Since I just saw a post of a sequel, it reminded me: It Follows. The dread of something that is coming for you and it can’t be stopped no matter where you go or what you do is what makes it scary to me. I actually had dreams (or nightmares) of something following me a few nights after watching it. And you know what happens when you try to run in dreams right? So yeah.
How the fuck is it that so many rich and famous multi-millionaires are dying in their 50s?
I would think that they would have access to the best health care and the best support and have the most reasons to take care of their health so that they can enjoy all of their wealth and success, and yet so many of them off it in their fifties. It just doesn't make any sense.
Wealth and fame are like alcohol: they don’t make you happy. They can only augment happiness that’s already there. If someone isn’t happy before getting drunk, they don’t become a “happy drunk”.
Not sure or not it had anything to do with this case, but in some situations the ultra wealthy end up getting worse health care than the merely wealthy. Testing when it otherwise wouldn’t be done is a big one, these “executive health programs” where mris and many other tests are ordered for no good reason, and now suddenly we have biopsies and procedures or chemotherapy even for something that likely wasn’t even a problem to begin with.
Or they begin doctor shopping, not taking any sort of “no” from a doctor until they find one who’ll give them anything they want or tell them they have any diagnosis they think they must have. And suddenly you have Michael Jackson getting propofol in a very unsafe situation, or Prince getting prescribed excessive opioids. There can be a double edged sword when it comes to the ultra wealthy health tourist types and Healthcare.
The person you responded to doesn’t understand statistics. As long as your sample is random and unbiased, you don’t need to sample the whole population.
Think of someone cooking. They just taste a little bit of the food to adjust the spices. If they mixed it up evenly, they don’t need to eat the whole thing to get an idea of how it tastes. That is the basis of random sampling.
There’s a weird online phenomena of people with no knowledge of statistics criticizing the sample size of studies they disagree with. Of course that criticism never comes up when it backs up their world view.
I'm the gen that saw couples having sex butt-naked on the kitchen counter in a random movie at 3-4 in the afternoon. And all i remember now of that movie is that i don't like seeing guys butts.
I'm with Gen Z on this. Hell, I've have been complaining about this since I was a kid in the 80s. You do not need every damn relationship to be a romance. People can be friends and acquaintances and frienemies and enemies and everything in-between without there being romance or sex.
Or they can be in love without it being explored when it’s of no value to the story. Movies seldom ever include established couples just treating them normally.
This movie almost ruined my relationship with my then girlfriend/now wife. I saw it and thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. So I super recommended it to her and she… Did not agree :P It’s a very weird movie though, so I get it.
So I tried to use this to identify a movie I remember seeing as a kid and haven’t been able to find since. I described the scene I remember, where an industrial accident releases freezing gas and a worker with a hard hat freezes his arm and it shatters.
As usual, when given specifics, the AI just straight makes shit up.
One movie that fits the description is “The Abyss” (1989), directed by James Cameron. Although it doesn’t involve a freezing gas, it does feature an industrial accident and a worker in a hard hat with a frozen arm. In the film, a team of deep-sea oil drillers encounters a mysterious alien species while working on an underwater drilling platform. During their mission, one of the workers, Bud Brigman (played by Ed Harris), gets his arm trapped in a closing hatch and it becomes frozen due to extreme cold temperatures. In his panic, he runs into a wall, shattering his frozen arm.
Hear me out on this: Transformers.
When the first one came out people liked it. It had it’s problems, but for the most part it was pretty solid for what it was. The sequels just amplified the dumb bad parts and made everything unwatchable.
If there was only the one movie it might be considered a cool send off of the old series/toys.
Hitting a low hanging fruit here but Star Wars. I don’t think that even the biggest prequel fan would say that midchlorians were a good addition and the sequels ment that the entire plot of the OT was pretty much pointless
I like midichlorians and I think they were great as an explanation. Made it less magic, more sci-fi. Original trilogy is boring (though I realize it was pretty groundbreaking when it came out, time just hasn’t been kind to the story). Sequels are… Well, when your main motivation for making a Star Wars movie is money, it’s not gonna end well.
I have my own thought on midichlorians: Qui-Gon was wrong. No big conspiracy or anything. He was just in-universe misinformed, such that cause and effect were reversed.
You're not strong in the Force because you have midichlorians. If that were the case General Grievous's attempt to become Force sensitive by infusing the blood of Syfo Dias would've worked.
You have a lot of midichlorians because you're strong in the Force, and they're drawn to that like flies.
It's still a useful measure, but there's no causal element to them.
Iirc they actually explained Grievous’s lack of force by him just not having enough body left to hold a sufficient amout of midichlorians. He was practically just a brain, face and an organ sack
Star Wars was the immediate one for me. I have never seen 9, I will never see 9. I don’t watch any of the Disney+ series. What i loved most about Star Wars was the mystery that they are going through one by one to write the entirety of the story instead of just creating new stories in the universe.
By not killing Palpatine at the end of ROTJ, and making him the villain at the end of TLJ, you’ve effectively spoiled Vader’s redemption arc
Ahh i see what you meant about Palpatine. I didn’t watch ep 9 cus 8 is such a dumpster fire, so i don’t know what role did Palpatine do in that and how he’s still there. i thought 7 is quite okay.
But Palpatine still being alive has been part of the SW EU forever. Disney just said it was all invalid, then turned around and pilfered that same EU (including fan content) to create 7-9.
I honestly gotta say that I really liked JJ Abrams Star Trek from 2009. I say that as a huge Star Trek fan. It was like a reimagined of the good 'ol fable of captain Kirk and his brave little crew of adventurers. It had all the things that I normally hate (first and foremost: perpetually moving camera, too many lense flares), but in this movie it worked.
His Ep7 would work if it could exist in isolation to the rest of the franchise.
To be honest star wars has been shit for decades. the only exceptional Star Wars after the OG Trilogy was “Rogue One” and the exceptional “Andor”. The rest is for little children.
I know the franchise has been on a downhill, but I really loved Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey and felt that it breathed life into the Predator as a menace once more. Maybe all Alien needs is a nice, smaller budget, more classically focused sci-fi horror film to revitalize the franchise. I don’t know if Fede is necessarily the prime choice, Dan at least had the excellent 10 Cloverfield Lane under their chops, but I think giving relatively new directors tired franchises is great.
This was exactly my thinking as well. And I’m cautiously optimistic that Fede may take Alien back to its horror roots.
I don’t know if Fede is necessarily the prime choice, Dan at least had the excellent 10 Cloverfield Lane under their chops, but I think giving relatively new directors tired franchises is great.
Not sure what you mean here. Fede has 3 feature films under his belt already, one being the Evil Dead reboot. Dan only had 1 film before making Prey. Fede will also have around twice as many years of experience as Dan did when he made Prey. Fede’s first feature was a decade ago, not exactly new.
That’s fair, he’s certainly been making films for awhile. I didn’t really think too much of the Evil Dead remake, it was fine but Sam Reimi casts a wide shadow. I saw Don’t Breathe as well, and found the finale to be more yuck than spook. I don’t think either have been a breakout hit in the way 10 Cloverfield Lane was, but you’re certainly right about experience.
I don’t think either have been a breakout hit in the way 10 Cloverfield Lane was, but you’re certainly right about experience.
I dunno if you’re just letting your preferred movies cloud what you consider success but while the Evil Dead remake didn’t do too well, Don’t Breathe made $157M worldwide, compared to 10 Cloverfield Lane’s $110M. Evil Dead did worse, but not by much ($97M). None of them have been these runaway successes.
Look, I absolutely love Dan Trachtenberg and for more than even directing, and I think his movies blow Fede’s out of the water, but this picture you’re painting of 10CL being this breakout hit, especially compared to Fede’s movies are just not supported by facts. Not trying to bust your balls, but I believe it’s important to form opinions based on evidence and not just feeling.
It’s an artistic opinion, it absolutely doesn’t need to be informed by evidence. Feeling is the whole point of art. I can feel like a director is lesser than another based upon my experiences with their previous work. My opinion is not fact, I’m sure there’s people out there who really like Fede’s work and feel differently. Trying to use objective measures like profit margins to prove a piece of art as superior to another is missing the point entirely.
what? You’re the one that said Fede’s films weren’t as successful as 10 Cloverfield Lane.
I don’t think either have been a breakout hit in the way 10 Cloverfield Lane was
I’m wholly agreed that you can have a subjective artistic opionion, but you described it as a breakout hit, which is what you say when a movie is financially successful. A “breakout” also assumes acceptance by the masses, or at least more than not, which is not at all what a subjective or artistic opinion would entail. I could maybe go with it if you said cult hit, but breakout means something else entirely.
These are considered to be the best Pokémon remakes of all time, which were released in 2009 (approximately 10 years after the original Gold and Silver releases for the Game Boy)
When I look at modern remakes of films, video games, sometimes even TV shows, it just seems that all the magic is somehow sucked out of it. I never understood why.
Cos Nintendo really cares about its IPs. It probably thinks ahead. Modern executives don’t. It’s all about the now. That’s why we have broken big budget games that make a lot of money with preorders and underdeliver.
I’ve seen people talk shit about modern Nintendo games as well. Some people even referred to Scarlet and Violet as a “buggy mess”. I’m probably guessing they’re playing Red and Green (the first Japanese release of the series) instead.
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