Official Suggestion Thread: Redux

[shiznitz]

First, the banner: It sucks, but if I disable images, then the forum icons go bye bye so I live with it. Not work friendly at all since it screams gaming.

Second, on movie reviews: Screw the technical, film geek stuff. A useful review to me includes "is this movie going to give me what it looks like it is going to give me?"  Pirates of the Carribean surprised me on the good side because it wasn't stupid Disney fare. Depp gave an original performance and the ghost CGI was great. Does the movie have a good twist or is it a schlock ending? Underworld got mixed reviews because some people expected more than guns & kung fu movie with vamps and werewolves, but it delivered on the action and was filmed in a cool way (I Liked the blue shade to it.)  Plot holes don't always kill a movies enjoyment.

I am rambling. Most of us have a good idea of what we expect from a movie. Does it deliver on that expectation, give us more or fail to even deliver that?

[Rasix]

Underworld got mixed reviews because some people expected more than guns & kung fu movie with vamps and werewolves, but it delivered on the action and was filmed in a cool way (I Liked the blue shade to it.)  Plot holes don't always kill a movies enjoyment.

<Bruce Campbell>Baby, Underworld sucked.</Bruce Campbell>

I could go off on a laundry list why that movie blew ass. Christ, even the action sequences weren't that good. The special effects sucked also. AND THIS IS WHAT THESE GUYS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD AT.

Kate tried so hard to make that movie passable with her modicum of acting ability. But I'm sorry, Al Pacino mowing down Cubans with an assault rifle wouldn't save that shitbrick of a movie from getting the rotten reviews it so rightfully got.

Back on topic. Skip the film geek stuff when doing reviews. Some of us get it, some don't care.  Just don't back off a movie with if it sucks. "It's a popcorn flick!" isn't an excuse for sucking.

[Morfiend]

Please please please can we get rid of the large banner. It sucks at work. I guess I could turn off images, but some times I scan thread baised on avatar icons.

[schild]

The banner should be going away tonight. We're leaving the small black linkbar up there though for navigations sake.

[Alluvian]

Looks good, thanks.

[UD_Delt]

I have another random bug for you to check out. Every once in a while when I got to post a message as a reply instead of taking me to the reply page it instead takes me back to the main forum page. I can't reproduce it reliably as it only happens sporadically.

It hasn't happened in the last day or two so maybe it's already fixed?

If I can get a finger on when or why it happens I'll post again to let you know.