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On the subject of LB - https://retro.social/@ajroach42/102560485771740015 quoting https://m.xkcd.com/2184/ - I genuinely liked "The Core" (2003).
(Technically I just turned 18 that year, but I watched it later with a group of friends and was frustrated that other people didn't enjoy it as unironically as I did.)
40% on the tomatometer. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/core
Gonna give myself a minute, see if I can come up with another.
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@packbat yeah, that one was all right. it was melodramatic and the science was bullshit but it worked as a movie OK
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@Alyx I've thought back /recently/ on that bit about the characters feeling overwhelmed at the idea of trying to save the whole world, and them reframing it as just saving a handful of people instead
as someone who has a hard time thinking of myself as important, that idea just /worked/ for me
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@packbat yeah. cos honestly the idea isn't a bad one, both from the practical dramatic standpoint of "okay how do you get your average human being even used to the idea of handling a gigantic crisis by reducing it to a few people" but also the plain truth that usually events *do* come to some kind of head where a few crucial decisions are the ones that matter the most. maybe not all in one place, in one group of people (the more the better, haha)
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@packbat the problem is that people have a hard time keeping in mind that just because some massive political conflict, say, gets resolved with one debate (or one war, even), then that means debate (or war) are the ways to solve big problems. they're not. in fact they probably *weren't*, and there were ways of resolving the situation that didn't come to some dramatic, explosive climax
