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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.

[–] elliotbonsall 12 years ago

be he thinks anything in a forgin language or anything in b&w sucks, hate these young people these days

[–] vinidici 12 years ago

pidakfan253: Your "idiot" friend sounds like a hopeless philistine

And, sadly, a sign of the times.

Whatever you do, DO NOT read this sig--ACKKK!!! TOO LATE!!!

[–] drcooper92 12 years ago

I'm about to watch King Kong online and one comment on it's page is "Compare this version from 1933 and the one from 2005 -bunch of crazy smiles-".

There's a lot of stupid people in this world.

My favorite movies http://www.imdb.com/list/z8YKQ-BCOcA/

[–] FilmKoala 12 years ago

Half of those things are opinions. Opinions of that nature don't fall under being uneducated. So please, get off your high horse.

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[–] tsw453 12 years ago

Congrats to the OP not being an idiot and forget about that idiot! I never really saw the original myself but I know damn well that it was groundbreaking for it's time.

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[–] herfancy 12 years ago

Good on you for discovering classic and older films at age 11! I had parents who wouldn't watch anything black and white so it took me a while longer. I think kids and younger people make assumptions about old films (I know I did) but it's such a pleasant surprise when you see how well they have held up over time.

[–] alexmoviefreak 12 years ago

Tell him that METROPOLIS and KING KONG are very very well known films!
Also all the others and NO really NO remake can be better than the original!

[–] ultramatt2000-1 12 years ago

Wow. Pridak253. Talk about being surrounded by idiots. This is a case of SBIS (Surrounded By Idiots Syndrome). A lot of people in my high-school don't know s*** about pop-culture. I have to end up correcting them. When they hear the word bad stuff, they think of porn (even if it isn't). It's terrible when you're surrounded by idiots.
Nobody understands you. Especially your teachers. That's the eight-hundred pound gorilla in the room (no pun intended).

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[–] bud380 11 years ago

I think Disney movies are meant for generally anyone...That's why they have a song in Hunchback of Notredame, where a priest is singing about how he wants to have sex with Esmeralda, but can't.

[–] rixrex 11 years ago

Well, that character was a dumb@$$, but what I'd like to know is what kind of lame high school is this that has classes about this kind of subject when it ought to be educating the important subjects that pre-college kids need. You don't need a class to appreciate film, and your idiot classmate needs to take something else anyway.

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[–] pridakfan253 11 years ago

My high school didn't have a film class. I would just talk about movies and he would make those comments.

[–] rixrex 11 years ago

Sorry about that. It sounded as if you were describing a course in film studies. I suppose that's very possible as a topic in a fine arts class anyway.

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