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Geek Culture / I'm SICK of movies these days!

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HZence
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All you ever see anymore in films are bullets whizzing past your face in slow motion! Enough! My gawd if one more friggin' movie copies bullet-time I'm gonna do something so bad I don't even know what it is yet
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Ian T
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Posted: 17th Jul 2003 01:03 Edited at: 17th Jul 2003 01:04
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Stop taking them seriously. If you don't like action movies, don't watch them. If you can't just sit back, ignore the plot, and appreciate the fight scenes, then move on to something like drama, or modern Shakespeare-scripted films (which I personally despise)...

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Solidz Snake
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try Pee Wee's movies

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HZence
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Mouse: "Stop taking them seriously. If you don't like action movies, don't watch them. If you can't just sit back, ignore the plot, and appreciate the fight scenes, then move on to something like drama, or modern Shakespeare-scripted films (which I personally despise)..."

Are you kidding? I love action movies! Maybe I was exaggerating when I said that I'm sick of movies. Really what I'm sick of is seeing bullets fly by in slow motion. Seriously, it's getting old. And why would I want to ignore the plot? I take it what you meant was "ignore the bullets flying by in slow motion" - the plot is good; it's the action that tends to be repetitive. By the way, I'm not watching Shakespeare.

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lcfcfan
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I thought shakespeare in love was ok and romeo and juliet!

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HZence
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Yeah, I've seen them but they're not really my type of movie hehe

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Try Pirates of the Carribian, if you wanna see a good action movie. It involves no slow motion bullets too, lol.



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or pick any Jackie Chan's movies.
Classic 'no-bullet-time-&-no-super-fighting' actions from beginning to end

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Ian T
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Posted: 17th Jul 2003 06:14 Edited at: 17th Jul 2003 06:14
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Ok, if you don't like bullet time that's okay by me, sorry . The only movie I've really liked it in since the Matrix was Matrix 2, because of that excellent explosion fly-around. Always wanted to see something like that in slomo. I bet I'll be right sick of it by Matrix 3 tho, unless they pull some more neat tricks.

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QuothTheRaven
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I can't name a single movie i've seen in the last year that had bullet time

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Shadow Robert
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i wanna see mel brooks make a spoof of the Matrix... spaceballs was quality, our ageing lil jew needs to pop some real humour back into the cinema again.

man whenever i see spaceballs, gotta fell sad that jCandy ain't around no more ... even more so that Steve Martin still is lol - anyone see that film he was in with "Queen Latifa" hehee
there ain't many films like that being made any more

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Eric T
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hmmmmmmm bullet time in movies.......hmmmmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmm matrix.......hmmmmmmmm thats the only one/series that i can think of with bullet time...hmmm T3 no, PotC(pirates of the...) nooo.....legally blond 2(chick dragged me) noooo... Charlies angels 2(once again...) no To fast to furious... no hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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HZence
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It's not that I don't like bullet time, it's that I'm sick of it being copied. By the way, bullet time is more than bullets flying by in slow motion...it's pretty much rotating or moving a camera freely around in slow motion (or making it look like it anyway).

Movies that have copied it?

The One
S.W.A.T.
Bullet-Proof Monk
Bad Boys 2

Do I need to name more...cuz if I do...*shakes fist*

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Grim_Reaper
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"Stop taking them seriously. If you don't like action movies, don't watch them. If you can't just sit back, ignore the plot, and appreciate the fight scenes, then move on to something like drama, or modern Shakespeare-scripted films (which I personally despise)..."

- I dunno...I usually end up hating a movie if the plot is crappy. Unless its a b-horror movie..those are funny!


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Hamish McHaggis
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Quote: "The One
S.W.A.T.
Bullet-Proof Monk
Bad Boys 2"


Don't forget loads of adverts used it aswell.

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Hamish McHaggis
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If your talking about one still frame, and rotating around that then that isn't bullet time, that was invented before the Matrix. Not to be confused.

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Posted: 17th Jul 2003 13:35 Edited at: 17th Jul 2003 13:36
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Quote: "spaceballs was quality"

Got that right!

Oh, and I thought Bullet-Proof Monk was supposed to be a Matrix-parody, I never watched it but that's the impression I got from the trailers I saw.

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HZence
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the only thing i remember seeing it in before the matrix was a gap commercial. other than that, i can't remember much of anything.

and really i don't think it has to involve bullets, because in the Matrix Revisited i'm pretty sure i recall them talking about the famous opening scene with trinity and the camera rotating around - and they referred to it as bullet time. don't quote me or anything, i'd have to watch revisited again to find out.

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I think we need more Spaceballs quality Spoofs. Lok at the last couple we had. Mafia, Not anothoer Teen Movie, Scary Movie 2 (Hell is full of paper cuts, hangnails, tooth aches, and Scary Movie 2); these movie are CRAP. How I long for spoofs on par with Hot Shot 1 & 2, Airplane, and Spaceballs.

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Posted: 21st Jul 2003 09:18 Edited at: 21st Jul 2003 09:18
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I totally agree. Hot Shots 1 & 2 have got to be the best comedy/spoofs I've ever seen, they don't revolve around sex and disgusting acts but rather around quality humour and rediculous story lines.

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Airplane 1 and 2 are the best "stupid" movies IMO lol

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Ever notice when they come out with a new effect then EVERY frigging movie has to have it? When the Abyss came out with their cgi water dude, then all of a sudden everybody had to have a cgi thing in their movie (eg Forest Gump). When Independance Day had the cgi cars flying by then there were like 8 more movies with big car-throwing explosions just like it. The most salient example is the matrix stop-motion pans and rotation shots. After that we couldn't even watch a TGI Fridays commercial without everything stopping and the camera running through it... Yeah if I see that effect one more time I may puke.

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HZence
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This guy knows what I'm talking about...seriously

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Solidz Snake
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Well, if ya put it that way, here's more 'coincidences' (appeared "almost" the same time):

Meteor: Armageddon & Deep Impact
Volcanoes: Dante's Peak & Volcano
Fantasy: Harry Potter & LOTR
Bullet-Time: Matrix, err.. and a gazzillion copycats

There's a LOT more, u guys should know better


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Ian T
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Charlie's Angels 1 (and I presume 2) are also films that used bullet time. *shruggies* but they aren't to be taken seriously anyways, just mindless semi-fun action flicks. Not on the caliber of Pirates... mmm, just saw that yesterday, finally a damn good action-adventure

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