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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DasKapitalist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Inconceivaballs

[–] awazawazawaz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. All three are the absolute pinnacle of every craft represented in them. (i.e.: camera work, costumes, casting, CG, practical effects, soundtrack, and all the rest.)

[–] DasKapitalist@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

That was not the first film adapatation

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I thought it was a huge disappointment, most of all due to the CG.

  • Everything looks hueless, often with only a few colors, with weird light angles and enemies often shown as a blur. As if it was made to put everyone on the same level as those who are colorblind and visiually impaired.
  • Soundtrack was a dissonance of what went on on screen.
  • The towns and villages were beautifully animated and showed wide shots of them, so one could be sure that they were missing any signs of food production or water sources.
  • The world did not just look dry in color, but also literally dry. Especially the shire which gives it a plastic feel to it.

All of those put together made me feel it was taking place on a pre-dinosaur earth or not yet fully terraformed planet Mars, rather than a place of fantasy and wonder.

And Saruman's death was absent in the theatrical cut. One of the most important parts of the story was simply cut out.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

The first twilight zone. All the followups just lacked the stark yet innocent tone of a someone reasoning with an unjust reality.

I've been making my way through the original recently, one-by-one and though some of them are hit and miss, even the misses are doing something amazing cinematically.

[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

In this thread: people living in fantasy lands.

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can't take credit when you're the 11th attempt.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No no, that's not 11, that's one one

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So the third attempt? My binary is rusty.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

I think it's 1 of 1.

It’s the closest thing to a “perfect” game I can think of. Every new iteration is just fancy bells and whistles on the same perfect core.

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[–] afox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

You dawg; you're perfect!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Alien. Maybe my only 10 out of 10 movie, and not my favorite!

We've all seen it so many times it loses it's luster. Wife had never seen it so I sat with her in the dark and watched it for the first time in decades. Jesus. She was about to tear through the couch cushion in stress. I knew what was going to happen and couldn't peel my eyes off the TV.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Truly one of the best movies ever made.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Pandorum re-awakened that feeling for me. I also that feeling was dead, but nope still Alice and well

[–] weew@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Instant Pot.

Apparently they went bankrupt because they built their units too well. Everyone bought one and never needed to buy a replacement.

[–] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Same with Saab cars

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[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 77 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Horseshoe crabs. Unchanged for hundreds of millions of years.

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[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Dragon age origins

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Windows Control Panel. Everything's there, multiple ways to sort it all, no need to go shake things up

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Ah yes. Perfection:

Or maybe:

No? maybe this.

Edit I missed windows XP

No shakeups at all, it’s like a rock.

Perfectly reliable and unchanged from the beginning.

Edit since folks choose to distinguish “Settings” from “Control Panel” as if that doesn’t make the point even stronger. I’ll admit that it’s been pretty consistent since Windows 7. Still very different than the first iteration.

[–] lesnout27@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

Hot Dog Stand Color Scheme lol

[–] fool@programming.dev 17 points 3 days ago

This comment is a time capsule goddamn

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[–] mub@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Batman hitting his target with a batterang.

[–] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Diablo 1 and 2 by Blizzard. I guess maybe the 2nd time around was perfection but between those two, nothin further was needed.

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[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Splatoon. The design, the music, the art, the gameplay and the idea was executed so well.

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