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Re: What's the Dumbest thing you've read on IMDb
« Reply #70 on: May 23, 2011, 10:51:37 AM »
Ironic because Crash is trying so hard it actually feels more than a little racist, and it is definitely stupid. Notice I didn't have to ask which Crash you were talking about. A film that handles a subject like racism so poorly does more harm than good. ( I know that's why you posted mate, but the mere mention of Crash makes me freak out.)
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Re: What's the Dumbest thing you've read on IMDb
« Reply #71 on: May 23, 2011, 12:36:37 PM »
I have Crash in my top-150 so clearly I am smarter and less racist than you guys. :P

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Re: What's the Dumbest thing you've read on IMDb
« Reply #72 on: May 26, 2011, 02:32:46 AM »
I haven't seen the film yet, but this TREE OF LIFE review really teed me off mainly because it feels self important, condescending, and doesn't really critique the film. This is an excerpt of the absolutely worst part:

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However, Malick's ontological enterprise sometimes reminds of Icarus' myth. I am sure you remember. In Crete, ferocious king Minos confined the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus within Minotaur's labyrinth. In serious danger, father and son tried to run away from that place. Together they built a pair of wings for each one using feathers and wax. The method worked out but Icarus, seized by the desire of cosmic knowledge, flew too near the sun. Thus, the wax melted and the young man fell into the dark sea. In a way, Malick escapes that labyrinth of questions, which life is, in order to reach the sun – in his case, the roots of the tree of life. Nevertheless, the director, a common human being, wants to reach the sun by using wax wings and, like Icarus, falls. To be precise, the inserts about the cosmic motion and the Mesozoic are rather disappointing. Moreover, it is odd to remark some references to a simpler and well-made "dawn of man": Stanley Kubrick's one in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

He doesn't say why or how Malick is like Icarus, he just tells us that Malick is "only a human being". UGH.

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Re: What's the Dumbest thing you've read on IMDb
« Reply #73 on: May 26, 2011, 07:16:16 PM »
^ "a common human being" ^

I've not been able to get that out of my head all evening. Such a weird thing to say.
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Re: What's the Dumbest thing you've read on IMDb
« Reply #74 on: May 27, 2011, 06:12:56 AM »
So.......he liked it?
I actually consider a lot of movies to be life-changing! I take them to my heart and they melt into my personality.

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Re: What's the Dumbest thing you've read on IMDb
« Reply #75 on: June 01, 2011, 04:57:06 AM »
two comments about Idiocracy:

One simply said  - "when socialism prevails... "

and a seperate user said - "This Movie is fricking hilarious.... and sad... If you like Socialism... this is what you are going to get"

"What should have been an enjoyable 90 minutes of nubile, high-school flesh meeting a frenzy of blood-caked blades, becomes instead an exploitational and complex parable of the conflicting demands of agrarianism and artistry. I voted a miss."

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Re: What's the Dumbest thing you've read on IMDb
« Reply #76 on: June 01, 2011, 07:56:36 AM »
two comments about Idiocracy:

One simply said  - "when socialism prevails... "

and a seperate user said - "This Movie is fricking hilarious.... and sad... If you like Socialism... this is what you are going to get"

Conservatives really can't miss an opportunity to show how stupid they are hey.

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Re: What's the Dumbest thing you've read on IMDb
« Reply #77 on: June 01, 2011, 03:56:19 PM »
two comments about Idiocracy:

One simply said  - "when socialism prevails... "

and a seperate user said - "This Movie is fricking hilarious.... and sad... If you like Socialism... this is what you are going to get"

Conservatives really can't miss an opportunity to show how stupid they are hey.

Could you do me a favor and keep your political bullying and pot shots to the political thread, I really don't need to read it in places that are not political.

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Re: What's the Dumbest thing you've read on IMDb
« Reply #78 on: June 22, 2011, 08:28:04 PM »
Not IMDB, but I be damned if this doesn't deserve being posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Nicolas_Cage#comment_re._current_article_.22Nicholas_Cage.22_in_its_present_form_of_17.may.2011.2C_A.D.

It's more crazy than dumb though.

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Re: What's the Dumbest thing you've read on IMDb
« Reply #79 on: August 09, 2011, 06:11:45 PM »
Quote from: 1 stars Tree of Life reviews
The only explanation for its Golden Palm in Cannes is that the Jury truly wished to punish von Trier for his idiotic interview, and therefore in panic looked for another movie than Melancholia. Out of the pot and into the frying pan...

This is a goldmine. Thanks Smirnoff!! (just for the idea of imdb 1 star reviews)
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