Posts by bluenomad2

Seriously, Noah Roberts46? You too? 😁 Don't back down. We're the last line of defense.

Amanda Garcia57 is the creator. 😁 He loved The Imitation Game; his writing style is identical. It looks like he just swapped the gender, which seems to be a huge trend lately. ☕

Now I'm even more convinced after seeing where he posts. He even commented on The Warriors, his absolute favorite. 😁 What a troll. 🤣

Patrick Martin said:Man, you've got me mixed up with @Deckard

but honestly, when it comes to disaster movies, nothing beats The Day After (1983)

Great movie. Check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/ if you haven't. Similar to The Day After, just documentary style.

northerncobra31 said:Even so, it’s still the best disaster movie out there, so...

Give me a break.😢

Check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/ and then find the guts to tell me Armageddon is still the best disaster movie.

I honestly can't believe you're acting like you didn't just drop those "hate on me all you want" comments in that post. You wrote that right under "World of Warcraft! Amazing news. Can't wait for the sequel." I jumped into the thread just seconds before your post was rightfully deleted. I don't get why you're lying about the whole "haters" thing now.

Speaking as a neutral observer, you clearly have a massive chip on your shoulder regarding the moderators, constantly nitpicking everything they do just to get back at them.

Most of them would be Ridley Scott or Quentin Tarantino films.

Tarkovsky himself was a religious fanatic, and honestly, that was his only flaw. For everything else, I bow down.

Not surprising. It’s common knowledge that most actors and directors in Hollywood are pedophiles. ☕

Even Corey says

You probably aren't confusing the two, but since I don't believe in "guilty pleasures," we clearly view things differently.

"Guilty pleasure" is one of the worst phrases in the English language. It’s a total fabrication. All this nonsense about "guilty pleasures" and similar garbage... As someone who genuinely loves trash cinema, hearing someone call a bad movie a "guilty pleasure" feels like an insult. I won't accept it. ☕

I think you've got it wrong. While Stanley Kubrick had a signature style he executed perfectly, M. Night Shyamalan doesn't need constant twists—he just forces them on the audience, and he's been overbearing for a long time now. His directing is weak, too. I haven't seen a worse director who manages to stay this popular. Sure, Christopher Nolan can fall into that trap, and Quentin Tarantino does too, though Tarantino lacks a true signature because he just steals from other movies. Yeah, all great artists steal, but with Tarantino, it feels different.

So, Shyamalan is easily one of the worst directors to emerge in the last twenty years. Wayward Pines was an absolute embarrassment. I don't buy the "guilty pleasure" excuse.☕

One look at an early Woo film and everything else just fades away 😁

Die Hard has two solid sequels, the first two. The third and fourth aren't really my thing. Die Hard masculine three, four, and five? No thanks. I can't take Bourne seriously because of Damon and the poor directing. And Mission Impossible isn't even classic action, just like briskhound2 said.

Die Hard is easily in my top five action movies, but the other four sequels don't make the cut. One of them is a series, but unfortunately, it's not on this list.

Exactly, it’s just nostalgia talking. We tend to think every old movie was a masterpiece just because we grew up with them. Let's move past these tired "arguments."

The Die Hard series has three good movies. The second and third are solid, but the first is one of the best action films ever made. Plus, you have Bruce Willis—a guy with actual presence and charisma. Now, look at Matt Damon; he’s got a baby face, he's an average actor, and the Bourne film is something I just can't connect with. All that shaky camera nonsense just ruins the experience. Searching for identity worked for the first one, but everything after that was a letdown. I enjoy the Mission: Impossible series much more than those movies. They lack soul, and more importantly, they don't have Willis.

As long as it works, I'm happy.

I don't see how you're finding offense here. Honestly, thank god I caught your reply to Magicrat where you basically ordered them to leave the thread because they lack the capacity to critique the film. If you had actually followed today's debate, you'd understand why briskhound2 brought up "fanboys." You likely did read it, though—you're just pretending you didn't, otherwise how else do you explain being fine with users like dobrimag and 0000 making sweeping generalizations and labeling everyone a hater? That's where this all started. Certain users constantly slap labels on people just because they didn't like the movie. If anything needs to be banned, it's definitely this habit of calling people "haters" or "fanboys." What briskhound2 did was simply an example of what would happen if he started treating everyone who loves the film that way.

User 0000 starts labeling everyone the second they finish a movie. When pushed for actual arguments, they pivot to talking about critics versus the audience, and their closest thing to a "point" was when they dismissed everyone as haters or nostalgic types. This has been the pattern for weeks now.

Do some reading on what he went through growing up and how he mapped it all out. You can find plenty of his motivational speeches on YouTube about mental conditioning and setting life goals. What he achieved, even much better actors haven't managed to pull off—and we aren't even talking about acting quality here.

vivideagle7 said:Taxi Driver is a genius film. It’s the best Scorsesean work out there and deserves the reputation. Whether it beats Network is debatable, but both are leagues above Rocky.

I like Stallone, and I like Arnold Schwarzenegger too. I enjoy watching their stuff.

Especially Network. Taxi Driver is a class above Rocky, and Network is two classes above. 😁

Totally agree. To me, Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are legends. They managed to become icons through movies that mostly only appeal to action fans. Some of the films I mentioned are good, sure, but they're basically just guilty pleasure action flicks. Personally, I find Arnold Schwarzenegger's life story even more impressive than Stallone's—given everything he did to get where he is today.

Peter Thompson4 said:Madman, it was a simple question. Just a basic one.

Do you think it's overrated by the Academy, or are people like friends and acquaintances just overhyping it?

Personally, I find Rocky to be better than those two; I'd always rather watch Rocky than Taxi Driver or Network.
It has more rewatch value in my opinion.
Taxi Driver was a one- or two-time watch for me, and that's it.

Calm down and stop being insulting. You just repeat whatever you read elsewhere like a parrot. It’s overrated in my view because it's just a good movie, nothing more—hardly a masterpiece. There is nothing there that makes it a masterpiece. Not the acting, the script, or the direction. It just uses that theme of HOPE that Hollywood loves. Take 'It's a Wonderful Life,' for example; it eats Rocky and Shawshank for breakfast when it comes to that theme. That's how you make a great film. It's all subjective, which clearly escapes you. These are just individuals expressing their own opinions. Unlike you, I don't care about IMDb or the Academy, but you've shown repeatedly that they matter to you and you use them as "arguments."

More rewatch value 🙏

The Goonies has more rewatch value for me than Odyssey or Network. More value. 🙏

I see you have zero actual arguments, just a bunch of academic nonsense, IMDb ratings, and whatever else fits that mold. Honestly, who cares? At the end of the day, these are all just individuals with SUBJECTIVE opinions. I’ll tell you this: you should be worried if someone else's opinion actually bothers you. I've seen everything under the sun, and now on the internet, people get offended just because someone calls something overrated. Big fakin deal!

Robert De Niro is a genius in Taxi Driver.

By the way, I mentioned on the Martin Scorsese thread that Taxi Driver is overrated, even if it is very good. Overrated because everyone treats it like gospel, so I basically agree with you. Now, Rocky is good, and this one is very good. Network is the movie I’d give the Oscar to. Maybe they didn't like the critique Network offered, yet it remains relevant day to day. I even get why Rocky won the Oscar. It deals with that favorite Hollywood theme: hope. "I have a dream" type rhetoric. But then you have to ask why Shawshank didn't win back in the 90s. It had its own version of Forrest Gump, another film hitting that same Hollywood sweet spot like Rocky 16, seventeen years earlier. Just like many other films before and after.

Back to Rocky. It’s a good film, but honestly, I don't see it as the masterpiece people claim it is. Credit where credit is due—it's influential in a good way—but in terms of pure quality, it's just a good movie that shouldn't have taken the Oscar during the 70s, arguably cinema's strongest era.

Regardless, I can't wait for the new Rambo. I liked the second and third parts. How could anyone not enjoy Rambo? ☕

As for Copeland. I thought Sylvester Stallone was solid there. Maybe it surprised people that he could actually act, and now everyone has been shouting about how great he is for years. I don't know. For me, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger, he stays in my mind as a subpar actor whom I respect immensely for those 80s and 90s action flicks.