@palasta: Cloverfield?

@mrbojangles25:

The Dune debacle of 1984, I blame on the producers for hiring David Lynch. Like you said, people have a pretty concrete vision of what Dune should be, yet they let a man known exclusively for contemplative and interpretational cinema helm the project.

@uninspiredcup: I LOVED Space Godzilla's design with the crystal spikes in the shoulders. I think G's design in Godzilla x Kong is a nod to it.

@Planeforger: The last three American films were okay, but descending in quality with each one. KvG I think the producers thought would sell itself just by the premise and not much thought was given to making strong script.

On the Toho side, Minus One, from what I heard, has the same acting quality as "Final Wars"...very campy and cheesy. But it goes back to my original point. The people that will score that highly while dumping on American movies with the same production values is hypocritical and typical of the average weeb.

They've already declared it a "shitty movie" despite it not coming out until next summer and already say Godzilla Minus One is a better film. It makes one thing painfully obvious:

Not all weebs are Toho G-Fans, but all Toho G-Fans are weebs.

How someone can call low budget and and "The Room" level acting atrocious if done in America, but a masterpiece if done in Japan or automatically rating a movie with a 1 on iMDB and downvoting the trailer on YouTube (yes, even though it's hidden, thumbs downs are still tracked) because it isn't the Japanese version is just baffling weeb behavior.

My opinion on the trailer? It does what it was designed to do, which is get you on a big budget hype train, but if the trends of people just not going to the movies post-COVID continues into 2024, I honestly don't see it doing well in theaters.

And here’s another one: Revenge of the Nerds was actually a prison story.

The weak outcasts look for protection from an all-black gang against an all-white gang whose Greek letters are “AB”.

@mrbojangles25: He said in the moonlight monologue that he missed the warmth of a woman and that they were consumed by their greed and desires.

So yeah, I think the whole doing what marauders do thing was first on his mind once he got his sensations back.

@mattbbpl: Interesting, but I think Burt Reynolds’ character knew what happened. He said he got shot, but he never said WHO did it.

For me, the first Pirates of the Caribbean, when they only cut Keira Knightley’s hand and Barbossa says, “Waste not!”. It wasn’t until much later when I remembered his monologue about not being able to feel or taste did it come together for me and I was like this is lowkey one of the, if not the raciest lines in a movie with Disney branding.

Another was A Nightmare on Elm Street 2. I was a teenager when I first watched it and Jesse sleepwalks into a leather bar and orders a beer. It just so happened his coach was at the same bar and took him to the school to run laps. I had no idea of the leather scene then, so I thought the coach was just punishing him for drinking underage. And then the coach changes into his leather gear in his office while Jesse is taking a shower and pulls out jump ropes. Thankfully, Freddy shows up and kills him. When I watched it again when I got the box set, rather than just laughing at the coach getting his ass popped with a towel by Freddy like I did when I was a teen, I was like 😳 at what Freddy just averted.

I recently watched a YouTuber try to say the Atari Jaguar was a good system because people are now paying more than a PS5 for one. I think that saying how much money you'll spend for a piece of gaming history shows how good it is is a fallacy and the truth behind people buying older systems for more money is more nuanced.

Some people are a part of the collector business and it has become a big business getting your hands on a piece of tech not being manufactured anymore for a trophy or to resell at a higher price. I'm sure people aren't spending $10k on Atlantis v1 on the 2600 to marathon play because they absolutely love it.

Some want the nostalgia of the gaming experience like back in the day. Just like some people like to listen to vinyl over digital or watch laserdisc over DVD. I appreciate a good Sega Genesis or SNES RPG on the consoles they were intended to be played on than on an emulator.

Some missed out on that age of gaming and want to try it in that disposition. I never played a Colecovision back in the day, but I would definitely like to try one on the original hardware, because the controllers just look very unique to use with a very tactile looking joystick.

I'm sure there would be more reasons why people will pay a lot of money for retro, but like I said, it doesn't mean that the system and its games overall were actually underrated mana from heaven.