Sorry for the slight hiatus between last month's post and today's installment, but when there aren't any game failers on Game Trailers, there can`t be any game failers on Game Failers. It's hard to believe, I know, but Game Trailers has actually been pretty free of ironically terrible comments for the last little while. There have been plenty of bad comments, appalling uses of the English language, and general fanboyism posted below videos lately, but it just hasn't`t been funny.
What has been hilarious has been the recent The Dark Knight backlash on IMDB. I don`t know what is funnier, their poorly explained reasons for hating the movie or just the concept of someone getting legitimately angry at a page when their voting system - that is unbiasedly open to everyone and is a barometer of nothing but popular opinion - rates a popular movie higher than more artistic movies. I mean, who would have thought that the best grossing box office movie of all time would be at the top of a popularity contest? It's a travesty!
The Dark Knight
IMDB Crank #1:
This is another example of how Yankee advertising and hype can save any film. The 1* rating I give this film does not necessarily reflect the quality of the film itself, but the socially destructive nature of the marketing. Marketing should not be able to create a "great" film. It is the quintessential comic film, explosions, bad guys, and unimaginable gadgets and toys for the superhero to use. But when you think about it, it is still a comic... Simply kids crap.
Damn yankee marketing machine, you're ruining the world of blockbuster film making! I'll leave the venomous comments about his last statement there to the nerdier people in the audience though.
The best movies try to make a fantasy real, not something real into fantasy. (Which is why LotR was fantastic, and most Batman movies are terrible) Movies are a work of art, and they should have artistic qualities other than for special effects and expensive budgets.
I agree, I hope the real Batman sues Christopher Nolan for all he's worth. How dare you turn the Caped Crusader's serious exploits in to some sort of make-believe farce!
IMDB Crank #2:
From where to start? Maybe, from my disappointment with IMDb and vote engine? Or, just leave that and straight go to the description of this movie? Or maybe just put list of bad things and go away from this site forever. Yes I will do that way.
Maybe you should have started with taking your medication.
1. Bad directing...up up up in tension and then totally down with low intelligent denoument
Ooh, denouement, what a high intelligent word! I'll put it into my scathing Dark Knight review.
2. Bad script, too much talkingt, non stop talking, superheros and villains talking all the time, everything must be explained
3. Joker performance is nothing more than little above mediocre. I'm counting this in list, because so much talking in public about awesome performance by ledger...well, maybe, if you didn't watch any film with al pacino...if you just put attention to it you will see legder is trying the best to act like al pacino in talking scenes
Why so WHO-WAH!
4. too much slow and heart breaking(yeah) lordoftherings scenes 5. film is next elections campaing, nothing more
Dent-Wayne 2009.
And film have few good things, to be honest:
1. music is great, pumping tension whole film 2. masks are very good, 2face mask is perfect
Short: Too bad film and goodbye to you IMDb
He will be missed.
IMDB Crank #3:
Heath Ledger's death is the only reason this film hasn't gotten railed so far as the mediocre piece of dreck that it is. I saw a great review at JNation that nailed this film perfectly: (1) No real plot - Joker appears, wants to kill "The Batman" and he tries - repeat this 5 times quickly. (2) What was up with all the idiotic special touches - too much makeup on the mayor? Batman's voice sounding like he's talking through a cheese grater? (3) Zero character development - why was Joker losing it? We just take on faith "because." (4) Poorly developed Eckhardt character - he was the only one with film time and the super quick transformation was totally absurd. (5) Too clever plot for it's own good - the opening was very smart but then take a look at the bus - no sign of entry? Are you kidding me? Gets worse from there. (6) Horrible scriptwriting - other than a few jokes, the dialogue was beyond unnatural, including the stupid philosophy lessons on being responsible for people's deaths that sounded like an ultranoble conversation a group of dope soaked teenagers would have. (7) Ending that is beyond believable and is worse than stupid. (8) Did Bruce Wayne and Batman take the film off? Other than non-stop slam bang action, I'm not sure this film was intended to have talking parts. (9) Confusing mess of a plot - who followed this whole rambling mess? (10) Lost all connection with the comic and then became a "realistic" view of what it would be like with yet another sadist, e.g. Saw V.
I don't know what JNation is other than a Jewish social networking site, but apparently they think that The Dark Knight's plot was nonexistent, too clever for its own good with plot critical buses apparently leaving no entry marks (I have no idea what he means by this) and was a confusing mess of a plot. Clearly this movie just had too many plots.
Now, I don't want to come off as someone who is just blasting anyone who didn't love the Dark Knight. While I was pretty much blown away by it when I saw it in the theatre and I think it is without a doubt my favourite big screen Batman adaptation of all time, I would still only give the movie a 7 or 8 out of 10. It's truly not the best movie ever made. A reviewer for the Wall Street Journal gave it a pretty fair review. But even though he didn't ramble on incoherently like so many irate IMDB users did, he did say a few things that brought my palm to my brow.
The Wall Street Journal:
The script, which the director wrote with his brother, Jonathan Nolan, could be the syllabus for a civics class in a dark-matter universe. Every motive is mixed. Every effort to banish criminals has unintended consequences. Batman's psychic scars are mirrored by those of the Joker, while his lofty ambitions and grievous failings find their counterparts in Harvey Dent. He's the tight-jawed district attorney played by Aaron Eckhart, who also plays the hideously, and finally tediously, deformed Two-Face. (Both of those incarnations flip a coin fatefully in the fashion of Javier Bardem's monster in "No Country For Old Men," except that this coin has two heads, so what's the point?)
How dare they rip off No Country for Old Men and then try to cover it up with some confusing two sided coin nonsense. I mean, why would TWO-FACE have a coin with TWO FACES on it and why was one side all scratched up? Where were they going with this?
The production outbonds Bond with technology that includes a new Batsuit made of titanium-dipped triweave fiber (so Bruce can turn his head), a two-wheeled vehicle called a Bat-Pod (they couldn't call it an iPod and they didn't want to call it a motorcycle) and a new Batmobile that looks to be less than brilliant when it comes to gas mileage. Quick shots of the control panel show two of the car's operating modes to be Loiter and Intimidate. The movie's main mode is Suffocate.
I can't quite put my finger on it, but where was he going with that iPod joke? Do people over 40 just think that iPods are inherently funny? Apparently they are at least more memorable than the tumbler from Batman Begins.
But back to Game Trailers.
Spiderman: Web of Shadows
Eikan:
This isn awsome! but wasn'tn spiderman supose to be just a dude in a suit just beating the living crap out of every bad guy he found not an I'm legeng theme....................
I like how this guy made sure to include the long silence that would have followed if he had told us this in real life. It really helps immerse us into the comment, like we were really there.
Civilization: Revolution
paulbikoi:
this game looks like it'll be fun ass shit..... its very adventurous and role playin'.. and i loooooooooove role playing games..
Fight
Magic
Irrigate
Declare War
strac3r:
ITS ABOUT TIME GAME TRAILERS REVIEW THIS GAME I WAS SHOCK BECAUSE THIS GAME CAME OUT LIKE A MONTH AGO AND THEY ARE BARELY SHOWING THE REVIEW WHATS UP WITH THAT????!!!!!!
He wanted more, Game Trailers. He wanted a full frontal review!
Combat Mission: SFM
xxvvnn:
akachanningen said: who says PC gaming is dead?
cuz pc made for work and internet PC=personal computer wich mean saved ur file in it and put vids or pics they made it for these things not games.
Apparently PC = hard drive.
ThePuniisher:
the soldiers lag when there walking omfg:S
I really don't like this, even if they go for realism(which they do), don't use graphics from the year zero....
ah well...
I don't think graphics were that bad back in the year zero. I mean, maybe they consisted of actual physical, clay tiles that had to be manually refreshed by slaves who literally repainted them every paint cycle giving games an average frame rate of 30 frames per day or so, but developers were a lot more clever with dirty regions back then so it wasn't as bad as it sounds.
Sonic the Hedgehog
swordfin:
MEGAMAN was SUPPOSED to come out today, according to Capcom
BUT, instead Nintendo pulled it at the last minute (literally) so that this BULLSHIT duplicate with worse graphics would sell (as in compliance to their deal with SEGA).
I've never hated Sonic more. FUCK YOU SONIC, give Megaman some of that spotlight. HE actually deserves it.
I'm pretty sure this guy is just full of shit, but even if megaman was pulled at the last minute to not steal Sonic's thunder, how this guy would know that the decision was literally made at the last possible minute is a mystery to me.
Glutono:
sega sonic was a favorite I just don't see being replaced by this but it still looks worth trying if you have the systems to play it with.
Sonic is just classic lol
Really, the exact rom image of the cartrige just isn't close enough?
Soul Calibur 4
SleepHollow:
The game itself is very good, not because the game has the final without creativity that makes the game bad after all is a game of FIGHT vai you be so busy fighting that vai not want to waste time seeing the end, it is clear that if he had final more creative the game would be even better, but still if you watch the video and watching these final flatfish not worry because the game is much better ... (actually is a game of fight what people expect?)
I've never actually seen someone post babel fish results before as a game trailers comment but here it is for the first time ever and it's pretty amazing.
Megaman 9
deathbrush:
i only played up to megaman 8........then i started playing the X series
Really, you only played the entire series and then you started playing the next available series? Wow, you really missed out man.
BIGWORM:
And what's sad is half of the kids complaining run all over the 360 all day playing their Halo 3 screaming unnecessaries at people. I remember when I saw MM2 in my local blockbuster when I was 7, I was on my hands and knees begging this lady who grabbed it before me if I could rent it first.
LMAO!
Look, we all know the xbox is huge, but kids can't actually run on top of it. Not that I don't think they wouldn't love to, the damn whipper-snappers with their new fangled Halo 3's!
WarlockRichard:
Forgive me I'm not buying into this whole thing, so they did the whole thing in eight bit, thus they are trying to make a game on par with two decades ago, but what they are really trying to do is to get people to buy into the nostalgia factor and while 8 bit games are considered by some to be far more clever then modern ones obviously the players arent because now they are flocking to anything old school like sheep.
You heard it here people, don't buy into the hype about this being a charmingly 80s styled game, it's actually just trying to appeal to your nostalgia! How could I have been so blind? I'll never trust capcom again.
