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The Man From Earth is definitely one I think about. The things he must have seen, must have done, that over time shaped him into who he was. Is he the embodiment of mankind, as well as its own self-hatred? The religious stuff was a bit much. I still haven't seen the sequel, with genuine anxiety to.

Daybreakers is also a good one. A bit deus-ex with the "solution" at the end, but very good thought experiment

Lmao, the reviews are somewhat illuminating

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3588938/reviews/

its vaguely welsh, but I actually can't tell

I actually liked the weird depressing grey vibe of the the first film. If it wasn't for all the vampire stuff, it'd be an interesting outsider story about boy-meets-girl with a slight supernatural vibe

Telltale Games style, or something else?

All I wanna do,
is see you turn into,
a Super Saiyan (•a super saiyan!•)

The Sarah Connor chronicles was the only sequel media that ever made sense to me

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/

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

https://lemmy.ml/post/30029796/18578529

Well I meant mostly the talking parts which we were told to care about but most people forget

The comics were 'edgy' and somewhat needlessly abrasive, but yeah they were enjoyable

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

I have a feeling Chris Nolan goes into films with some specifically detailed poignant character moments in mind, and then he just hastily weaves a plot to tie them together. It's interesting to watch at least, but maybe too high brow(?) to call entertaining

Yep. Sounds like what happened with Jericho. Mystery and intrigue in the starting seasons, and then just weird petty soap-opera style squabbles towards the end

I watched a recent review from TheNostalgiaCritic about this film, and he does touch upon a lot of what you said about the strange motivations of all the characters that led up to the Dinosaurs escaping. That being said, I liked it and would say it is iconic in both story and genre (semi-horror kid-friendly family film aimed at adults?)

https://lemmy.ml/post/30029796/18578697

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

Sam Rockwell as Zaphod was spot on. He was the only one who actually read the books, and had to even tell the director to add "Froody" to the script. What a shitshow it must have been for the director not to know that....

his real accent sounds fake.... I almost don't believe it...