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  1. Lol. This forum still actually exists? If you include "still here" as me looking at what's new every couple years or so since the forum took a big dump all over itself, then I guess I'm still here. Ok. Its been nice. See yall in a couple of years.
  2. Your superior tone would be less annoying if you hadn't started this thread as a troll/social experiment. Superior tone would suggest that I am trying to sound superior. I am not trying to be superior. I just AM.
  3. Have you seen the Justin Bieber documentary about his life and struggles? It's totally a great heartfelt movie full of suspense, and action, and it has a happy ending. No? Well you can't make a decision about it until after you have sat through the entire 2 hour movie. Haven't seen it. I'm not the least bit of a fan of his music, but I do respect the kid for working as hard as he does. I dont know if you are joking or not, but I have actually heard those exact things from people that have seem it. I haven't seen it so I am not going to knock it at all. I suspect, if I was flipping through the channels, and came upon it and found it interesting, I would probably watch it. I wouldn't care that it was about Justin Beiber. I dont need to be interested in his music to be interested in his story. Nobody gets to be that huge of a megastar without working their ass off.
  4. To play devil's advocate, I don't have to eat a {censored} sandwich to know that it's not gonna taste good. Finally! Someone with a unique, well thought out and original argument! The old {censored} sandwich cliche! Brilliant!
  5. Just to chime in. Due to my distaste of 80s music in that vein, I didn't really enjoy the musical aspect of the film. Which, yeah, is sorta important. But the movie, dramatic bits that didn't involve the two leads were legitimately pretty fun. Alec Baldwin, Russel Brand, Paul Giamatti, Tom Cruise, all those bits, pretty damn entertaining. It's a movie that is (mostly) the RIGHT kind of stupid. Not as bad as I was expecting. The girlfriend loved it, but she's into musicals anyway. This pretty much sun's it up. "The right kind of stupid is exactly it." I just want to drive home, one last time, not to opt out of the movie because A) you are not in to hair metal. Yes the movie is built around that theme, but the movie without any music is entertaining enough not to miss, even if you despise hair metal. The operative word is fun. It is a fun movie, and when I say that, thinking back on the movie, all the parts I am thinking about as fun, have very little to do with what songs are playing, what genra the music is, or how good or bad the performances are. Most of the fun parts for me dont really even involve music. B: I forgot what B was, but I think I covered it in A. Dont overthink it. It is a silly, fun movie. But just know that the music has a lot less to do with the movie being fun than you would expect from a "musical". If you want to go spend a couple entertaining hours sitting in a theater, this movie WILL entertain you. So far, the tally is, NO ONE that has reported in this thread as having seen it has said it wasn't worthwhile. If you haven't seen it, all you can do is talk about why you "think" it might suck. The movie is probably not what you are expecting it to be. It was definitely not what I was expecting. That's all I'm saying. I'll stop trying to convince closed minds that are speaking of which they do not know. Very happy to acknowledge 100% of someone's right to absolutely hate it, if they have in fact, seen it. I would be surprised, but I would respect their opinion. Everyone else is guessing, and most are not exactly getting what the movie is about. It is not really what you are expecting.
  6. Well, if it wasn't apparent that was sarcasam. Feeling morally superior to me is saying you hate it because you don't want to seem shallow. No, I got that it was sarcasm. I didn't get the moral part, and thought a word like intellectually superior, or musically superior fit better since the argument in the thread seems to be about musical performances and what the film delivers or doesn't in that context. It seemed like morally came out of left field. I still dont see how saying you hate it because you want to feel superior to someone has anything to do with morality. Anyway, I got the sarcasm part though.
  7. I'm just going to say I hate it so I can feel morally superior. What does morality have to do with it?
  8. I heard CC DeVille on Sirius the other day saying Cruise 'passed the test' and that he, Brett, Ricki and Bobbi have all offered Tom a spot opening for Poison. That being said, is the movie awful to sit through or is it more an amazing bad movie like Death Wish IV The Crackdown that is very enjoyable to watch? Also, I have not been able to find any clips of Tom Cruise singing. I would think he could probably sing ok, as he has been in show business a long time. I'll give you a hint; the movie really wasn't about singing performances, although there were some great ones, and some equally awful ones. Tom Cruises singing wasn't great at all, as I would expect, but it was adequate enough to allow him to deliver his "character" in the movie which he absolutely destroyed, in a good way. The singing wasn't the point at all. It was almost an afterthought. Tom Cruise absolutely dominated and stole every scene he was in. This is one of the times when his melodramatic, over the top intense style really worked perfectly. He has a tendency to either nail it big time or flop completely. He so nailed this role I'm not even going to try to explain it with words. And I'm no fan boy of his. I've absolutely hated him in alot of things others have considered him brilliant in. I will reiterate, Tom's adequate at best singing had nothing to do with his character. It wasn't the point at all and not very important in context. He WAS, however, the ULTIMATE rockstar! After watching the movie, you will get why all of the rock dudes from that era are so eager to give him high marks. So much hate and overanalyzing is going on in this thread. You guys are WAY over thinking it and taking it WAY too seriously. This movie, which may be surprising to those who haven't seen it, is not at all about vocal performances, or musical performances. They sing, almost as an afterthought just to remind you that, oh yeah, I guess since it is a musical that the characters should at least somewhat sing. The songs just help tell the story and move the film along. Come on, did you really expect Alec Baldwin to have a great eighties rock voice? Well, news flash; he doesn't, but in the movie, it doesn't matter and is almost irrelevant. He and Russel Brand were both hilarious. You guys are way over thinking it. If I had to describe this movie in three words, they would be, a "heck of a lot of fun, and oh yeah, Tom Cruise deserves every Penny he makes as an actor". That is all. There is nothing more complicated to it than that. If some of you people bashing the crap out of it would get rid of all your expectations of what you think it should be, or what you expect it to be, and just go in with a blank slate and sit and watch the thing, you will enjoy it. You will have fun. And lastly, it is hilarious to read some of the reviews in this thread from people who obviously haven't seen it and have no intentions of seeing it but have already made up their minds on what it is about. I've seen a couple reviews literally parroting reviews I have read on the net or in media as if the thoughts are actually coming from the poster. Hillarious. Just drop all of your expectations of "performances" or songs, guitar playing, etc, because all that is an afterthought. It is not important in the context of the movie and doesn't matter if it is good or bad, although it wasn't by any means all bad.. I would give those of you that absolutely insist on making it about performances the message that the performances ranges from barely adequate, to very good in a few cases. It doesn't matter though. Go see the thing and I promise, you will have fun and you will enjoy it. If not, fair enough, but I am telling you, based on all the reviews and critiques I am reading on here from people who obviously and admittedly haven't seen it but have already made up their minds, you are all missing the point, and this movie isn't about what you think it is about. It is about delivering a good time and a lot of fun to the audience. Simple as that. In that context, the movie wins. I absolutely will see it again.
  9. Anyone who mistakes correctmanship for trolling has no business picking up a guitar. You should donate yours to charity. Yes, but then Django comes right back with something like this and redeems himself. A-.
  10. jjpistols has always been OK by my standards. Wow. Better be careful all the way out there on that limb!
  11. Jj stuck up for me at my darkest hour when everyone else abandoned me. When people said I wasn't fit to even sleep with sheep, Jj stepped in and not on set people straight by saying I was ditto sleep with sheep, he even showed me HOW to do it. I will forever be indebted to him for essentially changing my life. I would vote for JJ for ANYTHING he wanted to run for. If JJ wanted to run for HEIR Burgermeister Meisterburger,I would even be his campagain manager and make the signs. "There will be NO TOYS ALLOWED!" JJ for PRESIDENT! Or mod. Or Burgermeister. Or whatever.
  12. Before you know it, there will be holograms with artificial intelligence. Not long after, they'll demand a vote. And, once we reach the singularity, there'll be forums full of holograms debating the finer points of everything. How can I be sure y'all aren't holograms? Uh... Smell my arm pit??
  13. Those damned new fangled automatic mobiles. They'll never take off. Nothing can ever replace the horse and buggy. Yeah. I never got to see Beethoven, My GOD, perform. I never will. But you'd better believe if they had the technology back then to capture one of his performances, and then present it in modern day as a hologram performance, I would sell a kidney to go see it! Say, His debut of The ninth symphony in which he guest conducted while being totally deaf, you bet your ass I would sell a kidney to go see it. It is just technology. I believe just about all conceivable mediums are fair game for presenting art. How freeking cool is that we have the ability to see a virtual performance of something that would have been impossible before the technology. Look at it this way..... Why is it perfectly acceptable to go see a two dimensional performance of a concert, otherwise known as video, but add a third dimension and all of a sudden it is {censored}? Pretty narrow minded thinking if you ask me. Careful y'all don't get too close to the edge of the world. You might fall off.
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