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[quote=mredskins;1012263]That is the funny part there is no US standard he made that up! Like 90% of the crap he spews on here.[/quote]

Lol I gotta agree with you. I think the 5 star system is the most widely used but its not a standard system. People use whatever system they want.

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Only CB59 has the power to create a dispute in the movie thread.

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Just epic in this thread

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[quote=CRedskinsRule;1012259]wtf are you going on about. as long as the rater says x out of 4 or y out of 5 the reader on a Skins site gets the idea. I understood what the other posters were saying who the heck cares if US standard is out of 4 or 5.[/quote]

All I'm saying is movies are four stars and other things are five stars. Just letting posters know that they're misusing the star rating system. I prefer the 10 point imdb scale or the four star scale. Five star scale I use for restaurants and hotels like every other normal person does.



On a side note I saw the watch. Not as awful as I thought. Got a couple of laughs. I'd give it 2 stars out of 4. Or a 5 out of 10. Or 3.14 (pi) out of 5 on your misused five star scale

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[quote=Chico23231;1012273]Just epic in this thread[/quote]

I didn't really like epic that much. I'd give it 1 1/2 stars out of 4. :)

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Haha I'm just messing with you all.


Except you mredskins and That Guy!

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1012256]See the above kid[/quote]

learn to read, kid. your stupidity is breath taking... in it's stupidity.

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[quote=That Guy;1012315]learn to read, kid. your stupidity is breath taking... in it's stupidity.[/quote]

I've learned to not argue with idiots because they bring you down to their own level of stupidity..

BTW just checked my FiOS guide all shows/ movies are rated on 5 stars.

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[quote=dmek25;1012013][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md6Dvxdr0AQ&feature=player_detailpage"]World War Z Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Brad Pitt Movie HD - YouTube[/url]

what about this itvnetop?[/quote]

When the trailer dropped, I thought this will be epic or horrible. Early word is positive and I'm looking forward to the actual story. Big fan of Enos (The Killing, Big Love), too.

Not sure about the zombie CGI, but it may look better in the theater.

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I hope I don't have to see my movie thread get closed over this nonsense, everyone's got their own rating system with the same concepts in mind, end of discussion.

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Cult, please enlighten us with your insight into the MPAA's rating system.

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Me reading this thread right now..

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I heard nothing but bad reviews on Superman. I hatte comic book movies and I dont get the whole appeal outside of kids. Ill take an excellent, original story over special effects/cgi all day long.

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[quote=Chico23231;1012372]I heard nothing but bad reviews on Superman. I hatte comic book movies and I dont get the whole appeal outside of kids. Ill take an excellent, original story over special effects/cgi all day long.[/quote]

I am starting to agree with you I am kind of burnt on the whole super hero film stuff.

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[quote=Chico23231;1012372]I heard nothing but bad reviews on Superman. I hatte comic book movies and I dont get the whole appeal outside of kids. Ill take an excellent, original story over special effects/cgi all day long.[/quote]

Thats why you should check out "This is the End."

Its a great flick and one of the few movies that I've laughed all the way through from beginning to end. The last movies I can think of that made me laugh like that was the 40 year old Virgin, Hangover and Super Bad. A must see in my opinion, and I'd rather see it again than see Superman for the first time (although I will see superman in theaters for its special effects)

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1012377]Thats why you should check out "This is the End."

Its a great flick and one of the few movies that I've laughed all the way through from beginning to end. The last movies I can think of that made me laugh like that was the 40 year old Virgin, Hangover and Super Bad. A must see in my opinion, and I'd rather see it again than see Superman for the first time (although I will see superman in theaters for its special effects)[/quote]

Yeah I like comedies and heard This is the End is good. Im def gonna see it.

My favorite movies of the last year 1. Flight 2. Zero Dark Thirty 3. Silver Linings Playblook

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[quote=Chico23231;1012382]Yeah I like comedies and heard This is the End is good. Im def gonna see it.

My favorite movies of the last year 1. Flight 2. Zero Dark Thirty 3. Silver Linings Playblook[/quote]

I've heard mixed (Superman-like reviews) for Flight: Either very good or not good at all.

Silver Linings Playbook was good, nothing Great.

Zero Dark Thirty I loved.

So far the movies I saw this year in order of best to worst:

1. This is the End
2. Hangover III (it was better than the 2nd!)
3. Iron Man 3 (I'm like you, too many superhero movies, too predictable now. And the villian sucked. This was the worst Iron Man IMO)

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Kind of a sleeper is Last Stand with Arnold. I drank a few beers while watching it and generally enjoyed it.

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Amazing they can't make a good Superman movie these days.

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1012386]I've heard mixed (Superman-like reviews) for Flight: Either very good or not good at all.

Silver Linings Playbook was good, nothing Great.

Zero Dark Thirty I loved.

So far the movies I saw this year in order of best to worst:

1. This is the End
2. Hangover III (it was better than the 2nd!)
3. Iron Man 3 (I'm like you, too many superhero movies, too predictable now. And the villian sucked. This was the worst Iron Man IMO)[/quote]

Flight is a must see. Original story and a lil unpredictable. Densel, Goodman were great.

Silver Linings for me was all the about the message and superior acting. Lawrence shows why she is going to become the best actress on the planet shortly. De Niro is the De Niro of old and steals scenes from Cooper the entire movie.

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[quote=Chico23231;1012392]Flight is a must see. Original story and a lil unpredictable. Densel, Goodman were great.

Silver Linings for me was all the about the message and superior acting. Lawrence shows why she is going to become the best actress on the planet shortly. De Niro is the De Niro of old and steals scenes from Cooper the entire movie.[/quote]

I just rented Flight based on your review from Redbox; unfortunately Redbox use the non-US Standard of 5 stars for reviewing so it is always difficult to trust their reviews.

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for the record, I will now use a 13 star review system out of respect for the original US flag.

since I have only seen one movie this year, and wanting to leave room for others, I give Star Trek 2 an 11 star rating (Delaware and Maryland abstained)

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[quote=mredskins;1012399]I just rented Flight based on your review from Redbox; unfortunately Redbox use the non-US Standard of 5 stars for reviewing so it is always difficult to trust their reviews.[/quote]

I rarely do this, but here you go.

I'm sorry for ridiculing you yesterday.

I was wrong about the 4 star rating. I see that on Verizon Fios they use it and Redbox as you mentioned. I went off my most common critic forms of using the Washington Post, Local ABC 7 News with Arch Campbell, Newsday, Rollingstone, to my Cox and Comcast TV guides (major to local news & entertainment outlets, you get the idea here) thinking that since many of my entertainment outlets that use the star system out of 4, that there is no 5 star system for movies. But as you pointed out, Verizon and Red Box & Netflix, both of which I've used very seldomly, also use the 5 star system. I was wrong. My apologies again, mredskins.

Back to movies

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1012329]I've learned to not argue with idiots because they bring you down to their own level of stupidity..[/quote]

well, you should know. whenever you do find that hole you crawled out of though, please lock yourself in. it'd be a huge favor to the human race.

thanks in advance.

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[quote=That Guy;1012413]well, you should know. whenever you do find that hole you crawled out of though, please lock yourself in. it'd be a huge favor to the human race.

thanks in advance.[/quote]

What do you want an apology to? HA! cause you're not getting one! If you can read, you'll see that we're done talking about yesterdays rating systems. Give me a movie review or recommendation, or getting going.

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1012411]I rarely do this, but here you go.

I'm sorry for ridiculing you yesterday.

I was wrong about the 4 star rating. I see that on Verizon Fios they use it and Redbox as you mentioned. I went off my most common critic forms of using the Washington Post, Local ABC 7 News with Arch Campbell, Newsday, Rollingstone, to my Cox and Comcast TV guides (major to local news & entertainment outlets, you get the idea here) thinking that since many of my entertainment outlets that use the star system out of 4, that there is no 5 star system for movies. But as you pointed out, Verizon and Red Box & Netflix, both of which I've used very seldomly, also use the 5 star system. I was wrong. My apologies again, mredskins.

Back to movies[/quote]

No worries! It actually blossomed into a humorous segment here. If you have any hard feeling my apologies as well.

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^No we're cool mredskins

Since it is a movie thread I thought I'd ask a movie related question.

Who is the best director today in terms of successful films? By successful I mean a majority of audiences and/or critics like the movie.

My choice would be Christopher Nolan. The guy has yet to have a bad movie, IMO.

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1012454]^No we're cool mredskins

Since it is a movie thread I thought I'd ask a movie related question.

Who is the best director today in terms of successful films? By successful I mean a majority of audiences and/or critics like the movie.

My choice would be Christopher Nolan. The guy has yet to have a bad movie, IMO.[/quote]

Agreed Christopher Nolan or Ridley Scott.

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1012414]What do you want an apology to? HA! cause you're not getting one! If you can read, you'll see that we're done talking about yesterdays rating systems. Give me a movie review or recommendation, or getting going.[/quote]

did i ask for an apology? i really think you'd be well served by following your own advice.

and, uh, way to troll a thread! why don't you go ahead and claim credit for more HTTR tweets or paste some more racist jokes.

you add SOOO much to this site, i love you.

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[quote=That Guy;1012509]did i ask for an apology? i really think you'd be well served by following your own advice.

and, uh, way to troll a thread! [B]why don't you go ahead and claim credit for more HTTR tweets or paste some more racist jokes[/B].

you add SOOO much to this site, i love you.[/quote]

This has no facts or truth to it whatsoever. Examples?

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[quote=skinsfanthru&thru;1012494]Agreed Christopher Nolan or Ridley Scott.[/quote]

Tarantinos another one, although some didn't think highly of Jackie Brown and Death Proof.

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[quote=That Guy;1012509]did i ask for an apology? i really think you'd be well served by following your own advice.

and, uh, way to troll a thread! why don't you go ahead and claim credit for more HTTR tweets or paste some more racist jokes.

you add SOOO much to this site, i love you.[/quote]

Let it go man.

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Directors: David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Paul Anderson, Guy Ritchie, Spielberg

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^ Finchers a good one. Seven was a great flick as was social network. He also did fight club which is widely considered a great movie. I thought it was ok.

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Tyler Perry /end thread

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[quote=SmootSmack;1012531]Tyler Perry /end thread[/quote]

:laughing2

Let Madea go man

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Lee Unkrich. Finding Nemo and Monsters, Inc. (co-director but still counts), and Toy Story 3 (which he directed by himself). Those movies are good no matter how old, smart, or anything else you are.

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[quote=donofriose;1012593]Lee Unkrich. Finding Nemo and Monsters, Inc. (co-director but still counts), and Toy Story 3 (which he directed by himself). Those movies are good no matter how old, smart, or anything else you are.[/quote]

I like it!

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1012522]Tarantinos another one, although some didn't think highly of Jackie Brown and Death Proof.[/quote]

I personally think Tarantino is super overrated. I'd agree about someone naming David Fincher and if he keeps up the pace he's on, Ben Affleck.