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Post by Handsome Devil on Sept 15, 2010 17:19:58 GMT -5
I find it funny that you complain about people bashing your favorite movies, when you called my favorite films overrated and cliche. You complained about my movies being too "mainstream." Hypocritical if you ask me. I am in no way trying to offend you. I am not calling you a hypocrite. This is just something I noticed, something you possibly didn't. It's just been something that's been bothering me. Again, this could be something you didn't notice at all, but I did, and it kinda pissed me off. I stress this, because it is my understanding that I am close to being banned, and I don't want that to happen. I just pointed out lots of your movies are the ones most people pick. If you like them, fuck what I think. Fuck me. But anyway, people went further than to just mock me. They actually got people to just huddle around me and say I have no taste. I was mocked greatly, more than Ill ever to do you. Like I said before, I pointed out that the movies that are your favorite are mostly new and mainstream. Nothing wrong with that. I didnt bash them. Just saying. Okay |
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Post by nopersonality on Sept 16, 2010 5:29:00 GMT -5
You have to try to ignore those people - remember that high school doesn't last very long. If you have the right ignoring techniques. Surely, you've got some friends or can make a few allies.
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Post by StevePulaski on Sept 16, 2010 19:23:59 GMT -5
You have to try to ignore those people - remember that high school doesn't last very long. If you have the right ignoring techniques. Surely, you've got some friends or can make a few allies. Few, but something. Thank God High School is going by pretty fast. Still in shock it's the second week in September. |
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Post by nopersonality on Sept 17, 2010 3:59:26 GMT -5
Not to rub anything in, but my high school was SO easy to get through it's not even funny. I had trouble, but guess what...? It was like Tyler Durden trouble- I opened my big mouth and said something I know wouldn't go over well. People responded like, "Shut the fuck up. Nobody cares." That my was my cue to shut up. Did I? Nnnno! I would carry on and people would bicker back at me and I was self-righteous and didn't like to just sit there and take it. I could have just written anything, drew something - I had a lot of stuff I could have done. But this was like my only way of communicating at the time. Now, I just ignore everyone.
I brought Killer Klowns to school on Halloween and nobody was watching it. Not even the teacher. In a darkened room, not enough light to read, she was perusing paper-type-work. I was grateful of that but I've never forgiven the one kid who said it was a bad movie because it was "low budget." I was like- yes, it is. So what? All horror used to be low budget. I mean, sure Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist were pretty big, multi-million dollar productions. But after that, even Fox and MGM's big releases were cheapies. Pretty much the whole genre after The Omen (which was only 2 million dollars to make, that's low budget too) looks "low budget." And was.
I said "idiot kids" and walked away. But seriously, everyone is being programmed to only like newer films. I actually read a review of Se7en the other day (for Blu-Ray) that said, "even though the movie is 15 years old" - like that means it sucks or is a relic or wouldn't be popular with today's audiences. What the fuck kind of business are these fucking movie people running? They are brainwashing us to buy so much new that everything even 10 years old is too old somehow- for most people.
It's part of why the world's going to shit. Our entertainment has a business agenda on everything. Not just the odd movie with product placement. Now? Music videos are fucking advertisements with product placement, etc. In the 50's, Disney would try to sell either Pepsi or Coke on a Christmas special. In the 60's, Joan Crawford movies might pimp a 6-pack of Pepsi. In the 80's, that weird The Santa Claus movie with John Lithgow and Dudley Moore was trying to sell McDonalds and the commercials for Disney movies were: "Go to McDonalds, buy a Happy Meal, and get like Little Mermaid toys" (they had other deals, like to sell Oliver & Company merchandise at KFC). And that was a big thing that I remember like: Here's My Childhood...Pizza Hut was selling Universal studios stuff from, like, Don Bluth animated movies. When The Land Before Time was hot, I remember it well. And Burger King had a deal with the Teenage Mutant Turtles home videos. That was scummy for people who might have been against mindless escapist-consumer culture but it was fun for the kids. It was a real 80's thing to do.
Now, it's just so fucking beyond sick, it's like a cancer.
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Post by StevePulaski on Sept 17, 2010 6:29:58 GMT -5
I said "idiot kids" and walked away. But seriously, everyone is being programmed to only like newer films. I actually read a review of Se7en the other day (for Blu-Ray) that said, "even though the movie is 15 years old" - like that means it sucks or is a relic or wouldn't be popular with today's audiences. What the fuck kind of business are these fucking movie people running? They are brainwashing us to buy so much new that everything even 10 years old is too old somehow- for most people. You're so right that first sentence man. I feel like I'm the only one with any sense/taste left (which is how you felt I'm sure). Everyone is fucking magnetized to the new garbage that comes out (I go see the things in the theater and like them, but hey, there not on my favorites like others put them on). They see a movie yesterday, boom, it's their favorite. A kid yesterday told me the most intense film he had ever seen was Prince of Persia. |
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Post by nopersonality on Sept 17, 2010 7:33:05 GMT -5
Obviously that mental midget is a closet-intellectual.  I have a unique taste people mock and ridicule. I find it funny that you complain about people bashing your favorite movies, when you called my favorite films overrated and cliche. You complained about my movies being too "mainstream." Hypocritical if you ask me. I can't speak for Steve, but people have said that about me years ago. Constructive criticism makes all the difference. I mean, if it's Steve (perhaps, though we know he is quite blind when it comes to Michael Moore or Al Gore- he just blasts them and won't bother to see the movie, and I do that too with things like CGI Garfield and The Smurfs) versus some dumbass kid who says a movie sucks because it's old or low-budget or something like that (or, let's say: "the cast sucks" or "the cast is ugly" or whoever it is, is too old or fat or bald or - etc.)... We know Steve's being smarter than this other idiot. |
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Post by Handsome Devil on Sept 17, 2010 12:38:41 GMT -5
While teens today definitely gravitate to what's new, they're not completed opposed to something that's 10-15 even 20 years old. I try to show my friends movies I love like Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, American Beauty, and so on. A lot of the time they've never heard of them, but after watching them, they love them.
For my freshmen retreat last year, we watched the Breakfast Club. Everyone loved it. Once in my English class, we watched 12 Angry Men. Everyone loved it. Once in my Religion class, we watched American History X. Everyone loved it.
The problem is that they're not aware of what thy've missed. They need someone to fill them in on movies that are before their time. Often they're not willing to watch something old, which is a problem. But movies still have the same affect on people, no matter what year they were born.
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Post by StevePulaski on Sept 29, 2010 18:01:15 GMT -5
People in my school could give two shits of what they missed. I could rant and rave on the shit my peers say and it's exhilarating. People call Twilight the most intense film they've ever seen and, believe it or not, there's one kid in my class who thinks the new Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street are "new" ideas. Not remakes of the classic 80's films, brand new ideas. We had a loooooooooooong talk. Then he had the nerve to ask if the 2007 Halloween was a remake.
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