Overrated/Underrated Geek Media

[dragoner]

Rand's hyper individualism is specifically not about isolationism because without other people there's nobody to exploit for your own benefit.

That is the joke of it all.

 

[trappedslider]

good god, some of you could write books on this topic.

Overrated: Walls of text
Under rated: brevity

 

[Bedrockgames]

good god, some of you could write books on this topic.

Overrated: Walls of text
Under rated: brevity

That is a low blow @trappedslider. A very low blow indeed lol

 

[Clint_L]

For it's time it kind of is (except for the kaliedoscope thing). My experience has been that a lot of movies (especially sci-fi and horror movies) made between the late 1960's and early 1980's have the same weird pacing where nobody says anything and nothing happens. Movies made after that era don't do that, and neither do the movies that came before; it's like there was some kind of dark age for films during the 1970's.

You mean the era that most cinemaphiles and critics consider the greatest in film history? That dark age?

 

[Clint_L]

Oh the laugh track just needs to die already.

I cannot watch a show that has a laugh track. I generally don't like sitcoms to begin with (there are a few notable exceptions), but if there's a laugh track, I'm a "nope." It makes me feel like, "you're not the boss of me - if you want me to laugh, make a funny."

 

[Mannahnin]

That is the joke of it all.

Growing season in a valley in the Rockies says what?

 

[Bohandas]

Which ones do you have in mind? I am struggling to think of a science fiction movie that has the pacing of 2001. 70s movies definitely have different pacing than movies do today. But most of them don't feel like 2001. Maybe I am misunderstanding your meaning or am not well versed enough in science fiction from that era (but plenty of the space movies I have seen from the 60s and 70s feel like a lot more plot is happening than in 2001)

As I said, this also applies at least to horror movies as well as sci-fi (Possibly to other genres but those are the only kinds of movies from the 1970's that I've really watched a lot of). If you look at Halloween 1, or the original versions of Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Dawn Of The Dead, they also have that same weird pacing where very long stretches go by without anything happening or anybody saying anything

 

[Bedrockgames]

As I said, this also applies at least to horror movies as well as sci-fi (Possibly to other genres but those are the only kinds of movies from the 1970's that I've really watched a lot of). If you look at Halloween 1, or the original versions of Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Dawn Of The Dead, they also have that same weird pacing where very long stretches go by without anything happening or anybody saying anything

Those definitely don't have modern pacing, but I wouldn't compare their pacing to 2001 in terms of strangeness. Halloween is actually a very easy to watch film, especially for its time. But even now, it unfolds in a natural way, with a clear plot. And Texas Chainsaw also has a lot going on. But in 2001, you are going from one section to the next, in a way where the connection isn't always immediately clear. And the scenes themselves just don't have as much animating them. It is a movie that asks you to watch monkeys sitting around in the desert for rather long periods of time. I would certainly have to go back and rewatch Texas Chainsaw to compare, but I am not really seeing the similarity. Even if I compare it to something like Friends of Eddie Coyle, which has plenty of silent moments of people just sitting around. There is still more going on in the scenes. More cohesive story unfolding. I have seen other films like 2001. But it is definitely an odd movie

 

[Bedrockgames]

You mean the era that most cinemaphiles and critics consider the greatest in film history? That dark age?

Yeah calling the 70s a dark age seems odd for cinema. I get not everyone will like 70s movies, but it is generally a highly regarded era

 

[Paul Farquhar]

70s films were made before they invented ADHD?