[Stryke 9]

Matrix I'm fervently hoping doesn't suck so bad as the trailers make out. If it does, it'll suck so much my entire town's gonna be destroyed by the smallish black hole of suckage that will be generated the first time it's played in the local theater.

Terminator 2? You kidding me? You don't think the Terminator series falls under the "cheesy action/horror movie" genre? Along with Aliens?

Star Wars was actually the exception I was thinking of when I wrote that. There are damn few others.

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer

Terminator 2,

The original had Arnold Spell-o-negger as the chief character. I think that classifies as camp/cheesy

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Terminator 2? You kidding me? You don't think the Terminator series falls under the "cheesy action/horror movie" genre? Along with Aliens?

T2 and Aliens always get five stars when they're shown on TV. They're hailed as two of the very best action films ever. I've never heard them called 'cheesy' before.

[Stryke 9]

Uh-huh. They're veritable Schindler's Lists, all right. Plenty of plot and background in there.


Dude, it doesn't have to be a movie hated on by the critics to be a cheesy movie. Pretty much every action movie is one. It's not a ratings thing, it's a movie type- some of the best movies ever made were cheesy as hell. If not most of them- movies are pretty bad at having points.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Uh-huh. They're veritable Schindler's Lists, all right. Plenty of plot and background in there.

Look out folks, he's armed with sarcasm.

Sorry to dissapoint you, but I don't go to a film for its moving story or subtle plot. I like to see space ships and dudes with guns zapping alien beasties or robots, or robots zapping aliens, or any other combination thereof. I like sci-fi action films and not a lot else - I rarely watch a comedy or drama unless someone makes me. If I put a film on because I want to watch it, it'll be space ships and guns, believe me

If not most of them- movies are pretty bad at having points. [/B]

I know those words, but that made no sense...

[Visionism]

Its worth noting that Tolkien never wanted LotR published in three volumes. He felt it should be one book but he had to concede the point to get it published.

On a related note I wanna see The Ring 2. I just saw the first one yesterday and I wanna see more of that creepy ass kid. Muhahaha. Crap movie really although the end was better than I thought it was going to be. Everyone told me it was scary. Bollocks. In the scary stakes that kid aint fit to tie Damien Thorne's shoes.

[diamondgeezer]

Watch the japanese ones. In middle of the night.

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer

Look out folks, he's armed with sarcasm.

Sorry to dissapoint you, but I don't go to a film for its moving story or subtle plot. I like to see space ships and dudes with guns zapping alien beasties or robots, or robots zapping aliens, or any other combination thereof. I like sci-fi action films and not a lot else - I rarely watch a comedy or drama unless someone makes me. If I put a film on because I want to watch it, it'll be space ships and guns, believe me

If that extends to books, then I'm not surprised why you haven't read "All quiet on the western front"

[kode]

Originally posted by Stunaep

would you prefer the animated version?

of course. All hail Ralph Bakshi.
anyone seen his "Wizards" by the way? It makes the animated LotR seem sane.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Stunaep
If that extends to books, then I'm not surprised why you haven't read "All quiet on the western front"

Nah, books I'm more an S&F kind of guy. Tolkien and Pratchett mainly, though these days I don't read as much as I'd like to.

Thing was, at school we got 'classics' like Lord of the Flies and Mice and Men forced on us. Drove me nuts, especially since I'd always read the bloody thing four times by the time the rest of the class had gotten thorugh 'em. So now I tend to stick with the fantasy and sci-fi stuff. Now Fade-Out, there's a good read

And, to be honest, there was no need to drag your argument out of one thread in to another, was there?

[Stryke 9]

Stu: Spaceships and robots in "All Quiet"? Maybe I read the wrong version...

[diamondgeezer]

Er... he was suggesting I hadn't read it

[Stryke 9]

I'm aware of that.

Not everything is about you, grasshopper.

[diamondgeezer]

Granted, but it looks to me like you made a mistake... or just a point to subtle for me to grasp.

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by Visionism
Its worth noting that Tolkien never wanted LotR published in three volumes. He felt it should be one book but he had to concede the point to get it published.

Actually, that's half true. The publisher's pre-teen son, who Tolkien asked to be his critic, suggested they split it into 3. Tolkien took the suggestion.

[Visionism]

Behold the power of Stanley Unwin. The point remains though that they chose to split the first two books at a rather odd point. The place they split the movies makes more sense.

[TheCelestialOne]

Originally posted by J.F.K.
Shanghai Knights (I love Jackie Chan )

Yeah, but Owen Wilson

[Nico]

Originally posted by karajorma
By that logic the two extra matix movies aren`t really sequels either cause it was always planned as a trilogy too.

that's bollocks
They didn't even expect the first one to be that successfull.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Razor
I also heard that there is Jackass the movie , coming to cinemas here in a few weeks.

really?  Jackass left theaters months ago.  came out on DVD a few weeks ago

[karajorma]

Originally posted by venom2506


that's bollocks
They didn't even expect the first one to be that successfull.

They didn`t expect it to be as successful as it turned out to be but apparently the stuff in Zion that will be in the second movie was supposed to be in the first but would have made the movie too long.