The last movie you saw....

[|iR|Focalor]

That means all movies mentioned in the same Entertainment Tonight segment that Twilight is must suck. That means that every book my aunt reads and then gets my mom to read who then tries to get ME to read... SUCKS.

[peewee_RotA]

Moral of the story. Real men don't read. Real men watch entertainment tonight. 

[The Happy Friar]

That means all movies mentioned in the same Entertainment Tonight segment that Twilight is must suck. That means that every book my aunt reads and then gets my mom to read who then tries to get ME to read... SUCKS.

I don't watch ET.  :p

The Hunger Games was more about trying not to starve to death and people getting ripped to pieces.  No stupid lovey-dubby romance in it (there is a love story but it's far from the main point of the book).  It's like Running Man with more of a backstory.

[|iR|Focalor]

Moral of the story. Real men don't read. Real men watch entertainment tonight. 

It has nothing to do with wishing to appear manly. It has everything to do with the fact that I don't want to read flavor-of-the-month pure trash. As far as storytelling goes, none of these hack authors these days hold a candle to the classic masters like Voltaire, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, or Mark Twain. Voltaire... THAT was a fucking author. He didn't waste 300 pages of a book with a bunch of pure filler CRAP describing every little detail of the scenery which was not vital to the story. A lot of authors do that these days because their stories all by themselves aren't good enough to fill up an entire book. If it isn't that, it's publishers who force authors to have a minimum number of pages in order to sell the product at their target price.

[The Happy Friar]

I'd say those authors are good compared to now because they've filtered through all the other stuff that was written when they were alive.  The great authors and books survive, the others die out.

[peewee_RotA]

It has nothing to do with wishing to appear manly. It has everything to do with the fact that I don't want to read flavor-of-the-month pure trash. As far as storytelling goes, none of these hack authors these days hold a candle to the classic masters like Voltaire, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, or Mark Twain. Voltaire... THAT was a fucking author. He didn't waste 300 pages of a book with a bunch of pure filler CRAP describing every little detail of the scenery which was not vital to the story. A lot of authors do that these days because their stories all by themselves aren't good enough to fill up an entire book. If it isn't that, it's publishers who force authors to have a minimum number of pages in order to sell the product at their target price.

Oh no, I totally agree with you. I'm refusing to read/watch those the hunger games because it's the flavor of the month. My wife is a twilight fan who watches E.T., and even she agrees that blindly riding that wave is lame.

We'll probably redbox the film in a few months. But nothing else.

[|iR|Focalor]

I'd say those authors are good compared to now because they've filtered through all the other stuff that was written when they were alive.  The great authors and books survive, the others die out.

They (particularly Voltaire) are still better than all of the master storytellers of today. I'll admit, guys like Stephen King for example have turned out a few decent books, but nothing I'd really put on par with the classics. His stuff is better suited for cheesy Creepshow comics if you ask me. Just my opinion. I doubt it's the popular one, but it is what it is.

[The Happy Friar]

I don't like Stephen King or Mark Twain.    I prefer H.G. Wells, Lewis Carroll & Issac Asimov.  I just never found Twain's stuff that fun to read, and when I'm reading fiction I expect it to be fun because it's entertainment.  I spend more time reading technical stuff now though. 

EDIT: I didn't let someone else's opinion of the book decide if I'm going to read it or not.  I'd rather form my own opinions (it helps I didn't see anything but a 30 second movie trailer before I read the book, I actuatly had no clue what it was except that Running Map was a good comparison).  In this case, my son wanted to see the movie and I wasn't comfortable with him seeing a movie based on a book I didn't know anything about (I made that mistake with Harry Potter).  I actually have known the book exists for years but never paid attention to it because to me it was just another book on one side of "I, Robot" and the other side of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy".

[yahoo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mdhLK2DchM

The Selling of SCary Manor

8/10

Saw this one on Cable. Funny and deserves a thumbs up.

[peewee_RotA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mdhLK2DchM

The Selling of SCary Manor

8/10

Saw this one on Cable. Funny and deserves a thumbs up.

Looks hilarious I'm going to try to rent a copy!

[yahoo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mdhLK2DchM

The Selling of SCary Manor

8/10

Saw this one on Cable. Funny and deserves a thumbs up.

Looks hilarious I'm going to try to rent a copy!

I think its an Indy.. dont forget to watch the closing credits since there are some added segments.

[peewee_RotA]

The Darkest Hour (The war of the cloverfields: Judgement day) 9/10

The first solidly Sci-Fi movie I've seen since Pandorum. Most TV tropes are left out, ignored, or skipped over in a very cool time lapse scene. It's refreshing that a movie like this can make it out of the hollywood machine in this day and age. 

[peewee_RotA]

Immortals (2/10)

The action was ok, but the absolute lack of writing talent was... ummm... really bad and umm... it like sucked yo

[peewee_RotA]

Netherbeast Incorporated (6/10)

But Steve from Blue's Clues is the main character... So it's still officially awesome.

[Booya]

Dream House  7.9

Its a thriller. Decent viewing. Twisty from start to end.