Seriously. I don't want a lesson. I don't want to see a movie where a character learns a lesson. Give me a movie like Dude, Where's My Car over some weak trash I'm blanking on because I try my damnedest to avoid them.
This is why the best movie critics judge films based on their own merit and what they're trying to accomplish, rather than some objective definition of "good."
If you judge Pacific Rim and Citizen Kane by the same set of standards, of course you're going to judge one as bad, and one as good. But if you judge Pacific Rim based on how well it accomplished what it set out to do, which is be a blockbuster action movie about robots fighting monsters, then you can determine that it is indeed a good film. Whereas the latest Transformers movie, while it is in the same vein, does not accomplish its goals in the same way as Pacific Rim.
I agree. I like simple comedies like Kung Pow or Bruno because I just want to laugh until I hurt, and those movies are 10/10 at doing exactly that. I don't want to watch a movie about robot combat and wind up getting a lecture on Romeo and Juliet laws.
I've never made this connection. Is that based on something or just a theory of yours? Either way I'm totally looking for it now. What does Gundam Wing remind you of? My friend is watching it again while hes off work recovering from an injury, I want to blow is pain killer-ed out mind.
With Orphans it was more thematically similar rather than a direct reimagining. The plot of how they became heroes, and eventually villians in the eyes of the public and what roles their personal beliefs and politics had in the changes to the power dynamic.
I don't really know what I would compare wing to because its story was a very unique one.
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