Bad film with amazing premise and mediocre execution that you can't stop thinking about?
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The movie In Time (2011). The premise was interesting but I can't even remember the plot because it was so meh.
I also think Idiocracy could have been better. It had good moments, and that's what most people remember, but the overall cohesiveness falls flat. Great moments, iconic scenes, but could have been a better film.
In time, has such a awesome premise.
But what we got was a "poor little rich girl" story.
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Thanks, I actually went out of my way to look up the native Lemmy markdown format for spoilers because I was worried the one I was used to using wasn't universal, but I guess the opposite ended up being the case. I'll try to fix it.
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Bruh Constantine is one of my favorite films ever. It's so fucking awesome!
Keanu reeves is such a weird casting choice. He's playing a guy from manchester and all he can do is play himself, like in every movie he does.
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The Cube.
Most people saw it as an average horror movie where a bunch of people try to get out of a giant torture box. But there was a pivotal scene that stuck with me where one of the prisoners realizes he helped build part of it. The whole thing wasn't some intentional torture device but just a bunch of people doing their day jobs that were lost in a bureaucracy not ever questioning what their work was creating.
A stark reflection of society and the systems we create and the dangers of not ever looking at the bigger picture.Of course they proceeded to shit all over this idea in Cube2 where it ended up being just another evil government experiment.
I actually liked Cube Zero for the backstory and set styles. I don’t remember much else so I’m assuming it was shit, but you can give it a try if you want.
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TLJ takes a bunch of the exact same elements from the original trilogy including the young jedi training in a remote location, the empire/first order finding the secret rebel base with the main characters escaping at the last moment, the protagonist being captured by their rival and being brought before the sith leader where they wind up battling, the protagonist finding out that they're related to their rival, the hermit jedi master sacrificing themselves etc, etc, etc. The last trilogy is just a recycling of the original to the point that they had to add stupid dialog like "it's salt" in a vain attempt to convince people that they aren't just copy and pasting major plot points from the original
TFA and RoS are rehashes, TLJ is a deconstruction
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I believe this is what you're looking for:
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I'll be that guy that enjoyed The Last Jedi explicitly because it was something different, and leaned into more of the mystical side of the force while on the "big screen."
Edit: I just remembered the hyperspace "weapon" moment, and both how cool it was and how much it could affect the empire. They probably didn't mean for it, but that you could effectively point and shoot a ship like that was an amazing usage.
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I specifically didn’t like that scene because it’s a massive departure from the lore of all the other films. If they could just do that, why haven’t both sides been doing that all the time? Is it supposed to be that this group is the first group to try this, with the tech that has been around for at least a few centuries? If they had all died in the process I’d be more ok with that, although that also seems like a departure from how hyperspace works in the other films.
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I know it's a British one, I was wondering what region, since OP was talking about his London accent.
its vaguely welsh, but I actually can't tell
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Thanks! Does that look any better now?
It doesn't, it still has some exclamation point action that might be the issue. If it helps, you should be able to copy and paste my example markdown. I gave it a try and it still works.
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Dark City (1998) could definitely fit the bill, it has so many unique ideas for that time in film and you can see there’s of all sorts of future sci-fi movies in it from the matrix to inception, it’s a very visually ugly movie and the acting is subpar but as a premise it’s super interesting. Generally I think remakes are a waste of time and money but I’d love to see this movie with a proper budget and modern technology
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Man in the High Castle tv show. The premise was interesting, Nazis taking over the US and the population figting back. However, the show quickly devolved into a confusing mess.
Nazis are in charge of the US government, yet there's other Nazis on the run from the Nazis in charge? And they're hiding bibles? I was left scratching my head wondering if there were any characters that weren't Nazis. I guess it's a story about how bad guys always turn on each other?
Also The Witcher season 1 tv show. I've never played the games before and knew nothing about it. I was hoping the tv series would be my introduction to the games, but... what in the actual fuck. Was the director drunk? Is this a show about medieval fantasy time travel and I'm just not getting it?
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It doesn't, it still has some exclamation point action that might be the issue. If it helps, you should be able to copy and paste my example markdown. I gave it a try and it still works.
There, third time's the charm (or 10th, more accurately, since lemmy.world is shitting the bed right now).
I think I figured out what was going on, too. The app I use was automatically re-parsing spoiler formatting into its own syntax, but then was erroneously applying that same syntax to text when attempting to view source. So even the example you posted looked different to me when viewed in app versus on the actual site. I made the edit from the site this time and I think that should be good now.
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In time, has such a awesome premise.
But what we got was a "poor little rich girl" story.
What we got was Bonnie and Clyde. I liked it though.
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Not a film, but a TV series?
It's called Jericho, and the synopsis in the Wikipedia reads:Jericho is an American post-apocalyptic action drama television series, which centers on the residents of the fictional city of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of a nuclear attack on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
But yeah, the execution is mediocre at best. Both the action and the drama are unbearably flimsy and cliche, even the argument flops as metal.
I remember starting watching that. I have no idea how far I got, but I don't remember a thing about it.
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The Man from Earth
B4
Triangle
Time Lapse
Daybreakers
Evolution
Knowing
The Man From Earth is definitely one I think about. The things he must have seen, must have done, that over time shaped him into who he was. Is he the embodiment of mankind, as well as its own self-hatred? The religious stuff was a bit much. I still haven't seen the sequel, with genuine anxiety to.
Daybreakers is also a good one. A bit deus-ex with the "solution" at the end, but very good thought experiment
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I watched a recent review from TheNostalgiaCritic about this film, and he does touch upon a lot of what you said about the strange motivations of all the characters that led up to the Dinosaurs escaping. That being said, I liked it and would say it is iconic in both story and genre (semi-horror kid-friendly family film aimed at adults?)
wrote last edited by [email protected]I saw the Siskel and Ebert review and I agree with their point that there was a lack of awe in the movie that E.T. and close encounters of the third kind had.
This movie had dinosaurs being dangerous at almost all times. Only a moment after they awed a stampede was heading for them.
The danger felt convoluted. Tacked in.
And it would have been a good time to question the old man about park safety.The old man never get punished for his reckless behavior. I don't get why my downvoters would disagree with me. Would you downvoters really have acted so calmly against the old man when the park goes haywire?
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TFA and RoS are rehashes, TLJ is a deconstruction
That seems like a distinction without a difference.
Just for the fun of it, I took a screenshot of Google AIs take on the "deconstruction" argument:
"Challenging the Chosen One narrative"
Rey's parents were "nobody" yet so were Luke Skywalker's parents. The final film is titled "The Rise of Skywalker" on her path to becoming the chosen one.
"Revisiting Luke's Heroism"
Rehashes the same failures Obi Wan felt for not preventing Anakin from going to the dark side.
"Undermining Jedi Ideals"
Irrelevant point that could just as easily signify the film's creator's not being familiar with the intricacies of the source material.
"Exploration of Failure and Complexity"
Throughout all the films, the rebels are constantly facing failures. They get attacked, captured, fail to prevent events from occurring, etc.
"Subverting Expectations"
An expression ripped straight from the final season of GoT and widely mocked. This film didn't subvert any of my expectations as it all plays out quite predictably in Disney fashion where the "good guys" come out on top in the end. The fact that this argument is even made illustrates the similarity to the previous films which set an expectation for how things are going to play out. I don't see how they really differed in any meaningful way as it all plays out the same in the end.
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I feel like the last 30 years of Star Wars movies could qualify here
wrote last edited by [email protected]I've always felt like Star Wars the original 3 (4,5 and 6) were a product of their time. They aren't bad movies but they aren't great movies either, but for whatever reason they struck a chord with the population in the late 70's and early 80's. George Lucas should have just let them be there really was no reason to make any more of them, but money.
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That seems like a distinction without a difference.
Just for the fun of it, I took a screenshot of Google AIs take on the "deconstruction" argument:
"Challenging the Chosen One narrative"
Rey's parents were "nobody" yet so were Luke Skywalker's parents. The final film is titled "The Rise of Skywalker" on her path to becoming the chosen one.
"Revisiting Luke's Heroism"
Rehashes the same failures Obi Wan felt for not preventing Anakin from going to the dark side.
"Undermining Jedi Ideals"
Irrelevant point that could just as easily signify the film's creator's not being familiar with the intricacies of the source material.
"Exploration of Failure and Complexity"
Throughout all the films, the rebels are constantly facing failures. They get attacked, captured, fail to prevent events from occurring, etc.
"Subverting Expectations"
An expression ripped straight from the final season of GoT and widely mocked. This film didn't subvert any of my expectations as it all plays out quite predictably in Disney fashion where the "good guys" come out on top in the end. The fact that this argument is even made illustrates the similarity to the previous films which set an expectation for how things are going to play out. I don't see how they really differed in any meaningful way as it all plays out the same in the end.
i ain't arguing with a machine
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I actually liked Cube Zero for the backstory and set styles. I don’t remember much else so I’m assuming it was shit, but you can give it a try if you want.
I think OP pretty much summed up Cube Zero. The first installment is really just a horror fiction also depicting the structure of human society.
Yeah, Cube 2 is shit. It's a scientific concept show.
