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Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #116553  by Zeus
 Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:13 pm
So, you gonna go see it? Do you care at all?

After the surprising awesomeness of Rocky Balboa, Stallone's earned another ticket from me.

 #116554  by bovine
 Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:26 pm
I want to see it, will probably rent it when it enters the home video realm.
 #116555  by Flip
 Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:37 pm
Zeus wrote:So, you gonna go see it? Do you care at all?

After the surprising awesomeness of Rocky Balboa, Stallone's earned another ticket from me.
Id like to see the new Rambo... but it has nothing to do with the crappiness that was Rocky Balboa. Ugh, you liked that one?...

I remember my childhood days of watching Rambo without my parents permission. It was sheer awesomeness. Nostalgia earns my ticket price. Which Hollywood has been banking on for years, this is no different i suppose than Transformers. Which sucked.

 #116559  by Blotus
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:26 am
Bring it on! The teaser from a year ago sold me on it.

 #116568  by SineSwiper
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:23 am
What is wrong with you people? Fucking sheep.

 #116579  by Zeus
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:02 pm
SineSwiper wrote:What is wrong with you people? Fucking sheep.
You have to explain this one....

Flip, I loved Rocky Balboa. I thought it was a good a film as the first two and an amazing ending to a great series. Just ignore Rocky V, we shall never speak of it again.

 #116608  by SineSwiper
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:00 pm
What was so great with Rambo? I think the best part of Rambo was when Weird Al made fun of it.

 #116609  by Zeus
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:11 pm
SineSwiper wrote:What was so great with Rambo? I think the best part of Rambo was when Weird Al made fun of it.
First Blood was a spectacular psychological action flick, that's what made it so damned popular and what took Stallone to superstardom (along with Rocky). Rocky 2 was just a very entertaining and fun action flick. The 3rd is pretty lame but watchable.

Two years ago I would have cried at the prospect of another Rambo flick but Stallone's earned another ticket from me with Rocky 6. I like the series enough.

 #116610  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:19 pm
SineSwiper wrote:What was so great with Rambo? I think the best part of Rambo was when Weird Al made fun of it.
First Blood and the first Rocky are both powerful, intelligent films. It's easy to forget or not realise this given the direness of the following entries in both franchises.

 #116611  by SineSwiper
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:36 pm
Then why is it associated with such male-charged bullshit? You just don't see the same type of reaction to these movies than to any other movie I can think of, except something mindless that Dolph Lungren or Jean-Claude would produce.

 #116619  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:18 pm
They're both masculine films. This doesn't preclude their being good.

(The sequels are even more stereotypically masculine, but not good.)

Have you seen either of them? At this point I am guessing no. The rule!!

 #116620  by SineSwiper
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:20 pm
Well, with all of the hype bullshit, I have no desire to see either of them.

 #116631  by SineSwiper
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:56 pm
There what is? I never said or implied that I saw either of them.

 #116638  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:04 pm
SineSwiper wrote:I never said or implied that I saw either of them.
...
SineSwiper wrote:I think the best part of Rambo was when Weird Al made fun of it.
SineSwiper wrote:What is wrong with you people? Fucking sheep.
I know you well enough to understand that you feel qualified to make judgements like these with no real knowledge of what you're judging. You need to realise, though, that to do so is not rational. You are a pod.

 #116639  by SineSwiper
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:10 pm
I am a pod? Is that like an iPod? Pod people? P.O.D., the band? One of those POD storage thingies?

 #116641  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:24 pm
Jerry Seinfeld wrote:Let me explain something to you. You see, you're not normal. You're a great guy, I love you, but — you're a pod. I, on the other hand, am a human being. I sometimes feel anxious, uncomfortable, even inhibited in certain situations with the other human beings. You wouldn't understand.
Cosmo Kramer wrote:Yeah, 'cause I'm a pod.

 #116659  by SineSwiper
 Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:20 am
I still didn't understand that joke. I guess it's because I'm a pod.

 #116665  by Zeus
 Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:09 am
SineSwiper wrote:There what is? I never said or implied that I saw either of them.
Watch the first film of each each. Your mentality is like my wife's who refuses to see Fight Club because she thinks it's about men fighting. Neither of those movies are anything close to what you think they are.

EDIT: believe it or not, both of those flicks are far closer to being character dramas (a la Six Feet Under) then straight-up action films like you seem to think they are
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 #116669  by Ishamael
 Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:39 am
Zeus wrote:So, you gonna go see it? Do you care at all?

After the surprising awesomeness of Rocky Balboa, Stallone's earned another ticket from me.
Yes and yes. Like BL, the teaser hooked me in a long time ago.

 #116676  by Kupek
 Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:54 pm
Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:Have you seen either of them? At this point I am guessing no. The rule!!
Indeed. The rule!

 #116731  by Chris
 Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:59 am
SineSwiper wrote:I still didn't understand that joke. I guess it's because I'm a pod.
let me explain it better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOxY_nHdew