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old hippy

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

They created a situation that caused the division of the country and the division within the NI state. Inclusivity programs help to fix the problems that caused the conflict.

Which tax payers in the UK causes this situation

e_e

On that point Japanese movies and music are often better than what the Irish/British dish out.

thebaz

much of what I post on boards - i keeping threatening myself to leave , one day i will

Colmustard

What is this, what am I doing here, I get the feeling I don't belong, this is not my universe. What could this feeling be,,,,,,,,,,,Holy sh1t ,,I know,,, this is impossible, but its true


I AM A DOUBLE POST.

Colmustard

Its cool to say "I don't go by the critics" but I do. I watch the View and midnight review every week, if a film scores less the 7.3 on the imdb I will not go and see it.

But sometimes they get it grossly wrong, there are a number of flops that got slammed by the critics which I later seen and I thought they were good to brilliant. Here are some of my list. All these films flopped and got slammed.

Superman Returns
Sunshine
John Carter
The Chronicles of Riddick
Battlefield Earth
Killing Bono

Border-Rat

Colmustard wrote: »

Its cool to say "I don't go by the critics" but I do. I watch the View and midnight review every week, if a film scores less the 7.3 on the imdb I will not go and see it.

But sometimes they get it grossly wrong, there are a number of flops that got slammed by the critics which I later seen and I thought they were good to brilliant. Here are some of my list. All these films flopped and got slammed.

Superman Returns
Sunshine
John Carter
The Chronicles of Riddick
Battlefield Earth
Killing Bono

I really don't go by the critics. Especially with the emergence of meta-criticism. That kind of thing discourages honest reviews and promotes conformity. People want to be avoid being the odd critic out on Rotten Tomatoes. My mind was really sealed on this recently with The Avengers - a inexplicably over-rated vacuous toy advert. Soulless CGI fest. The first reviewer to rate it poorly for having no character development or story sustained massive levels of abuse.

For the Dark Knight Rises, there were even death threats. On top of that, some reviewers know what and when to applaud when it comes to guaranteed free seats etc.

I will say though that to this day, I still trust Roger Ebert. There's a man who will defend what should be defended.

Colmustard

Border-Rat wrote: »

I really don't go by the critics. Especially with the emergence of meta-criticism. That kind of thing discourages honest reviews and promotes conformity. People want to be avoid being the odd critic out on Rotten Tomatoes. My mind was really sealed on this recently with The Avengers - a inexplicably over-rated vacuous toy advert. Soulless CGI fest. The first reviewer to rate it poorly for having no character development or story sustained massive levels of abuse.

For the Dark Knight Rises, there were even death threats. On top of that, some reviewers know what and when to applaud when it comes to guaranteed free seats etc.

I will say though that to this day, I still trust Roger Ebert. There's a man who will defend what should be defended.

I thought the avengers was OK but not a 9 as it is on the IMDB, I think I rated it 7. I did like the Batman film, but I hated the last one which every other critic loved it.

I go to the pictures at least 3 times a month, its a lot of money and time to fork out on crap, so the critics is all I can go by. The IMDB is good because you can read the best user reviews and the worst. The bad reviews ironically is what steers me.

The new Spiderman was a horrendous film 7.6 so was the hunger games 7.4 on the IMDB, if only I read the bad reviews for those films.

Mark Kemode IMO is the best film critic, he always directs me well especially to foreign films.

My name is URL

Colmustard wrote: »

Its cool to say "I don't go by the critics" but I do. I watch the View and midnight review every week, if a film scores less the 7.3 on the imdb I will not go and see it.

But sometimes they get it grossly wrong, there are a number of flops that got slammed by the critics which I later seen and I thought they were good to brilliant. Here are some of my list. All these films flopped and got slammed.

Superman Returns
Sunshine
John Carter
The Chronicles of Riddick
Battlefield Earth
Killing Bono

In fairness.. Battlefield Earth really did suck donkey balls :pac:

Neeson

The last batman was sh|te alright.

Colmustard

My name is URL wrote: »

In fairness.. Battlefield Earth really did suck donkey balls :pac:

I thought it was good, I could't careless if mister Scientology wrote it. But I am a SciFI head and we are so desperate for scifi we are easilly pleased.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

e_e wrote: »

On that point Japanese movies and music are often better than what the Irish/British dish out.

and korean movies/music are better than japanese

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Colmustard wrote: »

I thought it was good, I could't careless if mister Scientology wrote it. But I am a SciFI head and we are so desperate for scifi we are easilly pleased.

i liked the first five thousand pages

e_e

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

and korean movies/music are better than japanese

Great country for cinema indeed. Nowhere near as many great pre 2000 Korean movies as there are from Japan though.

Colmustard

e_e wrote: »

Great country for cinema indeed. Nowhere near as many great pre 2000 Korean movies as there are from Japan though.

Definitely Oldboy is one of my favourite all time films.

Napper Hawkins

Gotta say, batman 3 was a massive letdown for me. I really enjoyed the first two but I just found this one to be fairly boring.
The distinct lack of batman actually on screen was annoying, there were large parts of the film where I had to remind myself I was watching a batman film and not a cop movie starring Gary oldman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt trying to stop some terrorists.

Banes voice was ridiculous, I struggled throughout to fathom why exactly catwoman was in the film at all and caught myself falling asleep at least twice.

As for the avengers comment, no character development?!
Each character bar Hawkeye had their own individual movies leading up to the avengers! What more do you need?! Brilliant film, I wanted a dumb, action filled CGI fest and the avengers delivered it in spades.

First time I've enjoyed a marvel film over a batman film too.

Neeson

Batman begins was better than the dark knight.

Colmustard

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Gotta say, batman 3 was a massive letdown for me. I really enjoyed the first two but I just found this one to be fairly boring.
The distinct lack of batman actually on screen was annoying, there were large parts of the film where I had to remind myself I was watching a batman film and not a cop movie starring Gary oldman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt trying to stop some terrorists.

Banes voice was ridiculous, I struggled throughout to fathom why exactly catwoman was in the film at all and caught myself falling asleep at least twice.

As for the avengers comment, no character development?!
Each character bar Hawkeye had their own individual movies leading up to the avengers! What more do you need?! Brilliant film, I wanted a dumb, action filled CGI fest and the avengers delivered it in spades.

First time I've enjoyed a marvel film over a batman film too.

I actually thought Catwoman was the best part of that film, a new take on her, more earthly and real, the cat woman like the girl next door.

The script was a bit moronic in places but it rose to a nice crescendo. The 15 minute of future franchise feeding at the end was very annoying.

But in general I thought it was a good film, the best i seen this year.

Napper Hawkins

Colmustard wrote: »

I actually thought Catwoman was the best part of that film, a new take on her, more earthly and real, the cat woman like the girl next door.

The script was a bit moronic in places but it rose to a nice crescendo. The 15 minute of future franchise feeding at the end was very annoying.

But in general I thought it was a good film, the best i seen this year.

I had and have nothing against Catwoman, I thought the character was handled well and Anne Hathaway did a good job. My point was I couldn't see why she was even there in the first place. She was just...there. Why? Why now, 8 whole years since Bruce became Batman and he's already past it? I dunno.

Also, the Joker. Not a single mention of him. You mean to tell me he's been locked up in AA for the past 8 years? Batman's number 1 nemesis? The star of the second film?
Heath Ledger may be dead but Joseph Gordon Levitt should have played him.

Sure, people would've whinged about it. Remember all the sandy vaginas when it was revealed who was the new Joker? Remember how quickly all the whinging was silenced? I do. Joseph is not unlike Heath and is just as talented an actor. I reckon he would've pulled it off and that Heath would have given his blessing too.

Long story short I think Mr Nolan disappeared up his own hole a long time ago.

e_e

Colmustard wrote: »

Definitely Oldboy is one of my favourite all time films.

Have you seen the other 2 in the trilogy, Sympathy For Mr Vengeance and Lady Vengeance? They're all first class!

...and Memories of Murder and A Bittersweet Life are brilliant too.

Colmustard

e_e wrote: »

Have you seen the other 2 in the trilogy, Sympathy For Mr Vengeance and Lady Vengeance? They're all first class!

...and Memories of Murder and A Bittersweet Life are brilliant too.

Yes seen them, Lady Vengeance is excellent,
I particularly remember Yeong-ae Lee (IMDB) she is one sexy woman.

Links234

e_e wrote: »

Have you seen the other 2 in the trilogy, Sympathy For Mr Vengeance and Lady Vengeance? They're all first class!

...and Memories of Murder and A Bittersweet Life are brilliant too.

And don't forget I Saw The Devil! and Thirst!

oh, and the Good the bad and the weird!


mmm, Korean movies

Napper Hawkins

Links234 wrote: »

And don't forget I Saw The Devil! and Thirst!

oh, and the Good the bad and the weird!


mmm, Korean movies

Thirst was a headscratcher alright. Park Chan wook is a skillful director. Oldboy and lady vengeance are my favourites.

Links234

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Thirst was a headscratcher alright. Park Chan wook is a skillful director. Oldboy and lady vengeance are my favourites.

not quite as good but Mother was pretty awesome too, same director as memories of murder

funnights74

massdebater wrote: »

I think blondes are FAR sexier than brunettes.

I think brunettes are FAR sexier than blondes.

Colmustard

e_e wrote: »

Have you seen the other 2 in the trilogy, Sympathy For Mr Vengeance and Lady Vengeance? They're all first class!

...and Memories of Murder and A Bittersweet Life are brilliant too.

If you like foreign language films check out "Pan's Labyrinth" it is a great film and it has the best performance of a pyscopath I have ever seen in a film. I thought it should have won the Oscar for best film that year, but it didn't even win the best foreign language film. "The secret lifes of others" a german film. I like German films as well.

Colmustard

funnights74 wrote: »

I think brunettes are FAR sexier than blondes.

I think Redheads are more sexy then both those choices.

Nodin

Links234 wrote: »

And don't forget I Saw The Devil! and Thirst!

oh, and the Good the bad and the weird!


mmm, Korean movies

"The chaser" deserves a mention, as does "The Yellow sea".

Colmustard

Nodin wrote: »

"The chaser" deserves a mention, as does "The Yellow sea".

I can't think of the name of it but it was a film about a Godzilla type monster it was surprisingly good.

cantdecide

'I want to buy the most cheap/ crappy/ small/ most inferior car I can possibly find'.

If you're buying a jacket, why would you feel proud to say 'I'm going to buy the cheapest, crappiest piece of junk that fulfils it's duties... barely... in fact, that sack over there will do'.

People driving a crap car often have this air of superiority about avoiding the unnecessary expense unlike those silly petrolheads. I've had some brilliant cars over the years and I've never spent a lot of money on them.

Colmustard

cantdecide wrote: »

'I want to buy the most cheap/ crappy/ small/ most inferior car I can possibly find'.

If you're buying a jacket, why would you feel proud to say 'I'm going to buy the cheapest, crappiest piece of junk that fulfils it's duties... barely... in fact, that sack over there will do'.

People driving a crap car often have this air of superiority about avoiding the unnecessary expense unlike those silly petrolheads. I've had some brilliant cars over the years and I've never spent a lot of money on them.

You probably know cars, I don't, although I would never buy a new car its just to much a waste of money, I tend to buy a year old car. I have been lucky so far.

MJ23

Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Nicholas Cage, Hugh Grant, Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, Seth Rogan and Jack Black are the same in every film they are in.
I hate them all.

artanevilla

I like Ryanair.

Links234

Nodin wrote: »

"The chaser" deserves a mention, as does "The Yellow sea".

Can't believe I forgot the chaser! what a movie! haven't seen the yellow sea though

Colmustard wrote: »

I can't think of the name of it but it was a film about a Godzilla type monster it was surprisingly good.

you thinking of the host?

Napper Hawkins

The host was deadly!

Colmustard

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

The host was deadly!

Much better then the big budget godzilla.

Colmustard

Colmustard wrote: »

I think Redheads are more sexy then both those choices.

I think a woman's haircolour is third-last only to her boobies and being under 15 stone when it comes to physical attributes that contribute to sexiness.

Monty Burnz

Miriam O'Callaghan isn't actually very good at her job. I'm baffled by how everyone thinks she's some sort of national treasure.

cantdecide

Monty Burnz wrote: »

Miriam O'Callaghan isn't actually very good at her job. I'm baffled by how everyone thinks she's some sort of national treasure.

Round of applause for this post. Truest words on Boards...

Colmustard

Monty Burnz wrote: »

Miriam O'Callaghan isn't actually very good at her job. I'm baffled by how everyone thinks she's some sort of national treasure.

Don't forget she is a ryide as well.

She's excellent a cutting intellect and she take no sh1t.

e_e

Colmustard wrote: »

If you like foreign language films check out "Pan's Labyrinth" it is a great film and it has the best performance of a pyscopath I have ever seen in a film. I thought it should have won the Oscar for best film that year, but it didn't even win the best foreign language film. "The secret lifes of others" a german film. I like German films as well.

Pan's Labyrinth is something else alright. Realistic and often shocking war movie crossed with fairy tale, a combo that shouldn't work but somehow does.

Grimebox

Monty Burnz wrote: »

Miriam O'Callaghan isn't actually very good at her job. I'm baffled by how everyone thinks she's some sort of national treasure.

Is it bad that I had to look up who she is?

Miriam is terrible, doesn't matter who she's speaking to if you weren't looking at the screen you'd swear there was dubbing going on because her voice never fits any situation or tone.

mikemac1

pickarooney wrote: »

Irish sausages are terrible.

You are buying cheap crap from Centra I bet

Don't buy the cheapest and expect amazing quality

Go for a good brand, Shaws of Limerick is one. Clonakilty is another.
I don't recommend Dennys

Every brand is different and if you buy cheap, well no wonder you're getting filler and little enough meat

MJ23

Bob Dylan is brutal. He is a cranky, grumpy old git.

Grimebox

MJ23 wrote: »

Bob Dylan is brutal. He is a cranky, grumpy old git.

Can't stand his voice. Lyrically he is a genius though

McChubbin

Benadict Cumberbatch looks like a foot.

Napper Hawkins

I couldn't give a bollox what colour a womans hair is and I don't understand blokes who do.

Neeson

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

I couldn't give a bollox what colour a womans hair is and I don't understand blokes who do.

Brunette/Red floss is easier to take out of your teeth than blonde floss.

Colmustard

e_e wrote: »

Pan's Labyrinth is something else alright. Realistic and often shocking war movie crossed with fairy tale, a combo that shouldn't work but somehow does.

Do you remember that officers disregard for life, his expression, his executions, the fear he engendered, he was amazingly scary and not a man you would want to meet.

It was an amazing film, one everyone should have experienced, but that actor who was that officer, I will never forget. I can't remember the child who was the focus of the story. But I will never forget him.

I remember thinking jesus how could someone be that way, a real micheal myers, who could be all of us, given some power.

Everyone who likes a film should see that movie. It really is a very, very beautiful film and very emotional ,

it will bring a tear to your eye.

ArnoldJRimmer

MJ23 wrote: »

Bob Dylan is brutal. He is a cranky, grumpy old git.

+1, in the same bracket, Bruce Springsteen must be one of the most over-rated artists alive.