My problems with this movie

Geez man settle down...you're so hostile. We're just talking movies here. Nothing to get so serious about. If we were having this conversation in person I'd imagine myself talking normally and you yelling and frothing at the mouth while I'm trying to contain my laughter. I talk to people on the internet how I'd talk to them in person. Would you shout and totally lose your cool at someone in person over a disagreement about a friggin' movie? Just take it easy!

I admit I was a bit provocative in insinuating you only like loud action movies. People's tones can't really be conveyed properly through text. But boy did you take that to heart 

BTW I have no earthly idea what a "fanboi idjit" is or means. Should I be offended? 

As far as your ratings. You've had an account for close to 2 years and you were only recently in a rush to rate movies and decided to start with PG-13 action dreck from the past 5-10 years? and you wanna grill me for not rating a bunch of foreign and art-house movies? 

I have just gone through your list and rated a bunch of 'your' films. So now my list contains numerous ratings of (presumably) 'smart' and 'intelligent' films, that only 'adults' would appreciate. Films like Soldier, The Hitcher, John Wick, and Wayne's World

OMG you gave striking Distance a 6... OMG. OMG you gave Bloodsport an 8 OMG OMG OMG OMG. See how pointless and trollish that crap is? There are all manner of reasons to rate something up or down: the films pedigree, viewer expectations, and not being tricked (which you can be by marketing).

OMG!!! I guess you've got me by the balls now!!! First of all, I rated John Wick pretty low so I don't know why you're trying to use that as an example against me. Soldier and Striking Distance I only gave a 6 to which really isn't that high. There are other movies I'd rate a 6 which I know and understand are technically much better movies than those but I rate different movies for many different reasons. Those 2 in particular are fun 90s action movies I enjoyed as a kid and haven't watched in a long time. They were good enough for me to re-watch a few times back then so I'm not going to now rate them say a 3 or a 4 just because I can look back now and acknowledge that they're far from being "high art" or whatever. Wayne's World I loved as a kid and still do because watching movies like those bring back a lot of nostalgia I think we can all relate to. Bloodsport I won't hear a bad word about! It's a truly awful movie but incredibly entertaining and full of charm.

I gave decent ratings to a bunch of campy action, horror and comedy movies from my childhood whereas you gave 7s, 8s and 9s to a bunch of soulless PG-13 BS action movies that you would've seen when you were well into you're 20s or 30s or however much older you may be. Big difference.

The pace of the film was/would be FINE if it had anything to convey within that space, if the interest of the film carried it. No Country for Old Men was punctuated by violence and tension, and contained great CHARACTERS, and did some VERY interesting things, because it was produced by great filmmakers, and a great cast. This wasn't remotely similar.

They are quite different movies and I never said they weren't. I said the pacing was very similar. The brunt of your complaints were centered on the pace and "nothing happening". Cop Car wasn't strong on plot. It didn't need to be. I found it to be quite an enthralling and atmospheric movie. When I can totally immerse myself in the mood and setting of a movie then I think it's obviously quite effective and something I really like about certain movies. I found No Country For Old Men very similar in this regard.

By the way, I don't even think Cop Car is a "great" movie. I gave it a 7/10. Great movies I give 9 and 10 to. I loved the setting, I thought the kids were decent enough although their actions were at times frustrating and a little unbelievable even for 10 year olds. I thought Kevin Bacon was absolutely fantastic and enjoyed every moment he was on screen. This movie had a fairly amateur director and a limited cast and budget and I thought he made quite good use of what little was at his disposal. Whoever they had on set to make sure the kids were able to competently perform the risky moves involving the car, especially the scenes where they're entering and exiting the car as it's in motion, throughout the whole movie did a brilliant job.

I look for the positives in movies because I want to enjoy my time watching movies and not sitting their pretending I'm a critic. My time isn't that precious but I still would rather sit back and enjoy a movie and count the positives rather than sit their for an hour and a half looking for any and every reason to poke holes in it like you have with this movie. That you couldn't find one positive quality about this movie and have gone off on it the way you have just seems silly and unnecessary to me. You're one of those "I want those 2 hours of my life back" faux critics that run rampant on this site. Boring, joyless and apparently not enough fiber in their diet 

I can pretty much guarantee I have watched more, wider, and deeper than you have, or probably ever will. This is because I have watched, or been forced to watch, a *lot* of films as an amateur, an academic, and professional. So lets just dispense with the penis measuring based on a few imdb ratings, huh?

 Gotta love this old chestnut people break out on imdb.....you were saying something about dispensing with the penis measuring right after you type that? Hilarious! You can "guarantee" you've watched soooo many more such higher forms of art than me? and ever will?  Do you still expect me to take you seriously after BS like that? Do you think using those tired old unoriginal retorts would work? Those remarks all belong in the 'Pretentious Dickheads Guide for IMDB Argument Winners' I've seen those exact phrases repeated so many times on this site now I've got them memorized. Pretty pathetic 

Note: I just looked through a lot of your ratings and honestly, they contain many of the EXACT kind films that you just belittled me for rating! That's called hypocrisy, son.

I've rated hardly any of the sort of movies that you'd rated at the time I looked at your ratings. I saw that you'd rated mostly action and adventure movies from the past decade or so, alot of those horrid PG-13 action movies and super hero movies which is a genre I mostly stay the hell away from. I've rated very few of those movies and the ones I have I rated fairly low.

Along with those mainstream films you bother to watch, you also rate a significant whack what I would describe as nasty, bargain-basement, peripheral, horror-type rubbish. No 'classics', arthouse, interesting cult films in there that I saw. Certainly very few from before the 80's. You appear to have discovered Dirty Harry and checked out a few early Bond films and other big name films from the late 70's. Whoop-de-doo.

If your ratings are anything to go by...

No, your sampling is typically rubbish and mainstream in about even amounts. Which (if I apply the same quality of analysis that you offered me) paints a picture of an undiscerning, and easily entertained yobbo, with a penchant for video nasties...

 I believe I already pretty much covered this earlier. I like nothing but "mainstream, nasty, bargain-basement horror rubbish" "No classics or interesting cult movies" You're either being dishonest or you skimmed over maybe my first page of ratings and picked out a handful of horror movies which, again, are mostly movies I watched as a kid that I look back on with a fondness for entertaining me on weekends. I've highly rated plenty of classics and interesting cult movies but that doesn't fit your argument so you choose to ignore that. Nothing more than a transparent and disingenuous attempt to discredit me. Poor effort 

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