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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Proofpoochie » Sat Jun 02, 2012 6:56 pm

I think Titantic is one of the most overrated, cheesy films ever made. I don't hate it because of romance. I hate it because it is just plain bad. I hate Avatar just as much as I hate Titanic.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Gawdziller » Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:58 pm

Tyler wrote:Titanic gets way too much shit for being a romance.


I like Titanic well enough. I think its Cameron's weakest non-Pirhana 2: The Spawning flick (True Lies FTW), but I never had any hatred towards it.

However, while I don't criticize the choice of making it a romance, I criticize the way the romance overshadows the Titanic itself. Why place your love story on such a tragic and true event if the event itself has nothing to do with it? What was happenning on the Titanic always just seemed to be an annoyance to the Jack and Rose story, instead of driving it forward.

Personally I think a historical drama should be put the event it's portraying above all else, and that was Titanic's failure in my eyes.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Tyler » Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:25 pm

I thought the idea was that their love was more powerful than the actual event. It was a romance that just so happened to take place on a doomed boat.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby wataru » Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:31 pm

Tyler wrote:I thought the idea was that their love was more powerful than the actual event. It was a romance that just so happened to take place on a doomed boat.


Love didnt save him from hypothermia and drowning.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Tyler » Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:40 pm

wataru wrote:Love didnt save him from hypothermia and drowning.


That bitch hogged all on the room on that chunk of floating wall.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Gawdziller » Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:47 pm

Tyler wrote:I thought the idea was that their love was more powerful than the actual event. It was a romance that just so happened to take place on a doomed boat.



Then what's the point of naming it Titanic if the Titanic itself is a subplot?

There are plenty of other ways to emphasize romance than ignoring countless people trying to survive an actual disaster. The entire attitude of the Jack and Rose story was "Well this sucks." As a result, when Jack dies tge only reaction I can munster up is "sucks to be you."
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Tyler » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:11 pm

Well I don't know. Ask James Cameron. Personally it didn't bother me.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby wataru » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:20 pm

MIB3 knocked off Avengers last weekend. Took a month for a movie to do so.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Gawdziller » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:34 pm

Tyler wrote:Well I don't know. Ask James Cameron. Personally it didn't bother me.



The only questions I intend to ask Cameron relate to Piranha II: The Spawning, just to annoy him.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby The Dark Uniter » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:36 pm

I'm kind of lost right now: are we talking about The Avengers or comparing James Cameron films, love both, by the way. :)
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby wataru » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:08 pm

The Dark Uniter wrote:I'm kind of lost right now: are we talking about The Avengers or comparing James Cameron films, love both, by the way. :)


Well it started with The Avengers taking the #3 all time grossing film worldwide and domestic. And #1 is Avatar and #2 is Titanic. Then we all started saying how Titanic is shit, and then Avatar took some bashes and no we're back to hating on Titanic because yknow... its overrated.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Spirit Ghidorah 2010 » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:43 pm

I like Titanic.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby wataru » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:50 pm

Spirit Ghidorah 2010 wrote:I like Titanic.


You also like Twilight.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Proofpoochie » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:09 pm

wataru wrote:
Spirit Ghidorah 2010 wrote:I like Titanic.


You also like Twilight.


Win.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Kaiju-King42 » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:18 pm

I like Titanic part two. But not Twilight, and not part one of Titanic.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby 3000 » Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:40 am

wataru wrote:MIB3 knocked off Avengers last weekend. Took a month for a movie to do so.

Think that has more to do with the stale competition rather than anything.
Movies lately (minus a few, obviously) really just suck. Or at least they look shit.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby wataru » Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:54 am

3000 wrote:
wataru wrote:MIB3 knocked off Avengers last weekend. Took a month for a movie to do so.

Think that has more to do with the stale competition rather than anything.
Movies lately (minus a few, obviously) really just suck. Or at least they look shit.


Dark Shadows didnt do it, now Snow White. Hell, Dark Shadows is already out of my theatre.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Hellspawn28 » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:00 am

MIB3 knock over The Avengers since most of the fans already seen the movie and that MIB3 is a Will Smith movie. His movies always make a lot of money seeing that MIB3 already gross over 300 million worldwide after a week being released in theaters.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Tyler » Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:20 am

I think I liked Dark Shadows and MIB3 more than the Avengers.
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Re: The Avengers!

Postby Spirit Ghidorah 2010 » Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:25 am

wataru wrote:
Spirit Ghidorah 2010 wrote:I like Titanic.


You also like Twilight.

And My Little Pony.
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