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The books, too, drag on like Tolkien was being paid by the individual word. Thankfully with books I can set the pace at which things go.

The only way I ever got through ANY of Tolkien's books was being read to by Andy Serkis while I was working at my job. It's worse when it's Tolkien somehow goes out of his way to write about the absolute most boring parts in excruciating detail, sets up all the drama, things are getting tense, oh shit, shits gonna go down "And that's when the Battle of the Five Armies happened. Afterward..." OH COME ON! Hell I wondered if I just couldn't read on a high enough level then devoured Herbert with Dune so easily it's, no... no I can't stand Tolkien's writing.

And I will die on the hill against anyone who thinks Tom Bombadil needed to be in the movies. That was a shit part in the book that took away any character agency from the main characters for an absolutely pointless diversion.

It's funny, I'm another who knows nothing about Marvel except what the movies had, and I loved the Thor movies the most because of the lore building LOL. But then I've said I get tired of later Captain American movies because "Things are too realistic and down to Earth, if there's superheroes I want things to get WEIRD.

But I want to say, as much as I love the other two Thor movies, I agree with you, Ragnarok is the best one. It did a fantastic job of building quite a lot of lore while being absolutely hilariously entertaining. But if you like Guardians of the Galaxy, I suggest you look up the TV show Farscape. When GotG was advertised I told my friends "I've always wanted to see Farscape on the big screen" so you might like it.

I mean... what did you expect? You came to a thread titled "What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?" It's going to be full of unpopular opinions that people are going to disagree with. Coming in and hoping to agree with everything is being that guy on a Lemmy thread.

Its called cocaine and its how santa and his elves get shit done

I am stealing this. I legit hurt from laughing at this line.

So, first preview for Alien Romulus happened and I was super excited. Riiiiiiight until I realized it was an Alien movie. I want a damn scifi movie set in the universe to explore the rest of where humanity is at. But Alien movies are so focused on the xenomorph and horror aspects that they create amazing set dressing then just forget about it. Like if they came out with a movie "Weyland-Yutani" and there was a promise there was no Xenomorph, just an exploration of humanities dystopia there, I'd be right there for that movie.

Saw.

It is on the very tiny list of movies that I am actively angry I watched because I'm never getting that time back. It is one of the single worst movies on "Tell don't show" that I felt like I was being actively gaslit by the writers because what they were telling was opposite of what they were showing.

"Jigsaw tricks people into killing his victims" says the cops, and says all the people watching the movie. NO. He kills people and gives them a potential for a way out. Setting up a maze with cutting wire and a door sealing off if you don't make it in time isn't "tricking someone" it's killing them with extra steps. It's like blaming fucking landmine victims "Well if they didn't step there they'd be okay". Legit the logic that movie gives I find my blood pressure rising just going into it again.

And the ending. I guess spoiler if you haven't seen the movie, I'm not gonna bother to figure out the formatting for it so here's your warning to stop reading. The surprise twist was why my friends made me watch this movie, the logic above was explained and how clever Jigsaw was they said I'd like it. I'm not a horror guy but I love Scream because holy fuck it was clever and well done. Saw, the victims are looking for where Jigsaw is watching them and I just said "He's the dead guy in the middle of the room." and questioned why would I come to that so early in the movie my reasoning was simple. It was a dumb movie that was up its own ass so much to say that it was clever that was the obvious "clever" haha we got you option it could be. Anything else would have actually been clever.

I compare Scream and Saw so much. Scream is a very clever movie masquerading as a dumb movie that deconstructs a genre and pulls of a fantastic twist that if you didn't see it coming will shock you and when you go back there's all sorts of clues. Hell, part of the twist is realizing they put thought into the killer instead of just "slasher villain #85" that the genre had done for so long, but if you know what's happening the movie is winking with you with such amazingly dumb and clever things like "He's behind you Jamie". Saw is a dumb movie that masquerades as smart, it wants to be clever and philosophize at you and wants to pull off a twist that is unearned because there's no clues for the twist, so unless you watch a lot of movies and realize this one is up its own ass, of course you're going to be surprised. It's like a guy who built a tesla coil and (think he) knows how it works and no one else does so he shows up in a cheap top hat and a wand and expects everyone to applaud like he's David Copperfield. Sure, everyone loves tesla coils, but that reaction is unearned.

From what I understand from others who've seen the rest, even what little cleverness goes away on the character and it just becomes a show to watch more elaborate ways to see people get hurt. It's the only way I can comprehend that the series is loved by as many as it is. I work in healthcare, I can see plenty of that on the day to day basis.

I'm there with you, but I'll addendum. So many people couldn't be faffed to show up to vote. I keep seeing so much about "rising up" and staging a revolution. If they can't be bothered to show up to circle in a bubble on a piece of paper, I'm not going to expect them to do fuck all when shit actually hits the fan.

No... no they're uneducated and it's very much the correct word in this.

Regular rants "Why won't Biden just get rid of student debt?" Because the Supreme Court stopped him. Twice. Telling him it's congresses job.

"Why hasn't Biden helped the economy" CHIPS act and moving major manufacturing back to America. Gonna take time for it to spin up after so long of sending jobs out of country but it's gotta go. Also some of the biggest infrastructure movements since the New Deal despite the Republicans in Congress trying to stop it.

The big hit during election of people googling "Did Biden drop out?"

Yea. That's uneducated.

I've always liked the idea of you can get $999,999,999.99 after that 100% tax rate and you get a plaque that says "Congratulations, you won capitalism"

This is my favorite one.

Oh hey,glad you posted. I was wondering whether I wanted to get the newest book in Bobiverse because the original trilogy felt a good "end" to the story, the fourth I was "eh" on, not terrible but not amazing imo.

Also been eying Starter Villain.

Audiobooks are how I survive at work.

Just finished World War Z again. It hits so much different post-pandemic.

For those that see "zombie book" or worse, just saw the movie, the book is written as an 'after the infestation' chronicle interviewing people from across the world and society, exploring the beginning moments, the panics, long term survival, and the cleanup. I view it as a modern "War of the Worlds" in that book shows what society react view from the "all-threat", which at that era was worried about a larger more powerful enemy coming in vs in 2006 the societal fear of an "all-threat" was infestation whether societal to plague and the reactions of the people in it.