Boondock Saints… what a fucking shit excuse for a movie.
Honestly, its worth it to include grammatical errors just to see you’re reaction. No one else care, ya know.
i watched Exit Through the Gift Shop on hulu. its not up there anymore though
Terminator 2 yesterday,
and Starship Troopers last night.
Both stellar.
my lady had me watch the fighter recently. i wasn’t expecting much of it after seeing this meme a while back. i was really blown away though. liked it a lot. it’ll go in my list of “good movies from that decade” along with inception and let me in. she also showed me the first thirty minutes of the darjeeling limited but we had to stop after that because her computer’s been having some weird fat32 errors that i’m too lazy to fix and it doesn’t like playing media files very much. i liked what i saw.
Most illogical movie in history.
T2 is alright, if you ignore the fact James Cameron can’t make a likable character to save his life.
Starship Troopers is epic.
Yet illogical.
I saw the DVD’s extended features.
The director mentioned audience members like you, who just didn’t get it.
Or just recognized it for what it is: An attempt to communicate a message that at the end of the day has no basis because the movie has no founding in the reality of human reaction.
The movie is entirely founded upon portraying an event, one not unlike 9/11, within a society which is functional in a way that hasn’t been imagined ever since the propaganda of the mid-20th-century vilified it. Oddly enough, vilification is something exactly depicted. The fact you’re trying to pretend the movie had a unifying message is obviously evidence that you’ve missed the point entirely.
My point is that if your portray a fundamentally illogical world, any message you try to portray about our own world within it is null and void.
Illogical?
I don’t think you understand the meaning of that word. The setting was perfectly coherent.
I saw Dr. Strangelove Or How I Stopped Worrying And Love The Bomb
The behaviors of the people did not fit with how humans would logically behave. It was much more of a parody, a format which is of minimal effectiveness in conveying a message when the underlying concepts necessary for that message to have significance do not exist.
I’m still not seeing it. Point out something, anything, that didn’t fit.
Cameraman not running for his life? You’d be surprised how people react when what they’re seeing is on a screen.
That, among other things. I’m thinking largely the whole invasion in the first place. Yes, these creatures can accurately hit a city from half a galaxy away with a giant rock! They must be stupid! Not to mention the fact that that rock gets through in the first place, or that the first thing they do is a ground assault and not an orbital bombardment. Any sane military leader would realize this, and act accordingly.
I’ve heard of bad pilots who could nail the middle of a tower with a jumbo-jet going 600mph, and similarly guide one 10ft from the ground.
Sans political influence. The society needed a common enemy to motivate its people. Ground campaigns do that more than orbital bombardments. Besides, did you forgot their priority to capture one of the brain bugs?
I think you’ll understand the movie a little better once you realize the bugs, as vilified as they were, were only shown defending their planets. And yet you learned to hate them regardless.
You really think they could have maneuvered the asteroid across the galaxy like that? Or that the federation could have traced its trajectory so precisely, considering they didn’t know shit about its motion until someone literally ran into it? And let’s take that speed, how many billions of years would it have taken to make that journey?
Truth be told, you fell for it. So did most of us upon first viewing. As obvious as its propaganda and bias were, you ended up trusting the faceless news source.
Ah, I see where you are going with this. I’ll admit, that didn’t occur to me as a distinct possibility, but it brings with it some notable flaws. The leadership at the time got kicked out, predictably, making their motivation to begin a ground war questionable. Added to this, the bugs seemed very prepared for an assault, which is strange for a group that would have no reason to think that the humans were attacking them, unless they were attacked by spec ops or something similar.
The meteor in itself doesn’t really make sense according to the laws of physics, but I’ll ignore that as it seems that the people on the ship knew it would hit earth. I don’t see how the government could have orchestrated that.
Stop being such a nerd, nerd.