• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    In that lady’s defense, I’m pretty sure the opening scene of The Thing was intentionally written to make people go “what the fuck? why are they shooting at that dog?!”

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      1 month ago

      Yes, and in the guy’s defense, the rest of the movie is written to reveal more info.

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        1 month ago

        In that lady’s defense, some people seem to have their internal monologue tuned to the wrong frequency, and usually blurt it out instead.

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            1 month ago

            Matter of taste. For my part, I don’t like watching movies with anyone who can’t carry a conversation while it’s happening. I love getting the live reactions and theories as the movie is still playing out.

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    1 month ago

    Oh yeah then explain Tenet

    Magical machine can make time work backwards.

    Is it really that hard to explain?

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        1 month ago

        Just watched it two days ago, all of the explanations were dumb.

        “Friction is reversed” and “The people are reversed but the cars are not” and the whole backwards oxygen thing was all entirely stupid nonsense because they always applied to one thing but not anything else that would be similar and related.

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          1 month ago

          “Remember: you’re reversed - your car isn’t.”

          Literally the next scene

          Car window frosts over because it gets set on fire

          I stopped trying to make sense of the internal logic at that point. The fight scenes were interesting, but at the cost of immersion in the story. Not to mention - the acting/dialogue is entirely bland plot points spoken at the audience as much as the other characters.

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            1 month ago

            I think there was supposed to be a love connection between the protagonist and the blonde lady but I literally couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be romantic or some kind of stand in for someone he lost, like how main characters often save someone because they lost someone.