Laz
Making dumb observations since 2002
Bad movies are inherent in franchises. To do away with their discussion is to do away with them, ie. impossible.
wnyxmcneal said:Why? Surely it's not unexpected that a discussion about Terminator 2 would lead to discussion of the other movies in the series.
Bad movies are inherent in franchises. To do away with their discussion is to do away with them, ie. impossible.
Yeah but the only movies in the series that are actually of a piece (eg coherently related, thematically unified, made by the same people) are the first two. The third is basically fan fiction, while Salvation is an almost wholly unrelated piece of shit with the Terminator name and some bits and pieces of iconography slathered on top.
And Mattdotcom is totally on point. This folder is weirdly way more interested in picking apart shitty movies than it is in talking about the good parts of good movies.
Yea, if you think about them for more than a second your head might explode, but they were still fun movies.
wnyxmcneal said:You mean a thread that was created almost two years ago?
Tony Bagels said:Yea, if you think about them for more than a second your head might explode, but they were still fun movies.
That's the point, though. In order to have any kind of meaningful discussion about something you actually have to think about it. Maybe I'm just a big gay snob, but I just can't understand why anyone would want to expend a non-negligible amount of time and effort thinking about Terminator Salvation.
wnyxmcneal said:Isn't that the problem with all the Terminator movies though? There's a lot of plot holes and paradoxes and fun logic gaps if you stop to actually think about it? And I have.
Mattdotcom said:Yeah, T2 is set in 1995, so John is eleven when it takes place.
Sarah Connor is 19 years old in the movie (The Terminator). This is proved in the sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) where Dr. Silberman says Sarah is 29 years old and T-1000 checks Sarah son's, John Connor's, profile which states he's 10 years old.
Heroin's bad, mmkay? I'll also never forgive him for ruining Natasha Lyonne.Epic Reine said:Has anyone seen what Edward Furlong looks like today? He had a small part in The Green Hornet where he looked fine, but going on recent pictures, dude let himself go in a huge way.
Yeah. It's much easier, and often more fun. Whenever I write a review, it's always more enjoyable to rip apart a shitty movie than to praise a good one. Why? No clue. I just know it makes me feel that way, and apparently I'm not alone.Tony Bagels said:This folder is weirdly way more interested in picking apart shitty movies than it is in talking about the good parts of good movies.
...Tony Bagels said:I'm just a big gay snob
He and his crew do seem to have a negative effect on discussion. Ever been to those forums? Half the posts tend to be kids whining "this is worse than Hitler!" about Justin Bieber or whatever. But the Critic is hardly the first guy who did this, the internet was built on the backs of websites that mocked pop culture. From the Onion to Seanbaby to Mr Cranky, the information superhighway has long been loaded up with dudes making fun of bad shit.Mattdotcom said:Personally I blame the Nostalgia Critic for replacing interesting discourse and debates with humorless jokes at full volume. He should be drawn and quartered imo.
Aye. One of the most annoying trends of 21st century filmmaking is the continual pussification of genre thrillers, taking what should have been an R but coldly calculating its content in a bloodless manner to just barely fit into a PG-13 instead.wnyxmcneal said:I guess movie economics are different today, but it always surprised me that they let Cameron make the expensive movie of all time an R rating.
Oh, there's something there all right. That being gargantuan robots who make a frequent habit of catching humans who are falling through the air, seemingly at terminal velocity... with giant hands made out of solid steel. That's even more laughable than the standard outrunning-an-asplosion absurdity. But yeah, you're right in your evalutation of Salvation, it's just a big dumb loud action movie which happens to claim to be a sequel to previous, better movies.Tony Bagels said:That's the problem with something like Terminator Salvation. There's nothing there
wnyxmcneal said:I guess movie economics are different today, but it always surprised me that they let Cameron make the expensive movie of all time an R rating. The movie was a success anyway, but I wonder if there was a concern from the studio that they would be locking a lot of their potential audience out of the movie.
wnyxmcneal said:I guess movie economics are different today, but it always surprised me that they let Cameron make the expensive movie of all time an R rating. The movie was a success anyway, but I wonder if there was a concern from the studio that they would be locking a lot of their potential audience out of the movie.
Mattdotcom said:Personally I blame the Nostalgia Critic for replacing interesting discourse and debates with humorless jokes at full volume. He should be drawn and quartered imo.
They already did a second T2 blu-ray release, The Skynet Edition http://www.amazon.com/Terminator-Judgment-Day-Skynet-Blu-ray/dp/B001RIY4WE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297299433&sr=8-1NoCalMike said:And then Christmas 09 my wife bought me the bluray, but it is pretty much barebones, just theatrical release. So I will still be holding on to the Ultimate edition DVD.