Cinemexperience: part deux., Some more filums you saw. Options

[Zoe]

God, I hated it. Zach and Miri is Mallrats by comparison.

Mallrats is my favourite.

[Sostie]

I love Clerks 2, I really think it's great.

The words "fucking" and "awful" spring to mind

[Zoe]

'Clerks Poo'

[Rua]

I love Clerks 2, I really think it's great.

It's awful. Just awful.

Embarrasing in fact.

[GundamGuy_UK]

I really enjoyed it...

[Rua]

The world is a Rainbow.

[Sostie]

The world is a Rainbow.

And Clerks 2 is the brown stripe

[Serafina_Pekkala]

The Core

Being an actual bonefide geologist I should have switched this film off within the first 1/2 hour but I actually carried on watching it until the end. It has more holes in it, (both scientific and plot wise), than a very holey thing but its still quite entertaining and there are some interesting set-pieces. They were doing well on the science part in their descriptions of the Earth's structure and when they simplified things they even said that they had simplified it, but it lost me when they started flamethrowing a peach for no reason at all other than to shit people up. It went downhill from there and didn't really make any sense ever again. However, it must have been doing something right though as I watched it until the end, despite it finishing way past my bedtime, and I actually cared when a couple of the characters died.

And Aaron Eckhart being a geek in glasses is positively pant-thrilling.

[monkeyman]

The Core

Being an actual bonefide geologist I should have switched this film off within the first 1/2 hour but I actually carried on watching it until the end. It has more holes in it, (both scientific and plot wise), than a very holey thing but its still quite entertaining and there are some interesting set-pieces. They were doing well on the science part in their descriptions of the Earth's structure and when they simplified things they even said that they had simplified it, but it lost me when they started flamethrowing a peach for no reason at all other than to shit people up. It went downhill from there and didn't really make any sense ever again. However, it must have been doing something right though as I watched it until the end, despite it finishing way past my bedtime, and I actually cared when a couple of the characters died.

I saw some of the opening hour or so of that. Maybe you can explain soemthing for me as I missed what was said. I thought Ihad heard the black scientist guy explaining that his hole making machine was sound based? Like sonic waves or something and then demonstrates it...it was sillybut whatever. And then he does a demonstration firing it at a black box with a mouse in it, and the beam passes through the box without damaging it or the mouse but still makes a hole in the wall behind it. Surely if the hole making machine was sound based that just wouldn't work?
I realise debating the realism of this film is pointless but that struck me as particularly silly. I don't think that I could write a script and let there be such a big hole in it as that.

[Jimmay]

I've had Clerks 2 for about a year and I've not even bothered opening it yet.

I saw some of the opening hour or so of that. Maybe you can explain soemthing for me as I missed what was said. I thought Ihad heard the black scientist guy explaining that his hole making machine was sound based? Like sonic waves or something and then demonstrates it...it was sillybut whatever. And then he does a demonstration firing it at a black box with a mouse in it, and the beam passes through the box without damaging it or the mouse but still makes a hole in the wall behind it. Surely if the hole making machine was sound based that just wouldn't work?
I realise debating the realism of this film is pointless but that struck me as particularly silly. I don't think that I could write a script and let there be such a big hole in it as that.

It was essentially a huge ultrasound machine, the same thing that they use to break up kidney stones but on a much larger scale. The metal box was made of a new metal polymer dubbed "unobtainium" which is the strongest amazingly strong and is discovered by the creator of the laser (and also gets stronger the hotter it gets apparently which I don't think is possible but hey.) The demonstration of the strength of the metal was to show how it could withstand all of the heat and pressure in the Earth's core. It's a bit ridiculous but the made up metal does explain it in a silly but satisfactory way. It really is the least of their worries.

This post has been edited by Jimmay: Dec 17 2008, 03:07 PM

[dandan]

i hated 'mallrats' and 'dogma'. 'clerks' and 'chasing amy' were watchable, not sure how badly they may have dated...

[GundamGuy_UK]

How can you hate Mallrats?

[Zoe]

A mutual love of Mallrats is how I select my mating partners.

[GundamGuy_UK]

A mutual love of Mallrats is how I select my mating partners.

Do you just ask them, or try and work in a quote and see if they finish it off?

[Chapman Baxter]

A mutual love of Mallrats is how I select my mating partners.

I know someone who does that with Ghostbusters.