Lurker > Vengeful_KBM

I'm in Atlantica now which really sucks. This game is a lot of fun, but the world design is balls.

I dont read the Travis parts. Your writeups are puritanical and reductive. You talk about being a parent all the time and the only reason your writeups arent the worst are because of Wickle.

scarletspeed7 posted...
I'm not saying it's as drastic of a change as some others are suggesting, but I think that people watching a movie with other people definitely are affected by it. Charon and Genny always seem to be affected by each other in their write-ups. How much? I think Charon has the ability to bring Genny's impression of a movie down by his general indifference or dislike of a movie. For me, I saw that in the Moon ranking where she didn't say a single negative thing about the film and yet still ranked it at about the exact same placement of Charon. Is that bad? No. It's just the nature of things. If Travis said, "Father, I am moved by the plight of Mr. James" during 12 Monkeys, I think you would have maybe given the film an even higher placement because you might have just thought about it a bit more. And a couple of the more cognitive films where Travis is doing something else, I think you maybe didn't care for them AS much because, as a father, you are influenced by your child. I see it in other parents with young children too.

Like, does that change my opinion of your, erm, opinions? Not really. Your experience is different and valuable to me in the way that other peoples' write-ups are. I don't like to be as cynically critical as Karo is about movies because I enjoy happiness in my life and I want to find the value in a movie. But Karo's heavily critical nature is nice because there are times where I probably over-romanticize a movie. I love to put characters and films on pedestals because to me that makes the world a happier, grander place. Karo doesn't. So sometimes it's probably prudent for me to read someone pounding the dirt in anger.

I can get on board with this line of thinking. He definitely has an effect on my experience of watching a film. I have really good memories of doing all these projects with him, for both good and bad movies. He doesnt change my ranking order unless there was a tie, however. Goofy Movie won out over Jetsons for me due to his reactions, for example.

KBMs comments just confuse me because all of my writeups have two parts: my thoughts and Traviss reactions. Im guessing she only read the Travis section for each one because calling me a Puritan tells me theres no way she read my thoughts.

I read it, I just somehow blocked out the subject of what list you meant... I'd apologize, but it's still singling out my list for opinions that I'm still not wrong about. There's a reason depression is at an all time high in our generation, and it can be progressed through what creates an ego and what is aiding these egos.

It has more to do with the 40 rankings before this topic and the fact that your opinion ALWAYS seemed to relate either to Travis or to being a parent in some way or another. If it weren't for Wickle outdoing you in this I probably would've accused you of being fairly puritanical and/or reductive, but Wickle's writeups were actually worse in this regard (sans the parenting aspect).

I mean... again, they aren't meant to be write-ups. They're literally an attempt to take a Fallout 3 character and produce their dialogue in a way that makes it seem like they're literally part of the movie. Can you honestly disagree that anyone from my jokes were not as if they were part of the movie?

I think Travis influences Stifled's rankings a lot tbh.

oh hey kbm we should get together with para and one of the other washington b8ers and smash.

Karo moved. So exciting.

One of the big reasons I like Alien > Aliens is the same reasons I like Stranger Things S1 > S2

minor ST spoilers: The alien initially is horrifying when it's one sole monster, but when you add in a whole lot of them, it makes each one individually much less scary. Same thing happened with the Demogorgons in Stranger Things.

I mean it's no big surprise that you'd like Aliens > Alien if you're in it for the action, just like it's no surprise to like Alien > Aliens if you're in it for the horror

My #30 could leave and I'd be happier with it but yeah.

I really wanted to like Gattaca more than I did.