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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In Cloud Atlas he played the female, middle-aged, sadistic matron of a care home that imprisons it's residents. Honestly, ¹⁰/₁₀ movie just for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He also played a Cajun devil in the post apocalypse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

And a prototype version of Agent Smith in the 1960s.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Presenting the Desert Eagle as a practical sidearm is deep fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Isn't there a non .50cal version

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes...and it's not much better....357 still kicks like a bitch.

Source, I have said .357 DE and it collects dust and only comes out when someone wants to fire it. It's boring and a complete waste of money as a firearm, but it's a collection piece.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Right but if you're a superhuman sentinel program that only exists as subsentient code in a simulated reality, and you need to shoot through four inch concrete walls, well... Then you'll be glad to have one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Exactly. Think of it like a video game, where the .50 DE is a practical weapon. Remember: we only see the gun in the matrix and not in the real world. 😌

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Am I in a program?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Agents can punch through a brick wall.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What then is him in Priscilla or Cloud Atlas?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"The Dressmaker" Hugo approves.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

And "family film" is when he looks like this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Me on Monday VS me on Saturday

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

WHOA your hair grows really fast

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

In both cases he looks like a disappointed dad. "Why aren't you more like your brother?"... "When I was your age"... "Stop playing with your friend Morphius"... "Don't you dare put on that ring!", yatta yatta yatta.

Dad, it's all a simulation!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

What is it when Hugo Weaving looks like Guy Fawkes?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

It's the 5th of November.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What is it when he looks like a tall blonde woman with a sparkly dress, a massive flowery wig,and a strong jawline?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy is any work in which the setting is deliberately made different from the real world. Science fiction is when those differences are due to the presence of advanced science and/or technology.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

No, Sci-Fi and Fantasy are two distinct subsets of Speculative Fiction. Another would be Supernatural Horror.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Counterpoint: Science fiction is fiction which shows a world different from our own, but different due to changes in culture or technology that plausibly could take place within our own universe, whereas the differences in fantasy are ones that are fundamentally incompatible with the known physical laws of our own universe.

Edit: How sharp of a division one wants to make out of that "plausibly could" clause is the dividing line between hard and soft scifi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is a great definition. There's a lot of "sci Fi" that is much more firmly in the realm of fantasy (I say this as someone who kinda likes Dr Who). Being in space is not enough IMO to be called sci Fi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We need space elves with space magic like albator

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What about sci-fi that's literally only different from the real world because of fictional technology? That makes up a bulk of the kind of sci-fi I am into. Cyberpunk and the like.

Star Trek technically takes place in the actual universe. Is it fantasy because it's almost never on Earth?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The genre is usually divided into "soft" and "hard" fantasy.

Cyberpunk is generally considered hard fantasy, as is stuff like The Expanse or Interstellar.

Star Wars is unabashedly soft SciFi, it's a straight Fantasy story in space.

Star Trek is a half-breed - it pays some lip service to scientific "plausibility", but much of it stretches that envelope beyond the breaking point. Scientific accuracy was never the point of the series to begin with.