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Post by siamesesin on May 15, 2010 9:48:32 GMT -5
Last night my brother and I were plotting out our summer movie attendance-see this one in theater, wait for that DVD, etc. We hit the first weekend of July, during which M. Night Shamalamadingdong's live-action Avatar: THe Last Airbender is coming out. It looks moderately decent, but nothing I would be in a rush for.
Then my brother mentioned that the newest Twilight pile of dreck was being released the same week. Now I feel I must to go to Airbender just to feel I'm casting a stone against the Sparkle Abomination. Fairly sad, but there it is.
I've done this for movies before, both by theatrical and DVD release. It's not just flicks that I have a lot of good personal reasons to find reprehensible-I've done it for no other reason then hating a movie's hype.
I know I am a bratty person, but I was curious if anyone else does this.
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Post by Chuck on May 15, 2010 9:51:42 GMT -5
Nope. We simply avoid them like the plague.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on May 15, 2010 10:16:00 GMT -5
The only movies I watched are pirated copies imported from Bangladesh.
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Post by solgroupie on May 16, 2010 16:27:43 GMT -5
i would think that's a somewhat natural tendency in a lot of people. there will always be the monkeys who clammer to see the next big blockbuster, but even as they race to see that, they will ignore another release, deliberately scorning it.
i remember waaaay back in the day when i purposely avoided seeing the movie ghost, simply because everyone went so freaking crazy over it. it played for six straight months at our local theater. i didn't see it until probably ten years later, on tv and thought it was pretty meh at best.
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 16, 2010 17:53:17 GMT -5
No - That's a game and I don't play games (maybe because my brain is wired wierdly). I just see what I want to see... popular blockbuster or forgotten Indie flick, whatever. Doing otherwise is just putting yourself in a cage. I could be dead tomorrow, why F--- around.
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Post by angilasman on May 16, 2010 18:34:47 GMT -5
I probably would have done it anyway, but I saw Hellboy II four times in the theater partially because The Dark Knight was released the next week and crushed it at the B.O. - and Hellboy is my favorite superhero.
;D
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Post by Captain Hygiene on May 16, 2010 19:03:45 GMT -5
Nah, I have better things to do with my money than spend it trying to spite some faceless corporation by not giving them 0.000001% of their expected profit. Things like storing it up in the hopes that it'll make me happy.
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Post by siamesesin on May 17, 2010 7:55:33 GMT -5
Perhaps I should clarify. I'm not going to go out of my way to see a movie just because I'd rather skewer the other. It's a waste of money and pointless to boot. When I go to another flick rather than the "it" film, it has to be a movie I was inclined to see anyway.
Otherwise I just avoid the movies I'd rather gouge my eyeballs out over.
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Post by Torgo on May 17, 2010 18:23:54 GMT -5
I'd personally do it the other way around. I'd rather do a Twilight marathon than sit through just one of M. Night Shyamalon's movies.
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Post by Ratso on May 17, 2010 18:37:33 GMT -5
Nope. We simply avoid them like the plague. That's pretty much what I do with pop culture, I mean I didn't even know another Twilight movie was coming out until I saw this thread. |
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Post by afriendlychicken on May 17, 2010 20:10:30 GMT -5
Nope. We simply avoid them like the plague. That's pretty much what I do with pop culture, I mean I didn't even know another Twilight movie was coming out until I saw this thread. What's a "Twilight" movie? They film the sun setting or something? And what's this "A-va-tar" movie I keep hearing about? They're making movies about copies of things now? Is it a documentary on modern Hollywood films? What's a "pop" culture? Never heard of it. I don't seem to know anything. As a matter-of-fact, I have no idea what I'm doing on this board. Who are you people?! ;D |
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Post by Don Quixote on May 17, 2010 22:05:47 GMT -5
We're all your mysterious, yet sexy captors, due to Stockholm Syndrome.
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 17, 2010 23:28:55 GMT -5
I can't wait for it because Twilight is my most anticipated.... rifftrax. So I'm happy that they keep making more. Plus it makes all the teenage girls happy. Who am I to want to dissapoint "Team Edward" or "Team Muscle-boy". And after all, I was allowed to be all giggly about the new Iron Man movie, I am not without sin myself.  |
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Post by mccloud on May 18, 2010 8:11:55 GMT -5
We're all your mysterious, yet sexy captors, due to Stockholm Syndrome. Awesome Muse song!!! There are grown women where I work who love this Twilight crapola. You want vampires? Watch The Hunger. |
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Post by Continuing Legend on May 18, 2010 8:18:55 GMT -5
I have yet to see Avatar. It's not spite, I'm just not interested, and the hype didn't help AT ALL.
Actually, I don't really go see movies - ever - unless I really, really want to, and for some reason can't wait for DVD. I think the last movie I saw in theaters, unless you count the Rifftrax Christmas show, was the Simpsons movie in 2007, and before that it was Serenity and Star Wars Episode III, both in 2005. Yeah. I'm not much of a moviegoer.
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