Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Those are all great. Ooh, it also reminds me that I need to show Ex Machina to my brother and our friend we watch movies with pretty regularly. I just showed them Companion the other night, and they quite enjoyed it.

I just saw that Companion is on HBO Max. I will add it to my list.

 

[Mannahnin]

I just saw that Companion is on HBO Max. I will add it to my list.

It's lighter and funnier than Ex Machina, but still dark and good and well-written.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's lighter and funnier than Ex Machina, but still dark and good and well-written.

Given how many dudes are openly horny for AI-generated women -- which feels like a rich vein for thesis papers in the future -- it feels pretty timely as well.

 

[Bohandas]

Are you being hostile for any particular reason? Or did you maybe choose the wrong word?

I'm not being deceptive or misleading. You seem to have a giant excluded middle in between your two extremes.

I apologise for that, I did not mean a deliberate equivocation, I meant a fallacious/accidental equivocation. That was the closest term I could think of at the time. In retrospect 'false equivalence' or 'comparing apples to oranges' would have been a more accurate and less accusatory term.

The point is that doing something as a job is massively different from doing something as a hobby (or even from doing it as a volunteer, which I assume is a large part of the excluded middle you're referring to)

 

[Mannahnin]

I apologise for that, I did not mean a deliberate equivocation, I meant a fallacious/accidental equivocation. That was the closest term I could think of at the time. In retrospect 'false equivalence' or 'comparing apples to oranges' would have been a more accurate and less accusatory term.

The point is that doing something as a job is massively different from doing something as a hobby (or even from doing it as a volunteer, which I assume is a large part of the excluded middle you're referring to)

Thank you! Yeah, IME/IMO there's a big middle zone for most people. I do derive some satisfaction from my job and I know it's healthy for my mood, even though there are things I'd rather be doing at any given moment. If I could choose any job I wanted, it would probably still be one that utilized some of the same skills I exercise for pay right now.

 

[Thomas Shey]

This is really challenging. Going off of pure enjoyment, and not artistic merit or influence or anything.

Yeah, that's why I never entirely answered.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I apologise for that, I did not mean a deliberate equivocation, I meant a fallacious/accidental equivocation. That was the closest term I could think of at the time. In retrospect 'false equivalence' or 'comparing apples to oranges' would have been a more accurate and less accusatory term.

The point is that doing something as a job is massively different from doing something as a hobby (or even from doing it as a volunteer, which I assume is a large part of the excluded middle you're referring to)

I dunno, man. Some people find ways to turn their hobbies into jobs, and some of them even avoid losing the joy while doing that (largely because they like so much of the hobby having to do it consistently enough is not painful).

I'm not going to say most people can pull this off, but its not completely impossible.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Thank you! Yeah, IME/IMO there's a big middle zone for most people. I do derive some satisfaction from my job and I know it's healthy for my mood, even though there are things I'd rather be doing at any given moment. If I could choose any job I wanted, it would probably still be one that utilized some of the same skills I exercise for pay right now.

A good part of my wife's job is logistics. She then comes home and plays computer games, many of which are focused on--logistics.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A good part of my wife's job is logistics. She then comes home and plays computer games, many of which are focused on--logistics.

There's a huge overlap between my forever DM role and my professional writing. I think that's true for a lot of people who are a good fit for their careers.

 

[gnarlygninja]

The digression is ridiculous, though, because it's explicitly shown in the movie that the Axiom is not "Edenic" in any way. The system is a non-sustainable repetion of what happened on earth. The humans are not happy. They are miserable and devolving in a floating time bomb, oblivious to the expiration date. This is all laid on pretty thick. It's even implied that they don't reproduce. It's like the people arguing random philosophical platitudes haven't even watched the movie being discussed.

I think this applies to an awful lot of internet theories about movies or books, they rarely survive contact with whatever they're about. I'm having a hard time imagining a person watching Wall-E, looking at the humans, and going 'yeah that looks like paradise to me'.