Originally Posted by woad&fangs
YES! Iron man was unusually good, and I usually hate superhero movies.
Originally Posted by woad&fangs
YES! Iron man was unusually good, and I usually hate superhero movies.
Haven't seen Indy, but there's no reason not to see Iron Man. Favourite movie I've seen in a while, endlessly quotable.
"The facts of history cannot be purely objective, since they become facts of history only in virtue of the significance attached to them by the historian." E.H. Carr
As quoteable as 300?Originally Posted by Geoffrey S
I walked out of the theater trying to convince myself that I didn't hate it, but I failed. I did hate it. The script was average, the acting was phoned-in, and the plot... oh my. The movie had no energy at all. The original movies had a spark that made them feel very improvised (and some parts actually were!). The dialog was natural and easy and the characters felt like real people. This movie had none of that. Almost every single line felt like it was being read dead-pan off of cue cards. Some of the 'stunts' were absolutely absurd. The Indy films were action oriented, but the danger situations were generally plausible (at least, the non-supernatural ones). Not so in Indy 4. The films forces you to suspend your disbelief almost immediately, because it blatantly makes all characters invincible. There is one particular scene early on where Indy pretty much shrugs off a... uh... large explosion... as if nothing had happened. Using such an event as a 'minor' danger that is tangential to the plotline is a travesty.
This is not the Indy I grew up with.
Last edited by TinCow; 05-24-2008 at 14:03.
Originally Posted by TinCow
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When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples
-Stephen Crane
Originally Posted by Lord Winter
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"A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mudwrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn."
- Edmund Blackadder
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