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[–] 37 points 9 months ago (15 children)

The new Star Trek show is being called competency porn, which kind of fits this description. Although that's been Star Trek for a long time. I think folks are upset they're targeting youth with the last couple series... which, the average ST fan now being 92 years old, doesn't exactly shock me.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Targeting youth with: prodigy ✅ academy [I wait to binge] disco [maybe?] snw [nah] moopsy trek 2 [that's launching a full spread, not just targeting the kids]

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Starfleet Academy seems like it's trying to be Harry Potter/Hogwarts. Star Trek Discovery has so much forced drama. Many of the characters are super annoying and in both shows I feel like a sense of professionalism is completely lost. Sure Starfleet isn't exactly a military organization, but it's pretty damn close and I just can't take those shows seriously. I barely made it through Discovery. It was really hard watch. Picard and Strange New Worlds were just OK.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    SNW at least had some bangers, the Elysium kingdom episode captured that TNG magic

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    I agree. I enjoyed it for what it was. Some characters were kind of annoying too. I started it immediately after finishing Discovery and it was a very welcome change. I still prefer the older shows though.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

    I just didn't watch it because I heard it was bad. Also because it's only on streaming. Is it good?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    The shows are alright but the streaming service is the worst thing I’d ever used in my life.

    •Disconnected randomly •Commercials when paid for no commercials (had it as a birthday gift for a month and cancelled after) •Autoplay constantly broke and would require interaction every episode instead of blasting theme songs at me all day •episodes that did autoplay would crash, or it would start the same episode again 3 times if allowed

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    So, piracy? I actually did buy the first season of Strange New Worlds on UHD Blu-ray. I haven't watched it yet. I'm more inclined to now. I actually really liked Enterprise. I thought it was underated.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I do not and cannot condone piracy, just do what The Janeway would do.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    Re: only on streaming

    In my experience it's pretty cheap to get bootleg dvds imported. I've used eBay and walmart's online store for getting 100% legit DVDs of things that definitely got physical editions.

    I got Andor 1 and 2, as well as Fallout this way, mostly because fuck The Mouse and Beef Jesus.

    Edit: pretty sure there's official physical copies of those now, there wasn't when I bought them.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (26 children)

    Like everything Christopher Nolan makes.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    Like Tenet

    I mean, fun idea on paper.

    But as a movie i was whelmed. Great actors and shitty script

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    I liked Tenet, but I also made a conscious decision not to think about the plot too hard and just accept it's vision of it's own universe.

    I feel like Nolan movies aren't really about the plot so much as the conceptual notions and visual spectacle. They are almost impressionistic, the plot is just a framing device for everything else.

    I kinda think Nolan knows this and gives you a hint by burying the dialog in the mix, your really not supposed to care about the story that much.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I made the mistake to watch Interstellar with my brain switched on because people were hyping the super-accurate science so much. I left so angry because the movie is so fucking dumb. Sure, the black hole was fun. But the 5 seconds it's on screen is not enough to carry the rest of the stupid as fuck plot.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    So, I like Interstellar for what it is, but I’ve also made a fun game of it.

    I like to ask people if they can name Cooper’s son. Most people don’t even remember he was in the movie.

    It’s kind of a reverse situation of Jake Sully being the only name I can remember from Avatar.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    big agree: i can only really speak for Interstellar since that's kinda the only movie of his i've properly seen, but the description that comes to mind for that is 'the distillation of movies as "art" '.
    It's not there for the logical part of your brain, it's there for the feeling part.
    Like a really moody landscape painting, there's no point in logically examining the brush strokes of a random tree. What you're invited to think about is the atmosphere of it, how it makes you feel.

    Spoiler for InterstellarTake that bookshelf scene inside the black hole in Interstellar, it very very obviously makes no sense whatsoever but the visuals and concept makes you think and feel.
    And what i appreciate is that i don't get the vibe of it wallowing in its 'artsyness', which can often ruin 'artsy' stuff.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I didn't understand Tenet.

    As in, i couldn't hear/make out what they where whispering to each other the whole time.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    That's because according to Christopher Nolan, the audio system in your home cinema setup or local cinema setup isn't worthy. He took audiophile snobbery to the next level. I love most of his films, but he needs to allow the sound engineers to master the audio so that it works for everyone.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Only after batman and inception, his movies are overrated and annoying now.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Hey, the Batman movies were good.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    That Bane one was one of the most poorly-structured, plot-hole-filled messes I've ever seen. Nolan is awful but you're supposed to like his movies because they're 'good' (if you like things that look very nice but with no characters and terrible dialogue).

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No? Most of his stuff are terrible movies.

    But, I am watching them for fucking around with cool ideas and crazy visual scenes. Couldn't care less about plot, characters, sometimes logic, etc.

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