Why Movies Suck Today ?

Go there and judge for yourself and then watch Iron Man 2. The critics have legitimate arguments while the fans say simple things like " it was so uber and awesome" . The rest smell like they are from the studio.

What you call political correctness? I call a very basic level of respect for people unlike yourself.

Clearly, you feel no need to treat people unlike you with a basic level of respect.

And then you whine when the people you treat without respect don't treat you with respect.

I'll leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.

First off, did you even like Transformers before the film? If yes, what version as there's been many continuity's. If no, then may be it wasn't for you. It doesn't make any one stupid for liking it, just like I hate coffee. It doesn't make everyone who drinks it unrefined mules for liking it. It's different tastes. I know history, and been in the armed force(USAF), but sometimes I just want a movie that's fun.

I like transformers because I always have. my inner 6 year old comes out in full force when I saw the trialer for first time. There's just something awesome about giant transforming robots beating crap out of each other.

Bunch of people I know liked the movies though ranging from my 50 something mom, my 70 year old coworker I borrowed my DVDs to, and 20 something Ex girlfriend who went to see Revenge of the fallen without after I showed her the first movie. My sisters kids loved it, as my nephew turned to me, and said thank you Mike for bringing me before movie was even over as he was that into it back when he was 5 for first film. I don't have to explain to them why Optimus Prime one of the greater fictional characters ever, they know and understand for themselves.

Are weak spots and thing I'd changed if I had chance. Absolutely, but as a huge fan of the Ip, even if I hated the films I couldn't deny how much it's done for the franchise. I see it as a win no matter what happens after the 3rd film. Sorry you hated the films and were surrounded by off duty. That said, you re overreactting a bit about.


(P.S. I love a good rant as much as next guy, but you went entirely too long without making enough points for all of the surplus.)

You want examples of stupidity, emasculation and political corretness in flims?


THE THING 2011

Ok so why is there a BLACK MAN on a Norweign base in Antarctica? Guess there are so many blacks in Norway right. Wonder why he was put into the movie. Cater the the black audience ? Kinda insulting to my intelligence.

Why is there a woman on the base? Yeah I am sure an isolated weather or whatever station in the most isolated place on Earth is where a woman would be..not like its a mans job or anything..This movie takes place in the early 80s too. That girl must get passed around more than a joint.


FLY BOYS

Yeah of course the main character James Franco is ok with rooming with a black man, being he is from Texas and this takes place in 1917 where racial tolerance was at its peak

Black Fighter Pilot..yeah cause there we so many of those in World War One.

THE PATRIOT

Entertaining film.....but free blacks in 1775 South Carolina ? Yeah not like South Carolina was the most Southern of Southern states and first to secede from the Union or anything before the Civil War.


G.I. JANE

Yeah cause a woman can really survive Navy Seal training....insulting to all Navy Seals


ALIENS VS PREDATOR

Leadership figure is a woman..yeah let me tell you she is really convincing when she lays down the law and tells everyone "Dont be a hero" and not to help anyone in trouble. I really bought that


Gotta love these female warrior figures that are coming out...Centurion , King Arthur, Pirates of the Carribbean .. cause women are so convincing at it.


LAST SAMURAI

Of course Tom Cruise is a badass who hates his commander for slaughtering Native Americans. After all, Tom Cruises character was born in the middle of the Nineteenth Century when people loved Native Americans. Not like we had recently expanded West at their expense.

Not only is Tom Cruise racially sound and politically correct but he supports the old order of Samurai that is standing against the industrialization and modernization of Japan. Nah , lets not modernize Japan...lets keep it a undeveloped feudal country controlled by the Shogunate and ransack the rail roads.

No wonder these people were so stupid to charge into gatling gun fire on horses. No doubt Japanese laugh at this film.


PEARL HARBOR

Luckly in reality we did not have these young, girly punks defending Uncle Sam in WW2 or we would have been in trouble. We went from Midway (1976) to this (2001) ?



TEEN MOVIES

A lot of these movies came out when I was in high school or after. I could never watch these as the guys in the movie are total whimps. With these weak male characters being in these teen movies no wonder our youth is so enfeeble.



CANT HARDLY WAIT

Yeah go obsess and chase after the girl who is dating the Jock..write her a love note ..wuss

AMERICAN PIE

Parts of this were funny. But watching the jock being all sweet to the girl made me sick. After she angrily storms off about him being a Jerk , he tries to explain himself to her instead of him just not giving a crap and letting her walk away like a real man would.

Guy also has to beg and apologize to his girl friend cause he said out loud " I want to get laid" So he is apologizing for being a man ? Might as well get neutered putz.

SUPER BAD

I will admit I enjoyed this movie overall. The main character.. tall skinny kid, is such a wuss. He is not only insecure but he also fails to bang that girl when he had the chance because she was drunk or something. What a chump. Thats ok... Im sure that win you points in heaven. He should have took some tips from McLovin


I dont know when the emasculation started..maybe with the show FRIENDS or something. Guys having platonic relationships with women lol .... weird

Transformers 1 came out in 2007. Thats when I first saw it. I was in Iraq the year after. Transfomers 2 came out towards the end of my deployment.


All Surplus ?

There's a difference?

Also, New_Dark_Age, wow... just... wow.

OK, I'm with you on this one here, LOL.

Buuuuuut yeah, I think I'm staying far, far away from you now.

You are with me but staying far away from me? What are you Mr. Fantastic?

Wow thank you , thank you thank you

You and Vox just proved my point

You will not even look at the VALIDITY of what I posed. You will instead look for words in the text and say "GOTCHA !!! You said BLACK MAN " !!

No wonder movies are so foolish today.


Let me repeat that..... YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT LOGIC... ONLY FEELINGS ...THAT IS WHY MOVIES SUCK TODAY.


lol Grow up and get some thicker skin

I don't have to read between the lines, it's fairly obvious you have some serious issues.

Racism, Bigotry, Misogyny. Terrible human being trifecta. At this point, I don't care if this gets modded and I'm warned, I gotta get this off my chest: I'm really ashamed to hear someone like you was at one point, defending our nation.

Cause there is no defensiviness on your side there. None. Not defensive at all. Far to manly to be defensive.

lol yeah racism....not like I am using historical facts

Explain to me how me stating that there is no "LOGICAL" reason a black man would be on a Norweign base or how there is no "LOGICAL REASON free blacks would be in a movie based in 1775 South Carolina or that the Samurai stood against the Meiji Revolution in Japan is Racism ?

I completely support your use of historical facts where you've applied them to non-fictional historical accounts. Fictional stories, however, are called fiction for a reason.

This fan was obviously bought off.

Share? *makes sad but cute puppy dog face*

Yeah soooo much I dont know where to begin. He lives up to his name of a New Dark Age.

For my sake, it seemed to be an instance of someone using a story setpiece that they shouldn't be setting into a binary, us-vs-them right-vs-wrong position, and doing just that. I suppose it's overly melodramatic of me to say, but I dunno, I felt more like whitewash than an admission. Not to say that many other films haven't done the same thing just as wrong, of course.

Strangely, if it'd been a comedy I'd probably have liked it more.

Also, the OP seems the kind of person who enjoys Atlas Shrugged, at a wild guess.

(While we're on the topic, I found Transformers to be racist; every person in the film was a thinly-painted veneer of who-gives-a-**** but you could be a crazy white person, a smart white person, a gormless white person, a military hadass white person, or you could be a black person or a latino person. Having a skin colour occupied your personality slot.)

(Also, my god this thread is stupid.)

Heroes, Villains ♦ Reviews ♦ Retrospect

Lets be fair here. Now a days it's popular to rewrite history, so studing history becomes harder!

Ah, that old chestnut. Written by an angry old Russian lady who never actually practiced what she preached. Libertarian porn at its best! The fact that's it's in the section marked "fiction" never seems to clue them in.

Set aside the behaviour of the author, set aside the philosophy of the tale, set aside the political tumour it has created, look only at the text and read the character and the story. It is - as wonderfully summarised by another, smarter mind than mine - a work of super-irrigation; it encourages that which requires no encouragement, and its characters, those about whom we are meant to care, those in whose lives we are meant to be invested, are defined by smug superiority, selfishness, and being assuaged on all sides by a mediocre world of the humdrum that fail to fall upon their faces in exultant joy and being in the presence of the protaganist.

In many ways, Ayn Rand was to bad ideas as the Navajo were to Buffalo; she so perfectly and thoroughly executed and got the maximum use out of every single stupid and bad idea she could.

But we are at this point in the territory of a linguistic cul-de-sac; I was merely making what I felt an educated guess on the opinions of our lily-white savior who has deigned to grace us with the pure and wondrous thoughts from his higher immortal mind. I'm open to being wrong, after all.

Heroes, Villains ♦ Reviews ♦ Retrospect

Well, 'tis better to be a fan of Ayn Rand than William Luther Pierce, to damn with faint praise....