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Organic Lube User posted:I just was beginning an attempt at watching Dark Matter but didn't realize he was in it. Gonna save me a lot of time, thanks. Dark Matter is very good and you should watch it. He plays a smug irredeemable bastard and shows up in like, four episodes. David Hewlett is also in a few episodes and that should be enough to sell you on the show.
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uber_stoat posted:Ad Astra had a Space Monkey. so better. Replacement for Alex found.
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Jul 19, 2020 09:39
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Interstellar came out about the same time as The Talos Principle, and it was kinda cool how they took the question of "is it worth saving humanity if none of the current humans get saved" and ran in completely different directions.
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Jul 19, 2020 10:48
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Ad Astra had Greg Bryk playing a guy who lived on Mars so....you know, we got to see his range.
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Jul 19, 2020 11:45
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I love this show and I enjoyed the first book (which I read before the show.) Would I still enjoy the books even though I largely know what happens? I know things deviate somewhat from the books, but it seems like the major plot points are already there so a lot has been spoiled for me. But, uh...I need something to read.
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Jul 19, 2020 14:00
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FairGame posted:I love this show and I enjoyed the first book (which I read before the show.) I read up to Book 6 recently after having watched the show. To be honest, I prefer the show better as the writing is very monotonous and repetitive (get ready for lots of descriptions of bulkheads and mechanics fixing stuff). I still enjoyed them and if you like reading you probably will too but there is nothing new in them. It's not like they were stripped down in any way for the tv adaptation Id actually say the adaptation added better material (i.e. Drummer / Ashford).
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Jul 19, 2020 14:22
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banned from Starbucks posted:I was gonna watch Ad Astra then i saw a trailer where they had space pirates on the moon...in like...the fuckin rover buggies..and i decided to do something more productive with my time. It was incredibly stupid. They have to travel through a dangerous part of the moon that has pirates. Ignoring the fact that it's the loving moon and they could probably just have some craft that could hop over to another part of the moon, they go out in apollo era moon buggies instead of armored vehicles. The movie was "what's the dumbest thing we could possibly have happen in this scene.mp4"
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Jul 19, 2020 14:59
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the funny thing about ad Astra is how the director was insistent that it was the most scientifically accurate space movie ever or some poo poo and then you watch it and it's clear whoever wrote it didn't have a loving clue about anything to do with space or compelling characters Like where were those pirates launching from? Is there some space pirates supporting nation on Earth? how were they able to scan the entire universe for intelligent life using antimatter? Wtf? What was the movie even trying to say about anything except that life under capitalism is dehumanizing and doing anything at all is pointless?
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Jul 19, 2020 19:20
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FairGame posted:I love this show and I enjoyed the first book (which I read before the show.) Just read them, there's more to enjoying things than not being "spoiled" on them. Fister Roboto fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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Jul 20, 2020 09:27
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Apparently research has shown that being spoiled on something doesn't actually reduce your enjoyment
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Jul 20, 2020 11:22
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People who cry about spoilers are actually the biggest babies.
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Jul 20, 2020 13:18
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Captain Splendid posted:Apparently research has shown that being spoiled on something doesn't actually reduce your enjoyment I was just about to sit down and read an article in Psychological Science about whether or not story spoilers spoil stories when I read this post. thanks a bunch rear end in a top hat
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Jul 20, 2020 14:19
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There was a pretty great Lets Read thread in the book barn covering the differences between the show and books but it only got to midway through book 2 before he stopped.
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Jul 20, 2020 15:21
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Captain Splendid posted:Apparently research has shown that being spoiled on something doesn't actually reduce your enjoyment That research is missing a lot of important data like what are the expectations. Is the person following the story or wants to know the finale? What was the spoiler? Factual or storyline, important or not, noticeable or easter egg etc etc
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Jul 20, 2020 15:26
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Captain Splendid posted:Ad Astra had Greg Bryk playing a guy who lived on Mars so....you know, we got to see his range. I recently watched Frontier, Greg Bryk is exceptionally creepy in it, very enjoyable.
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Jul 20, 2020 15:33
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Best thing about Ad Astra is also the best thing about Interstellar. Max Richter and Hans Zimmer. Germans just be good at elevating milquetoast writing in space settings.
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AntherUslessPoster posted:That research is missing a lot of important data like what are the expectations. Is the person following the story or wants to know the finale? What was the spoiler? Factual or storyline, important or not, noticeable or easter egg etc etc Yeah seems like a lot of grey area there. I can't imagine sitting down to watch The Sixth Sense and having someone say Bruce Willis' character is dead the whole time and being cool with that. Seeing the twist at the end was a big part of the enjoyment.
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Jul 20, 2020 18:00
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Kazinsal posted:Dark Matter is very good and you should watch it. He plays a smug irredeemable bastard and shows up in like, four episodes. It probably helps that even as a adult Wil Wheaton has a incredibility punchable face.
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Jul 20, 2020 18:03
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MA-Horus posted:I recently watched Frontier, Greg Bryk is exceptionally creepy in it, very enjoyable. I dunno, I think 50% of it is just his naturally unusual face
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:Yeah seems like a lot of grey area there. I can't imagine sitting down to watch The Sixth Sense and having someone say Bruce Willis' character is dead the whole time and being cool with that. Seeing the twist at the end was a big part of the enjoyment. Funny you mentioned exactly this case because I knew the twist (memes and trivia) but enjoyed watching the events unfolding and how it all happened. So indeed it shows that different spoilers have different effects on different approaches to enjoying indeed. etalian posted:It probably helps that even as a adult Wil Wheaton has a incredibility punchable face. He's an okay guy
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AntherUslessPoster posted:Funny you mentioned exactly this case because I knew the twist (memes and trivia) but enjoyed watching the events unfolding and how it all happened. So indeed it shows that different spoilers have different effects on different approaches to enjoying indeed. Personally, I greatly enjoy experiencing changes in perspective or understanding. Thinking one thing, and then discovering that another thing is true in fiction is one of the best things. Learning new things can be thrilling. You might not get anything out of something like that, and you personally may even get more out of a work if you know where it's going. That's cool. But it would be considerate to understand that other people may be interested in experiencing media in a different way from you. Eiba fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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if you want a good space thriller just watch Gravity in an IMAX theater. That was a loving experience.
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I liked Ad Astra
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Mu Zeta posted:To be honest I'd join Cerberus. Humans first! I mean going by both the novels and games Cerberus is portrayed as enormously incompetent. By the end they're actively working against humanity under the yoke of aliens. Humanity First, the public face of Cerberus, was always considered to be expendible idiots. Cerberus itself had no issues working with aliens.
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Phi230 posted:I liked Ad Astra mods?
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If we're just talking about other sci fi movies then I want to put in a big hearty gently caress you to Cloud Atlas, which I saw this weekend. After two hours in, I thought it was one of the best movies I've seen this year. After it finished, a little more than four hours in since I'd rewound a few times to figure out what Caveman Tom Hanks was saying, I was violently aggravated I'd wasted so much of my life on this dreck.
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They need to go ahead and drop the next season...Phenotype posted:If we're just talking about other sci fi movies then I want to put in a big hearty gently caress you to Cloud Atlas, which I saw this weekend. After two hours in, I thought it was one of the best movies I've seen this year. After it finished, a little more than four hours in since I'd rewound a few times to figure out what Caveman Tom Hanks was saying, I was violently aggravated I'd wasted so much of my life on this dreck.  It's a perfectly okay movie.  Phi230 posted:I liked Ad Astra source ur quotes
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Elon Musk should give Greg Bryk a free ride home.
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Phenotype posted:If we're just talking about other sci fi movies then I want to put in a big hearty gently caress you to Cloud Atlas, which I saw this weekend. After two hours in, I thought it was one of the best movies I've seen this year. After it finished, a little more than four hours in since I'd rewound a few times to figure out what Caveman Tom Hanks was saying, I was violently aggravated I'd wasted so much of my life on this dreck. the book is so so good though and a prime example of something that is impossible to adapt.
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TommyGun85 posted:the book is so so good though and a prime example of something that is impossible to adapt. Is it? Because the adaptation seemed amazingly well done, it was just the story that was garbage. I was incredibly aggravated that there's no loving payoff -- you spend the whole movie going "oh, that's just like in the other storyline!" and "what do those birthmarks mean?" and "he named his song the name of the movie!" and it turns out no, there's no answers, the stories never meet, you're just supposed to shrug at all the similarities between these people's reincarnated lives. Four loving hours waiting for Tom Hanks to remember his past lives and it never loving happens.
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Jul 22, 2020 14:08
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imagine reading/watching Cloud Atlas for the "plot"
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there are other reasons to watch it than "hugo weaving wears asiaface"??
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Lt. Danger posted:imagine reading/watching Cloud Atlas for the "plot" this man speaks the true true
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Phenotype posted:Is it? Because the adaptation seemed amazingly well done, it was just the story that was garbage. I was incredibly aggravated that there's no loving payoff -- you spend the whole movie going "oh, that's just like in the other storyline!" and "what do those birthmarks mean?" and "he named his song the name of the movie!" and it turns out no, there's no answers, the stories never meet, you're just supposed to shrug at all the similarities between these people's reincarnated lives. Four loving hours waiting for Tom Hanks to remember his past lives and it never loving happens. yeah the movie completely misses the boat on what the book is trying to say. The book is also written in a brilliant russian nesting doll way that connects all of the stories and loops back on itself. The movie is trash.
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You should read 'The Years of Rice and Salt' by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's like an alternate history shortly into the book the bubonic plague wipes out 99% of Europe allowing unfettered growth of the Middle East and Chine Cloud Atlas with an occasional interstitial to connect the short stories together.
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TommyGun85 posted:yeah the movie completely misses the boat on what the book is trying to say. The book is also written in a brilliant russian nesting doll way that connects all of the stories and loops back on itself. The movie is trash. I think the movie does a fine job of capturing the book's central themes: the interconnectedness of our lives and stories and the need to recognize that and embrace empathy. I find the book's structure more gimmick than brilliance. Nested narratives are nothing new in fiction, and the book's structure of pausing a story right in the middle to shift to the next nested narrative is a ham-fisted way to foreground that.
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Phi230 posted:I liked Ad Astra I wanted to like this pretty bad, but ugh. UGH.
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the better tommy lee jones space movie is Space Cowboys
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Tighclops posted:the better tommy lee jones space movie is Space Cowboys the ending of that rules
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never read the book but cloud Atlas is really good imo. regardless of what you think of the movie's content, it's undoubtedly an achievement of editing. six different sets of characters, settings and conflicts and I never felt like I was confused about what was happening and who was who.
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