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06-30-2014 11:23 PM |
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Originally Posted by unlurking
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I'm just asking those who didn't like this movie, but profess to like the genre, to give me an example of this genre done right.
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No, that's not what you're doing. What you're doing is claiming that people who didn't think this was a very good movie don't like the genre. I happen to love the genre, but I don't view every movie in the genre equally.
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Originally Posted by unlurking
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So far, I'd equate the disparaging comments I've seen as someone going to a Keystone Cops film and then complaining that everybody kept falling down.
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And I'd equate your posts with low level trolling.
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Originally Posted by unlurking
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Award winning acting and character driven story arcs were never a part of this genre. If you bitch about the absurdity of an Evil Dead movie and someone suggests Bruce Campbell movies might not be for you, a response along the lines of "I'm fine with the genre. Army of Darkness just wasn't very good" just doesn't make sense.
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It makes perfect sense. You don't get to decide which Bruce Campbell films they must prefer, just as you don't get to decide which Kaiju movies they must prefer.
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Originally Posted by unlurking
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What "wasn't very good" to you is present in every other film of the genre, including the new Godzilla movie everybody has the same complaints about. We've already lost the vampire et al genre to tweens and Danielle Steele. Please don't try turning giant robot / monster fighting movies into some sort of Days of Our Lives drama.
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No, what wasn't very good to me was Pacific Rim, which I found to be lacking in overall appeal. And it has nothing to do with any sort of Days of Our Lives drama. If you want to bitch about that sort of drama, though, Pacific Rim almost had a disaster happen because a character was flashing back to a childhood memory, it had Goose v. Iceman, only Iceman had to bow out of the big scene because he was injured, and Del Toro even threw in the co-pilots with romantic and sexual tension angle on top of that, for crying out loud.
I hope Del Toro does a better job the next time.
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