Jump to content
🔒 The Earwolf Forums are closed Read more... ×

thestray

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content count

    425

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    6

Posts posted by thestray

  2. Posted

     

    I guess I should've made it clearer: Why are there so many adults that love it?

     

    Because it's fun. Some people are geeks, myself included, with a strong inner child, and are able to enjoy frivolous things for what they are. Monsters, robots, super powers, martial arts, etc, if you're adults there's not a lot of outlets to see all that kind of stuff combined unless it's in a kid's show or an anime.

    • Like 1

  3. Posted

    What's mystifying about it? It's colorful superheros who have robots that fight monsters from space, why would kids NOT love that?

     

    I was about the right age when MMPR came out in America, and it was kinda mind blowing as a kid. While this kinda stuff had existed forever in Japan, for a kid in America seeing a live action superhero show where the heroes had dinosaur themed robots and fought monsters every week was really exciting. There was nothing else like it on American tv. It was a lot of fun. It's no worse than all the other stuff that people grew up with like TMNT, and GI Joe, and Thundercats, and Transformers and a million other things. And yeah, they edited in clips from other shows, and there was some crappy editing and effects, but there was kind of a charm to it, just like poorly dubbed old martial arts movies it just becomes part of the aesthetic.

     

    As a person who is kind of a big kid who loves cartoons and such and also has a brother going on 10, I watch a lot of kids shows, and I've seen a lot of the newer iterations of Power Rangers, and if you're a person who doesn't mind utterly silly and frivolous stuff a lot of it's not so bad. It's very cheesy and aimed at young kids, but sometimes the writing isn't terrible, and there are some cool character designs.

     

    It's good programming for it's intended audience.

    • Like 1

  5. Posted

    I saw a trailer for this in the theater and I chuckled when I saw Selena Gomez. I have nothing against her, but in the other trailer they introduce her differently, she comes up to Ethan Hawke's car and tries to rob him at gunpoint, and it just seemed so absurd and unbelievable that they were trying to frame this pretty young girl as a street criminal.

     

    As for Ethan Hawke, maybe he just wanted to do an action movie *shrug*. I feel like a lot of movies probably seem better on paper because you can imagine the best version of it in your mind.

  6. Posted

    Wait, so you're saying that Willis ISN'T phoning it in in those new Die Hard movies? I watched the latest one a couple days ago and it was such a lukewarm performance by him. That movie is almost HDTGM worthy because John McClane has been reduced to this lifeless smug guy who does nothing but say one-liners with a smirk and does not feel the gravity of any situation. He just seems mildly inconvenienced the whole time.

     

    And also, according to wiki and imdb, Sidney Poitier has been in a few other things after The Jackal, nothing very recently though. I doubt a movie like The Jackal could "end" the career of a respected acting legend like Poitier. He'd be working if he wanted to.

    • Like 1

  9. Posted

     

    The problem is that she is so disingenuous that her actions are absolutely absurd. She's playing at being poor and black, but is neither and with her wealth from the Disney TV show and movies, etc probably never will be. She's just using poor black people do make herself seem "edgy" and "rebellious".

     

    When did she play at being "poor"? I guess I don't follow the happenings of Miley Cyrus as closely as other people.

     

    I understand the problematic sociological implications of what she's doing, but at the end of the day I mostly feel she's just like any other young person embracing what is hip in mainstream American pop culture. Twerking is part of mainstream American pop culture being consumed by the masses, it's in music videos of billboard topping recording artists, in youtube videos, in gifs on tumblr, it's what every other young woman of any race is doing in the club. So as absurd and disingenuous as it may be, I think she's just another person doing what she thinks is cool now.

     

    But really though, it's not Miley trying to be black that America is reacting to, it's her suddenly behaving in a sexually suggestive way that's got everybody all whipped into a tizzy, the image that's gone viral is of her with her ass up against Robin Thicke and people are all shocked about that for some reason. People are acting like it's the craziest wildest shit they've ever seen, and it's like jeez calm the fuck down everyone, what's the big deal. She shakes her ass against a man wearing almost nothing and now people are anticipating a future meltdown, as if being sexual makes her automatically a young woman in crisis. I don't think you're wrong about the racial stuff, but I think people are tearing her down for the completely wrong (completely sexist and slut shaming) reasons.

     

    And if I had to hear Paul, June and Jason get into it I'd probably skip the episode because I definitely don't want to hear more Miley Cyrus talk on one of the podcasts that brings me the most joy in life.

    • Like 4

  11. Posted

    Even Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer? Because that was pretty awful too.

     

    Rise of the Silver Surfer at least has that really cool Silver Surfer/Human Torch sequence, I remember they released that as a clip before it came out, and it turned out to be the only good part of the film.

  13. Posted

    HAHAHAHahaha.

     

    I'm not a scientist either, but I took some kung fu classes years ago. A kata is just a series of moves in a certain order, like do some punching, take a different stance, then some kicking, etc. There's a specific progression to them that everyone performs together. You wouldn't actually use a kata in a fight or anything, they're just for your practice.

     

    But in a sense isn't the kata teaching you moves or skills that you would in turn use in a fight? Wouldn't "gymkata" just be a way to describe how he practices karate? Nvm, I have no idea what I'm talking about, "gymkata" is probably wrong like everything else in this movie.

    • Like 1

  14. Posted

    I just wanted to bump this in light of the VMAs, unfortunately though they probably wouldn't be able to get to it while it was topical.

     

    Is that really unfortunate though? I'm glad I don't have to hear about Miley Cyrus at the VMAs on of my favorite podcasts.

  15. Posted

    Hm, I think I side more with the lady's explanation. If "Within the discipline of Karate, there are many Kata" as you say, couldn't one say that the kata that Cabbot uses to practice karate is gymnastics influenced kata, a gymkata? I'm not a martial arts expert, but isn't a kata essentially a form within a martial art? He has a gymnastics form, a gymnastics kata, a gymkata? Why am I even talking about this inane shit, haha.

    • Like 3

  17. Posted

    To bring it back around to Affleck, I genuinely believe that most of these folks didn't see "Hollywoodland" (the best Superman movie of 2006!), "The Town", or "Argo", that his filmography begins with "Mallrats" and ends with "Daredevil". That's right, they didn't even give themselves a chance to hate "Paycheck"!

     

     

    Why do you genuinely believe some random stuff you imagined? There's nothing behind that opinion. And why do you think any of those movies would change their opinion? I don't see what Hollywoodland, The Town and Argo have to do with being able to play a good Batman.

  18. Posted

    Sorry, it's just that I worked at a comic shop that was right down the way from the Hot Topic, and I just recall a bunch of people that worked or went there that seem to be worked up about the same things they were worked up about ten years ago like nothing's allowed to change or get better, and a lot of the customers at my store were the same way. That's all well and good if you don't like something and want to discuss it, but at my OTHER job at the movie theater, I'd see the very same people regularly spend money on these movies they were "never" going to see. I'm all for being educated on an issue so that you can reply with more than "because it sucks!" when backing up your side of an argument, but when you go to the midnight show, come back 3 more times in the next 2 weeks to see it with different groups of friends, and then take your kids to it, I start to get the feeling that you MIGHT not hate something as much as you say you do after paying to see it for the fifth time. So like I said about the geek rage thing, it can be completely disregarded, because those people are money in the bank. Everything's the worst thing ever until it's the best thing ever, whether they come out and say it or not. To bring it back around to Affleck, I genuinely believe that most of these folks didn't see "Hollywoodland" (the best Superman movie of 2006!), "The Town", or "Argo", that his filmography begins with "Mallrats" and ends with "Daredevil". That's right, they didn't even give themselves a chance to hate "Paycheck"!

     

    Did I really say "haters gotta hate"? Oh jeez, I did. I feel so...dirty.

     

    I mean, I feel like people always throw that "you're still going to see it anyway" thing out there too much. So what? I don't think it's that crazy to think a casting choice sucks but still be interested in seeing the movie. Is a person's opinion not valid if they're still willing to give it a try? I personally don't see it as "hypocritical".

     

    I'm just saying when you jump to a bunch of conclusions about what some hypothetical kids may or may not have seen, it just seems like you're reaching just to dismiss an opinion. In general I feel like people have this condescending dismissive attitude towards nerds for having a strong opinion about things that most people couldn't care less about. I've never seen people saying "jock rage" when sports fans are bad about what team LeBron gets traded to, nobody's like "You'll still watch the games, so shut up." People are just extra quick to paint all nerds with the same brush and scrutinize their opinions. Personally I feel like people criticizing nerdom are getting just as kneejerk as they perceive the nerds they're criticizing to be.

     

    But seriously, I don't see what's so weird about an internet backlash to a super weird casting choice for a widely beloved character. It would be way weirder if the internet was like "Ben Affleck as Batman? Perfect!"

  19. Posted

    The thing is though, particularly when it comes to the Hot Topic kids and other younger folks, is that I don't think they've ever seen anything with Ben Affleck in it that WASN'T a Kevin Smith movie if they've ever seen anything with him in it at all, and they certainly haven't bothered with anything in the last decade. It's like the people that say they liked "Avatar" better the first time they saw it when it was called "Dances With Wolves", but then they'd never seen THAT either. Haters just gotta hate, i guess.

     

    Do you work at Hot Topic or something? Why do you keep saying the "Hot Topic kids"?

     

    I don't know man, I feel like you're just assuming a whole bunch of stuff here about a hypothetical group of people you "don't think" have seen such and such movie and thus have arbitrary opinions. But what's the point in inventing an imaginary group just to dismiss them? Why is it "haters just gotta hate" and "nerd rage"? Why can't it just be a bunch of people having a valid opinion?

  20. Posted

    I don't think people getting upset about Affleck in 2013 even know what they're supposedly upset about! Are they seriously still holding 2003 against him? I know some people that do it that are too young to even know WHY they'd be anti-Affleck, and they're also the same Hot topic kids that worship at the altar of the Boondock Saints, so fuck 'em.

     

    I mean... they know who the actor Ben Affleck is, and they know who the character Batman is... isn't that enough reason to not like the fact that Ben Affleck is playing Batman?

  21. Posted

    I think Affleck is a pretty decent actor, but the problem with him as Daredevil, or Batman, is those characters are supposed to be really tough intimidating guys, and I just don't get that from Affleck no matter how many muscles he has. Batman especially is supposed to be the badass of all badasses, so to cast Affleck that's a strange choice, who knows though, maybe he has it in him to pull a Heath Ledge and surprise the world.

     

    The Daredevil movie weirdly has a lot of loyal defenders, a lot of whom cite the director's cut as a good movie (I don't think it's much better). Bullseye was definitely the best part of the movie.

  22. Posted

     

    If he's one of your friends, maybe you could somehow get in contact with Paul and get him on the show. I find the best episodes/bits involves members of production regaling stories of what happened. I would never care about a Crocodile Dundee 3 episode but Berry's take on what happened in the process was easily the best part of it.

     

    I think I'll actually try pitching that to the both of them.

  23. Posted

    Vincent Gallo, Shmincent Shmallo

     

    Since one of my top 5 is being done next episode this is now my list:

    Miami Connection
    Samurai Cop
    Get Even
    Hard Ticket To Hawaii
    and in place of Gymkata,
    Surf Ninjas

     

    I loved Surf Ninjas as a kid, it just celebrated it's 20th anniversary. It's crazy, it's enjoyable, and since the kid in this movie is played by one of my friends it would personally be really exciting for me.

  25. Posted

    Didn't anyone else think it was disrespectful Jay (then Scott) couldn't even call Matt by the name he gave himself, 'new dad?' Like calling someone Tom 20 times when he's said his name is Sam.

     

    In the context of a comedy podcast, no. Is it also disrespectful when Scott pretends to not be able to say the Cake Boss' real name? It's all in good fun obviously.

    • Like 1
×