Avengers: Endgame

[Otomofan]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Life can be miserable if you don't allow yourself to enjoy things.

I've been pretty miserable all around the last few years, and not just because of movies.

I still enjoy all the old stuff I've always loved, but new movies, music, comic books, etc. just do nothing for me.

TV was good the last few years but even that is in a decline now.

I'm not completely joyless, but the rare moments of happiness I have these days doesn't come from entertainment. It's usually from seeing something amazing in nature or being awed at something incredible that people built.

A few weeks ago, my friends and I were near Tokyo Bay and we watched two tugboats pull an enormous cargo ship out to sea. I'm from Ohio. I never imagined I'd see something like that. I can't even begin to fathom the amount of man hours and engineering that went into pulling something like that off. This thing was over a football field long and several stories high, and there it was, just FLOATING.

I know I can't possibly sound like more of a cliche of an old man, but it's depressing to see everyone walking around with their faces pointed down at their phones when there's so much wonder, natural and man-made alike, right in front of their eyes.

Anyway...sorry for the digression...

 

[rushmore223]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

I've been pretty miserable all around the last few years, and not just because of movies.

I still enjoy all the old stuff I've always loved, but new movies, music, comic books, etc. just do nothing for me.

TV was good the last few years but even that is in a decline now.

I'm not completely joyless, but the rare moments of happiness I have these days doesn't come from entertainment. It's usually from seeing something amazing in nature or being awed at something incredible that people built.

A few weeks ago, my friends and I were near Tokyo Bay and we watched two tugboats pull an enormous cargo ship out to sea. I'm from Ohio. I never imagined I'd see something like that. I can't even begin to fathom the amount of man hours and engineering that went into pulling something like that off. This thing was over a football field long and several stories high, and there it was, just FLOATING.

I know I can't possibly sound like more of a cliche of an old man, but it's depressing to see everyone walking around with their faces pointed down at their phones when there's so much wonder, natural and man-made alike, right in front of their eyes.

Anyway...sorry for the digression...

Hope you feel better soon, we only get once chance at life, best to enjoy it while we can.

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[a-dev]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

I've been pretty miserable all around the last few years, and not just because of movies.

I still enjoy all the old stuff I've always loved, but new movies, music, comic books, etc. just do nothing for me.

TV was good the last few years but even that is in a decline now.

I'm not completely joyless, but the rare moments of happiness I have these days doesn't come from entertainment. It's usually from seeing something amazing in nature or being awed at something incredible that people built.

A few weeks ago, my friends and I were near Tokyo Bay and we watched two tugboats pull an enormous cargo ship out to sea. I'm from Ohio. I never imagined I'd see something like that. I can't even begin to fathom the amount of man hours and engineering that went into pulling something like that off. This thing was over a football field long and several stories high, and there it was, just FLOATING.

I know I can't possibly sound like more of a cliche of an old man, but it's depressing to see everyone walking around with their faces pointed down at their phones when there's so much wonder, natural and man-made alike, right in front of their eyes.

Anyway...sorry for the digression...

Certainly agree with your last point. I despise smartphones.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Smart phones.... dumb people.

 

[a-dev]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Escalation^

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Vision warned us in AOU yet here we are lol

 

[Khev]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Smart phones.... dumb people.

Escalation^

It took a while but Riddler's plan finally ended up working after all, lol.

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Oto’s whole complaint about life doesn’t make a lick of sense lol

It took just as much man hours ingenuity and creativity to create EG or any movie he finds crappy or forgettable which is all of them since his childhood or to create a smart device as it does to build a skyscraper, move a large boat or climb mount freaking everest so give me a break with the whole life sucks now it was soooo much better when I was a kid whiney line of BS!

The MCU, LOTR and KOTM were just as good as my 80’s cinema love fest.

Just because you don’t like something does it mean that the human investment was any less special than what came before.

 

[Otomofan]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

It took a while but Riddler's plan finally ended up working after all, lol.

Man....Batman Forever always brings back good memories. I saw it opening night back in 95. I was a senior in high school. I was pretty stoned. I reemmber being incredibly entertained by all the neon/black light scenes.

But when it got to the part about Riddler's invention sucking people's minds or something, and you can literally see the mind energy floating in a big cloud in the sky, I assumed it was a dream sequence. So I was sitting there, all high and confused, convinced this stupid ass scene wasn't actually a part of the real plot. And I waited for agonizing minutes for it to be revealed to be a dream sequence or gag of some kind. But....it wasn't. It was so weird. Also, kept waiting for the scene with the big bat from the trailers, but it wasn't in the movie.

Maybe I should get blazed before I watch movies and that'll bring back the childlike wonder? Unfortunately, that's not an option. Still super illegal here in Japan.

Anyway...I digress again...

(Sure wish I could sleep and wasn't wide awake at 3:30 in the morning, with work just a few hours away...)

 

[Khev]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Exclusive footage of Otomo telling jye that life sucks because of modern cinema, lol:

 

[Otomofan]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Fat Thor gets it, man.

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Holy crap I just lol in front of my son’s principal lol

 

[Khev]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Fat Thor gets it, man.

Holy crap I just lol in front of my son’s principal lol

 

[Neal136]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Holy crap I just lol in front of my son’s principal lol

Why are you on the forum while in front of your son's principal???

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Why are you on the forum while in front of your son's principal???

Because he’s on the forum with me lol

You know us old farts like to forget just how many bad movies there were when we were young, let’s say the 80’s, if anything I think filmmaking and storytelling has evolved enough where there are LESS “bad” movies now than there were in the 80’s!

Sure some of the advancements like forced agendas (of any kind not just girl power) get in the way of proper organic natural flow of story telling but that’s not all the time.

 

[ZE_501]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Why are you on the forum while in front of your son's principal???

Man’s gotta have priorities.


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[Neal136]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Man’s gotta have priorities.


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Yeah, I guess so.
I just find it funny to visualize that situation .....

"I'm glad you were able to come in and meet with me. As you well know, little jye has been having behavioral issues ....."

"Can you shut the hell up for a minute? I'm trying to read Khev's Godzilla review, dammit!"

 

[Wor-Gar]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

back in 95. I was a senior in high school. I was pretty stoned.

Well here is your problem right here.

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

Yeah, I guess so.
I just find it funny to visualize that situation .....

"I'm glad you were able to come in and meet with me. As you well know, little jye has been having behavioral issues ....."

"Can you shut the hell up for a minute? I'm trying to read Khev's Godzilla review, dammit!"

The principal at my son’s school is on this forum and he knows i’m team Khev lol

And no my son was not in trouble I was handing in his school trip authorization form

 

[Neal136]

Re: Avengers: Endgame (April 26th, 2019)

The principal at my son’s school is on this forum and he knows i’m team Khev lol

And no my son was not in trouble I was handing in his school trip authorization form

Eh. ToMAYto toMAHto .....