On rare occasions I’m accused of being just a little arrogant.
(Pauses for sounds of shocked disbelief).
Some people labour under the misapprehension that I’m incapable of seeing anyone’s point of view but my own, that I will generally respond to the assertion that it’s not possible for an opinion to be wrong with “Of course an opinion can be wrong. You’re in the process of proving it. Besides, if you held the opinion that gravity had stopped working and the moment you step ouside the door you’re going to float up to the ionosphere, that’s empirically and certifiably wrong. Stop wasting my time with this wishy-washy, well-on-the-other-hand, everyone’s-opinion-is-worth-the-same, walk-a-mile-in-the-other-fellow’s-shoes, being-right-isn’t-the-be-all-and-end-all claptrap.”
In reality, this is only true ninety, maybe ninety-five percent of the time tops.
Obviously most of the time only a fool or a lunatic would disagree with my position – that anyone who can hear Higher And Higher by Jackie Wilson without smiling needs to be removed from the gene pool for the benefit of future generations for example, or that Jeff Sinclair was a far superior commander of Babylon 5 than Smilin’ John Sheridan. However, there are many, many (actually, not that many) subjects that I’m perfectly willing to entertain the possibility that my stated position could potentially be wrong and the rest of the world might be right.
For reference, please find below a full and complete listing of those opinions that may under the correct circumstances be negotiable:
- Seinfeld isn’t funny.
- The three best films directed by a Scott brother are, in order, Blade Runner, Top Gun, and Alien.
- Gladiator is at least an hour too long.
- The Lord Of The Rings trilogy is at least four hours too long.
- Street Fighter II is boring.
- And so is Halo 3.
- Deep Space Nine wasn’t that bad. Certainly better than Next Gen.
- Johnny Mnemonic is better than the last two Matrix movies.
- Poison’s “Flesh & Blood” is one of the five best albums of the eighties.
- Teen Wolf has one of the five best final scenes in cinema history.
- Kebab pizza is lush.
- It’s A Wonderful Life, but it’s a rubbish film.
- Led Zeppelin’s music is by and large ponderous, self-indulgent tosh.
- Battlestar Galactica is filled with hateful characters and takes itself way too seriously.
- Independence Day is filled with awesome characters and takes itself not even slightly seriously.
- Playing king-three suited is lucky.
- The Pylea story arc at the end of Angel’s second series was terrific fun.
- Supporting more than one football team after the age of 9 is an indicator of weak moral character.
- Rocky III is the best film in the series.
- Empire Strikes Back is the worst film in the series, if you take the natural and sensible position that Episodes 1-3 didn’t happen.
Obviously, should you hold a dissenting position on any subject not covered above then I regret to inform you that you’re completely incorrect and should adjust your thought processes accordingly.
You’re welcome.
This just cries out for a response or two…
Re Seinfeld: not sure who exactly laughs at this stuff?
Re Top Gun: deserves its place in the “unintentially funny in a homo erotic kind of way” category. Is there an Oscar for that now?
Re Gladiator: needs a saner ending & not that load of old pseudo spiritual claptrap involving wandering around in Elysian corn fields currently on offer. Is there a directors cut?
Re LOTR: No it isn’t.
Re Street Fighter II: it’s great because it requires absolutely no skill whatsoever which in my case, is a “good thing”.
Re Halo 3: That’s a shame; quite liked the look of it.
Re Deep Space Nine / Next Gen: damning with faint praise by anyone’s reckoning.
Re Johnny Mnemonic: is EASILY better than the last two Matrix movies.
Re Poison’s “Flesh & Blood”: genuinely amusing viewpoint on many levels. On the other hand, the eighties were pretty rubbish, really.
Re Teen Wolf: you are not wrong.
Re Kebab pizza: not advisable as an ongoing lifestyle choice, though.
Re It’s A Wonderful Life: I’m not getting involved in this one as it can only end badly with your other half & you know it.
Re Led Zeppelin: It was then & it is now.
Re Battlestar Galactica: hard to argue but I’m still strangely drawn to it.
Re Independence Day: it’s rubbish
Re king-three: about as lucky as my die rolls
Re Pylea story arc: made me very angry indeed. Shame on you, Whedon!
Re supporting more than one football team: hardly needs saying!
Re Rocky III: still wouldn’t know…
Re Empire Strikes Back: aren’t you forgetting that godawful teddy bears picnic at the end of Jedi? Lamentable…
That’s “a response or two”?
Seinfeld – I think it’s probably funny it just doesn’t make me laugh, if that makes any sense. Loads of people whose opinion I pretty much have to respect re: comedy (including the likes of Graham Linehan, who I learned this week isn’t just a Call Of Cthulhu player, he’s a CoC Keeper) reckon it’s the balls. I’ve tried with it, God knows how I’ve tried but it just refuses to click.
Halo 3 – Part of the problem is that it throws you in media res while assuming a) you know the backstory of the last two games and b) you care about the backstory of the last two games. That plus my enduring rubbishness at console FPSs killed it for me. Your milage may vary.
It’s A Wonderful Life – Probably deserves a post of its own, but in short my major issue is this: the whole hook the plot’s hanging on is Even The Most Ordinary Person Changes The World In Great Ways. Well, hang on a minute. James Stewart SAVED HIS BROTHER FROM DROWNING when he was a kid. He’s NOT an ordinary person by anyone’s reckoning, he’s a flippin’ HERO. So your message is, in fact, Extraordinary People Change The World In Great Ways. Well – to coin a phrase – DUH.
Independence Day – You also didn’t get Doomsday, so your kitschdar is obviously broken. And I cared a thousand times more what happened to Will Smith than I do anybody in Battlestar (with the possible exception of Starbuck).
And the Lord Of The Rings movies are rubbish. In your secret heart of hearts you know it’s true.
OH MY GOD!!!!
Do you go out of your way to bait reactionary idiots like me or is it accidental…
RE: Gladiator.
I would say 2 hours too long and needed to cheer up a bit.
RE: Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
I would say 6 hours too long (if you watch the extended version), only works if you are stoned, and needed to take itself a bit more seriously (Dwarf Tossing my arse). It’s Tolkein for gods sake…
RE: Street Fighter II
Dude. Seriously. You were there in the late 1980’s – early 1990’s. YOU WERE THERE. If you are telling me you didn’t whoop like a idiot when you first pulled of a SONIC BOOOOOOM or a HAJOOOOOOKEN!!! then I am telling you you must have banged your head or something.
RE:Halo 3.
In 1 player mode, it’s very very very pretty and a fair enough experience. I ignored the largely pretentious plot and focused on the important stuff (i.e. point and shoot). This is, by no means, boring, although not as much fun as the “Holy crap, I’m nearly out of health and Ammo and there are about 20 Super Mutants rolling over the hill! Mummy!” that you get in Fallout 3.
However, where it scores the highest is in multi-player online action, where it has the best online lobby of any online shooter. If beating the pants of someone you barely know online and crowing mercilessly over it for days is, to you, boring, you need to send your Xbox back to Microsoft immediately, since it appears you have purchased the wrong product – what you were in fact after was a calculator. Or a microwave. Or a fridge.
RE: Deep Space Nine.
Deep Space Nine was the best Star Trek by a country mile (irony – no actually “Trekking” on a space station…), and I preferred some parts of it (i.e. Season 4) to some parts of Babylon 5.
RE: Johnny Mnemonic is better than the last two Matrix movies.
My “doings” before bedtime last night were better than the last 2 Matrix movies. I would put Johnny Mnemoic on a par with them. However, my view of Johnny Mnemonic does improve if I have had a few beers, whereas my opinion on the last 2 Matrix films actually worsens with the same amount of booze, so there is an arguement to be had. And some booze.
RE:Poison’s “Flesh & Blood” is one of the five best albums of the eighties.
Were there actaully 5 good albums in the 1980’s??? I got as far as Appitite for Destruction and kind of gave in.
RE: Kebab pizza is lush.
On the night, yes. In the morning, no.
RE: It’s A Wonderful Life, but it’s a rubbish film.
You need to put this film into context… It is, for my money, the best CHRISTMAS film of all time. This is, again, shooting fish in a barrel when comparing the likes of Santa Clause, Santa Claus the Movie, Miracle on 34th Street, Jingle All the Way, and White Christmas. It comes close to being trumped by Gremlins, though…
RE: Led Zeppelin’s music is by and large ponderous, self-indulgent tosh.
I grew up listening to The Zep. It’s because of The Zep I learned to play guitar. In parts, they are toss. However, Houses of the Holy is a great album, as is Led Zep 2. Led Zep 3 is not at all bad either. I think your view of them might have been skewed by Led Zep 4 (the famous one with Stairway on it), which is noodletastic (it has 2 of their longest songs on it). Their latter albums may be a little surplus to requirement, but they are, by and large, ace. Just think – no Led Zep = no Stairway. No Stairway = denied.
RE: Battlestar Galactica is filled with hateful characters and takes itself way too seriously.
I think you are missing “and needs to cheer up approximately 2X please”. It’s rapidly becoming the case that the Cylons are the goodies at the mo, and they are certainly more fun to watch (especailly no 6. Great fun).
RE: Independence Day is filled with awesome characters and takes itself not even slightly seriously.
Will Smith playing… errr… Will Smith. Mary McDonnell playing a dying leader(s wife) – typcast for BSG?. Jeff Goldblum playing the nerdy, speccy type that he plays in most of his films. The Baldwin who plays Jane in Serenity in the background. Awesome? Hardly.
RE: Playing king-three suited is lucky.
Definitely. For the other players.
RE: Supporting more than one football team after the age of 9 is an indicator of weak moral character.
At any age it’s a bit shit.
RE: Rocky III is the best film in the series.
I pity the fool that says otherwise.
RE: Empire Strikes Back is the worst film in the series, if you take the natural and sensible position that Episodes 1-3 didn’t happen.
It doesn’t have Ewoks in, therefore is INSTANTLY promoted to number 2. It wasn’t directed by Lucas, so is INSTANTLY promoted to number 1. Sorry, those are the facts.
RE: Men in Black 2 was better than Men in Black.
Watch them in order at once. You’ll see what I mean.
Re: Halo 3
The guns have no “feel” at all. For the most part they’re just not very satisfying to use, and that’s a problem in the single player and online. Plus, it moves soooooooooo sloooooooooooowly. Multiplayer shooters are all bobbins as a rule, but I had 5x more fun in my limited time with Call Of Duty 4 online than I ever did with Halo. And that’s without even invoking the name of TuFTy.
Re: Led Zep
About half a dozen great to brilliant songs surrounded by lots and lots and lots of up-its-own-bottom, for-God’s-sake-get-to-the-POINT guitar-noodling nonsense.
Re: ID4
The reason why Will Smith gets to play Will Smith in every film he’s in is because Will Smith is extremely likable. See also: the entire career of Harrison Ford. Jeff Goldblum is huge fun, so’s Judd Hirsch, Mary McDonnell is roughly seventeen times easier to root for than she is in BSG. In summary: you’re wrong. And also ugly.
Street Fighter II is boring.
This is only true if you’re playing someone noticeably above or below your ability level.
I worked in a video rental place in the elbow for a year that was about as popular as scab soup, so I spent most of my 12 hour days there putting the same 50 pence piece into the SFII maching over and over, (we had the keys to the machine), and playing endless games.
On weekends when two of us had to cover the store to deal with the “rush” in potential renters, each day transformed into a marathon SFII tournament.
We progressed from learning, to being able to pull of special moves most of the time, to being able to block special moves most of the time, to some sort of zen state where we knew the special moves were coming just by the joystick movement next to you. At this point you’d start to block a move that hadn’t begun its animation on the screen and so the next step was faking the special move motions, but deliberately getting it wrong to either pull a block or a specific counter move from your opponent, (depending on which character they were), because this would root them, allowing you to land a specific attack for free.
At this point knockouts became very rare and virtually every fight we had would go the distance, on the clock, and be scored by who had the most life left.
There’s probably another level above that, but we didn’t see it because then the store closed as it never rented any videos and the arcade machine only made 50p.
RE: Halo 3
If you think the guns have no “feel”, you’re using the wrong guns! On the whole, the marine’s guns are a bit toss, but the alien weapons (especially the Needler and the alien version of the SMG) are great fun. Swords rock, too. I don’t know where you get that it’s slow. All seems to rock on my connection.
RE: Led Zep
With at least 3 good albums worth out of them, that’s closer to 30 songs that are great and a load of navel gazing tosh. Still better odds than Blur, Oasis, Guns and Roses, and even Nirvana.
RE: ID4
Unfortunately, you missed a critical point here… I’m not listening NANANA NAAAAAA NAAAAAA
Re: Halo 3
Not slow as in laggy, you berk. Slow as in you move slowly, the guns deplete health slowly, the whole game is just sooooooooo ponderous.
Re: “Were there actaully 5 good albums in the 1980’s???”
The rest of my top five would look something like:
Prince – Sign O The Times
Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights
Pixies – Doolittle
Sisters Of Mercy – Floodland or First And Last And Always.
Could have had Billy Bragg’s Life’s A Riot With Spy vs. Spy, Eponymous AND Out Of Time by REM, Peter Gabriel (3), Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, Slippery When Wet (shut UP), Closer by Joy Division, all of the Cure’s good albums and I COULD GO ON. You’re right, what a barren musical wasteland, eh?
Re: StuFighterII
So what you’re saying is, if you’re forced to devote eight hours a day five days a week to it, it turns into quite a decent game?
No, I’m saying it’s a good game if you’re playing someone who’s at the same level as you. I even put it in the second sentence.
Sorry, I mistook the content and tone of the last 90% of your post for being your point. Silly me.
I’ve played SF2 with people at about my skill level. I was working in a games shop when it was first released on the SNES. The game got played a lot, with a whole bunch of us who were about the same level. It was never better than “alright, I s’pose”. I appreciate there’s probably a good game in there somewhere and that it’s likely my fault that it’s never sufficiently inspired me to find it. Hence its inclusion on the list.
No, I put the vital part early on, so that you didn’t have to read the rest of my guff.
Okay, I have waited a couple of days to be sure I am not baited into saying something I will regret so here goes:…oh and these are in answer to Dan’s original comments
Re Seinfeld: I have watched episodes both old and relatively new and didn’t laugh even once. I believe the only reason Americans laugh at this show is because the adverts keep telling them how funny it is…advanced sales technique in action
Re Top Gun: Now admit it boys…you may joke about how funnily homo-erotic this is now…but when you were younger you thought it was the dogs licky bits!!
Re Gladiator: I liked this film, but I think I could have done without the shots of Russel being whisked over the ground by what was apparently an army of well drilled ants seeing is how he was only a couple of inches off the ground.
Re LOTR: Dan- shut up you fool
Re Street Fighter II: I have no opinion seeing as how every time I try to do a special move I fail spectacularly and end up just random button thumping….a tactic which I should point out led to Dan being defeated by a twelve year old son playing this
Re Halo 3: Pretty…but not my thing
Re Deep Space Nine / Next Gen: both a bit toss for differing reasons which I don’t care enough about the programme to explain
Re Johnny Mnemonic: Yes it is better than the 2nd two matrix movies, mainly because of the comedy element it didn’t realise it had
Re Poison’s “Flesh & Blood”: The eighties were pretty shite all round,all offenders should be tried for crimes against humanity, and ANY band who came out with anything half decent should be applauded.
Re Teen Wolf: I agree
Re Kebab pizza: Yes, but only in very small amounts
Re It’s A Wonderful Life: YOU ARE A BLOODY IDIOT!!..WASH YOUR STUPID, STUPID MOUTH OUT…YOU’RE DIVORCED!!! GAK…..Not only do you decide to pick on one of my favourite films but you do so in public. Lemme make this simple..you are wrong…anyone who agrees with you is wrong…I will hunt you all down……GAH!
Re Led Zeppelin: Well spotted you four eyed freak (sorry..still a bit narked)
Re Battlestar Galactica: Apart from characters making decisions that their characters simply shouldn’t and wouldn’t make simply to drive the plot….everyone being bloody miserable….and all the religious tosh…I like it
Re Independence Day: It is more or less what you expect with the acting line up contained within….nothing orginal, but reliable performances to their individual strengths
Re king-three: Is this why I keep having to listen to you whine about bad beats every tuesday night after Poker at the pub? Hmmm?
Re Pylea story arc: made me laugh..a pleasant diversion for a couple of episodes
Re supporting more than one football team: how do people support more than one team at a time??? What happens if they end up playing each other…do you support each team for one half each?
Re Rocky III: Personally I prefer the first one…and you’re a speccy idiot so I must be right ( I think I may still be a bit narked)
Re Empire Strikes Back: I dunno about this one…anything with ewoks in it must lose marks aginst non-ewok members of the trilogy…and it should be in relation to how many minutes the ewoks are actually in camera view or can be heard chirping.
There’s something about this post that plainly brings the loquacious.
Re: Top Gun
What do you mean, “when I was younger”?
Re: LoTR
You’re confusing “Viggo Mortensen looking rugged and moody for three hours” with “A good movie”.
Re: Poison / Eighties music
Pretty big talk for someone who owns a Whitesnake album. Just sayin’. Also: you surrendered your music-criticism privilages the day you voluntarily bought a Robbie Williams CD.
Re: K3s
I think I’m allowed one concession to superstition and karma in my otherwise Terminator-style RUTHLESSLY EFFICIENT PLAY.
Re: Top Gun
What do you mean, “when I was younger”?
- ok ok…so I meant to say, when you were a foetus..and not just an oversized teenager like you are now
Re: LoTR
You’re confusing “Viggo Mortensen looking rugged and moody for three hours” with “A good movie”.
- jealous much?…no I am not confused..this is what is commonly know dear boy as an opposing point of view…unheard of in your reality I know..but most of the rest of us have come across the notion…..
Re: Poison / Eighties music
Pretty big talk for someone who owns a Whitesnake album. Just sayin’. Also: you surrendered your music-criticism privilages the day you voluntarily bought a Robbie Williams CD.
- OH that is RICH coming from the guy whose first record bought was….RAT RAPPIN’ by Roland Rat superstar!!!…hehehe (you thought I’d forgotten that didn’t you1)
Re: K3s
I think I’m allowed one concession to superstition and karma in my otherwise Terminator-style RUTHLESSLY EFFICIENT PLAY.
- hmm..if you were ruthlessly efficient I think that would mean that you win most of the time..since that is not entirely the case, I am willing to concede that you could call yourself “moderately competent” if you would like.
RE: Top 5 albums of the 1980’s
Now you mention it, Micheal Jackson was half decent in the 80’s. I used to love “Bad” and “Thriller” (even though the Paul McCartney songs were a bit weird).
Nirvana realeased their first album in 1989. It was a bit chud, but I used to really like it.
Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All and Ride the Lightning (AKA “The good albums”) came out in the 80’s.
Oh, and the Smiths were good in the 1980’s too.
So, OK, not as bad as I first thought. 1990’s were still better, though.
omg!! your list. lol
The theatre was packed re your icon. People stuck to their seats like half-chewed gum on playground asphalt for the entire. three. hours. Remember re lotr and HP I wanted to kill myself? Not so with this film, oh alan moore quelle sigh. Naturally, I have some concerns (lol) but nothing I was nervous about warranted my fretfulness and my concerns are fairly minor excepting the questionable soundtrack.
I WILL TELL YOU MOAR LATER IF I FEEL LIKE IT.
RE: Lori’s post
So Watchmen’s OK then?
Yay!
Oooooooh. Now I’m excited. I think I’m off to see it (along with about half the people in this comments thread) on Wednesday. I’m mildly astonished to hear it’s actually any good.
I didn’t know you were a Harry Potter fan. You kept THAT quiet!
OMG I HATE YOU> you and your subtle wit (or what passes as) and your stupid smilies YOU WERE JOKING ME RE HP!! That’s fine, I’ll just join Dave on the berk bench– we have way more fun.
There’s always a space for a purdy lady on the berk bench.
And hang on, since when did I always sit on the berk bench? I sit on the Cool Individualists Bench, surely. Someone just crossed out Cool Individualists Bench and wrote in Berk Bench. In crayon.
Next to the sign saying “Glasgow”.
Oh gawd. I can’t believe I am back on this post. OK listen (well hello there CI bench buddy) I may have been a little awed when I wrote my review. I still really really really like the film but you don’t get emotionally attached to the characters (kinda like with Lotr and HP). Rorschach is the one I cared about the most. OKAY. OKAY??? IT IS STILL A FAB FILM A GREAT CUT ABOVE MOST ACTION/SUPER HERO FLICKS (and above Lotr and HP). if you can handle that go see IMAX. Just stop bugging me about this film.
OK, no more Watchmenbugging.
We’re off to see it on Wednesday, so we can make up our own minds about emotional attachments and whether a different ending is a GOOD ending.
And the outfits. Although, I’m all in favour of seeing a 20ft high version of Silk Spectre II in THAT outfit. Smashing!
lol I hope you get as excited BY BIG BLUE PENIS in your face because there’s a heck of a lot more of that than SS smuttery.
I didn’t have to see IMAX I had the old-time thrill of being third row -everything was huge.
Okay, despite everything, even direcorial brick-fists of hell and thematic points being missed IT SOMEHOW MANGAES TO BE ENGAGING EVEN DAYS LATER. GODAMMIT. If you lot have different opinions than mine you suck.
PS< BECAUSE I CAN’T SEEM TO STOP: the different ending was both good and bad. good because it kinda fits and bad because everyone is rather nonreactive.
Well, that’s a relief. I’ve paid good money to see GIANT BLUE WANG, dammit.
I’m now committed to this being the first ever film I’ll see twice at the cinema. Six hours of my life already committed to Zack “Sodding” Snyder. I must be out of my mind.
OMG! What’s wrong with you??? I said it was A GREAT MOVIE (in spite of numerous individual flaws) so leave your mind at the door AND HAVE A GREAT TIME x2! sheesh.
Having a great time for you may well involve 5 foot long blue man-bits, but I can assure you us Brits are a reserved breed.
We’ll be ready to tut dissaprovingly throughout,make no mistake…
Not going to go into too much detail here because it’s definitely getting a post of its own but in short – I think between her several posts Lori’s summed up my feelings on the film pretty well. I’m looking forward to seeing it again.
I wrote on your blog so much I can’t be bothered to write a review on my own. I might however write some sort of angry girl post re the mad-hatters who consider Watchmen porn re blue penis that isn’t sexualized at all but have no problem with sexualized beer commercials and pg13 wank films.
PS< re our IM conversation, it’s a great relief to me you don’t suck.haha
OMG I can’t even delete my comment. at least I don’t think I can. I don’t know how to at any rate. will you so it, plz. I feel so erg about it.
A repost of the expurgated version of Lori’s now-deleted Watchmen mini-review:
Watchmen is really quite good. OMG> y’all are going to see it. okay I will give a breakdown with a few spoilers since I hope we’ve all read the comic!!
IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT YOU DESERVE SPOILERS.
Rorschach and The Comedian are the most rounded, developed characters, they are a pleasure to watch even though The comedian is a freaking 1111monster!!!! The actors did a fine job and I love them. LOVE THEM.
Many of the other characters are a little wooden however they each have moments when they shine.
The Silk Spectre’s costumes are blech as female super hero costumes almost always are but that is the comic book thing and not so much a movie thing as the costumes were copied from the book. I will say the leer at her c*** and a** shots are kept to a minimum.
The female chars are still mostly extras to develop the men but I try not to dwell on this because laurie is a fairly strong prop as far as props go.
The rape scene was handled as horrifying rather than sexy. yay.
the soundtrack OMG someone should have consulted with quenton tarrantino because O.M.G. some of it took away from the mood, some of it seemed like misplaced comedy and some of it seemed like RAH RAH AMERICA trad tripe.
The news agent and the boy’s relationship weren’t highlighted.
The beginning is wonderful.
The sex scene is idk how to say… like a jackhammer prepubescent fantasy-not sensual, not emotive, not sexy, thankfully it is brief.
HOWEVER NONE OF THE QUESTIONABLE THINGS MATTER TOO MUCH BECAUSE it is really well done. Alan Moore’s words are there, the story is there (well the ending isn’t there, we’ve a whole new one), the use of slo-mo is there, the two main characters can act, the effects are there, it is huge, it had a couple of weak moments but I don’t care I really really really really enjoyed it.
8.5/10
PS< well I liked the setting of the Harry Potter films… much as I liked the setting of Lotr however the stories were so dull I wanted to kill myself. I am not the clearest writer in the world SRY2SAY. However, reading me and trying to figure out my meanings will ensure your brain synapses keep active. Healthy habits for the win- I’m sure elaine will back me up here. haha.
I reserve the right to enjoy Next Gen far more than DS9 because I just can’t stand any of the characters. I’m not saying it’s better, just which one I enjoy.
I haven’t heard Flesh & Blood, so I’ll take your word for it and never ever seek it out.
“Re Johnny Mnemonic: Yes it is better than the 2nd two matrix movies, mainly because of the comedy element it didn’t realise it had” THIS!!! Dan… I need you to divorce your wife so I can marry her.
Re: K3 sooooted. You’re clearly an idiot. You also lose Sklansky dollars for being an idiot, so it’s about time you change your mind on this. It’s almost like the “two live cards” argument I hear over and over. I obviously need a blog of my own.
Don’t know how I missed this.
Do know that no-one will read it as it’s too late.
Do know that I don’t know if I care.
* Seinfeld isn’t funny.- Never has been, never will be.
* Gladiator is at least an hour too long.- It’s a Russell Crowe too long, that’s for sure.
* The Lord Of The Rings trilogy is at least four hours too long- Tosh. It just has a surfeit of ponce.
* Deep Space Nine wasn’t that bad. Certainly better than Next Gen- DS9 is the best Trek. Not quite finished with the last of Enterprise yet, but I can still make that comment in safety.
* It’s A Wonderful Life, but it’s a rubbish film- Balls. It just is.
* Battlestar Galactica is filled with hateful characters and takes itself way too seriously- very interesting comment. See your point, yet see the other persons point who said it was still compelling. Somewhere along the journey it was absolutely unmissable. It ain’t no more, but we all need denouement.
* Independence Day is filled with awesome characters and takes itself not even slightly seriously- It doesn’t have any choice, considering it’s tosh.
* The Pylea story arc at the end of Angel’s second series was terrific fun- you really DO have a Joss Wheedon thing going on, don’t ya. Angel? Ferk off.
* Supporting more than one football team after the age of 9 is an indicator of weak moral character- Defonetly.
* Rocky III is the best film in the series- Indeed. Circular argument.
* Empire Strikes Back is the worst film in the series, if you take the natural and sensible position that Episodes 1-3 didn’t happen- This is just pure 100% Mississippi bull. Ya fanny.