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What movies surprised you by how intelligent the writing was? Discussion (piefed.social)

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[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Arrival. It tells the entire story in the first scene. And then you get to watch it all unfold beautifully to understand the story.

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[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 months ago (5 children)

One of those movies that I thought was impossible to make after reading the book and was happy to be proven wrong.

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[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

There's a book!?

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

there's always a book, and noones ever read it

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Which do you prefer among the two?

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[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

90% of the time, I'll take the book over the movie. That's true in this case and even more so with Hail Mary.

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@piefed.social 1 point 4 months ago

I associate the movie so much with the visuals and score, I can't imagine how it would have been originally written. A good reason to check out the book.

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