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[โ€“] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 59 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In Time (2011). Time is currency in the dystopia in the film - paying for something decreases your lifespan, earning wages increases it.

The movie sets up a really cool class structure, wherein there are rich people born with/inheriting hundreds of thousands of years of life, and poor people barely managing to scrape enough hours to stay alive until they can earn more the next day. There are segmented areas of the city that cost years to get into.

Overall incredible premise, but the story wasn't exceptional beyond a couple of the cool mechanics you might expect based on said premise.

[โ€“] psyvibe@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago

Agree. Great premise and decent world building in the film, but it just felt like a generic action thriller after 30 mins.

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[โ€“] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Passengers had the possibility to be really creepy, I still liked it but without seeing Chris Pratts time alone first, we would have all been confused and on guard with Jennifer Lawrence.

[โ€“] meyotch@slrpnk.net 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Pandorum is, to me, what Passengers was trying for. The claustrophobic horror of hurting through the void, other humans being both your salvation and your tormentors, all that.

The execs ruined it to make a vehicle for some big names.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I love Pandorum. I have a huge FanTheory on it on reddit from years back if you want to check it out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/gmlo53/pandorum_earth_took_serious_countermeasures/

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[โ€“] Wilco@lemm.ee 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Jupiter Ascending

They seed the galaxy and harvest whole planets to create an immortality serum. Fantastic world concept ... but a subpar story to make a movie about within that world.

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[โ€“] Dalkor@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As featured in the picture, Reign of Fire. I had forgotten about it. I truly don't think there is a film out there that has represented dragons as I see them better.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I really think about Quinn's character a lot. How the world entirely changed for him on that pivotal day he discovered that male dragon, and the decades he spent running and surviving and living in fear of something that he inadvertently set in motion, and then the turning point as an adult as he confronts his fear and wields it to put an end to what he started.

What I like about him, is that he's not actually that unique -- anybody could have woken that dragon, and if Quinn hadn't been there on that day, one of his mother's coworkers would have. He's not particularly heroic as an adult either, opting to hide and scrounge for survival, and openly admitting to everyone that he's winging it on the leader front. And yet he inspires his community with fierce devotion to keeping them all alive. When he finally goes to confront the dragon, he does it almost alone, inspiring no one with his courage other than himself.

As a character I find him weirdly relatable as someone just coping with heavy trauma the best that they can

[โ€“] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I in no way call this "mediocre"; Its just a flat our terrible low budget bullshit film that the director made as an excuse to hang out with shirtless dudes.

But years ago the guys at Red Letter Media did a segment on "Bigfoot vs D.B. Cooper", and that premise alone (what happened after D.B. Cooper landed) has lived in my brain ever since.

It legitimately angers me that such a great high concept idea was completely wasted on what basically amounts to gay porn.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

Yep. And therein lies my frustration.

David Decoteau (or he'll sometimes use his alias "Richard Chasen") stole the perfect premise for what could have been a great shlocky low-to-mid-budget action movie. And no NO ONE can ever make it without being compared with....that....whatever it is....

[โ€“] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (13 children)

A few favorites:

  • Constantine
  • The Last Jedi
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Minority Report
  • Prometheus
  • Valerian
  • Logan's Run
[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago

I love Constantine, and genuinely do not get the hate that film got. Sure it was different from the comics, but it was good in its own right, and the casting and acting (with the exception of that guy from Even Steven) was spot on

Constantine and Minority Report shouldn't be on that list, IMO. The former in particular is very well executed and thoroughly enjoyable!

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[โ€“] Banana@sh.itjust.works 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Show, but LOST, I remember what could've been...

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I really liked the Dharma Initiative aspect of it, was hoping that they'd go somewhere with it....

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[โ€“] hansolo@lemm.ee 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The eternal metric of a good show hitting a point in season 3 or 4 where every episode opens 20 more questions than it answers, making me wonder if its going to Do a Lost on me and just fall apart. (ahem-Yellowjackets&Severance-ahem)

[โ€“] Banana@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago

I think it's important when making a show to actually have an end in mind, yknow?

[โ€“] clb92@feddit.dk 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Just watched The Gorge (2025) recently. I wouldn't say it's a bad film, but it was really mediocre.

I love the premise of having the two guard towers, one on each side of a mysterious and foggy gorge, not supposed to communicate with each other, guarding us all from whatever is down there. People have previously gone in but never come out. Strange monsters sometimes attempt the climb up the cliff walls. Is it the gate to hell? What's the story behind it all? Chemistry slowly happens between the guards of the two towers.

(If you think you might enjoy this movie, don't read my spoilers. Just watch it. I liked it even though it was a bit disappointing.)

spoilerBut the good setup and world building is quickly over and then they both enter the gorge, and it's just an old evacuated biological lab that created super soldiers, and the whole thing instantly stops being mysterious.

They could have kept it mysterious for longer and given us some kind of twist perhaps, like they might discover they're guarding the site of an old defunct biolab, but some things don't add up, and it turns out to be the actual gates of hell. I also don't think Drasa should have dived straight in to rescue Levi. Let her hesitate for a while. Create tension. Keep them separated, him somewhere below and her in her tower (perhaps she will need to get over to his tower to reactivate the auto-turrets or do something important, she believes he's gone), and cut between showing both their struggles. Perhaps he then manages to contact her, and then a rescue effort begins.

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