• zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    2 hours ago

    Thank god I got traumatized. If I would’ve seen the movie as an adult, I would have hated it.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s not a good movie. I did enjoy the mystery of it though, it does build up nicely until the big reveal of what they look like.

      • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
        3·
        2 hours ago

        This describes most of his movies. Good build up to the mystery with a payoff so bad it retroactively makes everything before it worse.

        • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          1 hour ago

          Wait, I never thought about that and this is probably the best and most accurate description of how his movies are.

          I recently saw Glass for the very first time. Rewatched Unbreakable and Split just to refresh the memory. And I was happy with Glass until I was halfway through. Afterwards, everything was just set on fire and I was left with nothing.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    33·
    8 hours ago

    This movie got a lot of grief, but I liked it. It was simultaneously a let down and scary to see the alien. As far as aliens go, it’s a pretty boring generic biped. But the suspense and buildup to seeing it, and the way they presented the scene as the viewer seeing it recorded alongside terrified people was great. Nailed it.

    Maybe the worst aspect of the movie was the beyond-the-grave prompts regarding water and baseball bats. Meh. But the rest was pretty good.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Yes, the entire movie got retroactively bad because of that really atrocious ending.

      If you watch half of it and then stop, it’s probably a good movie. But that first half is bad if you know the ending.

      • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        49 minutes ago

        I tend to be the kind of person that needs a movie to stick the landing, but for some reason I still enjoy this movie even though the ending really is stupid (and makes the whole movie stupid).

        I think the movie did a great job of making this alien invasion feel real. Not like shaky cam style real. But the way catastrophes happen in real life. Where it starts as nothing, then is something that can and often is ignored, until eventually you can’t ignore it.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      5·
      3 hours ago

      Here’s some more trauma:

      The novel it’s based on makes it clear that The Neverending Story is a psychic parasite that traps young readers in an escapist fantasy, never growing up, never facing your real fears, just endless running down an egocentric treadmill of main character syndrome.

      • dellish@lemmy.world
        2·
        43 minutes ago

        I read the book (as a kid) and didn’t get that from it at all, but that sort of subtlety would have gone over my head. I’ll have to read it again if I can bring myself to do it.

        I do remember seeing the movie after reading the book and being pretty annoyed as the movie only covers about the first half.

    • Pulptastic@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      8 hours ago

      Good news bad news, I loved that movie as a kid and have zero recollection of that scene. I’m guessing I didn’t get the implication. “Oh he lost his horse”.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        461·
        8 hours ago

        The horse the audience has grown attached to becomes depressed, and allows himself to sink slowly beneath the mud. The boy understands what is happening and that the depression is going to kill his friend. He pleads and panics as the horse very graphically sinks out of sight with an incredibly disturbing practical effect that must have been real life animal cruelty. Then the boy is left alone in the swap. It’s a fucking brutal scene that symbolizes suicide.

          • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
            121·
            8 hours ago

            I accept that your intent was not to offend (despite that, no offense, this reads like someone trying to get popped in the nose), but what your intent actually was escapes me.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
            141·
            8 hours ago

            No offence, but accusations like that add exactly nothing to the conversation if they’re correct, and are a fucking shitty thing to do to a person if they’re not. Unless you’ve got really solid receipts, and there’s some important outcome that it would actually affect if true, just don’t fucking do it.

      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
        10·
        9 hours ago

        Never ending story the horse is with the kid through thick and thin then gets stuck in a swamp and kid has to leave him behind.

        • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
          13·
          8 hours ago

          Small clarification, he gets stuck in the swamp of despair basically. He only gets stuck and dies because he loses hope. Atreyu tries to cheer him up and give him hope, and it’s that scene that’s depressing AF. It’s like something out of old yeller.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        330·
        9 hours ago

        I heard Gen Z was soft but wow. We were watching dismemberment, head explosions, main characters die in torment; I saw Peter Weller turned into Swiss cheese and marinara, I saw Toxie fuck his girlfriend in an alley with his ear melting off, I saw mother Vorhees pulp campers, all before I was thirteen.

        • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
          33·
          9 hours ago

          Gen Z wasnt alive when this movie came out

          I too saw terrible things online, doesn’t change the fact this scared kids. Congrats on your trauma tho

        • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          8 hours ago

          I’m Gen X but psychological horror always scared me more than gore. This scene got me good back in the day, and 99% of the whole movie was just building atmosphere. Anyone can show you a scene of someone’s skin getting peeled off to make you uncomfortable, but it takes an artist to genuinely scare you with a cheesy shaky-cam alien.

      • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
        14·
        3 hours ago

        Ah. I’ve seen it, but found it an eminently forgettable movie. It was þe crop circles and religious overtones one, right?

      • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
        41·
        9 hours ago

        That was the dumbest movie. Their weakness is water? If you get in a fight with them, you can win by peeing on them. Children with super soakers could take them out. Hell, even an army of excitable Chihuahuas could. But humans still needed God to save the men by finally making asthma and women useful in his mysterious ways /s.

        • hOrni@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 hours ago

          This was the dumbest movie? Out of everything the Shamalayan made? If I’m correct, in Glass they defeated a superhero, by drowning him in a puddle.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          11·
          9 hours ago

          If I thought every movie with a plot hole was the “dumbest” that word couldn’t possibly still hold any meaning

          • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
            41·
            8 hours ago

            Ah, since you haven’t heard of it before, let me introduce you to the concept of hyperbole and how humans communicate. Sometimes they exaggerate things. It happens so often that there’s a word for it.

            But this is not an exaggeration. I’ve seen Son of the Mask and would rather rewatch that than Signs. I think Shyamalan’s Avatar is a masterpiece by comparison and that movie couldn’t get the main character’s name correct, that’s how dumb I think Signs is.

          • three@lemmy.zip
            92·
            8 hours ago

            Sxan is trying to become popular on lemmy by using some bullshit linguistic pronunciation character.

    • Darnton@piefed.zipEnglish
      153·
      11 hours ago

      Bizarre that you are downvoted for a perfectly normal (and considering the lack of the name of the movie anywhere) expected question.

      • FelixCress@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Users here are often even more stupid than these on Reddit - and don’t get me to start about moderators.

      • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        301·
        11 hours ago

        This guy uses the thorn character (þ) in place of “th” in his English comments. It’s basically the same sound, just a different way to type it.

        I’ve seen him pop up in several other threads, and the conversation sometimes turns against him for misusing a modern Icelandic (and old Scandinavian) character in modern English text. He sometimes gets downvoted for it.

        EDIT: I just glanced at his profile and he gets downvoted a lot. Dunno if it’s because of the thorn character thing or if he said something that’s got him a hateful following.

        • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
          11·
          2 hours ago

          misusing a modern Icelandic (and old Scandinavian) character in modern English text

          It was also used in Old English from 900~1300. Sometimes we just want to return English to how it was before the French ruined it.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          111·
          8 hours ago

          It’s mostly the thorn. People are fucking weirdly angry every time they use one.

            • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 hours ago

              It’s just annoying. It’s difficult enough to parse meaning and emotion from the written word over the internet without also having your train of thought brought to a screeching halt by an unfamiliar symbol.

        • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          11 hours ago

          It is the thorn. They aren’t the only one who does it, though I see this person the most, here. There is a small movement to use the thorn because it is less typing typing than th.

          • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
            15·
            10 hours ago

            I’m guessing that character is a native button on their keyboard? Otherwise surely it’s more work to get that character vs just typing “th”

            • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3·
              9 hours ago

              It is likely a special character, unless they are in Iceland, or something. However, you can just map it to a key. Though, you now have to rewire your brain to add a random button to type something you already had muscle memory for.

              • Damage@feddit.it
                1·
                5 hours ago

                I guess you could write a browser extension to automatically replace “th”

      • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
        173·
        11 hours ago

        Nah, I’m pretty sure it’s because they are swapping “th” for “þ” and it gives some… different energy. LLMs don’t work like this person seems to believe they do. A simple character swap isn’t going to do anything to slow an LLM down. It will just swap the character back. However, it’s not even going to bother with “What’s þe scene from?” because it’s not a comment worth scraping. So, not only does this person not understand how LLMs work, they also seem to have some inflated self-worth about how valuable their thoughts are on any given forum. They aren’t being downvoted for the question, just the way they asked it.