• circuitfarmer
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    543 months ago

    Titanic is actually worth a watch though. Whereas for Minecraft, I found even the teaser to be a challenge.

    • Flying Squid
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      173 months ago

      Maybe I’m in a minority, but I thought Titanic was a bunch of melodramatic crap when there were more interesting true stories that the movie could have been about.

      • circuitfarmer
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        113 months ago

        That’s fair. But it’s worth watching even just for the effects and set work.

        • Flying Squid
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          123 months ago

          I guess I’m one of those people who would rather watch a low-budget movie with a good story than a big-budget movie with a lot of spectacle but a bad story. But I do understand people going to see a movie just for the spectacle. I’ve done it before. I just usually regret it.

          • circuitfarmer
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            93 months ago

            I think it is a kind of spectacle that just doesn’t exist anymore. For example, going to a Marvel movie for the effects is sort of like watching a video game. When everything is pure CGI, it loses the appeal (for me).

            But Titanic was right at the cusp of that. There is CGI, but there’s also bigatures and miniature work and practical effects, etc etc etc. In many ways it is James Cameron at his peak.

            But totally agree that the plot is pretty corny and it could have been much better as a more historically-focused film which didn’t spend most of the time on a relatively generic love story.

            • Flying Squid
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              23 months ago

              The last movie I went to purely for the spectacle was Dunkirk and I was pleasantly surprised that it was an enjoyable film as well, so I guess sometimes it’s worth it even in more recent times.

              • @Juvyn00b
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                33 months ago

                Christopher Nolan is one of the few that can nail big spectacle as well as story telling.

          • @Dasus
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            23 months ago

            I guess I’m one of those people who would rather watch a low-budget movie with a good story than a big-budget movie with a lot of spectacle but a bad story.

            Might I make a suggestion?

            The Man From Earth

            • Flying Squid
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              23 months ago

              Thank you, I have seen it and I really love it! I hear there is a sequel, which seems needless so I never watched it. But I’ve seen that one twice.

              • @Dasus
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                23 months ago

                I watched the sequel. It wasn’t as special as the first one, had probably twice the sets as the first one. (:O) Worth a watch, I’d say.

                It was available for free for a while some years ago, iirc. Don’t know about now though.

                First one great, second one still good, although it’s been a while since I saw it.

                • Flying Squid
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                  23 months ago

                  Good to hear it doesn’t suck, but eh. I don’t need to know any more of his story.

                  I’d like to see the movie done as a play.

                  • @Dasus
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                    23 months ago

                    I’d like to see the movie done as a play.

                    Ooooh, I’ve never thought about that. Yes, that would be great. Who would you cast? I just started thinking of British actors and the first ones to pop into my mind, Ian McKellen — but he’s obviously too old to play John Oldman (but perhaps the skeptic Doctor?) — and Tom Hiddleston. On second thought, I don’t know if David Tennant could be good as well. He’s definitely played a young-ish looking ageless man before… He’s better in roles that require high energy, whereas Hiddleston has a sort of cool about him that might be fitting.

      • @drunkpostdisaster
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        63 months ago

        It has that annoying James Cammron thing where the working class gets blamed for the actions of the rich.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        It’s reached Rocky Horror Picture Show in my household.

        It’s silly. You quote lines. You laugh at motives if you think about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 months ago

      Minecraft just seems like the type of movie where lines like, “Were gonna rock our blocks off!” And that will be their peak writing.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      A teaser is of course just a teaser and not the final product.

      It can still be redeemed. Look at Sonic.

      • @samus12345
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        253 months ago

        Sonic just needed a new CGI model to fix.

        Minecraft would have to change, well, everything.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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          83 months ago

          Still better than Borderlands where they would have had to change the entire cast.

          • @samus12345
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            43 months ago

            Yeah, I don’t have an issue with the actors (aside from Jack Black and Jason Momoa’s hair).

          • @samus12345
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            43 months ago

            Surprised he’s not in it. Maybe he was unavailable.

      • Sway
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        33 months ago

    • originalucifer
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      13 months ago

      its almost a principal at this point.

      admittedly, no semblance of logic at play… I spose ill get to it someday