• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      really ought to make people realize that letting people do what they’re passionate about results in amazing products, this is how we got the london tube map as well.

  • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
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    8 days ago

    I am fully aware I’m pretty much alone with my opinion, but I find Terminator 1 far superior to T2.

    Even with the limited budget T1 manages to create a far more horrifying vision of an unstoppable killer coming after you. The lo-fi’ish synth soundtrack sets a perfect oppressive feeling. The casting is perfect, Michael Biehn’ s scarred and wiry Reese with Hamilton’s young and scared next door girl going against metal-Arnold in his prime is the epitome of underdog scenarios.

    And the pacing is very good, the plot flows.

    T2 is a good film, but like many sequels, it suffers from the “let’s do the same thing from a different angle, but bigger and louder!” - syndrome. It doesn’t really get to be it’s own kind of beast. I was very surprised that Cameron fell for the trap, after he avoided that mistake with “Aliens”. Switching genre from space horror to space action made that film stand firmly on it’s own feet and the result was good.

    Lastly, T2 has the young John Connor doing the “badass kid” - role, which so many seem to love. I just find the character annoying.

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    8 days ago

    I can’t wait for Dune 3. If Villeneuve sticks the landing his trilogy will become for Sci-fi what LotR is for fantasy.

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    The meme is funny, I’m going to acknowledge that first.

    But what are these rankings? Indiana Jones 3 is ranked the same quality as 2. Spider-Man 1 is ranked demonstrably worse than 2. Jurassic Park 3 is ranked work than Jurassic Park 2???

    I know it comes down to a matter of opinion but I also have to wonder if the person who originally created this meme watched the movies, because those are some spicy takes.

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      7 days ago

      Most people think Spider-Man 2 is the high point of that series, and sometimes superhero movies as a genre. I think they got that one right.

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      8 days ago

      They made viewers work to understand. Viewers largely rejected that.

      Which has led us, irrevocably, to spoon fed trash that plays to the dumbest person in the audience.

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    8 days ago

    A lot of those crappy trilogies were not written all at once the way LOTR was. The more common case of writing follow-ups to cash in on the popularity of the original is a time-honoured way to make money while producing derivative garbage.

    I feel like we need a different word to separate those “cash grab” trilogies from proper multi-part stories like LOTR.

    • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      That’s a good point. I’m endlessly fascinated the Back to the Future was not a planned trilogy. I always assumed it was well into adulthood.