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Lady_Satine
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The first movie I ever walked out on and asked for my money back. After roughly 45 minutes I decided to quit caring and elft with my friend.
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sidewaydriver
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Did you get your money back?
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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| sidewaydriver wrote: |
| Did you get your money back? |
Nah, the next best thing. It started at 11:50, so by the time we'd walked out they locked up the money and everything. Instead, we got re-admission passes (expires January 31st, 2011 O.O) so the next movie I go see there (probably Valkyrie) won't cost me anything.
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"Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!" |
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Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
Location: Grate Whyte Norf
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Yeah, Frank Miller is starting to become like M. Night Shaymalalananalan.
Ever seen that family guy skit where chris spray paints "That's enough, John Mayer"? I just want to say "That's enough, Frank Miller".
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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Yeah, Frank Miller is starting to become like M. Night Shaymalalananalan.
Ever seen that family guy skit where chris spray paints "That's enough, John Mayer"? I just want to say "That's enough, Frank Miller". |
I liked 300. Sin City's mixed stories left me with mixed levels of interest depending on who was the main character at the time (I liked Brucre Willis' more than Rourke's). The Spirit was just...dissapointing, even if Miller plays a cop that dies.
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Burt Reynolds
Title: Bentley Bear
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I'm a big Frank Miller fan, but the Spirit doesn't interest me in the least. Sin City 2 however, will be highly anticipated by myself.
It's strange, but the Spirit seems like such a ripoff of Sin City, despite the fact that it has the same writer. Maybe it's because Rodriguez didn't direct it.
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kenthegod
Title: Midnight Scientist
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The Spirit was awesome. Fuck all ya.
"This is for...MUFFIN!" And Octopus pulling out all the ammo at the end made me lawl.
Fuck you guys.
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
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| lordsathien wrote: |
| sidewaydriver wrote: |
| Did you get your money back? |
Nah, the next best thing. It started at 11:50, so by the time we'd walked out they locked up the money and everything. Instead, we got re-admission passes (expires January 31st, 2011 O.O) so the next movie I go see there (probably Valkyrie) won't cost me anything. |
Yea, I used to manage a movie theatre, and even if the money wasn't locked up, they wouldn't give you the money back. We used to tell people who complained about a movie and wanted their money back that the movie sucking is a risk you take when you buy a ticket, and that the movie theatre isn't responsible for a crappy movie. If people insisted and were uppity, then we'd give them those free passes.
The only way you'd get it back is if the film broke or the sound was broken or some other technical problem that was the theatre's fault.
Anyway, on topic, I liked 300 too, but found Sin City a confused mess of a movie, and I'm reading that The Spirit is the same in that regard. Frank Miller has clearly gone insane based on his recent Batman comics, so shouldn't be trusted to direct a movie.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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Fuck you all, Frank Miller is the goddamn Batman!
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Burt Reynolds
Title: Bentley Bear
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Anyway, on topic, I liked 300 too, but found Sin City a confused mess of a movie, |
Could you please elaborate? It seemed fairly coherent and well put together to me. I'm being serious.. did I miss something?
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Syd Lexia
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You know what movie didn't make any sense? Creepshow. I don't understand what Leslie Nielsen drowning Ted Danson had to do with that guy who didn't like bugs or that guy who found the meteor. They should have made it one linear story, and there should have been a narrator who explained everything as the movie went along so that I didn't get so confused.
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
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| Pandajuice wrote: |
| lordsathien wrote: |
| sidewaydriver wrote: |
| Did you get your money back? |
Nah, the next best thing. It started at 11:50, so by the time we'd walked out they locked up the money and everything. Instead, we got re-admission passes (expires January 31st, 2011 O.O) so the next movie I go see there (probably Valkyrie) won't cost me anything. |
Yea, I used to manage a movie theatre, and even if the money wasn't locked up, they wouldn't give you the money back. We used to tell people who complained about a movie and wanted their money back that the movie sucking is a risk you take when you buy a ticket, and that the movie theatre isn't responsible for a crappy movie. If people insisted and were uppity, then we'd give them those free passes.
The only way you'd get it back is if the film broke or the sound was broken or some other technical problem that was the theatre's fault. |
QFT. Much like on South Park, you'd have to go get your money back from Mel Gibson, er, Frank Miller. The theater didn't make the movie so I have no idea what fucking right you think you have to demand money back from them.
On topic, the first time I saw the trailer I thought at first that it was Sin City 2. The style is completely wrong for The Spirit. I haven't read any spoilers of the movie, but the trailers seem to make it pretty clear that The Spirit died, then came back with like super powers or something, which is very much not the case. He faked his own death at one point, but he was just a dude.
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FNJ
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| lordsathien wrote: |
| The first movie I ever walked out on and asked for my money back. After roughly 45 minutes I decided to quit caring and elft with my friend. |
so you sat through AVP, but you disliked this enough to demand your money back?
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FNJ
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| kenthegod wrote: |
The Spirit was awesome. Fuck all ya.
"This is for...MUFFIN!" And Octopus pulling out all the ammo at the end made me lawl.
Fuck you guys. |
"Toilets are ALWAYS funny!"
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Knyte
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Ba'al
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There are alot of movie trailers that have fake review quotes in them, but yes this movie is actually looking to perhaps be one of the worst of 2008.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
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| FNJ wrote: |
| lordsathien wrote: |
| The first movie I ever walked out on and asked for my money back. After roughly 45 minutes I decided to quit caring and elft with my friend. |
so you sat through AVP, but you disliked this enough to demand your money back? |
Yup, I got what I expected out of AVP. Also, AVP was followed up with Sweeney Todd.
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FNJ
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this boggles the mind.
you were expecting a terrible film that smashes apart all precedence set by prior alien and predator mythos, yet got mad or disgusted enough with the spirit to walk out?
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Syd Lexia
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Will Eisner signed his name the same way as Walt Disney, COINCIDENCE!?
In the 1980s, Disney appointed a new CEO. His last name? Eisner. COINCIDENCE!?
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
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Anyway, on topic, I liked 300 too, but found Sin City a confused mess of a movie, |
Could you please elaborate? It seemed fairly coherent and well put together to me. I'm being serious.. did I miss something? |
Well to be honest, I can't really remember exactly enough to elaborate having seen the movie a few years ago, and my mind being a seive. All I recall though is that I was bored and confused by the multiple story lines (only the Bruce Willis one being interesting, yet brief) that didn't seem to be part of one overarching story.
I'd like to watch it again though and really focus on it. Maybe I missed something the first time around.
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ReeperTheSeeker
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So in short, most of the forum can say the movie is not worth seeing? My old man saw sin city and thought it was cool. But their was something about the trailer for the spirit that told him it was crap.
I'm always getting suckered into movies by the trailers . . . let me ask this:
Is the trailer more entertaining then the movie . . . and i don't mean entertaining as in "so bad it's good"
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TheRoboSleuth
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Joined: Aug 08 2006
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Maybe you should see the movie because you don't want it to get the shit kicked out of it by "Owen Wilson and pet dog hijinks: The Movie" box office wise.
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King
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Joined: Apr 27 2008
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Syd I thought I was the only one that owned and new the Creepshow movies. I also agree, though I was glad for the drowning it didn't make one damn bit of sense.
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Douche McCallister
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It wasn't meant to make sense. That's the point. That's the one with the crazy monkey under the stairs right?
You want to see a movie that tried to make sense but didn't watch Troll/Troll 2. It's called Troll but they call the guys Goblins, and it's crap, funny, but crap.
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Knyte
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Was Creepshow the movie that had the bit with the teenagers stuck on a raft in the middle of the lake because there was a killer oil slick in the water?
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