Action RD 1: (3) Sin City vs (14) Commando
Jul 20, 2007 13:50:47 GMT -5
Post by Lucky on Jul 20, 2007 13:50:47 GMT -5
I hate you Solly. I hate you so fucking much. Every fucking time you vote for some fucking unworthy piece of shit and say it won't matter. Every fucking time.
I made that EXACT case in the Transformer's thread. And then Solly jumped back with "no movie after 1994 should win." Which makes very little sense. Yes, newer movies get overrated. Because of technical advances and that they're fresh in your mind. But nostalgia absolutely gets things overrated too. What's the joke? Nostalgia makes you miss crap?
COMMANDO AND TANGO AND CASH ARE CRAP!
But they were movies we saw when we were young, when the stars were at the height of their popularity. And we appreciate the cheesy crappiness of it. So nostalgia! We love crap!
And I feel Dev. Because this Arnie/Sly stuff is derivative and dull. Why don't we just set up a "best Arnold/Stallone" tourney? I'm not saying its wrong. You like what you like. But if someone like me and Dev don't love every thing these guys ever touched we start to lose a lot of interest and get annoyed that different types of films fall so that the Elite 8 or Final 4 can be a bunch of the same damn movie. Its not just this stuff, at least with me. Its why I think the Rocky movies being clumped together at the top of a list is silly. Its why I think all italian mobster movies wears thin. But not everyone feels this way. Some people like what they like. I'm all over the place and try and mix it up. And it so happens that some of these popular themes here (like Arnold) don't appeal to me too much.
Bah. I hate you guys. But it is what it is. If the board loves Rocky films and every shitty Arnold film that was exactly the same as the last one, so be it. Some of us are going to disagree and lose interest. But its a popularity contest. That's going to happen.
Of course, Moose. You accuse Stu of overrating the newer films but I can't help but notice that you very often point out that you're only voting for the old one because you haven't seen the new one.
mooseheadjack said:
meh, I think as much as some of us tend to overrate the older movies, you overrate the newer moviesI made that EXACT case in the Transformer's thread. And then Solly jumped back with "no movie after 1994 should win." Which makes very little sense. Yes, newer movies get overrated. Because of technical advances and that they're fresh in your mind. But nostalgia absolutely gets things overrated too. What's the joke? Nostalgia makes you miss crap?
COMMANDO AND TANGO AND CASH ARE CRAP!
But they were movies we saw when we were young, when the stars were at the height of their popularity. And we appreciate the cheesy crappiness of it. So nostalgia! We love crap!
And I feel Dev. Because this Arnie/Sly stuff is derivative and dull. Why don't we just set up a "best Arnold/Stallone" tourney? I'm not saying its wrong. You like what you like. But if someone like me and Dev don't love every thing these guys ever touched we start to lose a lot of interest and get annoyed that different types of films fall so that the Elite 8 or Final 4 can be a bunch of the same damn movie. Its not just this stuff, at least with me. Its why I think the Rocky movies being clumped together at the top of a list is silly. Its why I think all italian mobster movies wears thin. But not everyone feels this way. Some people like what they like. I'm all over the place and try and mix it up. And it so happens that some of these popular themes here (like Arnold) don't appeal to me too much.
Bah. I hate you guys. But it is what it is. If the board loves Rocky films and every shitty Arnold film that was exactly the same as the last one, so be it. Some of us are going to disagree and lose interest. But its a popularity contest. That's going to happen.
Of course, Moose. You accuse Stu of overrating the newer films but I can't help but notice that you very often point out that you're only voting for the old one because you haven't seen the new one.