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I agree with your assessment. Except 6 had shitty ending with the Ewoks.
Drama in the Forum: 2/10
Really seemed to have a lot of self involved characters that couldn't really stay on a topic. This movie seriously seemed to just derail itself over and over again. Not in a Seinfeld "movie about nothing" sort of way, but more in a zealot versus extremist political argument that leads to things blowing up. However, due to the low budget, there were no real explosions on screen, just a lot of unbridled tension being crammed into a small time frame by actors who used to be awesome, but are really willing to show up in anything now-a-days. Not what I was expecting at all from the quality of talent. I guess maybe they are washed up. If there is a sequel, I hope it picks one storyline, and focuses on it, instead of just prancing all over the entire lifespan of the characters, totally without relevance.
Really seemed to have a lot of self involved characters that couldn't really stay on a topic. This movie seriously seemed to just derail itself over and over again. Not in a Seinfeld "movie about nothing" sort of way, but more in a zealot versus extremist political argument that leads to things blowing up. However, due to the low budget, there were no real explosions on screen, just a lot of unbridled tension being crammed into a small time frame by actors who used to be awesome, but are really willing to show up in anything now-a-days. Not what I was expecting at all from the quality of talent. I guess maybe they are washed up. If there is a sequel, I hope it picks one storyline, and focuses on it, instead of just prancing all over the entire lifespan of the characters, totally without relevance.
rednecks with an opinion: 1/10
this film's premise is ludicrous
this film's premise is ludicrous
How, exactly? If someone doesn't know that #4 was the first movie out, they don't care enough about Star Wars to care what someone is talking about.Macbeth wrote:
please refer to their subtitles since numbering them are be misunderstood
Anyone see Hangover 3? Is it good?
Great Gatsby, ~7/10.
The film was a visual spectacle with an interesting, and good, score. The actors' performances were all pretty good, though I'd have to say I've seen dicaprio do much better. Despite all its pomp the film felt somewhat simplistic, not giving me the idea that it was based on some literary masterpiece, which is a shame (should be noted that I've never read the book). Nevertheless I'll give it a 7, like I'd rate avatar - both carefully structured, enjoyable, eye-gasmic movies but don't expect either to be deep or thought provoking.
The film was a visual spectacle with an interesting, and good, score. The actors' performances were all pretty good, though I'd have to say I've seen dicaprio do much better. Despite all its pomp the film felt somewhat simplistic, not giving me the idea that it was based on some literary masterpiece, which is a shame (should be noted that I've never read the book). Nevertheless I'll give it a 7, like I'd rate avatar - both carefully structured, enjoyable, eye-gasmic movies but don't expect either to be deep or thought provoking.
inane little opines
hang on a sec, you thought the jay-z score was "interesting and good"? even pitchfork gave that shit a low-score, and luhrrmann + literary film + hipster music should = high-score central for them.
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TrollShocking wrote:
Great Gatsby, ~7/10.
The film was a visual spectacle with an interesting, and good, score. The actors' performances were all pretty good, though I'd have to say I've seen dicaprio do much better. Despite all its pomp the film felt somewhat simplistic, not giving me the idea that it was based on some literary masterpiece, which is a shame (should be noted that I've never read the book). Nevertheless I'll give it a 7, like I'd rate avatar - both carefully structured, enjoyable, eye-gasmic movies but don't expect either to be deep or thought provoking.
I don't think it's the best story in the world, but you're missing out for having not read it. Please don't leave it at just the movie.Shocking wrote:
(should be noted that I've never read the book)
hasn't read great gatsby. doesn't know anything about hegel. jesus. what has this guy been doing all his life?
For a guy with so many relatives with masters and doctorates you would think he was a bit more cultured
he's from the netherlands. they give out postgrad qualifications in the mainland of europe for pretty much anything. quite casual. in france something like 60-70% of all university leavers take a postgraduate qualification of some kind. socialism for you. people actually getting paid to take professional/postgrad degrees. disgusting.
Suck it, jord. Watching seeing it tomorrow.The Fast & Furious series shows no signs of slowing down as it takes a commanding lead at the box office on the critical Memorial Day weekend. The sixth film looks to have the biggest opening yet.
Fast & Furious 6 got the Memorial Day weekend off to a blistering start, claiming $38.1 million Friday, according to studio estimates.
The latest installment of the lead-footed franchise is on pace to make more than $120 million over the holiday weekend, easily the largest debut for a series that has grossed $1.6 billion worldwide.
Analysts projected the Vin Diesel film would open to $80 million.
The opening will likely give the weekend to Furious over The Hangover Part III, which also did healthy business on Hollywood's most important weekend at the box office outside Thanksgiving.
You are honestly wondering why american literary classics are not included as compulsory reading in a dutch educational system? Takes a great deal of arrogant stupidity to believe that they should be.
Uzi, as a philosophy student it is pretty much your job to analyse and think about the development of intellectual thought and reason across all fields. That's not what I do, or need to do. I'm content with having some rudimentary knowledge on Hegel's works and don't feel a great need to expand upon what is already compulsory philosophy reading in war/history studies.
Uzi, as a philosophy student it is pretty much your job to analyse and think about the development of intellectual thought and reason across all fields. That's not what I do, or need to do. I'm content with having some rudimentary knowledge on Hegel's works and don't feel a great need to expand upon what is already compulsory philosophy reading in war/history studies.
inane little opines
More interesting and enjoyable things, obviously.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
hasn't read great gatsby. doesn't know anything about hegel. jesus. what has this guy been doing all his life?
I never said it wouldn't make money, that's the sole reason they make those films. My point was you can't really rip on 300 for bringing out a sequel to a vapid franchise when the fast and the furious is in exactly the same league, only they're on their 5th sequel...Macbeth wrote:
Suck it, jord. Watching seeing it tomorrow.The Fast & Furious series shows no signs of slowing down as it takes a commanding lead at the box office on the critical Memorial Day weekend. The sixth film looks to have the biggest opening yet.
Fast & Furious 6 got the Memorial Day weekend off to a blistering start, claiming $38.1 million Friday, according to studio estimates.
The latest installment of the lead-footed franchise is on pace to make more than $120 million over the holiday weekend, easily the largest debut for a series that has grossed $1.6 billion worldwide.
Analysts projected the Vin Diesel film would open to $80 million.
The opening will likely give the weekend to Furious over The Hangover Part III, which also did healthy business on Hollywood's most important weekend at the box office outside Thanksgiving.
I hope it lives up to your expectations though.
i was being facetious, you dumb redneck aussie. trust you to snipe on intellectual matters though. how's that large sandstone chip on your shoulder doing? you should just apply to a university, you know. maybe then you'll stop feeling so bad inside.DrunkFace wrote:
More interesting and enjoyable things, obviously.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
hasn't read great gatsby. doesn't know anything about hegel. jesus. what has this guy been doing all his life?
that said, the great gatsby is a really short book. and it's not as if "dutch literature" is a large and fecund enough category to fill an entire person's lifetime reading. acting as though it's ludicrous to expect a dutch person to have read one of the most widely-read and commonly-cited 'great american novels' of all time is hardly silly. considering how many english people have read french novels, or how many french people have read german, or how many americans have read russian literature... not exactly crazy talk. also not as if something like the great gatsby hasn't been translated into about a bajillion languages.
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Well now that's a much more nuanced position from "hasnt read great gatsby = hasn't done anything worthwhile with his life".
Meaning that on average the french are much better educated and much more cultured than their british counterparts. Not something to scoff at I'd say.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
he's from the netherlands. they give out postgrad qualifications in the mainland of europe for pretty much anything. quite casual. in france something like 60-70% of all university leavers take a postgraduate qualification of some kind. socialism for you. people actually getting paid to take professional/postgrad degrees. disgusting.
inane little opines
no it doesn't mean that at all. most french graduates graduate from technical/business schools. france has about 4-5 centres of post-graduate education that are worth a damn. and a VERY small minority of french people go to them. it's just a higher-level of education for the main workforce - people working in business/finance/services, etc. they're not all quoting racine after passing through academic culture-mills. you are deluded. i just mean the overall level of education is higher, due to the generous funding and encouragement put in place. people go to business schools there as a very routine matter. not that the majority of french undergraduates even take 'core' academic degrees, anyway - again, they are heavy nowadays on things like finance, business administration, 'teaching', 'tourism', etc. these sort of vague general courses.
you clearly know what you're talking about, again. you're making a good habit of this.
(not that my original post wasn't clearly ironic anyway. "disgusting", i was clearly being tongue-in-cheek. i'd be more than happy for the UK to have a european funding model in place, even if it DID mean most people getting master's degrees in finance and accountancy).
you clearly know what you're talking about, again. you're making a good habit of this.
(not that my original post wasn't clearly ironic anyway. "disgusting", i was clearly being tongue-in-cheek. i'd be more than happy for the UK to have a european funding model in place, even if it DID mean most people getting master's degrees in finance and accountancy).
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I can't recognize your 'sarcastic face' through a computer screen now can I
inane little opines
oh yeah, that one. age-old internet lameout excuse: can't recognize sarcasm in text. sorry mark twain, give it up buddy.
When was it Oxbridge stopped giving out free MAs to anyone who wrote them a letter a year after graduating?Uzique The Lesser wrote:
he's from the netherlands. they give out postgrad qualifications in the mainland of europe for pretty much anything. quite casual. in france something like 60-70% of all university leavers take a postgraduate qualification of some kind. socialism for you. people actually getting paid to take professional/postgrad degrees. disgusting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/un … -fire.html
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
rofl. that's just honorific. it's not an 'actual' qualification. it's just a tradition of the ancient universities - same as the ancients in scotland. if you graduate with top honours, you are elligible to be called a 'master'. it functions still as a bachelor's degree, in the world of academic qualification/progression. it's just a very old tradition. maintained at about 5 universities in the entire british isles. hardly an instructive example of how "easy" and "widespread" postgraduate qualifications are hahaha. believe it or not, oxford and cambridge still have very large postgraduate master's degree courses. many people from all over the world go to oxbridge to spend their year working for an ACTUAL master's degree. lol. dilderp.
easy way to tell if someone has an honorific MA from an ancient or an actual MA is, you know, that part on a CV/resume where someone lists one degree, instead of two.
easy way to tell if someone has an honorific MA from an ancient or an actual MA is, you know, that part on a CV/resume where someone lists one degree, instead of two.
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