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[Ruin Explorer]

Okay here's one: When Kaladin decides not to do a legit slave revolt because his vile, wretched bootlicker of a Spren emotionally blackmails and gaslights him into not doing it, because she's like if Jiminy Cricket was run by corporate HR (and working for Kaladin's slavemaster boss), that's one of the worst moments in fantasy novel history, true anti-catharsis, anti-justice, and it's also when Stormlight turned from "okay this has potential" to just slowly going downhill. Particularly because it's obvious Sanderson thinks he's making some kind of moral point, rather than proving that evil wins because good people do nothing (in this case because they were bullied by an awful trashy fairy).

 

[gnarlygninja]

Jaws randomly being in the theater a few years ago, and then finding a local(ish) theater that shows old movie all the time got me going back to the theater for the first time since I was in high school. For some movies, it really is the only way to see them.

In the spirit of the topic though, I think Deadpool is awful.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

In the spirit of the topic though, I think Deadpool is awful.

I kind of liked it at the time on a certain level but I feel like Ryan Reynold's schtick is making it retroactively worse every day!

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah. Themed film festivals are great, too. A weekend of noir or some such at a movie house.

The Rio Theatre, in Vancouver, BC, Canada does this sort of things frequently.

(A friend is also involved in their monthly D&D based comedy improv live show, "The Critical Hit Show", that's on the third Wednesday of every month, if memory serves.)

 

[Reynard]

What didn't you care for?

First off, I can kind of see that.

Second off, you must not read much fantasy or science fiction generally, because good god, whilst I think there are legit criticisms of Jurassic Park (and not a few!), I'm not sure even if I hated it I could put in the bottom third of books I've read, let alone the bottom 10%, let alone at the very bottom.

So congratulations on avoid so many bad books! SO MANY!!!! < weeps >

It is so blatantly a movie pitch document expanded intoa novel that I can't take the prose. It's horridly written, even by Chrichton's standards (and he has a couple books I actually enjoyed, in a "read on the plane" kind of way).

On the subject of bad fantasy: I am under no compunction, ever, to put up with a crappy book. I usually give it 50 pages (or 2 hours in an audio format) but beyond that if it is bad, i am done. I do not understand people that finish bad books. Life is short.