Ilandar
@Ilandar@lemm.ee
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 6 days ago:
I might check it out then, thanks!
- Comment on What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made? 6 days ago:
I’ve got to stop putting off High and Low.
- Comment on What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made? 6 days ago:
It’s my favourite also! In my final year of high school I wrote a comparative essay on it and Dune (the novel), so I watched it repeatedly throughout the year to work out how I was going to approach the essay. I must have watched it over 20 times throughout my life and it’s reached that rare point where my familiarity with it somehow enhances everything about it, making it even better than it was the first time I saw it. It’s the film I compare all other films to - whenever I see something great I think “okay but was this as good as Nausicaa (the perfect 10/10 film)?”.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 6 days ago:
Sorry, I meant I watched the first one. Not really interested in watching the second to get to the third (assuming they are connected).
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 week ago:
It’s more conventional than those films, I guess because it’s a more direct adaptation of an existing story. I think whether you prefer it probably has some connection to how much you enjoy his direction. He seems to have more free reign when he is directing for something he has written himself, which leads to more experimentation.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 week ago:
I guess I am in the minority but I still fail to see why anyone would be excited for a sequel to the original. I watched it and it was fine but there were no unanswered questions or character threads that needed more development on screen. The monster gimmick worked well once but got old quite quickly. It amazes me that this ever became a series in the first place. It seemed like a perfect example of a solid, one-off science fiction/horror film.
- Comment on Are people around you still excited about MCU movies? 1 week ago:
This is more a reflection of your food standards than the quality of the films. McDonald’s is, and always has been, dogshit.
- Comment on Are people around you still excited about MCU movies? 1 week ago:
I don’t think anyone around me has ever been excited for them. Maybe there was interest around the time of the first two Avengers films, but it’s so long ago now that I can’t remember. The first one was the only time I ever watched one of these films in the cinema and whilst it was somewhat enjoyable as far as superhero films go, I had absolutely no desire to pay to see another one. They are so blatantly cookie cutter to me I’m not really sure how people can remain excited for them over such a long period of time.
- Comment on [Discussion] Which movie trailers were the most deceptive regarding the actual content of the movie? 1 week ago:
Yeah, wasn’t the Rogue One trailer an example of this? I recall there was a scene where the main character comes face to face with an airborne tie fighter - the entire sequence was absent from the film. According to the director, the scene had no connection to the story and never had any chance of making it into the film. It was just a visual idea the marketing team really liked.
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 1 week ago:
Interesting, maybe I’ll read that before re-watching the film. Thanks for the recommendation!
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 1 week ago:
I’d like to watch this and Annihilation again. I’ve only seen each of them once, both around the same time, and my memories of them are pretty fuzzy at this stage.
- Comment on Russell Crowe on the 'Gladiator' script - "It's crap, but I'm the best actor in the world and I can make crap sound good" 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a non-AI generated version of this story back from 2010 when it was actually news.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 3 weeks ago:
I watched the ‘Melchior the Apothecary’ trilogy over three nights. I was surprised at how great the sets, costumes and sound design were. It seems like they shot these films within a relatively short period and on a reasonably low budget, but I thought they looked and sounded great and that helped connect me to the world and the characters which, again somewhat surprisingly, really paid off in the final film. All three are around the 90 minute mark, but don’t feel rushed (although I think they all could have benefitted from a slight extension to the runtime). The mysteries are passable but nothing special - actually I’d say they’re probably one of the weaker aspects of the films. However, if you enjoy historical dramas or medieval settings then I think you’d really enjoy these three films like I did. I’d like to read the novels they are based on, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem like many have been translated from the original Estonian to English.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 3 weeks ago:
And I’d call it creepy rather than scary.
I found the first portion of the film set in Transylvania very scary. Honestly I think it peaked around then and the rest of the film, although still good, never got close to reaching those heights.
- Comment on Is there a better sequel than Terminator 2? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t tolerate it at all, to be honest. I think it’s a complete joke how acceptable blatant phone addiction has become in society; a third of my sessions at the cinema have people using phones during the film now. There is no such thing as “watching in the background” - you’re either watching it or you’re not watching it. You can put a film on in the background but don’t tell me you watched it, because you didn’t. It’s such a widespread problem now that there has even been debate about whether some modern writers are instructed to dumb down their dialogue so that people who refuse to look up from their dopanime injector can follow the basic plot.
- Comment on Is there a better sequel than Terminator 2? 3 weeks ago:
if you watch it, don’t doomscroll at the same time.
It’s sad that you actually felt the need to tell people this in a movies community. What a time we live in.
- Comment on Is there a better sequel than Terminator 2? 3 weeks ago:
I guess I will need to rewatch 2049 again (I’ve only seen it once, in the cinema at release). I’ve watched the original quite a few times since though and I’m increasingly of the opinion that it’s quite overrated and gets heavily carried by the visuals and the soundtrack, so I could see a case being made for the sequel being better.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 3 weeks ago:
I made it a bit further but also gave up. I guess I wasn’t particularly interested in a Nolan biographical feature to begin with (I feel he is better suited to fiction), but it definitely felt like one of his most self-fellating efforts yet. Sort of just confrationally different for the sake of being different. I bet his fanboys ate it up, though.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 4 weeks ago:
What did you think of it? I’ve been planning to watch it for ages based purely on the hype, but it’s not the type of genre I’d usually go for so I’m not sure whether I’ll enjoy it.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 4 weeks ago:
How did you feel about the opening 45 minutes or whatever it was? The constant time skips, loud music in every scene, etc?
- Comment on I never realized this 1 month ago:
Because their entire poltical and world view is based on identity politics. They cannot simply say “that joke sucked” and move on, they have to make it into yet another virtue signalling exercise and lecture everyone else because that is the behaviour they associate with being a “good person”.
- Comment on Vale @Ilandar 1 month ago:
but I always had the impression you didn’t really like me
Not at all, I’m not sure why you’d think that.
- Comment on Vale @Ilandar 1 month ago:
It’s one of my favourites! I have a box set of the manga too. :)
- Comment on Vale @Ilandar 1 month ago:
The first character I created in the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic back when it launched was an Imperial Agent (Operative) called Lastelle Ilandar. Lastelle is the name of the Princess of Pejite in Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’ and Ilandar was an original surname I thought sounded good when paired with Lastelle. Because I played on a roleplaying server initially, I created a little backstory for the character where she was a daughter of a noble Alderaanian family (House Ilandar). Her family planned to marry off against her wishes, so she joined Imperial Intelligence as a means of rebelling against them. A lot of people use their nickname or gamer name as their online username but I’ve never had one of those so this has sort of become the default one for me, although I haven’t used it that often.
- Comment on Vale @Ilandar 1 month ago:
There’s been a bit of a vibe shift over the last year as activity has dropped off and the instance has become even more of an echo-chamber than it already was. People are becoming more callous and less interested in multifaceted conversation as a result of events like the Gaza war. I was already debating whether I really wanted to be here around the time BanDHMO left, which was a big blow because they were one of the few posters who were not only enjoyable to discuss big issues with but also tried (often in vain) to steer those conversations in a less angry, reactionary direction. I was posting and checking in a lot less, I had a growing block list which meant the instance was pretty quiet, I couldn’t branch out to other communities because of the sync issues…it was all getting pretty pointless. The Brian Thompson shooting was the final straw. I don’t know why so many people here think that is something worthy of celebration but it’s an absolutely delusional take and there was no way I was spending another minute surrounded by people who are incapable of criticising the victim and/or his profession/industry without simultaenously worshipping his accused killer. That news story sort of sums up the state of social media now, where so many people have developed these completely insane and extreme beliefs without even knowing it and suddenly the people like me who still believe murder is morally wrong and that vigilantism is not a solution to society’s problems are considered fringe.
There are still some good communities and people here, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t intend to interact with the instance in any major way going forward so there was no reason to keep the account. Maybe I’ll check in to some of the communities I still enjoyed on this new account, or maybe I’ll just delete it in a few days. I’m not really sure whether I want to persist with Lemmy or social media in today’s world, I just think it’s getting worse with no end to the decline in sight. But I thought before I give up entirely I should at least see if it’s any better when I can interact with a broader range of people from the .world instance and its many communities. Sorry to leave abruptly, but I didn’t actually think anyone would notice since I wasn’t particularly active.