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Passengers (2016) is a shit film with an excellent premise but I never think about it, in fact it reminds me of its opposite, a superb film with a ridiculous premise called Sunshine (2007)
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Sunshine is awesome, and I've never seen Passengers mostly because it has my two most hated actors in it.
The Last Jedi. Bombers in zero gravity but it's Star Wars, you continue to watch no matter what.
Lol, never watched it, I don't like Star Wars. But I just watched that scene on youtube. Lol, like they'd intentionally tried to have the worst take on physics.
Idk why people have such a problem with that. The movie is about space wizards
The punisher 2004. It's fun.
Battlefield Earth. It's a get drunk and veg kinda movie for me. It fucking sucks. But I like it.
Never seen BE, but yeah I liked the Punisher even though the plot felt contrived at points. Acting was decent, even the silly roles.
Not a film, but a novel:
Starflight 3000 by R.W. Mackelworth
If I remember, it was about this asteroid called "The Biosphere" that got hollowed out and sent on relativistic speeds through deep space to seed other solar systems with human colonies. The inside of it was set up like a giant rural town with massive skies, and a foot print the size of New York. And that's a cool ass premise.
But the book was so fucking milquetoast and bland. I could not tell you anything about the protagonist, their challenges, or anything.
That reminds me of The Inverted World by Christopher Priest. Cool idea about a city on tracks that must always move otherwise suffer spacetime distortions. Thats the only interesting part about the whole thing.
Yeah, that's pretty similar, the main difference being the setting. For me, I can only really tolerate books if they're science fiction for some reason.
But yeah, that book was so bad it honestly makes me want to take a crack at the idea myself and see if I can do it better.
I know I probably can't, I have very little writing experience. But it's gotta be at least worth the attempt.
Equilibrium
The gun fights were weird but fun, and his redemption arc was self-indulgent at best. But yes, very cool 1984 concept and sone pretty stunning visual action scenes
Downsizing
First 20 minutes (give or take) seemed like a solid start. But then they did absolutely nothing with the concept.
What was pitched as social commentary was just a nothing burger of an adventure.
It kind of did just wander.
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Mortal Engines
Mortal Engines is literally a refutation of liberalism in a capitalist system. It's about how municipal darwinism doesn't work.
I haven't watched it yet, but this basically confirms my suspicions.
It's worth a watch if only just for the effects and the world-building. I'm not against the premise, either, but like the title of the sub points out there was poor execution.
Mortal Kombat (2021) opened with a great "feudal China with elemental magic" clan story that could have been an amazing movie, but then they jumped forward in time and everything after that was a let down.
The ideas behind They Live are fascinating and deserved better treatment than a 20-minute alley fight about sunglasses.
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Lucy
Itβs entertaining as all hell. It doesnβt pretend to be anything more, so I donβt understand the hate it gets. Just turn off your brain, and have some fun. Itβs not supposed to be hard sci-fi.
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Jurassic World. Just give me 90 minutes of dino mutants fighting, I don't give a shit about Chris Pratt nor some random kids.
Gotta feeling the upcoming movie with SJ is going to be right on that list too. Just bad ideas getting recycled over and over.
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