Subj : Prometheus
To   : jack phlash
From : unc0nnected
Date : Wed Aug 07 2024 10:01 pm

 jp> Man man! I've probably told this anecdote on here before, but I had a
 jp> very similar experience with The Matrix. My brother and I had always
 jp> kind of rooted for Keanu Reeves since Bill & Ted, and Johnny Mnemonic
 jp> from earlier in the decade is kind of a guilty pleasure. Saw the trailer
 jp> - didn't know WTF it was supposed to be, just a lot of action scenes, so
 jp> one day we just kind of randomly decided to go see it. Blown away. None
 jp> of my friends had seen it; like, no one was talking about it at first...
 jp> but that didn't last too long.

Wow, I wish we could have seen it together, probably one of the best movie experiences of my life and since then it's a full media blackout on anything that looks promising but nothing has delivererd to the extent that those movies have.  Some have come close, but nothing was so far from what I expected that was

 jp>  un> This is the problem with well established IP, the audience somehow fe
 jp>  un> ownership over it to the extent that if it isn't done the way they wa
 jp> That, and there is no nuisance. If you don't like some aspects of the
 jp> movie, the whole thing is a piece of garbage. Blech.

You've hit the nail on the head with our modern culture to a certain extent, across all areas of discorse.  Don't like that Taylor Swift song?  Well then how can I trust your views on quantum entanglement you lunatic?  

.... I wish life had a scroll-back buffer.

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