing. :P :D

I never differentiate movies. It's fiction even if it's set right down my street. Even "based on true events" can't be taken 100% real.

I pity you folks, you who burn your brain cells during a flick thinking about it. Well you probably don't a lot in real world, so I get it.

Thank god I can go full on stupid in a theater. :P

And then I actually enjoy movies like this one.

[–] McDeathUK 9 years ago

I think the haters were people who were just lured in by a good trailer, but the film had a whole different feel

They expected independence day, and got a gentle film with little to no alien invasion or battles or special effects

I enjoyed it as a rental, but would never buy it and will only watch the sequels, if any, on blu-ray / digital

[–] Horse_Caulk 9 years ago

"Thank god I can go full on stupid in a theater. :P "

LOL!

Way to defend ignorance, stupidity, and complacency...and be proud of it! Speaks volumes.

Back to WalMart...trailer park man! (Cheetos are on sale in isle 43)

[–] johndeckbose 8 years ago

Wow, I thought just the opposite. I thought the trailer was awful but there are actually some interesting ideas in the film.

[–] Ghostbusters_MOAB 9 years ago

So "Lost Highway is a good movie? Screw logic,it's all about the cinematic experience.

[–] vargstra 9 years ago

lol, how did Lost Highway came up? Did you hide behind the sofa after bedtime, watching mommy and daddy-shows again?

Lost Highway, is as David Lynch wants it, a delve into the mind. It's not a teen-flick light action, too much insecure feelings and light love interests, like this one. Its a peek into mystery and desire, told in references and pictures rather than with big capitol letters. The house changing is like the mind changing and so on. But one thing David Lynch never mistefy is the emotions. When a character feels something we get it full-blown. It being confused, sad or ecstatically happy, we see it. And his movies are more about the clichés of pop culture than clichéd movies themselves. We get popular ideas set in a world of imagery and mystification, where the goal becomes the search for the goal, where the real content lies. It's art, and art always carry more questions than explanations.

Oh wait.. I'm on the wrong forum. Nevermind. Carry on

[–] Nuntius-Caelestis 9 years ago

Oh wait.. I'm on the wrong forum. Nevermind. Carry on

There are NO WRONG FORUMS for discussing the genius of David Lynch.

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[–] JahWoo 9 years ago

"I pity you folks, you who burn your brain cells during a flick thinking about it."

I pity those who don't. Lmao.

[–] Adec 9 years ago

Indeed. That we have actually reached a point where people actively defend stupidity, along with the lowering of standards and the diminishing of reasonable expectations of quality, and now cite these things as if they are virtues, shows just how far we have fallen.

If you accept mediocrity as good enough, all you do is guarantee more mediocrity.

[–] doru_aka47 9 years ago

[–] chouse1020 8 years ago

Sadly on IMDB, don't forget that many of them are paid employees of ad agencies... and of course a lot are teens who don't understand how terrible most YA fiction really is... and it IS.

[–] sati_84 9 years ago

FICTION, PEOPLE, FICTION. ART. THAT'S WHAT FILM IS SUPPOSED TO BE

I didn't rate this film 3/10 because of lack of realism. I know full well this is fiction.

But the problem is... it's bad fiction. Bad art. Plain and simple. Not an iota of inspiration, subpar acting, and the twist was not original or well executed. It was at times entertaining and overall barely passable.

I don't hate this film tho. I pity it. Could've been much better.

I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me to see me looking back at you

[–] joseph-argenio-622-182606 9 years ago

Unless yu are 12, I pity you.

[–] Stoshie 9 years ago

I didn't "hate" the movie (I'll watch anything with Chloë Grace Moretz in it), but I was very disappointed. Too much of the plot was telegraphed early; anyone who didn't know who the bad guys were when they first appeared wasn't paying attention. The ending was anti-climatic, too. Maybe they were leaving room for a sequel, but I sure hope not. It wouldn't be worth watching.

But for me the worse part was that I felt the movie was aimed at teens. I didn't know that going in, so I expected a bit more sophistication. The idea that "love" turned the one guy around in the end was a groaner. I mean, please, how stereotypical.

Not that there is anything wrong with teen movies - I often enjoy them. But in this case, it just wasn't what I expected or wanted. I see from the trivia that Moretz is a big fan of the book this was adapted from. That's OK, but I think she needs to pick better scripts to work with. After "The Poker House" and her break-out performance in "Let Me In", she hasn't really done anything that has impressed me all that much. And I think she has a lot of talent.

Oh, and as for "haters", why you got so worked up over the fact that not everyone enjoyed the movie as much as you did, and you had to rant about it, kind of puts you in that category!

[–] ReelDeal-2 9 years ago

doesn't make your opinion right.
doesn't make you smarter or better than anyone else.
doesn't make this movie good.

[–] yusef-ghanima 8 years ago

at least we have brain cells