I think Alien is a solid 7/12. The individual elements are pretty good, but the bait and switch really brings it down. I prefer Outland (1981) for the capitalism in space stuff, and Terminator for the sci-fi monster movie stuff. The two themes are both good, but they don’t reach a unification like they do in the sequel, Aliens.
But Mickey 17 is a 10/12 that takes the individual elements of Alien, and makes a better story out of them. The aliens are integrated with the capitalism with a really brilliant twist, and the eventual victory of the heroes over the monsters is much more satisfying.
I wish someone would explain why you’re getting downvoted. 😔
It’s cause My opinion is unpopular
Even then, you provided a thorough and reasonable explanation. Some people, huh…
I wonder if more people knew that:
would they still use downvotes as a “I don’t like this” button?
It stifles the conversation and since they don’t like the arguments but can’t argue against them effectively, they would still. I’m of the mind that every place should easily allow you to see who votes and in which way. Responsibility is a good deterrent for silliness.
I guess my point is that the lemmy system is less stifling, so it’s ineffective for anything but hurting feelings (especially for comments!), which is still a shitty thing to do.
I could be misunderstanding the facts, but I don’t think base lemmy hides comments with low vote counts (and they don’t hide users with low vote counts because that’s not a thing). With posts, it does make them less visible because if your view is based on “hot” or “top” they will be ranked lower.