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Old 06-02-2005, 05:51 AM
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Exactly why i cant watch a lot of them, also why i dont bother watching sitcoms.... What is the point of watching something when you can accurately predict the entire plot, ending and all, in the first 5 minutes?

Incidentally, if anyone wants to comment on the predictability/use of old conventions in my stuff, there ar elinks in my sig. i would appreciate the feedback.
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Old 06-02-2005, 05:55 AM
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Exactly why i cant watch a lot of them, also why i dont bother watching sitcoms.... What is the point of watching something when you can accurately predict the entire plot, ending and all, in the first 5 minutes?

Incidentally, if anyone wants to comment on the predictability/use of old conventions in my stuff, there ar elinks in my sig. i would appreciate the feedback.

fuck ! dont even get me started on sitcoms.
they are the reason why i stopped watching TV over 20 years ago.
garbage shit TV - an insult to the intelligence (if you have any)

the little i've been exposed to lately is even worse ..
why is it that people find sexual innuento so risque when they hear far worse at work every day. I wonder all the time how unfunny and unimaginative someone would have to be to thing ANYTHING in a sitcom is even remotely funny.

i love clever, origional, well made comedies ...
you wont find that in a sitcom (unless you consider Fawlty Towers a sitcom - i dont)

sorry if i stepped on any toes but thats exactly how i feel.

i hate that shit ..
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Old 06-02-2005, 06:05 AM
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There is the occasional sitcom that breaks the mold. Married with Children was one. It was horribly predictable, things were going to end up shit, you knew that every time. it was how they did it that was great.

News radio was just odd, in a good way. Jimmy James is my hero, and since he played Milton in Office Space also, Stephen Root is a god to me. Patrick Warburton was also great as Johnny Johnson... Freindly, charaismatic, loveable and thoroughly evil :)



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"Too Creative" Kills. Probably why I am not a huge slasher fan. I cant stand situations where some completely off the wall rube goldberg machine is necessary for the kill. Final Destination was the only movie i haev seen so far where this one was actualy done well, and as it turns out, necessary. I absolutely loved it when the teacher got killed.... Thatw as the most incredible coincidence i have ever seen.

Another one: The movie establishes a theme, then deviates from it regularly. Example: Urban Legend....
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Old 06-02-2005, 06:17 AM
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"Too Creative" Kills.

there's a difference between being Too creative - and simply being full of shit..

i dont like them either .. the complicated serial killer with superhuman timing.

when i mean creative i mean someone clever enough to make suspennse out of sensible and real circumstances..

its hard to do - but it's not impossible ..
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Old 06-02-2005, 06:32 AM
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He wears glasses--so I must strangle him with his glasses! He has a bottle of wine, so I must strangle him with his bottle of wine!

I kicked him in the kneecap and poured a glass of water on him, so now it's safe to turn my back! Oh thank goodness.
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i hate bimbos in horror movies wen they run back in the house to save their hamster ye the killer wants your pet ffs or they hear a noise wen loads of ppl have been killed and they dont run out the house they go to see wat the noise was.
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Nudity...Honestly...It really gets on my nerves...It isn't scary, in ANY way, and it's a pain in the ass when you have to 'edit' everything for the kids...
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Old 06-03-2005, 01:55 AM
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Nudity...Honestly...It really gets on my nerves...It isn't scary, in ANY way, and it's a pain in the ass when you have to 'edit' everything for the kids...


i have to say that this bugs the hell out of me ..

violence is ok, but nudity isnt ?

WTF ??!!
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i have to say that this bugs the hell out of me ..

violence is ok, but nudity isnt ?

WTF ??!!
Yup...It's apparently an American thing...Actually...The kids know that the 'violence' is all fake...But, the nudity is TOO real...I wouldn't let them see REAL blood, guts, gore and violence either...

And, like I've said a million times...When I watch a horror movie, I wanna see HORROR...If I wanna see nudity and sex, I'll watch a porno..
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