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Idiot in my class

posted 13 years ago by pridakfan253
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I had this guy in all my classes during my senior year of high school (I graduated on May 27th of this year) and throughout this year he said many things about movies that piss me off! Heres a list of all the stupid things he has said.

-Says the Star Wars prequals are BETTER than the original trilogy.

-Says the special effects in the original Star Wars movies suck. When I told him the effects won an academy award he responded with: "Probably just the lightsabers."

-Thinks all Disney movies (or animated movies in general) are for little kids.

-Thinks Lost in Space, Transformers 2, Catwoman (kept going on about how he thought Haley Barey was hot in it), and Batman and Robin are good movies. (BTW he once said the Batman movies suck because they kept changing the actor who played him, he also thinks Robin should be in the Christopher Nolan movies)

-Thinks I hate Spaceballs soley because I love Star Wars and would be offended by it parodying the original movies. (I actually like Spaceballs, but Hardware Wars is my favorite parody)

-One day I was talking with a teacher about how younger people today have no appreciation for older movies and he butted in by saying "Thats because we know whats good!"

-He always refers to movies like Dr.Strangelove, Metropolis, A Clockwork Orange, and a few others. As "movies no-one's ever heard of".

-Thought Gone with the Wind was about a dog.

-When I told him story is more important in a movie than special effects he told me I was crazy.

And the dumbest thing he has ever said is (and I quote):

-"If they remake a movie using today's technolgy it will be BETTER than the original."

Wow just...wow.

I know those really have nothing to do with King Kong, so here a some things he said about that.

-Thinks Peter Jackson's version is better, and when I told him about how Jackson was inspired by it (therefore the remake would not exist without the original) he kept saying "The remake is better!"

-Kept going on about Kong in the '33 version "Looks like a stuffed animal they had do the stuff on the stage."

-When I told him about how no one had seen special effects like the ones in King Kong back in 1933 he said: "Well if you were to take the remake to back then they would be like (proceeds to make faces of exaggerated amazement)"

There you have it. I thought I might as well share my experience with someone so ridiculously uneducated about film.

[–] Grendel1950 13 years ago

Don't let it bother you. I'm 60, and I know we all tend to "idolize" the movies we grew up with, although the mature of us learn to get over the criticisms the younger people offer. Just wait till someone laughs at "Transformers" thirty years from now; if he's grown up he'll take it in stride, but if not he'll cry like a little kid.

BTW - the original Kong is my favorite movie of all time.

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[–] pridakfan253 13 years ago

Speaking of dinosaurs I might want to mention that my class idiot LOVES the Jurassic Park movies but of course the only reason he likes is because he likes seeing the dinosaurs killing people. He even likes "The Lost World" and "Jurassic Park III", when I told him alot of people hate those movies he said "Who? I'll kick there ass!" And of course he wants a fourth one to be made because he said: "It's a great storyline." (What do you know about a great storyline anyway?) He even told me his own Idea for the fourth one which was Billy and the kid from the third movie somehow end up on the island and end up getting chased by raptors and stuff.

On a kinda different note I wish I was still in school so I could show him this topic and prove to him that I'm not crazy like he thinks I am.

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[–] SinemaGirl 13 years ago

Unfortunately, this mentality is only getting worse. Here's an article addressing the issue:

http://www.soundonsight.org/the-%E2%80%9Cgray-ones%E2%80%9D-fade-to-bl ack/

[–] doowopfan 13 years ago

Thought Gone With The Wind was about a dog. HA HA HA!!!!! What a moron.

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[–] tomtkh 13 years ago

Sounds like you went to school with one of the BIGGEST IDIOTS on Earth!! Too bad you didn't capture his idiocy on video and post it on YouTube!!

[–] Tales-from-the-Goondocks 13 years ago

God! I'm already pissed and I haven't even met the guy, but I know ignorant people like that too.

[–] CasaK 13 years ago

I agree with the topic starter.

But I agree with the idiot saying that the Peter Jackson movie is better. Ofcourse it would not have been there without the original, but come on. You can't even compare the two.

The original King Kong is a classic and Peter Jackson just brought this classic to our time, with new cinematographic technology. You can't be pissed when someone notices that the new King Kong is better (in his opinion).

[–] Tales-from-the-Goondocks 13 years ago

Better effects don't automatically mean a better film, although I understand if people think that newer films are better than old ones. I really like the original film more than Jackson's, mainly because it has a better pace and because there's no absurd sentimentality, like Kong skating and stuff like that.

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[–] ElectricWarlock 12 years ago

I've dealt with people exactly like this too. The majority of people I've met are like this, actually. They act as if the world didn't exist before 1990. Of course they always use the words "old" and "boring" to describe any movie made before the 1990s, and they always talk about how the special effects are better nowadays. But I personally don't think you should watch a movie for special effects, you should watch a movie for the story and characters. It's scary to think that decades from now, any movie made before 1990 will fade into oblivion and become obscure because all the people who love them and grew up watching them will be gone. There will be no one left to preserve their memory and films like Transformers and Avatar will be recognized as the most classic movies of all time. I cringe at the thought of it. But the way I see it, they're the ones who are missing out. I see it like they are choosing to have McDonald's while we're having a gourmet meal because most movies today (not all, there are plenty of great movies from the last 20 years; but not nearly as many as the past) can never compare to the classics from 1920-1979.

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