This is not The Haters Club You're Looking For discussion
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I hate this review of "The Reader", and possibly the reviewer as well
If you see one movie about WWII and bookwhores this season, make it…”The Reader”.At least you have the satisfaction that whats-her-face won for Best Actress.
This guy also says the only movie he hated more than "Slumdog Millionaire" was "Lars and the Real Girl". I loved both. Since he doesn't agree with me, I hate him and he is dumb! :)
He's probably one of those guys who talks on the cellphone while he's at the cash register, and cooks up big batches of cauliflower in the microwave at work.
He hates the year's most popular movies?! How original.
Rusty wrote: "He's probably one of those guys who talks on the cellphone while he's at the cash register, and cooks up big batches of cauliflower in the microwave at work."Now I really hate that guy!
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BunWat wrote: "Cauliflower is delicious but it smells like farts when its cooking. Because of the sulphur compounds."Now that you've mentioned it I do remember the smell but it never bothered me that much. I find shrimp much more offensive.
I think we should all start messing with this guy, just send him random hate mail. Crash threads that he is trying to be pretentious in; think about it... wouldn't that be fun.You can't pick on haters unless you're a hater. Who does this sheet stain think he is?
This guy didn't like the movie, so we're supposed to hate him? I don't get it, 'splain it.
Just me. I hate him. But not because he didn't like the movie...I hate him because he is an arrogant prick-fuck movie critic with a haughty mustache. (wait...it's actually a goatee. hmmm)AND he disagrees with me. :)
It's my own fault really. I need to learn to keep my hate here...where it's welcome.
It has nothing to do with the movie, Tom. I haven't seen it, don't really care to see it {based on his review ;)} It is about picking a fight with a hater. This is punishable by weeks of torment.
AH HA! I knew he had a haughty mustache!!
He looks like a used car salesmen. "Would you like to buy the clear undercoating?"
BLEH! ICK! why? why did you have to say that? Now I automatically think of him having sex! AWFUL! I'm sure he'd be all "Your interpretation of fellatio was obtuse, Madam." (pompous chuckle) "Now please excuse me while I attend to my haughty mustache"
...in all fairness to Mr. Pompous I picked a fight with HIM because his pretentious prick-fuckedness offended me.
That's what being a hater is all about, no justification necessary, we're to attack this guy as often as possible, now quit making excuses.
Fair has nothing to do with it.
Bunny, I did interact with Herr Dumkopf. I got a teeny tiny bit hater on him (really just a little) and I was propmtly schooled by some of his cohorts who like their group to be all nicey-nice and respectful of eachothers opinions. SUCK IT I SAY! Nick, you don't have to twist my arm. I can hardly STOP attacking him. I had to change my email update thingy so I didn't see when he responded. That's when I came back where I belong and quietly told you all what a jerk he is. That group would axe me in a second, I think. That's why I love it here so much! I LOVE IT HERE.
I stopped hanging out there months ago. It used to be a fun group and informitive about upcoming movies... but then the group was taken over by a bunch of wankers and sucked the life from the group.Example: Heir Dumkopf.
Their conversations about the movies are generally way deeper then the movies warrant. Then they go on and on about some obscure movie title like it is something that you must see or stop breathing your choice. So you see it and it's like wow, I just waste 130 minutes of my life because some "alex" pretentious french wanna-be had to take over the Movies you just watched group.Murder comes to mind. But pay no mind, I'll just lurk in the foozle Seth talk about movies and Alison thread.
Those girls in Seth's office are CHARMED by him!
Now I'm going to go look to see if you had any comments in that group, Nick. I can't believe they didn't kick YOU out. Were you on good behaviour?
As soon as I saw them enter the group I packed up my stuff and left.It's like living in an apartment building with an Indian neighbor (dot not feathers) they always cook authentic and it always smells really bad. So I just left before the stink invaded my nostril's.
Oh and I see that Alex too. Mr. Important.Maybe I will poll bomb that group.
Yeah Alex was the first (pretentious/too serious) movie reviewer. I knew there would be more to follow. I need a new word, pretentious,though accurate is being over used by me. suggestions?
arrogant fuck-wit?
mmmmm I like self-aggrandizing! Fitting and suitable, Donna, Delivers once again with her massive vocabulary!
Or is the Emril BAM! better?
Dun na na na na na na duna nan na na na BATMAN!Great rusty shackles Batman!
I just don’t see how they can be so self-aggrandizing (eh… wink wink nudge nudge) when they are talking about the likes of Terminator 4 Salvation. Really are you eff’n kidding me? They are a group comprised of recycled ass butter.
Hahahaah! Terminator 4 Salvation! God save us all.
Do you think more people will listen to me if I get a really big hat?"Of course I know what I am talking about. Look at the size of my hat!"
AND it's made of sunflower seeds! Behold the flock of birds at my command.
If you shave the "haughty mustache" and throw some lipstick on him he looks just like...
Billie Jean King!! Amazing!
BAM! Gretchen you have your personal attack, compliments of Harry the evil pussy. Go post this with haste :D
ps. One of my poems is a finalist for the goodreads poem for March. Give me a vote if you would. It's called "A Girl Named Scuba." Or just hate the other poems.
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posted by Daniel M. 02/22/2009 03:30AM
"Much as I like Kate Winslet I'm hoping she and this film go home empty-handed. It is one of the most wrong-headed films I've seen in recent years. A review I did for one of my papers follows:
(Warning: if you haven’t seen “The Reader” and don’t want to be “spoiled” concerning certain plot twists, don’t read this review.)
“The Reader” is nominated for five Oscars including best picture and best actress for Kate Winslet. On Oscar night I will be rooting for it to lose, not merely because I don’t like it, but because it is a movie of incredible moral obtuseness.
The story is told in flashback by Michael (Ralph Fiennes), a German attorney. In the 1950s, at the age of 15, he is seduced by Hanna (Winslet), a streetcar conductor. Of course if this were an older man having sex with a 15-year-old girl, he would be considered a child molester. Keeping with our double standards, it is instead seen as the boy’s coming of age. Michael reads aloud to her and Hanna offers her body in return.
A decade passes, and Michael is now in law school. While sitting in at a war crimes trial who should he see but Hanna… as one of the defendants. In the film’s key moment, the women – all former guards at Auschwitz – are asked to read a document and confess to their complicity in atrocities. The women all deny it, but Hanna confesses and her co-defendants instantly agree. It rings false. We soon find out that Hanna has confessed to being a war criminal in preference to avoid admitting something that is a source of deep shame: she is illiterate.
Got that? Hanna would rather be imprisoned for committing war crimes at Auschwitz than admit she can’t read. The film’s defenders would have us believe this is a stirring tribute to the importance of literacy and the power of the written word, but is this really the way to get that message across? Michael starts recording himself reading aloud and sending Hanna the tapes. When she dies, he is given her meager assets, which he attempts to give to the daughter (Lena Olin) of one of the survivors who testified at her trial. The woman refuses but suggests he donate it to a Jewish charity to fight illiteracy, noting wryly that few of their clientele are Jewish.
Hanna is presented as a tragic figure, a pathetic victim who deserves our sympathy. She apparently atones for her sins through her love of literature. The clear message of the movie is that illiteracy is a soul-crushing burden while working at a death camp is a comparatively minor matter. Now perhaps the novel is different. I haven’t read it. While I am a committed reader, I don’t feel obligated to read the books of the movies I see, since most viewers won’t have either. A movie has to stand on its own. For those who insist that the novel will answer my questions, I can only note there is a name for a film that cannot be understood without having read the book.
It’s called a failure."