Comments on: 77 Trailer Online

By: obi-wan kubrick

obi-wan kubrick — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:56:21 +0000

This looks really good. The Enterprise would destroy the death star.

By: Tyson J. Hayes

Tyson J. Hayes — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:53:44 +0000

This is the first trailer in a long time that has made me excited to actually see the movie. I hope the film gets picked up by a distributor so we can see it come to life, or at least a DVD release so it can come home with the people that would really cherish it.

By: Brian D

Brian D — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:43:07 +0000

Trailer humor can be very misleading for me. I remember thinking that Rushmore looked horrible based on the trailer. But ended up seeing it on a preview night and now it’s one of my favorite movies.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:26:42 +0000

This film isn not intended to be funny. It has its giggle moments in the trailer, but I never got the idea that they were passing it off as a comedy.

Fanboys does look good, and is set as a comedy with heart.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:24:47 +0000

Granted, but all sites have a scale by which they rate films.

Usually a “out of” system, but its there.

Even the iconic “thumbs up” or “down” is scaled to variations on “two enthusiastic thumbs up” scaling to lesser rated descriptiveness of thumbs down.

Much of the black and white you see is just commenters giving their one line reviews of positive or negative, which I find tend to be of three categories. Shit, ok, and Awesome.

By: Jeremy K.

Jeremy K. — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:47:54 +0000

Not directed at themovieblogs reviewing system, Rodney. Just in general. Seems like a lot of people expect great things from movies and if they don’t reach the level that they expect then the movie is shit.

Like Terminator Salvation for instance. You explained the highs and lows for the movie and the rating based on that. Your review fell into a gray area, it just happened to be closer to dark than light. Some people that post how they felt about it that did not like it basically acted like it was the worse movie ever made. Like it falls into the same batch of films as Battlefield Earth and the Spirit. There was no gray area for them. They went hoping for some amazing and walked away disappointed it did not match what they were hoping for so it was thus a steaming pile of shit.

Personally I liked it, though there were a few short comings. The movie left a lot to my imagination which I personally like. I’d still rate in the gray area, but on a lighter side with the first two Terminator movies.

I use Terminator as an example just because it is current and I just saw it.

By: Brian D

Brian D — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:40:14 +0000

I think this movie was originally supposed to come out the summer of Revenge of the Sith. If I do see it, it will be because I am a Freaks and Geeks fan. It really doesn’t look that funny, same with Fanboys.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:11:05 +0000

There is lots of gray in reviews.

Thats why we rate them out of 10. (everyone has a scale)

By: T-Vo

T-Vo — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:50:17 +0000

I loved Fanboys. There are so many references to geek culture in it,you can’t even count them and I’m not just talking about Star Wars references eiter, but other movies and tons of comic book references.

By: Jeremy K.

Jeremy K. — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:43:12 +0000

Ya, I agree. Kinda interesting how movie reviews have gone to black and white with no gray in between.