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Old 02-12-2014, 12:32 AM   #77
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while those movies you mentioned were good, Fight Club and Big Lebowski are much more than movies with a couple of comparable lines. When you say things like that it makes you look a little bit silly, it's picking at things that aren't even true.

I can see someone not liking either if you're a serious person or prefer different stories but saying they were just a couple memorable lines is ridiculous, the characters they created were interesting and memorable. If you don't like it try a critique that actually has reason to it otherwise it's a little childish.
Fight club had a twist in that Edward Norton's character was actually Brad Pitt that had not been done before that if I recall correctly. Otherwise it wasn't really noteworthy in my mind. There was no moral musing to dwell over and you were not left with anything to consider. Just this guy who fights with other people in an underground boxing club.

The big lebowski just had a loudmouth moron and his moron friends go through an adventure. Not really groundbreaking or departing from any previous model of movie, just a different group of characters. While the actors did a good job of portraying the characters, it wasn't really exceptional at all. It's similar to Heath Ledger's performance in the dark knight. The movie sucked, but his performance was good. That doesn't make the big lebowski good, just it had good performances.

Criticizing something that you might like isn't childish, it's a difference of opinion. I thought they were pointless, you did not. That's fine. It's also the point of this thread.
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