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« Reply #125 on: August 20, 2014, 08:33:07 am »
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It looks like Terry Gilliam's Zero Theorem is finally hitting the US theatres next month. I'm eager to watch it, though I am saddened by the negative reviews. On the whole, I enjoy Gilliam's works. He has a delightfully mad quality about his films.
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« Reply #126 on: August 20, 2014, 09:03:18 am »
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It looks like Terry Gilliam's Zero Theorem is finally hitting the US theatres next month. I'm eager to watch it, though I am saddened by the negative reviews. On the whole, I enjoy Gilliam's works. He has a delightfully mad quality about his films.

You've brought back memories of Tideland. *shudder*
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« Reply #127 on: August 20, 2014, 09:22:06 am »
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It looks like Terry Gilliam's Zero Theorem is finally hitting the US theatres next month. I'm eager to watch it, though I am saddened by the negative reviews. On the whole, I enjoy Gilliam's works. He has a delightfully mad quality about his films.


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Gilliam movies always get negative reviews, because people suck.  But they're always worth watching.  I'm really excited for this one.
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« Reply #128 on: August 20, 2014, 10:14:58 am »
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Gilliam movies always get negative reviews, because people suck.  But they're always worth watching.  I'm really excited for this one.

Have you seen Tideland?

I will agree that most of his films are good times.
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« Reply #129 on: August 20, 2014, 10:30:22 am »
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Gilliam movies always get negative reviews, because people suck.  But they're always worth watching.  I'm really excited for this one.

Have you seen Tideland?

I will agree that most of his films are good times.

I think that's the only one I haven't, actually.  Well, maybe that an a couple obscure ones.
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« Reply #130 on: August 20, 2014, 10:32:24 am »
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Gilliam movies always get negative reviews, because people suck.  But they're always worth watching.  I'm really excited for this one.

Actually, a glance at Rotten Tomatoes shows that you're wrong. Most Gilliam movies have gotten overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Here are just the ones I've seen:

98% Brazil
97% Monty Python and the Holy Grail
96% Monty Pyton's Life of Brian
94% The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
92% Time Bandits
90% Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
88% Twelve Monkeys
50% Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
38% The Brothers Grimm
29% Tideland

With the exception of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (which I think deserves better), those ratings are spot-on. The Brothers Grimm freaked me the fuck out and I didn't enjoy it at all. Tideland is physically painful to watch; it should actually be lower.

The Zero Theorem has 54%. There's a good chance it's just a mediocre film.
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« Reply #131 on: August 20, 2014, 10:37:10 am »
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Tonight's post-work feature: Good Morning Vietnam

I watched that that other day too. It was pretty good. Robin Williams mostly being himself in a lot of scenes.
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« Reply #132 on: August 20, 2014, 10:38:56 am »
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I don't know, I thought Brother's Grimm was perfectly fine.  I guess I was mostly thinking of that and Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.  I recall a decent amount of negative hearsay about the films when they were coming out, and I thought both were great.  The others (From Twelve Monkeys up through Brazil), had all been out for a while before I saw them, and this was before internet message boards were common. 

So I guess I was only basing my statement on the last few films.  But you're right, in the films over all are reviewed well.  Which is good, because they're cool :)

I do want to see Tideland, and I doubt it's as bad as people say.  I also haven't seen Adventures of Baron Munchausen.  And I only watched part of Jabberwocky (I had a hard time getting into it at the time), and I missed Fisher King as well.

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« Reply #133 on: August 20, 2014, 10:41:10 am »
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I do want to see Tideland, and I doubt it's as bad as people say.  I also haven't seen Adventures of Baron Munchausen.  And I only watched part of Jabberwocky (I had a hard time getting into it at the time), and I missed Fisher King as well.

Whoa, you should really see The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Do yourself a favor and skip Tideland. I am not exaggerating when I say your life will be better for it.

EDIT: Let me elaborate and say that i disliked Tideland for different reasons than I disliked The Brothers Grimm. I didn't like the Brothers Grimm because I just don't like scary stuff, but that movie has other merits. Tideland is disturbing in other ways, and it doesn't really have other merits to make up for how disturbing it is. It's just disturbing and then it's over.
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« Reply #134 on: August 20, 2014, 10:44:11 am »
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I do want to see Tideland, and I doubt it's as bad as people say.  I also haven't seen Adventures of Baron Munchausen.  And I only watched part of Jabberwocky (I had a hard time getting into it at the time), and I missed Fisher King as well.

Whoa, you should really see The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Do yourself a favor and skip Tideland. I am not exaggerating when I say your life will be better for it.

Haha. 
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« Reply #135 on: August 20, 2014, 10:59:12 am »
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Do yourself a favor and skip Tideland. I am not exaggerating when I say your life will be better for it.

Haha.

I'm not kidding. This is my serious face.  :(

See it if you want. It's "artistic", for what that is worth. It's not entertaining.
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« Reply #136 on: August 20, 2014, 11:02:48 am »
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Gilliam movies always get negative reviews, because people suck.  But they're always worth watching.  I'm really excited for this one.

Actually, a glance at Rotten Tomatoes shows that you're wrong. Most Gilliam movies have gotten overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Here are just the ones I've seen:

98% Brazil
97% Monty Python and the Holy Grail
96% Monty Pyton's Life of Brian
94% The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
92% Time Bandits
90% Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
88% Twelve Monkeys
50% Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
38% The Brothers Grimm
29% Tideland

With the exception of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (which I think deserves better), those ratings are spot-on. The Brothers Grimm freaked me the fuck out and I didn't enjoy it at all. Tideland is physically painful to watch; it should actually be lower.

The Zero Theorem has 54%. There's a good chance it's just a mediocre film.
I thought The Brothers Grimm was good. Not like the best movie ever or anything, but worth watching and rewatching.
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« Reply #137 on: August 20, 2014, 01:59:29 pm »
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I am really intrigued by Tideland now. I won't dispute anyone's claims that it's a bad movie, but now it's on my bucket list.

Then again, I also purposefully watched Shock Treatment and the Forbidden Zone (and even own them on DVD), so my tolerance for bad movies is higher than usual, despite my normally elitist behavior.
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« Reply #138 on: August 20, 2014, 02:13:12 pm »
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So, you guys into depraved and disturbing have seen The Sinful Dwarf, right? It's not the most depraved and nowhere near the most disturbing but it may be the best combination of the two.
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« Reply #139 on: August 20, 2014, 02:20:41 pm »
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So, you guys into depraved and disturbing have seen The Sinful Dwarf, right? It's not the most depraved and nowhere near the most disturbing but it may be the best combination of the two.

No, but now I want to
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« Reply #140 on: August 20, 2014, 02:26:59 pm »
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While I was ruminating on the disturbing and depraved (The Piano Teacher comes to mind and then there is this) I was reminded of The Girl Next Door which, being based on a quite true happening, disturbed me quite a bit.
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« Reply #141 on: August 20, 2014, 02:27:38 pm »
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While I was ruminating on the disturbing and depraved (The Piano Teacher comes to mind and then there is this) I was reminded of The Girl Next Door which, being based on a quite true happening, disturbed me quite a bit.

That link is depraved because it keeps popping up animated adds.

And because you have to load a new page for each element of the list
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« Reply #142 on: August 20, 2014, 02:30:53 pm »
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« Reply #143 on: August 20, 2014, 02:57:52 pm »
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While I was ruminating on the disturbing and depraved (The Piano Teacher comes to mind and then there is this) I was reminded of The Girl Next Door which, being based on a quite true happening, disturbed me quite a bit.

That link is depraved because it keeps popping up animated adds.

And because you have to load a new page for each element of the list

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« Reply #144 on: August 20, 2014, 03:00:37 pm »
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One is proactive the other reactive.
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« Reply #145 on: August 20, 2014, 03:01:22 pm »
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One is proactive the other reactive.

And they both work just as well I'm guessing.
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« Reply #146 on: August 20, 2014, 03:03:33 pm »
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One is proactive the other reactive.

And they both work just as well I'm guessing.

One keeps you from ever seeing them or getting drive by crap installed or getting tracked by cookies and scripts you never wanted. The other lets you take it to the face first and try to sort it out later and hope they don't change anything to circumvent it. Personally, I think NoScript makes far more sense.
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« Reply #147 on: August 20, 2014, 03:04:53 pm »
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One is proactive the other reactive.

And they both work just as well I'm guessing.

One keeps you from ever seeing them or getting drive by crap installed or getting tracked by cookies and scripts you never wanted. The other lets you take it to the face first and try to sort it out later and hope they don't change anything to circumvent it. Personally, I think NoScript makes far more sense.

Firefox only?
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« Reply #148 on: August 20, 2014, 03:05:36 pm »
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One is proactive the other reactive.

And they both work just as well I'm guessing.

One keeps you from ever seeing them or getting drive by crap installed or getting tracked by cookies and scripts you never wanted. The other lets you take it to the face first and try to sort it out later and hope they don't change anything to circumvent it. Personally, I think NoScript makes far more sense.

Firefox only?

quite possibly
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« Reply #149 on: August 20, 2014, 03:19:40 pm »
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Yeah, NoScript is FF only. And since I use Opera 12, I don't even have AdBlock.
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