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Riotflea wrote:

roy_flagg00 wrote:I watched a movie called "blue chips" last night, and nick nolte, the main character, a basketball coach, said something I think that really encapsulates my problem with the movie perfectly:"you can't win half assed"
I keep hearing people say, "it made money", or "it was not a deep movie, but it was not meant to be".
thats crap.
lord of the rings and harry potter exhibit that you can have a mature plot, well developed characters, even a dark atmosphere, and still have the movie considered to be "family friendly" and have mass appeal.
"masters of the universe", remember that one?
in my opinion, some of dolph lundgren's and frank langella's best acting, pretty good story, but bad direction.
that movie could have been great, but the did it half assed.
the sad part is that transformers, with all the new special effects, is for me still comparable with "masters of the universe", and did not outdo it's predecessor in terms of plot, character development, or scale.
scale being the fact that the most recent transformers movie took place on one planet, the cartoon movie took place on 4.

Indeed.

This movie was nothing more than Masters of the Universe, or Super Mario Brothers, or the attempt by Disney in the early 90's to make Sailor Moon with Mars in a wheelchair, Sailor Jupiter BLACK, etc etc... (luckily, the promo trailer was met with horrified screams by fans at an anime convention, and the project scrapped).

Indeed, Transformers was RIPE with content to create an epic movie (and god damn it, one that could also have generated insane ticket sales)... but it did not come to pass.

Your right, you do have the right to break down the negatives. But why not keep it in one thread? I'm not saying that you start these open ended debate threads. But alot of the back and forth hostility is because the same threads keep getting repeated over and over again.

We don't have to agree about the details. If we did we'd live in a world of mediocrity.

However ranting and jamming ones opinions down each others throat will get tiresome and frustrating. Especially when its done repetitively in multiple threads.

The movie was advertised down our throats.
The rave reviews of the easily amused was jammed down our throats, repetitively and multiple times by identical individuals.
So what? So those who have a negative emotion must be silenced to one thread?
LOL, good sir!

But they have already received complaints regarding the users in question, and the offending threads, and its been a good 3 or 4 days now and considering how out of control these people are getting and how many users are being insulted and offended by what they are saying and doing i think it is time to take action.

Oh, Sonray. How did I know I was reading your post?
Your way of thinking just scares the absolute hell out of me.

BUT... on a good note... you do not hold any power here.

They are flaming, baiting, being offensive and insulting other users. I dont see what needs to be discussed or debated as to wether or not they should be delt with accordingly?

This from the person who considers "baiting" being the expression of an alternate view, "being offensive" saying it more than once, all the while arguing with people about things they say about the other side that they have not said, or in any significant / recent level.

I have considered reporting you however, though I realized that your inclusion in these discussions add ammunition to the people you differ in view with.

I fully agree with you there, and its good to see mods actually make informed decisions for once, instead of acting like the usuall power drunk delusional nazis that i have come accross in my time so i am also grateful to them.

The same. I've been astonished at their level of not bowing to the movie makers observing this website, at their not silencing anyone who might make them sad or angry.
(Hell, Seib's confronting Don Murphy's childish put-downs of "geewhunners" is WHY I joined this site).
Though based on repeated, uh, "comments"... I find your mutual love of this way of thinking a bit contradictory.