fletch_talon said:
Hell I'm surprised I havn't been burnt to a crisp for liking Indy 4 and the Star Wars prequels... Has everyone been taking those anger supressing drugs you always see in Sci-Fi movies?
No, it's just that such thoughts rank somewhere just below "color of socks" on the scale of "reasons to hate someone." If you like them, it's your business.
If you want my opinion, though, frankly I think the Star Wars prequels are overly indulgent dreck. I wouldn't go as far as to say I hate them with a passion, but sometimes something that you can't bring yourself to hate is even more pernicious than something that's completely intolerable, particularly when it's presented as part of something you love. You can have FUN with something awful. You can pick it apart, destroy it, make fun of it, have a few laughs at its expense. Something that's not bad, maybe even competent, just exciting enough an idea to entice you to watch it, but [em]just disappointing enough[/em] to leave you absolutely numb, though? I think there's a circle of Hell for that.
Indy 4, for instance, isn't exactly awful, just... tolerable. There's enjoyable moments, but there's almost no mystery in it. From the very start to the very end we know it's aliens and see evidence that it's aliens. I don't object to it being aliens, but some room for doubt would be great at least. In every other film in the series you have this sense of gritty, concrete reality right up until somewhere around the end; it builds tension around the mystical objects the films are centered around if there's room for us to doubt their power. Indy's being an archaeologist, feeling somewhat objective about the way he views the artifacts he deals with, and being more than a little bit of a skeptic goes a long way towards making us feel this way. So when the big moment at the end comes, we're surprised. Thrilled, even! And in each movie they found a new way to bring on the thrills, from the Nazi's comeuppance in the first film to Indy's connection with his father in the third.
But not so much in Indy 4. We know it's aliens from the opening teaser, and the rest of the time the movie's just elbowing us patronizingly and going, "that's very odd, eh? It could even be... ALIENS!" as if we didn't get it the first dozen times. By the end of it we're so unsurprised that we're seeing a repeat of the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark that the whole experience just feels numb. Even Fate of Atlantis got that part right. The point is, though, that "numb" for an Indiana Jones movie is just depressing no matter how you slice it. And that's not even going into things like arguments about the overabundance of Shia Labouf in the film, or the over-reliance on CG special effects in a series that was known for mainly practical effects and stunt coordination...
Shit, there's just too much to go on about. Don't even get me started on Star Wars... I'll just end my ranting right here.
Treefingers said:
E-mantheseeker said:
#1 "Hardcore" Zelda fans won't acknowledge that there was ever a cel shaded child version of Link.
Wrong. Wind Waker is fucking awesome. I'd happily
make out with shake the hand of every incarnation of Link.
Kweh. I agree that Wind Waker was quite good, and it's second on my list of favorite Zelda games, behind Majora's Mask. I'm actually not all that fond of Twilight Princess; it just felt boring to me, even in spite of having one of the most badass Ganondorfs ever. Everything about it just felt so... bland.
