D&D Movie/TV Honor Among Thieves takes the Hugo for best long-form presentation

[Parmandur]

Frankly, I didn't care much for either movie. Fury Road was the ultimate triumph of style over substance, and The Martian was scientifically accurate, apart from when the science was inconvenient (such as Sean Bean keeping his head, which we know is statistically impossible).

Old school sci-fi, thn?

 

[sevenbastard]

Fury Road was the ultimate triumph of style over substance,

(Grasp pearls) What! (takes a deep breath)

Fury Road is a master class of world building through subtle means and not the heavy handed exposition and forced reveals of 99% of the garbage that gets thrown onto the screen.

It respects the audience and understands you can do more with less. Add in the facts it probably one of the greatest feminist movies of all time, the visuals spectacle and the top notch actions and you have the best move of the 2010s.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

(Grasp pearls) What! (takes a deep breath)

Fury Road is a master class of world building through subtle means and not the heavy handed exposition and forced reveals of 99% of the garbage that gets thrown onto the screen.

It respects the audience and understands you can do more with less. Add in the facts it probably one of the greatest feminist movies of all time, the visuals spectacle and the top notch actions and you have the best move of the 2010s.

Or some folk (who? don’t know, don’t care, no one said anything) chase across a desert in carnival floats, discover there is nothing there, do they go home again and sort out thier problems like the could have done in the first ten minutes.

 

[Mannahnin]

Other fantasies won long form

Stardust (magical realism rather than sci-fi or comics)

I'm confused by this clarifier. Stardust is fantasy. I suppose one can connect it to the magical realist strain, but it's about an adventure in the realms of faerie, and it's not one of those stories where the adventure can be read as a dream, metaphor, or a child's imaginings.

It was also originally a graphic novel, though from context I presume this is referring to the movie version.

 

[bedir than]

I'm confused by this clarifier. Stardust is fantasy. I suppose one can connect it to the magical realist strain, but it's about an adventure in the realms of faerie, and it's not one of those stories where the adventure can be read as a dream, metaphor, or a child's imaginings.

It was also originally a graphic novel, though from context I presume this is referring to the movie version.

Some fans of fantasy don't like fantasy that touches on the real world much. The voting history for the Hugos shows this, when very popular books/series/etc that exist the modern world struggle to get the award.

 

[Mannahnin]

Some fans of fantasy don't like fantasy that touches on the real world much. The voting history for the Hugos shows this, when very popular books/series/etc that exist the modern world struggle to get the award.

Huh. Got it. One would think this caveat would apply more to Pan's Labyrinth. That one also has the protagonist leaving our world to visit the magical one, and it's significantly more modern.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Huh. Got it. One would think this caveat would apply more to Pan's Labyrinth. That one also has the protagonist leaving our world to visit the magical one, and it's significantly more modern.

And suggests the whole thing might be the imagination of the traumatised protagonist.

Stardust’s “real world” is not our real world, and it’s really quite similar to Princess Bride.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

And Baldur's Gate 3 also won a Hugo.

 

[bedir than]

And Baldur's Gate 3 also won a Hugo.

BG3 winning an award is no longer news.

If it's qualified for an award it will win that award.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

BG3 winning an award is no longer news.

If it's qualified for an award it will win that award.

I suspect it’s also won a bunch of things it isn’t qualified for: the Grand National, the Boat Race, Eurovision, Miss World…