• RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      This is an answer I’m not seeing here enough. The score for LotR just FORCES you to feel the feelings. Don’t wanna be happy? Too bad, we’re in the Shire bitch.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Don’t want to experience evil metalworking industry? Welcome to Orthanc, maggot, we makin’ swords today.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    One thing I’ve noticed with newer movies is they do a lot more “tell, don’t show” than old movies.

    For example, compare the live action Disney Cinderella to the original animated version. The live action version is mostly a voiceover telling the story of Cinderella. They literally say “Her stepsisters weren’t very good at art or music” and then have a scene showing them being bad at art and music. The animated version spent the first 20 minutes or so like a Tom & Jerry cartoon.

    And this is across movies. I watched Predator recently and there wasn’t a lot of exposition about how they’re there to fight communists or whatever. You pick that up in snippets of dialog in between the action.

    It really does feel like movies are dumbing down.

    • cole@lemdro.id
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      4 months ago

      I feel like Dune was a good outlier to this. It’s the only movie I’ve seen in theater in the last few years and I really enjoyed not having everything explained to me

      • ECB@feddit.de
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        4 months ago

        That’s such a good point. I really appreciated how it wasn’t scared to let viewers figure things out.

    • Zagorath@feddit.nlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      they do a lot more “tell, don’t show” than old movies

      Geez the Netflix Avatar adaptation (a show, not movie, but still) was so bad for this. Despite actually having more runtime and fewer distinct plot points (due to the removal of and consolidation of different side-plots) than the cartoon it was based on, it spent less time showing us why characters think and feel how they do, and straight-up told us every single thing.

      • Renacles@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I love listening to the original intro 3 times in the first episode.

        I would have never known that the 4 nations lived in harmony until the fire nation attacked, or that the Avatar, master of all 4 elements was the only one who could stop them.

        I also love learning that Aang wants to eat banana cakes and goof off with his friends instead of being the Avatar by him outright saying it instead of us meeting ANY of these friends in the first place.