I disagree with you about the third movie, but I personally thought Matrix: Reloaded was fantastic. The action scenes were great fun, the non-action scenes were smooth, and the Architect scene made perfect sense to me.
The usual “LOTR/Star Trek/Lost/Star Wars are over-rated/t3h suxx0r” stuff has already been said (and I agree), so I’ll add one of my own SDMB-related heresies:
Kung Pow: Enter The Fist and Bulletproof Monk are good, fun movies. Kung Pow, in particular, is perhaps the funniest spoof of Hong Kong Kung Fu movies that I’ve ever seen.
Here, here. Even when his movies are good, the characters are totally morally bankrupt and absolutely unlikeable.
Except I don’t think the consensus here is that he makes “great and powerful” movies.
I think most of us would say that he makes great entertainment: violence, cool people saying cool shit, great music, great colors, retro and avant garde simulataneously.
And, characters being morally bankrupt and unlikeable is not even closely related to the quality of a movie.
I don’t know if this is the consenus, but : all anime is all the same, and it all sucks.
A while ago, I posted about a place called Doperland, where Applebees and Olive Garden are boarded up for lack of business; people drive compact cars and use SUVs only to haul horse trailers, most men are far more attracted to large women than to those with thin or average builds, nobody is a left-lane hog, nobody talks during the movies, nobody displays a “Support the Troops” ribbon on their car, and nobody is ever inconsiderate of others while they’re using a cell phone.
That can be extended to much of what’s seen in Cafe Society. Few are willing to admit they like something that the group consensus is strongly against, such as … oh, boy bands. Outside of Doperland, though, boy bands are immensely popular. There’s got to be SOMEONE on the SDMB that likes them, right? Also, in Doperland, some people do listen to rap music, but they’re always little-known bands that get no radio airplay, and limit their performances to a few small clubs in Brooklyn and LA.
That Toim Cruise is evil incarnate and Scientology will bring the downfall of mankind.
Oh hell yeah, I second In 'N Out Burger- burgers no different than a dozen other burger chains, and fries worse than Burger King’s.
I listen to Top 40, I have since I was about 5, and I’m not planning to stop any time soon. I didn’t like it much in the 90’s when grunge was king, but it’s much better now. And I do like “Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely” and “Incomplete.” They’re not show-stopping social commentaries, but those boys can sing.
And those of you who think all 80’s music sucks are having selective memory, I suspect - there was every kind of music being played in the 80’s. Some of it did suck, but there was a lot more going on that just day-glo coloured bubblegum pop.
I liked the third Godfather film. Okay, didn’t love it, but I liked what Coppola was doing by bringing in Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana”. For that matter, I really liked what he tried to do with “One From the Heart”, although Frederic Forrest was a casting choice influenced by a mixup in prescription meds (to my mind).
I like a song by Celine Dion. Which may be one more than many here will admit to.
Libertarianism, carried to its illogical extension in the real world–as opposed to in an undergrad poly-sci lab–would bring us a Stygian, Dickensian dystopia overrun by a rogue’s gallery of sociopaths, narcissists, child predators, and exploitative SOBs.
“Crash” was a damn sight better than “Brokeback Mountain.”
The first time I ever ate at In 'N Out Burger it was great.
The second time, it was horrible. Absolute garbage. Cold, shitty burgers and fries.
50/50 isn’t good odds when it comes to food.
LoTR sucked. It’s very rare for a book to be so mind numbingly boring and lame that I can’t finish reading it. LoTR’s fits the bill.
WTF?
And the smokers only smoke two cigarettes a day, and when they are done they stub out the lit end and throw the butt in the garbage.
A lot of people think that “Support Our Troops” is a jingoistic, meaningless slogan. Noam Chomksy writes:
“…the point of public relations slogans like “Support Our Troops” is that they don’t mean anything […] that’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is gonna be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that’s the one you’re not allowed to talk about.”
Wearing a “Support Our Troops” ribbon, I guess, is equated with the masses of under-informed rabble in that sarcastic post you’re talking about, and the SDMB’s members are not seen to be part of this demographic. At least that’s my interpretation of it.
That sports are interesting enough to discuss on a message board, or anywhere else for that matter.
When the editor finishes with Lord of the Rings, he really needs to find J. K. Rowling. I’m old! By the time Book 7 is published, I’m afraid I won’t be able to lift it!
Babylon 5 gets BJs a plenty on this board.
That show’s not that good.
Keanu Reeves will never go down as one of Hollywood’s most gifted thespians or intellectuals, but he’s got a respectable body of work behind him. River’s Edge. Bill and Ted. Parenthood. My Own Private Idaho. The Matrix. Speed. Sure, there’s some mediocre work in there as well, but he seems to be a guy who understands his talents and picks good material for himself.
Are these consesuses that you disagree with? or statements of your own opinion?
*One from the Heart *is an awesome movie, with one of my maybe three or four favorite soundtracks ever. Godfather III is the worst of the three, but it’s got some good stuff in it. I think Sofia Coppola was well cast and did a pretty good job.