the funny thing is they changed the movie to be different from the predictions of reddit.

I think i still agree with you though, with millions of fans speculating online some are invarably going to be right. Just make the movie you want to make.

I suspect the missing piece in a lot of cases is hiring writers/artists who are actually fans of the IP and want to do it justice. If you have that to begin with, you don’t need fans to tell you what they want.

What is the definition of “processed” here? blended meat? high salt %? specific preservatives? artificial casing?

weird they chose Black Panther of all the MCU movies. should have given the nod to Iron Man just for kicking off the whole thing.

you won’t live longer, it’ll just seem longer.

no, which was the whole point.

don’t feed on the rage bait.

i think they could have said it would have been less of a visual difference if it was made today. Fashion and design i think changed more from 50s-80s than it did 90s-2020s, and visuals are a huge part of making movies. But the author didn’t do a good job of making that case.

Also we did have Wonder Woman 1984. Granted the time travel was shoehorned into a superhero movie but it was almost exactly the time jump in question.

just looking at his imdb page… goddamn he was in non stop terrible movies lol.

makes me wonder why the marines on pandora don’t just nuke the entire planet from orbit. free access unobtanium.

Portugal looks like a beautiful country and I’d love to visit sometime.

But then again, I don’t even know if the ones doing the same now do either.

RFK Jr defintiely does.

yeah i don’t have any official recommendations on Lysenkosim reading, but wikipedia’s article seems to do a good job. He just had terribly wrong ideas about gene transfer, grafting, etc. all based on Lamarckism, which he believed to be more compatible with communist ideology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism#Lysenko’s_claims

Other comment made some good points but it’s a much more direct comparison with the government dictating science rather than science guiding government. Lysenko was a soviet scientist who denied [classical] genetics because he perceived random mutations and natural selection to be “burgeois” and “fascist”; instead he pushed Lamarckism genetics (genetic adaptation and inheritance through struggle) which he thought was more compatible with communist ideology. Because of that ideological agenda he got backing from Stalin.

He went on to design their agricultural system around lots of wrong genetic inheritance ideas. (For example, attempting to mutate crops by exposing them to harsh conditions, or mutating entire plants by grafting two species together.) Soviet scientists pushing back were round up and imprisoned or executed. So not only was their agriculture failing, but they killed off entire generations of biologists which set them back even further.

Other communist countries also took up the idea (including china) and all their agriculture suffered greatly for it. Millions and millions of people died from malnutrition or starvation.

Lysenkoism

yeah i agree there are aspects about LITW that are a bit arrogant (also how the movie critic character died), and the fairy tale backstory is a bit silly. But aside from that I really love the story of Paul Giamatti’s character, and he gives a hell of an acting performance. It’s worh watching just for him. His interactions with all the characters around the apartment complex are also pretty amusing. Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Bill Irwin, and more.

exactly. I feel like after 6th Sense MNS got pigeonholed as the “twist” guy and that’s all most people judged his movies on, but there’s so much more good stuff going on in them. Even The Happening had some redeeming qualities but that’s when he really started slipping.

i like all of M Night Shyamalan’s movies prior to The Happening. Signs, The Village, and Lady in the Water are some of my favorite movies.

then he’s not DONE with google.

Maybe I’m just being naiive but i think DV is at the point in his career where he wouldn’t take on a project unless he really believed in it.

so this is his last youtube video?