Things That Annoy You

[Zygarde]

I would give them a week maybe a month tops before they all kill each other.

[Art Vandelay]

Then again, they probably wouldn't find any magical sea slugs, so they could well last a little longer than Rapture.

[RavynousHunter]

I hate the minion fad.  I hate Despicable Me, yes I saw it, no it was not of my own free will.  It was Thanksgiving at my girlfriend's sister's place, and her kids somehow love that crap.  They're literally featureless, yellow pill-things.  They barely communicate.  They have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and I can't wait for them to stop showing up on my god damned Facebook feed...and everywhere god damned else, too.

[Svata]

The first movie in the series was a decent family flick. Everything after sucked rotten skunk asses.

[ironbite]

Oh look, another stupid thread from UP.  Gotta get that post count up eh boy?

[davedan]

Are you talking about who has HIV?

[ironbite]

Yeah.  Do you or anyone here really give half a shit if Charlie Sheen has HIV?

[davedan]

not surprised and don't care.

[RavynousHunter]

Weird, I thought that'd been confirmed years ago.

[niam2023]

I care about random, banal, soulless celebrity trivia!

[Askold]

I think it's newsworthy because he is the first big Hollywood star (or at least a former one) who openly reveals to have HIV.

[Vypernight]

I hate the minion fad.  I hate Despicable Me, yes I saw it, no it was not of my own free will.  It was Thanksgiving at my girlfriend's sister's place, and her kids somehow love that crap.  They're literally featureless, yellow pill-things.  They barely communicate.  They have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and I can't wait for them to stop showing up on my god damned Facebook feed...and everywhere god damned else, too.

Agreed, though for different reasons.  I actually wanted to like DM.  I thought the idea of a supervillain who softens when 3 little girls enter his life was a nice story.  And it'd be fun to watch him slip into villain mode at certain parts.

However, he was a soft-headed wimp right from the beginning, which gave his character little to no transition, at least to me.

Minions just felt like a reminder of how I was looking forward to this movie and how much it disappointed me.

[rookie]

Ok. On the minions a second. I've seen the first one more times than I can count, little kids and all. First of all, it's a little kids movie. I hope nobody was expecting Shakespeare or Laurence of Arabia. Most (but not all) kids movies are crap. So comparing apples to apples, DM wasn't near as bad as it could have been. Certainly better than Elmo. Honestly, I was more worried about Russell Brand in a kids movie than I was annoyed about the minions. At first.
My kids figured out the lesson pretty quick. Gru was a weirdo. He talked with an accent, looked odd, his house didn't really fit in with the rest of the neighborhood. But under all that, he wasn't really a bad guy. When the kids took the time to get to know him, they realized that. So my kids took away that it was a movie celebrating inclusion and going beyond skin deep. There are worse lessons from movies for young'uns.

[Askold]

The first Despicaple Me film was pretty fun (although not as good as Megamind.) the second had a decent amount of good jokes but the overall plot wasn't neither particularly good nor bad enough to be fun. The Minions spinoff had less decent jokes (the amount of jokes was high, I wish they had concentrated on the quality) and a horrible plot.

Speaking of spinoff films. I still haven't seen the Penquins movie completely. I've seen bits and pieces as my kids watched it and Imgur still shows bits of it every now and then but apart from few funny jokes and a vague knowledge of the plot I still haven't seen it properly.

[Svata]

To be fair, thats because Megamind was a fucking masterpiece.