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Dakoda
Who here thinks American movie taste sucks? I mean like now there is a movie about mice getting FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET! Now, stupidity is what Americans like. Also, most movie rental places in my neighborhood have no anime. Comcast too, no Japanese material at all. I hate it.
Ceritheya
I agree that most American movies suck. But your rather a japanophil, Dakoda, so I wouldn't be biasing movie taste in America off to it having nearly no Japanese material. ANd anyways, you're Chinese.
Dakoda
But, since American movie taste is comedy , and everyone like comedy, everyone will soon like american movies. Um.. im not American.
Native pride
I like our movies expect for our horror genre. We focus on gore alot and it is really disgusting but not scary.
Guitar_Freak22
American movies used to be great. Now they really suck. Hollywood doesn't really focus on good stories anymore, they mainly focus on stories with drugs, sex, murder, explicit violence, etc.

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I would ask that your choices be put into correct format, spelled correctly and all that fun stuff.
RaptorJesus
QUOTE(Guitar_Freak22 @ Nov 11 2006, 01:40 PM) *
Hollywood doesn't really focus on good stories anymore, they mainly focus on stories with drugs, sex, murder, explicit violence, etc.

The content of a movie is not the same as the content of it's story.
Guitar_Freak22
QUOTE(RaptorJesus @ Nov 11 2006, 02:52 PM) *
The content of a movie is not the same as the content of it's story.


Yet most of the movies now inculde all that were mentioned.
RaptorJesus
QUOTE(Guitar_Freak22 @ Nov 11 2006, 04:23 PM) *
Yet most of the movies now inculde all that were mentioned.

As our culture evolves, so does the content of our movies, but the stories of those movies do not change.
Guitar_Freak22
QUOTE(RaptorJesus @ Nov 11 2006, 03:26 PM) *
As our culture evolves, so does the content of our movies, but the stories of those movies do not change.


True, I made a mistake. The CONTENT, rather than the story.
Native pride
QUOTE(Guitar_Freak22 @ Nov 11 2006, 10:40 AM) *
American movies used to be great. Now they really suck. Hollywood doesn't really focus on good stories anymore, they mainly focus on stories with drugs, sex, murder, explicit violence, etc.

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I would ask that your choices be put into correct format, spelled correctly and all that fun stuff.

Yeah all the old movies (the godfather, star wars) were great. So far there has been no movies like that. There have been alot of good movies but there are not that many.
djbob
Flushed Away sounds like a good movie. Just because the plot seems a little awkward doesn't mean it can't be a good movie.
Native pride
QUOTE(djbob @ Nov 11 2006, 02:28 PM) *
Flushed Away sounds like a good movie. Just because the plot seems a little awkward doesn't mean it can't be a good movie.

I never liked Disney movies. I will probably take my niece and nephews to the movies.
RaptorJesus
QUOTE(djbob @ Nov 11 2006, 05:28 PM) *
Flushed Away sounds like a good movie. Just because the plot seems a little awkward doesn't mean it can't be a good movie.

I refuse to see it because I'm already sick of the CGI 3D movie fad that started with Shrek and Ice Age.

Now, as far as good movies go, you people just havn't been watching any of them. Running Scared. Gone in 60 Seconds. The Bourne Identity and it's sequel The Bourne Supremecy. All truly great stories, which make them truly great movies.
Timebandit
QUOTE(RaptorJesus @ Nov 11 2006, 03:03 PM) *
I refuse to see it because I'm already sick of the CGI 3D movie fad that started with Shrek and Ice Age.


yes, exactly. It pretty much started with Toy Story though.
Band of Brothers was a good movie. Black Hawk Down was good to, but Top Gun was great. Or you could just sit and watch those cheesy, super violent movies on SciFi. laugh.gif
Native pride
I like comedy or just straight up action.
RaptorJesus
QUOTE(Timebandit @ Nov 11 2006, 06:07 PM) *
yes, exactly. It pretty much started with Toy Story though.

Eh, sort of, but Toy Story didn't spark the fad. Ice Age came out and then it just exploded.
Native pride
QUOTE(RaptorJesus @ Nov 11 2006, 03:23 PM) *
Eh, sort of, but Toy Story didn't spark the fad. Ice Age came out and then it just exploded.

It was really Disney. They made Ice age and Finding Nemo and then hollywood relized that money can be pumped out of so we have...
Flushed away
Over the Headge
Open season
Happy feet
Cars
Holy Shoes 3
uhhmm Chicken Little, Monster House.
Native pride
QUOTE(Holy Shoes 3 @ Nov 11 2006, 04:10 PM) *
uhhmm Chicken Little, Monster House.

Chiken Little was really bad, but I heard that Monster house was not that bad.
Holy Shoes 3
Monster House was pretty good. My friends little sister baught it on DVD and it came with 3-D glasses. All in all it was pretty good. Chicken Little was alright, It said that it was like the number 1 comedy in commercials but I didn't think it was that funny.
Native pride
QUOTE(Holy Shoes 3 @ Nov 11 2006, 05:02 PM) *
Monster House was pretty good. My friends little sister baught it on DVD and it came with 3-D glasses. All in all it was pretty good. Chicken Little was alright, It said that it was like the number 1 comedy in commercials but I didn't think it was that funny.

Th box had some sort of animated wheel that does not spin.
myusrnm
American movie taste sucks. Except for Heroes (TV show), which I think is American...

Oh and Dakoda, search in these two web pages for anime
http://www.yourtvlinks.com/
http://www.findago.com/series

I had more, but I only had links on the old forums...
chuck
I never really liked anime too much, mostly because of the crappy japanese pop theme songs.
Holy Shoes 3
I heard about it and some kids in my school draw anime characters. I never watched it or even saw it on t.v. before.
Native pride
QUOTE(Holy Shoes 3 @ Nov 12 2006, 09:03 AM) *
I heard about it and some kids in my school draw anime characters. I never watched it or even saw it on t.v. before.

We have alot of asian k ids in or school and (not sterotyping) alot of them enjoy anime. Some have yu-gi-oh and bring them to the libary and duel and others wear Yu-GI-Oh.
chuck
QUOTE(Holy Shoes 3 @ Nov 12 2006, 09:03 AM) *
I heard about it and some kids in my school draw anime characters. I never watched it or even saw it on t.v. before.



you're not missing out on anything.
bobalini
In my opinion anime is quite strange... 3 diffrent mouth frames for talking and all those weird lines and water drops going down their face when they feel embarrised ect... and all the happy.gif and sleep.gif It is o so strange...
Native pride
I think Anime is really dumb. First of all the mouth timing is off and he theme songs get stuck in my head. Finlay alot of the shows like Naroto try to be funny but are just really dumb.
purrflicta
as far as Anime... i got turned off manga reading the first naruto... it was... wierd, anyone whose read it would know.
as far as everyone else, i agree with G_F22... Hollywood's mantra is "sex sells" i swear... even kids movies have kissing in them somewhere, any genre, any topic, you have passionate kissing (how passionate depends on the rating... different in shreck than, say, Frankenstien)... and a lot of movies sell based on the main character loosing thier virginity in the movie... now that's just wrong...
djbob
Well, the kissing in the kid movies is more romantic than sexual.
punkrocker45
I hate most movies out today, the plots are shallow (all my opinion here), the actors (most of them) suck, and the camera does little to improve it. Most of the good movies are from the 30's to about the late 90's. I love black comedy the most, movies like Dr.Strangelove and Heathers.
LucresSerebii
I've seen Branyard, and it sucked. Monster House was pretty good, and Cars looks Okay. And Purr, youre right.
S.W.A.T
American taste mostly sucks. The only good movie that came out this year is Over The Hedge.

myncknm
I recently watched part of Final Destination 3. It was the most grotesque mixture of blood, gore, and pornography in horiffic ways.
myscrnnm
American movie taste is okay. But IMO Japanese and Hong Kong is the best. And with British movie taste, it's either really good or really bad, go figure.
Holy Shoes 3
I like American movie taste, mainly because I grew up with it. The movies like Over The Hedge aren't that great but I like Monster House. I like comedy the most.
S.W.A.T
QUOTE(Holy Shoes 3 @ Nov 25 2006, 03:14 PM) *
I like American movie taste, mainly because I grew up with it. The movies like Over The Hedge aren't that great but I like Monster House. I like comedy the most.

I grew up with Austin Powers.
Holy Shoes 3
lol Austin Powers is awesome! I have all of the Austin Power movies.
punkrocker45
I'm pretty weird when it comes to movies, in a way. Any action, drama, adventure, 'romance' I watch is usually the older movies, and any horror or comedy that I watch is usually the newer movies.
S.W.A.T
QUOTE(Holy Shoes 3 @ Dec 3 2006, 10:12 AM) *
lol Austin Powers is awesome! I have all of the Austin Power movies.


I saw them all. The latter titles are taken from James Bond.

The Spy Who Shagged Me is actually The Spy Who Loved Me and Goldmember is Goldfinger.
LucresSerebii
I just saw Lady in the Water. It was strange, but okay.
myscrnnm
QUOTE(RaptorJesus @ Nov 11 2006, 03:24 PM) *
Eh, sort of, but Toy Story didn't spark the fad. Ice Age came out and then it just exploded.

No, Toy Story was a huge leap in graphical capabilities.
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