Reply With QuoteThe robotic arm wasn't funny, but the eccentricity of RDJ's character that he used the robot arm as a prop for wasn't bad. It was light humor, for a light humor situation. It was not piss your pants funny, but it did not ruin the flow for me at all.
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I disagree with the lowering of standards. I thought this movie was extremely well done and I've yet to really understand why you think Spiderman 1 blows it out of the water. I like Spiderman 1 a lot, but I enjoyed this movie more. When I was done watching this movie I came away with the same feeling I had after I had just watched the original Tim Burton's Batman. It's fun, doesn't do much wrong and fulfills the character's need to a T.
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The robotic arm wasn't funny, but the eccentricity of RDJ's character that he used the robot arm as a prop for wasn't bad. It was light humor, for a light humor situation. It was not piss your pants funny, but it did not ruin the flow for me at all.
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Well, first of all, Spiderman and Batman are just more interesting source material. Batman especially has been interpreted so many ways for so long because it really is just a loaded premise with a lot to explore, and Iron Man as a character does seem like a poor-man's Batman at times (Billionaire with access to fantastic technology and a guilt complex). So I'll admit, right off the bat, that the makers of this movie did not have as much to work with.
Spiderman is a totally different sort of character, the quintessential 60's superhero that sort of plays to the fantasy of what it would be like to actually be a superhero. The way he's less than completely confident, thrust into his role... There's something innocent and appealing about that, and the movie really captured that perfectly. It had a heart and it was just a lot of fun.
Iron Man was kinda fun, it was a kinda interesting character, it only had like 3 action scenes, and they weren't all that exciting and some were kinda weird (why do things just move at full speed and stop instantaneously instead of accelerating?). It didn't really attempt to smooth out the goofy plot, and there was no real emotional climax for the character... There wasn't even a suspenseful climax for the action. The final battle was the least suspenseful thing ever The second he started flying upward everyone knew they're use some excuse to make Iron Monger not go as high, but we still had to wait 3 minutes to see it happen. It just didn't blow me away in any way at all.
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You're wrong.
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That's not hyperbole, that's you making outrageous claims that you don't think you'll be called on.
Yes, people from different parts of the country are different. Surprise. However I don't view it as some sort of magical cultural experience. My point is that comedians are funny as a result of their personal experiences and the way they react and think about them, not the borough where their mom's pussy lived.That said, while I am intentionally being abrasive about how I put it, there is a real cultural difference in how the audiences view comedy here than elsewhere in the country, and I'm sure you have to know this. It's not the same, and that does affect the kind of comedians you see come from here.
Lame argument. It wasn't simply that the word was used and you know it. Saying nigger ironically or as part of an act and screaming it repeatedly at a group of black dudes is not the same thing. I know you don't even believe that LA is routinely chastising comics for using naughty words. In fact I'd be willing to bet nigger was said on stage more times after the Richards deal than before. (obviously not at the Laugh Factory though)For example: In New York and Boston, there are not real boundaries surrounding what is and isn't ok to say on stage. In Los Angeles, Michael Richards has his career ruined for dropping some N-bombs, but most comics I've seen have used that word in their act at some point. You can't offend new york audiences with taboo subjects. Raunchy, aggressive, and abrasive are acceptable. You can, however, offend them with hacky formulaic shit that might go over elsewhere.
New York is not special. Hacky crap doesn't work here either, or in likely any other major metripolitan area.That won't work here. Why? Is it because no one has a sense of humor in that country, or are the audiences just different? Don't play dumb.
I do think there is a difference. Living in the middle of a large city and being on the outskirts is not the same thing. I lived in San Francisco for years while I was in school. If I had lived in Burlingame or even Daly City I wouldn't be living in SF. The day to day experience is very different.Do you think there's a huge cultural difference? I'm in the suburbs a few miles away, I think I can talk about New York.
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Here is a shocker: Spiderman 1 sucked. Well, 2nd half of it did. Not as much suck as Spiderman 3, but suck enough. Spidey 2 was good though.
Ironman was better than all 3.
This movie needed a pair of tits badly. Pepper Potts just wasn't cuttin' it.
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The robot arm was funny, but for you haters of robotic arms, it was only in the movie for all of a 3 minutes.
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pepper potts was way cute. she was a great character and totally fuckable.
and i thought the robotic helpers were great. they were silly and lighthearted and had their own personalities. i loved the fire extinguisher robot; it was damn amusing.
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To be fair, it's not that Canadians have a worse sense of humour than Americans; it's that almost every decent person in entertainment is forced to move to the US since you guys own that industry. Most people here don't watch those shitty Canadian TV shows or movies, and even the stuff that actually does have some viewers (like Trailer Park Boys) isn't any less risque than American stuff anyway.
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