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- Comment on 10 Lovecraft Stories That Need Modern Movie Adaptations 1 week ago:
To be fair: from a financial perspective that sounds like the right call, even if the movie would have been interesting.
R rated horror movies just don’t bring in the amount of money to sustain high budgets like that. The exception being “It” (and the sequel), but that had more mainstream appeal and also only came out years later.
Although isn’t the break even number usually closer to double the budget?
- Comment on What would you consider to be the greatest action movie of the 2000s so far? 5 weeks ago:
For me personally it’s “Dredd”, but to be fair I am also a sci-fi fan in general.
I guess besides that “the raid”, “Kill Bill” and the first “John wick” probably have to be up there.
- Comment on Microsoft announces the Proteus Controller, a gamepad for Xbox gamers with disabilities 1 month ago:
It’s a ton of money when comparing it to mainstream electronics, but I’d imagine that $300 single payment is a drop in the bucket for something medical. Anyone who needs it probably spends similar amounts or more adapting other everyday things for ease of use.
It’s a niche probably low volume product that requires a good amount of hardware and software engineering.
- Comment on Are people excited for Furiosa? 2 months ago:
Personally i am not extremely hyped, but assume it will deliver a solid movie.
I can appreciate the quality and craftmanship of the 2015 Mad Max: Fury road, but somehow despite that it just didn’t quite click with me.
In regards of the stunts and so on i expect Fuirosa to deliver similarly. Where i am unsure (based on the trailer) is whether the casting can match Fury road. Feels like Tom Hardy has aruggedness (?) to him that fits better into the Mad Max world compared to Chris Hemsworth.
- Comment on [Discussion thread] Civil War 2 months ago:
Saw it yesterday night, so this are just some of my first impressions and it’ll take some time to process and maybe a rewatch for any final verdict.
Coming from Alex Garland, who made some of my favorite movies of all time (Ex Machina and Dredd), and distributed by A24, who have an exceptional track record, my expectations were extremely high. In the end it didn’t quite live up to them, but admittedly that might just be on me. Overall it is a very good movie.
To get to some of my thoughts:
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I had a hard time with Nick Offerman as President, not because of his performance, but because in the moment i couldn’t quite seperate him from his parks and rec performance (and the overall positive offscreen image i have from him in my mind). That isn’t a fault of the movie and on me, but just an observation
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Another aspect that took me out of the movie was that in my opinion they weren’t really dressed like i’d expect seasoned war reporter to be dressed (but that might be my mental image being wrong). Towards the start of the movie they still do it. Like in one of the first scenes with the bomb going off they have that bright reflective vest. Or in another scene they do wear this distinctive blue Press helmet. I think she also wears it in some of the flashbacks we get in the early hotel bathtub scene. But most of the time they just seem to walk around casually like civilians with only waving around their tiny press credential badges. Like when they directly approach the armed men at the mass grave. Or in the final act where the other journalist team seems to be in full gear, but they just wear a small vest, no helmet.
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They also seemed a bit too clean for me for being on the road in a country where normal life has broken down due to the civil war going on. Like always a fresh pair of fresh cloths, washed hair and clean hands etc.
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I think the action was done extremely well. And watching it in a large (relatively empty) theater the contrast between quiet moments and extremely loud gun shots was great. Not to say that the rest of the movie wasn’t shot well in general.
I think between the high expectations and aspects that kind of took me out of the more realistic image i had in my mind, my initial impression after watching wasn’t as hyped. But having slept over it my opinion of the movie has improved, and might continue to do so.
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- Comment on [Discussion thread] Fallout 2 months ago:
I really liked it and it definitely exceeded my expectations. Overall well made, good performances and a solid mix of humor, satire, brutality and so on.
I’m more of an elder scrolls kind of guy, so I haven’t really played the fallout games much (only fallout 3 I think?), so I can’t really compare the series to the games.
Subjectively the one thing I would have changed, is having a bit more mystery. Feels like instead of being that naive vault dweller slowly uncovering everything piece by piece, we do get a lot of information on the background events really fast.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 2 months ago:
So we basically make the Purge a reality?
- Comment on Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles 2 months ago:
I agree that it is about market powery, but one could make the argument that Xbox/PlayStation have a duopoly similar to iOS/Android.
Although I think PlayStation dominated with roughly a 70/30 split worldwide (higher in Europe). Nintendo is somewhat in its own category imo, since they mostly do their own games and don’t directly compete in that sense.
But I guess in a way consoles also compete with PCs.
- Comment on [Discussion thread] 3 Body Problem - Season 1 2 months ago:
Watched it over the weekend and overall enjoyed it, but wasn’t blown away. However since i really loved the books and am a sci-fi an in general that was to be expected, as long as it didn’t completely botch it. It’s been quite a while since i’ve read the source material, which makes it somewhat hard to properly judge the adaption.
Overall i don’t mind characters and loaction being altered, since i found the general concepts to be the strongest part of the books. So changing most of the main cast to not be chinese unlike in the books didn’t bother me much, since it is a story that happens on a global scale. Outside of course the flashback scenes of Ye Wenjie (which were done quite well imo). However changing the chinese centric cast to a group of british friends that all know eachother seems a bit pointless (outside of making the show easier to market/shoot), since instead of expanding the scale it makes it even more narrow.
I’ve actually started to watch the chinese TV show as comparison and what i like better there is that the science feels more like sciency if that makes sense. For example it’s not the stars that blink, but fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background. Or the nanotechnology scientist is a professor that actually works in a lab that looks convincible, compared to the Auggie Salazar character.
- Comment on Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Draws Fire in China, Praise From U.S. Conservatives | The Hollywood Reporter 3 months ago:
The scene was also buried halfway through the Chinese version of the novel but was brought to the beginning of the book for the English version — with the author’s blessing.
From the article. So I guess it was less prominent in the original chinese version? But you are right being a book adaption the story has been out for years and quite prominently at that. Then again we don’t really know what “draws fire in china” actually means, if it’s just some random online posters, then you can make any claim and likely find a comment supporting it. Really doesn’t mean much.
On a side note I think there was a Chinese TV adaption already. Has anyone seen that one and how they handled it?
Before reading the article I actually didn’t think about that scene, but thought they’d be annoyed that nationalities of the characters were changed.
- Comment on My small hot take on Dune pt 2 after having just seen it 3 months ago:
Actually thinking about it again we are being told at the very start of the first movie (with a voice over exposition) that spice is the most valuable substance in the universe, that the spacing guild uses it and that without it interstellar travel is impossible. So in a way the viewer gets all the information needed in the first part.
Maybe the fact that irritated me was more that we don’t get to understand that the spacing guild is basically a completely seperate faction and all the dynamics that come with it?
I guess we have to wait how he resolves it in the third movie.
- Comment on My small hot take on Dune pt 2 after having just seen it 3 months ago:
I also thought the lack of any substantial passage of time with the fremens was an issue. As I’ve already written in some other threads i think it is a consequence of wanting to keep Alia an unborn child rather than casting a child actor to play a difficult role (and having that influence who you cast later when you need a more grown up Alia).
Once you make that decision the time frame naturally gets restricted to under 9 months, since you have to I have Jessica pregnant from the beginning.
I very much enjoyed the Geidi Prime aesthetics, but I can see how one can find it to be more style than necessary substance. Now that you mention it, I’d also definitely be interested how it would have looked with a more Alien like Giger-ish design.
Regarding the end with the great houses and spice, I wonder what we will see in part 3. I think the importance of spice fell a bit under the table, since we didn’t have the spacing guild being a bigger part. So I’m wondering if that was simply saved for part 3 to take out a story line from an already relatively packed movie. As were others such as jamis wife/children or paul+chani’s first child Leto that gets killed (also a result of the cut timeframe).
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 9 months ago:
Others have already mentioned some of the many reasons why.
But i would like to add that even if they’d rejoin, they could not do so with the same conditions that they had before. Since they joined the predecessors of the EU so early, they had a number of privileges that a new joining member nowadays would not be granted. So from that side “going back to how things were before” wouldn’t be possible to begin with.
- Comment on Does Lemmy have nsfw nudity communities? If so what are the main ones called so I know what to avoid ? 10 months ago:
Lewy.world is a instance that only federates with instances that are only nsfw content (like lemmynsfw.com). So I guess you’ll want to avoid checking that out
- Comment on 'Barbie' dominates cinemas: Movie tops $1 billion globally in first for solo woman director 10 months ago:
For me it depends on what we define as “theater experience”:
I absolutely never care about the rest of the audience (unless they’d be actively annoying). The Part where it forces me to pay attention is the biggest draw. And the technical aspect (better/larger screens) only matters for certain movies ever since i have a decent sized oled tv. So i’d go see Oppenheimer if there were an IMAX cinema in my area (which sadly isnt the case) or i went to see Avatar 2 last christmas, because i think there the technical aspects matter more. There i went to see it on a large screen, whereas otherwise i often choose smaller independent cinemas, whenever i go. Next one is probably gonna be “Past Lives”.
A membership sounds nice, but i feel like i wouldn’t have enough movies i truly want to see to justify one. Also i think the one that’s available in my city that i know of would be 20€/month, but not truly unlimited but 8 tickets/month.
- Comment on 'Barbie' dominates cinemas: Movie tops $1 billion globally in first for solo woman director 10 months ago:
For me it might actually be the other way around. Being in the cinema forces me to pay better attention, which especially for a long movie can be helpful.
Havent gone to see Oppenheimer, but for example when it was released i went to see “Drive my Car” (179 minutes long and subtitled) in the cinema. I’ve since also watched it at home, but i am glad i went to the cinema on my first watch. It’s my own flault, but i am not sure if i would have had the same focus and attention when watching it at home or if i’d at some point would have gotten distracted by something.
- Comment on Euphoria star Angus Cloud has died at 25. 10 months ago:
As the article mentions Euphoria is a HBO series starring Zendaya. Apparently according to Wikipedia it actually is HBOs 4th most watched show (behind Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon and the last of us).
I couldn’t tell you much about it since I haven’t watched it, but it’s definitely not an obscure show.
- Comment on How to create a Lemmy Instance using AWS or some kind of cloud service? 11 months ago:
!selfhosted@lemmy.world could be helpful