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To close to the truth?

posted 15 years ago by aback-1
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I am still a bit puzzled why this movie is rated so low and when I look through the reviews people seem to love it or hate it, not much in between. Even if you don't get the message below the surface, it is still a good action movie (at least).

Could it be that this movie is for some a bit to painful a look on the false but shiny reality the new media with its computer games and social networking is producing? Could the movie be just to close to the truth that denial kicks in and it is regarded as trash and oh so stereotypical?

I cannot help but to thing of Gamer the minute I see people playing the latest war shooter (myself included) or make friends on facebook one-click. I find myself stepping back and asking "do you realy want that"

Well mostly I give in to the excitement and reload :)

[–] truthpaste 12 years ago

The only part of this garbage remotely resembling truth is the obese mouth breather. This guy represents the bunch currently p1ssing and moaning about anything and everything on the 'Man Of Steel' boards.

[–] Soodinum 12 years ago

1) Learning the difference between too and to isn't too hard to do. (See what I did there?)

2) Don't be silly. A film is 'too close to the truth' and therefore unpopular? Maybe in a film about dentistry, sexual abuse, or what happens behind the counter at McDonald's. You sound like a closet game-hater looking for an angle. (You might not be consciously, but there's the smell of it in your post).

'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings.

[–] toking65000 12 years ago

Is this all you do is go around pointing out spelling mistakes?

Have YOU never made a typo?

This isn't English class, if the message is understandable stay on topic.

Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.

[–] Soodinum 12 years ago

Is following people around all YOU do? Opened my email to find three posts from you following different comments I made on three separate boards. Really, which is creepier?

'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings.

[–] toking65000 12 years ago

No I don't usually follow ppl around on here, until that act like a smug smartass and correct my grammar or spelling, then I make it my mission to find all of their spelling errors and point them out.

And I've noticed you've pointed out a spelling mistake I made and you've done that to a couple of other ppl, SOOOO I just wanted to find one that YOU made.

Yeah it's annoying, isn't it, to find you have a reply to your post just to see it's some smug smartass correcting a typo, and giving absolutly no input to the topic.

And apparantly you invented a new word "wight".

So why are you pointing out other ppl's typos when you make them yourself?

Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.

[–] Soodinum 12 years ago

If I make typos and people point them out, I fix them. Before I got too sick to work I was a language tutor, so sometimes it's a 'force of habit' thing. It ticks me off when people spell badly and don't give a toss. It ticks me off about as much as it does you when people correct spelling, obviously. Stuff like this is the same as opinions about movies; it's different for everyone. Just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean - objectively - that it doesn't matter.

But if it makes you feel better to go trawling through my past posts and then get OT on threads as much as my comments on spelling (apparently) have, then keep up the Lord's work.

'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings.

[–] toking65000 12 years ago

On a side not, if the English language actually made sense ppl might take it more serious, I speak 3 other langauges pretty well and everything is spelled like it sounds, English should be that way.

But the way I see these forums it's just everyday speech of ppl causually talking about movies, they are not FORMAL writting, so it doesn't have to be PERFECT. If this were a job ressume or a formal essay it might be different.

And sometimes ppl type fast, fingers hit the wrong keys, etc...

But this is something I see on IMDB ALL THE TIME, someone makes ONE typo, it's pointed out then there are 20 follow up posts commenting on the typo. It's like make one typo or misplace ONE letter and it's a source of endless comedy at IMDB. LOL

I was once called the "stupidest person on Earth" b/c I spelled "friend" "frEInd".

I mean REALLY!!?

But some forums you are not allowed to point out spelling and grammar mistakes, such as on Sitcoms Online, I wish this place was more like there.

In the rules that I quote from, "Do not correct spelling mistakes or typos, this is not English class, if the message is intelligible, stay on topic."

Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.

[–] Soodinum 12 years ago

1) *note
2) Luckily, there are no rules against being a spelling Nazi.
3) You've dragged this out far longer OT than any of my one-off comments in a thread.
4) I don't really mind typos per se, but the more systemic fumbles such as confusing 'than' and 'then', 'to' and 'too', etc, tick me off. They are less about fingers hitting the wrong keys and more about people actually not knowing the difference, despite all the school fees their parents paid. While I understand and 'get' your point about the fact that this is a discussion about movies, the only way we are able to communicate with each other about movies here is via written English. (These boards don't have us talking audibly with each other and, in the main, are in English.) I wish (as much as you wish that there were an anti-Nazi rule) that the one avenue that we have for communicating about movies (written English) were at least treated with a bit more respect.
5) Having said all that, spelling and grammar corrections make up a teeny tiny part of all my posts since I joined up. I've sinned far more by tipping sacred cows and criticizing old movies that I haven't liked.
6) I'm a cartoonist, and have a very wry sense of humour. Most often, the tone of my posts is far, far from 'serious' serious. Regarding spelling etc, I'm more likely expressing faux exasperation much like I'd do to a friend that kept saying 'supposibly.' Most people when online have a bit of a 'persona' thing going, involving aspects that are different from their true self. The Interweb would be kind of boring if that weren't so. Spelling/Grammar Nazi is a small part of my online persona, and only when I am tired and grumpy. I haven't slept for 6 months.
7) Please check the above; I'm bound to have made a typo or two and would appreciate the heads-up.

'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings.

[–] toking65000 12 years ago

Usually that's when I make my mistakes is when I'm tired. But English is a confusing language.....to many things like "than", "then" "that" "to" "too" "two" ,etc... So lighten up on ppl lol English is a sloppy language.

The comedian Gallegar had a great piece about this, how English spelling and grammar make absolutly no sense.

You have the number "one" with a "w" sound but doesn't start with a freaking "w", then in "two" you have a "w" you don't even need!!! What's going on here!? lol

Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.

[–] truthpaste 12 years ago

Soodinum, i'm with you all the way on this topic. The frustration comes from the completely flippant attitude displayed when the subject is brought up.

English is my mother tongue. I've spent nearly forty years reading, writing and speaking it. I refuse to sit idly by while others do their best to make it the norm to bastardize my language, as nonsensical as it is at times.

Some may counter here by stating it is by definition a bastard language and change is a natural course for anything, particularly something that is practiced by over one billion beings. That is a point I would not argue. However the error in the thread title is all too common and reeks of ignorance. I feel a sense of civic duty to make the OP aware of the mistake. I see two possible outcomes- they are genuinely unaware and will appreciate the heads up. Or they simply don't care which is beyond my control. Either way it has cost me little to bring it up.

[–] wolfe_ka 11 years ago

Actually, 'wight' is a word derived from OH German, meaning "a creature or living sentient being." (Dictionary)

However, in the gaming world, 'wight' often refers to undead or wraith-like creatures (corpse w/ a part of its decayed soul still in residence, which drains life from its victims. (wikipedia)

[–] chilone 9 years ago

I may be wrong but I think wights were mentioned in The Hobbit or Lord Of The Rings. The books. Not the movies.

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