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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2014 23:36:09 GMT -5
Michael Bay is one of those people I have to look up on IMDB to see if I've ever even watched one of his movies.
I've seen Bad Boys, liked it for what it is. I like buddy cop movies. Transformers, hated it. Pain And Gain, thought it was pretty good.
The majority of his movies I haven't seen. I think his biggest critics have seen them all though, which is so odd to me.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 28, 2014 23:38:58 GMT -5
Actually started out collected both stamps and coins before comics. They both have real beauty, but, economics later forced me to pick, and I picked comics. Later got into D&D and Magic : the Gathering, but it was tough diverting that comic money.
Still play Magic and love it, though my son and I only play pauper, meaning we only use common cards, which are mostly pretty cheap, like from a penny to a quarter. Still lots of Magic fun, but without the Uncommon and Rare card$.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2014 23:42:03 GMT -5
I'm not sure what people want from Transformers. As impulse said (though different context,I'm sure ) "they're gigantic robots that beat the crap out of each other". Isn't that enough? I want them to skip the first 90 minutes of painfully bad plot and dialogue so there is more time for gigantic robots beating the crap out of each other. Play to your strengths, man. Less chat/more BAYSPLOSIONS!!!! Honestly I feel both these men are hacks who rely way to much on technology and not enough on actual story telling. I think that's unfair. Those guys are both REALLY good at harnessing that technology and making stunning, incredibly beautiful scenes and movies. Cameron particularly pioneers a lot of the techniques and technology himself. IIRC, he had to wait 10-15 years longer to make Avatar than he wanted to because it was literally not technologically possible when he had the idea. I think it's only fair to give them credit for being really good at making those stunning action scenes and visuals. .....but yes, dear God, the writing is horrible. Painfully bad. Not just slightly dull. It hurts to watch. I wish they would hire other writers to take care of the stories and just stick to being the technical visionaries. Are you calling the animated Transformers movie bad??? Maybe it's the nostalgia talking, but that movie was so much better than it had any right to be. I'm not a fan of heavy CGI. I hated how Avatar looked. I don't think technology is there yet. It looked like a PS3 demo. Same with Transformers. One of my biggest complaints about the movie is how disorienting the action scenes were. Just a blur of steel shrapnel moving on screen. James Cameron has made a handful of awesome movies but even then I think they could have been a little more enjoyable if he hadn't been in on the CGI thing since very early on.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 28, 2014 23:46:03 GMT -5
The majority of his movies I haven't seen. I think his biggest critics have seen them all though, which is so odd to me. Well, if someone watches two or three Michael Bay movies and hates them, why would they go out and watch all the rest of his films? I saw Transformers and thought it was terrible. I'm certainly not going to waste several hours watching the rest of the Transformers movies just to verify that they still stink.
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 28, 2014 23:59:20 GMT -5
I'll get his in just under the wire, but it was 100 years ago today. This was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie leaving the town hall in Sarajevo. A few minutes later they were assassinated and the world was plunged into war a month later. It's not a day to be celebrated, but it was an important day that lead to a host of events that still shape the world today.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2014 0:10:42 GMT -5
The majority of his movies I haven't seen. I think his biggest critics have seen them all though, which is so odd to me. Well, if someone watches two or three Michael Bay movies and hates them, why would they go out and watch all the rest of his films? I saw Transformers and thought it was terrible. I'm certainly not going to waste several hours watching the rest of the Transformers movies just to verify that they still stink. It seems that's exactly what the complainers do though. "I watched all the Transformers movies and they all sucked, the next one is gonna suck too!" "Boy, these movies get worse every installment!" I watched one, it sucked, haven't watched another and have no plans to.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 29, 2014 0:22:11 GMT -5
I'll get his in just under the wire, but it was 100 years ago today. This was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie leaving the town hall in Sarajevo. A few minutes later they were assassinated and the world was plunged into war a month later. It's not a day to be celebrated, but it was an important day that lead to a host of events that still shape the world today. I love museums and stumbled across The National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Very informative and well worth half a day. What I remember best is a map with lights that shows what countries aligned with what powers sequentially and it really helped to demonstrate how all the dominoes fell after the assassination.
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 29, 2014 0:24:26 GMT -5
I'll get his in just under the wire, but it was 100 years ago today. This was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie leaving the town hall in Sarajevo. A few minutes later they were assassinated and the world was plunged into war a month later. It's not a day to be celebrated, but it was an important day that lead to a host of events that still shape the world today. I love museums and stumbled across The National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Very informative and well worth half a day. What I remember best is a map with lights that shows what countries aligned with what powers sequentially and it really helped to demonstrate how all the dominoes fell after the assassination. I was reading an article earlier this week about the Princip family home. It's been burned to the ground and rebuilt and destroyed again a few times in the last century.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 29, 2014 0:31:43 GMT -5
Truly amazing.
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 29, 2014 1:10:55 GMT -5
The man, who shot the man who shot Buckwheat, has been shot.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 29, 2014 1:22:35 GMT -5
Well, if someone watches two or three Michael Bay movies and hates them, why would they go out and watch all the rest of his films? I saw Transformers and thought it was terrible. I'm certainly not going to waste several hours watching the rest of the Transformers movies just to verify that they still stink. It seems that's exactly what the complainers do though. "I watched all the Transformers movies and they all sucked, the next one is gonna suck too!" "Boy, these movies get worse every installment!" I watched one, it sucked, haven't watched another and have no plans to. I totally misread your original statement, for what it's worth. You're right, that is a little odd. The only circumstance where I might consider watching a transformers movie is if I were stuck on a long flight that was showing the movie and I couldn't sleep or something.
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Post by Spike-X on Jun 29, 2014 4:01:20 GMT -5
Well, if someone watches two or three Michael Bay movies and hates them, why would they go out and watch all the rest of his films? I saw Transformers and thought it was terrible. I'm certainly not going to waste several hours watching the rest of the Transformers movies just to verify that they still stink. It seems that's exactly what the complainers do though. "I watched all the Transformers movies and they all sucked, the next one is gonna suck too!" "Boy, these movies get worse every installment!" I watched one, it sucked, haven't watched another and have no plans to. The only reason I've seen the first three is that my son was too young at the time to go to the movies unaccompanied by an adult. Now he's in high school, he can go with his friends, and I'm spared the pain.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 29, 2014 7:28:23 GMT -5
I also collected both stamps and coins as a kid, mostly because my older brother did and at the time I wanted to do everything he did. I never really enjoyed either one and quickly focused on comics, which were a lot more fun. I tried a few other collections - Wacky Packages, baseball cards - but none had the legs of the funny books. These days, even if I had an infinite amount of money, I can't imagine collecting anything but comics (except, perhaps, autographed first printings of Dr. Seuss' ouevre).
Cei-U! I summon the singlemindedness!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2014 7:32:32 GMT -5
Actually started out collected both stamps and coins before comics. They both have real beauty, but, economics later forced me to pick, and I picked comics. Same here, pretty much. I'm still crushed over the fact that the Scott stamp album from my youth, which my mother got me by redeeming S&H Green Stamps, seems not to have survived my 2nd divorce. (Nothing malicious involved there, as the split was quite amicable; it apparently just vanished during one or more moves. At least, I haven't seen it since I moved back to Little Rock in 5/90. That's assuming my memory isn't lying to me about its presence when I lived in Louisiana.) As for coins, these days my activity is pretty much limited to checking my change for wheat pennies (haven't come across one in years, not surprisingly) or mint errors (ditto). When I worked in the collectibles shop from 2004-2006, we carried coins, so I was able to pick up examples of all the now-defunct coinages I really like (half-cent, large cent, 2- & 3-cent pieces, half-dime, too), with the exception of a 20-cent piece. Those suckers are pretty expensive. Well, I don't have any of the gold coins, either. I know my bank account better than to aspire to acquiring any of those.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 29, 2014 8:07:32 GMT -5
As a kid( and partly as an adult)I Collected Baseball cards. I did it by buying loose packs from candy stores and later on, by buying the complete sets through the mail. It was always just so In could have the players stats on hand. This was before the era of Google , clearly. I remember selling some rookie cards that I had as doubles in a card show for about 60 bucks a piece. That was in the 80's before the Card industry died. I stopped buying them about 2000. I still have most of my sets.
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