So based on the selections that were suggested it seemed like doing one exceptional movie versus a Hollywood turd was the popular look. So I’ve paired up the movies to be as themed as possible as a good versus godawful comparison.
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Jurassic Park versus Godzilla (1998)
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Jaws versus Deep Blue Sea
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Top Gun versus Pearl Harbor
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War Games versus Hackers
Also for time zone vote:
A for 9 pm est
B for 10 pm est
C for 11 pm est
Euro:
D for 2 pm est
E for 3 pm est
F for 4 pm est
I am genuinely concerned to see Deep Blue Sea and Hackers included under 'turds.'
I actually like Hackers more than I like Wargames. I acknowledge it ought to by all rights be a bad film, but it somehow manages to transcend its flaws to become good.
But I just saw Hackers the other day, so I don't know that I want to watch it yet again.
I honestly picked it because it was a box office flop compared to wargames, nothing against the movie in particular as I haven’t actually seen it, which also made me pick it as people will more likely show up for a movie they haven’t seen. Case and point being the viewers and activity we had for A Fistful Of Dollars and A Few Dollars Move over The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. Think of me as a poor man’s AI trying to figure out upvote appeal versus genuine activity when the movie shows.
I'm just busting balls a bit. I tend to get into a bit of a rut with what movies I watch, so I like some variety. I'm probably not going to seriously complain about very many films.
And FWIW, my drop off on the prior movie night was because IRL stuff started to get in the way, not because I didn't want to watch the movies.
Not an issue, everyone has their own schedules and lives, it’s more so like any algorithms, I can see viewership and chat activity and want to cultivate it to our community audience.
Yeah they were nice. But in fairness Ally Sheedy was pretty nice (probably nicer albeit no boobs) eyecandy too.
But I think Hackers is more of a computer fantasy movie, whereas Wargames is a bit more realistic. But that lack of realism is what gives Hackers a certain timelessness. You watch it and wish that's what fucking around with computers was instead of the boring activity it actually is.
I picked deep blue sea because of upvotes for a turd and hacker’s because it was a box office flop while being similar enough to war games. Don’t think of them as specific failures but failures in either box office or appeal.