I'd get Vagrant Story. Vagrant Story and Chrono Trigger are the two best RPGs of its kind.

Parasite Eve is good, but it moves too clunkily to be an action RPG, because they just slapped RE controls on top of it. Story is not bad though.

I'm still getting 3rd Birthday. 3rd Birthday should have gotten a console/PC treatment, not portable.

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules' schooled the hyped 'Sucker Punch' over the weekend, scoring an est. $24.4 million versus $19 million...

Suck it! Even a kid's movie WITH a storyline, deemed better with the crowd than a glitzy music video WITH a skimpy story.

Remember kids, skimpy skirts doesn't make a blockbuster box-office. Plans backfired, Snyder-san?

IF you asked me based on the trailers of the two months ago before they were out now, I would never imagined picking "Wimpy" over "Sucker Punch". You ask the same question to the folks who had zero ideas about both of them (whether they are from a book or good franchise), which is more likely they would see?

Bottom line, "Sucker Punch" bottomed out.

Google "blockbuster" and this came up:-

So that means I'm right.

Oscar-nominated movies are almost always never a blockbuster.

So if it doesn't aim itself to be thought-provoking or a thinking movie, it is produced for only one other thing, for "blockbuster" purposes, be it monetary or mineshare. And from the looks of things, the movie fails on that front. It also is so shallow to be classified as thought-provoking, so what is it now? An abomination? Not a movie in the sense? Hence why I call it a fanboy's orgy of a music video. And the fanboy in question is Zack Snyder himself. He's wanking and masturbating to his own creation without putting purpose to his creation.

The reviews says otherwise. The ticket sales also reflects what I commented. I like going against the popular opinions myself too but when something is as obviously a tragic mess like this, no amount of spin can save it.

Nobody says you can't enjoy a bad movie. I have my guilty pleasures as well. Saw series, The Human Caterpillar and Scott Pilgrim rates high on my Like List. But you cant deny the fact that as a coherent movie, it fails, and movies are about story-telling, not glitzy graphics. I find it funny that for the Nintendo crowd, that this did not hit home straight away, isn't Nintendo's about the the "complete package" instead of "just glitzy graphics" like the PS3?

Critics panned my beloved Saw series, but I still watch it. I grown to love it, but it doesn't mean I cannot see past my love for it that it is indeed broken on many aspects.

Just wished that it had more than just gun-toting babes. An overarching semblance of a story maybe? Medium that fits "gun-toting babes" is videogames, not cinema. Ask Lara Croft or Bayonetta. They do well in that field. With that similarity, we all know what kind of substance these two "gun-toting babes" fit in their videogame iterations, or lack thereof. Which ties with my point of "visual masturbatory and nothing else" comment I made that this movie promotes.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 28 2011, 06:18 PM

I'm talking about general consensus. Sure, every one of us are prone to personal preferences, ultimately the numbers will be there to show what the general populace think about the movie. Usually general likeness goes hand in hand with blockbuster numbers but a lot of times, that does not happen too. You and I can debate till the cows come home but the numbers don't lie. Whether people are with the numbers and I'm sync with the thing being talk about, that's a discussion meant for a different thread, maybe?

Bottom line, numbers don't lie. Just like what the number "6.5" being thrown around meant by the folks around here.

Agree to disagree then? I can't shake this feeling that everytime I go look at Metacritic and Rottentomatoes that there's more folks of the likes of me, of the same consensus as I do, than the niche fan of this movie. I'd find it easier to stomach if there is some admittance that the movie is diverting itself away from what a movie should be, rather than claiming individual/personal preference as a copout.

Easier way to put it, majority of the people who had watched the movie, including those who take movie as seriously (movie critics) one who made bread and butter out of their daily lives, had opinionated that it is a failure. Select few may enjoy it for its other embellished aesthetics, but not enough to sway the general consensus that it fail to operate as a movie in a the story-telling department. Can we at least agree on that? I agree 100% that it get perfect scores 10/10 if a movie is graded based solely on visuals/eyecandy/cameraworks, hence why I labeled it as such, a visual orgasm, with no tangible core. Sure you get your fix, but it's short-lived, and you start craving more. When does the movie now stop being a movie, than just visual satisfaction? The closest I can relate to this is a tech-demo, or a music video of fat-bottomed ladies gyrating to rap music.

Movie=moving pictures, moving pictures needs a plot, at least a plot tangible enough to keep the audience emotionally invested well after the visual assaults numbed their eyeballs. After all you can only stomach so much of one thing before you start craving something more substantial. Like porn, everyone likes them, but after a while, you've seen them all in all manners of positions, genres, etc. I mean, how many times can one stomach Baby Doll swaying before starting to question if every other target they're trying to pickpocket of at the asylum is either depraved of sex, or mentally deficient?

Two dimensional characters, no matter how much you try to make them look beautiful, can only go so much. Like polishing a turd, no matter how shiny the turd gets, it is still a turd. Granted it's shiny, but it still stinks.

One saving grace of this movie, is the music. I already cant get enough of Emily Browning's rendition of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and Queen's mashup of "I Want It All/We Will Rock You". But that further strengthen my opinion that it's a demonstration of this movie's strengths in the wrong places: music and visual, when it's the plot that needs help. It's like they're trying to pad the weaknesses in the movie's plotline by assaulting you with visuals (flashy SFX, fastcuts and crazy camera sweeps, naked ladies), and music. Starting to sound like a music video now, isn't it?

But hey, just my two cents. I understand your affiliation and fondness in this since you're in the business of visuals/graphics yourself, so I'm trying to put myself in your shoes now. But I still cant shake this feeling of "polished turd, no matter how shiny it is, still smells". No hard feelings.

Baru lepas Crysis 2, adrenaline still high.

See, saya suka glitzy graphics too. But according to its medium lah. I don't expect movie-grade storyline in videogames, but I expect some form of storytelling qualities in a movie. I certainly don't expect folks to forgive glitz/flashiness more suitable/relatable in videogames to be accepted as a norm in the medium of cinema.

Oh well.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 29 2011, 04:05 AM

Saya setuju, to each his own. But like I said, liking something does not mean I cannot agree or accept the fact that it is broken or flawed. Saya suka korek idung, but it is a personality flaw. Memang sedap korek, but should I ignore the bad qualities of it?

Sucker Punch. I'd slit my throat before anyone catch me watching that other option of yours.

Unexpected intelligent funniness? I'm in. Cheesy bile-inducing hamminess? I'll pass. Guess which one is your Kak Limah is in.

Someone need to PAY me to watch that bile of crap. No way I'm handing my money to see trash like that.

Dee Vee Dee? What's that? Ada lagi kah? Now it's either direct download or Blu-ray.

Thank God I've alleviated myself away from those. The nonsense Malay tradition and commoner that take these nonsenses. Keyword: nonsense.

Zaman typewriter kah? Sorry, don't roll that way.

"Getting with the times guarantees getting ahead in life." - Anonymous

LOL the chronic typical Malay disease, I see. Disassociation helps, as well as choosing your peers correctly. After all, you;re only as good as those you keep company with.

LOL, tau pun. Even if you dont "roll that way", there are tons of other "Direct download" methods (which shall remain nameless) that offers far more instant access than Dee Vee Dee.

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Added on March 29, 2011, 6:17 pmNext month. Frankfurt. When? Well, since recent incident, I'm wary of helping folks get their stuff from me. It was painful to kena backstab wooo. Nowadays, mutual benefit. Lu mao barang, gua dapat apa eh?

*Sorry, have to "roll that way". To ensure I don't get "rolled over" like a steamroller*

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 29 2011, 06:17 PM

Vee Cee Dee? Apa tu? Lemme dig out my archaelogy excavation kit.