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#are they fucking painful to watch a la much lauded horseshit? NO! THEY ARE GOOD!
elainemorisi
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I can't believe, 2/2 thus far on the only even kind of good filmed scifi being "schlocky muscle dudes from the 90s"
#are they on par with written no of course not
#are they fucking painful to watch a la much lauded horseshit? NO! THEY ARE GOOD!
#I am now reading the wikipedia summary for Pitch Black's reviews and my dudes I have a theory about why the horseshit is so lauded
#'lack of exploration of the alien world and recycled human conflicts' ???
#look. look at me. anyone who thinks that 99.9% of ANY LITERARY FORM can say something interesting about aliens is an idiot
#film simply Cannot Do It
#99.8% of written works cannot do it
#you use science fictional concepts to say something about recycled human conflicts come ON
#good science fiction says something with its concepts that cannot be said without them
#Pitch Black ain't that it's a perfectly straightforward individual-person story
#(and... that person is not Vin Diesel wtf)
#but at least it's fun and well-done and not UP ITS OWN ASS about something it's doing badly anyway!
#it does a very respectable scifi thing that isn't committed to often enough: leans into and sticks with horror
#truly lauded filmed scifi is that LeGuin quotation about falling off a rope bemoaning being called a tightrope walker
#it's just congratulating itself for flying instead of bemoaning
#anyway the other enjoyable one is Total Recall which I will actually say if it'd disfigured its leads at the end
#would be fully on par with decent writing; it doesn't so it's just enjoyable and again uses its perfectly simple conceit well but hey
#(I have watched but totally forgotten Alien for the record so please assume no implied claims about that one)
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