Parmandur
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Nah, it allows for an easier ability to differentiate something weak but passable fun like Colour of Magic from something sublime like Small Gods.Sorry, wrong noun.
It's still stupid.
Nah, it allows for an easier ability to differentiate something weak but passable fun like Colour of Magic from something sublime like Small Gods.Sorry, wrong noun.
It's still stupid.
Even American console fanboys know there's more than one grading system in the world. The S-tier system is just an artifact of them being Japanophiles, not a superior grading system. Divorced from that context, it makes even less sense to use. (An S-tier 1960s British invasion band, for instance, is extremely silly. If you're going to import grading systems, why not use a British one at that point?)Nah, it allows for an easier ability to differentiate something weak but passable fun like Colour of Magic from something sublime like Small Gods.
Eh, it's too late to get the kids off your lawn. The S tier system is ingrained on the internet, and I don't see anything that makes it more stupid than A-F, anyway. It's not like that grading scale is universal, or any less arbitrary. Honestly, I think a 10 point scale is the easiest (go metric system!). However, I also think too granular a system leads to a counterproductive focus on marks rather than learning; the percentage grading system is the worst for this. For my grad school exams, there were two grades: pass and fail.Unpopular opinion on the wrong thread: The whole tier hierarchy that includes "S" at the top is stupid. It's an in-joke that should have never slopped out into wider geek culture.
Everyone should just do an A through F system.
That's a weird way to spell The AnimalsAn S-tier British Invasion band is clearly The Who.
I had a choice to either see Covenant or Wonder Woman in theaters and I chose the former. I chose poorly. One of the great things about Alien is that it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. What did the Company know about LV-426 before they sent the Nostromo? Why would they send the Nostromo with a crew completely unprepared for this kind of mission? Was the Space Jockey delivering a biological weapon during a time of war? Or was he just some hapless space trucker himself who picked up some cargo that was far more dangerous than he was led to believe?Disagree. Covenant, in particular, is based on a faulty premise that we need to know the origins of the xenomorphs. In general, explaining stuff we don’t need explained is the bane of all prequels, but especially horror. Prometheus and especially Covenant make the preceding films worse.
Three films, one of which is not good. That's only a 2:1 ratio - good, but not great. Though, the first two are all-timers, so that really raises the average.The Godfather.
I think that Part 3 is actually pretty solid, but I agree it's eclipsed by the first two.Three films, one of which is not good. That's only a 2:1 ratio - good, but not great. Though, the first two are all-timers, so that really raises the average.
It's a great movie. And McConaughey as a pathetic sexual predator in his 20s deconstructs the Fonz perfectly.Also, just rewatched Linklater's Dazed and Confused because my kid wanted to see it. Man, it holds up. He loved it, and I think I loved it even more than I did thirty years ago.