I'm back after awhile. Feels great though. My last post here was about whether I'm in a depression. Well, fortunately I'm not. I own a business now. Life is gradually turning around. That's enough about me. I saw both of these movies and i think Cooties was a desperate attempt to fall under the genre of comedy. On the other hand, Pixels seemed desperate at first but i really laughed during the movie. The concept is new. What's your opinion? From an Xperia device
"The concept" was ripped off of an episode of Futurama from 2002. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology_of_Interest_II#Raiders_of_the_Lost_Arcade
Welcome back, Vtrendzzy! I have seen neither Cooties, nor Pixels, but I do want to see them, especially Pixels. Like @14thDoctor posted, it's essentially a retread of a Futurama episode, but I do want to see it in live action format. Plus, I still like Adam Sandler and his films.
I am in fear of pixels. I like the concept. The preview looked like it was going to be a fun stupid nostalgia movie. I can enjoy those sorts of movies unless it has tom cruz and is a musical. I was really excited when i saw the preview even though futurama had done a similar thing. Just because futurama did something similar, or even the same thing, does not mean someone else's jokes would not be funny. Then he came onto the screen. He who is unfunny and destroys movies. He who I would love to stick a very wide and long shampoo bottle up his ass. Couldn't they put someone like Serth green in it? He is so much more in tune with geek culture than Adam Sandler. It is like putting Jack black in a rock and roll comedy. he is just going to ruin it. I will actually give it a chance because Adam Sandler did play one character i did enjoy, which shows he is capable. He was little nikky and that was fun. I will give it a minute or two to see if someone helped to refine his humor, but I am just afraid this is another of his vacation movies where him and the gang have a shitty plot and go somewhere to be on vacation and use the movie to fund it.
Pixels I think has been another target of the "cool to despise" movement that seems to wash over critics and audiences alike these days once it becomes a viral trend to hate something, doubly so with this since it's now also cool to hate Adam Sandler (not totally unjustified IMO). The movie is by no means a masterpiece. But it wasn't a complete turd like it's been made out to be. It had plenty of entertaining moments if you just go into the moving knowing it's a load of schlock. I was particularly amused by the satire of the US Chief of Staff hell bent on bombing anything that moved as a solution for all problems. Although, please Hollywood, when are you going to realise that poorly redressed locations in North America still don't resemble London and that British politicians don't talk like poor caricatures of Victorian nobility (Fiona Shaw, did you really need that paycheque???)?
