Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you?

CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Waterworld is fine. It just gets ragged on because of its insane budget and the lackluster results for said budget. But if you don’t care about that and just watch a movie, it’s a decent movie.

  The Simpsons joke where the tie in video game needs 40 quarters is still funny though.

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  • Welt@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is that simply a reference to it going over budget? I never got that joke.

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The movie was infamously over budget. It basically doubled from its initial budget and was for the time a record expensive movie to make. All of that for a final product that was fine but not really showing all that money on screen. It was the topic of many late night show jokes and such.

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      • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What was the reason it went so overboard with the budget?

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Like most, I totally disagree. However, it had such great potential.

  I feel the same about Valerian. The imagery was pure eye candy and then I watched it, so looking forward to a great flick, and what I got was… Valerian.

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The setting and design in Valerian is fantastic. The opening sequence really is among the best in film. Shame about the plot and main characters.

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The plot was bad, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie close to how bad the romantic chemistry was between the main characters. There was negative chemistry, in fact they felt more like brother and sister which just made the whole thing creepy.

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• ooli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I watched it at release time. And the scene where Kevin Kostner run through his boat activating various sail and gadget to escape the bad guy is still engraved in my memory as the most badass thing ever

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  • CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I feel exactly the same way! I was a huge book nerd in the 80s and Frank Herbert was some core sci-fi exposure for me.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  F you and Saint Joe Hazelwood. I love sails.

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• kalpol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s definitely a spectacle.

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yep. Great movie, watched it in cinema and a few times later. Still don’t understand how people didn’t like it.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “'Cause she’s my friend.” Will always have my respect for not phoning it in and just cashing the check.

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