Post things that people on the interwebs seem to love that you think are merely ok, bad or downright awful!

1. Iron Man

I don't understand why everyone thought that this film was great when it came out. I saw it in the cinema and a few times on dvd and whatnot since then and I've never really gotten why it'd be anything better than ok. There wasn't a huge amount of character development, the pacing was a bit slow and the action scenes weren't all that spectacular either - it was sort of like 90 minutes of not much and then a fight with Jeff Bridges.

Also the second one was utter pish.

Baconfish

duh

obviously

The Miami Heat

Memes

Inception (the movie)

I thought it was impenetrable, indigestible block of a movie. If you throw enough concepts and ideas at the audience throughout the film and prevent them from thinking with copious amounts of distracting gunfire, people will think it's "deep". It's not because I didn't "get it"; I "got it," but, damn, Inception was a movie that was eating itself inside out.

Agreed with the Iron Man movies. The lamest thing is that in both films he's basically fighting against himself.

Your mom.

Echoman : Yeah, that was sort of the point.

ORJ_JoS : See above.

The problem with movies like inception and donnie darko (pre directors cut) is that they give the illusion that they are super deep and have some super secret crazy meaning that only a genius will figure out...BUT THEY DONT..i gaurantee that the producers and writers dont even know (or care) about whats going on really. People like to come up with a million different theories and then think they are smart, but in reality, the movie has so many details and is so openended that any one of those theories can be true.

Donnie Darko's directors cut fixed this when they added in the chapters from that book in between the acts of the movie. The book explained to the audience what the actions in the movie could never do. All we needed was a few words.

Don't get me wrong, both are fantastic and interesting movies. But I don't think for a second that these writers have any grand scheme in mind. The movies are designed to be open ended so people can drone on and on about their dumb theories to make other people go buy tickets to see the movie so they can then talk like a douche bag to feel smart.

TODOA. >_>

Wasn't it Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken that has been extremely over analyzed even though it's just a poem about walking through the woods?

Snakes on a Plane.

srsly, lame movie. and for that matter, Samuel L. Jackson is equally overrated on the internet. He's basically been in like 1 good movie ever (Pulp Fiction), and even that wasn't made great because of his role.

OH SNAP

Lies, his performance in the prequels is just ahead of its time

Bacon. The way people talk about it they make it sound like they would eat nothing but bacon for the rest of their lives. But they don't.

Liberalism. Fox bashing.

That's just because all the smart people hang out on the internet

Lol. I just mean the kids who do it for the sake of following the bandwagon. The fox bashing bit is annoying only because other news channels are just as corrupt but are vastly overlooked on the web.

Oh and regardless of what has been said I still think inception is a damn good movie

I rather liked Donnie Darko. Mainly for the silliness, the 80s-ness, and the well crafted brotherly-sisterly relationship of Donnie and his sister. That and Patrick PAEDOBEAR Swayze.

The impenetrable-ness to me was neither here nor there.

Agreed. I absolutely hated that movie. Good god how I hated that movie.

I'm re-watching Inception right now, I thoroughly enjoy it but at the same time I fully agree with Couchman.
I also love South Park's awesome take on it. The kids tell them they are being overly complicated and convoluted... and then of course the guys just go around shooting at everything.

EDIT: Oh and I find the whole dream gravity thing extremely silly. I've slept (and dreamed) plenty of times on a rocky houseboat; and a decent amount of times on a rocky navy ship, and as far as I can recall the gravity in the dreams didn't shift wildly =p

Doesn't hurt that the actors are actually brother and sister...

And:

Inception is a pretty decent movie, imo. The biggest thing that bothered me about it though, was the driving motivation behind getting the job done. Corporate squabbles are such a fickle and shallow thing to go through all that hassle over. (I guess they tried to address this by tying in Leo's criminal status in the US, but it's pretty unbelievable that he would ever even be in that situation to begin with.)

The shifting gravity was their minds trying to make sense of what their bodies were experiencing. I don't find it particularly unbelievable. Taking a nap on a house boat is a hell of a lot different from being asleep in a van that's doing rolls down the hill. (Also, as someone who's also spent plenty of time sleeping on a Naval ship at sea, I can tell you that I have on occasion incorporated rough seas into my dreams. Just because you haven't doesn't mean it doesn't happen.)

I know it -can- happen, to a degree, but the idea that it is -guaranteed- to happen, and to such an extreme is silly. Their dreams gravities shifted with every rock of the van, not just when it went off a bridge. Though I did note that when Leonardo get's his first kick at the start gravity doesn't change, even though it changes every other time...

Oh, and Chuck Norris (getting back to the point of the thread).
I don't just mean those idiotic Chuck Norris jokes that have been repeated a million times, I mean if I ever dare say something about him that isn't saying he's an awesome actor and mind-blowing action actor there's hell to pay.
Seriously, I never could stand him -before- he became e-huge.

Nobody on the internet thinks he can act. They just think he can kick your ass. And he can.

I can tell you from experience that plenty of people think he can, and that Texas Walker Ranger is the finest show ever to exist.
And no way could he kick my ass, I could easily out-run him nowadays >_>

What JM said. Horrible actor. I just wouldn't want to walk up and slap him. Steven Segal either for that matter.

The Strokes.

They're an ok band at best with a couple of good songs but every album has been pretty crap overall.

I thought Inception was a nice movie, but from the very few minutes I couldn't shake off the realization that the whole dream plot was stolen from a Don Rosa Donald Duck comic. A mighty fine comic, though.

1) Justin Bieber
2) Complaining about Justin Bieber

pokemon

He's also kind of a jackass. He supported Prop 8.



It seems like every other video on Youtube has a complaint about Justin Bieber as the second-highest comment.

Samuel L. Jackson was also very good in "A Time To Kill".

This works on so many levels.

Yes, you deserve to die, and I hope you burn in hell.

he was supposed to play Red Foreman on that 70s show but turned it down. good thing.
...jackass