07-05-2013, 03:16 AM
Went to see This is the End with my dad, it was really gross and really hilarious simultaneously, which is exactly what they were aiming for so I'm cool with it.
Also, as for Despicable Me, the first movie was honestly the single worst movie I've ever seen. Seriously, it's that bad. It wasn't one of those movies that was so bad that you could laugh at it's terribleness like The Room or any of the Power Rangers or SyFy channel movies, it was the most joyless thing I've ever sat through. Nothing was funny about it, at all. I was on board for the premise, then it just turned into little yellow dudes farting and hitting eachother while a good actor did a bad accent and talked about being evil while never really being evil, But he has a goofy puppy and a Whacky scientist friend who mishears him because he's old, let's let that joke run for one and a half hours! Then he gets some annoying little kids to break into another "evil that isn't actually evil" guy's house for some weapon he barely uses.
The whole thing of looking through the supervillian's perspective is completely lost without having any kind of reference to superheroes or even the police, without them and without any major plots to cause large scale harm (i.e. Evil), the movie is just about a douchebag who adopts some kids in order to screw over another douchebag. This is where this movie just flat out fails, as opposed to the obvious comparison of Megamind, which I sort of enjoyed.
As for the whole "It's a kids movie, chill out." point, I really never would've given this movie any thought if it wasn't for the fact that everyone else seems to love it so effin' much. Seriously this sh*t has an 82% on rottentomatoes, which is higher than Return of the Jedi. I'm just baffled that so many people like a movie who's best joke is just a little kid saying "It's so fluffy." I'm not even that much of a typical hipster film douche, I like a lot of popular movies so long as they're well made.
Nggh, ramble over, now to watch Wreck it Ralph.
Also, as for Despicable Me, the first movie was honestly the single worst movie I've ever seen. Seriously, it's that bad. It wasn't one of those movies that was so bad that you could laugh at it's terribleness like The Room or any of the Power Rangers or SyFy channel movies, it was the most joyless thing I've ever sat through. Nothing was funny about it, at all. I was on board for the premise, then it just turned into little yellow dudes farting and hitting eachother while a good actor did a bad accent and talked about being evil while never really being evil, But he has a goofy puppy and a Whacky scientist friend who mishears him because he's old, let's let that joke run for one and a half hours! Then he gets some annoying little kids to break into another "evil that isn't actually evil" guy's house for some weapon he barely uses.
The whole thing of looking through the supervillian's perspective is completely lost without having any kind of reference to superheroes or even the police, without them and without any major plots to cause large scale harm (i.e. Evil), the movie is just about a douchebag who adopts some kids in order to screw over another douchebag. This is where this movie just flat out fails, as opposed to the obvious comparison of Megamind, which I sort of enjoyed.
As for the whole "It's a kids movie, chill out." point, I really never would've given this movie any thought if it wasn't for the fact that everyone else seems to love it so effin' much. Seriously this sh*t has an 82% on rottentomatoes, which is higher than Return of the Jedi. I'm just baffled that so many people like a movie who's best joke is just a little kid saying "It's so fluffy." I'm not even that much of a typical hipster film douche, I like a lot of popular movies so long as they're well made.
Nggh, ramble over, now to watch Wreck it Ralph.