• Donebrach@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    not really sure how people view it (or even how i’d view it now nearly 30 years on) but i liked that weird Final Fantasy: Spirits Within movie when it came out. haven’t seen it since it was in theatres though so not sure what i’d think of it now; i just thought it was neat at the time (and age of 10)

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m uncertain of what the ratings are in general, but there’s probably some horror movie I love that’s been dragged.

    Maybe Insidious? Paranormal Activity 2? As Above, So Below? The Cleansing Hour?

    One of those probably has a shit score somewhere lol.

    EDIT because I realized how lazy I was being:

    Insidious has a 66% on rotten tomatoes Paranormal Activity 2 has a 57% As Above, So Below has a 29% The Cleansing Hour has a shocking 73%

    So my answer is As Above, So Below. Lol But I’m startled about The Cleansing Hour having such a high rating

    • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Okay. Unrelated and it’s driving me insane.

      How do I do line breaks for lists like that? If I do two hits of Enter, it acts like a new paragraph in total. But I can’t get it to just jump down to the next line, it just follows after the one above it as if it were continuing a sentence. Bwah!

      • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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        3 months ago

        I just press enter

        Leave a space in the blank line here then press enter

        There you go, break in the paragraph.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        3 months ago

        In Markdown, if you want a paragraph break, then whack Enter twice. That is, this:

        foo

bar

        Gives this:

        foo

        bar

        If you want a line break, then add a backslash or two spaces at the end of the line, and then hit Enter. That is, this (you can’t see it, but two spaces after “foo”):

        foo  
bar\
baz

        Gives this:

        foo
        bar
        baz

        When I’m doing an actual list, I generally prefer to do either an unnumbered or numbered list, though.

        * foo
* bar

        Gives this:

        • foo
        • bar

        And for numbered lists:

        1. foo
2. bar

        Gives this:

        1. foo
        2. bar

        It doesn’t look from that like Markdown is buying you much with the numbered lists (traditionally in Markdown, numbered lists were auto-renumbered, which is IMHO a bad idea and is one feature of Markdown that is not implemented here), but this gets useful if you want to do lists with multiple lines, which is done with a four-space prefix on successive lines:

        1. foo\
    My dog adores foo.
2. bar\
    Some cats fancy bar.

        Gives this:

        1. foo
          My dog adores foo.
        2. bar
          Some cats fancy bar.
      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        It’s after 3 AM and I need to shut down, but for a second there I thought you were talking about “Faraway, So Close”, which is the sequel to “Wings of Desire”, one of my favorite films ever.

        54% on the tomatometer, could stand to go lower. :(

      • leonard@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Great! :D Good to hear that this weird niche from the trash-heap of cinematic history may yet claim another victim.

        • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          Funnily enough, the day before you posted this, I was reminded of Return To Oz (I was at the zoo and someone… Scared the crap out of me). That’s probably not exactly post apocalyptic or solarpunk, but definitely takes place after a societal collapse of Oz and has creepy weirdos on something like rollerblades. Just in case you want to expand - or dare I say, roll towards the horizon.

          • leonard@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Oh you mean these fucking guys? They went out of their way to make them especially scary. The whole film is infamous for being basically a kids horror film. Like the bit with the corridor with the disemmbodied heads of the witch all screaming as Fairuza Balk runs through it? Yea…

            There seemed to be an era where traumatising children was part of the draw for the audience and I wonder if it has kind of died out. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was another one that my parents had to switch off.

            I’m not the film police and your argument for its inclusion as ‘post-apocalyptic but fantasy’ is all cool. So yes I will take it and roll, awkwardly across sand and gravel, mud and debris, into tomorrow’s ongoing dystopia.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I had totally forgotten about solarbabies… and tonight I’m gonna make sure to drink enough to forget it again.

      the 80s man… phew

      • leonard@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Thank youI haven’t come across that podcast before. I will definitely check that out. It is a wonderfully silly film.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Even though it’s not apocalyptic, Airborne (1993) is one of my all time favorite movies. The main character is great, Seth green is in it, Britney Powell, Chris Conrad, young Jack black, Alanna ubach (from Waiting). It’s about a high school surfer from Cali who gets shipped to Ohio for 6 months and has to fit in. Hilarious and just amazing. I’m not gay, but Shane McDermott… It’s also amazing he went into real estate, I thought he played a great character on screen. All about rollerblading since nowhere to surf.

      • leonard@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Thank you for that recommendation. I do remember watching it on video, probably about the time it came out. Then absolutely wrecking myself on a hill after I took the brake off my own skates. Fun times indeed. Did not remember Jack Black or Seth Green being in it though. Also you are totes not gay for 90s Shane McDermott. Understood.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Oh my god I saw that a long time ago, I just checked the trailer and it is what I remember.

        Even as a teenager I remember thinking that the final race was absolutely unhinged. Like what about the enormous pile of dead or maimed teenagers that the camera cut away from just in time to maintain its G rating?

        In the trailer there’s a bunch of kids that slide under a moving semi trailer but lose too much momentum to make it out the other side, or it looks like they do. We never see what happens to them. Main character even looks back at them for a second, just long enough to see that they’re still on the ground and not moving but fuck them because our hero made it and he’s on his way! Huzzah!

        I mean the movie is memorable, it’s fun and all, but that scene just lost me so hard. Like actually maybe fuck everyone who thinks this race is a good idea and worth winning. They can have their race, and I will win the broader game of natural selection.

  • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Yes it’s utterly ridiculous. I don’t care, it’s still a masterpiece of absurdity to me. That 13% on RT is a shame.

    Also how has it been 23 years since its release.

  • Iapar@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Last action hero. I think the people don’t understand that the film does it all on purpose.

    It is a love letter to action movies while acknowledging that those are stupid.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I don’t know how people couldn’t understand it was poking fun at all the ‘80s action heroes, especially Schwarzenegger himself. It’s a fun movie.

    • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      One could argue it is a demonstrative of every 80’s action movie trope, then going straight into the 90’s tropes list, and it does so with a smile.

    • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      It’s a fantastic movie that was just a bit late for the spoof movies of the late 70s/80s and too soon for the torrent of them in the 2000s.

      ‘I am the famous comedian Arnold Braunschweiger’ is not only something I say to my wife without context but also makes me laugh uproariously.

  • serfraser@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Well it’s not a shit rating but I do think A Knight’s Tale is way better than its mediocre scores. Perfect comfort movie.

    • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      ‘but it’s not historically accurate!’

      Y’get to see heath ledger in armor win the girl, bust heads, and have a grand time doing it! All to a solid soundtrack.

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        The lack of historical accuracy also isn’t due to a lack of research, but a deliberate style and tone choice, as demonstrated at the very beginning of the movie when the trumpeters play We Will Rock You and the crowd claps and stomps along.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Really, cool. I’ll have to watch it one of these days, if it ever comes up on streaming

        • Psythik@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Tell me about it. Anybody who saw the first few minutes of the film and still expected the rest to be historicaly accurate should probably get tested for autism. The director made it clear from the very start that A Knight’s Tale is satire.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    I’m partial to Last Days on Mars, and I’m one of those weirdos who loved both the book and movie versions of Cloud Atlas.

    • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite movies! When I first realized I was watching

      spoiler

      Hugh Grant as a tribal cannibal king

      … I was astonished. And I’m still floored by the expansive idea of it to this day.

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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        3 months ago

        Yeah! I thought the movie did a great job making sense of the recurring archetypes/ characters. Okay we’re friends now