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Nomak-54
08/14/18 1:51:51 PM
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I unironically thought it was a good movie
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Mead
08/14/18 1:53:40 PM
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Who hated it?

I thought it was ok
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creativerealms
08/14/18 1:54:39 PM
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The book is horrible. The movie is actually better.
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GanglyKhan
08/14/18 1:56:49 PM
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It's more or less Family Guy: The Movie.

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CyborgSage00x0
08/14/18 1:58:39 PM
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creativerealms posted...
The book is horrible. The movie is actually better.

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SunWuKung420
08/14/18 2:32:22 PM
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CyborgSage00x0 posted...
creativerealms posted...
The book is horrible. The movie is actually better.


Fucking millennials!
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NightMareBunny
08/14/18 2:34:36 PM
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who hated this movie? i thought it was pretty damn good and it's not like it was a flop at the box office either
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pedro45
08/14/18 2:36:33 PM
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The love aspect was terribly lame but otherwise it was pretty good. Of course it lacked some detail compared to the book
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WastelandCowboy
08/14/18 2:36:34 PM
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GanglyKhan posted...
It's more or less Family Guy: The Movie.

"Hey remember that one thing that millions of people remember but we're gonna make you feel so cool like you're the only one who knows what The Iron Giant was?"

Thats a horrible analogy. Family Guy was a funny cartoon thats just turned into a incoherent blob of pop culture references and inconsistencies.
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SmokeMassTree
08/14/18 2:39:26 PM
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pedro45 posted...
The love aspect was terribly lame but otherwise it was pretty good. Of course it lacked some detail compared to the book


It had other issues

All of the characters being located in Columbus even tho they are playing an mmo. Not a single person trying to drive backwards during the race. Probably others that I can't think of right now.
I enjoyed the movie but it could have been better
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Smarkil
08/14/18 2:50:56 PM
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What are you talking about? Everyone I know loved the movie for some reason.

I personally hated it other than a couple of scenes.
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dedbus
08/14/18 2:54:49 PM
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It kind of reminded me of the movie 9 with the sack puppets. Really stylish but kind of bland. I liked them but they weren't as engaging or epic as they tried to be.
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TheCyborgNinja
08/14/18 2:58:10 PM
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I heard the villain's motivation was changed from good in the book to shit in the movie.
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Nomak-54
08/14/18 3:24:06 PM
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OK I guess I was exaggerating, sorry.
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Mead
08/14/18 3:29:08 PM
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Sometimes it seems like everyone hates things just because the most negative or angry people tend to be the most vocal online
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pedro45
08/14/18 5:28:01 PM
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People also have a tough time making their own opinion. Then movies become cult and all of a sudden, people who have seen it like it.
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ParanoidObsessive
08/14/18 5:34:43 PM
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I'm literally the heart of the core demographic they were pandering to, and I still thought it was meh shit.

Nostalgia alone isn't enough to make me love your crap.


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Bulbasaur
08/14/18 5:39:52 PM
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because compared to the book, it's fucking terrible

all they had to do was make the book, and instead they made pop culture the movie.
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SunWuKung420
08/14/18 5:40:20 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
I'm literally the heart of the core demographic they were pandering to, and I still thought it was meh shit.

Nostalgia alone isn't enough to make me love your crap.



I read the book 3 times. It's excellent. I've chosen to not watch the movie, so far.
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ParanoidObsessive
08/14/18 5:53:56 PM
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SunWuKung420 posted...
I read the book 3 times. It's excellent. I've chosen to not watch the movie, so far.

Skimming the book years ago is what turned me off the property, because it seemed terrible.

The movie looks worse.


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Bulbasaur
08/14/18 6:06:51 PM
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don't you read stephanie plum, po
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ParanoidObsessive
08/14/18 6:10:00 PM
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Never heard of her, so no.


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SunWuKung420
08/14/18 6:16:11 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Skimming the book years ago is what turned me off the property, because it seemed terrible.


IMO, it wasn't.
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Bulbasaur
08/14/18 6:24:39 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Never heard of her, so no.


it's either that or charley davidson

i know it's one of them
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Firewood18
08/14/18 6:27:06 PM
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The book was the author puking up nostalgic pop culture.
The movie was Spielberg puking up his own nostalgic pop culture.

The story and the characters were mostly weak and predictable.

All in all, entertainment at its finest.
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Mead
08/14/18 6:34:09 PM
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I enjoyed the book, this board is so dang critical of things sometimes
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AllstarSniper32
08/14/18 6:34:56 PM
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Mead posted...
I enjoyed the book, this board is so dang critical of things sometimes

This board? I think you mean just the whole internet.
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pedro45
08/14/18 6:36:06 PM
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Firewood18 posted...
The book was the author puking up nostalgic pop culture.
The movie was Spielberg puking up his own nostalgic pop culture.

The story and the characters were mostly weak and predictable.

All in all, entertainment at its finest.


That does kinda sum it up well. When things are happening, it is quite entertaining. When puzzles are cut short due to it being only a movie instead a book, that's where it lost out.
Plus, the love should have been downplayed. It was so meh in the book and movie.
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GanglyKhan
08/14/18 6:51:12 PM
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WastelandCowboy posted...
GanglyKhan posted...
It's more or less Family Guy: The Movie.

"Hey remember that one thing that millions of people remember but we're gonna make you feel so cool like you're the only one who knows what The Iron Giant was?"

Thats a horrible analogy. Family Guy was a funny cartoon thats just turned into a incoherent blob of pop culture references and inconsistencies.

More or less Modern Day Family Guy. But yeah, good point. Most adult cartoons always start off strong then sell-out.
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Mead
08/14/18 6:52:12 PM
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AllstarSniper32 posted...
Mead posted...
I enjoyed the book, this board is so dang critical of things sometimes

This board? I think you mean just the whole internet.


Certain places are more critical than others
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Shinebolt
08/14/18 7:06:39 PM
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I enjoyed both, but they definitely had problems. I went into the book only expecting a bunch of pop culture references from the 80s which is exactly what I got. The actual stor on its own would've have turned me away in the first couple of pages.

"Meet Wade Watts, his dead-beat father abandoned him and his mother died from drug abuse after struggling to raise him. Now he lives with his bitch of an ant and her asshole boyfriend in a trailer park. Oh, did I mention that it's a dystopian society because it is."

For fuck's sake, talk about stacking as many cliches as possible to try and wring every ounce of sympathy from the audience, goddamn. Tat alone was enough for me to completely dismiss the actual story and just focus on the nostalgia factor.
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JoanOfArcade
08/14/18 7:30:23 PM
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It's fucking Chucky!!! Made me bust a gut and we're getting a live action Gundam movie out of this so worth
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shadowsword87
08/14/18 7:31:54 PM
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Most people don't like it because it's a Steven Spielberg movie... that doesn't feel like a Spielberg movie.
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Shinebolt
08/14/18 7:44:28 PM
#35:


JoanOfArcade posted...
It's fucking Chucky!!! Made me bust a gut and we're getting a live action Gundam movie out of this so worth


I take it you never heard of G-Saviour.
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JoanOfArcade
08/14/18 8:33:09 PM
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Shinebolt posted...
JoanOfArcade posted...
It's fucking Chucky!!! Made me bust a gut and we're getting a live action Gundam movie out of this so worth


I take it you never heard of G-Saviour.

I take it you don't know the difference between made for tv thing and a live action big budget film
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Mead
08/14/18 8:35:40 PM
#38:


Shinebolt posted...
JoanOfArcade posted...
It's fucking Chucky!!! Made me bust a gut and we're getting a live action Gundam movie out of this so worth


I take it you never heard of G-Saviour.


I know I havent

Its probably dumb
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JoanOfArcade
08/14/18 8:36:19 PM
#39:


Mead posted...
Shinebolt posted...
JoanOfArcade posted...
It's fucking Chucky!!! Made me bust a gut and we're getting a live action Gundam movie out of this so worth


I take it you never heard of G-Saviour.


I know I havent

Its probably dumb

It is and was made for tv it's really shitty.
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JoanOfArcade
08/14/18 8:38:02 PM
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It's akin to saying ohh you don't know about the Korean dragon ball movie. It's not a lack of knowledge it's just knowing when shit is well shit
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ParanoidObsessive
08/14/18 9:18:39 PM
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Bulbasaur posted...
ParanoidObsessive posted...
Never heard of her, so no.

it's either that or charley davidson

Never heard of her either.

I feel like you're just naming shit books and hoping I agree to liking one of them. Either that, or you're blatantly confusing me with someone else.


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Bulbasaur
08/14/18 9:28:26 PM
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no it's definitely you.

i remember making a topic about either a new stephanie plum book or a new charley davidson and you came in to correct me on something dumb that happened in the series
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Shinebolt
08/14/18 9:37:32 PM
#43:


JoanOfArcade posted...
Shinebolt posted...
JoanOfArcade posted...
It's fucking Chucky!!! Made me bust a gut and we're getting a live action Gundam movie out of this so worth


I take it you never heard of G-Saviour.

I take it you don't know the difference between made for tv thing and a live action big budget film


Both still live action, and "big budget" doesn't mean it will be even semi-decent. If that's all it took then EA and Activision would be making the best games over.
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ParanoidObsessive
08/14/18 9:38:22 PM
#44:


Bulbasaur posted...
no it's definitely you.

i remember making a topic about either a new stephanie plum book or a new charley davidson and you came in to correct me on something dumb that happened in the series

No, it's definitely not me, unless someone broke into my house and secretly mind-wiped me while I was sleeping at some point.

Trust me, I still remember books I read 35 years ago - if I say I don't remember reading something, then I absolutely didn't read it.


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Bulbasaur
08/14/18 9:39:22 PM
#45:


you can deny it all you want, i know it was you

it was you
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ParanoidObsessive
08/14/18 9:41:15 PM
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You can keep believing that all you want, but you will never stop being wrong.


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SunWuKung420
08/14/18 9:42:54 PM
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What happens when "the guy that's always wrong" clashes with "the guy that always thinks he's right"...THIS WEEK ON POTD...HELIY VS. PO...
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Shinebolt
08/14/18 10:10:22 PM
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Maybe he's mistaking it for the LotR opic awhile back...pretty big margin of error there, but who knows.
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Bulbasaur
08/14/18 10:23:22 PM
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i will go through several years of backlog and find it, it was you, just admit it
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SunWuKung420
08/14/18 10:27:10 PM
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Round 2...
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Bulbasaur
08/14/18 10:34:04 PM
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i don't think there's any archive that goes back 5-6 years anymore

logf says it goes back to at least 2016, but it doesn't
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