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[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 8 points 20 hours ago
[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 19 hours ago

Came here to say this. That movie showed me depths of fear I didn't know I had yet, it could have had better production values.

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[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 20 hours ago

Eragon.

There is a reason that most fans pretend the film never happened

[-] Aneb@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago

What film? as I look from my bed to my bookshelf with all 4 books

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 day ago

Reign of fire. Don't know if that's what you were referencing in the picture but it's immediately what came to mind when I saw the drawing.

[-] sykaster@feddit.nl 7 points 20 hours ago

Dude yes, I was so hyped for it, but it really underdelivered

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 9 points 19 hours ago

Bits of it were good. Seems like something went wrong in production or they ran out of money or something. Some of the effects were really good and there was a real mood to the post apocalypse world but it was very uneven especially the way the entire process of civilization ending was just a montage of newspaper headlines. It's ok to be post apocalypse of you don't want to show the apocalypse but that was just cheese. Also there were the odd shots that were of just such a lower standard than the rest of the film. Like this scene where a guy climbs up a watertower and stands atop it getting ready to throw a spear and for some reason after the effects extravaganza up until that point in the film it looked a cheap television blue screen that was super awkward. I guess they wanted it to look taller than in reality and show the desolate landscape but it's so weird that after all the aerial dragon combat they'd pulled off pretty well for the most part that THAT was somehow difficult. I seem to recall storywise there was some very disappointing ending too but it's been rather too long for me to recall it now anyway.

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[-] SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 day ago

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Amazing world building and visuals that was destroyed by terrible casting and wooden acting.

[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

It's based on a comic series so we can read that at least

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[-] Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

I'll take "Movies of the Current Decade" for $1000, Alex.

[-] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 119 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Cube.
Most people saw it as an average horror movie where a bunch of people try to get out of a giant torture box. But there was a pivotal scene that stuck with me where one of the prisoners realizes he helped build part of it. The whole thing wasn't some intentional torture device but just a bunch of people doing their day jobs that were lost in a bureaucracy not ever questioning what their work was creating.
A stark reflection of society and the systems we create and the dangers of not ever looking at the bigger picture.

Of course they proceeded to shit all over this idea in Cube2 where it ended up being just another evil government experiment.

[-] Khrux@ttrpg.network 3 points 20 hours ago

Just to ask, nobody understood the full picture of what they were making? Or was there someone who created the concept but intentional obfuscated it from everyone else via bureaucracy?

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, I even think Cube² was better.

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[-] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 15 points 1 day ago

Mickey 17 is the latest one for me.

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