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You do realize that in order to hate a movie you have to see it at least once. Even geeks know that much. What the movies lose when they screw up the subject matter is all the revenue from the repeat geek business. When geeks love a movie you can't keep them from going back and watching it again and again and again. They don't care about ticket prices when the movie is great.

Heh. Logicaly yeah, but I've known, seen, and read a great great many hateful posts, reviews, and threatend boycotts of movies that haven't even been relased yet. I'm sure if you think about it, you have too. And nearly everyone of them go see the movies anyways. And wonder why they are so sucessessful. LOL

And when movies screw up the subjec matter, they rarely "pay" for it. That's kind of the whole joke behind the cracked artical. Repeated geek bussiness just doesn't seem to be worth it. At least, not for thearter sales. I have a theory, since i, myself, am a geek. We geeks, IMO, prefure DvD's to the thearter. I know I do. I'm not a fan of big croweds. And I've spent a ton of money on a pretty wicked home entertainment unit, mainly to play videogames on, but the movies look sweet on it too. So, I personally have no issues waiting the, 4 to 6 months it takes for a movie i like to hit DvD.

I think alot of geeks feel the same way, and thus, you see geek movies kind of bomb at the theater, but make up for it in DvD sales. *shrug* That's my theroy.


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You do realize that in order to hate a movie you have to see it at least once.
Not if you write for the Daily Mail. Then again, they barely have enough time as it is with hating immigrants, estate agents, the French, Americans, people who live outside London Zone 3 and are therefore possibly close enough to be contaminated by the French or wear bones through their nose, comedians, LGBT people, the French, and anyone who isn't Diana Princess Of Wales (RIP).

...so they don't really have enough time to watch the movies in question. Neither do a lot of critics who just watch the EPK clips, form a thoroughly biased opinion against it or pick up their paycheck from the PR company and just write "BEST. FILM. EVER."

Was that too much? I can never tell.


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Not if you write for the Daily Mail. Then again, they barely have enough time as it is with hating immigrants, estate agents, the French, Americans, people who live outside London Zone 3 and are therefore possibly close enough to be contaminated by the French or wear bones through their nose, comedians, LGBT people, the French, and anyone who isn't Diana Princess Of Wales (RIP).

...so they don't really have enough time to watch the movies in question. Neither do a lot of critics who just watch the EPK clips, form a thoroughly biased opinion against it or pick up their paycheck from the PR company and just write "BEST. FILM. EVER."

Was that too much? I can never tell.

IMHO critics all suffer from cranial rectal inversions and I summarily dismiss anything they say as a heaping piles of smelly brown stuff ever since I was a kid and saw a pair of those idiots give "The Empire Strikes Back" a bad review because (And this phrase always stuck with me) "It is a cliffhanger that raises more questions than it answered." Apparently they didn't get the memo that the film was the second part of a trilogy.


 

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Tons of old characters were murdered in the first 20 mins. Iconic characters were speed bumps for profit and we were given a bunch of new guys we were just expected to root for because the story told us too. They never existed prior to the movie.
Who cares? They didn't kill the Dinobots and in an era when Dinosaurs = cool that was all that mattered.


 

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Mark Kermnode, my favourite film reviewer, has finally seen Scott Pilgrim, and he has declared it: Howard the Duck 2

Hopefully people outside the UK will be able to see the video.


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Mark Kermnode, my favourite film reviewer, has finally seen Scott Pilgrim, and he has declared it: Howard the Duck 2

Hopefully people outside the UK will be able to see the video.
Seems like his posters disagree.


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Seems like his posters disagree.
Huh?


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Seems like his posters disagree.
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Huh?
I'm not somewhere I can watch the video so I assumed he bashed it therefore those who posted on that page are disagreeing with him.

However if he's like me and didn't think Howard the Duck wasn't bad, just very weird and not mainstream at all, then I misinterpreted those comments and they were agreeing with him.

I'm just conditioned that Internet video reviewers are all snark and sarcasm who think themselves witty and clever. like Simon Cowell but without the fear of owls.


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I'm not somewhere I can watch the video so I assumed he bashed it therefore those who posted on that page are disagreeing with him.

However if he's like me and didn't think Howard the Duck wasn't bad, just very weird and not mainstream at all, then I misinterpreted those comments and they were agreeing with him.

I'm just conditioned that Internet video reviewers are all snark and sarcasm who think themselves witty and clever. like Simon Cowell but without the fear of owls.

Yeah, he liked Howard the Duck, and they are agreeeing with him. Essentially, he brings up parallels between the two films (both based on comics, both had high(ish) budgets and lost money, both were weird yet still tried to be mainstream and failed) and said that Pilgrim will become a true cult movie, and that he really likes the film.


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