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Ghost Leviathan posted:Star Wars and Star Trek both operate under the logic that a planet is the size of a small town at most. One planet all desert come on
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Starfield was the funniest with this, where the presence of a single beach resort means that a long-lost generation ship must either be destroyed, or the passengers exiled or enslaved, because they can't possibly share the same, otherwise empty, planet.
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The generation ship also only had like 40 people on it.
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Frosted Flake posted:Starfield was the funniest with this, where the presence of a single beach resort means that a long-lost generation ship must either be destroyed, or the passengers exiled or enslaved, because they can't possibly share the same, otherwise empty, planet.
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Also turns out the passengers enjoy being enslaved, apparently.
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indigi posted:Dredd really owns It really did. It knew what it wanted to be and absolutely nailed it.
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honestly starfield makes me appreciate outer worlds more. I was too hard on the latter.
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Karl Urban has been killer in so many franchises. LotR, Star Trek, Dredd, The Boys, Doom, soon Mortal Kombat
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Frosted Flake posted:Starfield was the funniest with this, where the presence of a single beach resort means that a long-lost generation ship must either be destroyed, or the passengers exiled or enslaved, because they can't possibly share the same, otherwise empty, planet. Starfield is also the game where they just slap a pharmaceutical factory on Triton, with nothing and no else on the entire moon or Neptune system. Factories require inputs, customers, staff, provisions for the staff, so hey why not just put one all by itself. One pirate raid away from losing your investment, which has no support or reason to be anyway. Must have good insurance. Also you can land on Venus and there's a factory nobody gives a gently caress about there either, and oh you can land on Venus and have buildings and people, well pirates, on the surface and nobody elaborates as to why this can happen.
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the milk machine posted:i'm quite a "cinema buff" as they say, and i feel like if a movie of the biggest broadway smash hit since cats or whatever was due to release in six months there would have been a little news about it before now it should be a redbox exclusive. only on dvd, no blu-ray
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Aglet56 posted:also this is fake loquacius posted:Yeah I've been confused by the reaction to this because it doesn't look real in the slightest It’s real. Check the release date, it’s coming soon
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indigi posted:Karl Urban has been killer in so many franchises. LotR, Star Trek, Dredd, The Boys, Doom, soon Mortal Kombat props to Karl for keeping the Judge helmet on the entire time in Dredd.
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watching Batteries Not Included and lol movies went so hard in the 80s. the entire intro scene is just hired gang toughs beating up people in their own apartments. all of my favorite movies from that decade are based on "rich developer is displacing poor folks and there's a caper to save them" as the plot. basically this and Blues Brothers I guess. also: Brad Bird wrote this script
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Dr. Killjoy posted:Cardassians are English people and the humans of the 24th century finally decided enough was enough. Yeah but the Maquis are space-Americans so it all balances out.
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Was the whole “rich jerk buys the park/apartment/rec center/library we have to stop him!” plot that was so omnipresent in the 80’s and early 90’s an expression of the death of the American urban area? Usually you think about white flight, such as exemplified by the “Urban Crimepocolypse” genre but the “evils of real estate development” movies portray it more like people were unwillingly exiled from the cities.
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bedpan posted:this is why I only play FATAL I've been getting back to playing games with my Ps4 the last couple of years and I'm really proud of myself whenever I finish a game which is rare. Just beat Disco Elysium which was a loving ride, and currently enjoying playing the hell out of Devil May Cry 5 which is alot more fun than J thought it was gonna be (I thought it was going to be one of those Soul like games I've tried and quit due to the difficulty and aggravating nature of them). I'm loving being 6 years behind everyone else here video game wise.
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galagazombie posted:Was the whole “rich jerk buys the park/apartment/rec center/library we have to stop him!” plot that was so omnipresent in the 80’s and early 90’s an expression of the death of the American urban area? Usually you think about white flight, such as exemplified by the “Urban Crimepocolypse” genre but the “evils of real estate development” movies portray it more like people were unwillingly exiled from the cities.
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:the only musical rn that doesn’t fit either of those archetypes, btw, is Days of Wine and Roses, which is adapted from a 60s film and which I, a musical liker, just heard of for the first time right now.
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is there any particular reason movies are always two hours long now? even if they only have 80 minutes' worth of content?
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an egg posted:is there any particular reason movies are always two hours long now? even if they only have 80 minutes' worth of content? Anything below 90 minutes isn't a "real" movie
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an egg posted:is there any particular reason movies are always two hours long now? even if they only have 80 minutes' worth of content? LOTR, Titanic, and Avatar have a lot to answer for I think. Go back to making Good Sci-fi Cameron you hack!!!
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an egg posted:is there any particular reason movies are always two hours long now? even if they only have 80 minutes' worth of content? You'd think movies would follow the trend of social media videos getting shorter as people's attention spans contract, but they all seem to be going the other way. It can't be an important, blockbuster of a movie unless it comes in at least 2 hours long.
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an egg posted:is there any particular reason movies are always two hours long now? even if they only have 80 minutes' worth of content? Everybody above the line will never be told no
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And with the massive budgets you'd think cutting a 2 and a half hour movie to a one and a half one, they'd save a poo poo load of money that you know, would mean the movie could more easily turn a profit. I think it comes down to movie producers seeming to be some of the dumbest fuckers on the planet. If one movie is successful, just copy it exactly till that format stop making money.
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there are lots of recent movies less than two hours, we just notice the longer ones because 2+ hours used to be more rare
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the milk machine posted:there are lots of recent movies less than two hours, we just notice the longer ones because 2+ hours used to be more rare no they werent
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the milk machine posted:there are lots of recent movies less than two hours, we just notice the longer ones because 2+ hours used to be more rare those are tv shows and they're 68 minutes per episode now
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when you were younger you watched more kids movies which are generally shorter
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i say swears online posted:those are tv shows and they're 68 minutes per episode now Season 4 Episode 9 of Stranger Things was two and a half hours.
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:no they werent yes they were
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dr_rat posted:Season 4 Episode 9 of Stranger Things was two and a half hours. lol is that show worth watching? my reddit-brain friends love it but it never jumped at me
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i say swears online posted:those are tv shows and they're 68 minutes per episode now maybe if you watch bad tv shows (Seinfeld and Frasier reruns are still 22 minutes)
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i say swears online posted:lol is that show worth watching? my reddit-brain friends love it but it never jumped at me the first season is alright and it just gets worse and dumber from there
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i say swears online posted:lol is that show worth watching? my reddit-brain friends love it but it never jumped at me First season is really good, but like the first episode of it gives you a pretty decent idea of the tone, so if you watched that and weren't interested then yeah, just not for you. After first season, still enjoyable, but never really re-catches the highs of the first season, and it's very obvious it's really trying to.
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:no they werent
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There's a lot of sub 2-hour movies coming out it's just that blockbusters are usually not those and that's what people talk about/plays the most at theaters.
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