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rubbish film 0/10

posted 14 years ago by astro_5000
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ok i just finished watching 'tropic thunder' [a comedy obviously] just to be dropped to a low for this unrealistic film. I started halfway of the film so i never saw the beginning but seriously its depressing and unrealistic.

1. first off why do women always ask for equality and get mad if a man says the female gender is weak? they always run away, just kick him in the balls already

I mean she tried to stab him with a needle? wtf?? just smash him over the head with a butterfly case or a painting

for christs sake she tries to french kiss the cloth with chloroform, many times she looked like she would be smart to bite him but she just took it.

2. she tries to have sex with him? slut or what, i mean its a gamble that isn't worth it and if you're dealing with a psycho that can't be bargained with it would be pointless. You can't reason with a person who has no rational train of thought that you can meet half way i.e if you don't do something he hates you, do something and he thinks you're a liar

3. bad acting from the women, she didn't thump him that hard, also wtf? if you're gonna hit someone finish him off not play 'lets wrestle on the lawn'

4. why would she get ill so easily?

5. you drink orange juice calmly after you've been chloroformed? where did she get kidnapped from? the school of 'high class/high-end' damsels in distress???

THROW THE DAMN GLASS AT HIS FACE AND SCRATCH HIS EYES OUT

its like she wanted freedom but not willing to fight for it, she wanted it in a neat little bow. Due to her stupidity another women is gonna die a slow death.

story would still be stupid but made more sense if he felt bad and realised like butterflies you can't keep them caged up or sumthin...meh i knew she would die...so unoriginal depressing and rubbish.

If it wasn't for this website i wouldn't even know there's a book, why buy it? seriously i wouldn't pay money to be depressed. You have the news for that. 0/10

[–] Child_OfThe_Moon 14 years ago

1. first off why do women always ask for equality and get mad if a man says the female gender is weak? they always run away, just kick him in the balls already

That's only radical feminists, buddy. The majority of sane-minded women realise and accept the differences between the sexes. And "kicking him in the balls" only works if you have a chance to run immediately afterward. With the shovel incident, Miranda was clearly disgusted by what she'd done and wasn't able to go further. She was supposed to be a pacifist, and yes, some people truly are that way (feeling extreme disgust at the sight of blood).

2. she tries to have sex with him? slut or what, i mean its a gamble that isn't worth it and if you're dealing with a psycho that can't be bargained with it would be pointless.

A gamble? You act like having sex with someone is akin to tearing off a limb. Miranda didn't know that it was futile because she wasn't aware that the man she was dealing with was practically asexual and thought of sex as dirty.

You can't reason with a person who has no rational train of thought that you can meet half way i.e if you don't do something he hates you, do something and he thinks you're a liar

And you also can't be reasonable when you've been violently thrown out of your comfort zone, imprisoned with no human contact, fear for your life, and are incredibly desperate to escape. It makes a lot of women so unreasonable that they fall in love with their captors (Stockholm Syndrome).

5. you drink orange juice calmly after you've been chloroformed? where did she get kidnapped from? the school of 'high class/high-end' damsels in distress???

He kidnapped her while she was walking down a deserted street. Not that implausible; in the book he said he'd run over a dog and needed help. Ted Bundy captured a lot of victims with similar excuses.

story would still be stupid but made more sense if he felt bad and realised like butterflies you can't keep them caged up or sumthin...meh i knew she would die...so unoriginal depressing and rubbish.

You mean one of those corny Hollywood endings where the sick, twisted psychopath suddenly does a 180 degree turn and grows a heart so the audience can feel warm and fuzzy inside? Really, how often do you hear about a man imprisoning a girl and then releasing her?

If it wasn't for this website i wouldn't even know there's a book, why buy it? seriously i wouldn't pay money to be depressed. You have the news for that. 0/10

Because the book is not intended primarily as a thriller and has excellent character development which the film totally neglects to include. The director used only the book's action scenes, which were few and far between, and produced a shallow account of the original story. And as for the story being depressing, that's life. Art doesn't just exist to cheer people up.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man

[–] Falconeer 14 years ago

Wow, you didn't understand one single thing about this film; unreal...I hope you don't sleepwalk through life the way you sleepwalked through this multi-layered and effective film. "Why didn't she scratch his eyes out, or hit him harder with the shovel, or knee him in the groin?" Maybe you should give up film and turn to wrestling for your entertainment; maybe it's more on your level?

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[–] Zoomorph 14 years ago

You can't reason with a person who has no rational train of thought that you can meet half way i.e if you don't do something he hates you, do something and he thinks you're a liar

Congrats, you missed the point of this film.

~ Observe, and act with clarity. ~

[–] arubi2 14 years ago

Misogynistic pig!

[–] GethinVanH 13 years ago

The original poster sounds like the character in the film who called Picasso and Catcher in the Rye rubbish. I have to wonder if this is a a troll.

[–] willjohn 13 years ago

He is probably a Rambo fan.

[–] daughterofolaf 12 years ago

Well you're right about her wanting freedom but not wanting to physically fight for it. In the book she specifically states this, too, after her weak attempt at attacking him with an axe. An AXE and she failed to escape. And she states violence against him is not right because it would bring her to his level.

I actually love love the book but only the parts from his perspective. Most of the segment from her perspective is unbearable because she is such an unpleasant, uppity biatch. I didn't care if she died.

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