Quote: thedoctor said: I think it was a side conversation in another thread, so there's no telling where the hell it is. But a quick search did find such quoteables as:
Quote: Animalman said: I need more than just a popcorn flick to satisfy me.
I didn't intend that as a stand-alone comment about movies in general, but rather about my lack of faith in Spiderman-2 specifically based on my dissapointment from Spiderman(which would become clearer if you included the entire quote).
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Quote: Animalman said: I suppose this seperates me from the modern viewer. To me, Hollywood is full of "who cares about the story, look, here are some explosions!" movies. I'd like a good story. Some interesting dialogue. An attempt at something different. Good acting.
I would like that. Those are all nice things. Things I like.
Quote: Because the studio both wrote and directed the film and therefore were directly responsible for the film itself and not just how it looked on the TV commercials.
The TV commercials corresponded to the finished product.
I don't know if it was simply Anderson's ineptness, or the studio editing the crap out of the movie, or what, but my movie viewing experience led me to believe that the emphasis was on fight sequences and special effects(and that that was the intent), not plot or story. As that was what I was expecting based on reviews, trailers, commercials, etc...I wasn't dissapointed. Was it a great movie, though? Of course not.
To me, it had a clear goal in mind, and it accomplished that goal(or, at least, came very close). The Spiderman movies seemed to try to hard to be soap operas, and came off as melodramatic and trite.
Quote: By this standard, The Last Action Hero is an absolutely terrible movie because it wasn't the cliche action movie that the studio promoted but a smart, satirical look at the action genre and Hollywood in general.
The studio completedly mismarketed Last Action Hero, which was probably a big reason why it didn't do well at the boxoffice. It was very sad. Still, just because it's not exactly as it appears based on trailers doesn't mean it can't be an enjoyable film. Last Action Hero surprised me, but pleasantly so. It was different, and better than what I was expecting. Nothing wrong with that.
More often than not, though, I've found when a film is not what I'm expecting...it's not in the good way.
Quote: The movies work because they're fun with a dash of tragedy in them. You get the sense of the shitty life Parker has to lead without being weighed down too much with it. It's a fun movie that's supposed to match the excitement of reading the books as a kid, and it works.
I think I see your point. I suffocated the inner-kid in me many years ago.
Seriously, there are movies that bring out the inner-kid in me. Truthfully, I'm still a kid, pretty much. Hell, Rob didn't like the movies, and he's about as childlike as anyone I know!
I believe my inner kid is frightened by bad puns and James Franco's hair.
Quote: Son you never had, huh? Just seems to me like you're using him to collect the welfare. He sits in the corner trying to jab loose change into the electric socket while you sit in front of the TV playing Playstation games and drinking from a bottle of Wild Turkey. You make me sick.
His mother was my faith in George Lucas. After she hanged herself, poor junior just never quite was the same.
