SuperJerk

You guys realize we're splitting hairs over a movie that really wasn't that good, don't you?

It was based on a true story, so what did you expect? For it not to be corny or cliched. The compelling characters were: -The plucky underdog hero who is totally honest and always keeps his word. -The nagging wife who worries about her husband, but supports him in the end anyways. -The wise-cracking sidekick/manager who's there purely for comedy relief. -The cute kids who get into trouble and must be given a STERN TALKING TO from Dad the Boxer. -The EVIL boxer who isn't just the champ, but a bad, bad man and a potty mouth. I don't have a problem with the ending (since it was a true story), just the super-cheesy and obvious way it was presented. Is this the part where you tell me how talented Hilary Duff is? And making fun of a movie nobody saw is hardly elitist.

You make it sound like that's the only reason that I said I didn't want to see it. Dude, did you even read the post you were quoting? I was acknowledging that you DID have a valid reason for not seeing it. They built their entire commerical around an unfunny gag where they spit in a rude customer's food, as if that's the only joke in the whole movie. Hardly makes me want to see the movie.

It was pre-boob job, though.

Cinderella Man was fantastic. Can't wait for the movie to come out on DVD. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bob, since you're known around here for your exceptionally shitty/gay taste in everything, your liking the movie only proves my point for me. It sucked. It was corny, cliched, and horribly predictable. The characters were one-dimensional drones reacting to the events of the film, until the eventual climactic Hollywood ending we saw a mile away. Everything in this movie had already been done in every other boxing movie ever made, except Raging Bull, which was 100x better than this crap. The positive reviews even acknowledge this, but somehow they claim they liked it anyways.

Not anyone who deserves it.

Yeah, and its so horrible. Why, just the other day I had to drive through the beautiful countryside to get somewhere. And with traffic as heavy as it was, it took me a whole 20 minutes to go 20 miles! It was awful. I just can't stand it here. How I long to live in an overcrowded costal city with deadly weather and overpriced housing. Please, God, end my life now. I can't stand it anymore.

Says you!

Cinderella Man got an 84% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It. Sucked. Ass.

Yeah, what was the point of that? He was the only man in America who'd never eaten a Whopper? Kind of a ridicules claim considering the whole point of advertising the product is to get people to eat it who've never tried one before. Then when they found Herb, and he ate the sandwich, we were supposed to believe EVERYONE had tried a Whopper. That's going to sell sandwiches HOW? As if someone in the audience was thinking "Man, everyone in America's eaten at Burger King at some point...even me. Even though I don't remember ever eating there, I should eat there." I just don't get it.

You need to let go of the whole "Jedi have to expect something in order to sense it" circular argument you've been feeding me for the last half-a-page. It doesn't make any sense.

You make a pretty good case for expecting the filmmakers to sell you on the film before you'd see it, then you mention going to see Waiting and The Longest Yard, which put out horribly unfunny commercials, thus destroying your own argument. The only commercial I've seen for Waiting features a guy spitting in people's food. Somehow that's more appealing that a movie about space outlaws protecting a little girl from an evil assasin? Serenity isn't even a comedy and its commericals were funnier than Waiting. You'd rather watch a guy spit in people's food than space outlaws protecting a little girl from an evil assasin? As far as this "someone famous has to be in it" argument...If that's really a prerequisite for you to see a movie, then you're missing out on a lot of really great stuff. I can't blame you for not seeing it if that's the case. If you didn't like "Firefly", then you're not going to like Serenity. That's having a little more informed opinion than saying "I didn't see it because I didn't know any of the actors."

My mortgage is less than that, and I've got a 3 bedroom split-level with a deck and a 2 car garage. People think midwesterners are dumb, but we're not the ones getting hit by earthquakes and hurricanes, and paying half our monthly income for a hole in the wall or paying $3 a gallon for gas.

Thank you so much for making that connection.

Ironically, the star of Serenity and the star of Waiting were in a TV show together. A movie doesn't have to have big stars in it to be any good. Serenity was far better than many of the star-studded shitfests Hollywood cranks out every year. I don't get your attitude at all.

This is pre-Desert Storm. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The movie takes place DURING Desert Storm. I don't suppose any of you bashing this movie have actually SEEN IT have you? Didn't think so.

You just totally pulled that out of your ass. Seriously, "percentages and feeling"? WTF? Is that how Obi-Wan sensed Alderaan getting blown up, because he was focussed on training Luke? Is that how Vader sensed Obi-Wan on the Death Star, because he was focused on where the Millenium Falcon came from? Windu could sense Anakin's feelings from the second his 8 year old ass took the Jedi SATs back in EPISODE I, but he suddenly couldn't sense Anakin wasn't about to attack him? WINDU DROPPED HIS GUARD. As a result, he got turned into Coruscant Fried Chicken, extra crispy recipe. Palpatine was totally owning the guy until the window broke, and could've won the fight at any time by hitting Windu with something and knocking him out of the open window, or avoided attack by simply running away (using some of that super Sith speed we saw earlier in the scene). Instead he stayed his ground in order to make himself look like the victim and talk Anakin into joining his team. Palpatine > Windu. End of story.

1. Chloe 2. Lois 3. Mrs. Kent 4. Lana

Serenity has as much in common with Star Wars as Saving Private Ryan has in common with Casablanca.

I thought the office spots were clever.

Not 'round here. I got people with advanced degrees making $6.50/hr where I'm working. That IS higher than minimum wage, which is my point. And advanced degrees in what exactly? The minimum wage has no effect on oversaturation of certain career field which would lead to people wth advanced degrees being underemployed. Source?

So...Batista goes from drawing 325,000 buys with Triple H to drawing 233,000 with JBL? There's a lesson here. Also, glad to see ECW outdraw GAB. There's a lesson there as well.

Conservatives on Roberts: A nominee should be judged by their qualigfications, not by their ideology. We want judges that will interprete the law, not bring a political agenda to the Supreme Court. Conservatives on Miers: "We're left gathering shreds of evidence in trying to determine how the candidate would vote on the key issues of the day." http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/07/miers.ap/index.html

If this was a regular sword fight, you'd have a point. However, you're talking about people who are finely tuned to the Force. A Jedi should be able to sense an attack coming from any direction, even the one they aren't expecting. Windu dropped his guard because he thought he'd won. And Palpatine was hardly defenseless, given how he could've used the Force to smack Windu through the window with a desk or a couch at any time (see the later battle with Yoda).

The flaming Jedi corpse streaking across the Coruscant skyline suggests otherwise.