What's a show, book, or film that, if someone tells you they didn't get it, it immediately makes you think, "Ah, any media opinion from this person is going to be bullshit"?
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There's a self-referential aspect to it. The maze is a stand-in for creative projects but also simply a vehicle to tell a story about being stuck in a creative process and needing help, but also has great action scenes. It seems pretty self-aware.
AMC's The Terror is definitely one for me, as well as Severance (No spoilers, please, haven't seen season 2 yet). Also, to a lesser extent, Madeline Miller: every person I've met who was vocal about hating her books was the sort of scold whose taste in media had no space for joy.
Sense8 is an interesting example in that I recognise the show's problems, esp. when it comes to pacing/how it handles the multiple storylines/the compromises the sisters had to make; but there's enough of it that is excellent that I still think it's a red flag if someone doesn't like it
"17776/What football will look like in the future" is unfortunately a piece of media I love which a lot of people I otherwise respect don't have the patience to engage with, and that makes me profoundly fucking sad.
(Fun story: as I was waiting to go into the theater, a man came out from the previous screening, as the film was still playing, and told me he couldn't take it anymore. It was too confusing for him. That got me so hyped for it!).
Not a specific piece of media, but I get bummed when people say they don’t read ANY non-fiction. Dismissing such a massive swath of great writing and stories seems wasteful. It’s not for everyone but there are so many kinds of non-fiction that people can find at least one or two books they like.
Legit. I missed most of it because my bio dad thought Delenn metamorphosing was ridiculous. But I watched it on my own later. The CGI is atrocious but if you can suspend disbelief in it, it's still good.
Might have changed as they've add series but: There are some people who bounced off of Star Trek: DS9 for reasons I can understand but 75% of people who spontaneously bring it up to complain about it immediately turn into walking red flags. Goes to 90%+ if they include Voyager in the same sentence.
thing about Atlas Shrugged is the people that claim to "get it" are often the ones that get it the least. Esp funny when CEOs and other corporate types try it. Like, no you are NOT Henry Rearden, he actually created his product HIMSELF, he didn't outsource it to another country, or steal the design.
yes. and even in the context of the book itself, some of the views kind of make sense. having control over what you create and all that. but then it all falls apart if you try to apply it to real life where the people doing the actual creation aren't the ones that profit off said creation.
Even in the book there's an internal inconsistency. Dagny is supposed to be wrong for not wanting to abandon her railroad because the nerds are striking, but the reliable workers like her henchman whose name I don't recall right now are praised for that same devoted trait.
I don’t know about get/like per se but I have a good-sized set of movies that are sort of a sense of humor litmus test for me (chief among them are Greener Grass and John Paisz’s Crime Wave)
I love smart absurdity. There’s a level where sure it can be random and bad, but employed judiciously it’s wonderful (the fancy example I love is The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois)
Probably not as many as the books and films that, if someone insists they _did_ get it, you suspect they didn't, and they should be supervised. (Fight Club)
I mean, I personally enjoyed both the book and the film, but I also think that this is usually a red flag unless I really, really trust that person's politics/relationship with gender/media comprehension skills
Starship Troopers and Rambo (the first one) are another couple. Along with, apparently among the world's billionaires, the works of Douglas Adams, Iain M Banks and JRR Tolkien.
In this camp for me is siding with the templars in dragon age, out of sincere belief that "mages are dangerous". That is 100% a media literacy fail. Probably agreed with the war on drugs.
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There's a self-referential aspect to it. The maze is a stand-in for creative projects but also simply a vehicle to tell a story about being stuck in a creative process and needing help, but also has great action scenes. It seems pretty self-aware.
(Fun story: as I was waiting to go into the theater, a man came out from the previous screening, as the film was still playing, and told me he couldn't take it anymore. It was too confusing for him. That got me so hyped for it!).
It's a neologism from Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.
And then Musk stole the name for his bullshit AI
And not because Ayn Rand is a poor writer, has horrible social views, and never learned the difference between a dominant man and a rapist asshole
In either case I tend to never ask them for opinions cause I don't really like games that make me chew wood.
Big Fish
Cloud Atlas