Rolling CHALLENGING OPINIONS thread 2008

ya but isn't that one of those lists where the matrix movies are in the top 10

Maybe one day I'll live in a world where the results of film polls on ILE reflect my opinions, and that's a world I'd be happy to bring my children up in.

― CHAKI Musician (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:15 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we might as well vote in the nazis now and be done with it

Really, isn't the notion of debating whether TV on the Radio made a better album than Vampire Weekend a bit like debating whether Wolverine could beat up Spawn?

there is no fucking way wolverine would EVER beat up spawn.
so there.

lol

Wolverine beats up everyone!

Message board poster successfully identifies the subjective nature of qualitative comparison

sadly the quote is not an ilxor but a Pazz and Jop voter. it still had a home here.

table is the table is winning the post-death updike challops sweepstakes right now, bonus points for dragging joyce carol oates in for no reason

Dark Knight pretentiousness admittedly dwarfed by its repellent morality

(& Ledger way better in Lords of Dogtown, let alone I'm Not There)

you have to say it somewhere else and then someone will quote you here ^_^

i mean forgive me for stepping in but i think the point he was actually making was there is no such thing as a "tasty way to cook a turkey" because turkey sucks, which is 100% true.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dark Knight's pretentiousness admittedly dwarfed by its repellent morality (see Armond White's review)

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

There are a few great moments in Tropic Thunder, but it's no Dodgeball.

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:28 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

can't tell if im being trolled here or not - "pete scholtes" must be a sock?

a really elaborate sock that writes for the mpls city pages

fwiw i agree with both ally and 'pete scholtes'!

i met that dude once, unless it was a real life sock

did you guys see dodgeball

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/477667735_db42a912d7.jpg?v=0
^pete scholtes? xp

^^ see, the guy behind the tree is the one pulling strings in that picture

yeah he's really overselling the whole 'innocent bystander' look imo

max fwiw i think table has dug himself pretty deeply into a hole on that thread but i suspect his essential point is that he's bored reading overwritten melodramas about the social lives of people the author doesn't bother to make him care about.

i disagree obv

spoken like a true dubliners stan

just as an fyi to table & others - there are those of us who enjoy a good story about bloated upper middle-class people with problems

― max, Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:43 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Max, that is fine. But spare the rest of us.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not really sure what that means

― max, Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:45 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

^^quality

Dodgeball was great, and Tropic Thunder isn't quite as good. Pete Scholtes OTM!

I mean, any day you have 2 sandwiches is bound to be a day of insanity. (xp)

― Badder Meinhof Syndrome (libcrypt), Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

libcrypt in retarded post shocker

spoken like a true dubliners stan

― jordy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:21 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha what?

James Joyce's brother, Stanislaus, his brother's keeper.

Kevin K.: Pete Scholtes is a damn good music writer who has been around here a for a fuck of a lot longer than you have.

um i think kevin k was agreeing with pete scholtes

I don't actually have anything against you eating 1000 sandwiches per day, j0rdan.

I mean, if you like them go nuts.

Sorry kev, that should have been aimed at j0rdan. Still applies.

My fault, I was reading the thread backwards.

dumb opinion about movies still applies

thanks lib, i don't actually eat that many sandwiches per day but i defend my right to do so

My admitted bald prejudice on the matter is because I am not a regular sandwich eater so it's hard for me to picture regular sandwiching. Not that I mean for the sandwiches to spill over from the corndog fronting bacon thread but it was kinda precarious there anyways.

I will make a sandwich for anyone who wants one, just FYI.

what a bro

no prob rev

it's not that amazing tbh, this list.

― the face of fashion in soho square (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:09 AM (Yesterday)

v much in character

yeah im sorry that a list containing SEAL, BRYAN ADAMS, and A BORING MADONNA BALLAD didn't blow my mind this time.

oh and how could i forget michael jackson's 'you are not alone'. golden years, the like of which we'll never see again.

omg u dont like michael jackson wtf racist

im so proud to have inspired this thread

It is a classic opinion sunny and 100% OTM still.